Episode 6: Examining The Bible Through a Critical Lens

TA:

Welcome fellow humans born onto the nursery planet Earth. This is your host, TA, and this is the Why Are We Here on Earth podcast. The podcast is trying to get you to understand what was in the Bible, but has been confused by religious people who mean well, but took what they felt it was and then passed it on to everyone else, and we only allowed the religious people to translate the Bible and there are at least 60 translations in English and, as you know, the Bible was not written in English. So we have their religious perception, education, have their religious perception, education, training and ideals to try and work through in order to find out what the Bible's really trying to tell us. Well, belief is the one thing that they want you to acquire, and it's the one thing I do not want you to acquire. I do not want you to believe what I am telling you. I want you to prove that what I'm telling you is true or false, as much as you can. If you cannot, you might have to assess that it might be true, it's probable or possible, but the entire point of this exercise is to start thinking the way Jesus told us to think and God before him told us to think, which was reality-based, rather than perception, desire, belief-based, which is the way every human since Eve has done. Now, was Adam and Eve really individuals with that name in the Garden of Eden, and was there really a talking snake? I don't know, I tend to doubt it. But the important thing is not what the players represented, but what they said and the information and understanding we should have gotten.

Religious people say that disobeying God was the original sin Eating the apple. Well, disobedience to God is important as a problem. It is not the most important thing. The most important thing is supplanting what God had instructed Adam and, through him, eve to do with their own desires and ideas, because they were ignorant children and they didn't know not only what was good for them but what was bad for them and just how bad. So when Eve the representation of someone who was not directly speaking to God decided that the apple looked good and things that looked that way tasted good, then she decided to consume it, even though she was told by Adam that God said not to eat the apple, not to eat the apple. So it was actually the decision that went before the actual eating of the apple, and not whatever nutrition was in the apple itself, and the act of disobedience was secondary to making a decision based on belief and desire rather than on reality. They knew what the representation of reality was, but they didn't understand why it was important, why it was important. And the rest of the humanity from there on has not understood until God's example for man of success, and that was Jesus.

Jesus was born human, and even religious people tell you that he was fully human. What they don't tell you is that not only was his birth attended as a hallmark for all mankind to take note of, they kind of say that he was part God at that, and I don't have an issue with that. But they tend to make it sound as though he's the only one that's part God, and you are not. You are just as much part God as Jesus was. He is no different, and that's why he is a great example. And that's why he is a great example Because in the three years that he was on his journey of discovery in the wilderness, I have an idea that he was taught by angels or by God himself, whichever that why it was necessary to do what God had instructed, so he actually understood which no human before or after has done.

The next person to try and model Jesus' behavior was Paul. But Paul did not understand why it was important to model Jesus's behavior. So he told people you should model Jesus's behavior, you should do this, you should do that. And at times he even said of himself I don't know why I don't do what is right, even what I know right is. And I'm glad he said that because that lets you know that he did not understand. He did not make the full switch to doing things as God had instructed and Jesus had mentioned to Paul, so that Paul is an excellent example of humans with the best intentions failing. I don't care how good your intentions are, how religious you are and Paul was very religious how committed you are to the outcome, if you do not understand why it is you do what you're doing, you will fail, and everybody that models you will also fail, just as the church, the religious church, from Catholicism all the way up to the church of what's happening now on the corner have all failed because they're trying to use Paul's example of modeling Jesus' behavior without understanding and that's the issue. You need to understand why God wants you to make reality-based decisions rather than belief-based decisions Now something that we have today that the Jews did not have.

Well, the Israelites, who became the Jews 3,500 years ago, they told God if you read Deuteronomy 1, you'll understand completely. We are not mature enough to do as you are asking us. And God said yep, I've got to agree with you. You're right, you're not. They said we will work to understand what it is that you're trying to tell us and to do it so that we are worthy of your notice and your support. And God made the agreement. It's in Deuteronomy.

Moses was the first lawyer. He made the agreement between mankind and himself and God through Moses. And Moses being a good lawyer, he was working for both sides, trying to get across some of the things that the Israelites, who would become the Jews, were trying to preserve for themselves. They wanted this special relationship to continue. So when they were told that they needed to spread the word far and wide, they decided you know? And God realized this. And he told them also in Deuteronomy. God realized this and he told them also in Deuteronomy you will be my examples before all mankind, for good or ill. The choice is yours. We do have free will. We are not slaves. We are not owned by God. We are part of his. At least our spirits are part of his consciousness, and if you look back I think it's episode four about the mind-soul-spirit interface and I may have those mixed up you'll find that there's an awful lot that we still need to work on.

There is so much happening in the world today. The pressure has increased. People are giving up, failing, killing other humans, lashing out because they feel there's no future for them, they've got nothing to work for, because they don't understand what it is that God has asked them to do or why, and that's because religions have never told them and nobody else is trying to translate the Bible in a non-religious way so that people get the information so that they can understand it. Religion, which has been called the opiate of the masses, is basically there to say well, just follow what we tell you to do and you'll be good. You don't have to know, you don't have to understand. We'll take care of that. And of course, as we know from the Bible, we'll take care of that.

And of course, as we know from the Bible, that is completely incorrect. I believe it's Isaiah 39, 13, where God mentions that he is unhappy with the Jews because they are worshiping as other men tell them to instead of how he told them to, and we think of worship today as just we're not worthy. We're not worthy. You know, here's some money, don't give me a hard time kind of a thing. And that is not it at all.

The original definition of worship, the full and complete definition, was working in the vineyard of the master to complete the product. So the vineyard grew the grapes, but the vineyard, the grapes, need to be harvested, the harvest need to be processed and stored away correctly in order for it to become wine, and the whole idea of worship is going through the entire process and becoming complete. Now, one of the ways this term complete has been translated in the past is perfect, and of course, that's a religious ideal. You are always going to be human. You will never be perfect, but you can be better, especially if you follow the instructions and directions, use the examples and the models that God's applied for you in the Bible to get better.

The thing that they did not understand 3,500 years ago and have faithfully passed on to the people who are Jews today is that you don't have to transfer 100% of your time and attention to following God's instructions. You only need to follow as much as is necessary to get the job done Well. Today, in the 21st century, it's my estimation that if you put 10 to 15% tops of your time and attention towards doing the three things that God wanted you to do to succeed, which are live long, prosper and develop a civilization that supports every human that wants to be part of it and with which you can have a sturdy foundation to go to the stars. Now the stars part is me responding to 21st century responsibilities, but there is much more responsibilities, but there is much more.

We do not understand why the pressure has increased on us. I saw a movie that just came out about a week or so ago and in the movie is a meme that has been in cartoons and movies for at least the last 80 to 100 years of a clock ticking down. Now usually there's a bomb attached and you have to stop the ticking clock before the bomb goes off. Totally rational and reasonable. Who wants to be there when a bomb goes off? Well, we are in the middle of the bomb going off. This is what all those images have been referring to. This is what all those images have been referring to. The pressure is increasing on us to do our homework, which we have never done, and to commit to growing up and figuring out why God wanted us to make reality-based decisions, rather than remaining with our childish and not supportable desire-based decisions, which every human ever born, myself included, jesus included has used, because that's the one that your parents taught you. Before you could speak, before you understood what was happening, you were being inundated with desire-based decisions. That's just a fact of life. No other human has ever started and Jesus didn't.

If you read one of the books that is now hidden from most people called Jesus the Younger, that was not accepted into the canon for the Bible because they didn't want to quote confuse parishioners, unquote. But the fact of the matter is that Jesus the Younger shows us that Jesus was kind of a cut-up. He was one of those kids that got into trouble Not bad trouble, certainly didn't do drugs, but he might get up on a roof and push something off to surprise someone. Read it for yourself. Jesus the Younger I can't recall it's been so long since I read it some of the individual stories, and I have been more focused on the Bible that we have been given the Old Testament and the New, because I know that, even though we don't understand everything that is here for us, we have defined reasonably well conscious, have defined reasonably well conscious, unconscious, subconscious and the id, but that's it.

We've never gone beyond that. We don't understand where new ideas come from, why they come to us at particular times, why they are only visible, shall we say, to certain individuals who are more in tune. No one can say why, because we've never studied it, We've never tried to figure it out. Instead, we lie to each other and say oh, there's no difference. Boys are the same, girls are the same, girls are the same. If you were born in Nairobi or in Mexico, you're the same. Or the United States, which you could be born in either of those places and be a citizen of the United States. So the United States is a bad example, but still you're getting the point that people are different, not just sexually but from the physical bodies and brains that they have and the attitudes that they represent.

The New Testament I believe it's Matthew 18.3, if I remember correctly where he asks for a little child to come forward and he tells the assembled Jewish hierarchy that you will never get to heaven unless you can have the attitude of a small child. You need to be able to seek to understand and not to try and refuse anything that you don't already agree with. And of course, they didn't want to hear that, because they were all learned men and they put a lot of time and effort into their learning and they wanted to be approved of for that learning, when actually it had taken them 100% in the wrong direction and Jesus was trying to straighten them out, but they wouldn't listen and, as we all know, they ended up killing them. As we all know, they ended up killing him. Jesus' life is extremely important because, not from a religious point of view, but for the model that he was and the examples that he gave. If you read any of the translations and you see him start, you see in the Bible where he starts saying I can guarantee this truth.

Pay very strict attention to what follows, because locked into that is information that you don't have. Even if you've heard it a dozen times, you've heard it with a set of religious ears on. You've got to remove those religious ears and do as Jesus instructed and go to it as a child with an open attitude towards learning and understanding. If you do that, then you will be able to say whoa, what is this? I don't understand, how come I never saw this before? And that's because you had on a pair of shades lenses that filtered out the information that was at the base and only let the religious material come through. Because that's how you're trained, that's how we were all trained. But you have to follow the instructions and directions that are in the Bible and look at the examples and look at the models. Once you do that, you'll understand, and that's what we need to do understand why God wants us to do things this way. So, as we move forward into the future, trying our best to understand, we can use even more of the examples that Jesus gave us, including his last words, his last days.

He never once gave up. He knew what was going to happen, but he never once said you know what? I can live a good life preaching the word, letting people know. All I got to do is knuckle under these idiots and get out of this city and I'm golden. I can go anywhere else and preach this. But preaching the word, which is all you're going to get these days, was not as important as modeling the word being the example. They transformed human. Now, it was Jesus' job. He was actually charged with representing God to the rest of humanity because the Jews had failed and 600, 700 years earlier, god had said I'm canceling the contract I had with you guys because you didn't fulfill it. You haven't even tried.

There's an awful lot of great information in the Bible about people being stupid and doing what they wanted instead of what God wanted, and even informing other people hey, this is what God wants, when it was actually what they wanted. I would not want to be those people. If the idea that again, it's religious, that we come to a judgment day where we have to stand in front of God, I would not want to be a priest, a pastor or a rabbi and say but Lord, this is what I was told to do. You say you didn't have any access to the Bible. Is that what I said in the Bible? No, you did have access and you chose to do this instead of what I told you to do. I'm glad I'm not going to be one of those people.

If that judgment day comes and I have to stand in front of God, I will do my humble best to say Lord, I tried. Once I understood, I tried to pass it on as much as I could. So one of the things I want to do in the future is get together a group of young people who haven't already made up their minds about what the Bible is supposed to say and go with them through it so that I can show them. All right, all religious questions and assumptions aside. What does this say to you? And I've noticed in the past that young people don't necessarily know everything, so they'll try to put it in a religious context. But even when they fail, it's a bit funny. But I uphold their attempt for trying to do what they thought was right. But then I instruct them that your parents thought this was right. Your priest or pastor thought this was right. The people at your school may have thought this is right, but this is not what God said, and that's what we need to try and follow, because our society, which is what we have built, is failing, and it's failing in exactly the manner that we were told.

If you read Daniel, you'll see that the dream that he mentioned to the co-ruler of Babylon was that it was too late. Basically, he had been weighed twice in two different ways and found wanting, so that as a leader he would be no more and he died the next day because his city was overrun. Because his city was overrun, but the dream that he translated about the statues with the feet of clay and when the river and I'm guessing it was the Nile. But when the river rose, the clay dissolved and the statues, which were precious stones and shiny metal and just absolutely gorgeous from the knees up, fell because they had no support, because the civilizations had been built on human desires and expectations rather than on reality.

So we're in the 21st century. We need to get a handle on what it is we're doing and why we're doing it, and we need to restructure our civilization. And I think probably the best thing to do would be to go back to what our founders did. Our founders were biblical men and they may not have understood why God wanted it done that way, but they were able to find out which way he wanted it done and put it into the Constitution. Of course, these days, many people who are not religious and certainly not godlike in any way, are trying their best to tear the Constitution apart and have the rest of us put up with it until it's destroyed. So with that I'm going to be ending today's message and I'll talk to you again, but keep an eye out in the future for that focus group where we get young people together and I can explain it to them in a way that they can understand and perhaps it will help you.