[Opinion] What is the BIBLE to you?

[thepolestar]

Isn't the OT the Yawehist sect's version of Israel's folklore/myth/history in an attempt to keep their culture while they were in Babylonian Exile? You know since the Babylonians were trying to dominate their culture with their own.

And the NT is the new Messianic sect's way of fulfilling the prophecies of the coming messiah in the OT by attributing that role to Jesus the Carpenter/Mystic/Healer?

I'm an ex Christian, so I do not appreciate how the Church (or the many I've been to) narrowly uses the Bible as a book of moralism from God, but I still do respect there are some magickal/spiritual truths in the Bible.

Yes, the New Testament is propaganda and the "Old Testament" is a reordered and edited version of the Tanakh - early Christians literally rearranged the Hebrew scripture to make it look like Jesus was being foreshadowed all along.

Honestly, I can't wait until we as a culture move on from the "messiah trap". So much of the war in the Middle East right now is because of competing psychoses about the end times and what a real messiah will look like.

Meanwhile, my colleague today was frothing at the mouth (he's Sunni Muslim) about both Jewish versions of the messianic end times and even about the Ahmadiyya people - a group that believes the final messiah already came in the form of some man who lived and died in northwest India while also proclaiming himself the final Avatar.

I have such a headache from all of their messianic prophecies. They are all going to learn the hard way that there is no external savior coming.

 

[kusuri]

Even though I think most of it is metaphor I believe in great significance from the gnostic texts. The methods and ideas are important imo. Every culture tries to pin down the meanings of things and Gnosticism seems to cut through it. Even gnosticism deviates from itself. I mean this in a good way.