Imagine this...

As I research on mysterious archeological findings and read the theories put forth by all people, I find that there will always be a group who will NEVER entertain the possibility of alien visitations in the past, no matter how difficult or impossible they find it to explain the mysteries. Sometimes, their own views are more ridiculous than those from alien supporters.

So imagine with me, that one day, when we man can visit another planet in a spaceship (this is no more far-fetched, and I am convinced that it will happen for sure), and the most intelligent creatures there are like our stone-age people. How would they react? Surely they will call us 'gods who came from the sky'. This is exactly what has been recorded in many folklores.

As our spaceship will produce great noise, fire and exhaust, they will probably say 'the god came with fire, thunder and clouds', just like what is mentioned in the Old Testament of the Bible.

Then in order to help us locate some prominent places for the spaceship to land, most likely we need to make some markings that will be visible from a certain height in the atmosphere. So we would think of building a huge structure (like the Great Wall of China, Pyramid of Egypt, etc), or use drawings in the sand (like the Nasca Lines of Peru), etc.

If we need to stay on the planet for long periods and food is a problem, then we can copy the idea from the Old Testament - identify a small tribe, make them think that you are God, teach them how to live in an organised way, then make them offer you cooked food as offerings. We can use fear to instill obedience, and kill a few of them to make them know that we are powerful.

Then how do we make sure that they do not get near our spaceship and see us? We will park our spaceship on a mountain that has dense forests to hide our spaceship, then we will build electric fences around the mountain. Anyone who touches the fence will die. That is similar to what is recorded in the Old Testament.

But how are we going to eat the cooked food offered to us? We can get the people to build an enclosure, similar to the Tabernacle in the Old Testament. No one will be allowed inside this place except one trusted person - we will call him the High Priest. We will make him important so that the people will listen to him. He will bring the cooked food into the enclosure for us. Since we need breakfast, dinner and supper, we will make it a law for them to offer us food 3 times a day, together with drinks and maybe bread or grains.

To minimise giving ourselves away, we will make the priest come into the enclosure only during the dark hours of the planet - before dawn and at night. To ensure hygiene, we will design the clothes for the High Priest, and to play safe, we will hang a bell round his waist so that when he is around, we will take cover. And we will pass a law that anyone else who comes within 20 meters of the enclosure will be put to death. We will taser them to death.

Then we need to teach them how to slaughter animals, remove the unwanted inner parts, wash the meat, season them, and then cook them. For a quick start, we will teach them to build a barbeque pit so that the meat will be cooked fast. We will also teach them how to keep the meat clean, and only offer the best meat for us.

Of course inside this enclosure, we will need all the eating utensils like table, chair, forks, spoons, oil, etc. How about colored curtains for some design and atmosphere? And yes, we need a lamp for light. we will get the High Priest to remove the ashes from the barbeque pit everyday, and also wash all the utensils.

In this way, we will be able to survive on the planet while we look for metals that we need and also study the bodies of those we have killed to know their anatomy better.

But how can we get the tribe to believe in us? We will get them to attack neighbouring tribes who are more powerful than them, but we will use our laser guns to help them destroy their enemies. In this way, they will see our power and believe in us. We will pretend to be God to them!

Read the Old Testament again carefully, and you will see this exact plan in action!

Mystery of Our Moon

Some people are proposing the theory that the moon is artificial and not a natural heavenly body like the earth and other planets and suns. Some features of the moon include:

- it has no core
- it have little heavy metals
- astronauts reported that the moon rang when struck by Apollo
- it revolves round the earth at exactly 100th of the speed of the earth's rotation
- it is exactly 400 times smaller than the sun
- it is exactly 400 times closer to the earth than the sun
- without the moon, life would not be possible on earth

So was the moon created by some advanced alien race to make life possible on earth?

In Chinese folklore, Chang'e (嫦娥) is believed to be the goddess of the moon.
Read the full story here.

It is difficult for me to imagine how such folklore could be stories of imagination when they were well known throughout China, last till today, and the characters are often worshipped as deities - even till today's technological age. I am open to the possbility that these folklores were true stories about aliens (often mistaken to be gods by the ancient people) who came to earth. I also often wonder, how did the stories get distributed to so many people in China when there was no technology like the Internet that we have? It would have taken years before the stories got copied by hand, then delivered throughout China. Then, if these are just fiction, why would anyone want to distribute the books if they could not gain anything out of it? And again, if a story gets such popular responses, surely the author would go into a Part 2, then Part 3, etc. Other writers would surely wished to ride on its success and produce more fairy tales. But that did not happen.

As the ancient people could not describe technologies like our today, these records read like fiction of imagination to us, and could have been distorted in the course of translation as the translators could probably had tried to change the records to suit the understanding of the masses.

Chang'e could even have been a robot, like the ones that Japan are producing today. These robots look exactly like human beings and can talk, react, smile, blink, etc. So Chang'e could have been such a robot, sent to earth via remote control. If the moon is hollow, then there is the possibility that some kind of alien race could be living inside it.

Chang'e was often depicted in ancient drawing flying with clouds around her. We know that cloud do not form anywhere on earth, but only at certain altitudes in the earth's atmosphere, and only under suitable conditions. So why is it that most of the ancient drawing of the deities were drawn with clouds at their feet? (Read my earlier posts on the Bible, where I showed how the god of the Bible was often described as 'coming with the clouds'). My suspicion is that these deities were actually aliens or their robots, and they travelled using spaceships that gave off exhausts like our spaceships today. To the ancient people, the exhaust looked like clouds.

Look at the ancient drawing of Chang'e, with clouds. I will not add any other images in case believers of some religions get offended.

Also, many deities are often depicted as having a halo around the head. Could this be the headgear of an astronaut, just like our astronauts? If not, why is it that till today in our modern era, no one have ever seen anybody with a visible halo around the head?

If these astronauts had headgears made totally of transparent material, don't you think they would look like having halos?

Will I live to know the answer???

Chocolate Jesus

Believers of religions are usually rather sensitive people and very protective of their beliefs. Many wars and violent acts had taken place with roots of religious disagreement. That is why religious harmony is of utmost importance. Wherever possible, we should live and let live. Singapore is the best example of religious harmony in the whole world, and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew should be credited for his foresight in this area. 

But at times, religious beliefs can blind a person to facts, and that is the real danger. I read about how a man came up with the idea of making figurines of Jesus (the Son of God as believed by Christians and related religions) in chocolate. Of course, Christians are not happy about it.  This guy, Cosimo Cavallaro, is an artist who loves to work with food. I will not talk about him too much.

My point here is, no one has ever seen Jesus Christ, and photography and videography did not exist during his time. The Bible also forbid anyone to produce anything of likeness to Jesus (but this commandment has been violated by many Christians today as we see paintings, figurines, etc of  Jesus). So I was thinking, instead of finding fault with this guy, why are Christians not talking about violation of this commandment? Isn't  that a more important issue? In addition, since no one knows who Jesus Christ looked like, this chocolate cannot be Him, but simply Jesus. 

Hence, I do not see this as a religious issue.

Difference Between Fanatic and Believer

As a seeker for the truth, I need to keep checking myself, to make sure that I remain rational and objective in whatever analysis and decision I make. In my encounters with people of various beliefs, I can plainly see two main types of people - the fanatic and the believer.

The believer is one who does not dwell very deeply in his beliefs. He simply calls himself a believer, associate with people of the same beliefs, and follow the crowd. He does not ask questions, or accepts answers to his questions easily. He does not add anything to what he follows.

The fanatic is one who is totally brainwashed by what he has been taught, and is basically an extremist. He lives out his beliefs to the extreme and gives his all (time, money, etc) to his beliefs. His strongest driving force is that all those who do not follow his beliefs and go to the same place as him (such as a church) will end up in hell. He is convinced that only he and his fellow believers will go to heaven. Unknowingly, he actually worships the leader of the belief system and not any kind of God (but he does not realise it). The group that such a person joins is known as a cult.

Lately I had been reading some details on some 'dynamic, famous Christian leaders', such as Benny Hinn, Cho Yonggi, Oral Roberts, etc. They are revered by most Christians, to the point that I see them as having a status not below a god. They have their shortcomings, but their followers often just brush them aside. Even though they are accepted by the mainstream churches and most Christians, I see them as cultic leaders. Strangely or not, the common characteristic among these people is - they are filthy rich, multi-millionaires with their private mansions and private jets, and they keep asking their members for more money. Their followers are so brainwahsed that they ask me 'what is wrong with being rich?'. 

So as a form of warning to my readers, be careful, do not be drawn into a cult, for it can ruin your life completely, and you can lose you mind. Always be rational in your beliefs. Seek the Supreme God, and not any man who make all kinds of boastful claims.

The mysterious ICA stones

Did man and dinosaurs co-exist, as opposed to what scientists say - that they were extinct long before man appeared on the scene?

The mysterious stones of ICA, Peru, is so far the only object to show carvings of men hunting dinosaurs. Besides this, some of the stones had carvings of men using telescopes, performing surgery, primitive fishes, ancient map of the earth, acupuncture, etc. As usual, scientists will say this is a hoax, but even though it is always a possibility in every case of this kind, there is no proof. And scientists are supposed to base their theory and conclusion on proof.

Read the details and view pictures at this site.

Aliens in Singapore, 1965

I did not get to see the small aliens, but it happened in my neighbourhood in the year 1964 or 1965. I was a small boy then, staying along Havelock Road, Singapore (the pre-war houses had been demolished). Opposite the stretch of pre-war houses was Havelock Community Centre (CC). One Sunday, a group of about 10 kids ran from the CC and excitedly exclaimed that they saw a few small figures, about 1 foot tall (0.3m), dressed like astronauts, running around in one part of the garden. I joined the crowd that ran to the CC hoping to catch a glimpse of it but without success.

Later, the whole story was that the kids chased aliens and tried to catch them, but was hit by bullets from weapons that looked like machine-guns. The aliens then ran into a small bush, and the next moment, a small space-ship flew away. about 4 of the kids showed us the bullet marks on their hands. I remember that the story was published in a chinese newspaper the next day, with photos of the kids' bullet marks.

I have no success in tracing this report.

Iron Pillar Without Rust

Iron that does not rust? This is an impossible for our world, yet there is an iron pillar in India, dating back to the 4th century, that has not rusted till today. Of course, scientists have tried to explain it away as usual. The usual questions we ask about strange artifacts like this - why was it made, how did the people move it at 6.5 tons, etc.

The main characteristics are:

1. 1,600 years old
2. located in Delhi
3. 7.3m tall, with 1 m below ground
4. diameter 48 cm
5. weight 6.5 tons

Read more here.

Atlantis Rising Magazine

One of the few magazines that focus on supernatural and paranormal topics is the Atlantis Rising magazine. Check out it site here. There are online articles for reading. You can subscribe to its PDF file version of its bi-monthly publication at a lower price compared to its printed version.

3D Projection Technology is Here

In one of my earlier posts, I had speculated that some ancient records, notably the Bible, could have been records of what people saw as miracles, but could have been the result of advanced technology of aliens. Yesterday, for the news on the American elections, CNN used the latest technology to beam the body of journalist Jessica Yellin to a studio, making it like she was in two places at the same time. This is exactly what we read about old saints in ancient records. Am I getting nearer to the truth, that what we read about the past were all the works of one or more alien tribes who deceived the people to think that they were gods? Was the resurrection of Jesus Christ done with this technolgy?

Remember that Moses and Aaron died but their bodies were not found, as recorded in the Bible? Moses allegedly appeared to some people in the New Testament times. Was his body used for this technology to beam his hologram?

Anyway, such a feat can be achieved today with technology, and thus, it has nothing to do with the Supreme God.
Watch it here on Youtube:

Was Jesus Buried in Japan?

Read this interesting article about the possibility of Jesus going to Japan.

Another article that claims that Jesus was in Japan is here. There is even an ancient song which was deciphered.

A third article here has more details.

Sound Waves and Headaches and Chinese folklores

The US Army had just finalised their invention this year with another weapon for war - using sound waves to cause headaches in the soldiers of their enemy.

Read the details here.


What is strange is that this idea had been told in the folklores of China for hundreds of years! One female pugilist was described as being able to cause headaches in the people around here over a certain radius just by using a musical instrument, the chinese pi-pa.

I wonder how such a technology could have been imagined by story writers so long ago (if we choose to believe that all these folklores were merely from story writers)? Can we imagine some kind of technology that would only materialise a few hundred years later? Quite unlikely. Hence, we can suspect that the people of old in China must have seen something to give them such advanced ideas. Could they had seen aliens doing some 'magic', or could the characters in all the folklores been actual aliens who came to down to earth and exhibited their technology?

Sun Wu Kong

In these folklore is also the story of Sun Wu Kong, or the Monkey God, born from a stone, in one of the four epics in Chinese history that originated anonymously in the 1950s, "Journey To The West" . You can read more details at Wikipedia.

This character is supposed to have eaten a peach in heaven and obtained eternal life, and also could change his appearance in 72 ways and could wreck havoc even in heaven and hell. But such a powerful being was easily controlled by a monk, as someone had placed a metallic headband on the monkey's head. This band will contract and cause extreme pain to the monkey when the monk chanted. Will this be achieved by technology one day? It is possible, as scientists are making progress in the area of using sound waves to control matter.

There are many other interesting points in the folklores similar to what I have mentioned. As I thought about these stories, I find that they can only make sense if we link them to aliens. The Chinese often mention heaven and earth, but we know today that up from where we are there is no heaven, only empty space. Thus, the heaven mentioned would mostly like be a huge spaceship parked in the sky in those days, visible to the people, and as these aliens had powers that humans did not have, they were accorded the status of gods. Since there were many of them, the Chinese probably did not have one main god. And as the aliens travelled up and down from their spaceship, the people then would think that the spaceship was heaven. If you had read one of my earlier posts on the Tower Of Babel (in the Bible), I mentioned that the people then building a tower to reach heaven could be trying to reach something they could see in the sky and not empty space, and that thing would most like be a spaceship parked in the sky, inside the atmosphere of earth.

Invisibility

In these folklores, some of these characters could turn themselves invisible easily, usually at the wave of a hand. Today, our scientists have found that it is possible to bend light and make an object invisible. Read more here. It needs a bit more refining to make it practical. Again I ask, how could the people of old, who did not even have radio technology, imagine so many years ahead?

Aliens Visited Japan 200 years ago?

Watch this video on a documentary on suspected UFOs in Japan.

Interesting.

Can Religion Survive Without Money?

Have you ever asked this question? This world revolves around money, for without money, there will be no economy, food, transport, technology, etc. Religion depends on people, and people need money to survive. Therefore without money, there won't be any religion. Which means that if any of the religions is true, then the god is dependent on money too!

That does not make sense. Money is a commodity invented by man. Why should the Supreme God be subject to it? And if a religion condemns non-believers to a burning hell, but do not have the capacity or ability to reach out to the whole world, is it fair for their god to punish the non-believers? Why should our destiny be controlled by others and by money?

My conclusion is that my Supreme God will not be related to any man-made religion.

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Church Membership

Where in the Bible does it say that if a church has more members, it is a better church? Nowhere, as far as I am aware of. Is holiness measured by church membership? Does it mean that if you are a member of the largest church in the world, you chances of going to heaven will be greater? Does a richer church relfect a holier church?

But today, pastors and so-called spiritual leaders use that to boast about their churches. Jesus never tried to win over the whole world, did he? He stopped at 12 disciples. He never asked for money for himself to make his life more luxurious. Can you tell me any pastor today who reflects Jesus in his ways? I cannot think of even one.

The use of such measure is the result of pastors who wish to command high pay and live luxurious lives, and so to attract more Christians and justify their existance, they have to use some kind of measurements, just like in the secular world. So Christians, don't be deceived by all these human standards. Ask questions and seek the truth.

When Was Jesus Born?

Churches today claim that Jesus was born on 25 December. There is no proof at all for this. The Bible has no mention of it. So why do Christians still believe it? In the first place, if the Bible-god wanted Jesus' birthday to be celebrated, he would have made sure that it was recorded. The fact that it was not recorded tells us that it is not important. This is another area where we find Christians believing blindly what has not been proven. The reason is that most of them are afraid of going against the mainstream. It is easier to just follow the crowd than to ask questions. If you are a Christian, would you have the courage to look for the truth and stand up for it, even if it means disagreeing with the mainstream churches? What does your pastor say? Or is this question not as important as how much money a church collects, or how many members they have, etc.?

Those who believe in the Bible but do not accept Christmas as the birthday of Jesus are usually in the minority sects like the Jehovah's Witnesses, and they have been labelled as cults by the mainstream. Who is right or wrong will not be known on this earth. Just because you follow the majority does not mean you are right, just that you have security in numbers.

This question would not very important if not for the alleged connection of Christmas with pagan religions. Some scholars have tried to show that Christmas was actually the birthday of the Sun God. In order to win over the Christians, it was claimed to be Jesus' birthday.

Read more about this topic here.

The Bible-god and Technology

Have Bible believers ever asked, why is it that the record of the Bible-god was only for times when technology like photography, video cams, internet, CCTV, printers, TVs etc. had not existed? Why do we not see the Bible-god appear today at all? Why doesn't he come with fire, thunder and clouds today like he did in the past? Why is he not healing the world of all the diseases today? Christians need to take medicine, go to hospitals, go for therapy, etc. Why can't the Bible-god heal them, as promised in the Bible?

Even in the New Testament, we do not read about the Bible-god coming with fire, thunder and clouds. This obviously tells us that either the god of the Old Testament is not the same as the one in the New Testament, or he had changed his ways. Maybe we should make a comparison.


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Old Testament (New Testament )
come with fire, thunder, clouds ( never appear at all )
spoke through one person ( hardly spoke )
had a physical dwelling place (no physical dwelling place )
never talked about heaven and hell (heaven and hell introduced )
had no son (proclaimed his son Jesus )
existed in plural (singular god introduced, but with trinity)
gave very specific instructions (no instructions at all)
used chariots to bring some people upwards (no chariots used)
issued all kinds of laws (Jesus only issued a few new laws)
demanded animal sacrifices (no sacrifices asked)
build ark of covenant (nothing physical used to represent him)
separated river and sea (no such feats)
used Israel to destroy other tribes (no such military conquests)
created a superhuman Samson (no such creation)
had to meet Moses at a mountain (no more such a need)
promised land for Israel was on earth (promised land now is heaven, unknown, cannot be seen)
used fear of physical death to control Israel (spiritual death is used to instill fear)
took away body of Aaron and Moses (no such thing)
instituted feasts of celebration (no celebrations instituted)
used many prophets (only Jesus used, with many disciples)
never linked to love (god introduced as filled with unconditional love)
was interested in gold, silver and copper (not interested in these)
was only interested in Israel (salvation is for the whole world)
constantly reminded Israel of his laws (nothing heard)
full of jealousy, anger, revengeful, unforgiving (full of love, slow to anger, forgiving)

My answer is that the Bible-god was an alien who used technology to control the helpless Israelites. He does not appear today as obviously we would be able to see through his tactics using our latest technologies. If he wants the world to believe in him, then the more he should appear and let us video him and his miracles, and stop all our arguments, speculations, quarrels and wars once and for all.

Mystery of the Crystal Skulls

There had been many such skulls discovered all over the world, and nobody knows how they were made or carved, or why. Our technology today cannot do it. It surely makes a statement that there were advanced knowledge, some more advanced than ours today, in the annals of history. Of course some egoistic people will never admit to that in their narrow-mindedness, for if they admit to this point, then they have to admit that aliens with advanced knowledge existed and were on our earth sometime in history. But at the same time, the skeptics cannot explain away this mystery in a convincing way.

A total of 13 such skulls had been found, but the best one as the Mitchell-Hedges Skull. Experts from HP analysed the Mitchell-Hedges Skull and was confounded, as the laws of physics were broken! They could not explain how the skull could have been made.

Have they got anything to do with the Supreme God? - that is my main concern.

Read more about it here.

And , read about those who call these skull a fake here.

The Bible and Animals

If you have read my previous posts on the books of the Bible, you should remember the animals mentioned by the Bible-god for his demanded offerings, and they are:

• goats
• bulls
• rams
• pigeons

I wonder if these animals existed during that time:

• cats
• dogs
• rats
• tigers
• lions
• bears
• rabbits
• monkeys
• giraffes
• spiders
• kangaroos
• koalas, etc and all the other domestic animals we know of today.

Why was the Bible-god only interested in the few animals? Or were the other animals created only some time later by other aliens? Or they existed only in other parts of the world? The second list of animals are domestic animals and not wild animals, so naturally I would expect them to be where humans were. Surprisingly, they were not mentioned at all by the Bible-god. The lion was only mentioned in the story of Samson much later in the Bible. Isn't this something that believers in the Bible should ask?

Alien Tribe in China?

There is a tribe in China which does not appear to be human like us. They are less than 4 feet in height, and do not look Chinese or Asian. Stone discs found by a scientist and purported deciphered tells the story of how their spaceship crashed and they got stranded on the earth 12,000 years ago. Read this amazing story here. Of course there will always be others who argue against it, so you be the judge.

Benny Hinn - True or False Prophet ?

Benny Hinn is a highly acclaimed (according to Christians) prophet of the Bible-god. But his lifestyle and riches belies his claim as a servant of the Bible-god. It is strange that many of these people who claim to be prophets of the Bible-god, who claim to have access to the Bible-god personally (remember my note that the Bible-god talked to Israel only through one man? it was Moses, then Joshua, etc) often live a luxurious life using the money given by believers meant for the ministry of the Bible-god.

There are a lot of information on him, so I will not repeat them. Somehow Christians tend to ignore facts about these self-proclaimed prophets and believe them no matter what happens. Maybe it is the result of them having blind faith.

Just as I have shown you how the Bible-god sent out curses, Benny Hin is shown on a video sending our curses!

Google "Benny Hinn", and try this site , read all his fantastic claims and judge for yourself.

The Book of Deuteronomy

I completed my analysis of the Book of Numbers in the last post. I shall continue with the next book, Deuteronomy.

The first 3 chapters records Moses recalling how he had led Israel to Jordon. But because of the grumblings of the people of Israel, the Bible-god got angry with Moses and forbad him from going into the promised land, Canaan.

Idolatry

In chapter 4: 15 – 39, Moses told Israel not to make any kinds of image to represent their god, the reason being that the Bible-god is a very jealous being. The consequences for disobedience is again very harsh – death. Notice how Moses kept using fire to describe the Bible-god.

15 You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, 16 so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, 17 or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air, 18 or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below. 19 And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven. 20 But as for you, the LORD took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of his inheritance, as you now are.


21 The LORD was angry with me because of you, and he solemnly swore that I would not cross the Jordan and enter the good land the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance. 22 I will die in this land; I will not cross the Jordan; but you are about to cross over and take possession of that good land. 23 Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. 24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.


25 After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God and provoking him to anger, 26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed. 27 The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you. 28 There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. 29 But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and obey him. 31 For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.
The Lord Is God


32 Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created man on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of? 33 Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived? 34 Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by miraculous signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?


35 You were shown these things so that you might know that the LORD is God; besides him there is no other. 36 From heaven he made you hear his voice to discipline you. On earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from out of the fire. 37 Because he loved your forefathers and chose their descendants after them, he brought you out of Egypt by his Presence and his great strength, 38 to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you into their land to give it to you for your inheritance, as it is today.


39 Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other. 40 Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the LORD your God gives you for all time


The Ten Commandments

Chapter 5 1- 22 tells us that the Bible-god issued the ten commandments and wrote them on two stone tablets. Again, Moses kept emphasizing the mountain, fire and cloud in relation to the Bible-god. Note that the Bible-god spoke in a loud voice to Israel (v22). Why did he speak to Moses normally but spoke to Israel with a loud voice? Was it to make them fearful of him so that he could control them? This loud voice could be easily achieved by a sound system.



Then we naturally wonder what the Bible-god used to write on the stone tablets. Could it be a laser gun? It can be done by us today, so it is not far-fetched for us to continue suspecting that the Bible-god could be an alien, or a group of aliens.

Anyway the ten commandments read more like social laws to guide the Israelites in their communal living. Do we need a Supreme God to give us such laws? Why isn’t the Bible-god giving more laws as our world have changed so much?

1 Moses summoned all Israel and said: Hear, O Israel, the decrees and laws I declare in your hearing today. Learn them and be sure to follow them. 2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. 3 It was not with our fathers that the LORD made this covenant, but with us, with all of us who are alive here today. 4 The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain. 5 (At that time I stood between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:
6 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
7 "You shall have no other gods before me.
8 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 9 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 10 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
11 "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
12 "Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest, as you do. 15 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
16 "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
17 "You shall not murder.
18 "You shall not commit adultery.
19 "You shall not steal.
20 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
21 "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
22 These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.


Blind Obedience Demanded


Verses 23-32 tell us that the leaders were very fearful of the Bible-god as he often appeared in a fire, and the fire could kill them. Surely it was not spiritual fire but physical fire. So we see that the Bible-god used fire to threaten them to obey him. He demanded complete obedience, no less. Sometimes critics say Christians today believe in the Bible blindly, having blind faith.


23 When you heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire, all the leading men of your tribes and your elders came to me. 24 And you said, "The LORD our God has shown us his glory and his majesty, and we have heard his voice from the fire. Today we have seen that a man can live even if God speaks with him. 25 But now, why should we die? This great fire will consume us, and we will die if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer. 26 For what mortal man has ever heard the voice of the living God speaking out of fire, as we have, and survived? 27 Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then tell us whatever the LORD our God tells you. We will listen and obey."


28 The LORD heard you when you spoke to me and the LORD said to me, "I have heard what this people said to you. Everything they said was good. 29 Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
30 "Go, tell them to return to their tents. 31 But you stay here with me so that I may give you all the commands, decrees and laws you are to teach them to follow in the land I am giving them to possess."
32 So be careful to do what the LORD your God has commanded you; do not turn aside to the right or to the left. 33 Walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess


Love the Lord – Or Else !!


The whole of chapter 6 reads like a letter of threat. Moses told Israel they must love the Bible-god with their everything – or else face death. Looks like Israel had no choice! They were also to teach the next generations to do the same – looks like the Bible-god knew that education was important.


I do not understand the part that says ‘a land flowing with milk and honey’. It seems that Israel understood what it meant. I imagine that there were a lot of bees and cows in the land, but it is not described as such in latter books. It is also not true today in the land of Israel. Is this a code of some kind that had been lost in translation? Why is it that none of our Bible scholars ask this question? I wonder if there were something in the land that the Bible-god needed for his spaceship?


1 These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. 3 Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.



5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.


10 When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, 11 houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, 12 be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.


13 Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. 14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; 15 for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. 16 Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah. 17 Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you. 18 Do what is right and good in the LORD's sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers,

19 thrusting out all your enemies before you, as the LORD said.
20 In the future, when your son asks you, "What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the LORD our God has commanded you?" 21 tell him: "We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22 Before our eyes the LORD sent miraculous signs and wonders—great and terrible—upon Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. 23 But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land that he promised on oath to our forefathers.



24 The LORD commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the LORD our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. 25 And if we are careful to obey all this law before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness


Moses the Terrorist?


Read how Moses drills the need to kill into the people of Israel in chapter 7:1-6. It reads more like how the Japanese and the Nazis brainwashed their soldiers to kill other races so that they could win the war! This is more like terrorism today! I understand the Japanese and Nazis were repeatedly told that only they were human while other races are sub-human or animals, and that was why they had to conquer the world and destroy all other races.


1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you- 2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.


3 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, 4 for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD's anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. 5 This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire. 6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.


The Merciless Bible-god


Read for yourself what kind of being is the Bible-god-he will be good to those who bow to him, but will destroy those who hate him. This is definitely not the god of love as described in the New Testament.


7 The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. 8 But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.



9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands. 10 But those who hate him he will repay to their face by destruction; he will not be slow to repay to their face those who hate him.
11 Therefore, take care to follow the commands, decrees and laws I give you today.


12 If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your forefathers. 13 He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine and oil—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your forefathers to give you. 14 You will be blessed more than any other people; none of your men or women will be childless, nor any of your livestock without young. 15 The LORD will keep you free from every disease. He will not inflict on you the horrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all who hate you. 16 You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God gives over to you. Do not look on them with pity and do not serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.


17 You may say to yourselves, "These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?" 18 But do not be afraid of them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. 19 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, the miraculous signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm, with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear. 20 Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until even the survivors who hide from you have perished.



21 Do not be terrified by them, for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a great and awesome God. 22 The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you. 23 But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed. 24 He will give their kings into your hand, and you will wipe out their names from under heaven. No one will be able to stand up against you; you will destroy them. 2



5 The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the LORD your God. 26 Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Utterly abhor and detest it, for it is set apart for destruction


More Threats in Chapter 8


We read how the Bible-god kept reminding Israel of what he had done for them, but at the same time threatening to destroy them if they followed other gods. Surprisingly copper, iron, silver and gold were mentioned. As I had mentioned before, were these metals the target of the Bible-god, needed for the spaceship repair?


1 Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may live and increase and may enter and possess the land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers. 2 Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. 3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.



4 Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. 5 Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
6 Observe the commands of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and revering him. 7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills; 8 a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9 a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.


10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God for the good land he has given you. 11 Be careful that you do not forget the LORD your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. 12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, 13 and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, 14 then your heart will become proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 15 He led you through the vast and dreadful desert, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.

16 He gave you manna to eat in the desert, something your fathers had never known, to humble and to test you so that in the end it might go well with you. 17 You may say to yourself, "My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me." 18 But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.
19 If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. 20 Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.


Moses’ Recap


In chapter 9, 10 and 11, Moses recapped some incidents with Israel, and kept reminding it of the anger of the Bible-god. I wonder if it was a kind of brainwashing?


1 Hear, O Israel. You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky. 2 The people are strong and tall—Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: "Who can stand up against the Anakites?" 3 But be assured today that the LORD your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the LORD has promised you.
4 After the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, "The LORD has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness." No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is going to drive them out before you. 5 It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the LORD your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 6 Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.


7 Remember this and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God to anger in the desert. From the day you left Egypt until you arrived here, you have been rebellious against the LORD. 8 At Horeb you aroused the LORD's wrath so that he was angry enough to destroy you. 9 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water. 10 The LORD gave me two stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God. On them were all the commandments the LORD proclaimed to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.


11 At the end of the forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant. 12 Then the LORD told me, "Go down from here at once, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have become corrupt. They have turned away quickly from what I commanded them and have made a cast idol for themselves."
13 And the LORD said to me, "I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! 14 Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they."


15 So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands. [a] 16 When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you. 17 So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.


18 Then once again I fell prostrate before the LORD for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the LORD's sight and so provoking him to anger. 19 I feared the anger and wrath of the LORD, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the LORD listened to me. 20 And the LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too. 21 Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.
22 You also made the LORD angry at Taberah, at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah.


23 And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, he said, "Go up and take possession of the land I have given you." But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You did not trust him or obey him. 24 You have been rebellious against the LORD ever since I have known you.
25 I lay prostrate before the LORD those forty days and forty nights because the LORD had said he would destroy you. 26 I prayed to the LORD and said, "O Sovereign LORD, do not destroy your people, your own inheritance that you redeemed by your great power and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 27 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin. 28 Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, 'Because the LORD was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the desert.' 29 But they are your people, your inheritance that you brought out by your great power and your outstretched arm."


Chapter 10
1 At that time the LORD said to me, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden chest. [a] 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the chest."
3 So I made the ark out of acacia wood and chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. 4 The LORD wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me. 5 Then I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD commanded me, and they are there now.


6 (The Israelites traveled from the wells of the Jaakanites to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar his son succeeded him as priest. 7 From there they traveled to Gudgodah and on to Jotbathah, a land with streams of water. 8 At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister and to pronounce blessings in his name, as they still do today. 9 That is why the Levites have no share or inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as the LORD your God told them.)


10 Now I had stayed on the mountain forty days and nights, as I did the first time, and the LORD listened to me at this time also. It was not his will to destroy you. 11 "Go," the LORD said to me, "and lead the people on their way, so that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them."

12 And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
14 To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it. 15 Yet the LORD set his affection on your forefathers and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations, as it is today. 16 Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer. 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. 18 He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing.



19 And you are to love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. 20 Fear the LORD your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name. 21 He is your praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes. 22 Your forefathers who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.


Chapter 11
1 Love the LORD your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always. 2 Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the LORD your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm; 3 the signs he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt, both to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his whole country; 4 what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots, how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea as they were pursuing you, and how the LORD brought lasting ruin on them.



5 It was not your children who saw what he did for you in the desert until you arrived at this place, 6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth right in the middle of all Israel and swallowed them up with their households, their tents and every living thing that belonged to them. 7 But it was your own eyes that saw all these great things the LORD has done.
8 Observe therefore all the commands I am giving you today, so that you may have the strength to go in and take over the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 9 and so that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your forefathers to give to them and their descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10 The land you are entering to take over is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you planted your seed and irrigated it by foot as in a vegetable garden. 11 But the land you are crossing the Jordan to take possession of is a land of mountains and valleys that drinks rain from heaven.



12 It is a land the LORD your God cares for; the eyes of the LORD your God are continually on it from the beginning of the year to its end.
13 So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul- 14 then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and oil. 15 I will provide grass in the fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.
16 Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them. 17 Then the LORD's anger will burn against you, and he will shut the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you.



18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the LORD swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.


22 If you carefully observe all these commands I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways and to hold fast to him- 23 then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and stronger than you. 24 Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the western sea. 25 No man will be able to stand against you. The LORD your God, as he promised you, will put the terror and fear of you on the whole land, wherever you go.


26 See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse- 27 the blessing if you obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you today; 28 the curse if you disobey the commands of the LORD your God and turn from the way that I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known. 29 When the LORD your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim the blessings, and on Mount Ebal the curses. 30 As you know, these mountains are across the Jordan, west of the road, toward the setting sun, near the great trees of Moreh, in the territory of those Canaanites living in the Arabah in the vicinity of Gilgal.



31 You are about to cross the Jordan to enter and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you. When you have taken it over and are living there, 32 be sure that you obey all the decrees and laws I am setting before you today.


More Instructions From the Bible-god


More instructions are given in chapter 12. Note the emphasis on the need to avoid consuming the blood of animals. So far, no reason had been given, and I cannot think of a scientific reason. Is it harmful to our bodies? More strange is that the blood had to be poured on the ground beside the altar of the Bible-god. This is similar to the Chinese who will pour the tea, offered to any of their deities, on the ground.
Note also that they were supposed to worship the Bible-god at the place chosen by him. This again supports my suggestion that the Bible-god was not omnipresent.


1 These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land. 2 Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains and on the hills and under every spreading tree where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods. 3 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.


4 You must not worship the LORD your God in their way. 5 But you are to seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go; 6 there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 7 There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the LORD your God has blessed you.


8 You are not to do as we do here today, everyone as he sees fit, 9 since you have not yet reached the resting place and the inheritance the LORD your God is giving you. 10 But you will cross the Jordan and settle in the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give you rest from all your enemies around you so that you will live in safety. 11 Then to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name—there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the LORD.



12 And there rejoice before the LORD your God, you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levites from your towns, who have no allotment or inheritance of their own. 13 Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please. 14 Offer them only at the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.
15 Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the LORD your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it.



16 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water. 17 You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts. 18 Instead, you are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levites from your towns—and you are to rejoice before the LORD your God in everything you put your hand to. 19 Be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.


20 When the LORD your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, "I would like some meat," then you may eat as much of it as you want. 21 If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put his Name is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want. 22 Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat. 23 But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.



24 You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water. 25 Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
26 But take your consecrated things and whatever you have vowed to give, and go to the place the LORD will choose. 27 Present your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God, both the meat and the blood. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat. 28 Be careful to obey all these regulations I am giving you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.


29 The LORD your God will cut off before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But when you have driven them out and settled in their land, 30 and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, "How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same." 31 You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
32 See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.

Bible-god Worried


In chapter 13, the Bible-god seems to be extremely worried that the Israelites would turn and worship other gods. Those who so much as suggested doing such a thing was to be put to death, again showing that the Bible-god was quick to kill.

1 If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a miraculous sign or wonder, 2 and if the sign or wonder of which he has spoken takes place, and he says, "Let us follow other gods" (gods you have not known) "and let us worship them," 3 you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The LORD your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 It is the LORD your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. 5 That prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he preached rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery; he has tried to turn you from the way the LORD your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.


6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. 9 You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.


12 If you hear it said about one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you to live in 13 that wicked men have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods you have not known), 14 then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, 15 you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. Destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock. 16 Gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt. 17 None of those condemned things [b] shall be found in your hands, so that the LORD will turn from his fierce anger; he will show you mercy, have compassion on you, and increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your forefathers, 18 because you obey the LORD your God, keeping all his commands that I am giving you today and doing what is right in his eyes.


Clean and Unclean Food

Chapter 14:1 – 21 talks about clean and unclean food, a repeat of what was told earlier. Dead animals were not to be consumed, but they could be given to outsiders. So the Bible-god did not care about people outside of Israel. In the first two verses, Israel was told not to cut themselves or shave the front of their head for the dead. Some other nations must have practiced that. Today, we know very well that dead animals are dirty and not fit for human consumption.



Notice the strange instruction in verse 21 – do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk. I wonder why.

Notice that all these instructions were given with reference to one thing – holiness. The Bible-god issued all these instructions for the people of Israel to remain holy. Thus, holiness at that time did not refer to any spiritual development or moral development, but physical cleanliness. I see it more like the Bible-god was trying to build a nation of healthy and strong people.

1 You are the children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, 2 for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the LORD has chosen you to be his treasured possession.
3 Do not eat any detestable thing. 4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep. 6 You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud. 7 However, of those that chew the cud or that have a split hoof completely divided you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the coney. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a split hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you. 8 The pig is also unclean; although it has a split hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.


9 Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales. 10 But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.
11 You may eat any clean bird. 12 But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 13 the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, 14 any kind of raven, 15 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 16 the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, 17 the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, 18 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.
19 All flying insects that swarm are unclean to you; do not eat them. 20 But any winged creature that is clean you may eat.


21 Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to an alien living in any of your towns, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.


Bible-god’s Dwelling Place

In verses 22 – 27, once again I notice that the Bible-god was to have a dwelling place in the land of Canaan, and the people was to visit that place at least once a year. They were to go there and eat their tithe of their harvest there. If they stayed far away, they were to sell their tithes first, go to that place, then use their silver to buy some animals and wine for their tithes. I wonder why those instructions were so detailed.

22 Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. 23 Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the LORD your God always. 24 But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the LORD your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the LORD will choose to put his Name is so far away), 25 then exchange your tithe for silver, and take the silver with you and go to the place the LORD your God will choose. 26 Use the silver to buy whatever you like: cattle, sheep, wine or other fermented drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice. 27 And do not neglect the Levites living in your towns, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own.

Law on Feeding the Poor

In verses 28,29, Israel was commanded to pool together the tithes of the 3rd year so that the aliens, fatherless, and widows could be fed. Does not this read like what some of our government are doing today – welfare system? Did our governments learn this from the Bible?

28 At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year's produce and store it in your towns, 29 so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Law on Debts

In chapter 15:1- 11, The Bible-god even gave instructions on the cancelling of debts every seven years! The aim of this law was to make the people of Israel take care of each other. Do we need the Supreme God to teach us all these today?

1 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. 2 This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel the loan he has made to his fellow Israelite. He shall not require payment from his fellow Israelite or brother, because the LORD's time for canceling debts has been proclaimed. 3 You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your brother owes you. 4 However, there should be no poor among you, for in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you, 5 if only you fully obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today. 6 For the LORD your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.


7 If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother. 8 Rather be openhanded and freely lend him whatever he needs. 9 Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: "The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near," so that you do not show ill will toward your needy brother and give him nothing. He may then appeal to the LORD against you, and you will be found guilty of sin. 10 Give generously to him and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. 11 There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.


Law on Slaves

In verses 12-18, the law on slavery was given. It is strange that slavery had not taken place as Israel had not even moved into the promised land of Canaan, and the Bible-god talked about it first. I see that the Bible-god already knew about economics and expected some people to get richer than others, while others remained poor and had to be slaves. If I were to be in his position, I would know what to do too!

12 If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, sells himself to you and serves you six years, in the seventh year you must let him go free. 13 And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed. 14 Supply him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor and your winepress. Give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you. 15 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you. That is why I give you this command today.
16 But if your servant says to you, "I do not want to leave you," because he loves you and your family and is well off with you, 17 then take an awl and push it through his ear lobe into the door, and he will become your servant for life. Do the same for your maidservant.
18 Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because his service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do


Only Clean Animals

In verses 19-23, I see again that only clean animals were to be offered to the Bible-god. Lame, blind animals could be eaten by the Israelites but not to be offered to the Bible-god. Does not this hint that the Bible-god wanted the offerings as food? He also wanted only the firstborns of the animals – maybe the firstborns are more nutritious?

19 Set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male of your herds and flocks. Do not put the firstborn of your oxen to work, and do not shear the firstborn of your sheep. 20 Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place he will choose. 21 If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God. 22 You are to eat it in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were gazelle or deer. 23 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water.

Reminder of Celebrations


In chapter 15: 1- 17, the Bible-god again reminds Israel of the different celebrations – Passover, Feast of Weeks, Feast of Tabernacles. The common point I note is that all the offerings were to be taken to the place chosen by the Bible-god, again reinforcing my suspicion that the Bible-god was limited physically like us. Why was he so particular about the dates and months?


1 Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover of the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib he brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 Sacrifice as the Passover to the LORD your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for his Name. 3 Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt. 4 Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until morning.
5 You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the LORD your God gives you 6 except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary of your departure from Egypt. 7 Roast it and eat it at the place the LORD your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents. 8 For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly to the LORD your God and do no work.


9 Count off seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. 10 Then celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the LORD your God has given you. 11 And rejoice before the LORD your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, the Levites in your towns, and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows living among you. 12 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and follow carefully these decrees.

13 Celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. 14 Be joyful at your Feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levites, the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. 15 For seven days celebrate the Feast to the LORD your God at the place the LORD will choose. For the LORD your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.
16 Three times a year all your men must appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles. No man should appear before the LORD empty-handed: 17 Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the LORD your God has blessed you.


Legal System

In verses 18-20, the Bible-god taught them to appoint judges and officials, just like our legal system today.

18 Appoint judges and officials for each of your tribes in every town the LORD your God is giving you, and they shall judge the people fairly. 19 Do not pervert justice or show partiality. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous. 20 Follow justice and justice alone, so that you may live and possess the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Death Threats Again

Chapter 17: 2-7. I find it quite puzzling that the Bible-god was so worried about the people of Israel worshipping other gods that death was used to threaten them. They were not allowed even to bow to the sun, moon, and stars!! He sounds like a very possessive lover wanting complete attention from his counterpart. How can that be God?

2 If a man or woman living among you in one of the towns the LORD gives you is found doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God in violation of his covenant, 3 and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars of the sky, 4 and this has been brought to your attention, then you must investigate it thoroughly. If it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, 5 take the man or woman who has done this evil deed to your city gate and stone that person to death. 6 On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness. 7 The hands of the witnesses must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from among you.

Those who disobey the judges were also threatened with death.

8 If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults—take them to the place the LORD your God will choose. 9 Go to the priests, who are Levites, and to the judge who is in office at that time. Inquire of them and they will give you the verdict. 10 You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they direct you to do. 11 Act according to the law they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left. 12 The man who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the LORD your God must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel. 13 All the people will hear and be afraid, and will not be contemptuous again.

Conditions for Kingship

In verses 14-20, the Bible-god anticipated that there would be a need for a king, and he sets the conditions to be met. Do you think the Supreme God would do that?

14 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, "Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us," 15 be sure to appoint over you the king the LORD your God chooses. He must be from among your own brothers. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not a brother Israelite. 16 The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, "You are not to go back that way again." 17 He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.
18 When he takes the throne of his kingdom, he is to write for himself on a scroll a copy of this law, taken from that of the priests, who are Levites. 19 It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees 20 and not consider himself better than his brothers and turn from the law to the right or to the left. Then he and his descendants will reign a long time over his kingdom in Israel.


Levites - Government Servants?

In Chapter 18:1-6, it reads like the Bible-god was forming his government and the priests and Levites his servants. Doesn’t it look similar to our government structure today?

1 The priests, who are Levites—indeed the whole tribe of Levi—are to have no allotment or inheritance with Israel. They shall live on the offerings made to the LORD by fire, for that is their inheritance. 2 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.
3 This is the share due the priests from the people who sacrifice a bull or a sheep: the shoulder, the jowls and the inner parts. 4 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and oil, and the first wool from the shearing of your sheep, 5 for the LORD your God has chosen them and their descendants out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the LORD's name always.
6 If a Levite moves from one of your towns anywhere in Israel where he is living, and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose, 7 he may minister in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who serve there in the presence of the LORD. 8 He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions.


Forbidden Practices

It must be the case that other tribes were practicing things like human sacrifice, sorcery, divination, etc. The Bible-god was dead against such practices. But there was an earlier incident where he asked Abraham to sacrifice his son. Is that a contradiction? Or did the Bible-god forget about the incident?

9 When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. 10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. 12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. 13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God

Going To War

Chapter 19 is a recap of earlier instructions.
Chapter 20 contains instructions for going to war. As I had mentioned earlier, the Bible-god was a military expert. The instruction was to take over a city peacefully and make them slaves, or conquer it and kill all the males and keep the women, children and livestock. But for certain tribes, no living thing was to be spared. What a god! It looks like the Bible-god has singled out a few tribes that he wanted to be destroyed completely - Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. I wonder why. Could it be that these tribes were some kind of failed genetic races and needed to be destroyed?

In addition, the Bible-god also taught Israel to preserve all the fruit trees for food. This is not new to us, so I don’t believe we need God to teach us that.

1 When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you. 2 When you are about to go into battle, the priest shall come forward and address the army. 3 He shall say: "Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be terrified or give way to panic before them. 4 For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory."


5 The officers shall say to the army: "Has anyone built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may dedicate it. 6 Has anyone planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else enjoy it. 7 Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her." 8 Then the officers shall add, "Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that his brothers will not become disheartened too." 9 When the officers have finished speaking to the army, they shall appoint commanders over it.
10 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. 11 If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. 12 If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. 13 When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. 14 As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies. 15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.


16 However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God.
19 When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees of the field people, that you should besiege them? 20 However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.


Unknown Assailants


In chapter 21:1- 11, the rules and rituals for unsolved murders are given. God talking about unsolved murders? Again this shows us that the Bible-god was not omnipresent, or else there would not be a need for this instruction. By the way, I wonder if the proverb “to wash our hands”, used to mean denying responsibilities, was derived from here?

1 If a man is found slain, lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him, 2 your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns. 3 Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke 4 and lead her down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer's neck. 5 The priests, the sons of Levi, shall step forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the LORD and to decide all cases of dispute and assault. 6 Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, 7 and they shall declare: "Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done. 8 Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, O LORD, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent man." And the bloodshed will be atoned for. 9 So you will purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

More Laws

The chapter continues with laws for marrying a captive as wife, man with two wives, and how a rebellious son be stoned to death! Why did the Bible-god zero into these issues? I suspect that he must have seen all these problems in his own planet, and did not want them to be repeated on earth. Today, we are still having such problems.

10 When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, 11 if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. 12 Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails 13 and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. 14 If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.

15 If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love, 16 when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love. 17 He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father's strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.
18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. 20 They shall say to the elders, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard." 21 Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid

I am getting more and more amazed at what is recorded. The Bible-god was even bothered about dressing!

Chapter 22:5.
5 A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this.

The Bible-god was even set a law on a bird!

6 If you come across a bird's nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young. 7 You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.

Even the design of a roof is stated!

8 When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.

Even planting of seeds, and clothes are included!


9 Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.
10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together. 11 Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. 12 Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear


Sex Issues

Wow, even the virginity of a woman need the Bible-god’s attention!

13 If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, "I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity," 15 then the girl's father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate. 16 The girl's father will say to the elders, "I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 17 Now he has slandered her and said, 'I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.' But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity." Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, 18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver [and give them to the girl's father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl's virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you
Then there was adultery, rape. All these wound very human, not divine.
22 If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the girl; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders his neighbor, 27 for the man found the girl out in the country, and though the betrothed girl screamed, there was no one to rescue her.
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
30 A man is not to marry his father's wife; he must not dishonor his father's bed

Those Excluded

The Bible-god was very clear about those he did not want in his presence. He was not a forgiving person, was he?

Chapter 23
1 No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the LORD.
2 No one born of a forbidden marriage nor any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even down to the tenth generation.
3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even down to the tenth generation. 4 For they did not come to meet you with bread and water on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim to pronounce a curse on you. 5 However, the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you. 6 Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you live.
7 Do not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as an alien in his country. 8 The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.


Instructions for Toilets

Now even toilets were planned! The Bible-god even taught them to bury their excrement (which is stated as unholy to the Bible-god)!! This is what is still practiced today by soldiers during their camping.

9 When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure. 10 If one of your men is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he is to go outside the camp and stay there. 11 But as evening approaches he is to wash himself, and at sunset he may return to the camp.
12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. 13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. 14 For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.


Paternity Leave

In chapter 24, details of divorce cases, paternity for new fathers, etc were covered. Today, many countries are struggling with such problems!


1 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, 2 and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, 3 and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, 4 then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the LORD. Do not bring sin upon the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
5 If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.


Death for Kidnappers

The Bible-god was even worried about kidnapping. It is still a very serious problem today, and Singapore has a similar law instituted after kidnapping began increasing at a point in time. The rest of the chapter and chapter 25, 26 also deals wit very trivial matter, which I don’t think the Supreme God would interfere.

7 If a man is caught kidnapping one of his brother Israelites and treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.


Curses from the Bible-god

Chapter 27:9 – 26 records all the acts that would warrant a curse!


9 Then Moses and the priests, who are Levites, said to all Israel, "Be silent, O Israel, and listen! You have now become the people of the LORD your God. 10 Obey the LORD your God and follow his commands and decrees that I give you today."
11 On the same day Moses commanded the people:
12 When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin. 13 And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce curses: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.
14 The Levites shall recite to all the people of Israel in a loud voice:
15 "Cursed is the man who carves an image or casts an idol—a thing detestable to the LORD, the work of the craftsman's hands—and sets it up in secret." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
16 "Cursed is the man who dishonors his father or his mother." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
17 "Cursed is the man who moves his neighbor's boundary stone." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
18 "Cursed is the man who leads the blind astray on the road." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
19 "Cursed is the man who withholds justice from the alien, the fatherless or the widow." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
20 "Cursed is the man who sleeps with his father's wife, for he dishonors his father's bed." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
21 "Cursed is the man who has sexual relations with any animal." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
22 "Cursed is the man who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
23 "Cursed is the man who sleeps with his mother-in-law." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
24 "Cursed is the man who kills his neighbor secretly." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
25 "Cursed is the man who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"
26 "Cursed is the man who does not uphold the words of this law by carrying them out." Then all the people shall say, "Amen!"


Chapter 28 contains more curses for disobedience, but rewards for obedience. I think I am getting some clearer picture now. The Bible-god seems to be teaching Israel laws of moral, hygiene, security with an army, etc. so that they will be able to exist with minimum problems and prosper. The same rules apply today, as we can see that countries with a strong army and good moral education usually will be able to build their economy and hence prosper. This surely reinforces my theory that the Bible-god was an alien (or a group of aliens) from another planet, and they had gone through the cycles of life that we are going through now. The Israelites would not understand the purpose of all the laws, so the aliens had to threaten them with death to make them obey.

Chapter 29 talks about the covenant between the Bible-god and Israel, while in chapter 30, the Bible-god clearly states that death and destruction will be on Israel if the people disobeyed him.

A Song Is Composed

Chapter 31 records the taking over of duties by Joshua from Moses. The Bible-god again appeared at the entrance of the Tabernacle in the form of a pillar of cloud, to commission Joshua. The disobedience of Israel was predicted, and then the Bible-god taught them a song! Hmm. What should I make of that? This is surely the first time that music and song are mentioned. I wonder how the Bible-god taught Moses the song, and how long Moses took to learn it.


19 "Now write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites and have them sing it, so that it may be a witness for me against them. 20 When I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the land I promised on oath to their forefathers, and when they eat their fill and thrive, they will turn to other gods and worship them, rejecting me and breaking my covenant. 21 And when many disasters and difficulties come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten by their descendants. I know what they are disposed to do, even before I bring them into the land I promised them on oath." 22 So Moses wrote down this song that day and taught it to the Israelites.

Even the lyrics were given to Moses, and the song is a long one.

Chapter 32
1 Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
2 Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.
3 I will proclaim the name of the LORD. Oh, praise the greatness of our God!
4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.
5 They have acted corruptly toward him; to their shame they are no longer his children, but a warped and crooked generation.
6 Is this the way you repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?


7 Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.
8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.
9 For the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.
10 In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,
11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions.
12 The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him.


13 He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag,
14 with curds and milk from herd and flock and with fattened lambs and goats, with choice rams of Bashan and the finest kernels of wheat. You drank the foaming blood of the grape.
15 Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, he became heavy and sleek. He abandoned the God who made him and rejected the Rock his Savior.
16 They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.
17 They sacrificed to demons, which are not God— gods they had not known, gods that recently appeared, gods your fathers did not fear.
18 You deserted the Rock, who fathered you; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
19 The LORD saw this and rejected them because he was angered by his sons and daughters.
20 "I will hide my face from them," he said, "and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful.
21 They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.


22 For a fire has been kindled by my wrath, one that burns to the realm of death below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.
23 "I will heap calamities upon them and spend my arrows against them.
24 I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
25 In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. Young men and young women will perish, infants and gray-haired men.
26 I said I would scatter them and blot out their memory from mankind,
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, 'Our hand has triumphed; the LORD has not done all this.' "
28 They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.
29 If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!
30 How could one man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
31 For their rock is not like our Rock , as even our enemies concede.
32 Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled with poison, and their clusters with bitterness.


33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
34 "Have I not kept this in reserve and sealed it in my vaults?
35 It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them."
36 The LORD will judge his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.
37 He will say: "Now where are their gods, the rock they took refuge in,
38 the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up to help you! Let them give you shelter!
39 "See now that I myself am He! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.
40 I lift my hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever,
41 when I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders."
43 Rejoice, O nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will take vengeance on his enemies and make atonement for his land and people


I don’t think we can imagine God singing a song to us today, and it has never happened in the past as we know it. If the alien-theory is correct, then the song could have been a recording played to Moses. The Ten Commandments needed to be written on stone tablets, but the lyrics were not. So how did Moses memorise the song unless he listened to it many times?

Moses Buried by Bible-god!

The ever-revengeful Bible-god remembered that Moses disobeyed him, and forbad him to go into Canaan, but allowed him to take a look. This sounds very human to me. In chapter 33, Moses blessed Israel. And, surprise, Moses was buried by the Bible-god! And in an unknown place too. I wonder if Moses was kept in the spaceship, like Aaron?

Chapter 34
5 And Moses the servant of the LORD died there in Moab, as the LORD had said. 6 He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is. 7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone. 8 The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning was over.

Conclusion

In conclusion, consider these points in this book and ask yourself if the Bible-god can be the Supreme God:

1. The Bible-god was quick to anger and take revenge.
2. The institution of the Sabbath, from my view today, has nothing divine in it. It is merely a calendar system based on the revolution of the earth round the sun. In fact, Christians today do not follow it as they are too busy working and making money. Sabbath is supposed to be Saturday, but it was changed to Sunday somewhere in history. The Seventh Day Adventist, who believe in the Bible, still practise worshipping on Saturday. But some churches have more members than their building can accomodate, so they split their services into Saturdays and Sundays. Is this a violation of the Bible-god's commandment?


3. The ten commandments could have been given by any kind of beings of higher intelligence, like us today. They do not in any way prove that the Bible-god was divine.
4. The Bible-demanded blind obedience again and again, or else he would kill them.
5. The Bible-god used a loud voice to scare the Israelites. I suspect a sound system was used. It can be achieved by us today.
6. Moses behaved more like a terrorist leader, inspiring the nation of Israel to go and destroy the neighboring nations.
7. After each conquest, the Bible-god was interested in the spoils brought back, and even got Moses to count them.
8. Consumption of blood was forbidden.
9. The Bible-god demanded only clean animals for offerings to him.
10. The Bible-god instituted social laws and legal systems.
11. The Bible-god taught Israel military warfare.
12. The Bible-god instituted law for a lost bird’s nest, design of the roof of a new house, planting of seeds, mixing of materials for a cloth.
13. The Bible-god did not favour those who committed adultery.
14. The Bible-god taught Israel how to have toilets away from their camps, and to cover their faeces.
15. The Bible-god instituted paternity leave.
16. The Bible-god instituted the death sentence for kidnapping.
17. The Bible-god even composed a song!

What is more important to me is that the Bible-god had been very concerned about food, war, military warfare, dates and month for celebration,gold, silver, copper, giving out death threats, everyday affairs, etc, and nothing had been mentioned about the spiritual world, heaven, life-after-death, etc.