Suggestion for this channel: What would be the effect of rescaling some biblical durations by 25/40? The motivation is the observation that some numbers are symbolic such as "40 years" really meaning "a generation" (i.e about 25 years). For example, if you try to reconcile the timelines of Jacob and his son Joseph according to a literal reading of Genesis, it does not work. But if you rescale, then it does. P.S. H.H. Ben Sassoon, in his history of Israel points out how similar rescaling would work in the period of the Judges to reconcile the story of Jephthah ("300 years" after the conquest of the Amorite lands in Transjordan following the exodus) and the Temple dating from "480 years" after the exodus.

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@@goldengun9970 You're pretty dense.

@@goldengun9970 What you did do is get offended over the fact that Matt is being neutral and presenting both the Christian perspective and the Jewish perspective, without asserting one as true over the other. This is not "presenting facts."

@@goldengun9970 It is not an insult. It is merely an alternative name, coming from a different perspective. The vast majority of Jews that I know personally (and I actually have met quite a lot of them in person) think nothing of it. Anyhow, if this bothers you so much, then why are you watching these videos? It seems to me that all you actually want is an excuse to complain and to hate, rather than contribute meaningfully to the discussion.

I think there are a couple, one on how the NT books were selected (there is a decent Penguin edition of other early christian writings (NOT THE "Apocraphal New Testatment"- which is a muddle of oddments, nor Dead Sea Scrolls Book of Darkness and Light and similar , nor Ayrain view of Christ ), and one covering the Apocrypha - which is part covered here, being the - mainly Greek Jewish writings, which are useful for poetry , wisdom and history, other 2nd Temple writings appear lost, though there are allusions in NT of rabbi (oral?) considerations , mostly Hillai and Gamaiel which Matt has not covered, to my knowledge ( the point being that Jesus taught as one with authority , rather than making just a commentrary )

I regret to inform you that it is mostly a matter of those works being fraudulently attributed to authors, containing contrary theology, and/or containing historical inaccuracies. I mean, by all means, please dig in. There's a lot of pop culture objections to the Canon because those works exist. It's just not all that amazing to me as a believer that the early church wouldn't have included them except as apocrypha. and then go on to affirm as much in councils to settle the matters publicly. But the more people who actually know the history of it all the better! Let us know what ya dig up! Cheers 🍻

@@PoisonedByWealth "containing contrary theology" but THAT is the interesting part!

@@PoisonedByWealth Be careful. Apocrypha is mainly from the Jewish (non)acceptance of what was first probably written in Greek, the books and addendum to a couple of other bibilical books are accepted by the Roman Catholic (not certain about the Orthodox churches) and are as about reliable as history/interpretation and understanding of God as the rest of the OT and a little bit of them is quoted by NT writers. Apocryphal books/writings - a good few have been gathered up and published in english, dont have the beauty of Christ as seen in the NT, they are quoted (against general christian belief) by many Islamic writers but just dont ring true, even though the dating of some is very close to the time of Jesus, and some have African origins (dont forget Horn of Africa just a short boat ride from Arabia and other middle eastern views pre christian and not directly Jewish influence so one can see corruption via mis-transmission. These books dont seem to appear or be quoted in the Dead Sea Scrolls (probably as those predate the Apocraphal writings) , and the DSS manuscripts that dont appear in the NT or OT (mostly the battle of Darkness vs Light) at least give understanding of that community's thought and do make interesting reading in how communities from a Jewish Background saw religion developing in a Roman oppressive to people political landscape.

@@highpath4776 As a devout Christian, I have to respectfully but strongly disagree that the apocryphal works carry equal theological or historical weight - this idea is almost exclusively embraced by the Romanist church (Roman 'Catholic') because it gave her leaders a way of justifying doctrines and practices which are otherwise foreign to an orthodox systematic theology. A good example would be paying penance (money for forgiveness) and another is purgatory (a lot to be said there). I grieve you are right on it impotent point, however: The apocryphal writings are a great literary resource for understanding the cultural character of the people from which it came. This might seem debated from a casual look on the outside of Christianity, but this is an oversimplification of the issue, often reserved for those too busy to study the theological nuances of Biblical theology. Perhaps I sound too sure of my stance, or even partisan about it, but I am in very good scholastic and academic company. Cheers 🍻

He gotta video about the Quran

as a student of theology I believe that the islamic sources of divine message or books are not up for debate as its history is quite straight and also not as ancient as judaism therefore even less debate on its compilation and source authority

@@user-up1ki1go9j man you need to spend more time in class. Anytime man is writing or speaking on behalf of a god you are dealing with mythology. If man introduced you to a god you are a dealing with a god that was created by man. Dont let them folks lie to you

I think quite a few Muslims would be open to it.

@@Spearca if they keep a certain yard stick to discuss them it would be better as Islamic history is quite recent and the work done in compilation of sacred texts was done quite vigilantly

Stay mostly literal, I find the saints along with God himself to be more trustworthy than ever changing narratives of “interpretation”. I’ve seen many of those “10 flaws in the Bible” videos, with a little bit of thinking and a quick google search most of it’s easily dismissed, the rest usually lies in historical context and original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. God bless ❤✝️

@@TheGymBroSkii Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I definitely agree. It's the historic context that I find most useful, although I appreciate that the ability of each generation to reinterpret the text based on their circumstances (like the Evangelicals in America today) is part of what makes it enduring. What do you recommend then for supporting material to study the Bible?

@@EurekaYoga no problem, I was worried I came of snobbish or something haha. What’s helped me is a indulging in media (mostly videos as they keep me entertained) related to things like Christian commentary on Islam and other religion, Christian commentated history, secular commentated history in relation to Christianity, and as a (currently) non denominational I like to watch a lot about denominations as they each have slightly different interpretations of parts of the Bible but still a basic agreed groundwork of Christianity, this analysis of each denomination and their respective interpretations on certain passages helps me significantly with my understanding. And though I haven’t found a denomination yet, that too could possibly help a Christian study the Bible, with a more set perspective on things. Philosophy plays a role as well, I dabble in stoicism but it’s mostly just Christianity but as a philosophy. I’ve also heard great things about studying the literature and works of saints, especially early saints. The preacher Cliffe Knetchtle is really great and “Redeemed zoomer” has some interesting videos along with the KZfaqr Kyle, who makes orthodox Christian content. Anyway, I’m still learning a ton, I love to see such enthusiasm about God, bless you and your journey with God!

@@TheGymBroSkii It's certainly much easier to assume that "god wrote it" than to do real historical research.

​@Unknown-jt1jo the vast majority of the population can't travel to historical sights in Israel or ancient Rome to do archeology in their spare time. Historical research for most people imply to simply listen and accept what others said have researched and published. Same goes for any historic thing or person that we were not present, be it WW2, Napoleon, Caesar, Aristotle, Adam etc.

Love the profile picture lol Shalom brother!

@@josiahamaze Sabbath is no longer for us to keep, otherwise we would ruin the 6th commandments, which says: DO NOT KILL! Matthew 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: it is the sabbath or the 6th commandment. Cant have both. Souls, know and understand the bible as we all should: 2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. The 2 most important commandments for us to keep TODAY are: Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Matthew 22:39 “And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” but you , the listeners of all these “religious lessons” all blind, devil gives out himself through the hand signs of masonry. You are still deceived by lucifer and his angelic look and having lack of knowledge about the truth. Time is passing away, the clock inside each of your chest are ticking. Drop religions, pick up BIBLE.

Yeah, it's 2 and a half hours 😀

the prophet mohamd said : The Jews split into seventy-one sects, one of which will be in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and On the path of Moses until the coming of Jesus ) and seventy in Hell . The Christians split into seventy-two sects, seventy-one of which will be in Hell and one in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and On the path of jessus until the coming of mohamed). I swear by the One Whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad, my nation will split into seventy-three sects, one of which will be in Paradise and seventy-two in Hell.” It was said: “O Messenger of Allah, who are they?” He said: “The main body(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone as salafi as al albanian and ibn otheimin ibn timia ibn kaiim ) .........We must follow the truth and not follow the devil and not follow ourselves.

Learning about the cult you grew up in makes your emphasis on ~"which beliefs are based in faith and which are based in verifiable history" completely understandable

Except saying translation is not a big deal. His name is Yeshua not Jesus. There are no J's in Hebrew.

Well said indeed. A great amount of work was put into this presentation and what makes it even more special is a timeline to help guide us through this very rich and detailed information. What would be mind blowing is if we put this timeline of information up against all of the archeological discoveries that have been confirmed within those timelines. Most importantly the most recent archeological dig of King David and the Tel Dan Inscription. I am a firm believer that with proper access to very particular areas to establish biblical archeological digs would uncover a multitude of information that would clarify so much. The sad part is the particular areas needed to access for these important digs will not happen as they are under a different jurisdiction which would give a hard no for any exploration.

The Gospel of Jesus was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them.

@@termination9353. Where do you get your information? How do you verify your truth?

@@EranRicos I verify from the Gospel text itself John 21:24 "This is the disciple[whom Jesus loved/ Lazarus] which testifieth of these things, AND WROTE THESE THINGS: and we[Apostles] know that his testimony is true." John 11:5 Now Jesus LOVED Martha, and her sister, and LAZARUS John 11:3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him{Jesus], saying, Lord, behold, HE[Lazarus] WHOM THOU LOVEST is sick.. John11:36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he[Jesus] LOVED him[Lazarus]! What "verification" did you ask for from those who told you it's apostle John?

@@EranRicos You asked where I get my truth. I showed you. Now what?

@@termination9353 maybe an odd question but are you a theist or atheïst? If so, why?

The bible was never changed. Only translation errors.

Agreed! I love the history and mythology aspects of the Hebrew bible.

I have written three manuscripts about the compiling of the OT and the NT. THEY WERE NEVER CHANGED!

Have you considered that there are 2 different creation events? It fits better with Cain finding a wife after he was banished after killing Able. Also in Genesis 20:1-16 describe Abraham presenting his wife as his sister to Pharoah. The second and separate event happened with Issac and Rebecca in Genesis 26. Please sir the way you present the information gives a message that the Bible is corrupt or can not be trusted even though you say it is trust worthy you claim it has mistakes...

@@KurtisLee Never was corrupted. Your ignorance is damning to you. Btw I wouldn’t take biblical info from a Jewish YTer lol. He has obviously never studied, given he references “scholars”. Not to mention this YTer should read the first 3 words in the Jewish Bible/OT in Hebrew and break it done descriptively. He’ll instantly realize Jesus is Lord. The “change versions come from the cult from “Alexandria” that made the first off-version, In fact all of the different versions, except the KJV. This cult was mentioned in Acts. All of the versions come from a cult that didn’t even believe in the divinity of Jesus…let that sink in. Not to mention it’s all for the greed of money for these Bible translators. KJV is non-copyrighted and therefore you can’t make money off of it originally. KJV was gathered together by the old scripts of over 5,000+ God Bless to the Pagans and Jews ❤️ y’all need Jesus

MY GOSH. WELL SAID!! I FEEL THE VERY SAME WAY. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU!!

Lies again? Apex Predator Burning Sun

I feel this video will be the reason humans will no longer believe in God and will question everything here on. But it is important to believe in God.

@@edwardspencer9397 🤡

@@Nooticus your on a scholarly video, you can’t expect people with intelligence to believe it

@@mr16325 "Intelligent" people once believed in unicorns, Venusian forests and alchemy. Most of the superstition surrounding the bible and its contents root from illiteracy,- not from bad documentation or understanding on the authors part. Example; "Spell" means a magical formula able to conjure something supernatural - to the illiterate idiot, while actually meaning "to read/play". A musician IS able to "cast a spell" over an audience by playing really good music, because to the audience his performance is unfathomable and borderline magical. Their ignorance however, is just that - ignorant.

God our Truths ...nano voice bioacoustics mathical ways the hope we realized we must know ... seekers shall find Sharry Edwards ..🗝🌎

I have a dream and in that dream I saw Jesus and he told me that my sister was not anointed come to find out my sister was being a ritualistic Christian she goes to church because my mama goes to church

Edgar Cayce was asked which Bible is the best? He said it does not matter but it only matters you follow the teachings therein.

@@sparky7915 Just curious. What teachings in the Bible other than the obvious 10 commandments do you subscribe to? Do you think there may be "teachings" such as slavery or denial of womens rights that may be questionable?

@@steveferguson698 most people don’t keep the 10 commandments

@@sparky7915do better

Aà

the prophet mohamd said : The Jews split into seventy-one sects, one of which will be in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and On the path of Moses until the coming of Jesus ) and seventy in Hell . The Christians split into seventy-two sects, seventy-one of which will be in Hell and one in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and On the path of jessus until the coming of mohamed). I swear by the One Whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad, my nation will split into seventy-three sects, one of which will be in Paradise and seventy-two in Hell.” It was said: “O Messenger of Allah, who are they?” He said: “The main body(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone as salafi as al albanian and ibn otheimin ibn timia ibn kaiim ) .........We must follow the truth and not follow the devil and not follow ourselves.

@carrie, spend the $5/month so you never have to get woken up again. Cheers.

​@@hidjri1445, that sounds about right. The Qu'ran and it's additional scriptures are a hodgepodge of different teachings--e.g., the Jewish and Christian recieved the book and then in the next book it says Jews and Christians are all going to burn in hell. Mohammed wasn't exactly consistent on his teachings ... except Sampson and ants have a chat just like the Bible says donkeys and angels talk. Both are obviously nonsense. But hey, this is just one guy's thoughts.

@@Ididntaskforahandleyoutube And unto thee have We revealed the Scripture with the truth, confirming whatever Scripture was before it, and a watcher over it. So judge between them by that which Allah hath revealed, and follow not their desires away from the truth which hath come unto thee....AL MAIDA 48

Why would you think it's insult? It's a compliment.

Funny

I literally have a "sleep" playlist with these kinds of videos (long, calming voice, no music, no stand out noises) and I put them on to sleep alllllll the time

I watch this on a playback speed of 1.5x. He sounds natural.

😂🤣

the prophet mohamd said : The Jews split into seventy-one sects, one of which will be in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and On the path of Moses until the coming of Jesus ) and seventy in Hell . The Christians split into seventy-two sects, seventy-one of which will be in Hell and one in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and On the path of jessus until the coming of mohamed). I swear by the One Whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad, my nation will split into seventy-three sects, one of which will be in Paradise and seventy-two in Hell.” It was said: “O Messenger of Allah, who are they?” He said: “The main body(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone as salafi as al albanian and ibn otheimin ibn timia ibn kaiim ) .........We must follow the truth and not follow the devil and not follow ourselves.

@@hidjri1445 Ah yes, the copycat.

​@@hidjri1445non literal reading about this hadith is basically all abrahamic religions would divide into countless sects and only few of them get the correct interpretations, which is kinda true if you looking nowadays. Still blindly follow literal interpretation from certain sect is pretty much no good as you just being ignorant and avoid academic approaches.

@@lukaswilhelm9290 If you are a Christian or a Jew, pray to God that will guide you from superstition to guidance and logic. But if you are a Salafist Muslim, explain to me where the error is based on the evidence and the approach of the righteous predecessors.

I like how you just assume your family members are stupid lol. Pretty stuffy eh?

@@RallyTheTally Not stupid. Willfully ignorant. There is a difference.

*Then make sure you watch FACTUAL evidence, not citation from one biased side of the story.* There are many real authoritative scholars on this subject with a totally different opinion, just so you know!

The Gospel of Jesus was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them Friday 13th.

He was very clear about that thesis and the reasons why is it increasingly supported. I wouldn't mind a footnote to the archeology and historical studies that support this theory, but he did explain it in the video earlier on. Personally, I also find it very difficult to put any faith in the Torah's description of one kingdom splitting into two. After all, all the historical research is very clearly pointing to the early Jews simply being a group that emerged out of bronze age Canaan. That includes genomic research. When the bronze age collapse disrupted the region, the iron age gave up the division of Canaan into an array of small kingdoms. The Torah c I'm aims that the Jews slaughtered the Canaanites, but there's no evidence of that. It's way more likely that this story of a unified kingdom beung divided is a literary retelling of that history (the breakup of Canaan art the start of the iron age) probably passed down orally and modified through many retellings.

*Then make sure you watch FACTUAL evidence, not citation from one biased side of the story.* There are many real authoritative scholars on this subject with a totally different opinion!

Nobody has ever been named after Haggai.

THOUGHTS, exactly right. This is dangerous.

I like the punishments people can inflict on servants and people for DOING NOTHING.. 😂 It’s a vicious book.. oh and what we can eat and not eat.. hysterical.. 😂

Esoterica is an absolutely excellent channel, in fact I saw this video in my reccomends whilst watching one of Esotericas videos, and actually Im also currently reading the Old Testament, Im an Agnostic Atheist my self and though I went to a Christian School we never read any of the bible we were just taught Christian Narratives, so actually reading the source material of those beliefs has been fascinating.

I'm an art historian. I work with archeologists. There's all kinds of academic researchers who are not Christian or Jewish who are interested in these texts for the purposes of understanding history. I have to admit that I find it strange when people think that the only reason anyone would be interested in the Bible is if you treat it as a holy book. Reading it from a neutral scholarly perspective is so much richer and rewarding than what I experienced in church as a young person. It is so heavily cherry-picked in sermons and there's no real interest in understanding the actual history.

not a couple of centuries tho lol, if the bible started being written around 800 BCE and ended by 100 CE then it's 9 centuries

Yes, yes, PLEASE N THANKS 🙏

The Gospel of Jesus was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them Friday 13th.

Since you're a muslim(judging by your name) what is your opinion regarding this academic pov of Bible? Should Quran also need to be studied this way?

@@lukaswilhelm9290 I think every religion appears should also need to be studied this way.

Oh please. "Dedication to his work"???? He earns money talking nonsense to gullible hopefuls.

@@larakaramazova777 ???

@@larakaramazova777 Please elaborate. Why do you see this as nonsense? You must have evidence to debate this teaching?

@@larakaramazova777 It doesn’t matter that he gets paid for making informative videos. “If” you are a non believer or not interested in his presentation, why are you here? Just to make rude comments & put people down? He gives an excellent presentation & food for thought, so take it or leave it, but don’t loiter in comments just to be rude or sarcastic.

@@steveferguson698 *There's no teachings here.* It's just a compilation or resume of theories, hypothesis, conjectures (as he himself said) from "SOME" scholars that in order to maintain an ”academic neutrality” initiated their ”evaluation” (not research) with a biased mentality in order to oppose the research already done, and the work of hundreds of other scholars with a different opinion accumulated over many years. *If something is being very well and openly documented, it is the archeological and historical nuances of the most selling book of all times, which happens to be the only real spiritual and supernaturally accurate and well connected with humanity till this day.* (There's no room for debate here, but this video is ONLY CITING (no factual evidence) the doubting scholars, (against the grain) which are one small part of *all the scholars with real authority on this subject*.)

It's almost like the degree is made up and the knowledge can't be hoarded and you can easily and quickly learn about anything you want to in a matter of hours on the internet... almost, what a crazy world that would be, right?

@@fyr3st0rm65 Not if it's all false information. - The Gospel of Jesus was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them Friday 13th.

@@termination9353 tell me more

@@imefamiliq8172 Can you be more specific. I got lots to tell.

@@termination9353 What is the original gospel of Jesus scroll?

"Cledwyn Jones". Doesn't get much more Welsh than that.

Someone actually named a kid 'Cledwyn'?

Notice how scholars (people in long robes) basically teach that the scriptures are lies and not what they claim to be. JEPD is a ridiculous theory that people who don’t understand the scriptures use to try and justify their lack of understanding, because it is only by God that you come to understanding. There are places where the theory breaks a single verse in to all four parts and does so after only one or two words. The JEPD theory makes no logical sense once you understand the purpose of the three patriarchs (Abram/Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel) and the Moses, Aaron, Joshua characters. Even the two Creation Stories make sense as a single writing when God gives you understanding. Does not the scriptures state God gives Understanding, God gives Wisdom, and God gives Knowledge?

Not curious at all. False teachers have been around since the beginning.

@@Michael_the_Servant People in long robes Really?? Is this still the 1800's. It is disappointing to many believers that the Bible didn't just magically appear from the sky one day. How many churches provide actual academic history of this book? Many would rather their members rest on the supernatural theory. And God will open your eyes. I was blind but now I see!!