{"id":245990,"date":"2024-08-16T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T22:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=245990"},"modified":"2024-08-17T07:07:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T11:07:14","slug":"very-sorry-to-tell-you-folks-but-the-god-of-the-old-testament-yahweh-is-most-definitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=245990","title":{"rendered":"

Very sorry to tell you folks, but the so-called god of the Old Testament–YAHWEH–is most definitely…..<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

…not the one true GOD of the New Testament to
\nwhom Jesus the Christ prayed.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Submitted by Revisionist Historians for World Peace<\/em>
\nSOTN<\/a> Exclusive<\/p>\n

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(Source:<\/strong> Knight Templars & the Knights of Malta<\/a>)<\/h3>\n

This skeleton of this revolutionary new narrative is actually fleshed out quite conclusively by Mauro Biglino, “a biblical scholar and translator who has supervised the translation and publication of 17 books of the Old Testament for Edizioni San Paolo, Italy\u2019s foremost Catholic publisher. In his book, Gods of the Bible, Mauro offers the reader an astonishing rediscovery of biblical writings and the remarkable insights into the history of humanity these texts contain.”<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Biglino is also an Italian author, essayist, and biblical researcher who was hired by the Vatican at one point of his career to undertake some very important projects.\u00a0 “Much of his work focuses on the translation of original Hebrew texts and the intended linguistic meaning vs. the many revisions of the Bible and church history, including various conspiracy theories, ufology, and the speculation of ancient astronauts.”<\/em><\/span>[1]<\/h3>\n

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The Old Testament is just the story of the alliance\/relationship between Yahweh and the family of Jacob-Israel, and such a tale is deprived of any universalistic perspectives (a later invention of Christianity). This alliance, which did not even involve all the descendants of Abraham\u2019s family but only one of its branches, that of Jacob-Israel, is not a universal but a particular account of events that happened at a specific time in history in a specific place: today we would perhaps label it as a local history book. Yahweh, the protagonist of the Old Testament, was just the leader of the family of Jacob.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Other families, peoples, and nations had their leaders; only they did not take the pain to write an accurate account of such relationships. Or maybe they did, and the books went lost. But the question is: who were these \u201cleaders\u201d that the ancient people considered \u201cdeities\u201d and referred to by different but equivalent names? The Sumerians called them \u201cAnunnaki,\u201d the Egyptians called them \u201cNeteru,\u201d and the Babylonians called them \u201cIlanu.\u201d The Bible calls them \u201cElohim.\u201d Who were the Elohim, then? <\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you read the Bible, literally everything becomes understandable and plain because the biblical authors did not feel the need, as we do, to advocate for a precise monotheistic theological perspective or a moral authority of religious order. The biblical authors wrote what they experienced, saw with their eyes, or heard with their ears, even when the image of Yahweh from those reports was all but flattering. As a theologian of a loving God, how do you explain that Yahweh orders the extermination of men, women, and children and claims for himself 675 sheep, 72 oxen, 61 donkeys, and 32 virgins after a battle against the Midianites (Numbers 31:32-40)? This portion of the spoils was not for the service of the tabernacle, as Numbers 31 explains: it was for Yahweh\u2019s personal use. One only wonders why a spiritual and transcendent \u201cGod\u201d would need 32 virgins \u2014 or 61 donkeys, for that matter<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mainly I focused on the identity and character of Yahweh and the meaning of the term \u201cElohim.\u201d To make a long story short, when we read the term \u201cGod\u201d in the Bible, this usually comes from the Hebrew term \u201cElohim.\u201d However, at least when I worked for Edizioni San Paolo, the term \u201cElohim\u201d was left untranslated into the interlinear edition of the Bible that we prepared for scholars and academia. In the Bibles available to the public, the same term was translated as \u201cGod.\u201d Therefore, where people read \u201cGod\u201d and believe that the biblical authors wrote the equivalent of the word \u201cGod,\u201d scholars read the term \u201cElohim.\u201d This was to alert them that this word is problematic, to say the least, for the unbiased translator.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Furthermore, Yahweh is just one of the many individuals who comprise the group of the \u201cElohim.\u201d As shown, this term is the equivalent of the Sumerian \u201cAnunnaki\u201d or the Egyptian \u201cNeteru,\u201d which described a pantheon of a multiplicity of deities. Monotheism arose quite late on the roots of a previously widespread polytheism that affected all the peoples of the ancient Near East, including the Israelites. This fact is now recognized even in Bible study circles. Professor Mark Smith of Princeton Theological Seminary has written extensively on the polytheistic roots of the Bible and the long development of monotheism from an earlier polytheism.4<\/sup><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

At any rate, nobody who is intellectually honest can be sure of what \u201cElohim\u201d means, but there is substantial evidence that \u201cElohim\u201d does not mean \u201cGod\u201d at all. Our very idea of God as a transcendental, omniscient, omnipotent being has nothing to do with the idea the ancient Biblical authors had in mind when employing the term \u201cElohim.\u201d The Bible mentions several other \u201cElohim\u201d besides Yahweh, of whom we even know the names, such as Chamosh, Milcom, Astarte, Hadad, Melqart, and many others. The \u201cElohim\u201d was thus a group.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We could also add that the Old Testament tells the story of how Elyon, the most powerful of the Elohim, the commander-in-chief, would divide the lands and peoples of the earth among all the various Elohim leaving some of them satisfied and others dissatisfied.6<\/sup><\/a> Yahweh was one of them, and he received only the people of Israel, who were still landless. As the Bible says, \u201cYahweh\u00a0alone led\u00a0him; no foreign El was with him\u201d (Deuteronomy 32:12). In a very significant passage, the Bible also describes an \u201cassembly\u201d of the \u201cElohim.\u201d To be an assembly, they must have been more than one. Traditional translators argue that \u201cElohim\u201d here means \u201cjudges,\u201d but they are contradicted by the Bible itself, which always uses a different word for \u201cjudges.\u201d Also, this is an entirely arbitrary affirmation. I wonder on what ground can we say that \u201cElohim\u201d at times means \u201cGod\u201d and at times mean \u201cjudges.\u201d What criteria are we following? In Psalm 82, Elyon rebukes the assembly of the gathered \u201cElohim\u201d and reminds them that although more powerful than humans, they also \u201cdie like Adam,\u201d thus emphasizing a clear distinction between the \u201cAdamites,\u201d the descendants of Adam, and the group of the \u201cElohim.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It won\u2019t be surprising that the term \u201cElohim\u201d has a grammatical plural ending. \u201cElohim\u201d is a grammatical plural. Translating \u201cElohim\u201d in the singular as \u201cGod\u201d would be nothing more than a simplification of monotheistic theology. Therefore I think it should be left, to be safe, untranslated<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yahweh\u2019s character is also worth investigating. When not violent, Yahweh\u2019s behavior often seems bizarre, extravagant, and arbitrary. Yahweh\u2019s words demonstrate his eagerness for the smell of the smoke of burnt flesh, prescribing elaborate rituals for the holocausts and commanding that violation of pedantic rules for the sacrifices be punished by death. Yahweh also moves and intervenes in human businesses in peculiar ways; for example, at times, he literally arrives \u201cflying riding on a cherub\u201d (Psalm 18:10) or aboard flying machines called \u201cruach\u201d\u00a0or\u00a0\u201ckavod,\u201d which I discuss extensively in Gods of the Bible<\/em>. Yahweh destroys cities with terrifying weapons, crushes villages, and demands his share of the spoils.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In my view, biblical scholarship and theology hopelessly oppose each other. However, I don\u2019t deny the existence of God in general; I only say that God is not present in the Bible. Luckily so! This supposedly loving God theologians have come up with shows himself in the Old Testament as a cruel, sadistic, manipulative, and narcissistic individual.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yahweh was undoubtedly endowed with unique qualities that made him superior to man in power and knowledge, but he was not superior in morals and ethics. It is enough to remember Yahweh\u2019s exterminations, cruel rules, and bizarre behaviors, like sniffing the smoke of burned flesh, which he needed to relax. This matter was so important that any violation of the ritual could result in the death of the sacrificer. I detail this in Gods of the Bible<\/em> and propose my interpretation of the sacrificial rituals occurring in all ancient religions, including Greek and Roman cults.7<\/sup><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gods of the Bible<\/em>\u00a0is just my last attempt to bring some light to our ancient past through the narrative found in the Bible. I aim to narrate, understand, and describe in detail the reasons and habits of that group of individuals called \u201cElohim,\u201d of whom Yahweh was part, one of many. Yahweh was the Elohim of the family of Israel \u2014 and only of them and their descendants. I deny the universality of the Bible. The Old Testament records Israel\u2019s covenant and relationship with Yahweh. Other Elohim, as we have seen above, had inherited other peoples, families, and nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Elohim of other peoples are mentioned and addressed several times in the Old Testament. These passages suggest that these \u201cforeign Elohim\u201d were similar to Yahweh and had identical abilities and habits. The Elohim had advanced technology unavailable to our ancestors; lived longer than humans but were mortal; had weapons and tools that could do wonders; they were more powerful and knowledgeable, and yet they could be abandoned, betrayed, and deceived, just like humans, because they knew a lot but were not omniscient.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The space of a short article would only allow for briefly summarizing some of the aspects of the Elohim that I have detailed in this new book and all my previous works.8<\/sup><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Still, perhaps it is not superfluous to end by mentioning something about the fascinating biblical term \u201cruach.\u201d This term has always been translated as \u201cspirit\u201d through the influence of the Greek culture and the so-called Septuagint version of the Bible, which renders it with \u201cpneuma.\u201d The Ancient Hebrew term \u201cruach\u201d actually had a very definite and concrete meaning as it stood for \u201cwind,\u201d \u201cbreath,\u201d \u201cmoving air,\u201d \u201cstorm wind,\u201d and, in a broader sense, \u201cthat which moves quickly through the air space.\u201d In modern biblical translations, the term \u201cruach\u201d is always rendered as \u201cspirit\u201d because it responds to monotheistic theology\u2019s spiritualist needs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the Old Testament, however, this \u201cruach\u201d appears to be flying through the air, making noise, and taking people from one place to another, with a loud clangor and visible manifestations, taking off and landing in specific geographical locations \u2014 in very concrete ways.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The two following passages illustrate what has just been said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe [ruach] lifted me and brought me to the gate of the house of Yahweh\u00a0that faces East. There at the entrance of the gate were twenty-five men, and I saw among them Jaazaniah, son of Azzur, and Pelatiah, son of Benaiah.\u201d (Ezekiel 11:1)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLook,\u201d they said, \u201cwe, your servants, have fifty able men. Let them go and look for your master.\u00a0Perhaps, the [ruach] of Yahweh has picked him up and set him down on some mountain or valley.\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d Elisha replied, \u201cdo not send them.\u201d But they persisted until he was too embarrassed to refuse. So he said, \u201cSend them.\u201d And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find him. (2 Kings 2:16-17)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Source: Gods of the Bible: A new interpretation of the Bible reveals the oldest secret in history<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clearly, the real Yahweh (also known as Jehovah) of the Old Testament is very similar to the Zionist Jews who currently occupy the Holy Land today via so much war and terrorism, land theft and apartheid policies.<\/p>\n

No wonder why Jesus the Christ was sent to Jerusalem to overturn the Old Testament by offering a new truly divine way forward for those spiritually lost tribes of Israel.<\/p>\n

Now we know why Jesus went into the main Hebrew Temple in Jerusalem and also overturned the tables used by the moneychangers, before he chased them out with a whip, who were defiling that supposedly sacred place.<\/p>\n

It’s also no wonder why the Sanhedrin called for and perpetrated the crucifixion of Jesus in light of how he came to expose Yahweh as a complete and total fraud, just like the name stealers known as the Khazarian Cabal<\/strong> is today after expropriating the Jewish heritage and religion for their own extremely selfish ends.<\/p>\n

Revisionist Historians for World Peace<\/em>
\nState of the Nation<\/a>
\nAugust 16, 2024<\/p>\n

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