Unearthing the True Origins of the Bible 

I was so excited to see this interview! Two of my favorite RU-vidrs doing a fair-minded collab. Excellent to see this! Thanks to you both for making this happen!

Two of my favourite youtubers collaborating, brilliant!

Again I'm already subscribed to both.. Like I'm a weird nerd or something. Maybe I just know quality data. Cross reference double check. Gg brothers.

@@TerenceClark Now I subscribed to Andrew too kaj mi ankaux parolas Esperanton kiel vi, mi supozas.

In the Old Testament, God literally taught that *no one can die for the sins of others,* everybody must bear the consequences of their own sins. But Christians keep claiming "Jesus died for your sins". Do Christians really study the Bible, or just mindlessly repeat what they've been indoctrinated with?

So those who don't even admit that they really dont know either are less than trustworthy. Thank you for honestly defining anybody of faith. They are all untrustworthy.

Also a sign of intelligence, the ability to make a picture in your head, good enough to be able to recognize when you are missing pieces, or some piece doesn't fit, in which either your picture is bad, or the piece is.

@@taketimeout2share -- Actually, all people of faith are not in a "don't know" position. Only some are, but not all. Some do "know." -- So, all people of faith are not "untrustworthy" by your definition.

@David Anderson -- The problem with the doctor is that, despite all of his education, he is still devoid of the knowledge of the truth that Almighty God does exist. -- So, he's in error in much of his beliefs.

Well said 🙌🏽

Now, if only Jeffrey from Darkmatter2525 had a cameo!

Can we get a part 2!

@@brianprinty112 ķń

Hey uh where's Judas man

Thanks, Jesus. :)

High praise coming from the Son of God.

@@HolyKoolaid Wooooooow! How lovely to see Jesus Christ here! 😍 It's so beautiful to see all these heroes being supportive of one another. Much love to you all!

@@pauljsm heroes? Lmbo!

He takes historical data and makes it fit with his personal believes. It's only his believes.

@@scottlouissmith2382 No, that's not how academia works. Religion for Breakfast is a Ph.D. student/candidate which means his opinion is based on current evidence that has been peer-reviewed by other individuals who hold doctorates. It's a shared opinion held by experts on the subject.

@@LauraTeAhoWhite Yeah, his opinions are based on doctrines only proven by written text. Not proven by actual evidence.

​@@scottlouissmith2382 Archeological evidence is actual evidence: It doesn't matter if it's an old scroll or the foundation of a building.

@@scottlouissmith2382 : How do you justify that Scott, when he demonstrated in this very video, the difference of what you just said.

Cowabunga! I always thought so.

Amen!

Funny thing is, in the Old Testament, God literally taught that *no one can die for the sins of others,* because letting someone die for someone else’s sins is considered unjust in God's eyes. So in a nutshell, according to the Bible, everybody must bear the consequences of his or her own sins. And yet, Christians keep claiming "Jesus died for your sins". Do Christians really study the Bible, or just mindlessly repeat what they've been indoctrinated with?

@@Ronin-lb5ij I'm actually a Christian who studies the Bible. I would love to engage in conversation as long as the insults stay out of it. There are things I have a problem with in the Bible. None of which are the miracles. If God is real. Miracles are a walk in the part. I'm problem is the level of evil and hate us humans are capable of. And why God allows so much of it. But I have a answer about it in my mind. But that's a different story for another day. I think the Bible is teaching humans are responsible to pay for their own sins. Almost as a person has a debt to pay. But someone with perfect credit can pay off that person's debt. I think this is the angle the Bible is coming from.

@@MALLYGEEZ1 if god is all powerful, why did he make us flawed (sinful) to start with? Didn’t he already try and wipe out humanity to start over? (The flood) And this was a colossal fail. Sin persisted, immediately. (If you truly believe the flood story as truth.) Let’s go back to Adam and Eve. If god started us in a perfect, sinless paradise, why did he craft a loophole for us to “sin” and fall from grace? Is he not omniscient? If he is then this was known by god from the start- that Eve would be tempted and therefore ruin all of humanity. Doesn’t that make god kind of a cruel god?

It's not an easy road to travel.

@@lloydtucker5647 Agreed

Why would he ever need a devils advocate then?

@@gingercore69 Lawyers sometimes need lawyers. Or lowly assistants.

@@kathryngeeslin9509 well, i was just joking, but you actually make a good point...

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Fact checkers say..."Correct!"

That would explain the burning bush

“That’s ‘cause of god, duuude.”

Where is the Temple to a God of Cannabis located ? I need to make the sacred pilgrimage of the Devout. Always wondered why I have High Priest is my title...now I know LoL

Well if a deity were omnipresent it very well might be simultaneously smoking every lit joint in existence.

Snoop Dog is….the most high.

Should they not have just been there?

Oh btw, I'm giving you a PS5 for Christmas... It's at the neighbor's house. And you'll have to kill them for it.

@@HolyKoolaid Eh, I'll shank them for it once developers have had time to make more games for it.

@@HolyKoolaid I'm a poor African please donate a ps5 or send address I'll sort your neighbor out

@@HolyKoolaid hahahah

Yeah, he's done a really good job of being approachable to people of all religious backgrounds. I'm definitely more confrontational than him, but I really respect how he tries to stay non-sectarian/academic.

So you follow Indian Krishna?

@@Nica-Ra-Wata , Nope. I follow Christ.

@@StevenGreenGuz white Murka Jesus? Or brown rabbi Jesus?

@@crhu319 , Well seeing as Yeshua was brown and a teacher, it would have to be the brown rabbi Jesus that I follow.

What started me down that road was starting to read the Bible when I was a cub scout. The fact that it didn't refer to bats as mammals turned me into a skeptic. I was about five or six years old at the time.

@@andrewharper1609 the bible isn't a scientific book . it would be a huge mistake to take it that way.its a book about God and The human race and salvation the authors of the Bible were not interested in scientific explanations to the natural world

@@alvaroramos7564 The bible is considered a holy book delivered by God, though.

while the Bible may have some contradictions due to mistranslations and whatnot, the message is still the same. "For God so loved the world, He gave His one and only Son, so that whoever believes in Him, will not perish, but have eternal life." -John 3:16 and we have various types of evidence that back up the Scriptures. hit me up if you're interested.

I would recommend Michael Jones from Inspiring Philosophy who does incredible work defending the faith through historical and archaeological arguments

You're welcome.

@@HolyKoolaid Dr.Michael Heiser is much more awesome : I challenge you to have him on !

This is a great topic idea. :)

Rationality Rules and Cosmicskeptics both have great videos bout that.... Youll love em

Having this criticism is like criticizing a story from US history that mentions slavery. Its an institution that existed for as long as human history (yes even today). Keep in mind ALL of the Bible was written by men NOT God.

@@wmpratt2010 Except that God is supposed to be perfectly moral, loving, unchanging, powerful, and the Bible is supposed to be inspired by Him. This is an incredibly challenging burden to bear, but Christians claim it. Why would an existing deity fitting these qualifications allow for a clearly pro-slavery (and worse) book as a source of his authority? My claim: it’s far more plausible to say it’s made up by people and doesn’t represent anything other than early males in a violent culture attempting to explain their world and help justify their power within their culture.

@@lilheckman4305 Those are great videos. But, I’m hoping for scholarship that shows the practice itself and presented on a popular channel like Holy Koolaid. For example, Joshua Bowen has a book on the subject but his channel is very small.

Oh snap! You got me. The real reason I've been trying to convince people psychics are fake is so you wouldn't know that I've been telekinetically eavesdropping on your conversations with your boyfriend.

@@HolyKoolaid You should not have said that😈😂😂

@@HolyKoolaid a good one, don't forget me too.

@Thisisjeannie hehe... hilarious comment. That is exactly how crazy religious people think.

@@HolyKoolaid this is why you are an atheist! using telekinesis to lift a mic into someone's house instead of using telepathy wich is the eficient way of eavesdrop people's conversations. the 100% historicaly accurate book is not guilty of your missused magic powers!

And your voice said what I thought. I guess that's the point. He said what we think.

@@a787fxr Although I am touched by your remark, I must differ because of Thomas's vast experiences of the world. I spent some time over seas in the military (here and there), but I was always a bit jealous of people like Thomas, who hold very little to no prejudices against a people that are demonized by those in the US (e.g. people from SW Asia). It is the truth: The anecdote to racism and bigotry is travel (outside of the military 🤣).

@@badger1296 OK. I stand corrected I guess .

@@a787fxr Sorry Doug, I didn't mean to come off like an ässhole.

@@badger1296 !:- )

I wasn't raised in church or religious for that matter. My mom didn't convert to Christianity until I was 18 and out of the house. She married a southern Baptist deacon. My younger siblings had a very different experience growing up. Basically they had to go along with it all or be shunned. My mom didn't used to be a racist bigot either but that changed too. My daughter #Muslimbrooklyn converted to Islam 2 years ago. After studying both I found them to be equally unbelievable and I'm an atheist now

And they still usually ignore it, from my interactions with Christian theists at least...

What are your thoughts and comments on Satanism, symbols in Hollywood etc.

While I do believe that these biblical stories are inaccurate, there has to be some basis of historical foundation that was built upon. I mean, the authors of the Bible, Quran, and the Torah didn’t just pull things out of their asses when they wrote their passages. I’m not saying that these texts are true, but what interests me the most would be the historical events that inspired them. For example, what were the historical events that inspired David and the Goliath, Samson’s collapse of the Temple, the parting of the Red Sea, etc. they’d have to be fantastical and astounding feats for it to be exaggerated and recorded for generations.

@@altairibnlaahad4431 the events that you mentioned are simply propaganda.

@@jakobroynon-fisher9535 that is explainable and possible. But i would like to play Devil’s Advocate for a second. While written texts are more reliable as they do not go significant changes as oral stories do (with them losing their original meaning through a game of telephone that spans hundreds of generations) the records are at risk of embellishments, damage, or revision. So while I do think these stories are obviously fake, I would like to know what ideas and events they’re drawing from to make such a fantastical and surreal story that has defined an entire race of people.

What's more brilliant and insidious is to tell people that they're favored by god...but when things go south for them (as is eventual and natural), instead of putting the blame on god for failing them, their priests (desperate to keep their jobs and not be lynched) told the people it was THEIR fault for being feckless, faithless and a sinner in god's eyes. No wonder god didn't help them. And people being mostly idiots, swallowed this and blamed themselves instead of their god.

Or creating that narrative.. slam dunk into all of time forever and ever.

Me too! I love the Religion For Breakfast. He is very respectful, knowledgeable and fair.

@@TurquoiseInk And, sounds like Edward Norton ... so, what can be better than that? I could listen to my favorite actor 24/7/365 ...

Jesus is His own Daddy and He lives in the sky

@@DwayneShaw1 "God sacrificed Himself to Himself as a loophole to a rule He Himself set up." --Matt Dillahunty

@@elementalargon7597 - "Virgin Birth!! .. an entire religion predicated on an oxymoron!" - Marquis de Sade

@@DwayneShaw1 3 very stupid comments.

@@bcalvert321 Well I only made one comment - and quoted one other person. Both of which have more substance than your vague bit of nothing. You do not actually refute anything - which makes you pointless. But, If you're hinting that you would like to have a discussion I would be fine with educating you. But it will require a bit more on your part than, "nuh-uh". And I'll need to know just what kind of delusion i"m dealing with. Are you a Christian? Muslim? Luddite? Dungeon Master?

Well, it sounds to me like you had a reasonable excuse. :)

@@HolyKoolaid You want any ?

Hey! What have you been told? If you don't have enough to share with the class...

What flavor?

Quieres?

Elegant with an El cartoon!

I think what you're saying is that you feel as if you can't even ask a question, or make a comment without somebody coming back and calling you antisemitic🤔 All they're about to call me that too, because I do not agree with supporting Israel because of their war with Palestine 🤷 I'm not buying that biblical blessings if I blessed them, cursings if I curse them crap either😊

That's why no atheists tackle Judaism they tackle Christianity and Islam. I am searching for that which disbunks the scriptures and concludes Judaism itself is debunked. Can't find it.

Ah, my mistake. I'm clearly not a neuroscientist. Thanks for the correction.

@@HolyKoolaid Love your work btw!

Exactly what I was thinking! And looking to see if anyone else picked up on it. Do you think it’s an app? So not an irrelevant observation at all!

Lol I read it wrong. I thought you meant "the video was irrelevant" but you liked his background. I'm so blur this morning lol

@Mike Seork By the time I looked they’d all burnt out!!!

But there still is some evidence of Poland's pre-Christian history. Their pagan religions weren't considered 'rooted out' until the 15th century - and that 'rooting out' was often brutal (your example is pretty accurate, but misses as an analogy). Unless we claim ancient theists were aware of what modern archeology looks for, and intentionally hid it - and intentionally planted misleading items - we would still find sufficient evidence to disprove much of the Bible's historical claims - like the fact that David was a tribal chieftain - not the claimed 'Ruler of a mighty kingdom'. You make a very good point that, "this monotheism cannot bear the existence of other religions before it." Another example would be the Jesus Myth. The Christian mythology was plagiarized from several more ancient 'resurrection cults' collectively known as 'The Mysteries' - which was acknowledged very early on by Christians. This is why Justin Martyr, considered the earliest Christian Apologist, said in a letter to the Roman Emperor (circa 150 CE), "And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from what you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter." This is another reason the Church was so adamant about burning books - to destroy the evidence that there was nothing special or novel about the Jesus Myth - and yet, The Apology survives ...

Yup. They try to tell you that because archaeologists found Meggido, that means the entire bible is true. I rebut that finding the city of Troy therefore means the Iliad and Odyssey is true and so are the Greek gods. They never agree to that reasoning.

Statistically speaking the most violent ideologies and societies in human history were secular and atheistic. Soviet Russia with Stalin, Mao and Marxist China, and Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. (Yes the Nazi party paraded behind a look of Christianity as most Germans of the time were self proclaimed Christians.) Hitler viewed Christianity as a religion fit only for slaves. Ideologies are what kills people. And these ideologies can come from a basis in religion that can be harmful. However, when it comes to orthodox Christian ideology it has done far more good than bad to this world.

@@jamievans38hitler

See Dr.Michael Heiser videos before throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

@@davidjanbaz7728 No she's good.

Like I stated before if GODS word is not truth than how is it GODS prophets prophecies have come to pass and are still coming to pass

@@Kathy-n7f You imply a lot of things my dear.

Than explain the vision given to Daniel about the United States coming into being as a man standing and also the great rivers eupraties drying up or a river flowing in the desert now or the dead sea coming back to life as well as many minor prophecies coming true they did not write them after this happened as we live cause their all dead

AMEN!

You got that right. Religion is just mythology that doesn’t know it yet.

Indeed

Cheers for you looking outside your direct orthodoxy. The truth won’t be hurt by asking questions and thinking critically - wherever that may lead!

I don't want to be antagonist, but if we can trace Christianity to polytheism, how do you reconcile that with your monotheism?

@@joe94c israel worshiped other gods and we're somewhat polytheistic I don't really see the problem the bible even says that

@@joe94c its not the source but a parallel course that plaged Israel in its history. See Dr.Michael Heiser videos on this topic.

@@guthrie_the_wizard You should try it too, Dr.Michael Heiser videos!

And yet we have more evidence of Harry Potter.

@@andrewharper1609 a book is a book, HP only had one writer!

@@davidjanbaz7728 At least the writer of HP didn't plagiarize other civilizations

So . . . you DIDN'T watch the video?

@@catholicdad I didn’t. I also know that something that happened 2,000 years ago has absolutely no relevance to me today. I would never use a cook book, medical book or any litterateur from even 1,000 years ago. So outdated.

It is my opinion that ancient Greek philosophers may have had a large effect on Christian philosophy. The notion of Heaven as a perfect unflawed place resembles Plato's world of Forms. The stories of the life of the mythical Jesus are "parable" made up stories to show that Jesus was sacrified for human sins the same way that Jews did and Muslim still do sacrifice sheep in the same way Abraham did when God decided Abe didnt have to kill his own son after all.

@@granthurlburt4062 you're not the only one. The New Testament gospels were written during a time when everything Greek was the rage, which is why they were written in Greek. It's not surprising at all that Jesus resembles a Greek demigod who spouts what is basically Greek philosophy.

@@benjalucian1515 agree to a point . Platonic terminology gave the early church a language just as Buddhism today is giving the church a language . same message . Thomas Merton and the dalia lama dialogue in 68.

Brilliant. And why.

No one wants to touch that regarding actual Judaism, which is suspect. I'm glad I read your post.

Any Bible book store!

Try Dr.Michael Heiser videos for a different perspective.

@@davidjanbaz7728 Dr.Michael Heiser just another religious apologist trying to put a square peg in a round hole

Amen!!!!

Ask the Philippines: oh sorry I guess you can't!

they cant because they are intertwined

In jail, they use it to roll joints and cigarettes - given the archeological evidence

Baal and Asherah are common gods of the middle East with each culture giving them different names or similar types of gods but similar in child sacrifice to baal the head of the Gods and Asherah the fertility god of crops. There were alot cultic sites in Israel and 2 Kings ch.17 explains this.

The pillar figures would have been too big and awkward for children to play with. These were not girl-centric cultures, to put it mildly, so the number that exist argue against their being toys. Dolls from other cultures tended to be made of wood.

See Dr.Michael Heiser videos.

@@davidjanbaz7728 Explain why an all powerful all knowing omnipotent god needs to plagiarize in some cases word for word other civilizations ie. the Sumerians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians and the Zoroastrians. If God dictated the bible word for word couldn't he come up with something original? A mother floats her baby down the river in a basket and is rescued by a gardener and grows up to be powerful in the kings court. “ is it,is it,is it, is it, *Moses* no its Sargon. Aka Sargon the Great Just another bible plagiarized story

@Ricky Upchurchofcourse it was the Romans.Without them this little sect would have died out.

Any government that enforces through fear is, by definition, tyrannical.

@@DarkAdonisVyers YES! TOTALITARIAN FASCISM!

"before me" in that context means kinda like "in my presence"

@@dark666razor So then He was cool with having other gods outside of His presence?

@@bryanjackson8917 isnt he supposed to be omnipresent?

@@dark666razor If that's true, then apparently He is doesn't really give a shit about humanity as there are a lot of ficked up places on earth that He could help fix but either can't or won't. So if He won't fix them then He is a ficking azzhole, and if He can't fix them then he is ficking lame god not worthy of the title All Powerful Being! I would advise you to look for something better...

@@bryanjackson8917 he needs to exist first to be able to do something