Appendix 1: The Pillars of God

Appendix 1: The Pillars of God.

This deity they call Yahweh is suppose to be all powerful, all present, and all knowing. Let’s break these three powers down:

All Powerful (Omnipotent): During the renaissance and the great explosion of philosophy one of the big questions postulated was: If god is omnipotent, could he create a rock that even he could not lift? The question was badly phrased and philosophically unsound because of it, but the idea behind the question was still valid. Instead of trying to prove this rock building issue, let’s try another approach.

All powerful should mean that there is nothing done in the universe that can not be undone, or nothing that does not exist that can therefore exist. Webster’s Seventh College Dictionary tells us to look up the word ALMIGHTY, which is then defied as: Having absolute power over all. This should mean that god is powerful enough to create where there is no creation. The bible says just that in Gen1. But if god was all powerful, could he not have created the universe in a way where there was no evil?

Christian scholars have led the world to believe that where there is ultimate good there must be ultimate evil. This is childish pandering from people who’ve not spent any real time in the world. What is evil? Being immoral? Being dangerous? Being destructive? These are subjective ideals. Morality is completely subjective to the culture that dawns it. Not everyone who’s ever come onto this planet has the same morality that I do, am I therefore left to believe that all those other people with different morality are in fact evil? This sets up the worst possible reality of the bible, man’s sense of megalomania. It says in Gen1 that we are ‘created’ in his image, that we are rulers over all the earth, and that god waited until the last day to create us. This is an insane attempt at saying that some how those that follow the bible are better than those that do not, by allowing for a righteous nature to bubble up and eat away at others just because they have a different sense of morality.

What of destruction? Is that evil? As you will see in later writing, the bible is full of times when god himself destroys things, therefore destruction can not be evil in its own nature. When we get to Job and the real talking with Lucifer himself we’ll get back to the nature of evil.

Omnipotent would then mean that god could have changed the very nature of everything, but he chose not to. Why?

All present (Omnipresent): This is a concept that is very hard to really understand, only because we human beings are linear transitory creatures. We have a starting point known as birth, we travel through the plane of time during the course of our lives. This motion is not changeable, we can’t go back, or rush forward, we are slaves to the ether, and have to wait for its motions. At the end of this we arrive at our end point and die:

Drawing 1 – Life as we know it

We human beings can do nothing at present to change or alter the passage of time. Now it’s important to note that time does not exist per se, it is really a function of distance. Time exists because there is matter and distance from one point to another. As an example; we have a star in the sky we call the sun. Our planet, revolving on its axis causes the sun to climb up in the east and set in the west. This event happens every time the earth revolves around. This event is marked by the passage of what we have called a day. That day is then broken down into hours. But if all this did not exist, then there would be no way to mark the passage of time, right? Wrong, as long as we are living, we have the ability to perceive the difference from one moment to the next. Even without clocks, or stars, or even the universe, it would be within our power to recognize that something has change. How? Thought itself is a function of distance. It takes time to create thought and move that thought from one location to the next within your mind. It takes time and distance to comprehend your own thinking, to grok, to use it.

Yahweh on the other hand is omnipresent. This means that he is not a linear transitory creature. Instead god is all time. God is all space. God is everywhere and everything at once:

Drawing 2 – Omnipresent life

This picture represents god as both infinite and a singularity. This is where the writers of the bible couldn’t possible fathom the consequences of this meaning. In Gen2 when god says that he’s created a couple of trees in the garden we forget that god, is all present. He didn’t create those trees in Adam’s time. He created those trees in the present. That’s right, he create the tree of knowledge of good and evil as you are reading this. He will continue to create the tree of knowledge even after you have put this down. What that means is that god knew who Hitler was before he created us from dust. God knew of the atomic bomb before the garden of Eden. And more importantly god knew, that we would fail him and that his first creations, the angels, would abdondon him. Yet he did it all anyway. Why? Something must be wrong. Either god is not all being or the bible is wrong. Explain why not being All being is a bad sign.

All knowing (omniscient): All knowing means having knowledge of all things. No stone unturned, no secrets, nothing is hidden from god. Now there are going to be passages throughout the bible where god actually askes questions of those around him…questions he should already know the answer to. But that’s not the point of omniscient. You see, when we take all three of the pillars of a deity and stand them up next to each other, then we have to recognize that an all powerful god who creates from an infinite point, sees all that he creates, would probably not create a situation where things go astray from his original plan. That makes no sense. God must have created the situation intentionally, he could do no other thing. God wanted us to eat of the fruit or he wouldn’t have created it, because the moment he perceived it’s creation he was standing over your shoulder reading these words. The moment he thought up the serpent he saw it betray him. He accepted all this, not because he’s stupid and loving, but because it is his plan. But the bible makes it sound like we failed. That’s impossible.

Appendix 2: History and how the bible became truth.

The beauty of History, in any form is that it is written by those that can. In the case of most societies, that means, the people in power. Since, though, time continues to move, and power systems rise and fall, history is always re-written to fit within the context of the new powers that be.

A modern historical example of this is the Constitution of the United States. When the founders of the Country wrote the first laws they were completely unaware of the possibilities of the future. This is the reason that they made the Bill of Rights (for example) so general. Because they were aware that over complex laws might be used to the letter in their interpretations and thus could be used in a way that might damage the fabric of the Nation that they were trying to create. Take for example the second Amendment:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The language is simple, but it’s too simple. This over simplification has allowed for two very different interpretations:

1. A well regulated Militia being necessary…

This interpretation, is the one that anti-gun people put forward. They believe that the second amendment talks about the need of the Nation to have a militia that has, and keeps arms to protect the Country from invaders.

2. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,

This time the comma is enforced in the language and separates the comment, from the law. The pro gun crowd says that average citizens need their guns to protect themselves not only against foreign invasion, but oppression at home.

The odd thing of course is that both sides use the first 13 words as their bases for arguing for or against. Both sides don’t seem to realize that the law is the second part of the statement: the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The first section was a justification. An example, as it were.

Regardless, history is going to change that law, by re-interpreting the language of the first few words. This is normal, it’s the nature of human beings.

What makes matters more complicated, when it comes to the bible, is that so many generations of illiterates have been responsible for the actual definitions and language that comes down to us.

One of the best examples of this is Gen32 where Jacob wrestles with god. Now remember, before Moses came along it looks like the Hebrew people had forgotten their importance. There is no mystical seer that comes to Moses from his people and sends him on a quest for enlightenment.

Imagine if you will that you are sitting with Moses and he’s telling you the story of Jacob. But instead of telling you Gen32, he tells you Gen35. Where suddenly Jacob (the deceiver) has his named changed by god to Israel (he struggles with god). In Gen35, there’s no context for why the name changed. All that we have is that one guy who was called the deceiver is now called he struggles with god. There had to be some skeptics in the crowd who said, “Why? A holy man like Jacob struggling with god? If Jacob is having trouble with his faith, then what possible chance does a dumb cow dung seller like me have?”

So the next afternoon Moses sits down to tell a story he tells them Gen32, because, remember there is no written History. The history is completely oral (something that illiterate nations seem to be proud of) and because of that is subject to constant change and re-interpretation.

It doesn’t take much of an imagination to realize that the story would alter and change through the course of history. It would take on modern issues. It would take on new meanings. It might even become prophetic, in that some new version of it says something about some event that ends up happening.

I have a crazy Aunt who will not fly in an airplane. She thinks their dangerous and after September 11^th she says, “See I told you”, as if her intuition has keep her from the danger all those years just so that she would avoid 911. That’s the way ‘real’ prophecy is instituted. Some one always steps forward after the event and claims to have known that it was going to happen.

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