Sukkafreestudies: " ADAM" MEANS ONLY " MAN"....The word "adam" as th...

Sukkafreestudies: " ADAM" MEANS ONLY " MAN"....The word "adam" as th...: " ADAM" MEANS ONLY " MAN"....The word "adam" as the proper name of a man is a deception of the theologian ...

" ADAM" MEANS ONLY " MAN"....The word "adam" as the proper name of a man is a deception of the theologian translators of Genesis. The original Hebrew text says, not "adam" as a proper name, but " ha-adam"the man, a common noun. We will notice some instances of this..In Genesis[ 1:26] occurs the first mention of man, the first use of Adam:" and Elohim[ gods] said, Let us make man[ Adam] in our image, and Elohim created ha-adam[ the man] in his image[ 1:27] male and female both together. In chapter 2:it is said in the translation that Yahveh formed the beasts of the field out of the ground[ Adamah ]" and brought them unto Adam"[ 2:19], and Adam gave names,,but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him[2:20]. But the Hebrew text mentions no "Adam"; it simply reads that Yahveh brought the animals "unto"ha-adam"[the man], and ha-adam[the man] gave names,etc. In Genesis [2:7] "Yahveh formed ha-adam out of the dust of ha-adamah[the ground]. And so throughout the Hebrew Bible "man" is "adam"[ not Adam], and ground is "adamah". Man is called in Hebrew "adam", because he was formed out of the"adamah" ground. It may be instanced that the prophet Ezekiel many times represent Yahveh as addressing him as "ben-adam"[son of man],,the identical term Jesus so often uses of himself long after. As the whole of the "sacred science of Christianity" is built and dependent upon the factual existence of a "first man" named Adam, the now attenuated ghost of this mythical Adam must be laid beyond the peradventure of resurrection. The texts of the Hebrew book will themselves effectively lay the ghost. In Hebrew adam is a common noun, used to signify man or mankind in a generic sense; the noun for an individual man is "ish"and so the sacred texts makes manifest." Elohim said:"Let us make adam"[1:26], and " Elohim created ha-adam, male and female[1:27]. In chapter 2:"and there was not adam to till the adamah"[2:5];" and Yahveh-Elohim formed ha-adam[the man] and ha-adam became a living soul[2:3], and Yahveh-Elohim placed in the garden"ha-adam" whom he had formed"[2:8] and Yahveh-Elohim took ha-adam[2:15], and commanded ha-adam[2:16];and said" it is not good for ha-adam to be alone"[2:18]; and made animals and brought them to ha-adam, and whatsoever ha-adam should call them"[2:19]; and ha-adam called names; but for ha-adam he did not find a help meet"[2:20]; and Yahveh-Elohim caused a deep sleep to come upon ha-adam[2:21], and from his rib made women, and he brought her unto ha-adam[2:22] and ha-adam said and called her women[ heb,ish] was she taken[2:23]"therefore shall a man[ish] leave his father and cleave unto his issahah[2:24] and they were both naked,ha-adam and his issahah[2:25]. Chapter 3:"and Yahveh-Elohim called unto ha-adam[3:9];and ha-adam said, ha-isshah whom thou gavest me[ 3:12];and Yahveh-Elohim said to ha-isshah, the longing shall be thy ish[ 1:26-5:3-5]. In these latter version adam is used indifferently without the artical, and the translators wrote it Adam as a proper name, but all the previous and subsequent usage shows it is the same common noun for mankind[ 6:1,6:7,9]. All  through the Hebrew Bible adam,ha-adam, is for generic man;[ish] for individual man; Adam is never a proper name, except in post-exilic genealogies of Chronicles....J.WHELESS...

THE BIBLE"PREFACE".. A flood of light on Mosaic authorship of the Book of Genesis, as well as on "divine revelation" of the most wonderful of its record events,breaks in at this vital point. In this light we will read a record which will totally destroy the theory of divine revelation. The Hebrew claim to 'have Abraham as our Father,"or tribal founder. The"history" or account of tribal traditions of the Chosen People as a new or separate-and"peculiar"-ethnic division, first as a nomadic desert Bedouins, later grown into a Hebrew nationality, begins with the"calling" of Abraham and his departure out of Ur of the Chaldees into Canaan, the "land of Promise"This event is related in Genesis 12; from there to the end of the whole Hebrew Scripture is a miraculous"history" of Abraham and his descendants as the Hebrew people. The first eleven chapters of Genesis are not Hebrew history at all;they deal with cosmic and human-race history,of the creation of the world and the process of the gentile races of mankind,centered around an alledged-direct line of personages,non-Hebraic and pre-Hebrew, from Adam,through Noah and his son Shem,to the immediate forbears of the Hebrew Father Abraham,who was born a Chaldean[Gen.i-xi]. All the rest of the record deals with the theocratic history of the Hebrew as'Chosen People' of their god Yahveh,through their whole national life down to Babylonian captivity,the restoration to their native land under Ezra and Nehemiah,by the grace of the Persian conquerors of Babylon,and their subsequent re-establishment of their theocracy.Note now this capital fact: in the whole Scripture record ,from Genesis 12 to the post-exilic Books of the Chronicles,Ezra,etc.there is not a word or mention of one of the transcendent wonders of Genesis i-xi:creation,Father Adam and Mother Eve,Eden,or the serpent,Noah and his flood,the Tower of Babel,not a hint of any of these great events and personages preceeding Abraham's trek into Canaan in the year 1921 B.C. In 586 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon,conquered Judea,destroyed Jerusalem,and carried away into captivity the Chosen People.There in the new strange country,"by the rivers of Babylon...we hanged are harps upon the willows in the midst thereof;for there they that carried us away captive required of us a song. How shall we sing Yahveh's song in a strange land?[ Psalm 137:1-4]. This proves,too,that David did not write this Psalm,for it was written after the captivity;and there they dreamed of the Messiah who should arise to "deliver us from the Assyrians."There in Babylon,for 50 years[not 70,as their prophecies say] until Ezra,and for 150 years until Nehemiah,the Chosen People remained among the wonders of the highest civilizations of the East.There they learned the lore and the literature of the Assyrians and the Babylonians cultures;and they no doubt conned with amazement the tablets and books of the great libraries of the land in they dwelt.From these wonderful records of the past they learned the Babylonian Epic of Creation,wherein are recorded the fables of creation,the first parents,the garden,the forbidden trees of knowledge and of life,the serpent,the temptation,the fall of man,the flood and the ark,and of the Tower of Babel,the reputed original of which stood there before their wondering eyes. There they gathered these legends of the ancient past; and there, or after their return from captivity, they wrote, rewrote, or edited their own ancient chronicles and their books of religion lore for use in the restored homeland. The thing speaks for itself:they simply recast the wonders of the Epic of Creation to suit their own notions and so as to make their own Yahveh the great Creator instead of Marduk. And to show that Yahveh's chosen people were of the most ancient and illustrious lineage, they worked in the marvelous direct descent from the first man Adam, through Noah, to Terah, father of Abraham, only twenty generations since "in the beginning" When this product was completed, they tacked it on to their own tribal chronicles as a sort of introduction, and there it stands today- the revised Babylonian Epic of Creation as Genesis 1-11, the preface to the theocratic history of the Hebrews. Later priestly theologians attached the potent name of Moses to the first five books, and the whole gained credit as divinely revealed by Yahveh God to the traditional first historian and law giver, Moses.... J.WHELESS.

The " Five Books of Moses": The first and most obvious proof that the so-called 'Five Books' of Moses were not written by Moses, but date from a time many centuries after his reputed life and death, is very simple and indisputable. This proof consists of very numerous instances of what are called post-Mosaics,or"after-Moses" events related in those books under the name Moses as their inspired author; events of which Moses of course could not have known or written,as they occurred long after his death. It may be remarked,parenthetically ,that Moses nowhere claims to have written the Five Books,nor does the Bible elsewhere impute their authorship to Moses. It is only 'THE LAW" which is elsewhere attributed to Moses. Indeed the books are written throughout in the third person-Moses did or said this or that;never in all the relations of the doings and sayings of Moses does" I did" or " I said" once occur,except when Moses is recorded as making a speech. A singular passage in Exodus vi illustrates this point and is striking evidence that Moses could not written the books. In verse 13 it is related: And Yahveh spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel,and unto Pharoah King of Egypt".Immediately, in verse 14 to 27 follows the strange interruption of the narrative by the insertion of a series of family genealogies,beginning" these be the heads of their father houses" with many names including the pedigrees of Moses and Aaron,the marriage of Aaron,and mention the names of his offspring;then this careful explanation: "These are that Aaron and Moses,to whom Yahveh said, Bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are they which spake to Pharoah King of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are the Moses and Aaron'[ vv.26-27] Moses could never have written in this form and manner among his contemporaries who knew him and,all about the "bring out of Egypt" a thousand years afterwards the thing was written, and the sacred scribe took pains,thrice reiterated, to identify the Aaron and Moses mentioned in the genealogies with the traditional Moses and Aaron of the Exodus. It is recognized by scholars that all these elaborate genealogies inserted in the five books are post-exilic compositions. Their exact duplicates are found in the post-exilic books of Chronicles,and some in Ezra. This too is the origin of the use" Adam" as a proper name instead of the common noun that it is.... Is it God words???J.Wheless...

Following the truism of Isaiah," LIKE KING LIKE PEOPLE" very great sections of the people throughout the Empire, especially the official and subservient classes, hastened to adopt the name and outward indicia of Christianity, now become official and popular. But so "joined to their idols"were the masses of pagan "converts" for convenience, and so addicted to its showy forms and ceremonies that the now officially recognized Church of Christ was not slow to popularize itself with the pagan-christian masses by taking over bodily and"baptizing" to itself the temples,idols,rituals,ceremonials, the pomp and glorious circumstances of paganism as we have just seen admitted by the paragraphs of church history quoted from the works of Sellars and the authoritative Catholic Encyclopedia. Christianity became thus scarcely more than a refined veneer of paganism. A devout pagan becoming either from convenience or conviction, a Christian no doubt felt quite comfortable and at home in a"baptized"pagan-christian temple,aglow with all trapping and ceremonials and resonant with all the old familiatuals and litanies of his just-recanted paganism,with merely the name of Zeus or Jupiter replaced by that of Jehovah, and of Adonis or Tammuz by the of Jesus, and with "Mary,Mother of God"from Isis[with the child Horus], as the new"Queen of Heaven."As the missionaries of Rome carried the new cult into yet other countries, and various Kings and rulers fell to the appeal and pomp of the priests, whole tribes and nations of heathens followed their leaders into the church,veneering their paganism with the name,forms,and ceremonials of Roman Christianity. This is the testimony of early ecclesiastical and secular history. Later instances more generally known,but the significance of which is as generally overlooked, further confirm Isaiah's maxim. For a millennium the Western Empire was more or less Roman Christians; the Eastern Empire had the Greek Church with its own Patriarch,but, with considerable vicissitudes of constancy, it recognized the supremacy of papal Rome, and the formulas of faith and creed were the same, with the exception of the age long controversy over the "filioque" clause of the Nicene Creed, and the bitter feuds over image-worship known as iconoclasm. The rancours engendered from these differences of belief, together with the bigoted pretensions of patriarch and pope, led the final rupture between Greek and Roman Churches in the year 1053. All the West followed their leader the pope; the East clung with equal tenacity to the tenets of the patriarch. So bitter were the hatreds thus perpetuated, that the Western popes and emperor refused all aid to the beleaguered emperors and church of the East in the fatal conflicts with the Turks, till in 1453 Constantinople and the whole Eastern empire fell before the Crescent, and Europe became Turkish and Mohammedan up to the very gates of Vienna. But Western and Northern Europe remained of the Roman faith until the reformation begun by Luther in 1517. Here a most signal vindication of "Like King like People" is witnessed. The Christian Kings and rulers who had political grievances against the pope quickly took up the quarrel of Luther with the Roman Church; those who were politically friendly to the pope seized arms to defend him and the Church the irrespective peoples flocked to their standards and followed them in their rival faiths, and Europe was a welter of blood and strife during the ensuring fierce wars between Catholic and Protestant Christians. The strife of hostile christian faiths yet endures, abated some-what in degree. England was wholly Romish before the reformation. The old Romish practice of burning dissenters at the stake was turned against English Catholics to suppress that sect entirely. And so,through the dark ages of faith, and so long as the priest-prostituted State would use its civil power in superstitious aid of the Holy Church, the Holy Church has zealously fulfilled its Bible commands and has murdered and tortured men, women, and tender children by fire and sword through its special agency of faith, the Holy Inquisition. This priest-ordained institution was only abolished by the infidel Napoleon of Italy in 1808; but the moment his dreaded power fell, the "Scourge of God" was eagerly re-established in the Papal States by God's Vicar Pope Pius VII in 1814. It was only finally abolished along with the usurped "temporal" of God's vicars on earth, as one of the first glorious acts of the new Kingdom of Italy, in 1870, just at the time when the Holy Ghost came to the " Vatican prisoners" to reassert that the torture and murder of dissenters from theological dogma was a God-imposed duty and divine right of his Holy Church....J.Wheless..