A natural disaster is a damaging event caused by forces of nature and natural hazard; it is also known as an Act of God. It can not be prevented or controlled. People often wonder why natural disasters occur and if sins of humanity play a role in it. Ex. earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, famines, diseases.
Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do."
Out of Love, to be made a sacrifice that seems to look cruel, harsh with full of hatred but it was the chosen path for if God had intervene the chosen ONE shall not be made as a Lamb of God for in accordance to Gospel of John. ie. According to John the Baptist:-
It appears at John 1:29, where John the Baptist sees Jesus and exclaims, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world."
ACT Of GOD - The Chosen "ONE" !!!
Moses - Torah (Terrorize the human God; Pharoah)...
“And We inspired the mother of Moses saying, suckle him, but when you fear for him, then cast him into the river and fear not, nor grieve. Verily! We shall bring him back to you, and shall make him one of (Our) Messengers.” (Quran 28:2-7).
“...And whosoever fears God and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out (from every difficulty). And He will provide him from (sources) he never could imagine. And whosoever puts his trust in God, then He will suffice him. Verily, God will accomplish his purpose. Indeed God has set a measure for all things.” (Quran 65:2-3)
“And We had already forbidden (other) foster suckling mothers for him, until she (his sister came up and) said: "Shall I direct you to a household who will rear him for you, and sincerely they will look after him in a good manner?” (Quran 28:12)
“So did We restore him to his mother, that she might be delighted, and that she might not grieve, and that she might know that the Promise of God is true. But most of them know not.” (Quran 28:13)
The Life of Moses
Moses was born in Egypt on the 7th of Adar in the year 2368 from creation (1393 BCE) at a time when the Israelites were slaves to Pharaoh and subject to many harsh decrees. He was the third of Jochebed and Amram's three children. His brother, Aaron, was his senior by three years, and his sister, Miriam, was older by six years.
His father, a prominent leader of the tribe of Levi, is referred to in the Talmud as “the greatest of the generation.”
Fearing the birth of a leader who would take the Israelite slaves out of Egypt, Pharaoh decreed that all Israelite boys be drowned. Moses’ mother and sister were midwives, and they bravely disregarded the cruel edict.
When Jochebed gave birth to a son (three months early), she hid him at home until he was three months old and she could hide him no longer. Then Jochebed put her son in a waterproof basket, and set him afloat in the Nile. While his sister watched, the little boy was retrieved from the river by Pharaoh's daughter, Bithiah,1 who then raised him in the palace.
According to Exodus, God terrorised the Pharaoh and the Egyptians into submitting to Moses. And in this act of terrorism God brought down many plagues onto the Egyptians.
1. The Plague of Blood
2. The Plague of Frogs
3. The Plague of Gnats
4. The Plague of Flies
5. The Plague on Livestock
6. The Plague of Boils
7. The Plague of Hail
8. The Plague of Locusts
9. The Plague of Darkness
10. The Plague on the Firstborn
Eventually the Pharaoh and the Egyptians were terrorised into submission and they allowed Moses and his people to leave Egypt.
Then God terrorised Moses and his people with the punishment of wandering 40 years in the desert without a home. The Israelites, in turn, on God’s command, terrorised all the other communities they met along the way and launched their ethnic cleansing to exterminate all those who still insisted on praying to other Gods and who refused to accept the God of Moses.
Hence, in short, the book of Exodus is about terrorism and about how God was behind all these acts of terrorism. Hence also, in short, according to Exodus, God is a terrorist by definition.
And that was how the Nation of Israel was born, through terrorism. And from the Nation of Israel emerged the nations of Jesus Christ and Islam. And it has been terrorism for thousands of years until now.
The only difference is Islam, which was born 600 years after Jesus, still terrorises in the name of religion while the Jews and Christians no longer hide behind religion to terrorise others but use ‘modern values’ such as democracy, freedom, human rights and civil liberties.
Hence this makes Muslims bad terrorists and the non-Muslims good terrorists because non-Muslims do not use religion but use noble values to terrorise others.
Muslims kill because God commands it in certain situations against enemies of God and those who disobey God. Jews and Christians do not because they disobey God and are no longer good Jews or good Christians.
Exodus 12.15 says: Anyone who attacks their father or mother is to be put to death.
Exodus 12.17 says: Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.
Exodus 12.16 says: Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper’s possession.
Exodus 22.18 says: Do not allow a sorceress to live.
Exodus 22.19 says: Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.
Exodus 22.20 says: Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed.
Exodus 22.22-24 says: Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
Exodus 22.28 says: Do not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.
In the days of the Pharaoh, magic was what awed the people. The Pharaoh declared that he was god and he had a team of magicians who could turn a stick into a snake to prove it. Moses too was forced to use magic to turn his stick into a snake and which swallowed the snakes of the Pharaoh’s magicians. Even the Pharaoh’s magicians were awed.
Moses also parted the Red Sea to allow his people to escape from Egypt. No one would deny that Moses was legitimate with the powerful magic that he performed.
Jesus - Bible (The Divine Being)
“(And mention) when the angels said, ‘O Mary, indeed God gives you good tidings of a word from Him, whose name will be the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary – distinguished in this world and the Hereafter and among those brought near (to God). He will speak to the people in the cradle and in maturity and will be of the righteous.” (Quran 3:45-46)
“She said, ‘My Lord, how will I have a child when no man has touched me?’ (The angel) said, “Such is God; He creates what He wills. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is. And He will teach him writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel.” (Quran 3:47-48)
The very nature of Jesus is so special, that God compares the uniqueness of His creation to that of the first man and prophet, Adam.
“Indeed, the example of Jesus to God is like that of Adam. He created him from dust; then He said to him, ‘Be,’ and he was.” (Quran 3:59)
“(And remember) when the disciples said, ‘O Jesus, Son of Mary, can your Lord send down to us a table (spread with food) from the heaven?’ (Jesus) said, ‘Fear God, if you should be believers.’ They said, ‘We wish to eat from it and let our hearts be reassured and know that you have been truthful to us and be among its witnesses.’ Said Jesus, the son of Mary, ‘O God, our Lord, send down to us a table (spread with food) from the heaven to be for us a festival for the first of us and the last of us and a sign from You. And provide for us, and You are the best of providers.’” (Quran 5:112-114)
God sent them the table they had asked for, but not without a warning.
“God said, ‘Indeed, I will sent it down to you, but whoever disbelieves afterwards from among you – then indeed will I punish him with a punishment by which I have not punished anyone among the worlds.’” (Quran 5:115)
All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men … whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. Matthew 12:31-32
But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness Mark 3:29
And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven. Luke 12:10
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. 1 Timothy 6:1
Judas is the villain in Christian doctrine. Judas is the betrayer. A traitor would be called a Judas. Judas is a bad word and no Christian would name his son Judas.
God Decide to Choose The Virgin Mary...
Judas Fatal Kiss Of Death!!!
But Judas is good. Judas is not bad. Judas was crucial to the crucifixion and thereafter the resurrection of Christ. Without Judas, Jesus would not have died to save mankind. Is that not what Christians believe? Hence Judas helped save mankind. Judas helped save mankind by helping Jesus to die for mankind. So how can Judas be bad?
If everyone believed in God but did not have any religion the world will be a far better and more peaceful place. It is because of religions we hate and kill one another. People have been killed in the name of God and religion long before recorded history. In fact, the Old Testament is a very violent book and is full of stories about killing infidels and disbelievers in the name of God. If you think Islam and Hudud are violent then read the books of the Old Testament and see what God really wants you to do…kill, kill and kill.
Realising this, Christians (or Christian apologists) try to convince us that Jesus came to change all this and that Christianity is a religion of peace and love, not of war and killings. But that is not true and Christians are living in denial.
(1) If Jesus foresees Judas' betrayal then Judas has no free will, and cannot avoid betraying Jesus; (2) If Judas cannot control his betrayal of Jesus, then his punishment and portrayal as a traitor in western culture is undeserved; (3) If Judas is sent to Hell for his betrayal, and his betrayal was a necessary step in the humanity-saving death of Jesus Christ, then Judas is being punished for saving humanity; (4) If Jesus only suffered while dying on the cross, and then ascended into Heaven, while Judas must suffer for eternity in Hell, then Judas has suffered much more for the sins of humanity than Jesus, and his role in the Atonement is that much more significant. The Bible also states that on the cross Christ forgave those that had contributed to his death, saying that they 'know not what they do.' However Judas seems to have not been included in this pardon.
Betrayal? As an Act Of God...
Muhammad - Quran (The Last of the Prophets)
According to Islamic history, Muhammad was a 'restless soul' who used to withdraw from society to contemplate all alone in a deserted cave for days on end. In this isolation or 'solitary confinement', Muhammad would ponder in search of the Creator. One day, the Angel Gabriel descended to earth to command Muhammad to read. Muhammad replied that he was unlearned and could not read whereby Gabriel repeated the command to Muhammad who continued protesting that he was not capable of reading. Gabriel finally grabbed Muhammad and shook him with such great force that he was compelled to obey the command lest his very life get shaken out of him.
Muhammad was greatly disturbed and in utter shock. He ran back to his wife, Khatijah, and jumped under the blanket while relating to her what he had just experienced. Khatijah, who was older than him and probably quite intelligent considering she already owned a successful business enterprise before she married Muhammad, decided to go see her cousin. Some accounts say she brought Muhammad to meet her cousin. Suffice to say, whether Muhammad did or did not go along, Khatijah did go see her cousin and there appears to be no dispute on this point.
GOD decided to TALK to the messenger
Rasulullah Muhammad SAW was appointed as a prophet at the age of 40 years in the Cave of Hira and his first revelation was 'Iqra' (Surah Al-Alaq) It all is a provision of God an Act OF GOD.
“Read in the name of your Lord who created -created man from a clot. Read: for your Lord is Most Bountiful, who teaches by the pen, teaches man that which he knew not.” (Quran 96:1-5)
a child's status in the womb is changed in every 40 days
as per hadith to change one's habit requires repeating the action for 40 consecutive days or 6 weeks (science has just proved it after 1400+ years!!!)
Musa/Moses (pbuh) was called for 40 days and nights to get TEN commandments
When Musa/Moses (pbuh) requested to see Allah SWT, but couldn't see and become senseless before the reflection. He was sensless for 40 days
Noah (pbuh) and his companions were floating in the ship (made by Allah's instruction) for 40 days
Khatijah's cousin had much earlier converted to Christianity and was an ulama or learned person. When he heard what Khatijah had to relate he said that Muhammad was destined to become a Prophet and he prayed he would still be alive to see this happen. He also predicted that Muhammad would face much trials and tribulations in his God-given mission to spread the word and to bring the Arabs out of the darkness of paganism in the period that Muslims call the era of ignorance or jahil.
Yes, it was a Christian who in a way 'anointed' Muhammad as the Prophet of Islam when Muhammad himself thought he was going mad and told his wife so. But Khatijah's cousin, the learned Christian, convinced Khatijah that Muhammad was not going mad but had been chosen by God as the next Prophet and that she should go home and inform Muhammad of this. Muhammad would probably never have returned to that cave and would instead have asked Khatijah to commit him into a mental asylum if not for her learned Christian cousin.
That, in a nutshell, was the relationship between Muhammad and Christianity in the days when Muhammad had not yet 'seen the light'. And it took a Christian to convince Muhammad that he was not going mad but was in fact a Prophet. And, yes, the Christian cousin of Muhammad's wife was an Arab, as was Muhammad, and the Arab Bible was in Arabic, the language of Islam, and the Arab Christian God was called Allah, as was the God of the pagan Arabs who also had 360 other Gods alongside Allah — which about 21 years later were all 'sacked' in favour of just the one God, Allah, the same God of the Jews and Christians of the Arabian Peninsular of that era.
Summary Of Muhammad
Everyone knows his name. He was, and still is, one of the most influential figures of all time, yet most of us have little real sense of the man himself. A favorite question of those asking about my new book, “The First Muslim,” is thus what surprised me most in my research. Or rather, what might surprise them. Here’s a shortlist:
1. He was born an orphan. His father died without knowing he had a son, and Muhammad was farmed out to Beduin foster parents for the first five years of his life, returning to his mother in Mecca for only a year until she also died. The 6-year-old was left on the margins — an outsider within his own society. He was put to work as a camel boy on the trade caravans to Damascus, and though he eventually made his way up to become a business agent, could never take his place in the world for granted.
2. He married up — and for love. The widowed Khadija was 40, he was 25, and since she was his employer, it was she who proposed to him. Some scholars have assumed that the “wealthy widow” syndrome was at work here, but early accounts indicate a marriage of mutual love and respect — a monogamous one that lasted 24 years until her death. He’d mourn her until his own death 13 years later. His nine late-life marriages were mainly means of diplomatic alliance and of securing his base, as was customary for any leader of the time. It’s striking that though he’d had five children with Khadija (four daughters, and a son who died in infancy), he’d have none with any of the later wives.
3. His first reaction to becoming a prophet? Doubt and despair. He was terrified by the first Quranic revelation, which happened on a mountain just outside Mecca in the year 610, when he was 40. In his own reported words, the pain was so intense that he thought he was dying. Convinced that he was either delusional or possessed, since it seemed impossible that someone like him could be a prophet, his first impulse when he found himself still alive was to try to finish the job himself and leap off the mountain to his death.
4. He knew how to say he was wrong. (Act Of God, Act Of Devil???) He acknowledged his own fallibility, most notably in the now infamous case of “the Satanic verses,” when he tried to mend the rift between himself and his opponents by acknowledging their totem gods as intercessors with the one supreme god. When he realized that he’d been tempted into betraying his principles and that there could be “no partners with God,” he had the courage and integrity to publicly declare his mistake.
5. His tragic failure came at the end. He died without designating a successor. In the absence of a son, many thought it crucial that he make his wishes unequivocally clear, but though his final illness lasted 10 days (the duration and symptoms seem to indicate bacterial meningitis), he never did so. Ironically, the prophet of unity — one god, one people — thus paved the way for the divisiveness between Sunni and Shiite that persists today.
An Allegation that splits the Islamic Faith all because of a Woman...
History is an interpretation of events. You can’t change the actual events in history. But you can interpret the events. And everyone would have his/her own interpretation of things.
Once upon a time the Prophet’s youngest wife, Aishah, was travelling through the desert in a caravan. The caravan stopped for a ‘pit stop’ and Aishah decided to seek a secluded spot to answer the call of nature (they did not have R&R stops in the desert in those days).
Without realising that Aishah was missing, the caravan continued on its journey leaving Aishah behind. When Aishah returned she discovered that the caravan had left so she sat down to wait for them to come back for her.
But they did not realise they had left her behind until they stopped for the night. By then it was too dark to turn back so they decided they would do that the following morning come daybreak.
In the meantime a young, handsome Arab on horseback passed by and he saw Aishah sitting all alone in the desert. Although this Arab had never met Aishah before he immediately recognised her as being one of the Prophet’s wives because all the Prophet’s wives wore tudungs or headscarves.
The young Arab offered to give Aishah a lift and help chase after the caravan. Before they could reach the caravan, night fell, so they had to seek shelter for the night in a cave and continue their journey to look for the caravan the following morning when it was light again.
The following morning the Arab reached the caravan with Aishah riding pillion on the only horse that he possessed. Of course, this triggered talk that Aishah had spent the night alone with a young, handsome Arab. Within a day the whole of Medina was gossiping about this story and in no time at all the Prophet’s enemies were spreading the story about Aishah’s ‘affair’ with a young, handsome Arab.
Ali, the Prophet’s cousin and son-in-law (the first person after Khatijah, the Prophet’s first wife, to become a Muslim) came to see the Prophet to inform him that the rumours about Aishah’s ‘affair’ were becoming very bad and extremely serious. The Prophet was very troubled with this because Aishah was his favourite wife and also the daughter of his best general, Abu Bakar.
Ali argued that the Prophet cannot afford to be linked to rumours of an unfaithful wife. Ali insisted that the Prophet divorce Aishah.
The Prophet was extremely upset. He refused to divorce Aishah but he did leave her house and did not return for a number of days.
In the end the Prophet did not divorce Aishah but went back to her house and made her swear that she did not commit adultery with the young, handsome Arab (as guided by Surah An-Nur) — and Aishah did so.
So that ended the rumours of Aishah’s affair or adultery. The matter was now settled. But that did not settle the matter between Aishah and Ali. Since that day Aishah and Ali became adversaries.
And this revealed itself on the Prophet’s death. The Prophet wanted to spend his remaining days in Aishah’s house and he in fact died on Aishah’s lap. Just before he died, though, he summoned Ali and, according to Ali, the Prophet said that when he dies Ali should take over as the successor (caliph, in the Arabic language).
When the Prophet died the council met to debate who should be the new successor and Ali told them that the Prophet had already anointed him as the successor and that Aishah was a witness to this.
The council summoned Aishah to testify but she said she did not hear the Prophet say this. Because Aishah could not confirm what Ali said, Abu Bakar, Aishah’s father, was appointed the successor instead.
It was not until Abu Bakar and the two caliphs after him, Omar and Othman, died did Ali get his turn to become caliph (the fourth caliph after the Prophet).
But soon after Ali took office, Aishah, who was then living in Mekah, led an army of Meccan Muslims to invade Medina with a view to oust Ali. And this was when the famous (or infamous) ‘War of the Camel’ took place.
It is called the War of the Camel because Aisah was riding a camel and Ali instructed his archers to not harm her (who was, after all, his step-mother) but to aim for the camel. The camel was brought down with a well-aimed arrow and Aishah fell to the ground.
Ali then approached Aisah, helped her to her feet, and told her to return to Mekah. Thus ended the rebellion.
The Medinan Muslims, however, were angry with Ali. Rebellion was considered a serious crime and rebels must be sentenced to death, their property confiscated, and their family sold into slavery. But all Ali did was to help Aishah to her feet and allow her to return to Mekah unpunished.
Many people turned against Ali and declared him a bad Muslim for not upholding the law. Aishah may be the Prophet’s widow and Ali’s stepmother. But the law is the law and Ali had violated the law. So they turned on him and soon after that Ali was assassinated.
Okay, that is the event in history. It was most unfortunate that Aishah needed to answer the call of nature and doubly unfortunate that she did not inform anyone in the caravan and they left without realising she was missing.
It was also unfortunate that a young, handsome Arab, a Good Samaritan, passed by and he was riding alone. If he had been in a group rather than alone then the story of Aishah’s affair and adultery would not have been possible.
But what happened, happened and the bad blood between Aishah and Ali resulted in the Sunni-Shiah conflict that is still going on until today.
You see, when they assassinated Ali, his followers formed ‘the Party of Ali’ or Shiatul Ali (now know as Shiah for short) to seek revenge for Ali’s death at the hands of fellow Muslims. And the Shiahs are still seeking revenge until today (man, do these Shiahs have long memories).
But what I want to stress here is not so much the Sunni-Shiah conflict but how rumours of sexual misconduct can have serious repercussions. In the Aishah-Ali case millions died because of it, Muslims at the hands of Muslims.
Ali’s solution to this was that Prophet Muhammad must divorce Aishah to protect the image and reputation of the Prophet. A Prophet can’t afford to have these rumours of an unfaithful wife hanging over his head. A Prophet and his family must be seen to be above sin and transgression.
As they say: it is a matter of perception.
Of course, these rumours were being spread by the Prophet’s enemies. That is natural. Who else but your enemies would do this?
But the Prophet’s enemies were able to spread these rumours only because the event did happen (meaning: Aishah spent the night alone in the desert with a young, handsome Arab). If the event had not happened then they would not have been able to spread any rumours.
Those who supported the Prophet and/or Aishah naturally did not believe the rumours. Ali did not say be believed it as well. What Ali said was the Prophet has to divorce Aishah to protect/insulate the Prophet (and Islam, of course) from these rumours.
I interpret this as the saddest episode in Islamic history. How something so innocent can be twisted into something so devious that has now split Islam beyond repair is sad. But it happened.
Miracles of Jesus
When God Is One Of US!!!
Natural Disaster: Act Of God and God's Will???
How Indonesian mosques survived the tsunami
Architectural experts say the mosques in Banda Aceh survived because they were sturdily built and had stronger foundations than surrounding structures, many of which were likely constructed of poorer-quality materials. But many survivors believe the mosques were spared by divine intervention.
Andi Jatmiko
December 23, 2014
Updated: December 23, 2014 04:00 AM
In this photo from january 20, 2005, the Rahmatullah Lampuuk Mosque stands intact after the 2004 tsunami hit the area in Lhoknga, near Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Greg Baker, File/AP Photo
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia // When a powerful tsunami smashed into the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh ten years ago, the only structures left standing in many neighbourhoods were mosques. For the hundreds who found refuge within their walls, the buildings’ lifesaving role has not been forgotten — and for many, that experience strengthened their faith.
Architectural experts say the mosques in Banda Aceh survived because they were sturdily built and had stronger foundations than surrounding structures, many of which were likely constructed of poorer-quality materials.
But many survivors believe the mosques were spared by divine intervention.
“It’s because the mosque is the house of Allah, the creator of such a tsunami. It’s protected,” said Ahmad Junaidi, a survivor who fled to safety in the majestic Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, a major landmark in the city with its 35-metre-high minarets, white walls and seven black domes.
The mosque, built by Dutch colonisers and completed in 1881, was virtually unscathed by the December 26, 2004 tsunami, which devastated the city and killed more than 230,000 people in more than a dozen nations around the Indian Ocean.
As an 18-year-old, Reza Nasir found refuge from the disaster by climbing onto one of the Grand Mosque’s black domes. From there, he saw the ocean flood into the city and over the mosque’s outside walls, leaving hundreds of bodies in the courtyard. He had never seen so many corpses.
That was also when he started to pray five times a day, one of the five pillars of Islam.
Many residents of Aceh, the most dominantly Muslim province in all of Indonesia, viewed the disaster as punishment for their lack of devotion to God. The tsunami has actually made many more devout, said Faisal Ali, a prominent cleric.
“It encouraged Acehnese to renew their dedication to their faith,” Mr Ali said.
With the renewed religious fervour among many in Aceh, the region on the northern tip of Sumatra has also become the only region of Indonesia governed by Sharia — part of a peace agreement with the government to end a decades-long separatist war that granted the region some autonomy.
Mirza Irwansyah, an architectural expert from Banda Aceh’s state-run Syiah Kuala University, said that at least 27 mosques in the city survived the tsunami, often the only buildings in their neighbourhoods to do so. Photos of the structures standing amid the debris circulated on the internet after the disaster, with many calling their survival a miracle.
But they stood firm mostly because of their solid construction compared to surrounding buildings, said Mr Irwansyah. The Grand Mosque, he explained, was built by Europeans with a sturdy foundation.
In many cases, mosques and churches are built by charities, Mr Irwansyah said, and are therefore less likely to be cheated by corrupt contractors who use lower quality materials in houses and ordinary buildings to cut costs.
Now 28 years old, Reza Nasir — who watched the tsunami rush in from the rooftop of the Grand Mosque — recently awoke before dawn to join dozens of others for prayers at the same spot. Together, they bowed their foreheads to the white stone floor that was once covered with bodies.
“I feel like I have a second chance in life after surviving the tsunami,” Mr Nasir said. “I’m grateful. It created a momentum for me to change to be better.”
The Bible proclaims that Jesus Christ holds all of nature together (Colossians 1:16-17). Could God prevent natural disasters? Absolutely! Does God sometimes influence the weather? Yes, as we see in Deuteronomy 11:17 and James 5:17. Numbers 16:30-34 shows us that God sometimes causes natural disasters as a judgment against sin. The book of Revelation describes many events which could definitely be described as natural disasters (Revelation chapters 6, 8, and 16). Is every natural disaster a punishment from God?
In much the same way that God allows evil people to commit evil acts, God allows the earth to reflect the consequences sin has had on creation.
Romans 8:19-21 tells us, “The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.” The fall of humanity into sin had effects on everything, including the world we inhabit. Everything in creation is subject to “frustration” and “decay.” Sin is the ultimate cause of natural disasters just as it is the cause of death, disease, and suffering.
Who Is Father? Where Is Father? Father of the Chosen ONE!!!
1. Moses vs Egyptians - Raised by Pharoah (The self-proclaimed God).
2. Jesus vs Romans (Paganism) - The Heavenly Father, Born of a Virgin Mary.
3. Muhammad vs Arabs (Paganism) - Born an orphan
What would Moses, Jesus or Muhammad say upon seeing Father?
Daddy's flown across the ocean Leaving just a memory... A snapshot in the family album
"Daddy, what else did ya leave for me?"
"Daddy, whatcha leave behind for me?"
All in all it was just a brick in the wall!!!
Father Of Many Nations, God's chosen People an Act Of GOD!!!
I will make you a great nation And I will bless you; I will make your name great, And you will be a blessing I will bless those who bless you, And whoever curses you I will curse; And all the peoples of the earth Will be blessed through you
Genesis 12:1-3
As much as the Christians and Muslims may argue that their religion came from God — and thus are new and separate religions — the truth is both Christianity and Islam are offspring or by-products of Judaism, the religion of the nation of Israel (‘the nation of Israel’ not to be confused with Israel the country or the nation-state).
Abraham: The history of the Jewish people begins in Bronze Age times in the Middle East when God promised a nomad leader called Abram that he would be the father of a great people if he did as God told him.Jews regard Abraham (as he was later called) as the first Patriarch of the Jewish people.Abraham was the first person to teach the idea that there was only one God; before then, people believed in many gods.Ironically, Abraham's father, Terach, had made his living selling idols of various gods.
Other faiths: Abraham is a significant character in other religions - not only Christianity but Islam too.Muslims know Abraham as Ibrahim, and regard his as an important prophet of their faith. Ibrahim's first son Ishmael, known as Isma'il, is regarded as the father of the Arab people.
Abraham's story: The story of Abraham and his descendents is found in the book of Genesis. We first meet him in Genesis chapter 11, although at this stage his name is Abram. There is very little biographical detail about him apart from the fact that he was a shepherd and came from Ur in Mesopotamia - modern day Iraq - after which he and his family moved, with his father Terah, to Haran.
This is a polytheistic age, an age when people believed in and worshipped many gods. Yet within this atmosphere, Abram answers the call of God and it is because of this that he accepts and realises the reality of there being only one true God.
In the Jewish tradition called Midrash (a Hebrew word which means 'interpretation' and relates to the way readings or biblical verses are understood), there are a number of stories about Abraham smashing his father's idols when he realises that there can be only one God of heaven and earth. It doesn't matter whether the stories are true or not. They acknowledge that Abraham was the first person to recognise and worship the one God. And so, monotheism was born.
Say: “We have believed in God, and that which has been sent down on us, and that which was sent down on Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Prophets who were raised in the tribes, and that which was given to Moses, Jesus, and all other Prophets from their Lord; we make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims.” Chapter 3, verse 84, of the Qur’an
Abraham – the common and first Patriarch for Judaism, Christianity and Islam – who was he? A few claim he originated from India, then there are those who punt for Persia (Iran), while many suggest that it was in Babylon (Iraq), or somewhere in present day Turkey’s southern region. Yet, in reality, for such an important religious figure, nothing is known of his origin. Even the Bible merely mentions the birthplace of his brother as in Ur of Chaldean (Genesis 11:28), but strangely no this. Ur is the Tel el-Muqayyar site in southern Iraq. Even this location is disputed for many reasons, with some experts opting for Turkey (but more later). The other location associated with Abraham's origin is Haran (Genesis 12:4 & 12:5) in northern Iraq (near Carchemish), next to today's Turkish border. Archaeologists and biblical researchers have investigated and dug in Iraq and southern Turkey, but nothing has been found to indicate any tenuous link to his existence. Abraham was the father or rather the ancestor of the Hebrews (Jews). The story of the ancient Hebrews had always been closely linked to Egypt, so perhaps looking there instead of the above mentioned locations may provide some clues to the Patriarch’s origin.
A Racist GOD with lost of Humour?
In Act Of God, God chooses the Hebrew people a Jew named as Abraham. As such the Jewish are God's chosen people and that makes a God Racist. A race of Nation chosen by God thru the chosen One known as Abraham.
The Bible Says So!
A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning. The wife said, "You should do it since you get up first; that way we don't have to wait so long to get our coffee." The husband retorted, "Hang on! You are in charge of cooking around here. That’s your job, and I am prepared to just wait for my coffee." Wife insisted, "No, you should do it. Besides, it’s written in the Bible that the man should do the coffee." Husband laughed, "I can't believe you would resort to such a tale. OK, show me." So she fetched the Bible, opened to the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says …….. HEBREWS
A God with lots of Humour!!!
"Kill Your Beloved Son" - Abraham and Isaac went home. Abraham had obeyed God. He was willing to let his son die. What Abraham did was like what Heavenly Father did. Heavenly Father was willing to let his son, Jesus Christ, die for us. Heavenly Father and Abraham loved their sons. Jesus and Isaac loved their fathers and obeyed them.
In Quest of Abraham, the chosen HEBREW
The Father of Many Nations.
“The Israelis journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children …..” (Exodus 12:37) The Book of Exodus relates the preparation of the Hebraic exodus from Egypt after the Pharaoh, cowered by the 10 plagues including the death of his firstborn, gave Moses leave to lead 600,000 male Jewish slaves plus their families, totalling some two million people. 2,000,000 Hebrew slaves migrating out of Egypt! Yet, not one mention of this monumental migration was ever recorded in Egyptian history! Not one! “Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years. At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lords’ division left Egypt …..” (Exodus 12:40-41) Nearly half a millennium of residence in Egypt by 2,000,000 Hebrews – again there wasn’t any Egyptian record of them! Not one! This had been an unexplained omission of amazing proportion by the Egyptian scribes. Or, was it? Were there Hebrews in Egypt afterall? Was there ever an Exodus?
The word ‘Egypt’ appeared in the Bible more than 750 times while ‘pharaoh’ was mentioned over 200 times. More than any of the Israelite nation’s neighbouring countries, Egypt was the most described country in the Scriptures. Egypt – the nation that, according to the Bible, held 2,000,000 Hebrews in slavery until God instructed Moses to lead his people out of Egyptian bondage. The Egyptian pharaoh only released them after a bitter and acrimonious struggle resulting in the deaths of all Egyptian first-borns including the pharaoh’s own. Egypt – where the Israelite people including its kings would always run to for refuge and sanctuary when threatened by other warring nations such as the Babylonians. The prophet Jeremiah threatened the Hebrews about running to Egypt for refuge when the Babylonians were advancing, by relaying God’s message: “As my anger and wrath have been poured out on those who lived in Jerusalem, so will my wrath be poured out on you when you go to Egypt” (Jer 42:18). But the Hebrews nevertheless went to seek sanctuary in Egypt, and Jeremiah, notwithstanding his own warnings, followed, purportedly to rail against the Israelites for picking up Egyptian worship (Jer 44). Surely in Egypt there must be something to explain all those mysterious and very monumental omissions of records indicating Hebraic presence there, unless of course there was no Hebrew ever in Egypt, and thus no Hebraic exodus took place.
Nobody seems to knows for only God knows...
Facts or Frictions? A Myth, A Tale or just a Hearsay???
Ancient Egypt was a land famous for its fastidious recording of historical events, even of those who invaded her (eg. the Hyksos, Macedonians, etc). The activities and lives of her Pharaohs, generals, priests, officials, etc were recorded into immortality. Virtually everything and anything could be read from the writings of ancient Egypt on walls of tombs, temples, ancient ruins, stones, wooden caskets, and any material capable of being written upon. “When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that she [Sarai or Sarah] was a very beautiful woman. And when Pharaoh’s officials saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into his palace.” (Genesis 12:14) Yet, Egyptian historical scripts on artifacts, temples and tombs, in fact anything, do not contain one single reference to Abraham [or Abram] or his wife Sarah [Sarai]. “So Pharaoh said to Joseph, I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt. Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph’s finger …….. He had him ride as his second-in-command …. Thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt.” (Genesis 41:41 to 41:43) The above biblical passage referred to Abraham's great grandson Joseph, he of the ‘seven years of fat and seven years of lean’ in Egypt, favourite son of Jacob, sold off as a slave by his jealous brothers. Joseph was virtually the overseer of Egypt, second only to mighty Pharaoh. “… she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying I drew him out of the water.” (Exodus 2:10) Then there was the greatest prophet of the Jews, Moses, who was brought up as an Egyptian prince, and led the Jew slaves out of Egyptian bondage. The most puzzling mystery has been that in a land of such fastidious recording of events, not one single line of hieroglyph or hieratic in Egypt’s vast repository of recording made any mention of these personalities.
WIsh I Knew But I Not Knew!!!
Who Is God? I AM GOD!!!
The Pharaoh was a God-King to his people. He was looked upon as more than a mere ruler; he was in fact a god, a divine being chosen to lead the people and maintain order, and provided an important link between the Egyptian people and their gods. Yet, when the Hebrews resided in Egypt, according to the Bible they worshipped their own God. Even when Joseph, an Egyptian prisoner, interpreted the Pharaoh’s dream, he attributed his ability to his own Hebraic God (Genesis 41:16 & 25 & 28-32). Then we even have Pharaoh acknowledging Joseph’s God in Genesis 41:39.
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has revealed the meaning of the dreams to you, clearly no one else is as intelligent or wise as you are. Genesis 41:39.
“I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”Genesis 41:16
These biblical incidents represented repetitive affronts to the divinity of the Egyptian God-King. Egyptologists said that it was unacceptable for anyone to confront the divine Pharaoh with an alien God. He would have been executed or at best thrown into prison. The Hebrews would never have been allowed to worship their own God, especially after they became slaves. But could they have done it covertly? Would this be possible for a population of 2,000,000 Hebrews, and for a period of 430 years, to do so without the Pharaoh and his councillors ever knowing about it or stopping such alien worship? The logical answer has to be a resounding no. Then, could there be another more sensible reason?
I AM WHO I AM, I AM MADE OF YOU!!!
In The Beginning
I Was Just A Shadow
In The Beginning I Was Alone...
Then I Call You From The Darkness...
Where I HIDE!!! I AM MADE OF YOU!!!!
In Genesis Chapter 41, the Pharaoh had troubling dreams about seven cows and then seven ears of corn. No one could interpret the dreams, not even all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. (Genesis 41:8) Anyone who has worked in organizations know how those around the throne (of any kind) operate, would find the honest admittance of ignorance in the Pharaoh’s court rather unusual. Had one of those magicians or wise men made an interpretation, even a false one, poor Joseph would have continued to languish in prison. Of course, it being a saga in the bible, we may ascribe the strange humility or reticence of those magicians and wise men as designed by God. The stage was thus set for Joseph to ascend to power. The Pharaoh’s chief butler, who had experienced Joseph’s amazing ability, strangely remembered him after two long years, and recommended the Hebrew prisoner to the Pharaoh. (Genesis 41:9-13) Joseph interpreted the Pharaoh’s dreams as we now know it. We have now come to the second strange part of the story. Based on the words of a foreign criminal – remember Joseph was a prisoner, jailed undoubtedly on a false charge, but nevertheless still an incarcerated criminal – that could not be realised until at least 14 years had passed, Pharaoh decided to elevate him to the position of CEO of his nation. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph. Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph. See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. (Genesis 41:39-41) Then Pharaoh gave his own ring to 30-year old Joseph, set him up as the new Grand Vizier, virtually the No 2 man after the Pharaoh, provided him with an Egyptian name and married him off to an Egyptian lady, the daughter of a priest. (Genesis 41:42-46) But consider once again - Joseph was a common criminal, a Hebrew whose career resume would state shepherd until 17, slave, convicted rapist, prisoner. Purely on the basis that he made an as yet unfulfilled prediction of the Pharaoh’s dreams, a prediction that would only be known for its veracity after more than a decade had passed, the King made him the Grand Vizier of Egypt. Why not some other Egyptian officials who probably possessed more knowledge and experience on agricultural logistics and grain production? And what happened to the Grand Vizier before Joseph's promotion? Was it conceivable that the mighty Pharaoh, any Pharaoh for that matter, would make such an illogical decision?
The King That Lost It ALL!!!!
I ruled the world With these hands I shook the heavens to the ground I laid the gods to rest
I held the key to the kingdom Lions guarding castle walls Hail the king of death
Then I lost it all Dead and broken my Backs against the wall Cut me, open I
Just trying to breathe Just trying to figure it out Because I built these walls To watch 'em crumble down I said
Then I lost it all Who can save me now?
Beauty Rewarded By GOD!!!
Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? And shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? (Genesis 17:17) This tells us that the age gap between Abraham and Sarah was 10 years. So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him: and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. (Genesis 12:4) Abraham was already 75 years old when he was instructed by God to leave Haran after his father died. Therefore Sarah was sixty-five years old. It also tells us that there was a gap of at least 25 years between entering Egypt and having their son Isaac. And it came to pass, that, when Abrams was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. The princes also of Pharaoh also saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. (Genesis 12:14-14) When entering Egypt, Abraham wanted Sarah to pretend she was his sister. The biblical reason was that he was afraid of being killed if it was known she was his wife, for he anticipated Sarah would attract lustful attention. And he was right. Pharaoh was told of her beauty, took her into his Palace and rewarded her ‘brother’ generously.
Here, two questions begged to be asked. (1) What did Egyptians see in a 65 year old Hebrew woman that made them acclaim she was fair, and recommend the beauty to the Pharaoh, and why would a Pharaoh, who could have any woman in the land, want an old crone as his lover? (2) Did the Pharaoh have his naughty ways with Sarah after taking her into the Palace?
Does Beauty Rules The World?
I Wish Em' ALL Beauties!!!
I been all around this great big world, And I've seen all kinds of girls, But I couldn't wait to get back in the states, Back to… The cutest Girls In the World!!!
Other questions that popped up are: (3) What was a pastoralist like Abraham doing in a cosmopolitan city like Ur? One would expect him to live in a tent in a rural area, but we are told he came from Ur of the Chaldees? (Genesis 11:28) (4) But the Chaldean civilization came about in 900 BC, more than half a thousand years after the biblical Abraham. So, was Abraham really from Ur of the Chaldees? (5) Then, what would be the likelihood of a foreign commoner, a mere pastoralist even allowing for his beautiful wife, coming into contact with the royal house of Egypt, namely the princes and the Pharaoh? (Genesis 12:15) Can a great empire like Egypt be so 'small' that a mere foreigner, on entering its border, would come into contact with or to the knowledge of its princes? (6) Why is there a leitmotiv surrounding Abraham and Sarah of the man and wife pretending to be brother and sister, a King taking (or attempting to take her) the wife, God intervening to return the wife to the husband, and the husband profiting greatly from the separation? The leitmotiv may be discerned in: (a) Abraham and the Pharaoh (Genesis 12:11-20) (b) Abraham and Abimelech of Gerar (Genesis 20:2-18) – Sarah was even older by then, around 90. (c) Isaac and Abimelech of Gerar (Genesis 26: 7-16) – we aren’t too sure whether this was the same Abimelech for it was then more than 50 years later, but the King had a chief captain of the army named Phichol (Genesis 26:26) as was in the case of the earlier or Abraham’s Abimelech (Genesis 21:22). (7) Why was Sarah told to change her name from the original Sarai to Sarah, in Hebrew meaning Princess? (Genesis 17:15) What were the authors (or author) of Genesis trying to say, or do?
What Happen To-Day???
She was always something special Diamond shining bright in the rain Everybody dreams of angels No one would ever know How much I love you so
Now it all seems funny, kinda like a dream Things ain't always what they seem What a shame, what happened to Jayne
KILL THEM FIRST BORN SON!!!
(Creeping Death!!!)
Egyptian & Hebrew Alike!!!
As the Book of Exodus tells us, the reigning Pharaoh was getting worried with the way “the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.” (Exodus 1:7) After a number of failed attempts to curb their population explosion, he decided to kill all male Hebrew children.
Slaves Hebrews born to serve, to the pharaoh Heed To his every word, live in fear Faith Of the unknown one, the deliverer Wait Something must be done, four hundred years So let it be written So let it be done I'm sent here by the chosen one So let it be written So let it be done To kill the first born pharaoh son I'm creeping death
"And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive." (Exodus 1:22) Moses was born of a Levi family. His mother hid him for as long as she could from the massacre commanded by Pharaoh. When she felt she could not do so successfully any more, she built a small ark made of bulrushes, water proofed it, placed Moses in the floating basket, and set it among the rushes near the Nile’s bank, whence the Pharaoh’s daughter chanced upon the basket, saw and adopted the child, named him Moses meaning ‘I drew him out of the water’. Now, a royal person such as the Pharaoh’s daughter wasn’t exactly given to nursing an infant, so Miriam, Moses' sister, who was strategically lurking nearby and waiting for the right moment, approached Her Royal Highness, offering a wet nurse service which the princess happily accepted. Of course Moses' real mother played the role of the nurse. Everything fell comfortably into place, and Moses grew up not only safe from the Pharaoh’s slaughter but as an Egyptian prince. Sigmund Freud thought it was all a bit fishy, and that was not because of the Nile. In his book Moses And Monotheism, he wrote on his personal feelings regarding his exposé on Moses: "To deny a people the man whom it praises as the greatest of its sons is not a deed to be undertaken light-heartedly, especially by one belonging to that people" He agonised that as a Jew, he was about to disabuse the Jewish people with his discerning observations on the true origin of their greatest prophet. Sigmund Freud believed Moses was not a Hebrew but an Egyptian.
The Book of Genesis shows so many discrepancies and inconsistencies that many wondered why or what the authors were up to. Even Sigmund Freud, yes that famous father of psycho-analysis, noticed the puzzling way the biblical personalities and events were written up. As a Jew, Freud was invariably interested in the story of the Jews’ greatest prophet. He wasn’t satisfied with the biblical tale of Moses. He might not have been the first to notice the weird and bizarre discrepancies, but he was probably the first to put his observations into print. In 1937 he published his thoughts on the matter in a book titled Moses and Monotheism.
In The End, What Is The Truth???
(Doesn't Even Matter)
I Try So Hard And Got So Far
I Had To Fall To Lose It ALL!!!
I Put My Trust In YOU!!!!
So Moses was left by his mother in a floating basket along the banks of the Nile. “And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.” (Exodus 2:4) The Egyptian princess came along and discovered him, knowing straightaway he was a child of the Hebrew slaves. “Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?” (Exodus 2:7) Freud did not believe the story of Moses’ sister Miriam approaching the daughter of Pharaoh with an offer to look after the baby, whom the princess had then just picked up from the river, for the obvious reason it was impossible for a slave girl to ever approach any member of the Egyptian royalty unless he or she allowed it. Her personal bodyguards would not only have prevented that but probably made mincemeat out of Miriam. The Egyptian royalty was matrilineal. This means that ascension to the Egyptian throne was decided by who married the principal daughter of the Pharaoh, thus explaining why sons of Pharaohs married their sisters to hold on to the throne. Should the crown princess marry someone outside the family, then that outsider and not the son of the previous Pharaoh would become the new Pharaoh. Freud was absolutely correct in his observation that a girl of the depised Hebrew slaves would never ever have a chance of approaching a member of the Egyptian royalty, let alone such an august personality who was heir to the throne of Egypt. “And the child grew, and she brought him unto the Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.” (Exodus 2:10) Again, Freud thought that name and the biblical explanation of its significance was very dodgy. Freud was a Jew, so he knew a few things about Hebrew names. For the Hebrew baby’s name to bear the meaning the Pharaoh’s daughter intended, he would have been called Moshui, and not Mosche (Moses).
Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they madeAnd the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence
Freud also considered that it was utter nonsense to credit an Egyptian princess with knowledge of Hebrew etymology. In Egyptian the name Mose means child. When the Old Testament was translated into Greek, the extra s was added to its end. The name Mose was patently Egyptian and a very popular one too in compound names. One hears of Amon-mose, Ahmoses, Tutmoses, and Ra-moses (or Rameses). Remember these names well, for we shall hear of some of them again. Freud also knew that circumcision was an Egyptian rite called Sebi, that predated the Hebrew custom. The father of European history, Herodotus mentioned this in his first volume of Histories. Archaeologists noted the many mummies and wall paintings discovered, bore testimony to Herodotus revelation. Laidler mentioned that during biblical times the Semitic tribes were known as the uncircumcised, while most Egyptian males, particularly highborn and priests, subscribed to the rite-practice. Why then would Moses, if he was Hebrew, impose an Egyptian custom on his Semitic people? Freud remarked: “If Moses gave the Jews not only a new religion but also the law of circumcision, he was no Jew but an Egyptian, and the mosaic religion was probably an Egyptian one.” Laidler commented that on the face of it, there was one problem to Freud’s assertion. The Egyptians were polytheist, and thus monotheism was not an Egyptian practice. From the 1st Dynasty until the last, lasting some three thousand years, the ancient Egyptians worshipped many gods. With one exception … In those 3,000 years, for a brief 20-year period during the Egyptian 18th Dynasty, coincidentally around the time of the Exodus, a Pharaoh considered to be religiously heretic did practise monotheism. The Pharaoh was Amenhotep IV, or more famously known as Akhenaten.
WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT NO, WE AIN'T GONNA TAKE IT OH WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE NO WAY!
Before he changed his name to Akhenaten, Amenhotep IV was co-regent to his father, Amenhotep III. According to Nicholas Reeves, author of the book Akhenaten, it was a short co-regency (about 12 years), with the son assuming complete powers after his father died. That was also when his far more famous wife Nefertiti came into prominence. She was a very beautiful woman, whose discovered bust lies in the Berlin Museum. It was stated that even the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler, was taken by her beauty. In his book, Reeves discussed the various theories of her origin, including the possibility of her being a non-Egyptian, and concluded that, based on available evidence, she was Egyptian, and probably the daughter of Kheperkheprure Ay who was better known by his official title of the God’s Father, Lord Ay, the Grand Vizier to Akhenaten. The 'God' was a reference to the Pharaoh, thus the title 'God’s Father' could have meant the 'Pharaoh’s father-in-law'. This made Nefertiti the cousin sister of Akhenaten, as Lord Ay was the brother of Akhenaten's mother, the Lady Tiye. Amenhotep changed his name to Akhenaten (the glory of Aten) in honour of Aten, the sole god he worshipped, which was represented by the sun disk. Some historians suggested that it was the sunlight, or just light that he revered rather than the sun disk or the sun. But he was certainly the first historical figure to practise monotheism, much as Jews or Christians for obvious and understandable reason may wish to dispute. The sun cult in Egypt, like sun cults of other countries, was very ancient, and manifested in the worship of Ra (or Re), and various other representations of the sun, such as Nefertem. The sun cult had its centre in Heliopolis, where among many sun temples, the priests of On served this god. The politics in Egypt was not only influenced by the royal family but also by the clergy. During the times of Amenhotep III and the all conquering Tutmoses III (Akhenaten’s father and grandfather respectively), the Amun cult, with its base of worship in Thebes rose into political prominence under the patronage of those Pharaohs. In Egypt a compromise between religious cults, when it became necessary, was not unusual. Their gods would syncretised, as it did with the two most influential sects, into Amun-Ra, which became the 'chief' god. In fact their syncretism was already noticed much earlier, around the 5th Dynasty.
In the end, as we fade into the night (whoa!) Who will tell the story of your life? In the end, as my soul's laid to rest What is left of my body? Or am I just a shell? I have fought And with flesh and blood, I commanded an army Through it all I have given my heart for a moment of glory
From whatever religious revelation, Amenhotep IV chose to worship only Aten (an earlier aspect of Ra or Re), making Aten-worship the official and only religion in Egypt. After his father’s death, he built a completely new city dedicated to Aten at modern day Tel al Amarna, and named it Akhet-aten, meaning 'the city of the horizon of Aten’. To pursue his monotheistic doctrine, he banned all other Egyptian gods and even set about defacing or destroying them completely, hence he was later known as the ‘heretic’ Pharaoh. Some said he conducted the desecration to snub the powerful priesthood of Amun, with the intention of curbing their political powers. His reign was short-lived, when he either died or disappeared after a brief 17 to 20 years rule (the exact length of his reign is still uncertain). After his reign, all evidence of his rule and his magnificent city Akhet-aten were destroyed to erase the memory of his unpopular monotheistic rule. It took nearly 3,000 years before an Egyptian woman digging for fertile soil for her garden accidentally stumbled upon some 300 clay tablets with hieroglyphs known as the Amarna letters, thus leading to the lost city of Amarna or Akhet-aten. While it was known that he had several daughters, historians still debate whether he had sons. The growing consensus seemed to that the most famous Pharaoh in the world, discovered by Howard Carter in 1922, Tutankhamun was his second son. After Akhenaten’s highly unpopular rule, Lord Ay removed all reference to Aten in an effort to re-consecrate the old gods, even changing the name of the new Pharaoh, Akhenaten’s second son Tutankh-aten to Tutankh-amun to placate the angry priests of Amun. Sigmund Freud analysed that one of Akhenaten’s Egyptian believer, a high official named Tutmoses, was the ‘Moses’ of the Bible. Tutmoses apparently 'adopted' the Hebrew tribes, converted them to the monotheistic Aten-ism, and led them out of Egypt. Graham Phillips, author of The Moses Legacy also suspected the same thing, however suggesting that the biblical Moses was a composite of two members of Egyptian nobility, both named Tuthmoses, but living one century apart. One of them was probably the same Tutmoses identified by Freud. However, Keith Laidler, author of The Head of God, disagreed.
I am a man who walks alone And when I'm walking a dark road At night or strolling through the park When the light begins to change I sometimes feel a little strange A little anxious when it's dark. Fear of the dark, fear of the dark I have a constant fear that something's always near Fear of the dark, fear of the dark I have a phobia that someone's always there
While Keith Laidler, author of The Head of God admired Sigmund Freud’s piercing analysis that led to the identification of Moses as an Egyptian – bearing in mind this was in 1937 with its more limited reference material and very conservative Christian society - he felt that Freud was not bold enough to go further. In arguing his case, Laidler quoted one of Freud’s findings, that of the hero myths. Hero myths around the world, particular those of the Mediterranean region, have always presented the story of a royal baby (or one fathered by a divine being, or even fathered ‘jointly’ by king and god) abandoned, or stolen, or failed to be killed by enemies but hidden successfully away etc, brought up by humble or poor foster parents, underwent dangerous trials and tribulations, and after succeeding all those obstacles would realise his royal birthrights (or realising his royal birthrights but forced to undergo trials and tribulations), and return to his royal origin. So we have the “royalty to humble upbringing, trials and tribulations, and back to royalty” process for heros. A classic example of the hero myths is that related to Perseus from the House of Danaus. Perseus was the grandson of King Acrisius of Argos. Before he was born, an Oracle told the King that he would be killed by his grandson, born of his daughter Danae. In an attempt to prevent that, the King locked Danae up in a bronze underground chamber (or, in some books, a tower) to isolate her completely. The myth told of Zeus, the Lord of Olympus who was known as a raunchy stud, entering the confines of Danae cell as a shower of gold. Perseus was the God’s progeny. He was brought up secretly in her mum’s chamber for several months before his grandfather heard a baby’s cry emanating from the supposedly secure cell. When the King came to know that Danae had given birth to Perseus, the grandson that he dreaded, he put her and the baby into a wooden chest and threw it into the sea. As would have it, the chest stayed afloat, and was rescued by Dictys, a fisherman of another land. Brought up under humble surroundings Perseus grew up to be a handsome and courageous man (Some stories have Perseus being brought up by Dictys brother, Polydectes who was King of Seriphos).
Life it seems to fade away Drifting further everyday Getting lost within myself Nothing matters no one else I have lost the will to live Simply nothing more to give There is nothing more for me Need the end to set me free
Helped by the gods Athena and Hermes, Perseus killed Medusa of the Gorgons, rescued an Ethiopian princess Andromeda from a sea monster, sorted out those who wrong her, returned home, saved her mother from a lecherous king (Polydetes) by turning the bastard into stone with the use of the Gorgon’s head. He then decided to make up with his granddad, went back to his native land. King Acrisius, on hearing the mighty Perseus (and consequentially his fate) was on his way, fled to another land where the king there so happened to have organized funeral games in honour of his deceased father. Acricius was a spectator at the Games, when Perseus arrived to participate. As ordained by the Oracle, in the throwing event Perseus threw a discus (in some stories, a javelin) which hit and killed his grandfather. Though he had accidentally killed his grandfather, he didn’t wish to return to Argos to claim his kingdom. He exchanged Argos with his cousin's kingdom, and became King of Tiryns instead. Thus, in Perseus life, we see the typical pattern of a hero’s life progression, that from “royalty to humble unbringing, trials and tribulations, and back to royalty.” Thus, were the stories of other Greek heroes like Amphion and Telephus. Romulus, the founder of Rome, and Sargon of Agade, the founder of Babylon also had similar life patterns. But the hero of the biblical Exodus had a totally reverse story for his life.
In A Place Of Made Believe Is A Place Of Once In A LifeTIME!!!
Carrying on from Who was Abraham? (12), Keith Laidler, author of The Head of God suggested that Sigmund Freud should have drawn an important conclusion from the reverse hero myth that was detected in the Moses story. Instead of the typical “royalty to humble upbringing, trials and tribulations, and back to royalty” process, Moses’ life was one of “humble upbringing to royalty, trials and tribulations, and back to humble beginning” – Hebrew slave to Egyptian prince brought up by the Crown princess, ran away from Egypt because he murdered an Egyptian, to Hebrew commoner. By writing an inverted hero myth, the author of the Book of Exodus was attempting to disguise Moses' royal heritage. Laidler suggested that might be because the Judean author wanted Moses as one of their own rather than an Egyptian royalty. Though Freud noticed that oddity, he didn’t draw another conclusion from it. Rather, he went on to identify one of the Pharaoh's princes or high officials, Tutmoses as the real Moses. Though his book caused some stir in Europe when it was published (undoubtedly he would have been condemned or accused of blaspheming, as he is still today because of this story), interest faded away after he died in 1939, three weeks into World War II.
For War Is Inevitable!!! Death to Those Who Blaspheming... (speak irreverently about God or sacred things.)
It's all about a matter of tolerance. When either one is not tolerating, there'll be no peace but war. Everyone in the world is tolerating the smell of people's shit when ONE needs to ease themselves in a public toilet. Wonder why people can tolerate the smell of other people shit but somehow there is no tolerance to the smell of cigarettes? Even though you are smoking at a secluded area out of sight of public viewings. Tats how life is living in a round world which seems flat because too many crooked ways. For I be Damn!!!
The War brought about the tragic Holocaust, which consequentially made his book involving a prophet of Judaism too sensitive to delve into. As today, there were then the same intimidating frowns and discouragements from both Judaic and Christian authorities. Many decades later, Ahmad Osman, an Egyptian and British trained Egyptologist investigated deeper into Freud’s book, and made extensive studies on other related Egyptian and Hebrew texts, and came up with a more startling conclusion. He presented the findings in his book Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus. Laidler bemoaned that Freud didn’t come up with the same obvious findings as the great man was obviously a victim of his very own words when he expounded his study in his book Moses and Monotheism, that “the awe of Biblical tradition was insuperable.” Thus Freud was still, in some ways, constrained by his religious subconscious to conclude the obvious, that the Egyptian official who practised monotheism was and would be the one who taught it to the Hebrew slaves. The Hebrew’s greatest prophet, Moses was none other than the Pharaoh Akhenaten. Like Like Like!!! #like Someone Like You, Beast!!!
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Keith Laidler in his book The Head of God quoted extensively from the work of Ahmad Osman, the Egyptologist-author, who identified Moses as the Pharaoh Akhenaten. (Book Title: Moses and Akhenaten: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus.)
Apparently Joseph, was Yuya, the famous Grand Vizier to Tuthmoses IV, the Pharaoh who had a strange dream while sleeping at the place where the Sphinx was buried. In the dream, the Sphinx told him he would be Pharaoh if he cleared the sand off the buried mysterious monument. He did so, and lo and behold, the Sphinx was revealed from the digging. Tuthmoses IV’s grandfather was Tuthmoses III, the powerful Pharaoh-conqueror, acclaimed as the Egyptian Napoleon who ruled from the Nile to the Euphrates. Tuthmoses IV in turn was the father of Amenhotep III and thus the grandfather of Akhenaten. Yuya’s daughter was Tiye, whom Amenhotep III (Akhenaten’s dad) fell in love with. Yuya also had a son called Ay. However, when Amenhotep III (Akhenaten’s dad) was still a very young prince, he had to marry his sister, Sitamum who was still an infant, in order to inherit the throne – note: some historians put Sitamun as his and Queen Tiye's daughter, whom he, the father-Pharaoh, also married. Remember all those seemingly incestuous marriage had to do with the matrilineal succession of Egyptian royalty - note: it is also interesting to learn that Judaism follows a similar matrilineal lineage. But once the marriage to Sitamun was taken care off to secure the royal succession, Amenhotep III married his real love, Tiye. Among his royal progenies was Amenhotep IV, soon to be Akhenaten the heretic King.
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So was Joseph (Yuya) the father-in-law of Amenhotep III? In the Bible, Joseph was quoted as saying to his brothers, asking them to bring his father Jacob into Egypt: “Haste ye, and go to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.” (Exodus 45:9)
According to Ahmad Osman, the Israelite family of Jacob who ’descended’ into Egypt to settle numbered 70 but only 69 names were noted in the Bible (Exodus Chapter 46). Osman went into detail to identify the missing 70th name. He believed that it was Tiye, daughter of Yuya (Joseph) who was already in Egypt. He reckoned that her name was omitted from the Bible because either a woman’s name was usually left out unless she had a significant role in the story, or, the more likely reason, the Hebrews were still so bitter over the trials and tribulations leading to the Exodus, that the author deliberately refused to include her name because they didn’t want to have anything to do with an Egyptian. Osman noticed that in the Book of Exodus, Moses royal ‘mother’ was identified as the daughter of Pharaoh. “And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.” (Exodus 2:10) Earlier as mentioned before, we have already read how Sigmund Freud, himself a Jew who was familiar with the Hebrew language, pointed out that the name Moses didn't reflect the Biblical claim that it meant "I drew him out of the water". However, back to the identity of Moses' mother, Osman saw that the Koran claims Moses' mother as the Queen, Pharaoh’s wife.
“… Pharaoh's wife said, Here is joy for me and thee! Slay him not; haply he may be of use to us, or we may adopt him as a son …” (Sura 28:9)
Osman argued that the Koranic version is more plausible as ancient Egyptian custom would not have allowed an unmarried Egyptian princess to adopt a child. Osman went on to list two possible factors for the Biblical mistake. The author of the Exodus understood that the mother of Moses was an Israelite but was also b-t Pha’ra, literally ‘the House of Pharaoh’. How could that be? Because the author of the Exodus was unaware of the deliberate omission of Queen Tiye (an ‘Israelite’ from his her father’s side, but also b-t Pha’ra) from the Book of Genesis, he decided to resolve the conflicting allegiance of Moses' mum by creating the two ‘mothers’, one an Israelite who was the biological mother, and the other b-t Pha’ra, an Egyptian princess who adopted him. Note: Osman stated that both the ancient Egyptian and early Hebrew written language initially didn’t have short vowels. Vowels were introduced much later. Osman also explained why the author of the Exodus placed Moses’ Egyptian mum as a princess rather than a queen. The Egyptian word b-t meant ‘house’ but also signify ‘wife’, thus b-t Pha'ra would have meant Pharaoh's wife or Queen. But to a Hebrew b-t meant ‘house’ as in the sense of a building or ‘household’. He went into elaborate scholarly discussion on ancient Egyptian and early Hebrew philology, and demonstrated various misinterpretation in the story of Joseph in the Book of Genesis with regards to the no-vowel languages and the subsequent introduction of 'y' as a vowel in them. He attributed the designation of princess rather than Queen as a result of the author’s lack of understanding of the Egyptian written language. Thus, according to Osman, both Moses’ (Akhenaten's) real and 'adopted' mum was Queen Tiye, the daughter of Yuya (Joseph).
To Be Continued... Act Of God Part II
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