In the following pages, we will give you, dear reader, an insight into the Bible that we guarantee you will not get from any Bible study class. We will back up with proof; quotes, references and dates everything said so that those of you who wish to may discover for yourself the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Let's return to examine the questions asked a moment ago -- The first question we asked before was who actually wrote the Bible. The Bible was not written by God. God does not author any writings of any kind. God does not have a mouth or arms or feet or hands. First off, the Bible was not written by saints or prophets or by "inspired" holy men. The Bible was written by power-hungry priests trying to convert the ignorant masses to Christianity. If you were trying to start a new religion in which men played the dominant role how would you start?
The rhetorician Lucian, born in Syria during the first century, circa 120 BCE, wrote about Christianity, a new religion at that time. He wrote that it was aimed at "an unusually gullible class of people."
The earliest writers that took any notice of Christianity were Tacitus and Pliny. Both gentlemen thought of Christians as "superstitious fanatics."
Sigmund Freud, the psychologist, states in one of his works his thoughts on the Bible:
"Biblical religion has the character of a neurosis, where a screen of mythical figures hides a repressed conviction of guilt, which it is felt, must be atoned, and yet cannot be consciously faced."
Some of the most brilliant thinkers of the early Christian era were the historians and authors from whom we've learned the most about the time in which they lived. Learned men like Porphyry, when speaking of Christianity called it "blasphemy barbarously bold."
On the subject of Christianity, Tacitus says: "It is a pernicious superstition."
"The new faith is a perverse and extravagant superstition." - Pliny.
"A superstition vain and frantic." - Suetonius.
The New Testament itself tell us the disciples were "unlearned and ignorant men." The Jewish judges before whom the unlearned and ignorant were brought called the Christians "idioti", from which our present day word idiot derives.
The Jewish Samaritans called the early Christians "Thartacs" and the period of the early church was described as the reign of Thartac. Thartac was the Egyptian god of credulity and vulgarness; he was portrayed as a man with a book, a cloak, and the head of an ass.
What these people perceived was that history had proceeded some distance, man and his intellect had made progress over the centuries. Greece was approaching a glory unknown in earlier times, Rome, a civilized grandeur. Whatever "evil" the early church suffered at the hands of its pagan neighbors, it was not, as the church eagerly states, because of any new gospel that it preached but because of the old absurdities that they resurrected in the name of religion combined with a belief in literal mythology. Concepts that Greece, Rome and the other civilized cultures had long ago abandoned. This was the "blasphemy" that Porphory wrote of.
Thomas Paine, one of the leaders of the American Revolution and Founding Fathers of our country, spent a good part of his adult life fighting the Bible, its God, and its ideas.
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the work of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and for my part I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel." - Paine
Thomas Jefferson, another of our Founding Fathers, thought that the teachings of Christ boiled down to a set of moral maxims. Everything else was "priest-craft and superstition."
Let us go now to Genesis, the first book of the Bible, examine its roots and authenticity In Genesis, we find the creation of the universe by a male God, but if we go back far enough in history we find that it is a Mother Goddess who gives birth to the universe.
In the following story we see The Goddess as Universal Mother, but the myth shows signs of being tampered with even at this date. This myth comes from c. 600 BCE. Compare it with the earlier myth which follows it.
