The Priestly text was a late addition to the Bible.  It contains the scientifically inaccurate Genesis 1 creation myth.  It also contains a fantastic story about bread coming down from heaven.  The Hebrew people were on the brink of starvation.  Then God miraculously rained bread down from heaven.[1]  This bread was called "manna."

     A second version of the story is told by the Elohist source.  Yet the manna in the Elohist account is different from the manna in the Priestly account.  In the Elohist account, it never says that the manna came from heaven.  It never says that the manna was a miracle.  It never says that the manna was a gift from God.  In fact, the Elohist manna was very poor food.  The Hebrews complain, "Our soul is dried away.  There is nothing at all besides this manna before our eyes."[2]  It was just lying on the ground, and it made for a lousy supper.  It was not the bread of heaven. 

     Jesus gives us a third account of the manna, saying, 

 

Moses did not give you bread from heaven.[3]

 

Here, Jesus clearly rejects the Priestly account.  The manna is not bread from heaven.  Jesus explicitly denies the fact that manna ever came down from heaven.  Simply put, Jesus called the Priestly text's version a fib.

     There is still a fourth version of the story – the scientific version.  Manna is actually quite real.  Anyone can find it in the desert of Sinai, even today.  Just as the Bible tells us, it is truly white like coriander seed, it falls like dew in the night, and it is sweet.[4]  But it definitely does not come from heaven.  Manna is actually the resin produced when insects cut through tamarisk tree leaves.[5]

          From a scientific standpoint, it seems Jesus was ahead of his time.  He agreed with the Elohist source and with science.  He disagreed with the fallacious Priestly text which erroneously claimed that manna came from heaven.

Return to this section's landing page:  Genesis 1 is a forgery.

The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted by many ancient Christian texts.  Instead of an Almighty Creator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that the universe was born from blind arrogance and stupidity.  The angels caused evolution to occur from species to species.  There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the Christian God is just one among them.  Satan the Devil writes scripture, and thus the Bible was polluted with Genesis 1.  Archaeology and modern scholarship demonstrate that Genesis is indeed corrupted.  Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve.  Esoteric prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal the dark forces that govern the cosmos.  Such are the ancient Christian writings.

Science vindicates the truth of these ideas.  Evolution often happens too fast for Darwin’s theory.  Gaps in the fossil record indicate that some kind of unnatural force acts together with natural selection.  Astrobiology reveals that intelligent life probably evolved long before us.  The fossil record reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverse lineages was combined to spawn hybrid species.  Evidently, aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of the world’s religions. 

This is not fiction.  All these facts are thoroughly documented in the links above.

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