The Bible!
One of the best known books on earth may it be known by name or known by those who read or study it.
I want to start off by saying that I am not denying the Bible in any way. But I am not necessarly saying that everything is as is and as it has been written.
I consider the Bible to be a huge worldwide telephone game. You know the telephone game? That's when 1 person says something in the ear of another person and the next one repeats it to the ear of the next, then, at the end, the final person says out loud what was told in his ear and we mostly laugh because of how distorted a sentence can be from the first person who said it.
Considering the facts of the Bible, I will concentrate on 4 main events:
- The Creation - Adam and Eve
- The ark of Noah
- The Babel Tower
- The 10 commandements with Moses
Let's begin with the creation. First off, we have 1 entity named God which in french is written as "Dieu". So right there, we are dealing with a God figure in a spiritual realm, or in a non-human dimension of this world. What language do you think God used to pronounce the words that created this world? Becaue not even 2 verses beginning in the Bible and we clearly have an idea that something was spoken by what God uses as what we humans know as mouth.
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
As you can see, it clearly says "God said". So right away we are introduced in a very subtle yet critical importance for the rest of my subject, interpretation. This verse says that God says "Let there be light". Does anyone actually have a clue on which sylables God used to pronounce these words? Which language is this? Is it a human audible and speakable language? Nothing is said about this. Yet, this tiny detail has slipped by and all Christians nowdays take the Bible as is without thinking about this tiny detail that makes a difference. God created light. So what, he created the sun, the moon, the stars? What IS light? Did God create light as a specific thing and chose to create sources that will produce what he initially created? What if light just came from nowhere. Noone can be sure of anything.
The ark of Noah was a 2nd start for God's human creation. I will talk more about that in another article. But as we see through the Bible about that event:
Genesis 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
The word used here is corrupt. Then, later in verse 13, God clearly had a human understandable voice and we see that he spoke to Noah saying that "the earth is filled with violence". 2 things are weirdly arranged in theses verse, first we get this:
verse 11: The earth also was corrupt before God
Then we have:
verse 12: And God looked upon the earth
We seem to see that we, as the reader, know that the earth was corrupt before God even looked upon it to realise it. AND in 2 lines, we are doubling the concept of the earth is corrupt, okay, we get it. Now, leaving this detail behind, we also see that God wants to destroy violence and not necessarely corruption. But again, that's still unclear and debatable. The main point to say here is that we have a totally NEW Adam and Eve since God has destroyed the entirety of flesh with the exception of the people and animals in the Ark. May I also point out that there is nothing written about sea creatures here. But that's just another detail we won't talk about here.
Now, the next portion of the Bible will most certainly drive the center point of this article. The tower of Babel notes the beginning of all of the different languages. It basically states that all humans spoke one single language and that God saw this as not good. Well, technically, it's the fact that humans wanted to reach God that displeased God, but that also is for another time. Let's see what the Bible states for the Tower of Babel.
Genesis 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
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6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
So we see that God created humans to be intelligent but did not want them to be too intelligent so to reduce that intelligence and make them not understand themselves. I won't go too deep in this and I simply says very shortly the idea about Babel here, but the point is, we now have an earth with all it's diversity, languages and cultures.
Now, one may argue about the language spoken at the time of Adam and Eve and most possible the same during Noah's age. But noone from that era lives today to come forth and confirm anything. This now means 2 things, most people do not understand themselves from other languages which now makes us wonder, where do the translators come from? If initially they did not exist and everyone did not understand themselves anymore, who decided to interpret "God" as "Dieu" in french and why does "God" BECOME "Dieu". My name is David, English, French, Chinese, Arab, Mexican, no matter which letters you use, my name, no matter the language will always be spelled David. The other funny thing is that David in French is not pronounced the same way in English, the "A" has a different sound. I'll be back to this later.
Then we come to our 4th moment with Moses and the 10 commandements making this moment a historical biblical moment where people had now been given the law by God. Yet, this law was written by God himself on tablets.
Exodus 24:12 And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Exodus 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
May I remind most people that there are over 10 chapters before this has been said and a heck of a lot of verses with "thou shalt" and "thou shalt not" stated in them. We are comming from far. A whole nation of people without any direct or strict laws now have 10 chapters of law to render in their heads. So, here we have the base of what I consider the beginning of the telephone game of the Bible.
Let me first point out HUGE, and I emphasise, HUGE verses that most christians use to accomodate whosoever should be wanting to contradict or speak differently about what the Bible says:
2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Revelation 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
So, from these 2 sources, Christians wil, and I repeat, WILL say that if you add anything to the Bible or remove anything from it, God should definately, most probably make you end up in hell. AND if ever anyone tries to prove that the Bible could have mistakes or errors or have some human interpretation in it, then you are not from God because all scriptures are inspired from God. That's the universal way of Christians to close a discussion with any person that will try to give reason to what Christians consider as faith which I will also talk about in another article.
So, let's sum up something here in a list:
- God spoke in his language
- Humans had just 1 language
- Humans had many different languages
- Humans got a book of laws to remember
We humans have a very hard time understanding ourselves and even after all those years of existance, noone can totally explain exactly what the Bible definately means. As my father once said by hearing it by a dying man, this man said that he had just barely understood a tiny portion of what the Bible was. So now we face one bigger issue. A lifetime reading the same book without understanding. Not only are the translators not able to bring history into tangible and solid undeniable facts but even the humans studying cannot even strongly suggest a definitive answer to some of the most basic questions of life.
I once heard a man talk about hell being like living within the lava pit inside an active volcano while having worms eating you out for eternity. That was his vision of hell. And yet, many Christians, instead of searching for real answers will use the lazy way to believe. It's much easier to believe that the earth is like a sphere than launching ourselves in space to see for ourselves to confirm. And it's much easier to believe that some planets are just gas and not really solid than to check for sure. Noone has dug deep enough on earth to prouve anything about the cores that is tought at school, and yet, it is taught at school in our serious science classes. Humans created machines to explain things and interpret what is unknown and we have been interpreting these interpretations over and over again and we built schools on top of this knowledge. But these are easier to understand as we see them and hear them, speak them and touch them. But faith is untouchable and God is unreachable, physically speaking.
One day, a man gave me his study on mariage because he thought I was sining and not righteous. That day, I understood something really important. If he can write and teach me, why can't I? The answer is, I CAN! So I opened the Bible and chose to try to understand what pastors are preaching, what Christians are sharing and I understood that Christians simply play the telephone game by interpreting interpreted interpretations. It's far easier to simplify something that has been said already than to discover for yourself. And being autistic, like all my fellow autistic friends out there, I thinks and see the world differently and this is my view of the Creator from what I have read and discovered by myself.
You know the saying: A job is never better done than by yourself, well, I say:
"You'll never discover more by learning from someone else. Believe in your comprehension capacity and you'll discover more than those before you."
David Richard (Qc/Can)
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