It says that MOST priests and rabbis have long known that the Bible is largely myth, that Moses never existed and the Exodus is myth, but only now do they have the guts to admit it to the laity.
If true, it makes the bloodshed over the "Holy Land" all the more a mockery.
Yes, a great deal of Biblical revisionism, which is really nothing but a front for disbelief comes from the homosexual community....which cannot bear the idea that anybody anywhere believe homosexuality is a sin.
They think they can escape God's judgement if they convince everybody the Bible is full of myths.
It is a theology of desperation.
And if true, that really explains why the chosen people have been the international scapegoats for several thousand years. Yep, that puts Biblical prophesy in perspective. (sarcasm)
But if there was no Exodus, no wandering in the desert and probably no Moses, then there was no revelation on Sinai and the prohibition of homosexuality lacks divine authority. It is merely the human creation of ancient Jewish scribes.
Ok... the Gays are right... there is no divine authority...
ONLY DISEASES OF BIBLICAL PROPORTION SPECIFIC TO GAY MALE BEHAVIOR!
Stupid people... Darwin award alert!
It is irrelevant whether this is myth or fact. The diseases are a fact that cannot be denied except by a total ignorant fool.
Do these people ever consider that these laws were made to keep society from melting down from terminal diseases which the ancients readily observed?
1-Conservative Jew ( which in my mind I would think be closer to the word, yet to hear you its not so!
2- Reform Jew (I sure he not a Calvinist version:))
3- Orthodox Jew
etc
thank you if helps to understand where folks are coming from and not be confused by the name.
There are quite a few inaccuracies.
Noah and the flood? A legend that arose in Mesopotamia suggested by the regular flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What about the flooding of the Black Sea?
. Sodom and Gomorrah? Another myth.
REally? I should hall these butts to the Dead Sea and show them excavations.
Abraham? Like most legendary founders, he probably never existed.
Go to the tombs and do radio carbon dating.
The Israelite captivity in Egypt and the Exodus probably never occurred. There are no Egyptian sources mentioning an Israelite presence and no archaeological evidence anywhere for Israelites wandering in the Sinai – "not a pottery shard," as Rabbi David Wolpe put it.
1. Actually there is evidence, but not under the commonly assumed Pahroh, Ramese2.
2. As for the Sinai desert, it isn't the right place. Midian was in soiuthern Jordan and nothern Arabia.
There was no Israelite conquest of Palestine. Instead, there was a gradual and largely peaceful settlement. And Jericho? It didn't have any walls and it wasn't even inhabited when Joshua's "battle of Jericho" supposedly occurred.
Blatant historical lie!
Jericho was settled in approximately 2500 BCE. It was a walled city which fell a few times and was burnt in around 1500 BCE. That is rather consistant with the Book of Joshua.
Someone give the Schlemiels a subscription to Biblibal Archeology Review.
King David? If he existed at all, and there is some dispute, was probably a local tribal leader whose importance was later inflated to promote religious pride. There is an "almost total absence of archaeological evidence" for a sizable Jerusalem at that time.
Inscriptions with his name are not evidence?
As for inflating size of the kingdom, that is probably true.
These and other modern findings have long been accepted by most bible scholars and seminary teachers. They are well known by most priests, ministers and rabbis. But they have not been widely shared with the laity in the pews, so they may even come as a surprise to readers here. Nonetheless, they are now the views of most scholars and supported by substantial evidence.
This explains the failure of these "religious leaders" they lack faith and teach socialism instead of religion.