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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
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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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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. |
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