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"Almighty God" Is a Mistranslation

     The Genesis creation story was added to the Bible by heretics who wrote the Priestly text.  But if this is true, then why did God allow lies and falsehood to creep into his Bible?  If one assumes that the God of the Bible is all powerful and all wise, then how could God allow the Bible to become polluted?  The question is flawed because the assumption is flawed.  God is not all powerful.

     Certainly the God of Genesis 1 is all powerful, for this God created everything, and had the power to ensure that everything was good.  But that God is the God of the Priestly text.

     The God of the earlier parts of the Hebrew Bible is different.  Below are quotes from the earlier, more authentic parts of the Bible, such as the Yahwist and Elohist sources, Judges, and Samuel:

 

Yahweh was with Judah; and he possessed the mountains, but he was not capable of driving out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had iron chariots.[1]

 

After God tested Abraham, God said, "Now I know that you fear God."[2] (Beforehand, God was not sure if he did.)

 

When God saw he could not beat Jacob in a wrestling match, God said, "You have struggled with God and man and have prevailed."[3]

 

Yahweh regretted making humans on the earth.[4]      

 

(God said) I greatly regret that I have set Saul up as king.[5]

 

Moses convinced God not to destroy Israel in the desert, and afterward Amos again convinced God not to destroy Israel.[6]  Hence, God can be swayed by human arguments. 

     Indeed, the entire corpus of archaic Hebrew literature is entirely incompatible with any notion that God controls everything, knows everything, or is impermeable. This cannot be explained away with theological constructs, hermeneutics, or exegesis, for the earliest sources of the Bible are clear and consistent on this point.

     Likewise, the earliest gospel, Mark, takes for granted that Jesus Christ is not all powerful, as is clear from the quotes below:

 

Jesus could not do a mighty work there, except for laying his hands on a few sick people and healing them.[7]

 

Therefore, the God of the Bible is not Almighty God.  Rather, God is a space alien with limited powers. 

But what about the places in the Bible where God is called the “Almighty?”  The phrase "Almighty God" appears often in the English Bibles.  Based on this, the monotheists assert that the God of the Bible is all powerful.  However, this is wrong because it fails to understand the meaning of the Hebrew word El Shaddai, which is erroneously translated "Almighty God" in the English Bibles.  El is Hebrew for God; however, shaddai does not mean "Almighty."  Rather, it means "wilderness," since the Akkadian shadu and Hebrew sadeh are cognates that mean wilderness.[8]  Akkadian was the eastern branch of the Semitic lingual group, and thus closely related to the Hebrew language.  The Hebrew words sadeh and saddai both appear dozens of times in the Bible and they both mean "wilderness," that is, the desert.  We can see that saddai is related to shaddai in the Biblical book of Judges, because the Hebrews of the northern hill country could not pronounce the "sh" sound,[9] and so this means that saddai is a homonym of shaddai.  Furthermore, this makes sense of Moses' statement to Pharaoh, "Let us go celebrate a festival in the wilderness for our God Yahweh,"[10] and of many other Biblical passages that link the God of Israel to the wilderness.[11] 

     Thus, El Shaddai means "God of the Wilderness," not "Almighty God."  The God of Israel is not Almighty God.  Rather, he is a god of the dry desert wilderness.

Click here to read more about how the ancient scriptures prove that the God of the Prophets was not all powerful.

 

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 is 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.

Sciencevindicates 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.



[1] Judges 1:19

[2] Genesis 22:12

[3] Genesis 32:24-30

[4] Genesis 6:6

[5] 1st Samuel 15:11

[6] Exodus 32:14, Amos 7:1-6

[7] Mark 6:5

[8] Heiser, Michael S.  Email communication, Jan 2005

[9] Judges 12:6

[10] Exodus 5:1, 7:16

[11] Judges 5:4-5, Deuteronomy 33:2, Psalm 68:17, Habakkuk 3:3

 

Above: The Primordial Bull-God El, the Father of the gods in ancient pre-Jewish Hebrew religion. He is "God the Father" in Christianity.

 

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GOD IS NOT ALL POWERFUL -at least not yet

Ancient Christians believed the progenitor of this universe was an imperfect god who messed it all up.  Their stories are metaphorically similar to the scientific understanding of the Big Bang.