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Open letter to Alexey Komov June 4, 2019
Show 46 Prophesy 1 Covenant.
Usually I have given you hard science, and upon the general drift shown in the first 32 scripts above, I’d happily stake my life. However now I shall be speculating. Anything I say today is speculation. If you don’t like it, don’t bother to feel offended. It’s fine with me. Most people have a pretty firm opinion of scripture, ranging from never-heard-of-it or don’t-care to it’s-myth, it’s-ritual, it-has-social-value-because-it-promotes-good-behavior, the-parts-I-look-at-are-literally-true, it’s-all-literally-true. I consider it to be a substantial effort on the part of a number of capable people to get at the truth. There are difficulties. For one thing parts may have been inserted because somebody thought they had to be true in light of what was already there; we are then presented with the back story right along with the original story. Sometimes parts may have been inserted by somebody who had a political ax to grind. In attempting to get at the truth, I shall have to make some interpretations. So of course you are more than welcome to have different interpretations.
Whatever you do, don’t let anything I say nudge you toward abandoning your ancestral faith. Staying within your own congregation is probably your best hope of making a good choice of mate. And don’t let me nudge you toward abandoning your current mate; keep that one. Obviously for most people today these two exhortations are in conflict. You sort it out. Just don’t think I am challenging you to change, just to think.
I shall be talking about the “covenant.” You know it as the Ten Commandments. Get a grip now, there are three motivations for humans beyond safety and comfort: love and force. There is also a yen for companionship, which I shall not pursue. To learn about love, to those 32 links and see how nature selects for loving kin. Force comes down to politics and military might, and today that means America. So if you want to understand the world you need to understand the English speaking culture. Before the US, Britain was the super power so any understanding of the modern world means understanding the dominant culture and that goes back for centuries to the Enlightenment.
The most important book for English speakers has for centuries been the King James Version of the Bible. There are other versions, but at about the end of scripture in Revelation are the words:
Revelation 22: 18For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
I think the writers of the King James Version took those words seriously. I suspect any other version did not take the words seriously and probably had a political axe to grind.
Crucial to scripture is a passage called “The Covenant.” So unless you understand it, you understand nothing, and that means you must have read the entire Bible. Anyone who has not done simply is not in a position to think about the world.
To begin with, it’s not really a covenant. A covenant comes from Latin meaning coming together. It is something that was agreed to by two or more parties. Nobody knows where the Hebrew word came from, but certainly what we have, as described, was not an agreement reached after negotiation. It was announced by God. It takes the form of a covenant, but it is in fact a statement of natural law, the most important natural law there is. “18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.” OK, that sounds like back story to me. In order to write that much on stone a man could lift, the letters would have to be written with something about as thick as a pencil lead. You don’t imagine God has such tiny fingers.
It is not the Law. The Law is: “And what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” Micah 6:8. Clinging to God appears to be in the Covenant; humility, justice and mercy are lacking.
Here goes: Exodus 20 King James Version 20 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. So we are starting out with what sounds like a covenant, a contract. The parties to the contract are identified and the time and place roughly assigned. We now expect two parts; each part should specify just what each party is obligated to.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. We immediately are getting down brass tacks. The people involved are forbidden to worship other gods. That is part of their share of obligation. There are those who say the Covenant means that God agrees to be the god of the people while the people are to obey certain rules. That won’t wash. Verse 2 already identified God as the Lord. So making it part of the Covenant would be meaningless. What is not meaningless is that the people are not to worship any other god. One way to define a god is to say that it is the object of any worship. People may worship alone or in congregation. Personal worship is more New Testament and will not concern us here. So two congregations? Two gods. I told you I do not expect agreement, only that you follow the logic. You might learn something useful, or maybe it will help you memorize the passage if you want to. It goes on …
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Right enough. The people are not to make anything that could be worshiped as an idol, as a god. In the story, while Moses was on the mountain getting the Covenant, his brother was making a golden calf and getting the people to worship it. Where did they get the gold? It’s covered by what appears to be back story; the people of Egypt were so eager get be shed of the Children of Israel that the Egyptians gave the departing “slaves” gold. Not so sure I know of any outside evidence for slavery at the time in Egypt. Everybody was equally the servant of the Pharaoh. Nonetheless, some of the first Hebrew writing is said to be (sorry no reference) in an Egyptian mine from about the right time, so some of the back story is supported. Still in all, this commandment seems to be just a repetition of the first.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: Alright, there’s another repeat. for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Numbers. Golly we’re getting numbers. What do they mean? Well everything so far can be interpreted as not to marry outside the congregation. Since, so far as I know, marriages have generally been celebrated with a religious ceremony, not worshiping elsewhere means not getting married elsewhere and pretty much not meeting members of other congregations except for companionship and business. Marry outside and you are penalized in the number of children you will have. Continue this reckless strategy for too long, and the whole line will die out. That’s clear from the 32 links. And how long is too long? For me three or four generations is probably pretty close to the end. It’s not that after four generations all is forgiven and forgotten. It’s that there is nobody left of the line. Mercy to thousands? If a stable congregation size is about 100 households, and if each contains two parents, three children, a couple grandparents, a great grandparent and a couple of maiden aunts and uncles, then a thousand makes sense. It isn’t necessary to imagine that these valid numbers showed up by supernatural means. If you have read the Bible, it should be clear that genealogies are quite extensive. At some point, long after the Exodus story is supposed to have taken place, careful study could have revealed the truth.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Don’t say you are God’s people and not make it so. That seems to sum it up nicely. So there are several repeats of the same obligation. The golden calf story then seems to be back story; Moses got upset by the calf and thundered on about not doing that again. But the back story has a problem; making a golden calf takes more than gold. You’d need a furnace, means to make a mold, fuel for the furnace and maybe a crane to hoist the finished idol into place. And if that back story is suspect, the whole surrounding plot is suspect. The accurate numbers suggest there had been many generations of meticulously recording genealogies and analyzing them.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. A holy day is a holiday. Read, you’ll get the weekend off. That is not a burden, that is a blessing. In other words we are leaving the obligations placed on people and beginning obligations God assumes. That makes sense for a covenant.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. “That,” “So that.” That’s jarring. It’s a covenant within a covenant. For such a meticulously crafted passage as the covenant, that does not feel right. I do not read Hebrew, but I can use an interlinear translation. There are two ways to express causality, a verb change and a single word. Here the single word is used. It is also sprinkled throughout the first few books of the Old Testament. Then, I seem to remember it’s Deuteronomy, it’s used a lot. Presumably it was trendy at the time. Thereafter it is never used throughout scripture. It’s an anachronism. The text has been tampered with. In fact, the moment when this happened is even recorded. Priests found an “old copy of scripture” in the temple. There were some differences with what had been taught. One difference was that it justified the presence of a king. The king declared that this was the true original version. The people rioted, but to no avail. So take out the offending word, and you get, “You’ll make your parents proud. You’ll live a long time.” Two more blessings from God.
13 Thou shalt not kill. That’s a blessing; killing people has terrible emotional consequences. God has said you won’t be doing that.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thud. It’s another covenant within a covenant. Marriage is itself an covenant, and one that is sacred. It has no need to be a separate issue. It’s not a command; it’s a promise. You won’t want to do it.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. All those things are social dead ends. Being assured you won’t do them is yet more blessing.
So just as the people’s obligations can be quickly summarized, so can God’s. He is saying, “I shall make good people of you.” That is the ultimate gift. Above all else people want to think well of themselves. They can endure terrible loss and suffering stoically, but take away self esteem and the poor person becomes profoundly depressed and has a high likelihood of seeking to commit suicide.
That is how I read it. You need not be in agreement. But I suspect the truth has been hiding in plain sight for thousands of years.
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