No one takes the place of God in my life. I don't like these kinds of posts that are telling us what to do, in the title. It turns me off to the post and I wanted to comment so that OP can use a different tactic to get the message out that they are trying to convey.
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.
Genesis 6:4-5 NIV
The correlations between now and The Book of Exodus is amazing. The first time it was freeing Gods chosen people - Israel. And this time around freeing Gods chosen people - Christians the wold over.
My experience of "online" discussions regarding religion, particularly Christian theology, keeps me coming back to the Q discussions and research, not the other way around. Meaning that Q did not lead me to God, but that God led me here. Oh, I was aware of Q research and posts, or , drops as they are called. Here, although most of the content is heavily leaning on political action and leanings, is where I find people most definitely applying the word of God in real time, how it applies to the happenings in the word, there is less immediate acceptance, more contemplation, and a fairly non judgemental discourse regarding the interpretation of scripture. There are many kinds of Christians, but the ones who have had the attitude of, "I am saved, it does not matter to me about anything else" drive me nuts. Because if that is the case, why go on living? Just get saved and go and check out, God is waiting for you . Instead, what I find here, for the most part, are people who know that they are saved, but take the Gospel to heart, and understand their baptismal vows, which is to fight the Devil, to live and practice Christ's words, so that others may learn to come to him. I find little dogma here, and more questioning here, of the world, of the nation, and of oneself. We also have a chance, in these end times, to build an ark of the soul and heart and mind, to save not just our immediate family, our spouses and children, but as many as we can, we are, indeed, "fishers of men". It will not be a flood this time, it will be fire, either are not pleasant ends, but, end it must, because we are mortal, everything we build in this life, if it is not on a spiritual level, will end, our cells die, our bodies age with time, it is all vanity. So what we reach for, and hope for, cannot be just a temporal solution. Christianity is the only hope for eternal life, and we must come to the conclusion that Faith is necessary as we proceed. Of course scripture was written by human hands, and to read it in modern times without applying the time is was written in, and the conditions the world was in at that time, the logical conclusion is that there is nothing new under the sun. But Christ promised to return, he himself said that, to break the wheel that keeps spinning in the same old way. If you are not a little giddy about that coming, or a little scared too, or a little hopeful, and a little questioning, and a little weary and at times a little ecstatic, you are not getting it, and here, at a Q site, of all places, I find the awareness and discussion of our journey in this, true fellowship. It comes as I am in old age, to find all the "crumbs" that I have been gathering all these years, actually had a purpose. To find all the "conspiracies" I was aware of all these years, have fallen on good ears, open ears, I found the people who when Christ said, "let them who can hear, hear." The only way is God, and for that, we must have Faith, which is the cornerstone, the rock, of the worlds salvation.
My rambling, semi-coherent (at least I hope it's that close to coherent) take on it.
Keep in mind, grain o' salt. I'm not a bible studier, nor a deep researcher. My efforts in the GW has been as a gleaner of other people's research and a replant farmer (with credits of course).
So, here goes:
This goes back to the serpent's luring of Eve and then Adam into betraying the Lord our God. The trick was "you can be just as powerful" and appeal to ego.
This is part of the fallen watchers. Those angles sent to earth by the Lord to watch over creation.
They decided to do it their way and try to take over. They failed in the take over, got Sheol'd (except a few of the weaker ones allowed to roam as spirits to continue to tempt man). The tempting is because it's necessary to sort the wheat from the chaff. Our existence is a threshing floor. Good from bad. Those who love the Lord our God and those who give themselves up to the whisperings and urgings of the fallen ones.
That is part of the setup for the end times. When all is said and done, those people that make the grade will stand in judgement over ALL the angles, the fallen and obedient alike. (That's the purpose of judge not least ye be judged. If you're gonna be harsh on the obedient, then expect harsh back).
We were given dominion over the earth for a reason and purpose. We're to be the wardens and gate keepers over those who failed to make the cut. Sheol was made by the Lord our God for that purpose.
And this is why the fallen ones are trying to hard to mutate us away from "the image of the lord" so that we can be tricked into giving away that dominion. That wont save them, but it'll buy them time and time is all they have left. Just like our own fallen (the DS and it's minions), the war is already over and the evil has lost. They know it.
Here is the problem I have with that scripture: It essentially describes every moment in time, ever.
It’s designed to placate. It’s designed to make you the worker bee feel peace because, well, look, everyone is drinking and eating any marrying so Jesus must be coming back.
Realize this: Every Christian who has ever died never thought they would actually…die. Every one of them believed Jesus was coming back like now now.
It’s been that way forever because of how it’s written. If you really buy in…
I don’t know. I know for me I have some changes to make. Today, on my 49th birthday I am reflecting on how to be a better man. That’s all I can do. I am going to eat. I’m gonna drink. Im gonna lay pipe…and still be a better man.
:"God" means a very different thing to different people. Indeed, the present day "Christian God" (YHWH) is probably not the god you think it is, i.e. The Source of All Things. This Source of All Things was the entity that the Canaanites called El. Yahweh and Baal were the sons of El.
I suggest there is a Great Awakening coming, but a part of that GA is finding out who Yahweh really is, and that the "Christian Church," as we understand the term, was injected with MUCH MORE than just the teachings of Jesus, and some very important bits were removed, creating a new narrative that has nothing to do with his original teachings.
The present day Church was created by Emperor Constantine, a Mithras Cult adherent (Sun God Worshiper), who murdered his wife and child and created the religion we have today for the explicitly stated purpose of uniting the disparate Roman regions under his rule as God-Emperor (a position later called the Pope). This newly created Church wrote a book of "absolute and complete truth" (The Bible) that mistranslated a ton, including the names of all the various gods which we today are told are the "same God," but at the time were all the names of the different Canaanite gods who were the children of El. They then left out most of the books that were considered canon of the day. Then they put the present day beliefs of that Church into Empire wide laws to ensure that the whole of the region did not deviate from those beliefs, thus making it illegal to continue the debate that was occurring on what Jesus meant in his teachings (there was a ton of debate, but it became illegal (heretical) to question the proclamations of truth from the Centralized Authority of The Church we got with the Codex Theodosianus).
This fuckery has been going on by the same people for a very long time.
The GA will be Biblical indeed, just not the Bible you read and think is "the whole Truth," according to Emperor Constantine and his Beliefs as Law.
The suggestion that God had no participation in what books won in the process of being authenticated as canonical is ridiculous.
It suggests that God is incompetent. God expects us to study scripture and yet the final version that gets distributed to 99% of those who would ever read scripture is wrong?
A "full" response would take pages upon pages of references and quotes, but let's start with something easy.
That Yahweh was a child of El is stated in the Bible itself (Deut. 32, 8-9):
8 When the Most High apportioned[f] the nations, at his dividing up of the sons of humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.[g]
9 For Yahweh’s portion was his people, Jacob the share of his inheritance.
But there’s a problem with this verse. The “children of Israel” makes no sense in this context.
More ancient texts found recently give a very different translation that does make sense: (see footnote (g) on this page):
LXX reads “the number of the angels of God”; Dead Sea Scrolls reads “the number of the sons of God”
To restate (paraphrased):
The Most High (El) divided up humanity (the nations of the world) according to the number of the sons of God. Yahweh got the children of Israel.
There are numerous such translation changes that can be found in the bible when comparing old (Nag Hammadi, Dead Sea Scrolls, etc.) to new. Many, such as these may very well be minor edits intended to change the previously polytheistic Canaanites (who called themselves the “children of Israel”) into a monotheistic religion, under the rulership of the Priest Class of Jews. You can find scholarship, and corroboration in other texts (primary sources) from the region (Canaan) all over the place.
Interestingly, this deeper dive into the translation also equates the sons of God as the angels of God, which also makes a whole lot of sense if you think in terms of the “first children” of God (perhaps some sort of extra-dimensional or higher dimensional (four dimensional e.g.) entity. This idea of a higher dimensional being (not bound by what we think of as the “physical” universe) is a trope which is literally everywhere in ancient religions, including in the bible itself.
Here’s a deeper dive into “Yahweh as son of El.” That’s just one take. There are numerous such articles of scholarship. At the least there is substantial reason to doubt the present day translation of the Bible (OT) we have on numerous issues, not the least of which is the belief of the parentage of the entity we call Yahweh.
I could do this all day, pointing out such discrepancies in translation (I have countless pages of such issues), but I prefer to just consider the attempts to equate “The Source of All Things” with the words and actions of Yahweh as presented in the bible we have, and see if they make any sense at all.
Consider a few examples (there are many more):
First there’s the entire concept that a handful of people are “The Chosen People of The Source of All Things,” and they have a “Promised Land.” Why would the Source of All Things select a very tiny subset of the hundreds of millions of people that existed at the time, on a tiny speck of a planet, in a MASSIVELY HUGE universe as his “special people.” Why would he select a few hundred square miles, that happens to be the homeland of the people in question already (the "Israelites" were just a subset of the Canaanites), as the "Promised Land." Quite frankly, it's not that great of a place, but it was where they lived, and they separated themselves from the larger group of Canaanites through "The Law," written by the Priest Class of those same people.
What about the people in India, for example? Are they just screwed because Yahweh selected a couple hundred thousand Jews as special? What about the hundreds of millions of people in the Americas who had never heard of Yahweh or the Jews? No promised land for them, much less "salvation". On the contrary, the Chosen would later be instrumental in wiping out those Americans and taking their land a couple thousand years later. What about the people on [insert your favorite non Earth planet here]? They are totally FUBAR. They aren't The Jews. They don't get to be part of "Gods Chosen."
If you think I'm being obtuse, you really need to read your bible. This concept of The Jews as being chosen above all others is literally everywhere. It's not even slightly hidden. They get all sorts of special privileges, because of their genetics.
What does the Source of All Things need with 'the tithe," AKA a tenth of everyone’s income (an income tax…)? Why does the Source of All Things need the best cuts of meat from each harvest? Why does the Source of All Things need the firstborn sons of every family? Why does the Source of All Things allow for those that don’t want to sacrifice their firstborn sons (or give them to the priests as slaves, which was also part of The Law) to pay a “redemption” (a "substitute tax" on firstborns, paid in gold or silver or other goods). Do you know who it was who actually got the tithes, and the firstborns, and the best cuts of meats, and the redemption monies? The exact same group of people who were the authors of The Law in the first place, the Priest Class of Jews, an aristocracy.
Why did the Source of All Things demand child sacrifice (or any sacrifice) in the first place? It is the SOURCE OF ALL THINGS!!! Why does it demand these things? Why did the Source of All Things slaughter all the first born sons of the Egyptians and/or the “Israelites” who were non-Yahweh worshipers in the beginning of the Exodus? Yahweh literally murdered countless innocent children (or rather, had “angels” do his murdering for him). No matter how you spin that story, the CHILDREN did nothing to deserve the end of their life. What does the Source of All Things need with such murder and mayhem so that his CHOSEN RACE OF PEOPLE (a genetic line) would be “let go” from a place where they had leadership positions in finance and government (just like always).
What about Exodus 34:14, when the Israelites are being told to go murder the people who live in the "Promised Land" and steal everything from them, and Yahweh tells them his true name?
For you will not bow in worship to another god, for ‘Yahweh Is Jealous’ is his name, he is a jealous God (emphasis mine)
What kind of Source of All Things is named Jealous? What can the Source be “Jealous” of? It’s the Source of ALL Things!
This goes on, page after page of issues; racism, sexism, condoning slavery, murdering and condoning murder, rape, etc.
I assert that no one who actually believes that the bible is “The Whole Truth,” and inspired by the Source of All Things has actually read the book.
…
As far as I can tell, the ONLY way to rectify these issues is to presuppose that the Bible is absolute truth, and not the works of the Priest Class of Jews (an Elite class, an Aristocracy, the children of Arron) to rule the larger group of “Jews” (which is exactly what actually happened through their writing of The Law). It is only by that presupposition that a person can then attempt to make all of the problems; the racism, the sexism, the Chosen People, the Promised Land, the laudations of slavery as an institution, the entire concept that all other peoples on the Earth are simply “less than” The Jews, etc.make any sense. All of those things are rampant in the OT, yet no one who is a True Believer bats an eyelash at them. They will even call you "evil" if you point them out.
“We have the new covenant” they say. OK, but how about Yahweh’s statements that he is “unchanging.”
“We have faith that God can work it out as he sees fit.”
“It obviously makes sense to God, and that’s good enough for me.”
OK, but those aren’t statements using the process of reason, rather they are statements that throw reason out the window in favor of “your faith.” I respect that, but I think you have likely been brainwashed by the Priest Class of Jews who wrote that book to rule the rest of that people. Just like it is the exact same Priest Class of Jews (the same Aristocracy) that has pulled the wool over the eyes of the rest of the world in the exact same manner today.
Amen, this brings me so so much peace.
If the nephilim mutant giants are real, then it is implied there was heavy genetic tampering and polluted gene pools.
If?
The suggestion that I'm 'getting lost in Q' is frankly patronising.
I'm with you. This post is condescending and suggests that OP's interpretation of current events is the correct one.
Saying "Don't get lost in Q," on a freaking Q board means OP is the one who got lost somewhere.
No one takes the place of God in my life. I don't like these kinds of posts that are telling us what to do, in the title. It turns me off to the post and I wanted to comment so that OP can use a different tactic to get the message out that they are trying to convey.
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. Genesis 6:4-5 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/gen.6.4-5.NIV
The correlations between now and The Book of Exodus is amazing. The first time it was freeing Gods chosen people - Israel. And this time around freeing Gods chosen people - Christians the wold over.
Amen, and Godspeed Anon!
Look up amalgamation. Days of Noah stuff happening these days.
Who the hell is "lost in Q" - what does that even mean
It's just an inside info source that stopped providing any info years ago
I wouldn't read too much into it ;p OK that was a pun
the Lord works in mysterious ways
We are ALL a little piece of GOD 💕 Jesus is an Ascended Master and he wishes us ALL to rise to the level he has attained 💕
Jesus is God and He wishes all to be saved through His blood sacrifice.
i think this will be beyond what many people's ideas of 'biblical' are. might be time for a sequel soon
My experience of "online" discussions regarding religion, particularly Christian theology, keeps me coming back to the Q discussions and research, not the other way around. Meaning that Q did not lead me to God, but that God led me here. Oh, I was aware of Q research and posts, or , drops as they are called. Here, although most of the content is heavily leaning on political action and leanings, is where I find people most definitely applying the word of God in real time, how it applies to the happenings in the word, there is less immediate acceptance, more contemplation, and a fairly non judgemental discourse regarding the interpretation of scripture. There are many kinds of Christians, but the ones who have had the attitude of, "I am saved, it does not matter to me about anything else" drive me nuts. Because if that is the case, why go on living? Just get saved and go and check out, God is waiting for you . Instead, what I find here, for the most part, are people who know that they are saved, but take the Gospel to heart, and understand their baptismal vows, which is to fight the Devil, to live and practice Christ's words, so that others may learn to come to him. I find little dogma here, and more questioning here, of the world, of the nation, and of oneself. We also have a chance, in these end times, to build an ark of the soul and heart and mind, to save not just our immediate family, our spouses and children, but as many as we can, we are, indeed, "fishers of men". It will not be a flood this time, it will be fire, either are not pleasant ends, but, end it must, because we are mortal, everything we build in this life, if it is not on a spiritual level, will end, our cells die, our bodies age with time, it is all vanity. So what we reach for, and hope for, cannot be just a temporal solution. Christianity is the only hope for eternal life, and we must come to the conclusion that Faith is necessary as we proceed. Of course scripture was written by human hands, and to read it in modern times without applying the time is was written in, and the conditions the world was in at that time, the logical conclusion is that there is nothing new under the sun. But Christ promised to return, he himself said that, to break the wheel that keeps spinning in the same old way. If you are not a little giddy about that coming, or a little scared too, or a little hopeful, and a little questioning, and a little weary and at times a little ecstatic, you are not getting it, and here, at a Q site, of all places, I find the awareness and discussion of our journey in this, true fellowship. It comes as I am in old age, to find all the "crumbs" that I have been gathering all these years, actually had a purpose. To find all the "conspiracies" I was aware of all these years, have fallen on good ears, open ears, I found the people who when Christ said, "let them who can hear, hear." The only way is God, and for that, we must have Faith, which is the cornerstone, the rock, of the worlds salvation.
An amen and a halleluja!
My rambling, semi-coherent (at least I hope it's that close to coherent) take on it.
Keep in mind, grain o' salt. I'm not a bible studier, nor a deep researcher. My efforts in the GW has been as a gleaner of other people's research and a replant farmer (with credits of course).
So, here goes:
This goes back to the serpent's luring of Eve and then Adam into betraying the Lord our God. The trick was "you can be just as powerful" and appeal to ego.
This is part of the fallen watchers. Those angles sent to earth by the Lord to watch over creation.
They decided to do it their way and try to take over. They failed in the take over, got Sheol'd (except a few of the weaker ones allowed to roam as spirits to continue to tempt man). The tempting is because it's necessary to sort the wheat from the chaff. Our existence is a threshing floor. Good from bad. Those who love the Lord our God and those who give themselves up to the whisperings and urgings of the fallen ones.
That is part of the setup for the end times. When all is said and done, those people that make the grade will stand in judgement over ALL the angles, the fallen and obedient alike. (That's the purpose of judge not least ye be judged. If you're gonna be harsh on the obedient, then expect harsh back).
We were given dominion over the earth for a reason and purpose. We're to be the wardens and gate keepers over those who failed to make the cut. Sheol was made by the Lord our God for that purpose.
And this is why the fallen ones are trying to hard to mutate us away from "the image of the lord" so that we can be tricked into giving away that dominion. That wont save them, but it'll buy them time and time is all they have left. Just like our own fallen (the DS and it's minions), the war is already over and the evil has lost. They know it.
another Bud Light, please
Here is the problem I have with that scripture: It essentially describes every moment in time, ever.
It’s designed to placate. It’s designed to make you the worker bee feel peace because, well, look, everyone is drinking and eating any marrying so Jesus must be coming back.
Realize this: Every Christian who has ever died never thought they would actually…die. Every one of them believed Jesus was coming back like now now.
It’s been that way forever because of how it’s written. If you really buy in…
I don’t know. I know for me I have some changes to make. Today, on my 49th birthday I am reflecting on how to be a better man. That’s all I can do. I am going to eat. I’m gonna drink. Im gonna lay pipe…and still be a better man.
:"God" means a very different thing to different people. Indeed, the present day "Christian God" (YHWH) is probably not the god you think it is, i.e. The Source of All Things. This Source of All Things was the entity that the Canaanites called El. Yahweh and Baal were the sons of El.
I suggest there is a Great Awakening coming, but a part of that GA is finding out who Yahweh really is, and that the "Christian Church," as we understand the term, was injected with MUCH MORE than just the teachings of Jesus, and some very important bits were removed, creating a new narrative that has nothing to do with his original teachings.
The present day Church was created by Emperor Constantine, a Mithras Cult adherent (Sun God Worshiper), who murdered his wife and child and created the religion we have today for the explicitly stated purpose of uniting the disparate Roman regions under his rule as God-Emperor (a position later called the Pope). This newly created Church wrote a book of "absolute and complete truth" (The Bible) that mistranslated a ton, including the names of all the various gods which we today are told are the "same God," but at the time were all the names of the different Canaanite gods who were the children of El. They then left out most of the books that were considered canon of the day. Then they put the present day beliefs of that Church into Empire wide laws to ensure that the whole of the region did not deviate from those beliefs, thus making it illegal to continue the debate that was occurring on what Jesus meant in his teachings (there was a ton of debate, but it became illegal (heretical) to question the proclamations of truth from the Centralized Authority of The Church we got with the Codex Theodosianus).
This fuckery has been going on by the same people for a very long time.
The GA will be Biblical indeed, just not the Bible you read and think is "the whole Truth," according to Emperor Constantine and his Beliefs as Law.
The suggestion that God had no participation in what books won in the process of being authenticated as canonical is ridiculous.
It suggests that God is incompetent. God expects us to study scripture and yet the final version that gets distributed to 99% of those who would ever read scripture is wrong?
No.
And Scripture is very clear that God has providential preserved His Word, Scripture (and His Word in Flesh, Jesus Christ)
It would be ridiculous to think if Q would expose all lies BUT ONE - the Nicene dogma, and spread it to the entire world.
A "full" response would take pages upon pages of references and quotes, but let's start with something easy.
That Yahweh was a child of El is stated in the Bible itself (Deut. 32, 8-9):
But there’s a problem with this verse. The “children of Israel” makes no sense in this context.
More ancient texts found recently give a very different translation that does make sense: (see footnote (g) on this page):
To restate (paraphrased):
There are numerous such translation changes that can be found in the bible when comparing old (Nag Hammadi, Dead Sea Scrolls, etc.) to new. Many, such as these may very well be minor edits intended to change the previously polytheistic Canaanites (who called themselves the “children of Israel”) into a monotheistic religion, under the rulership of the Priest Class of Jews. You can find scholarship, and corroboration in other texts (primary sources) from the region (Canaan) all over the place.
Interestingly, this deeper dive into the translation also equates the sons of God as the angels of God, which also makes a whole lot of sense if you think in terms of the “first children” of God (perhaps some sort of extra-dimensional or higher dimensional (four dimensional e.g.) entity. This idea of a higher dimensional being (not bound by what we think of as the “physical” universe) is a trope which is literally everywhere in ancient religions, including in the bible itself.
Here’s a deeper dive into “Yahweh as son of El.” That’s just one take. There are numerous such articles of scholarship. At the least there is substantial reason to doubt the present day translation of the Bible (OT) we have on numerous issues, not the least of which is the belief of the parentage of the entity we call Yahweh.
I could do this all day, pointing out such discrepancies in translation (I have countless pages of such issues), but I prefer to just consider the attempts to equate “The Source of All Things” with the words and actions of Yahweh as presented in the bible we have, and see if they make any sense at all.
Consider a few examples (there are many more):
First there’s the entire concept that a handful of people are “The Chosen People of The Source of All Things,” and they have a “Promised Land.” Why would the Source of All Things select a very tiny subset of the hundreds of millions of people that existed at the time, on a tiny speck of a planet, in a MASSIVELY HUGE universe as his “special people.” Why would he select a few hundred square miles, that happens to be the homeland of the people in question already (the "Israelites" were just a subset of the Canaanites), as the "Promised Land." Quite frankly, it's not that great of a place, but it was where they lived, and they separated themselves from the larger group of Canaanites through "The Law," written by the Priest Class of those same people.
What about the people in India, for example? Are they just screwed because Yahweh selected a couple hundred thousand Jews as special? What about the hundreds of millions of people in the Americas who had never heard of Yahweh or the Jews? No promised land for them, much less "salvation". On the contrary, the Chosen would later be instrumental in wiping out those Americans and taking their land a couple thousand years later. What about the people on [insert your favorite non Earth planet here]? They are totally FUBAR. They aren't The Jews. They don't get to be part of "Gods Chosen."
If you think I'm being obtuse, you really need to read your bible. This concept of The Jews as being chosen above all others is literally everywhere. It's not even slightly hidden. They get all sorts of special privileges, because of their genetics.
What does the Source of All Things need with 'the tithe," AKA a tenth of everyone’s income (an income tax…)? Why does the Source of All Things need the best cuts of meat from each harvest? Why does the Source of All Things need the firstborn sons of every family? Why does the Source of All Things allow for those that don’t want to sacrifice their firstborn sons (or give them to the priests as slaves, which was also part of The Law) to pay a “redemption” (a "substitute tax" on firstborns, paid in gold or silver or other goods). Do you know who it was who actually got the tithes, and the firstborns, and the best cuts of meats, and the redemption monies? The exact same group of people who were the authors of The Law in the first place, the Priest Class of Jews, an aristocracy.
Why did the Source of All Things demand child sacrifice (or any sacrifice) in the first place? It is the SOURCE OF ALL THINGS!!! Why does it demand these things? Why did the Source of All Things slaughter all the first born sons of the Egyptians and/or the “Israelites” who were non-Yahweh worshipers in the beginning of the Exodus? Yahweh literally murdered countless innocent children (or rather, had “angels” do his murdering for him). No matter how you spin that story, the CHILDREN did nothing to deserve the end of their life. What does the Source of All Things need with such murder and mayhem so that his CHOSEN RACE OF PEOPLE (a genetic line) would be “let go” from a place where they had leadership positions in finance and government (just like always).
What about Exodus 34:14, when the Israelites are being told to go murder the people who live in the "Promised Land" and steal everything from them, and Yahweh tells them his true name?
What kind of Source of All Things is named Jealous? What can the Source be “Jealous” of? It’s the Source of ALL Things!
This goes on, page after page of issues; racism, sexism, condoning slavery, murdering and condoning murder, rape, etc.
I assert that no one who actually believes that the bible is “The Whole Truth,” and inspired by the Source of All Things has actually read the book.
…
As far as I can tell, the ONLY way to rectify these issues is to presuppose that the Bible is absolute truth, and not the works of the Priest Class of Jews (an Elite class, an Aristocracy, the children of Arron) to rule the larger group of “Jews” (which is exactly what actually happened through their writing of The Law). It is only by that presupposition that a person can then attempt to make all of the problems; the racism, the sexism, the Chosen People, the Promised Land, the laudations of slavery as an institution, the entire concept that all other peoples on the Earth are simply “less than” The Jews, etc.make any sense. All of those things are rampant in the OT, yet no one who is a True Believer bats an eyelash at them. They will even call you "evil" if you point them out.
“We have the new covenant” they say. OK, but how about Yahweh’s statements that he is “unchanging.”
“We have faith that God can work it out as he sees fit.”
“It obviously makes sense to God, and that’s good enough for me.”
OK, but those aren’t statements using the process of reason, rather they are statements that throw reason out the window in favor of “your faith.” I respect that, but I think you have likely been brainwashed by the Priest Class of Jews who wrote that book to rule the rest of that people. Just like it is the exact same Priest Class of Jews (the same Aristocracy) that has pulled the wool over the eyes of the rest of the world in the exact same manner today.