Story of the entire Bible, i guess - Redeemed Zoomer reaction 

I thought you'd be a good one to cover this!

You could make a religion out of this!

Redeemed Zoomer also made a video were he talks about the content of every book of the Bible and what the massage of them are, it's really interesting and definitely worth a reaction.

you weaving through religion and science is an art. this is a pretty intense video regarding all the knowledge. my favorite video you have made.

While I'm Non religious, I actually found this fascinating as I have never fully read the Bible, all I've done is go to a few church gatherings with my great grandparents, but you explaining the events referenced in this video really helped sell some of the ideas the Bible has produced

I'm an atheist but I love your reaction to theological subjects.

When I was a teenager I actually read the entire Bible in a year. It’s influenced my think throughout my adult life, even though I spent 10 years agnostic before returning to church when I was almost 30.

The phrase that Chris talks about in the beginning is ".אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה‎" (ehye asher ehye) in the original Biblical Hebrew. The repeating verb in that phrase is conjugated in a really interesting way that makes it very vague. The basic way that Biblical Hebrew does verbs is not based on past and present. Instead, it has a distinction between perfect and imperfect; basically, whether an action or an event is over and done or continuous. Like the difference between "He hit me" and "He was hitting me." "Ehye" is the first-person imperfect of the verb that means "to be", and 'asher' is a Hebrew equivalent of "that" or "who", so you could translate it as "I am that I am", as many do, but it could also be interpreted as "I am who I am" (it is self-evident who I am), "I am that I will be" (essentially, "I am eternal"), or "I will be that which I am" (a prophetic interpretation of the messiah, maybe?), and all of these interpretations can be true at the same time because the only thing the verb is not saying is that God has already existed and doesn't anymore. I'm just a boring atheist linguistics student, but I find immense beauty in how the exact language this phrase was written in conveys the message so elegantly.

I should have recognized that he was a Presbyterian; a lot of the language he used to explain stuff is similar to the Westminster divines. I love the commentary, Chris, and I'm glad you chose to react to Redeemed Zoomer!

Vlogging Through History and Redeemed Zoomer crossover is something I did not expect. Redeemed Zoomer is great.

I grew up as a Muslim and the great majority of these events are told the exact same way in the Quran, it's really fascinating. Also I loved every bit of information you added about both historical and scientific stuff, as always I continue to learn a lot from your videos. Appreciate you so much Chris!

I’m Catholic, but I have a lot of respect for VTH and Redeemed Zoomer and all of our Protestant brothers and sisters. Viva Cristo Rey!

The idea of the Apple for the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil stems from medieval Morality plays put on by the catholic church. They needed a fruit to be portrayed, so they used the apple and the idea stuck in pop culture forever. The same is true with Angels having wings (Seraphim and Cherubim have wings, Angels do not) the Devil with horns and a pitchfork, etc. There are several ideas we have about things in the Bible that came from these morality plays from 500-1500 years ago.

So when the bible was translated into the Latin from greek they had to come up with a name for the forbidden fruit. The word apple in latin, Malum can also mean the word Evil if pronounced as (Maloom) with a long u. So that's where the forbidden fruit being an apple comes from. It's a play on words.

Been Christian my whole life but the Bible is really a historical book just as much as it is a religious text. You can learn a lot of history and context just by knowing the Bible.

Even as someone who is an atheist, theology might be one of the most interesting topics out there

It's so cool as a Redeemed Zoomer fan to see a history channel I love watching cover his stuff. It's also gonna be really interesting seeing the commentary between both his Presbyterianism and you being a pastor as a Catholic 😂 4:30 I actually know this one, the reason why it's an apple is because it's basically a pun. The word for bad or evil in Latin is Malus. And the word for apple in Latin is Also Malus, but the vowel annunciation is different making it a different word. The evil is brought forth by the fruit (apple in English also used to mean any fruit) so the Malus brought forth malus, and it's drawn as an apple. Then English gave the word apple specifically to the apple fruit because eating the apple (the fruit) was depicted as an apple, and so the fruit and the name combined in English. It's so cool to see how that little thing has such an amazing story behind it in Christianity, In history, and even linguistics.

The reason why you find tropical stuff in Canada isn’t because of a water canopy that kept the world warm but because of continental drift so Canada was once near the equator.

I'm agnostic, and I freaking love the Bible and it's stories

The theory around flood myths that I find most realistic is that all neolithic agricultural societies were in river valleys. Therefore floods occasionally happened in those areas leading to different societies creating their own flood myths independently

When it comes to the Great Flood and the prevalence of flood stories around the world, I’ve always felt people overthink the issue a bit. First, there were a LOT of very significant floods around the world near the end of the last ice age as glacial dams began to melt and retreat, removing runoff blockages while doing significantly to the runoff. A prime example here in the states would be the Missoula floods of the northwest that occurred ~13k years ago around the same time Native Americans were arriving across the land bridge. If you fly over parts of Utah and Idaho you can still see signs of this catastrophe in places like the Channeled Scablands - done this myself and its are-inspiring once you realize what you are seeing. In addition, keep in mind many early civilizations formed specifically around rivers well known for their flooding! Mesopotamian mythology is full of capricious, chaotic gods and regular violent flooding. Egypt mythology is also heavily influenced by flooding albeit for the opposite reason as the Mesopotamians- predictable and helpful rather than chaotic and destructive and the mythologies reflect this difference. China’s founding myth centered around the destructive flooding of the Yellow River and the first effort to control the floods to bring true civilization. Flooding was front and center in everyday life for early civilizations and you didn’t need to flood the literal whole world for a cataclysmic flood myth to be born - you just needed to flood the KNOWN world to each of these civilizations for it to be remembered as a “worldwide” flood. All that said, my personal favorite explanation of the origin of flood stories in early western civilizations is the one suggested in Julian May’s Many-Colored Land alternate history saga. The Great Flood there actually represented the flooding of the Mediterranean basin (which in his story had been dry and inhabited) when the narrow Strait of Gibraltar was cataclysmically opened to allow the Atlantic in. While there is actual evidence for a cataclysmic flood (or even multiple floods) of this nature filling the Mediterranean, they happened much further back - more than 5 million years ago at least so unless we are talking a serious example of ancestral memory, that’s not going to explain the prevalence of flood stories around the world. My money is still on the shared experience of our early ancestors as they grappled with the realities of trying to survive in a world where necessity often placed them in areas where devastating floods were a very real reality and ever-present threat. I’d be more surprised if we didn’t have so many flood legends from early civilizations.

Sir, your channel is the one of the most informative and entertaining on the whole platform. Keep up the good work🙏

Mentioning the sin, judgement, restoration cycle in Judges was the giveaway that this guy really knows his stuff.

Seriously, thank you for this! Your commentary on this was really wonderful! I've been struggling with my own faith for a while, but your commentary made a lot of this easier to understand!

Wow, I was not expecting a Redeemed Zoomer reaction. I am very pleasantly surprised!

One of the really cool things about the Bible too is that so much of it echoes previous stories. For example, Noah builds an ark, coats it in pitch, and they survive the waters. Moses's mom builds a mini arc (same word in Hebrew for Noah's Ark in the Moses account for the basket of reeds.) Coats it in pitch, and Moses survives the waters because of it. This sort of wordplay happens all over the place.

Would be cool to see an "Alternative History" style episode on what could've happened if Adam and Eve hadn't tasted the forbidden fruit... Also 10:53 a shame you didn't pause to read the nation names, there was an Empire of Ohio covering half of USA's footprint.

I just found your channel a few months back. I've enjoyed every video but for some reason have not subscribed to your channel. (I'm selective on channels I subscribe to) but when you said you were a Pastor, I hit the subscribe button! I'm a Pastor in Northern New York and I love history! It's just nice to find a channel of someone coming from a similar world view!

The *perfect* guy to react to this!! I know it's not what you do, but I'd love to see an interview with you two. It'd be an interesting conversation! 😁👍🏻

A theory of why we call it an apple in our English language because the old English word for fruit was apple. And we speak English and one of the most influential versions of the Bible is KJV

I’m not a Christian myself but have spent most of my life surrounded by it (I’m in rural part of England, where ideas of “traditional English” remain strongest). There are many stories in the bible that to me personally don’t feel like they’re true, but my view has always been that it actually doesn’t matter. As far as I’m aware, most of the stories in the bible have a moral message, particularly in the New Testament. What’s important, in my opinion, is not whether these stories are true, but that we learn the moral lessons they provide. That way we become better people to both ourselves and others. I think every religion shares this goal, actually: to help people be the best person they can be. It is why I’ve never understood why people are so ready to dismiss all religions because they find it unbelievable. Regardless of whether it is believable, it is helping people be better citizens, and therefore it should be welcomed. Of course, religion isn’t perfect (nothing is), but I think it does more good than bad.

Be for the word “fruit” was used pretty much anything that grew off a plant was called an apple which eventually changed as language began to change and new languages came to be so that’s why it’s still called an apple Tldr: “apple” used to be the word for “fruit”

I've been watching both of your channels for a while and they came together which i was not expecting

The reason people think of an apple when discussing the forbidden fruit is because in the middle ages when monks were making illuminated manuscripts they would illustrate the forbidden fruit as an apple. Why? Because the word for knowledge and the word for apple in Latin were very similar and the monks did it as a joke.

My guess as to why everyone thinks its an apple straight from wiki...Apples appear in many religious traditions, often as a mystical or forbidden fruit. One of the problems identifying apples in religion, mythology and folktales is that the word "apple" was used as a generic term for all (foreign) fruit, other than berries, including nuts, as late as the 17th century.

Loved this video and your commentary on it! Great job expanding on the video!

As a Conservative Christian myself I was looking forward to this one😂

I think it's interesting to look at the different references in the bible, not so much as a religious text, but as an historical document with local folklore thrown in. You get this rich story of a people of a certain nation living through years of hardships and different struggles, while trying to maintain their own country and compete with rival tribes/nations. And then if you look at the more magical elements of the story, it's quite fascinating how a lot of them almost directly come or reference details from other fantastical stories or religions at the time. For example, we have these really wild sounding descriptions on the different kinds of angels and what they looked like, and while they look extremely weird in our culture, they have almost direct counterparts in the old Babylonian religions.

Thanks for giving a shoutout to The Chosen. It really is a great show & this is coming from someone who thinks most Christian entertainment is garbage

I am personally Deist but I do love learning about Theology and the history thereof. Redeemed Zoomer has some great videos on the history of Christianity that perhaps you should also look into. Love your work, as always, Chris.

Loved it, Redeemed Zoomer did an excellent job covering a very condensed version of the Bible! As a brother in Christ and lover of history I appreciate hearing you review the history of the Bible. I also understand why you are careful with this subject and try not to force beliefs on others given this diverse community. Still would be cool to have you in a Bible study though!

If you think about it there are actually two versions of the creation of mankind. In the first part , it says god created male and female at the same some time. And then later talks about him creating eve. There were a few christian sects that noticed this and wrote scripture to explain it. The Gnostics believed that Adam had a wife before eve, named lillith, and that Adam didn't like lillith, because she was his equal. Adam requested a new wife who would be subservient to him and God gave him eve from one of his ribs. The agnostics believed that lillith felt that God had turned his back on her to please Adam, and that she opened the gates of eden for satan.

It's said that the apple became the forbidden fruit because of a mixup with or perhaps a pun on two Latin words in the Vulgate translation. There's "mālum," related to the Greek word for apple, μηλον, and "malum," meaning evil. So, illustrators who knew Latin wanted to make a joke about the word for apple and the word for evil, or maybe they got confused, and that's how we get the apple as the forbidden fruit.

Even though I am leaning atheistic, I am super fascinated by all of this, and especially to hear more insight by people who believe. I am someone who (if I were a believer) would argue that "fixation on if this text is historical or if it is a literally descriptions, is missing the forest for the trees" if you catch my meaning.

Again another well done reaction video and great job keeping biases out of the subject!

I heard an interpretation once where the temptation was not a trick, the choice was not a mistake, and the results were not a punishment. There is no suffering in the garden, but people, let alone gods do not Grow in gardens. The serpent was also God, represented as two beings because of the divide in his motivations. He did not want is to suffer, but had a responsibility to allow us to leave and grow into something greater if we chose. It's the only interpretation I've heard that makes any sense to me.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe it actually says in the Bible that the snake in the garden was the devil. I believe that's an interpretation that became popular in the early Middle ages.

I am a pastor as well, I attended/attend Midwestern Baptist Theological seminary here in Kansas City. In my studies I took comparative religions course. Our final was to meet a different religious leader, attend thier religious service, and then write an essay about that experience. I chose Islam and met with a local Imam. I spent quite a bit of time digging into the faith of Islam beforehand. I have read and studied much of the Quran, Hadith, etc. I would be interested in sharing what I know, if you wanted to reach out. It may help to prepare to react to a video on Islam.

Magi is the name of the Mazdeist priest of Iran. It's also where we get the word "magic" from

This is kind of a neat concept and I really do applaud you for sitting down and try and rationally look at this. Since I’m a historian, too, though, it’s always helpful to remember the intent and context of a text before picking up a trowel to go digging. The Old Testament was not written to be a documentation of historical truth. It CANNOT be. History does not work the way the ot is written and the concept of recording history for history’s sake and…factual chronicling of events is a much more recent concept. Like all other myths, they’re moral stories or etiologies for what the people of that time thought. The evolution of linguistics in no way can jive with the Tower of Babel story. Many societies have a flood myth to help explain fossils of fish and the like that happen, and there wasn’t a single period when parts of the earth were warmer, there were many variations in climate throughout its history. You also have to consider that many societies also considered themselves to be at the very least the omophaloi of their worlds, but usually, mythological conceived of themselves as being isolated, surrounded by the world sea (just like Genesis😮) so, when that area experienced a catastrophic flood, the way it’s recorded is that the WORLD flooded. They aren’t verifying each other. There is no possible way to reconcile flood myths and history. Also, it’s pretty archeological clear at this point, that religions DID NOT devolve from a proto-monotheism. Most religions (including the religions of the region in question) were a blend of polytheism and animism and had been for thousands of years. The world did not start off monotheist and then fall away to other religions, humans have a tendency towards reverence and one of those traditions (actually, a handful), developed monotheism later. I don’t want to write an entire reaction to the reaction, but the TLDR: There’s nothing wrong with reading a mythological text for its symbolic value especially when that’s how the document was written.

Would love to see a video like this on the Quran and other religious texts. That was fun

Here's what I consider to be an interesting bit: Noah's grandfather Methuselah (a.k.a. the oldest person to ever live) died at age 969 in the same year the flood that Noah was saved from covered the Earth, so quite possibly he drowned in that flood. So if humanity would've had behaved just a little better he might have been the first true millennial when he hit 1000 years of age.

never understood how god could be benevolent and still pull his whole collective punishment schtick throughout the entire old testament

Hey Chris I just want to say love the video even if I’m more agnostic I really love how you gave a non biased perspective on the video I even learned stuff I didn’t know. If your interested in learning about the quaran and other religions, theirs a RU-vidr called Cognito who has those types of videos you were talking about at the end. Again great video Chris and keep up the good work.👍🏼

Redeemed Zoomer also has a video "Story of every Christian denomination, i guess". That also be interesting to see your reaction to it, as it deals as much with history as with religion itself.

Atheist who's read the bible here. I personally never interpreted the presence of the tree of knowledge as a test, but instead, in Gods love, was put there for choice. I always interpreted it as a way in which God didn't want humans to be trapped with God if they didn't want to be, so He gave them a choice.

Lucifer isn't actually his name either. Lucifer actually is a greek word that means bringer of dawn. Some scholars believe that the greeks gave him this title as a translation of his original title of the morning star in Hebrew.

I've heard you mention the misconception about the apple before. From what I understand "apple" was just another word for fruit. See the French for potato for example, "apple of the earth", or pineapples (basically pine fruit).

Thank you for pointing out that the Bible never said that there were 3 Magi. Always noticed that when reading Matthew, even as a kid

I’ve been hoping for a video from you like this. I was raised Roman Catholic and still am. But I’ve never actually read the Bible itself, just when passages were read during Sunday mass. I grew up going to religion classes so that I could make my first communion and then later to be confirmed, but not once did someone teach me about the Bible itself and how it’s layed out and all that jazz. It’s nice to finally see a start to finish summary video from you since you add valuable extra information.

10:54 I am disappointed you didn’t see the Empire of Ohio.

Have you ever watched inspiring philosophy's Exodus series? Super interesting. Makes the case for Ramses II being the Exodus pharaoh. Also Ryan Reeves history of Halloween that just came out is a fun video.

32:00 The Herod Baby killing story is interesting. Herod never tried to hunt down Jesus, but we know that he was given the task to hunt down Caesarion, Cesar's son with from Cleopatra, the other "son of god" at the time. And the Bethlehem story only makes sense, if you know that the only reason to visit your father's hometown at the time, was not a census, but to registrar as a Roman citizen. Jesus was a roman citizen, and citizens could not be crucified. Jesus could have ended his crucifixion by just stating "I am a Roman citizen".

I highly recommend Crecganford's channel, not necessarily for reaction content, but because I think it is an absolute crime that more biblical scholars are not studying indo-european myth and phylogeny, and more phylogenists aren't consulting with theologians to get a sense of how actual living religion and faith systems operate in real time.

I'm a Christian, and I remember when I read for the first time the story of the golden calf disaster of Exodus 32, and it was one of those instances where I could feel what I was reading. When God tells Moses what the Israelites were doing, and how Joshua then tells Moses, "I can hear the sound of war in the camp," and Moses responded it was the sound of singing. I could feel Moses's anger from off the page as he destroyed the calf and spoke to his brother Aaron about why it was happening.

The apple comes from a Latin pun because both apple and evil are similar in spelling/ pronunciation

I’ve seen a theory that the great flood is related to part of a comet hitting the earth followed by a torrential downpour from the comet ice being vaporized on entry, along with flooding from the ice sheets melting. This along with the fact that most civilizations were along rivers or coast lines means the rain made the rivers flood, and with ice melting, the sea rose by potentially hundreds of feet in a relatively short period of time. Might help explain stuff like doggerland, Egyptian cities that are underwater, cities off the coasts of Asia, and more that are still being discovered. Don’t know if it’s true or not, just thought it was an interesting possibility.

I strongly disagree with mentioning the water canopy hypothesis in the same sentence as the theory of the Big Bang, even with all those disclaimers. The water canopy is creationist "science".

This was very well done. Thanks so much for doing this video. I look forward to more.

I think the canopy idea has kinda faded from popularity among creationist scientists these days though yeah, it was a theory that made the rounds for a while. It seems to not mesh well with what’s described - if there was a significant vapor canopy then the sun moon and stars wouldn’t have been visible for instance. But regardless there could have still been significant differences in environment pre/post flood. The genetic impact of a population bottleneck combined with the advanced age of Noah when his sons were born (we now know that mutations passed on from the father accumulate proportional to age of the father) seems to be a better explanation for the rapid life span reduction.

I've watched like 5 of your videos so far reacting to Rome stuff and as soon as you said you were a pastor I said, to myself "oh how did I not notice before?"

I honestly don’t really have any belief system, but I love hearing the history and getting inferences based on sources like this

I would watch a super extended version of Chris explaining the Bible. A Bible Study if you will.

Love this video! I'm an atheist with little knowledge of the actual history of religion. More videos going into detail with all the history would be brilliant my man!

As someone who was a Christian for 18 years I have never been more certain with my decision to stop practicing faith after watching this video 😂 the video turns an already ridiculous story, translated multiple times over thousands of years only originally written down more than 30 years after Jesus died, that’s played out like a bad joke and then to hear this dude recite what the video is referring to in the Bible with such enthusiasm while talking out of his ass with so much confidence is truly mind blowing, people will believe anything, religion was created by the few to control the many and make themself wealthy in the process, that’s literally all it is and continues to cover up some of the most disgusting and continuously vile human activities of all time. It’s sad seeing this brainwashed garbage..

So cool to see two of my favorite channels in one video! I never expected this!

I'd Love to hear your commentary on the 90s A&E show Mysteries of the Bible

4:35 I've heard many different arguments for why the tree of knowledge was in the Garden of Eden. And while as an atheist I am definitely biased, if not being a bit nit-picky here. But I really dont think the "It is a test" argument makes sense, at least to me, as someone with a very limited religious upbringing. First off the whole concept surrounding the original sin is very... dubious, to me personally at least that is. Adam and Eve were meant to live in perfect innocence before they ate from the tree of knowledge: They had no concept of good or evil, since before they disobeyed God, evil as a concept did not yet exist. And without evil, there is no good either, there is just the status quo. So if this is the original sin, and before that the concept of sin or good or evil were never established in the first place, how can you test someone based on a definition not yet established? But also, take babies or children now, they are very curious, they experiment, they get hurt, sometimes they get disciplined. But all of this is vital for us to learn what is right and wrong. They never had that phase if they were never children. Does that mean God alreay provided them with this knowledge of morality when they came into existence? But how could he if right or wrong never existed at this point? Perhaps a bit redudant at this point, but also almost every decision all of us make comes from a complex combination of nature, nurture and experience. Now, the bible I believe doesn't experience any timeframes for this. But I'll assume they have little time to create many experiences before this event took place. And even if they did, they were supposed to be perfectly innocent beings, greed was not yet a thing at this time. So even if they spend years in paradise were they were granted everything, they could not have turned into 'spoiled brats' as you sometimes see with kids these days being given everything they want. That leaves nature and nurture. Nurture would again also depend on this timeframe, if it were hours or days that they had existed before they disobeyed God, it can not really be taken into account, if it was years, than perhaps part of the blame could fall onto their Father, or in this case, quite literally, God. But since he is perfect, that would not be plausible. Which leaves us with nature: The story of the Tree of Knowledge can be taken into two different perspectives, the inherently more negative one, resolving greed, which again, I don't think would be accurate since greed should not yet exist here. Or, human curiosity. Human curiosity is a deeply complex multifaceted trait that has roots in again both nature and nurture, but if the time frame wont allow for this we would have to emphasize the nature part of it, or, genetics. Not every creature has this inherent curiosity, a lot of animals have a deep need for specific structures that they strongly adhere to or start to distress. So while it is not unique to humans, in the context of a creator, there should be a conscious reason to give humans this specific trait. So even here you could argue there is a part of the "blame" you could put on God. But, this whole part is mainly me trying to explain the behavior it self. Of course, there is way more context surrounding this situation that does not just attempt to justify the actions taken, but would, if I actually remember correctly, even explain it. I'll try to keep this part shorter as I'm not extremely well versed in the bible, so in short: God is omniscient, him putting the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden being a test would thus make little sense given that he would already know the outcome of this action. Especially given the fact that it wasnt Adam or Eve who just randomly decided to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, but rather Satan who seduced them into it. Of course, God being omniscient, would already know this would happen. So, while you may argue that He wanted us to know beyond a reasonable doubt that we were the cause of our own missery, by providing us with this test. How could we possibly say it was us who He was testing? Why can't it be his own angels? I mean, I know the answer to this one, because it says so in the Bible. But to me it's just a fun little thought exercise. But in short, if you have two perfectly innocent new people in paradise; where they have everything they could ever need or desire. Who have no learned experiences through generations of experimentation, or knowledge on morality from either a societal or a religious context. Who then get seduced by the first ever angel to fall, to disobey God as well. That just hardly seems like a test. Now, please do know, even though I said that I am an atheist, that does not mean that I made this entire lump of text to try and dissuade people from religion, nor do I intend to start a debate here about the existence of God or not. I have genuinely tried to be as open and respectful as possible in this, but my knowledge of theology is rather limited and since English is not my first language so some things might potentially come across as something they are not intended to be. But I am also very interested in learning about different religions and like to watch debates for instance both in favor and against this. Not so much because I myself am still doubting, but just because no matter whether the Bible or the Quran or the Torah are real or not. They are still deeply interesting pieces of literature with undescribingly profound impact on history, culture and just people themselves. And given your background in Theology, I was just curious if you could explain to me why you do view it as a test taking everything into considering.

It’s interesting because you could even say Women were some of the first Christians. Mary followed God’s Word and raised Jesus, and Mary Magdalene followed Jesus and was often known as the “first disciple”.

A propos of nothing... had NO idea you are a pastor, but that made your take on this content more interesting. I was raised Catholic, and grew up with all the stories. Even though I now follow a more Pagan path, I cannot completely discount the Bible stories. Thanks for one again mixing politics, history and adding religion in a thought provoking and balanced way.

I love biblical history and investigating if it really happened. Please do more of it.

I wish this video approached the Bible historically rather than theologically. As someone who studies the Bible from a historical perspective, so much of this stuff is modern theology.

I'm an atheist, but that doesn't changing anything with respecting what you do. I don't hark on anyone practicing their religion how they please AS LONG AS they aren't pushing it on other people or actively affecting other people's lives with their beliefs. That being said, I'm really do like learning about religion in history. I'm drawn to the dark age and medieval imagery of religion (which has been influenced a lot by games) and I find it fascinating. I'm also subbed to ReligionForBreakfast, and they do some really great secular videos into the history of religions or specific religious subjects.

There is a great RU-vidr by the name of Metatron. Who dives deep into biblical scriptures and Jesus himself.

It's rather interesting that the ancient Greek creation myth of humans is VERY similar to the Old Testament, with shared stories and traditions and all that. In the Greek creation myth, Zuse is a board with an empty world and wants some non-immortal beings to interact with so he goes to the titan Prometheus who makes men out of clay, then (I think Hera) spits on them to give them life and Athena gives them thought. Prometheus wants to teach humans everything but Zuse is afraid that they will become like the gods and overthrow them so forbids Promthius to give them fire (a metefore for the divine spark of creation) Prometheus disobeys and gives humans fire, but Zuse finds out and plots revenge, punishing Prometheus and giving his brother (forget his name) the first human female Pandora. Zuse then gives Pandora a jar and tells her not to open it, the Pandora's jar myth then plays out. Eventually, Zuse decides to start over and begins a great flood that kills all the humans except (I think either Pandora or her kids and Promethisue's brother who's immortal anyway) but humans get re-seeded into the world (the first true humans we all descend from) and Zuse decides that he would just use them for worshipers but evil and divine fire is still amongst the humans meaning eventually humanity will outgrow and overthrow the gods. I'm writing this off the top of my head so there may be some inaccuracies or differences due to translations or plain mistakes.

As someone that grew up in a non religious household and had not much interaction with any religion, besides my ancient greece phase, I've got a question about the tree and test thing. If the tree is suppousedly giving knowlege of good and evil, as the name suggests, so if its just a misnoma please correct me, would't Adam and Eve not be awear that disobeing God would be a bad thing one should not do? Like, to them caring for an injured animal and killing one just for fun would be eaqually moral, as in not at all. Like drinking water or opening an window to us. edit: also dont christians usally belive God knows everything? wouldnt that mean that he set up a test he knew they would fail?

the flood myth similarity can be attributed to the fact that civilization need to be near bodies of drinking water for irrigation and other needs and more likely than not they would all experience flooding especially in earliest days where people have not developed tech to counter that.

"community of a variety of different belief systems who are almost welcome".... funny how much that sentence changes if you say almost vs all most

4:43 this actually is because apple used to just mean fruit. Over time, apple grew to mean the specific kind of fruit we know as apple.

The beginning of John with "In the beginning was the Word" is actually playing on the Greek concept of logos ("word"), since John is the gospel that was directed towards the gentiles so he was trying to relate it to their ideas.

“We’re not here to break down the history of every story” No. Yes we are. Chris I been watching your videos for at least a year now, and as someone who believes in god but doesn’t subscribe to Christianity or any other religion at this exact moment, midway through this video, this is the most interesting anyone has ever made biblical history (props to the original video maker as well) but your breakdown or real history to tie into something I thought had very little historical accuracy is so interesting and I hope you do more videos including this period of history seeing as you’ve studied extensively on it. Also thanks for another great video.

Best explanation I've heard to understand the 3in1....think about it like water. Liquid, ice & steam....one thing, but in 3 forms.

As a Jedi....these are not the dorids your looking for...

I love your content! Thanks for all these videos that you do! -fellow Northeast Ohioan

8:25 I read that during this time the strait of Gibraltar was closed so water of the Atlantic couldn't get into the Mediterranean and many people settled in the coast of it, the something of a earthquake opened the strait and the amount of water was so much the water level of the Mediterranean grew so quick that it buried the settlers

Would be genuinely interested in hearing your take on the verified historical texts and archaeology pertaining to the Bible's stories.

VTH, you do a great job at depolarizing conversations!!! You’re one of my favorite history RU-vidrs for that reason!!! I hate Woodrow Wilson too!!!

Didn't expect you would react this! Lets see your commentary on that.

"And let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel."

If Adam and Eve have no knowledge that disobedience is evil, how can they be held accountable for doing so?