Why "Holy Books" exist

I have been finishing a few books. I only write for a few hubs. I did not know it is 15.

I will never "unpublish" as I am not ashamed of what I write. I will be back soon, and I am going to write more articles here. My own blog is my name with a dot com.

I do not follow what any "system" has taught me. On the contrary, I have written against my own theses and dissertations as they were written to satisfy staid and ossified teacher requirements. Even Aristotle did not agree in total with Plato, nor any great thinker with his or her teachers.

I diagnose the disease of religion--not its adherents. I make my judgments based on provable and authenticate citations. While there are semi-equal manifestations, as there are in illnesses that apply to people in general, I would never prescribe the same medicine to all people if investigation shows me allergies or various intolerance to specific compounds. Religion, however, I find to be an opiate for most people, and I research, investigate and publish to attempt to help those who wish an alternative.

Goodbye! I thank you for the opportunity of having visited with you. I hope you seek psychiatric help.

Each person has individual experiences, and what one experiences no other person of any gender, race, age, etc. can have the same experience. This is an ancient philosophical point, on par with "no man can step into the same water twice"--yes the individual can step into the Nile, but as it flows into the Mediterranean, the original water stepped into cannot be stepped into again by the same person.

Spirituality is an individual matter, as with the Interior Castle by Teresa of Avila--no one can feel the same erotic sensation as she, but only refer to it while experiencing a different excitement on their own. to claim that others can experience the same situation defies even the imagination as each of us is unique and special--the attributes of a god or goddess--but to claim divinity the individual would have had to have been in ancient Rome where any person (but especially among the leaders) could be deified as were the emperors.

Mental issues occur when people cannot see the uniqueness of the individual and threaten those who do not conform. Major mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or bipolardisorder rarely appear “out of the blue.” Most often family, friends, teachers, or individuals themselves recognize that “something is not quite right” about their thinking, feelings, or behavior before one of these illnesses appears in its fullblown form. These are never spontaneous but a product of indecision or caving into religious pressures. Denial is never a mental issue--it is a sign of robut rebuttal of group insanity and thought control: religion.

No mortal has limitations except for those put upon the individual either by himself or herself, or by his or her society. Man invented god as a way to answer questions the mortal was afraid to search, investigate, inquire and discover by himself. The "heavens" is an old Samarian word for sky that seemed unapproachable since men could not fly--now there are airplanes that not only send men into the heavens but beyond into space, and in time outside of space. It is the intellect that can grow, but as it does, god diminishes as the alleged omnipotence and omniscience qualifiers are exposed as man-made and not valid. The famous Thrones, Dominions and other choirs of angels were mortals way of determining what was necessary, and for that reason Seraphim were pictured as having thousands of eyes on each wing, and Cherubim were hideous monsters that guarded truth that was considered tied up in an unapproachable art--but the ark was a famous Babylonian concept of what today is known as continents--and for that reason the infamous plagiarism of the man the bible claims was Noah is universal as is his "ark"--a continent on which he stood surrounded by various species.

There is no limit to what a man or a woman can do: medicines have been invented to cure "incurable" diseases. Artificial lungs and even body parts are routine as are heart operations, open-heart surgery and even moving hearts and lungs, and even limbs from one body to another, all denied in the bible.

The bible was written by ignorant people who did not see beyond their homes and fields. The bible was written stories as the people had little to no education and it was read by the few who invented languages to placate, entertain, and assuage those who would not think for themselves. Even Martin Luther, on his way home from the university, as he passed through a dark forest, trembled when he heard thunder as it was thought of as a war in heaven or a quarrel with god, so he cried out in ignorance "Saint Ann save me"--but that salvation came when he picked himself up and ran out of the forest. Each of us is responsible for out own "salvation": the understanding and accepting of ourselves as we are and an equal acceptance of others (Matthew 7:1).

Doubt destroys man, but it festers within the mind of the individual who entertains it because of fear, superstition, or lack of appreciation of the self: the denial or self-actualization as noted by Abram Maslow. In short, doubt is the product of religion and its unholy writings that enslave people to a distant, unfathomable past that is overwrought with stale mysteries and imaginary monsters as Mephistopheleanhttps://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Why-Holy-... monsters. I will take science and reason over religion, thank you.

I have a doctorate in the Bible, am fluent in all Biblical languages, and have had more than 60 books published on Jesus, Paul, etc. and the bible. You are allowed and free to form your opinions, but they should be researched and then issued with suitable citations. That is scholarship.

Unfortunately, most zealous bibliolators do not think critically and only read their bible in their native tongue. That is acceptable for individual considerations, but scholars read it in its original languages: from ancient to second century Aramaic, from fourth century BCE to medieval Hebrew, all versions of Latin and Greek as words change as do sentences (for example, the "Woman taken in Adultery" has been repeatedly proven to be an invention that does not appear before the fifth to eighth centuries CE and many argue for much later--as the earliest manuscripts, housed in the Rylands Library at the University of Manchester UK, do not appear until after the beginning of the second century and most date much later.

I do not consider my textual studies of the myths of the bible to be a waste of time. It is time spent to understand why these myths came into existence (none appear until at least 70 CE, a full two generations after the death of the legendary Jesus--and there is not a single record in Rome, Jerusalem, etc. who even states the existence of such a teacher (rabbi) or rabel rouser). We find the same true with literature in the fourteenth century CE and can trace origins back to 1579 BCE in various locations.

Information is universal and timeless. There is no "spiritual information" for the few texts by "Paul" (there was no Saul of Tarsus except in literature) state patently that people of faith rely on faith and not on facts (1 Corinthians; Galatians 3:9; Psalm 146:3 that was stolen from so many older sources, etc. Do consider Psalm 118:8 טֹ֗וב לַחֲסֹ֥ות בַּיהוָ֑ה מִ֝בְּטֹ֗חַ בָּאָדָֽם׃). That line is directly plagiarized from a far older text in central African worship that contributed much to the theology of the ancient Egyptians, who, in turn, gave it to the Apiru who carried it to Cana--and over a long period of time the literature was rewritten repeatedly, so much so that it resembles the miscitations of the modern bible, especially the untrustworthy King James Version completed by lawyers at Hampton Court in 1611.

Enjoy your life and this universe we know and this water planet we call Earth.

You are referring to a myth: a man created by symposium and scriptorium. If he did exist, Paul would have had epileptic seizures that in those days were references to either drug use or induce hallucinations that caused the body to react. Read: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC103206... (National Institute of Mental Health). The full text by D. Landsborough (June 1987) "St Paul and Temporal Lope Epilepsy" is at J Neurological Neurosurgery Psychiatry v.50(6) and comes with a complete bibliography including STERN A. (1957) Zur Problem der Epilepsie des Paulus. in the Psychiatr Neurol (Basel) 1957 May;133(5):276–284.

Few accept that "Paul" wrote all of the letters attributed to him from both a philological and a historical point of view, with the perspective that the word order is inconsistent, etc. Ref. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/12/opinion/l-medica... and http://www.macalester.edu/academics/psychology/wha... and you may peruse my own books and articles on this topic.

Saul of Tarsus may have been educated as he did attend Greek lycium, but "well educated" is a stress as the world had not advanced in its thinking beyond that of Aristotle whom even Aquinas proved to be wrong at times, and modern scholars are askance.

There is no scientific proof of a life after death. The one boy who claimed he went to heaven has now recanted and admitted he made up the entire story. Read: http://ktla.com/2015/01/16/the-boy-who-came-back-f... The only "life after death" comes when someone who knew us or has known of us remembers us, as with students who remember Socrates and Plato, and in their minds these two men lived after their death. However, even these thoughts are tainted as with today's technology we can transmogrify what someone said or written as shown my the nefarious group NSA and CIA. Consider George Orwell's classic "1984". It is from this reality the term "doublethink" was invented by Orwell and is a part of the English lexicon and vocabulary.

The only real life is what we experience. If we elect to be sad, that is our world. I prefer enlightenment and the conduct of inquiry over any faith or recitation of prayers or invocations. I do wish you joy!

Yours is a common consideration, but we usually find that in very old people or those without formal education. You are entitled to your faith, but few theologians and even fewer scientists will agree with your summations. The bible does not give history--save a brief gloss of a period that is not ascertained nor recorded. For example, your bible does not mention the civilization of Ham, the Great Wall, the rise of the Turks, the invention of hydraulics, etc. The book you refer to as an aside mentions only a concept as old as Ptolemy, and Ptolemy was discarded by Nicholas Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and of course Stephen Hawking. the earth and everything else is a product of the "Big bang theory" as enunciated by the Belgian Georges Lemaître, (1894-1966), Belgian cosmologist, Catholic priest, with Stephen Hawkings of our own time defining the movement of the "explosion" and eventual implosion noting that there was never a need for a "god" as it is about physics not faith.

There are over 3000 bibles today, all being redactions of redactions, plagiarized from far older sources, such as the Code of Hammurabi to the writings of Egyptian priests. It is these ancient priests that gave to the emperor's Council of Nicaea in 325 CE such novel and unbiblical ideas as the trinity (originally: Osiris / Isis / Horus), the tales of a virgin birth (all religions begin with rape), of a god with 12 apostles that represent the zodiac, and more. In an effort to solidify the rabble Christians around his rule, Constantine I incorporated the stories of the military god Mithra: born on December 25, sacrificed, rose again, etc. These myths, however, are common accounts in the lives of more than 7000 similar gods. All are recorded in "books" (a English word that was originally "Bible").

Genetics, as a study, has ended the myth of one family: Adam and Eve, and philology discards even their names. Adam is but an ancient Urgatic word of "red earth" and Eve was the mother goddess or Creatrix of the Ur (the delta between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates.

Every story in the bible can be traced to older accounts from far older religions, even the rise of Yahweh who was forcefully wed to the Canaanite goddess Asherah: Venus. Sampson was just a retread of Hercules. The sacrifice of Abraham (the Hindu god Brahma) is a reiteration of the Spartan tale of Iphigenia sacrificed by her father Agamemnon. Even as I wrote earlier (elsewhere), Jesus is a redaction of far older myths.

None of the bible stories are real, history, or worthy of consideration except as legends woven into the fabric of literature. During the Middle Ages (some call it the Age of Faith) there was no education. Everything was memorized--as is the way with strict Islam where the only book allowed in school is the Koran, and those that do not see it as the source of mathematics, science, and life--are put to death as were those who would not convert to the brutal church of Christianity.

The realm of the spirit is actually from the Sanskrit tale of one myth engulfing and swallowing reality. There is no realm of the spirit: only this world where we all need to live in kindness and tolerance. I wish you well, but I prefer science over belief.

Wealth used for the good of others is not rejected by many groups before the early Middle Ages when it was seen as a form of apostasy--as with the early communities that broke with the Roman church. They were a simplistic people, communist as defined in the Book of the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:44, sqq) and were destroyed by Roman armies who were in many cases controlled by warrior bishops and the emperor who needed a strong church to control a wild people (especially those outside the walls before 425 CE).

The ancient law of tithing was to feed the priesthood of Aaron whose sold obligation to pray. Many "heresies" rose up and were ruthlessly dispatched by knights of the cross and church while bishops and popes became fat and suffered gout with too much fine living. This led to the novel--and permitted--removal from society of Francis of Assisi and a new monastic community that disappeared as the order became larger and more corrupt.

Morality, as well as the concept of right and wrong, depends on the individual who sets standards. Sadly most standards are set by theologians who use them to cover up personal and organizational vices or interests. To that end the Church forbade the eating of meat on Fridays to help fishermen sell their catch--after giving the Church no less than 10% of their take either in kind or currency. Most medieval records detail this corruption and that led to a variety of communities starting to reject a defined morality. In essence the arguments made (both in Latin and Greek) note that morality is a community consideration and ultimately came to the thesis that it was immoral to go against the free will of another--but that was long and quickly ignored. It takes no writ to define morality as even scriptures of faith have divergent opinions within the sacred writings as well as outside of it--as seen in the arguments for and against war, contraception, ordination, and sex in general.

All holy books pretend to have prophesy especially about the future of the world. The tale of the End Times and Final Battle go back beyond Zoroaster's war between Ahura Mazda and Marduk (the latter being Zeus). The best texts are scrolls in Farsi, but there are some respectable studies (even those who cater to Christianity that did not exist), as at http://www.iranchamber.com/religions/articles/secr...