Another name for The Bible is "The Book of the Ages"
It is a Book that gives us the tools of survival through the ages of the zodiac, it is an astrological book.
Hi Opal,
The Old Testament has nothing to do with astrology. It's function is to justify and nothing more.
Specifically it justifies the rule of one family, consolidates power among a few and the control of land.
The New Testament teaches people how to be good slaves.
From the Old Testament
Deuteronomy tells of the foods and animals we shall not eat. The foods are the same as Kosher and Halal. If you read the foods, you will see that they are animals and sea creatures that are necessary to the cleansing of the Earth after let's say a Nuclear Destruction.
Deuteronomy was written by Jeremiah and Hilkiah, not by Yahweh.
Their goal was to consolidate their power and stranglehold over people.
For thousands of years there were many temples and many altars and many places to sacrifice and Yahweh never said a word about it, and now we are to suddenly believe that there can only be one Temple, and one altar and one place to sacrifice?
Be real.
When Moses came down of the Mount, the people were worshipping the golden bull Taurus, also the name of an area in the ancient Middle East. Then they started revering the Ram as sacred. Aries.
That is not what happened.
First, his name is X-Moses, not Moses. There is no such name as "Moses."
The word "moses" is Egyptian and rendered
m-s-s in Egyptian just like it is in Hebrew.
The word "m-s-s" means emanating from or emanated from and was always without exception and without fail prefixed with the name of a god:
Ptahmoses, Rameses, Tutmoses, Tothmoses, Dedemoses, Anmoses, Ankhmoses, Amanmoses etc etc etc.
The reason no one can find any evidence of "Moses" in Egypt is because no one in Egypt was ever named "Moses" because the name is always without exception and without fail prefixed with the name of a god.
Jeremiah and Hilkiah were Yahweh fanatics and would have totally been offended by the name Amanmoses and struck it from the text leaving only "moses."
That's not the first time that's happened. It was Enki, his half-sister Ninhursag and his son Ningishiddza who created humans, but the Hebrews replaced their names with the generic plural for gods --
elohim -- in the text.
Jeremiah and Hilkiah had orgasmic fantasies when King Hezekiah destroyed the four temples King Solomon built to Chemosh, Milcomm, Dagan and the wife of Yahweh...Ashera.
Jeremiah and Hilkiah had orgasmic fantasies when Hezekiah's grandson King Josiah tore down the shrines at Dan and Beth-El.
Jeremiah and Hilkiah had orgasmic fantasies when King Josiah destroyed a holy relic.
That holy relic was a copper snake on a pole.
Yahweh commanded X-Moses to make a copper snake and mount it on a wooden pole, so that if a Hebrew was bitten by a poisonous snake, he'd only need to look at the copper snake to be healed.
And King Josiah destroyed it.
Think about that for a second.
What audacity to destroy a holy relic your god commanded your most revered hero to make.
Do you not understand the conflict between the Mosaic Priests and the Aaronid Priests?
I don't think you do.
Second, you need to study more.
When Saul dies, the Mosaic Priests, the priests descended of X-Moses, run the Temple and they did not support David, but the Aaronid Priests, the priests descended of Aaron, did.
When David gains power, he expels the Mosaic Priests from the Temple and gives control to the Aaronid Priests.
The Aaronid Priests then go to Shiloh and murder all of the Mosaic Priests, except one who escaped.
The grandson of the one who escaped is alive when Solomon dies and the 10 tribes revolt and form the Kingdom of Israel.
He thinks King Jeroboam is going to build a temple and make him the chief priest restoring him and the Mosaic Priests to their former position of glory, except that doesn't happen.
Jeroboam builds two shrines, one at Dan and the other at Beth-El on the opposite end of the kingdom and puts to cherubs in the form of a winged-bull made of olive wood and plated with gold there.
The symbolism is obvious: a throne platform for Yahweh so that he sits over the entire kingdom protecting it.
To add insult to injury, Jeroboam doesn't appoint him or any Levites as priests and instead appoints priests from the other tribes.
This is an angry bitter hateful old man who hates Aaron and everything about Aaron and the Aaronid Priesthood.
The molten image symbolizes the shrines at Dan and Beth-El. The text says "These are your gods who brought you up from Egypt" even though there is only one molten image.
He's mocking Jeroboam and his shrines at Dan and Beth-El.
But, he does something else, too.
X-Moses says, "Who stands with Yahweh" and the Levites rush to the side of X-Moses, draw their swords and then murder 3,000 people for worshipping the golden bull.
Then, X-Moses says, "You are now the priests of Yahweh."
Get it?
The sole purpose of the passage is to justify Levites, and only Levites, and no others as the sole priests.
Again, he's thumbing his nose at King Jeroboam and the appointment of non-Levites as priests.
Aaron made the molten image, but suffers no punishment.
Why?
You can denigrate Aaron but you cannot say anything that would disqualify him from the priesthood.
You see that again in Snow White Miriam, which is a story that will never be taught in Sunday school.
Aaron and his wife Miriam are complaining about the wife of X-Moses and then Aaron says, well, Yahweh talks to us, too, so X-Moses ain't all that.
Yahweh suddenly appears and says wrong answer. I talk to X-Moses, but I only appear to you in dreams.
Then Yahweh turns Miriam into a leper.
Get it?
The E writer says the wife of X-Moses was a Midianite. That would mean she's African as in a Black woman. Turning Miriam into a leper would make her almost pure white.
A fitting punishment, word-play, pun, irony, whatever you want to call it.
Why doesn't Aaron get punished?
Again, you can denigrate Aaron, but you can't do anything that would disqualify Aaron from the priesthood and being a leper disqualifies one, not to mention you can't go anywhere near a temple or altar if you're a leper.
If you don't understand the conflict between the E writer and the J writer, you'll never understand the Old Testament.
The conflict was power.
The Bible as we know it was only written in the 1400's.
Nope. Wrong answer. The final document was written around 500 BCE.
When we find the original E text, we will know the real name of X-Moses.