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FORBIDDEN HISTORY OF THE BIBLE
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Reading the Old Testament: The Ancient Origins and Authority of Scripture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RDAb...
When God Had a Wife: The Fall and Rise of the Sacred Feminine in the Judeo-Christian TraditionReveals the tradition of goddess worship in early Judaism and how Jesus attempted to restore the feminine side of the faith
• Provides historical and archaeological evidence for an earlier form of Hebrew worship with both male and female gods, including a 20th-century discovery of a Hebrew temple dedicated to both Yahweh and the warrior goddess Anat
• Explores the Hebrew pantheon of goddesses, including Yahweh’s wife, Asherah, goddess of fertility and childbirth
• Shows how both Jesus and his great rival Simon Magus were attempting to restore the ancient, goddess-worshipping religion of the Israelites
Despite what Jews and Christians--and indeed most people--believe, the ancient Israelites venerated several deities besides the Old Testament god Yahweh, including the goddess Asherah, Yahweh’s wife, who was worshipped openly in the Jerusalem Temple. After the reforms of King Josiah and Prophet Jeremiah, the religion recognized Yahweh alone, and history was rewritten to make it appear that it had always been that way. The worship of Asherah and other goddesses was now heresy, and so the status of women was downgraded and they were blamed for God’s wrath.
However, as Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince reveal, the spiritual legacy of the Jewish goddesses and the Sacred Feminine lives on. Drawing on historical research, they examine how goddess worship thrived in early Judaism and included a pantheon of goddesses. They share new evidence for an earlier form of Hebrew worship that prayed to both male and female gods, including a 20th-century archaeological discovery of a Hebrew temple dedicated to both Yahweh and the goddess Anat. Uncovering the Sacred Feminine in early Christianity, the authors show how, in the first century AD, both Jesus and his great rival, Simon Magus, were attempting to restore the goddess-worshipping religion of the Israelites. The authors reveal how both men accorded great honor to the women they adored and who traveled with them as priestesses, Jesus’s Mary Magdalene and Simon’s Helen. But, as had happened centuries before, the Church rewrote history to erase the feminine side of the faith, deliberately ignoring Jesus’s real message and again condemning women to marginalization and worse.
Providing all the necessary evidence to restore the goddess to both Judaism and Christianity, Picknett and Prince expose the disastrous consequences of the suppression of the feminine from these two great religions and reveal how we have been collectively and instinctively craving the return of the Sacred Feminine for millennia.
It is interesting though how most Catholics(I can’t say Christians because a lot of denominations don’t believe in Mary’s “divinity”) have never even heard that Mary herself is an iteration on the sacred feminine theme, even possibly a rebranding of Cybele, an ancient moon goddess, whose cult spread throughout Ancient Greece and Rome.
Mary/Jesus is also like Isis/Horus. Catholicism has always been very syncretistic, especially when it moved into northern Europe and the British Isles. Gods and goddesses became saints, Brigid is the classic example.
This is extremely interesting to me because I am a Christian, but I've always had some kind of obsession/draw to ancient Egypt/Egyptian history. Something resonates with me when it comes to ancient Egyptian culture, religion and their pantheon of God's.Even if it is true will the church recognise it? I doubt we would see any kind of reformation when it comes to any established religion in the world now, though recognition of new religious discoveries that question the current narrative would suffice for the time being.
Open discussion regarding these new revelations within the church would be a start.........
Thank you for sharing this!
In the latter half, Egyptian born author Ahmed Osman shared his controversial theories about ancient Egypt and the history of Judaism and Christianity, which may be radically different than what is described in religious texts. In his historical and biblical investigation into King David of Israel, he concluded that David was actually Pharaoh Tuthmosis III of the 18th Dynasty and Solomon (David's son) was Pharaoh Amenhotep, the successor of Tuthmosis. In additon, he believes that David lived in a different timeline than what has been previously thought, some five centuries earlier, in the 15th century BC.
He further explained that Isaac was David's father rather than his son, and that the biblical narrative about Abraham was altered to obscure Isaac's Egyptian identity. In Osman's reinterpretation of ancient history, he has also found evidence that Moses was an Egyptian-- the Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reduced the pantheon of gods into a single being, but was eventually forced to leave the throne, and then retreated to Sinai with Egyptian and Israelite supporters.