In my initial email with Dr. Lorenzo Nigro I asked if he had found evidence that the walls of Jericho were rebuilt after 1550 BCE and destroyed again in 1200 BCE, or if there was simply a small unwalled settlement on the site from 1550 BCE onward? Lorenzo Nigro's response: "The problem is not if we have city-walls for the Late Bronze (which is yes) but if you can provide evidence or even proof that Joshua did exist in historical reality (which is not, up to now), and that the Biblical account is not a mythological reconstruction of the history of the Israelites." My followup: "Does the Late Bronze Age wall you're referring to date to the late 13th and early 12th century or is it from earlier? Do you know when it was destroyed?" LN: "This point is under study and further investigation on the field is needed."
You do realize a proper use of the biblical timeline shows that the exodus would have taken place in the 16th century bc. More specifically 592 years before the building of solomons temple. 592 + 967= 1559 bc. Battle of jericho being fought forty or so years after. Meaning the date for the destruction of jericho actually does line up with the biblical timeline
Watch the movie Patterns of Evidence: Exodus. They have an incredibly strong argument, using archaeological evidence, that the timeline is completely off. While they say there is no evidence for semitic presence in Egypt for the Exodus, there is actually strong evidence for a semitic presence in Egypt some hundreds of years prior. However, since it doesn't fit the historical narrative, (which in and of itself is in doubt) this is not presented or understood as evidence for the Exodus. However, when you look at the actual archaeological evidence, and say, what if we were to consider if this is the Israelites prior to the Exodus, what is found matches up incredibly well. However, anyone is free to spout whatever they want on the internet in support of their own assumptions and preconceptions. This is for consideration, as this film was deeply researched, and actually lines everything up nicely, straight through Canaan as a single story.
So Nigro confirms a 13th century destruction site at walled Jericho and you're hanging onto the fact that it's not been yet specifically verified to the *late* 13th century? ROFL. Also, great job showing a clip of Nigro talking from a 2019 video about his preliminary date results and blatantly ignoring the fact that his 2020 paper asserts a 13th century date. Though you did post a comment on your videos days later admitting your failure on this point, but of course, the number of people to read this correction versus those who just watch the video (or already have) is irrelevant. This is just blatant misinformation on your part, poisoning the conversation. Also, Falk debunked you in a response dude. Yes, that's the same guy you lied was a creationist.
@@randyandy98 Fitting since God's Mesopotamian version Enki/Ea is not only God of Water and Wisdom, the Creation of Man, the planet Earth, everything associated with God, but also mischief.
@@leonieromanes7265 Kind of, not to mention Odin the All-Father himself was also known to be a little mischievous, as well as for dying on a tree and rising again and having a son, Baldur, who died by the nail of the tree (Loki's mistletoe dagger) and rose again as the only living god after the gods died in Ragnarök...
@The Matrix You seem to have confused a literary discussion of narrative texts at face value as stories with a discussion of whether or not they're actually historical fact. 😅
because this is before the Israelites had contact with Zoroastrianism, religion that created the concept of free will, yeah its not a original christian idea (sorry bad English)
A nun at the Catholic Church I attended years ago said "The Bible is not a science book." She advocated teaching evolution and explaining the Bible as a guide to living a spiritual life. We are talking about a woman who dedicated her life to serving God and even she knows the Bible is not a book of facts.
That is also the Orthodox perspective in Orthodox Greece but Americans have a Protestant background and even many American converts to Orthodoxy are influenced by the literalism of sola scriptura (presumably they are not reading anything else). The parables and other stories from the Gospels have value in understanding Judea at the time of Christ, they reflect what Christians believed people in Judea believed at that time but living as a Christian is about empathy, forgiveness and social responsibility - in the model of Jesus Christ and the Saints and Church. Passages from the scriptures are read during liturgy when they have some edifying content, seen as inspiring or motivational, not as actual history, let alone as a substitute for science!
Also In the catholic Church, I attend that believe more in science then the Bible which surprise me but at the same time it’s obvious that some religious denominations and churches are more science oriented then believing the Bible 100%
Heck I am a catholic and I know what the Bible says is not within history I hell my favorite saint is the one who takes care of the animals Saint Francis mostly because I love my cat but just because I like that specific saint doesn’t mean I don’t take him to the vet I just fined it curious how many people use religion in religious figures for their hate when it’s possible do the opposite and not hate
Coming from a super religious country call Iran this is funny and sad at the same time! I thought U.S or western countries in general were different lol
@@araimm227 There was more to the story I did not share. This was MANY years ago. Just under 20 years ago, in-fact. The girl I was in an argument with, whom I said this to was also the vice-principle's daughter. Because I was at such a young and impressionable age, the incident in question made me very sour towards religion of all kinds for a long time.
That sounds incredibly illegal since it amounts to you getting suspended based on your personal beliefs relating to religion. Not saying it didn't happen, just that it really sucks and I wish you would have gotten the proper help you needed to take all of those fuckers down
@@adamgardiner5869 It was a public school in southern California. I know that sounds surprising... but California in those times wasn't the paradise of liberalism it is now. There were still pockets of intense religious conservatives back in those days. I was unfortunate enough to live in one such 'nice' area at the time. Tho I think it speaks to just how powerless the average student was in the face of school administration in those days. As I understand it, they would have a really tough time getting away with the shit they used to pull on me nowadays. I guess a lot has changed in the face of two decades.
I just can't imagine how can someone believe that these ancient stories as real history. I am an atheist and come from a Hindu background and there is a proper history of the world according to Hinduism too but I never believed them even when I was a devout Hindu because those tales are so unrealistic that they just can't be true no matter what.
You are one of the smart ones, too many Hindus nowadays are following this stupid trend of taking their religious books literally like the Christians,Jews and Muslims
@@undrwatropium3724 Brahman is the ultimate reality...Lord Khrshna and Shiva are manifestations of god...the philosophy is beautiful but it gets weird when gods have 4 arms
@@dannysanchez7217 Currently doing my PhD, which turned out to be mostly archive and museum perousal. Roman era to be precise, but early Judaism (Judea, Egypt, Arabia and Rome) is included. And I like the field of (serious) Biblical archaeology, I did some work on early Jewish shrines and synagogues. Right now writing a paper on Romans in the Indian Ocean, which includes some pretty cool information about early Jewish communities in Himyar (Yemen) and India. :)
@@dannysanchez7217 That's a simple question with a complicated answer (this is a long one). One option is good ol' stratigraphy, just as geologists do, but we do it at a centimetre scale, establishing a sequence of which layer with which finds comes on top of which, to see how the use of a site changed, how long it was occupied, which assemblage of finds always appears after another assembly etc. This establishes a sequence, but for the time being without a date. Sometimes, known natural events end a site's sequence, which can be dated securely: the ash layer covering Pompeii in 79 AD, or the tsunamis deposits on the Cretan shore on 1619 BC. Obviously, all objects found in Pompeii we now know to be in use around 79 AD: the style of wall painting, the pottery, the glass and metal objects, the jewellery, the way people wrote letters at the time in graffiti on the walls. Relative dating links specific objects or styles, e.g. in pottery, or art, and it depends on cross-references. I.e., a statue clearly bearing the inscription of a known ruler or a relief on a building of which we know the builder, or coins bearing names and the exact year of a ruler's name help establishing connections with the stuff they're found in the same layer with and so-called termini post quem, i.e. the building cannot be younger than a coin found underneath it, Attic red-figure follows after Attic black-figure because it's an innovation in technology etc. The Eyptian chronology is largely relative, because we have lists of Pharaohs and how long they reigned, but it is difficult to relate them to other better known chronologies like the conquest of Egypt by Alexander (the discussion is about a couple of decades only though, which is only relevant in some contexts). Athens had lists of archons (leading magistrates), as Rome did have of consuls, which is how they counted years, and those lists can be cross-referenced thanks to inscriptions or text references, they can be compared to, say, the calendar of the Olympiad, which also runs uninterrupted for a long time, and if we find an Indian inscription by Ashoka mentioning a specific Greek Seleucid ruler, we know that Ashoka and him apparently ruled at the same time. Chinese sources mention an embassy to their emperor from a certain Da Qin ("big China") in the west, whose emperor's name was Andun, which is linguistically clearly shown to be the Latin Antoninus, which can only be either M. Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, so we can date the only known contact between Rome and China to c. 138-180 AD, but the Chinese sources themselves have a much more detailed chronology from their side, so we need to work together. Absolute dating uses scientific methods: radioactive decay (mostly 14C because the time span it works in fits archaeology really well, but it needs original organic material; there are other decays we can use), glacial core drilling (for events that had an impact on the atmosphere, for instance we see the increase in Roman lead production in Greenland ice), sedimentary and pollen analysis (if 14C dated and stratigraphically analysed, this allows reconstruction of the vegetation and agricultural use of a landscape, and the onset of specific aquatic or marine microorganisms shows flooding, submerging etc.), luminescence (basically showing when a piece of stone or pottery was last exposed to intense heat (i.e., when a vessel was fired) or cosmic radiation (i.e., when a stone was buried), dendrochronology (counting tree rings in a piece of wood, like a ship or roof timber, and establishing how old the tree was when cut). Except for dendrochronology and other methods based on actual yearly growth (peat bogs are another), all these scientific methods come with date ranges around a probability, the size of which depends on the quality and size of the sample, preservation conditions, contamination etc. All those methods are constantly cross-checked against each other and chronologies do get revised. I cannot remember a massive, important revision happening in my field in the past decades, but these debates are a large part of archaeology (a bit more so than history, which tends to accept dates from texts a bit more). For instance, people have worked tirelessly to combine thousands of oak samples from sites all over Europe to work out a complete sequence of oak growth rings over a couple thousand years. They essentially work like barcodes due to the climate influencing their width (crucially, only on a regional level though), and you can now try and match any piece of oak you find in Europe to the master sequence to see where it fits in. Since they are wood samples, they are also 14C dated - in fact, 14C itself gets recalibrated regularly, because the 14C decay is not uniform, by applying 14C dating to wood samples of *known* age which link up to currently living trees. Personally and for the kind of work I do, I'm okay with dates of about ~30 years insecurity when researching societies 2000 years ago. Historians are much more interested in concrete political events, so they sometimes fight bitterly over the date of a crucial inscription, and obviously this is also why alleged Biblical events are so much contested. The fact that archaeology/material culture differs massively in its boundaries and developments from political/written history was a huge theme in late 20th and 21st century historical research. We have done away with interpreting single impressive finds as "this must have been this famous guy's work" or "this must be linked to this famous story in Tacitus" etc. Biblical archaeology, to my dismay, still loves to do that, for instances the alleged stables of Solomon. Archaeology prefers to answer questions about people's lives, population dynamics, social history etc. Classics are lucky because we have so much rich written material, but in fields where you pretty much only have archaeology, like the stone age, or Mesoamerica, or Australia, the questions are much simpler, the picture much coarser, and the use of archaeology is both more sophisticated and more innocent, because it is not driven or encumbered by historical sources building expectations.
The Lord sure hardened a lot of hearts back in the day so as to create an excuse for plagues and war... Pharaoh (repeatedly), Pharaoh's army (who didn't want to pursue the fleeing Jews until God changed their minds), and now the Hivites (6:29). Yet Christians always insist that God gave us "free will".
God: I give people free will People: We have a problem can we talk? God: Oh no, they are not killing each other... let me take away their free will and harden hearts to force them to fight. People: My heart tells me not to agree with you we must fight and kill each other
The Old Testament god was a war god in the Israeli pantheon before they elevated him over all other gods. So all the war, war crimes and genocide is perfectly logical, as is his jealous nature, he needed to keep is worshipers from defecting to other gods. From the ten commandments: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me". That quite clearly demonstrates that there where "other gods"
oh they happened in the name of god by the god lovers from europe when they invaded the Americas. millions killed, mostly women and children like most genocide is .
I’m not sure what point either the channel is trying to get you to go with on, with a clear basis or if this lady is happy God didn’t let ppl die in a certain way... either way they died..which way is preferred or is mr. Koolaid just looking to talk about meh
Taking everything into consideration, does anyone question why jew$ are so h@ted throughout history, if even 1%of this is true. BTW they are still doing this stuff they say is ‘written’.
(finds out that even more amusingly there was no need for an exodus in the first place. Hebrews/Canaanites/Israelites/Whatever name fits the late Bronze Age never needed to migrate. It's the Egyptians who were driven out of the region by rebellions or invasions.)
@@danweaver3901 not to mention the only way you’re gonna spend that much time in such a tiny corner is if you’re A) spinning in circles or taking constant detours, or B) spend most of that time… …not moving at all. It « worked » for the odyssey after all.
@@TD-np6ze bible history is as goofy as its followers in euro-america, the euro-americans love jesus but hate everyone from the jesus land. like wtf : P
@@krono5el it's worse! For lack of more original terms: Religion's have "Masculine Side" Which is promise of eternal salvation for KILLING "Enemies" ; Being Killed in war (Old Testament should be renamed "How We Killed Our Neighbors!") Y'know Religions LURE Followers with "Feminine Side" of FAUX Caring & Belonging because that nurturing protection ONLY IF Follow Their Rules in Lockstep!!! IF god exists then a Sadistic Psychopath
@@autobotstarscream765 that's true! Had seen recent video where Archeological Research showed Ancient Israelites really Madmen from the Mountains destroyed crumbling Phoenician States!! but difference here is that ** Palestinians WERE Peaceful People** Until Super-Powers decided that "god wanted to take THEIR Land!!"
There is a huge difference between 'I'll just press the record button and rant about something' kind of videos and the 'i'm going to make a spreadsheet tabulating my research while providing extensive sourcing and further evidentiary support' videos.
The Dead Sea Scrolls have produced increasing evidence to cement the fact that Jesus Christ never existed and the whole story was cooked up at the First Council of Nicea in 325 AD.
And that one time he made water gush out of a rock by hitting it with said blade... Kinda crazy how being stuck in the desert will make you trippy huh?
Yep god just loves to show off and have people say wow how amazing you are...weird for a perfect being... but expected for a insecure narcissist...or the non-existent invention of insecure narcissists.
Pharaoh himself hardened his heart, God did it indirectly by the things he did. Pharaoh could chose to let the Hebrews go but God's actions caused him to remain stubborn so it was still his free will.
As someone who has always loved ancient history, and have also been raised in the church, this has validated what I have actually learned in following archeology (Egyptian mostly). I was told my whole life that “secular” archeology was basically of the devil and that it wasn’t true. There’s more to that than what I just said, but I think you can get the picture.
Every time I asked a question about the things in the Bible that didn't make sense I was told that doubt was from the devil. I was also told that dinosaur bones were put in the ground by the devil to confuse the doubters.
Thank you for doing this video man. Every time I hear people pointing out the atrocities throughout the Old testament and leaving out the Joshua nonsense I always find myself talking to the video, asking what about Joshua and the Jericho stuff and all that genocide? Kudos to you for doing this excellent piece thanks much.
And they are pretty terrible stories in every way. We got much more fascinating myths and new fantasy and scy fy stuff. If people so desperately want to believe in some bullshit, they should at least chose something more positive.
I remember going on a field trip when I was younger where a Native American told us some of their tribe's creation type stories about why dogs have long tongues, or why chickens don't fly, among others. I remember thinking they were just magical stories for kids like Santa or the tooth fairy. Now that I'm deconstructing I realize that someone hearing Bible stories for the first time probably thinks the same thing. I don't know how I could have ever taken the Bible seriously.
@@fortunatomartino8549 crazy idea, but how about instead of all the killing, loss, ridiculous arguments about who’s religion is less stupid, we just skip all that and talk it out like we’re going to have to do in the end anyway. Just with a lot fewer dead children.
@@nandinibandhini I can’t see us ever getting passed it. Things like religion, politics, sports, and other divisions of opinion appear to just be things we humans do. Or only hope is that enough of us don’t hold to the more extreme nonsense like this stuff in the video seriously enough to allow it to be relevant.
I forgot that God also explicitly violated the Free Will of the tribes that the Israelites allegedly genocided so that they would have an excuse to commit said genocides, just like he did to Pharaoh Nameless the Whateverth.
@@blackadam6445 Pederasty was common in the Greco-Roman world, Canaanites (you may know the Phoenicians & Carthaginians better, both of whom were offshoots of Canaanite culture) didn’t share in that to my knowledge. There is evidence of child sacrifice, but this is also true for the Israelites (some earlier manuscripts of the story of Abraham & Isaac do not have an angel stopping Abraham from sacrificing his son to Yahweh). As for “worshiping forbidden gods,” do you advocate the extermination of everyone who doesn’t believe in your religion? Hindus? Pagans? Shintoists? If so, that’s just wrong.
@@blackadam6445 According to the people who themselves were proudly bragging (almost certainly falsely, admittedly) about murdering every man, woman, and child in hundreds of towns/cities in the name of their own God, when they didn't explicitly keep all the virgin girls (with no lower age limit given) as their own sex slaves. And that's a non-sequitor from my point about how God explicitly had no problem violating Free Will to give his followers the opportunity to commit hundreds of acts of potentially unnecessary genocide, despite all the apologists who claim that the reason God doesn't make his presence known is because he doesn't want to violate the Free Will of non-believers and allow them to come to Him of their own volition despite allegedly coming down and personally talking to, negotiating with, and on at least one occasion literally wrestling with Jewish Prophets/Forefathers without apparently violating their Free Will. QED, if they were committing child sacrifices to the wrong gods (the "wrong gods" being the part that Yaweh objects to, going by his prior, current, and future actions at that time), then it was entirely because Yaweh *chose* to not let them know He was the real god and *chose* not to meddle with their Free Will before they could kill some of their children (before Yaweh's Chosen People came around and brutally slaughtered *all* of their children).
@@matthewodonnell6906 God loves all his children even feeble opponents like you, Matthew. I don’t advocate anything other than a relationship with Jesus Christ. All the other stuff you said was hate that you made in your head
@@fordprefect5304 exactly wtf does “theologian” mean to you? I’m genuinely curious if you know what that word means. There are atheist theologians. It’s an academic field of study like any other. Imagine saying “impressive for a geologist” or “impressive for an archeologist”lol. Also not sure if you know what “novice” means, as a person with three masters degrees and a PhD are by definition not novices in their field(s) of study. You sound as uninformed as this guy trying to label him a creationist when he’s not. You’re apparently emotionally attached to a provably unreliable source but you and this channel deserve each other.
Post by Rex Memo Marcus Aurelius - Philosopher Emperor. "Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
One of the biggest problems is that the earliest versions of Hebrew didn't have a written form. The stories featured in the Old Testament were handed down orally for generations before the means existed to write them down, so it goes without question that they were heavily embellished before they ever made it to the page.
From the Catholic perspective chronological accuracy is not that relevant, most of these OT stories were written hundreds of years after the stuff happened so mistakes will occur.
"A perfect God, whose farts don't smell." You had me in stitches. But seriously you are doing such great, well researched and in-depth work that I cannot be grateful enough.
@@1Impossibleguy Is that what you're doing? Now run to momma to read you some fairy Bible stories and don't forget to tackle those closeted sexual frustrations. You do sound quite a hysterical troll.
I love how they want us to believe that God led these people away from the horrible Egyptian oppresors using magic........only to then command them to completely and utterly obliterate every single city they could find. "Remember how you were opressed, but at least still alive? Yeah, i want you to do FAR worse than that to seemingly HUNDREDS of cities, only you do it in my name instead of the name of Egyptian Gods".
It always struck me as funny that God led them away from a large, fertile land (Egypt), capable of supporting a large population, into a much smaller, less fertile land that was incapable of supporting a large population and worse, very difficult to defend against invaders (the promised land). And then what?... we see successive invasions and conquests by bigger, stronger nations throughout Israel's history. Talk about a great "gift" from God.
When I was very young my parents bought me a bible complete with colourful illustrations. To me, at the time, it was the most boring and hard to understand book of fairy tales I'd ever seen. It was kind of a shock when I realized that these were supposed to be true stories and that people actually believed them. How was someone turning into a pillar of salt any more believable than magic beans? Adults sure were stupid.
I read a woman say she became an atheist by her parents giving her books of myths and the bible. They never told her the bible was supposed to be real. So she considered it nothing but a book of Middle Eastern myths, no different from the Greek myths.
@@nothanks6549 I got lucky and learned to read early, so I'd been vaccinated against Young Earther bullshit by National Geographic before they got a shot at me.
The same reason why believing that everything is done by complete, random chance is less believable than the universe being created? After all, what insane person believes everything came about exactly as it is by pure chance? That requires a level of faith no human being is truly capable of having.
I was desperate for fairy tales to be real as a child, so when my parents told me these less-interesting fairy tales were real, I absolutely ate it up.
What's funny is when people point out the persistence of Canaanite culture and religion in the supposed post-conquest period, you'll have some apologists like Inspiring Philosophy claim "oh yeah well that's just like the Bible says, Israel was wayward." While missing the actual point entirely.
Israel was indeed wayward, the Mesopotamian God of Israel wanted them off the Ba'als and bowing to the Anunnaki, and the Israelites weren't bowing so the God of Israel ran them over with His iron chariot to get the point across.
it is hard to imagine, and that's because it's far from the truth. except from some crazy religious individuals, no Israeli say God gave him that land, and most of them aren't even religious. I didn't expect this channel to take a political stance, I'm kind of disappointed.
Everything and everybody sucks in Israel AND Palestine. Hezbollah is continuing to try and start a war so Palestine is not innocent. I fully agree that Jews believing other people's property is their birthright is completely stupid.
@@Tb0n3 So do we actually know who really launches those rockets into Israeli territory? If we ask 'who benefits', they seem to do far more damage to the Palestinians than the Israelis. Let me put it this way: if I were a Mossad operative, I wouldn't hesitate to launch a few rounds now & again, if it ultimately advanced my ideological / military goals. And since the damn Qassams can be made about anywhere, there's really no telling who makes & launches them. Just slap on some green paint and start the finger pointing.
Yes I'm constantly waiting for the next one, and am actually sad (and thrilled at the same time) when I'm finished watching, knowing it will take some time, before the next comes out. This was a great one too. As always.
When JWs come knocking on my door, I ask if they're the folks who believe that only 144,000 souls are getting into Heaven. When they say yes, I ask how many people belong to their faith. When they answer that it's almost 9 million, I hit them with this: "Seems to me a WHOLE LOT of you guys are SHIT OUTTA LUCK." And that's when they leave. 😆
I love how you totally demolish the pathetic claims these apologists make to defend their belief and pretend there is evidence despite all the evidence that completely contradicts them.
@@gregoryt8792 I've heard many try, including this Ivan, but quite frankly numerology is bullshit. You can select any arbitrary numbers or metrics and find patterns with them. People have done it for other books, but that doesn't prove other any other gods exist either. It's little better than when people go "illuminati confirmed" when people see triangles on things. Even if I were to take it at face value that there were actual designed patterns that weren't from arbitrary metrics, that still doesn't prove the contents true one bit. No more than if a mathematician were to include a bunch of patterns in a book about aliens.
@@gregoryt8792 Allow me to demonstrate: World War 2 was from 1939 to 1945. 1+9+3+9+1+9+4+5=41. Hitler murdered and slaughtered ~10000000 people in the holocaust. That's 1 with 7 digits after it. Adding the 1 to 41 we get 42 which is 7x6. Combining with the 7 digits we get 7 6 7. God's number is 777 and man's / the devil's number is 666. This number pattern is proof that Hitler is literally God with the devil inside, hence the God numbers surrounding the devil/man numbers. The odds of this being coincidental are 1/
I've been curious about this part of the story. Glad you're taking this on. Also I'm getting kind of tired of everyone just talking about bloody genesis all the time. I knew there were more horrible things to learn and discuss.
Not much we know characters like Ponce Pilates was heavily mischaracterized in the Bible. He’s shown as someone who kept trying to pacify the Jews, while historical records show he was recalled from Israel by Rome because he was making trouble and kept antagonize the Jews, and that’s from one of the books who you expect more historical accuracy since it was written only one or two generations after the events and not hundreds of years later.
@@oliviawilliams6204 Not only that, Pilates was almost homicidal, no waste of time trying to get deals, just pushing criminals to death penalty without any remorse.
@@user-gw7bs9up3lExplain how. At least in science a theorie stays a theorie or more if it's proven. With religion you just have to have faith that it's true.
That book, 'Did The Old Testament Endorse Slavery' could be the shortest book in history. The contents could consist of one word: *YES!* To write a shorter book you'd have to go with a title like, 'The Achievements Of President Donald Trump', which would of course, would be totally blank.
"That book, 'Did The Old Testament Endorse Slavery' could be the shortest book in history. The contents could consist of one word: YES!" An equally short read would be the book titled: Did the godless *invent* slavery.
@@thevibe1013 "Red herring... regardless of who invented it." Since the *inventors* of slavery are also responsible for the guidelines of how The master is to *treat* his slave, any "objection" from those who adhere to the *godless* ideology is pathetic... at best. Simple
@daome2012. Neither the old or new testaments forbid slavery- they both condone it. Simple. So keep prattling on about who invented it if you like, but it makes no difference because the bible is okay with it. Very simple.
i can see why first century jews (those who didn’t become christians) were disappointed at this messiah these christians were pushing. if the original biblical hero yeshua was able to lead an army and wipe out entire cities, what use is a carpenter preaching pacifism and all that even if his name was also yeshua. if anything, if i were a jew, i’d sue these christians for copyright infringement.
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Hi @Holy Koolaid, i recommend you to see following video that explain you a lot that you surly did not know about this subject. Search in RU-vid for: „Ancient Jericho Discoveries, Proof Bible is True, Tell Es Sultan, Joshua, Jericho Walls Fall Down„ ...and watch it whole if you have real interest how opportunists lie for their confirmation bias and to get political benefits. After that i would recommend you Professor Dr. Walter Veith‘s, one of the worlds biggest former bible sceptics, Playlists about scientific proof of the bible: -> 100 - Genesis Conflict - Walter Veith -> 200 - Total Onslaught / Walter Veith They are very interesting RU-vid Playlists, when you have no confirmation bias and when are able to think both ways. It shows that every thing has a true core and is not just black and white. If you don‘t watch all that it would only confirm that you have no interest other than your confirmation bias. I am no Christian or anything like that, but it is always sad to hear atheist bashing the bible and religiose people without doing any scientific research about it, because most atheist think it must be false therefore no research necessary... I am sure we could have a fascinating confersion and i would blow your mind with my own research. Have a nice day.
As you implied by way of referencing, researchers have been highlighting these points for many years. Your contribution strengthens this particular position. Reality still is what it is. That is to say, less fantastical than we’d like to believe. Thanks for your contribution.
"It was ours to begin with, it was given to us by gawd" Many conservatives use this "argument", yet I have to see *ONE* of then packing and giving the land back to the native Americans.
A problematic viewpoint in itself. I have yet to see how any "Native American" group can be honestly said to be a lick more "native" to these lands than any of us who're actually here. ...I might note that many wars and battles have occurred to bring us to the where we are today. "Native Americans" have no more cause for complaint than any other; they fought too.
@@johnflaherty9595 they did fight amongst themselves, doesn't excuse the sabotage, biological warfare, broken treaties, and cultural genocide(it was illegal to practice native American religions till the 1970's, for instance) that the American government did. Your comment boils down to "might makes right", arguing that because the Natives were not saints, they cannot complain about having their culture crushed and descecrated, which is dumb on so many levels.
@@johnflaherty9595 Are you - fucking - kidding me? What about the battles that happened in the middle east after the jews supposedly had that strip of land (it could very well be they never had it in the first place, just claimed) until other nations decided "you know what, we want to give this land back to the people who by their own book received it by muirdering, pillaging enslaving AND KILLING CHILDREN LEFT AND RIGHT!" You, are a r*tard. No other way tpo put it.
@@the_last_ballad It's almost as if this doofus never read the book they use as justification and the fact they weren't settlers, they were conquerors. Or that the tribes fought among themselves. With people like him I'm pro birth control, he shouldn't be allowed to procreate.
@@the_last_ballad If anything, my comment aims to challenge preconceived notions about Justice and expose hypocrisy. Concerns about sabotage et al assume that the indians in question held to the same typical views as are most "proper" today. Or, I must believe that the indians Blade Runner referenced were innocent victims of racist, white settler oppression. ....It also assumes that we all must believe that all religious sentiments hold the same merit, ...and must all be subordinate to modern-day secular or progressive thought. NONE of these assumptions hold up. If we truly believe that all men are created equal and we seek Justice, we must first understand what Justice IS, then seek to expose the errors of all groups of people. We can't merely settle for the typical diatribe that loves to condemn America for existing and not being happily secular progressive.
Both degrees obtained, 'earned', from relatively important schools of theology. And now he continues to spout his dangerous nonsense to upcoming youth. Better put HK on the syllabus for some Truth!
Especially after the same god gave commandments to his people telling not to kill or steal. Then he orders them to kill all Canaanites (women and children included) and steal their land.
@@kindafatguy4297 Dr. David Falk literally just did a rebuttal response video and shows all the mental gymnastic HK is going through to disingeniously make his case
@@kindafatguy4297 Because when someone says they aren't w creationist, you can safely bet your mortgage that they aren't one. What they ARE beyond that could be many different options depending, but if you mean a Young Earth Creationist, it's pretty easy to show when you aren't one.
Falk is a creationist. The guy literally said it himself in one of his interviews with BK apologist where he said “I’m a creationist myself”. Here’s a link to the video. He said he’s a creationist at 10:29. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GK0CAdbhWKo.html
@@vedinthorn here’s a video made a few months before this video where BK apologist interviews Dr Falk on Pattern of Evidence: Exodus. In the video, at 10:29, Dr Falk himself said that he had no problem with creationism and that he’s a creationist himself. Here’s a link to the video: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GK0CAdbhWKo.html
Speaking as a person of faith, one doesn't have to be an Atheist to understand that those who wrote Old Testament texts had no concept whatsoever that they were writing something that would be regarded how modern people regard it.
I understand that the bible claims Moses had 600,000 Israelis soldiers which would correspond to 2-3 million people in the exodus. Instead of going to pharaoh and saying "let my people go," why didn't Moses say "surrender or die, bitch!" Egypt would have been much better real estate.
@@andybrace9225 Yes, and instead of being lost in the desert for 40 years (although you would think they could figure out compass directions by the sun and the north star), they could have just hugged the coast line.
As Palestinian we want our land back not because of Islam or religion, we have at least 16 religions among us. We want our land back because we have lived there for thousands of years. I appreciate your videos since i'm an atheist but when it comes to politics, Palestine, Canaan, Sham, which ever you want to call it isn't in peace because of foreign religious supremacists think our mythologies are real estate deeds that are worth to wage wars for. a disguise for political interests! We kept our cities, traditions and culture for thousands of years and that's why people are able to debunk biblical history and it's distortions.
I hope you get your land back through legal means. Like Native Americans buying back historic lands. Please pool your resources together and work through the law. It may take generations but if you are persistent and fair you will make progress. Like the Natives. Remember the pen is mightier than the sword.😊
I remember apologetic books mentioning earthquakes destroying Jericho and attempting to connect it to the "historical" conquest of Jericho. They never mentioned the centuries of separation between the supposed conquest and the destruction. Thank you for this video series. As a Christian recovering from fundamentalism, it is nice to be vindicated.
Governments have rewritten their histories since civilization began, so why should religious-minded archeologists be any different? At least the Israeli scholars and archeologists have now admitted that there is absolutely no evidence that the Hebrew tribes were ever enslaved in Egypt, and that the much-touted Exodus actually never took place. Yet christian researchers typically ignore those findings.
They weren't all killed. If you keep reading, the conflicts between the Israelites and Caananites is neverending. Meaning, the Caananites are alive and well.
What I want to know is...How did a group of escaped former slave turn into a massive formidable army in just 40 years while wandering the dessert with zero access to raw materials to make weapons? Who trained them?
@@proculusjulius7035 yes, exactly. Just like the magic the Bible claims about God hardening the hearts of their enemies so they wouldn't seek peace. How fkd up is that? Sounds like a pretty crap God to me.
@@georgearnold841 ha! Don't even get me started on the part where he states that washing your feet in your enemies blood makes you happy. Very fckd up in the head this god.
Have you read any other Bronze Age history? The Israelites were the equivalent of tree hugging vegans compared to everyone else. The Assyrians are what we should be scaring children with. Even the Boogeyman is afraid of the Assyrians.
Huge congratulations on your extensive research and hard work!! Definitely, an excellent summary based on academic, scientific evidence... and common sense!
OK. An almighty, all knowing and loving God, who created the universe in 6 days, flooded the earth, is not willing or able to give "his" people a peace of land without genocide, which it already practiced some times? Um, yes, suuuure! Is someone here who can treat this kind of mental state?
You do know that most Christians don't believe that the creation lasted literal six days right ? Catholics, Orthodox Christians, Copts, mainline Protestants etc., don't believe it. In case you did not noticed all those creationists are Evangelical Americans.
@@herodotus945 Some say only the people who believe every single word of the bible are true believers. Well objectively you could call everyone else cherrypickers. It's quite a dilemma.
@@RainerPeterFeller in catholic church it has always been a teaching that there are different ways to understand the Bible, from literally to allegorical. Bible is not one book but 73 books writen in different genres, a human interpretation of God's word.
@@danhoff4401 David Falk, who I mentioned in this video, actually did a scathing response to IP's video which is why Michael Jones removed his video. I wouldn't be surprised though if IP releases another updated video soon, though with a late date for the Exodus (which also has its problems) after working with Falk. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sRoGcfFFPYA.html
@@HolyKoolaid david Falk did a scathing review of this video as well. Funny you call him a fringe academic and a creationist when it isn't even remotely true.
@@HolyKoolaid, he did a more scathing response to your video right here. At least Inspiring Philosophy has the courage to admit he made a number of mistakes and respectfully pull down the video. You still have the audacity to keep it up when given the information that we know as of right now.
As explained in the great book "The Bible Unearthed", early sloppy archaeological digs went to Israel to prove that Joshua's conquest happened. What did they find? They found evidence of many cities being destroyed at around the same time in about the right time for the Joshua story, so everyone said, "Proof!" But archaeologists went back and dated the ruins much more precisely and found that the destruction over time went from West to East, not the East to West conquest described in the Bible. We now know that the destruction was caused by a mysterious group of people arriving in boats from the Mediterranean which is far more intriguing than the Joshua myth.
Also this entire thing supposedly took place right around the Bronze Age Collapse, so finding a bunch of destroyed cities isn't really surprising anyway...
Reading through Joshua and Judges destroyed my belief in a biblical god. The creator I follow doesn't play favorites, get jealous, or encourage mass genocide.
David Falk’s response video to this was so good. You shouldn’t have awakened a sleeping dragon by accusing an actual scholar in the field of being a creationist without evidence.
What is really funny is you can compare non-existent Christian historical sites to Atlantis. Plato described Atlantis in extreme detail and gave a detailed history of its founding and destruction. However, not only is Atlantis considered myth, pure fantasy and has never been found despite its extreme detail, when you look into the behind the scenes of Plato's writing you'll find massive evidence that he made it all up. Same thing with El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth. If that's the case, then why do Christians believe so hard that their stories are true, when they clearly aren't?
My Bullshit Light went on when I read that it took them 40 years to walk from Egypt to the promised land when it's only a 2 week journey by foot even if you don't have God as your GPS!
I was under the impression that Genesis and Exodus were written to account for the origins of the different tribes that lived in the area in order to fuse them into a single polity.
This message is so important. Everyone, please recommend this video to at least one other person. It takes so little effort to promote the truth and it really matters.
Nonsense. I suggest everyone to watch Dr. David A. Falk's (who btw is not a creationist as this video claims for some odd reason but is an actual scholar on this field unlike Holy Koolaid) reaction video to this called Holy Koolaid's "Nothing Fails Like Bible History 10: Joshua, Judges, & Genocide" (A Review Video).
Great video! 👏👏👏This makes me think of Bart Ehrman. When you dig deeper and look at all the facts without the bias, you just might completely change your mind!
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Timothy 4:4
