Apologetics and New Atheist books (and Updates)

I am beginning my reading in Sam Harris' "Letter to a Christian Nation" while making a chapter to chapter commentary on what I have learned from him and my thoughts as a Christian. I will provide the blog later.

Head to head:

Misquoting Jesus(not necessarily a 'new atheist' book) vs Misquoting Truth
The God Delusion vs Is God A Moral Monster?

This shall be interesting.
Here is my blog: http://ltacn.blogspot.com/

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[rooio3]

@PrinceOfPeace316-of Baal. Early in Israel's history, Yahweh was considered a member of El's pantheon of deities, including Baal and Asherah. Thus, El and Yahweh were historically two different deities.

[rooio3]

@PrinceOfPeace316-As well as Elohim, El Elyon, El Roi, El Shaddai, El 'Olam. And "El" is derived from the even more ancient Sumerian wind god Enlil. The El titles were a form of the Canaanite El-religion the Israelites adopted as they settled into Canaan. Yahweh was not known until the moses narrative after the period of Babylonian exile. It was then that El and Yahweh were merged into one deity. That is why the Israelites elevated their tribal Yahweh as supreme in response to the rising fame

[rooio3]

@PrinceOfPeace316-It is traditional judaism and christianity that believed Israel's religion from its beginnings was monotheistic, but modern scholarship, based on the found differences & perceived source material, contend Israel did not hold a pure monotheism until the exilic time 6-7th century, where it is thought the first 5 books to be produced. The Canaanite god EL was the supreme god of mankind and all creatures. Linguistically, it is where the "el" in Isra(EL) originates.

[rooio3]

@PrinceOfPeace316- Also keep in mind that the Sumerian creation flood myths were not documentations of real events, but poetry used to teach a lesson. The same stories were adsorbed into the Babylonian mythology. They were later used by the Israelites, who too, saw them as useful stories. And the Israelites didn't simply retell the stories, they modified them to give a different message, using the stories as a way to depict a single moral god, instead of many capricious gods.

[rooio3]

@PrinceOfPeace316- Just to give you a timeframe of civilizations- the Mesolithic culture existed from 12,500-9,500BCE in eastern Mediterranean. Sumerian civilization emerged around 4,000BCE, Egypt 3000BCE, China 2200BCE, Minoan 2000BCE, Babylonian 1700BCE, Semitic 1500BCE, Indian 1500BCE, Greco-Roman 1100BCE.

[rooio3]

@PrinceOfPeace316- The oldest rocks on the earth date to about 3.8 billion years ago. The earth's accurate stratigraphic record, studied for nearly two centuries, made it possible not only to measure the lengths of the eras,periods, and epochs, but also to check the relative order of these geologic time units. DNA evidence as well as physical evidence reveal ancient humans migrated roughly 200,000 years ago. The first recorded civilization emerged in Mesopotamian around 4000 BCE.

[rooio3]

@PrinceOfPeace316- creation flood myths. The Sumerians existed 1,000s of yrs before the Israelites. That is why we know the Torah wasn't written a few thousand years after claimed events. Sumerians were polytheistic, whose gods were creator gods.They routinely experienced flooding in the region, the reason why the floods occur in their mythical narratives.To acknowledge their mythology would be to affirm the existence of multiple creator gods, tossing out the biblical narrative anyway.

[rooio3]

@PrinceOfPeace316- You lack knowledge concerning the subject. Ancient near eastern culture PRE-DATE the biblical. Anyone who studies ancient history knows this. We know the Canaanites emerged before the Israelites. We know the Sumerians were there before any other civilization developed. Therefore, Baal in the bible, is an infusion of an older mythical deity of the Canaanite culture. The creation and flood stories nearly copy the exact same narrative structures of the earlier Sumerian

[rd1999]

good luck. is your quest one of truth or debate?

[PrinceOfPeace316]

@rooio3 Why else would YHWY command the Israelites the destroy their tribe? Baal was so deceiving and deceptive. You just can't see it and refuse to. You are just as bias as any theist.