Do We "Resemble" God?
Video Version of my Essay on Mistranslations - in Genesis, and Exodus -- That Blur Our Closeness to and Resemblance to Our Creator
Enjoy this Memorial Day presentation on video of my essay about our resemblance to God, as the original Hebrew has it in the Hebrew Bible’s Genesis, and about God’s in-person manifestation to thousands of people at once, at the foot of Mt Sinai, as the original Exodus 19-20 surprisingly (to me) recounts. (Just one spoiler alert: He may not actually have said “I am a jealous God” but rather “I am a zealous God”). This set of explorations below adds more evidence to my argument in my readings from the Hebrew Bible and the Geneva Bible in general, that subsequent translations, sects and denominations, both Jewish and Christian, whether intentionally or not, elided God’s interest in direct communion with ordinary people - and actually blurred His in-the-original likable, relatable, human-like character into being a character presented as more distant, irrational, punitive and impenetrable. The latter does not actually exist in the original text. Have four hundred years of theology damaged people’s understanding of their actual closeness to YHWH, and of His to us, in the story of the Bible itself, and has this alienation been based on numerous later distortions of the text?
Yes. and AI resembles.....??
Hmmm? GOD ASKED Joshua to destroy 2 cities?
Hazor=meaning CORRUPT COURTS,& Ai=????
One of the few city names with no etymological meaning?
The deep states. Walls were brought down first by God himself (Jericho) with help of a whistleblower named Rahab wearing red!
https://godtype.substack.com/p/miami-downriver-of-the-jordan
Years ago, I wrote a play called "The Buddha's Wife" which told the story of Yasodhara, the actual wife of the Buddha. I wanted to bring to light the omission of what was, in fact, a dual story of enlightenment -- his through a quest outside of his responsibilities as a father, and hers, within the confines of domestic duty. They both attained enlightenment, but how many people even know that the Buddha had a wife and child, let alone that she pursued her own path successfully?
Buddhism, Judaism, and Christianity set out to replace eons-long female goddess worship with male deity worship, and did so by pushing women into the background, reducing them to roles of subservience. The fascinating book, "When God Was Female," details this transition by examining the prevailing academic biases of historians and archeologists who have told us "the truth" about the past.
If there's anything I've learned from the past three years, it's to question EVERYTHING we've been told.