Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis

[Brian37]

Here's a good video that explains some of the origins and common elements from which the Torah of Moses came from.  

You know this kinda supports what is said in the bible.Not only that there is nothing inthe bible that God was only the God of the jews. Abraham's people all worshiped God before he was singled out and made the father of a new religion.. This would indicate everyone in the region would also have likly worship a FORM or variant of abraham's God which according to this video is exactly what happened.

Everyone in this region worship a form of God, but abraham was singled out and was given specifics the other where not privy too or had long since forgotten or even changed over time. so in an effort to reestablish a live connection with his people God gave one man the charge to start what ultimatly Jesus finished. Meaning a direct link between God and potentially every man who seek God out.

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I hate where this narrator says, "While the bible is not mythology, it contains mythology".

UM NO, IT IS MYTHOLOGY.

How the hell can you spend this much time quoting the prior influences and not come to the conclusion that newer religions are merely products of competition of prior and surrounding mythologies?

How any sane person can listen to this an not equate this crap to Star Wars or Harry Potter is beyond me.

I also hate how he tries to make the claim that the newer religion was different because it was the first to be concerned with humans. Which is ironic considering that the first 4 commandments are all about kissing his ass.

or the parts cut from the orginal "El" religion are the mythos of God and what was kept was the truth.

This is what we are all called to do when building out houses on the sand or rock. when we build our faith on mythos God sends wind and rain to test out beliefs, and when they fail we know that part that failed is not apart of the truth of who God is.

Um no, they all worshiped "variants of" does not mean they are worshiping the same god under different names. It says humans compete, like Coke and Pepsi.

The religions of the early Hebrews were merely a form of competition that lead to a new religion. 

The Jewish God Yahweh was stolen from prior polytheism in which it was not the top god. It got elevated by the splinter sect to replace the old head God El to become, for the new sect the only God.

Not to mention claims of super natural creator beings are far older than Jews or Muslims or Christians.