What’s not being said first of all is that God is creating a new creature called man. No. What is being said is that God, again being Elohim in the plural, the gods are saying, Come let us make man in our image after our likeness. What’s being said is that someone has come here. Jordan Maxwell, Forbidden Knowledge
Where was the creature Adam or man formed? ... The Bible doesn’t say God created man in the Garden of Eden. It says Genesis 2:8: And the Lord God planted a Garden eastward of Eden and there he put the man he had formed. ibid.
So God created the Earth and then it became a waste and a desolation. It wasn’t created that way. ibid.
In Jeremiah 4:23 we are told that Jeremiah is given a vision by God of the world that was before man was created. ibid.
For the religion of the Mystery Schools they believe that man was held prisoner in the Garden of Eden by an unjust and vindictive God. And that man was not told by this unjust and vindictive God that he could have the same powers. And man was set free from the bonds of ignorance by Lucifer ... And that through the gift of intellect man himself will become God. Bill Cooper
The implication is overwhelming that even the Bible infers that before Adam And Eve there are already other creatures on the Earth, other humans on the Earth ... Where were these people that Cain were concerned about? Bill Cooper
Quite a lot of people are upset that the findings of evolutionary science don’t coincide with what is written in Genesis. And there are people who think Genesis should be taken literally. David Attenborough, interview Horizon: A War on Science, BBC 2006
A kind of conjuring trick of taking a rib out of a man’s side in a trance. David Attenborough, televised interview
The correct transliteration behind the story of Adam and Eve is that mankind was deceived in prehistory by a shape-shifting reptilian creature. Chris Everard, Secret Space II
Saint or sinner? To some Mary Magdalene is a repentant prostitute but to others she is Jesus’ closest disciple. Riddles of the Bible s1e12: The Real Mary Magdalene, National Geographic 2004
Her biography is only twenty words long. ibid.
The real puzzle about Mary is why she was following Jesus in the first place. ibid.
The Gospel of Philip claimed that Mary Magdalene had a special even intimate relationship with Jesus. ibid.
A wicked world. An angry God. A righteous man named Noah who built an arc and survived a flood. But did it happen the way the Bible describes it? Riddles of the Bible s1e13: Search for Noah s/a The Bible Uncovered
Could Noah really have built a boat that big? ibid.
The story of a man, a boat and a flood first appeared in the middle east ... It’s told in both the Bible and the Koran. The account of a catastrophic event that happened very early in human history. Not too long after the Creation. ibid.
The CIA called it the Ararat Anomaly. ibid.
The Bible tells us that a flood covered the whole of the Earth. But most geologists can’t find any evidence to support such a theory. ibid.
Over the years many different theories have been advanced by creationists to explain how Noah’s flood really happened. ibid.
The Black Sea had been a freshwater lake ... A flood of Biblical proportions ... Water from the Mediterranean started to cut a channel through the Bosphorus. ibid.
As the water surged through the Bosporus at a hundred kilometres an hour it unleashed a volume of water two hundred times that of Niagara Falls ... Such a catastrophic event would have seemed to encompass the whole world. ibid.
In the Bible, in the Koran, is the first death and the first murder. Consumed with rage and jealousy Cain kills his brother Abel and is banished, condemned to wander the Earth alone. The story is full of riddles. Riddles of the Bible s1e15: Cain & Abel
Why would God prefer one sacrifice to another? One brother to another? ibid.
If no-one had been killed before, let alone murdered, how did Cain know how to kill? And did he even understand what he had done? ibid.
If in the beginning there is only Adam & Eve and Cain and Abel, who are the people Cain fears in the wilderness? ibid.
What is the Mark of Cain? ibid.
The mark of Cain has for hundreds of years been used to demonise and destroy people, nations and races. ibid.
Augustine believes the Jews descended from the murderous Cain. ibid.
A powerful story of jealousy and fratricide ... The gods Osiris and Seth. ibid.
The Book of Revelation: the most controversial book of the Bible. Within its pages a dire forecast of Apocalypse ... What’s the real secret of the Book of Revelation? Riddles of the Bible s2e1: The Apocalypse
Most scholars say Revelation is a product of its time. ibid.
The word rapture appears nowhere in the Bible. ibid.
Exodus: A Biblical tale of miracles. Catastrophes and history changed by the hand of God. From the burning bush to the death of the first-born, scholars and enthusiasts have pursued natural explanations for supernatural events ... Exodus is a three-thousand-year-old story of terrible plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, and the Israelites freed from slavery in Egypt. The book of Exodus is central to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The faiths of billions. Riddles of the Bible s2e2: Exodus Revealed s/a Bible Uncovered
No evidence of their passage out of Egypt has been found. ibid.
Not a single artefact has been found that could be definitively linked to the Biblical exodus. ibid.
There’s no way to confirm even that the Israelites were slaves in Egypt. ibid.
The Ark of the Covenant: Down through the ages it has inspired terror and obsession. This gold-encrusted chest held the Ten Commandments and gave Moses a direct hotline to God. With it the Israelites conquered the holy land and they built a new temple. Then in perhaps the greatest Biblical riddle ever the Ark of the Covenant simply vanished from scripture. Riddles of the Bible s2e3: The Hunt for the Ark of the Covenant
God’s blueprint for the Ark was exceedingly specific. It was to be a portable wooden chest, about four feet long by two feet wide by two feet high. Made of an extremely resilient wood called acacia. And plated inside and out with pure gold. At the corners of the Ark there would be four gold rings into which gold-plated poles could be inserted for carrying. Its lid – God’s footstool – would be pure gold, with golden-winged angels called cherubim at each end facing each other. The Ark served as Moses’s direct hotline to God. ibid.
But by around 620 B.C. references to the most important artefact in the Jewish religion simply ceases ... But three decades after that, in 587 B.C. came another crisis ... The city and its temple were overrun and looted by Babylonians, led by the famous Nebuchadnezzar. ibid.
Hancock is among those who believe that the high priests in charge of the Ark somehow managed to save it before the city of Jerusalem was sacked along with the Temple of Solomon in 587 B.C. ibid.
Legendary cities destroyed by the hand of God. Sodom & Gomorrah ... and Jericho. Riddles of the Bible: Lost Cities s2e5
The foundations of a town from the time of Abraham or even earlier – just where the Bible suggests Sodom was located. Like the cemetery, the town had been deserted suddenly. ibid.
Jericho was built on an earthquake fault line. ibid.
Rival prophets, messiahs and sons of God: the Olympic gods of Roman mythology – Jupiter, Mars and Venus – collide with the alternative pantheons of Persia, Egypt and Israel. Miracle workers preaching new spiritual truths appear across the empire. New religious figures arise, some said to be born of virgins. Some celebrate sacrificial meals, others are said to have risen from the dead ... Apollonius of Tyana is said to be one of these rivals of Jesus. A man with a strikingly similar profile: Apollonius is born approximately the same time as Jesus in what is now Turkey ... Like Jesus it is reported Apollonius even raised the dead. Riddles of the Bible s2e6: Rivals of Jesus
Simon Marcus: Simon the Magician. He was born in Sumeria, the country next to Judea. But he travels and preaches from Egypt to Rome. He is powerful enough to be mentioned in the Bible ... Simon’s followers believe he is the messiah, but Simon himself says there are two living incarnations of god ... The incident led to the creation of the word Simony – the sin of attempting to buy spiritual benefits. ibid.
In 132 A.D. Emperor worship would be challenged by another rival to Jesus: a Jewish leader in Jerusalem who did not preach peace, he preached war. His name is Simon bar Kokhba. Many Jews at the time feel bar Kokhba has the better claim to the title of messiah than Jesus. Like Jesus he is a descendant of the Royal House of King David. Like Jesus he is a charismatic leader with a small but loyal following. Like Jesus he speaks out against Rome. ibid.
Coins are minted in Jerusalem proclaiming bar Kokhba’s status as Saviour and Redeemer. On one side an inscription reads, Year One of the Redemption of Israel. One the other side the image of the temple is crowned with a star, because bar Kokhba literally means, Son of the Star ... He defeats mighty Rome. ibid.
The Mithra story bears remarkable similarities to the story of Jesus. He was born of a virgin in December 25th, shared a final meal before being called to Heaven, then was resurrected and returned to Earth as the Son of God. By 200 A.D. the followers of Mithra outnumber those of Jesus of Nazareth. ibid.
Once upon a time a small boy slew a giant and saved his people. The Bible says he went on to conquer Jerusalem and give the wandering Israelites a home. His son Solomon the Wise built them a Temple, put the Ark of the Covenant in it and filled their coffers with wealth. David and Solomon made Israel a nation. Were they historical figures or mere legends? After three thousand years can any trace of these Biblical giants survive? Riddles of the Bible s2e9: Lost Kings of Israel
The Book of Kings is replete with details of this Temple: dressed masonry with interlaced cedar beams, quarry-dressed stones, elaborate columns, rooms with carved olive-wood cherubs and an inner sanctum made of pure gold. ibid.
So the argument was that Solomon’s Temple was merely too magnificent to have been built and decorated in the 10th century. But in 1980 archaeologists were astounded when they found a temple from Solomon’s time in Ain Dara, Syria. It proved to be a stunning parallel to Solomon’s Temple. ibid.
Not a single artefact from the Temple has been found to date. ibid.
Infinite resignation is the last stage before faith, so anyone who has not made this movement does not have faith, for only in infinite resignation does an individual become conscious of his eternal validity, and only then can one speak of grasping existence by virtue of faith. Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling p46
Where are the lost ten tribes of Israel? Does the fabled Ark of the Covenant still exist? And are the ten commandments still inside? What will historical investigation tell us about Jesus Christ? Will we ever know who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls and why? These are a but a few of the mysteries of the Bible. Mysteries of the Bible: pilot I II, A&E 1994
A Biblical text that was influenced by the ideas an prejudices of the Middle Ages. ibid.