I dont believe the christian bible because the entire thing has been written and rewritten..and for miracles in the bible I look for other logical explanations.. for example in the book Exodus when moses went to free the enslaved israelites "Moses and Aaron appear before the pharaoh when Aaron's rod is transformed into a serpent.
The pharaoh's sorcerers are also able to transform their own rods into serpents, but Aaron's swallows them" This would detail how moses and his brother were able to perform the same "miracles" as the Egyptian sorcerers or priest..
Moses grew up as a royal member him and his brother would have been aware of the trickery, it says Aarons snake swallowed the rest as a metaphor to say "I can do what you can do but better"... Later down the line Moses parts the red sea right? Also incorrect.. in the original text the sea at which they crossed was called "Yam Suph" ..
Suph means Reed not Red.. It also stands for as an area of reeds which has dried up due to the Suez Canal.. Which means they would have easily been able to cross on foot while evading the Egyptian military through the desert.. Once they were able to reach Mt Sinai the landscape was described as glowing green..
This is the result of smelting copper weapons and armor the bible will detail he brought them there for safe passage.. Doesnt say he is arming thousands of homeless israelites.. Moses gathered the elders and he went to the top of the Mt it says..
10 And the Lord said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. Have them wash their clothes 11 and be ready by the third day, because on that day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. 12 Put limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death. 13 They are to be stoned or shot with arrows; not a hand is to be laid on them. No person or animal shall be permitted to live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”
.. let me point out.. "limits for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful that you do not approach the mountain or touch the foot of it. Whoever touches the mountain is to be put to death." Clearly they did not want ANYONE going anywhere near the MT its self.. of course as you should know this is where God is creating stone tablets called the commandments for Moses.. Moses stayed there for 40 nights, so a little longer than a month..
In the mean time while Moses was on the Mt some of his freed israelites began worshiping a golden calf statue .. Aaron built an altar before the calf and proclaimed the next day to be a feast to the LORD. So they rose up early the next day and "offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." (Exodus 32:6) God told Moses what the Israelites were up to back in camp, that they had turned aside quickly out of the way which God commanded them and he was going to destroy them and start a new people from Moses. Moses besought and pleaded that they should be spared (Exodus 32:11-14), and God "repented of the evil which He said He would do unto His people." Let me again point out.. "God told Moses what the Israelites were up to back in camp, that they had turned aside quickly out of the way which God commanded them and he was going to destroy them and start a new people from Moses. Moses besought and pleaded that they should be spared (Exodus 32:11-14), and God "repented of the evil which He said He would do unto His people."..
So it seems logical to me that Moses freed a bunch of slaves and fled Egypt with thousands of people so they raided small towns on their way out and it pissed off the pharaoh <-- His "father" because it had not been long since their land was raged with plague of disease and insects..
Pharaoh's army chased after them, Moses lead them off in to the desert put distance between them and crossed a shallow area of the river, The egpytians had to give up because they used chariots and could not cross through the thick mud.. Moses took them to a popular place where copper and bronze could be created to arm them because the whole point is to lead an army and take over the "promised land" of Canaan..
Theres a huge gap between these two locations controlled by powerful countries and empires who arent just gonna let thousands of people cross through their land.. This is also why Joshua completely fucked over Jericho to send a message of their power... My point with all of this is this story is described with such magic and empowerment from God.. When in reality you had a country starving and dealing with mayhem than thousands of your slaves run away and form an army to take over a kingdom so they have a place to live.. No miricales.. all can be logically proven and thought out..
I was raised heavily religious as a child, my mother went to private christian and catholic schools..my first and middle name is Joshua and David.. My brother is Joseph Mark.. I know the bible well, I understand the Christian God very well.. I've read stories from the bible Ive read with my own eyes how sickening and wrathful "God" can be to the point where God regretted creating humans, it is quoted that we are "born with evil" in our hearts...So even if this God is true and real, he is no "God" of mine..
Further more to support the idea of God would support the idea of Hell.. Hell mind you was a fictional place created by Dante Alighieri a comedian, poet and writer in the 14th-century.. Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the "realm ... of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen". As an allegory, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin.. This was a horror story created about his own idea of how God would punish sinners.. Which was later adopted into Christianity as a legitimate place of punishment. Another very interesting fact is that Jesus is depicted in the bible as the morning star, the bringer of dawn, an illuminated one.. An interesting fact is "Lucifer" is called the exact same thing "Lucifer (/ˈluːsɪfər/;[1][2][3] LOO-sif-ər) is the King James Version rendering of the Hebrew word הֵילֵל in Isaiah (Isaiah 14:12). The Vulgate translation uses the Latin word lucifer, but with a lower-case initial.[4] The Hebrew word, transliterated Hêlêl[5] or Heylel (pron. as HAY-lale),[6] occurs once in the Hebrew Bible[5] and according to the KJV-based Strong's Concordance means "shining one, light-bearer".[6] The Septuagint renders הֵילֵל in Greek as ἑωσφόρος[7][8][9][10][11] (heōsphoros),[12][13][14] a name, literally "bringer of dawn", for the morning star.[15] The word Lucifer is taken from the Latin Vulgate,[16] which translates הֵילֵל as lucifer,[17][18] meaning "the morning star, the planet Venus", or, as an adjective, "light-bringing".[19]" ..
It is also a known fact that when Jesus was crucified for "falsely" claiming to be God, the "Messiah" he began his distant in to hell where he saved the prophets and Broke Open the gates of "Hell" which is a story added after Dantes Inferno.. I find it funny how Jesus claimed to be Messiah and the son of God and was known as the morning star, yet the Anti-Christ is also someone who is suppose to resemble the son of God..Because to me, from my understanding Jesus and Lucifer are the same..Which makes sense why God is such a angry wrathful God.
Like I've said I respect everyones point of view there are no right or wrongs only opinions.
I do not credit the bible or any man made text to be proof of a God.. I also do not believe God is a being or entity I believe more or less an extremely rare series of events unfolded as we explore space we can see how lucky this universe actually is it hangs perfectly with in balance of expansion and contraction think of this as the most rare event to ever happen.. so much so that not all universes can survive in this balance and its also believed that it took eons of time to get the balance correct in this one little area..I believe if there was a creator more things would be this perfect, why not all universes having balance, why not life more common, why not things more clear..
I basically believe in a more radical theory than God.. Think of our universe and all universes and all things in space as billions of tiny soap bubbles all touching one another, these bubbles are made of incredible energy its the fabric of darkmatter now i believe some bubbles can form empty but small holes can interconnect them to one another.. So if a small hole is created and it sucks energy through it think of a black hole, and on the other side of this black whole in a differnt universe that we our selfs can not interact with a white hole forms, white holes appear randomly in space and they spew out mega tons of raw energy.. I believe when a black hole forms a corresponding white hole forms filling up a new bubble, now all of these billions and gazillions bubbles all have holes that open and close sucking and spewing energy all breathing as one.. all energy being broken down and recreated each time an empty bubble is filled for the first time it would be like a big bang this is why we can tell the difference in age by how far back in to space we go.. So in your mind picture countless of universes and different dimensions as kakakabillions of bubbles all circulating raw energy from one to another constantly createing and ending at the same time us being so small on this scale see the time frame as being eons and eons of time but when really this could be happening extremely quickly packing unbelievable amounts of energy that we are all apart of. I also believe in some type of binary code system made up of time little vibrations that vibrate in ways we can not detect them, different vibrations are like different numbers in code resulting in different outcomes, some vibrations stay vibrateing a certian way so things are always recreated the same from the DNA blueprints when the vibration slightly changes it causes deformities, unexplained phenomenons, and bio mutation in gene codes.. All of these tiny vibrations all share common mini vibrations that link everything in existence together these mini vibrations are less complex and simple stay the same linking a chain together.
So the essence of energy as in what everything is created from breaks back down in to its more pure state of energy as a piece of vibrating code which is used to constantly recycle its self.. Think of reproduction just on a galactic scale.
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