Human beings have been on planet Earth for 300 thousand years. According to the evidence, the idea of God began evolving 14,000 years ago. No human being, in 300 thousand years, has even seen invisible gods, devils, angels or demons. Nor has anyone seen an imaginary heaven or hell.
https://youtu.be/S788gj9vdp0
Elmore James – The Sky Is Crying
Abraham:
“Abraham is a central figure in the Bible and is considered the father of three major monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
According to biblical accounts, Abraham was born in Ur of the Chaldeans (located in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq) and received a divine covenant from God. His story includes significant events such as leaving his homeland, the promise of descendants as numerous as the stars, and the birth of his son Isaac in old age.
While there is no direct archaeological proof of Abraham’s existence, religious traditions and texts continue to venerate him as a historical figure.
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2015/07/the-abraham-myth
Moses:
Moses is a pivotal figure in the biblical
narrative, particularly in the book of
Exodus.
According to the Bible, Moses received a
divine call at a burning bush, led the
Exodus (the liberation of the Israelites
from Egyptian slavery), and received the
Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai.
However, there is zero direct
evidence from archaeology that Moses was an actual historical person. Some scholars argue that the Exodus story is more symbolic or legendary than strictly historical. The lack of archaeological evidence does not necessarily negate Moses’ existence, but it does leave room for interpretation and skepticism.
While the historicity of Abraham and Moses remains a matter of blind faith, stories about these personages has had an impact on all Abrahamic traditions. These stories, written by humans at the behest of emperors and empires… continue to shape beliefs and traditions for millions of people worldwide.”
“Hans Georg Unglauber’s definitive study, popularly known as Die Suche nach dem historischen Abraham but originally published as Abraham: Historie oder Pferd-Geschichte? Unglauber shows that there is not a shred of independent evidence for the existence of Abraham, much less for any of the events recorded in Genesis.”
With zero evidence from Archeological research... after we recognize myths created about Adam, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, Isaiah, and Jeremiah… we find that like Genesis, the gospels are ancient literature. The writers were not concerned about facts. The Bible is replete with hints that these stories are no more than mythic symbolizations used to influence large masses of uneducated people.
“Did Moses Exist? begins with the observation that the Church Father Origen of Alexandria told Celsus that the Egyptians veiled their knowledge of things in fable and allegory. Origen said: “The learned may penetrate into the significance of all Oriental mysteries, but the vulgar can only see the exterior symbol. It is allowed by all who have any knowledge of the Scriptures that everything is conveyed enigmatically.” The story of Moses is full of enigmas. The similarities to the Babylonian story of Gilgamesh, the story of Sargon, and the story of Dionysus illustrate that we are dealing with myth, not history. The veneration of a bronze snake on a pole is utterly contrary to the Genesis vision of the snake as evil and to Josiah’s later removal of this snake idol from the temple, but the raising up of the snake on the pole then becomes a central image for Jesus Christ, immediately before the famous line John 3:16. The magical wand used by Moses to make water gush from rock is a hermetic symbol like the rod of Hermes, the trident of Neptune and the bow of Mithras, producing what Jesus would call living water and what Paul would call the water of the supernatural Christ. The Ark of the Covenant is a highly mysterious symbol with antecedents in Egyptian, Babylonian and Greek myth.
“The similarities to the Babylonian story of Gilgamesh, the story of Sargon, and the story of Dionysus illustrate that we are dealing with myth, not history.”
https://stellarhousepublishing.com/didmosesexistreview/
“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.”
“…I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.”
― Albert Einstein
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire, Questions sur les Miracles à M. Claparede, Professeur de Théologie à Genève, par un Proposant: Ou Extrait de Diverses Lettres de M. de Voltaire
“Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time!
But He loves you.”
― George Carlin
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959
“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.”
― Albert Camus
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch
“Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.”
― Albert Einstein…
Many assumed truths could be lies. The human propensity for creative synthesis, imaginative conjecture and blind faith seems unbound. When human beings find no rational explanations or scientific evidence, they may indulge in myths, magic or miracles to evaporate mystery in search for meaning. Some find small wisdom in subjective truths where many agree.
― Timothy Martin Flanagan (editor, writer, educator)
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
― Oscar Wilde
https://thewordsmithcollection.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/life-is-fine-enjoy-not-to-worry/
“God is a concept by which we measure our pain…“
~John Lennon
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
― Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)
Christian Jesus, a devil with horns, angry god, angels cavorting on clouds, demons and dervishes dancing, Mickey Mouse and the big bad wolf are folk stories and fairy tales about myths, magic, mystery and miracles.
https://youtu.be/ob9rkipsr0g?list=RDob9rkipsr0g
Grateful Dead – Death Don’t Have No Mercy – Live/Dead
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
― Anaïs Nin
https://youtu.be/ZEgGslcXXL0?t=33
Howlin’ Wolf – Dust My Broom
Faith, Dreams and Imagination matter.
There exist no objective proofs for anthropomorphic gods…
“You may say I’m a dreamer,
but I’m not the only one.
I hope someday you’ll join us.
And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon
“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
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