Abdul Aziz, who is a spokesman for the local Muslim community wrote a response to Andy Stunich's column criticizing the religion of Islam. Mr. Stunich has often sided with Zionists in his criticisms of Muhammad's theology carried into practice against Israelis by Hamas Palestinians. And practically every peace activist has been highly critical of George W. Bush's “born again” Evangelical Christian ideas which may have significantly contributed to our war in Iraq.
Abdul Aziz is my good friend and about as kind and thoughtful as a man can be yet I could see by his reaction then to the historical news about the roots of the Abrahamic religious tradition I told him about not long ago and by his present letter again defending Islam against critics that what I told him was ignored as if it meant nothing to the way Muslims or any Abrahamic religionists conduct themselves today.
Abdul's reaction of denial of the devastating news that completely annihilates spiritual authority in all three traditional Abrahamic religions was mirrored in another Muslim friend as well as a dear Evangelical Christian friend. All three went instantly into denial about this news effecting anything in their religious faith.
What is this historical news I'm talking about? The “news” which is actually over 4000 years old is compelling evidence that in the Old Testament's story of Abraham that sets the whole Abrahamic monotheistic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is actually a very strange tale where a tribal god of the Israelites demands a child sacrifice from a Hindu god who has become in a Jewish makeover the patriarch of all Jews with Muhammad making this same Hindu god into the patriarch of all Muslim believers.
Abraham is Brahma, the Hindu Vedic god of creation. Sarah, Abraham's wife in the Genesis story, is Brahma's wife, Sarasvati, the Hindu goddess of wisdom and knowledge. The historical linkage to these Hindu gods made into Hebrews shows a clear linguistic trail from India to the land of Canaan.
The short version of how the Hindu god Brahma ended up as the Hebrew patriarch Abraham is this: Somewhere between 6000 and 4000 years ago the Sarasvati river system dried up and forced a Brahmin community out of the region. The Sarasvati river gave rise to the first Hindu Vedic civilization that created the Rig Veda and Upanishads religious texts with the Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. The goddess, Sarasvati, is named after this river.
While Brahma is still highly regarded throughout India there is only one temple dedicated to this deity whereas there are thousands dedicated to Vishnu and Shiva. Where did all the Brahmin temple worshipers go?
There's not enough space here to explain the full historical discovery story about how the Hindu gods Brahma and Sarasvati became the Hebrew founders Abraham and Sarah so I will direct you to my blog site that gives the details of this information. Please go to:http://steve-lewis.blogspot.com/
It is my hope that all peace activists trying to stop Abrahamic warfare will use this new historical information to confront as I have shown here every Abrahamic religious spokesperson who continues to promote false doctrines based on religious absurdities.
Never again let any Jew, Christian or Muslim tell us they have God's authority to do this or that. Help rid the world of Abrahamic religious warfare madness by refusing to support their wars. Just say No to Zionists, No to Evangelicals, No to Muslims when they ask you to support their religious wars.
If Abrahamic faithful become afraid that God has abandoned them they need to read the few places in the New Testament that show where two prophets out of the whole line of Abrahamic prophesy bearers, knew something was wrong with Abraham--John the Baptist and Jesus in the Gospel of John. So within the Johannine Christian tradition God has left an opening for Abrahamic believers to know the truth.
I am a Gnostic Christian and the Gnostic tradition too will survive this downfall of Abrahamic authority because we Gnostics have always been independent of the Jewish and Christian traditions. We Gnostics never tied our belief in God to the Old Testament stories. And revelation from God, the true God Most High, has not ended at all, but more about that in future columns and blog posts.
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Stephen, in the Old Testament, God instructs Abraham first to kill and then not to kill his son, Isaac.
Later, God instructs people to beat their children. People are still beating their children on the basis of that directive from God.
I know what you think of Abraham and the close call, near-miss, child-killing.
What do you think of God's instructions telling people they should beat their children?
Those instructions do not come from God Most High, EL Elyon, but from Yahweh, the tribal war god of the Israelites.
Judah priests and writers of the Torah, Tanakh, while in exile in Babylon re-made Yahweh into EL, God Most High, and it has never worked.
One can only rediscover EL Elyon by reading how the Canaanites worshiped the Compassionate One, the Kindly One, the Friendly One, the Creator of Creation. This is Jesus' true "Abba", his spiritual Heavenly Father, and this is not Yahweh who, like all military gods, demands absolute obedience to commands. The Canaanite EL has no record of ever issuing any commandments to human beings, EL rules Creation through the lesser gods and goddesses to whom they looked upon EL as their supreme leader, not because He was so very powerful but because He ruled humanity with wisdom and compassion, something utterly unique in the ancient Near East, the birthplace of oriental despotism.
Yahweh was always the usurper imposter god, a war god posing as God Most High, and that is why all the moral teachings stemming from Yahweh and not EL, are completely schizophrenic, telling Yahweh believers to not murder one place and murder in another. The ultimate image of this Yahweh schizophrenia can be seen in Revelation's "Lamb of Wrath".
I am glad I asked.
Much of what you have written here is completely new to me. I am saving it and I will look further into it.
You could help me by mentioning some of your sources.
See my posting on the End of Abraham for quotes from Gene Matlock and Wikipedia on the Abraham is Brahma information.
Prof. Margaret Barker's book, The Great Angel prepares you for how the early ancient Hebrews worshiped Yahweh as the Great Angel or Son of EL which was the original Canaanite relationship of EL to Yahweh. There are Canaanite cuniform translated texts that show where EL renames Yamm, Yah, or Yahwe. The tribe of "Benjamin", doesn't mean what Hebrews said it does, "son of my right hand", it means "Sons of Yamm"--"Ben"-"Son" "Yamin" plural of Yamm meaning followers of Yamm. One cannot trust Hebrew definitions for Hebrew words carrying pagan god names and meanings, e.g. "Solomon" which is one of the versions of the name of the ancient Canaanite god of peace worshiped at Mt. Zion in Jerusalem before the Yahwehists took control.
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