If one reads the Old Testament stories and narratives closely and tears apart words and phrase and also so sees or pick-ups upon "word time frames".......
One can see through the falsehoods of theologians and also the authors of bible itself.... that they have either adopted something, but changed it to fit a monotheistic audience or to deliberately re-write history in order to guide the culture in a certain direction
Over time when first studying you kinda take things as is.... but then later you have to change your views once you see things are total inventions or myth that where adopted and regurgitated for a monotheistic audience.
Here is an example of what i mean:
If someone gives you seemingly old book and says that it was written in 1534 and while reading it you suddenly come across the words, "United States of America," you know it wasn't written in 1534, but at the very least.... after 1776.
The bible is full of these examples.
The Torah, for example, has a few. The Myth today is that the Torah was written by Moses, who "supposedly" lived for 120 years. Age 80 at the time of the Exodus, approximately 1505 BCE, if you use the biblical account of time til we reach a verifiable historic figure. Which in this case is Nebuchadnezzar, who destroyed the Temple in 586 BCE.
Well, in Genesis 36 we have the mentioning of the Kings of Israel.... plural that is... so at the very least it is dated after Solomon, fulfilling the plural part of "kings."
Genesis 1-11 "seem" to by myths of ancient Sumer.... just names and the long life spans been modified from those of Sumerian myth stories. Well, in 586 BCE we Jews started living in Babylon, or old ancient Sumer. So, by appearances, they seem to be written after 586 BCE. We will come to that though after a bit.
Likewise, in Genesis, the ark of Noah eventually rests on one of the plural "mountains" of "Ararat." In modern times.... Ararat is just one mountain with a littler one close by....
But the text says, "of Ararat." Meaning this "Ararat" is a region, not a mountain. Well, scholars had a hard time figuring out where the region of "Ararat" might be. However, when you strip away the vowels of the modern Hebrew text, because Hebrew originally didnt have vowels.... we come up with "R-R-T."
Well, there was a region with these continents, it was the kingdom of "Urartu (uRaRTu)."
Urartu is in modern day Turkey, like Ararat is.... but the story gives a different idea.
Well, Urartu existed somewhere between 850 - 590 BCE.
Keep in mind what i just said.... We Jews were taken captive in 586 BCE, so we would have known where Urartu was or the general area of it.
So, you can't mention Urartu in 1505 BCE, if it didn't exist yet
When we read Deuteronomy 17, we see king laws and they are very anti-solomon. Where if we read 1 Samuel Samuel is very mad that the Israelites are even asking for a king. Yet, in the law there are commands for a king with no mention that El would be mad. And, as mentioned, these king laws are anti-Solomon. Which tells us that Deuteronomy was, at the very least, written after Solomon. Let alone 586 BCE.
Now we come to the Day of Atonement / Yom Kippur as we see in Lev 16 and Lev 23:26-32....
In Lev 16, this command was given after the death of Aaron's two sons.... but when we read Nehemiah 8 Ezra reads the so-called "law of Moses." Yet, there is NOOOO mention of Yom Kippur, for they are in the 7th month when reading this law and soooo by reading it they find out they need to observe the Tabernacle Feast starting on the 15th, but no mention of Yom Kippur that is suppose to be held on the 10th.
Nope.... it is not until we get to Nehemiah 9 that we see the people doing Yom Kippur stuff and that it was done AFTER the Tabernacle Feast on the 24th, not the 10th.
So by this.... we see that the Torah we have "today" was compiled after Ezra and after King Artaxerxes of Persia.
So when did this King reign and when did Ezra live and Nehemiah?
According to records and scholarship:
1) Nehemiah, who was governor of the province of Judah from 445 to 433 BC
2 & 3) Many scholars now believe that the biblical account is not chronological and that Ezra arrived in the seventh year of Artaxerxes II (397 BC), after Nehemiah had passed from the scene.
Now, keep in mind a certain historical fact. The Ptolomy king of Egypt wanted a copy of the Jewish law code called the Torah. So in 285 BCE, the Greek Torah was created, called the Septiugint.
So, the Torah we have today was created between the years 397 - 285 BCE if we use simple logic.
Thus, passages like Lev 16 were totally invented and made to appear that Moses gave them; the same goes for the king laws of Deut 17; the Sumarian myths of Genesis 1-11 and the like.
If God truly exists..... He is truth and only truth and we have to reject things that are not truth.
Maregaal
Dec 30, 2021
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