Truth behind the veil

Another form of Old Testament plagiarism is the strange phenomenon of self-plagiarism, where multiple successive verses—sometimes entire chapters—are repeated, either verbatim or near-verbatim, either in another book or often right within the same book. This reveals a very sloppy, haphazard editing job, where multiple manuscripts were compiled together without taking the time to ensure that there was no redundancy. It also reveals a total lack of “divine oversight” in the writing and assemblage of the Old Testament. Here are some examples: Exodus 6:10-12: “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his country.’ But Moses said to the Lord, ‘If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips?’” Exodus 6:28-30: “Now when the Lord spoke to Moses in Egypt, he said to him, ‘I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I tell you.’ But Moses said to the Lord, ‘Since I speak with ...

Not only is the Bible filled with historical inconsistencies and contradictions [ Full Discussion ], but it is also packed with plagiarism. As we shall see in this Article (and the one that follows), the Bible cannot lay claim to uniqueness or originality. On the contrary, it actually literally stole much of its teachings—and even its stories—from pre-existing sources, and “heathen” sources at that. This is especially troubling since the Bible vehemently condemns what it calls “heathenism” on its every page. Bible plagiarism begins right in its first book, Genesis, with the story of creation, which borrowed heavily from the Sumerians. In their creation myth, preserved as a seven-tablet epos known as Enuma Elish, we are told that man was created from dirt and brought to life through a divine breath of air breathed into his nostrils. This legend even contains the biblically-familiar phrase “In the beginning.” The argument cannot be made that the Sumerians were copying from the book of G...

We have already scrutinized several blemishes in the storyline of John the Baptist, some of which we will here consider again, along with many new ones, to see that, for the most part, they can actually be made sense of in the insurrectionist context. At the same time, we will discover that they certainly cannot be made sense of in the context of John having been part of a “divine plan” to prepare the way for the “savior of the world.” The New Testament makes a correlation between John the Baptist and Elijah the prophet, to the degree of even implying that John was literally Elijah himself. Where did this idea come from? For starters, it is necessary to understand that Jews had always believed that Elijah was taken up alive into heaven, without ever seeing death, as mentioned in 2 Kings 2:11: “…and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” Later on, Yahweh promised, in Malachi 4:5, that he would one day send Elijah back to earth on a special mission: “See, I will send the prophet Eli...