The Bible: Something’s Screwy Somewhere: Part Two

Multi-millions around the world accept the Bible as the literal word of God, and as such it cannot be in error. However, an examination of Biblical texts strongly suggests, to those with open minds, that error, or as I like to phrase things “something’s screwy somewhere”, abounds.

I know I probably shouldn’t pick on God and the Bible as often as I do, but, you know, it’s so damn easy it’s like taking candy from a baby. God sure leads with His chin. Anyway, if I haven’t been struck down by lightning by now, I probably won’t be, so here goes another round. As per usual, all references are from the King James Version (KJV) of the so-called “Word of God”.

Continued from yesterday’s blog…

Biblical Sightseeing

WTF? It takes forty years for the Chosen People to get from N.E. Egypt to the Promised Land (Israel) – it only took the American pioneers six months to get to their Promised Land across the Great Plains and mountain ranges and deserts by covered wagon - something’s screwy somewhere unless the Israelites just stopped to smell the roses and take in the local sights and scenery. Then you figure the distances travelled by Captain Cook and crew, Magellan, Columbus, and all those other seafarers in the golden age of sail. They travelled vastly greater distances in vastly shorter time frames. The more you compare the Exodus trek with other treks, the more anomalous it appears.

Biblical Generation Gaps:

One of the most idiotic themes in the Bible is that the innocent suffer because their ancestors were guilty of some sin or other in the eyes of God, whether it’s on the grand scale of humanity condemned to hardship and suffering because of Adam and Eve’s giving in to temptation (Genesis 3), or the examples of the sons and daughters unto the third, fourth even tenth generation being persona non grata to the Almighty because of an iniquity preformed by dear old great, great, great grandpa or grandma (Exodus 20: 5; Exodus 34: 7; Numbers 14: 18; Deuteronomy 5: 9; Deuteronomy 23: 2-3). That our loving, forgiving, merciful, compassionate Almighty would act in such a manner is anomalous.

Biblical Aliens: The Extraterrestrial Jesus

Several times Jesus admits he is “not of this world”. Check out John 8:23 and 18:36.

Biblical End Times

According to Matthew 24:3-14 and Mark 13:4-13 the signs of the end times are to be along the lines of wars; rumours of war; conflicts between nations and kingdoms; famines; pestilences; earthquakes, false prophets; deadly family feuds; worldwide distribution of the gospels;

So what’s changed in over 2000 years? Why would this be interpreted on being now, not then? That interpretation is highly anomalous, yet it’s what a lot of Right Wing Christian Fundamentalists would have you believe.

Biblical Geography

Though Biblical geography is good in general – no glaring oops like describing massive ice caps and glaciers, that’s no big plus seeing as how the various Biblical authors lived in the areas described by the Bible. I could write a totally unbelievable tale of BEMs (Bug Eyed Monsters of the extraterrestrial kind) on the Moon and yet get the lunar geography spot-on. Not that Biblical geography doesn’t have it’s oops moments, like why no physical evidence or remains of Sodom and Gomorrah; where’s Noah’s Ark to be found that hasn’t already been explored high and low?  And if the weather be part of geography, then having a global spell of very persistent wet weather for forty days and nights (960 hours) is highly anomalous, so much so as to be impossible. It’s called Planet Earth, not Planet Ocean, because there’s not enough of the wet stuff to make it so. Parts of Biblical geography are anomalous.

Biblical Hot Air

The Bible is chock-a-block full of prophets and prophecies, right up through and including the end of the world as we know it (Armageddon). Amazingly, all this soothsaying failed to note and log anything about global warming, climate change, etc., rather major issues in our times. The Bible is big on prophecy; the proof of the prophecy pudding is lacking. That’s an anomaly.

Biblical Characters

There are no independent, verifiable documents, statues, pictograms, stele, inscriptions, grave sites, or any other historical or archaeological evidence that yields any additional credibility to the actual existence of various famous Biblical characters like Adam & Eve, Cain & Abel, Abraham, Joseph, Moses & Aaron, Noah, Solomon, David & Goliath, Jonah, Methuselah, Joshua, and a host of others. You just gotta take the Bible’s word for the reality of these individuals. It’s like the only reference to Homer & Plato, Aristotle & Socrates, Pythagoras, Euclid & Archimedes, was in an ancient Greek school primer for a beginners’ reader and that’s it. Would the very real existence of these half dozen ancients be given any real credibility given just a reference in a lone text? What makes the Bible a special case then? If Biblical characters are as really real and as really the VIPs they are made out to be, then it’s highly anomalous that there just is no other independent confirmation of that status.

A Biblical Piece of the Action

Both the Bible and the Koran are as two peas in the same monotheistic pod. They collectively have influenced billions upon billions of people – whole societies in fact. These texts therefore somewhat remind me of the “Star Trek: The Original Series” TV episode ‘A Piece of the Action’ (aired January 12 1968) where an entire alien society was in the manner of the Bible/Koran subservient to a ‘religious’ text – in this case a book about Chicago gangsters in the roaring 1920’s. That’s what the aliens patterned their culture after. I’m sure that episode was a deliberate dig at the influence our religious texts have on us. But I consider it anomalous that much of the world’s culture is centred on minor variations on and of a single religious text.

The Biblical Face of God

We’ve all seen images of God, from stained glass windows to Michelangelo to Hollywood. The anomaly is that it’s all make-believe. Unless I’ve missed something somewhere along the line, no where in the Bible is God’s physique noted; no physical description exists. He’s not described as white, somewhere between middle and old age, with a very long flowing grey-white beard and long flowing grey-white hair who looks entirely human. The popular image is that the image of God was created in Zeus’s image. Zeus was the model as Zeus’s image was widely known from statues, pottery, etc. For all you know, God could look extremely alien, or for that matter pass you on the street without you blinking an eye.

You Can’t Trust the Bible

We’re used to current events being set down in the here and now. Journalists, camera crews, microphones, tape recorders, etc. will give you today’s events on today’s evening TV news broadcasts. Reviews of recent events will be covered in your weekly magazines. But if I were to write a new biography of say Alexander the Great, you’d know that it could not be 100% spot-on since there’s no way to interview old Alex or those who knew him. Many a document, monument, inscription, etc. from that era would now be lost or destroyed. But when you read your Bible, do you think of the text as you would the evening news bulletin or weekly magazine news roundup, or, as you would my biography of Alex, someone who died way over 2000 years ago?  If the former, you’re sadly mistaken, for those who penned Biblical texts describing Biblical events can no more be trusted for 100% accuracy than my new biography of Alex, and for a similar reason. Words were put to paper long after the facts of the matter transpired. And as for Biblical quotations, well, no tape recorders existed back then, so take any pithy sayings with a very large grain of sodium chloride. Trusting in the Bible is an example of rather strange and anomalous human behaviour.

Our Father, Who Art in Heaven, Twiddling His Thumbs

 Presumably, at the close of the Old Testament, God has retired to His throne room and penthouse in Heaven, and that’s where He’s been couped up for way over 2000 years now. The question is, what does God do with His time up there in La-La-Land? Even if He eats and sleeps and goes to the bathroom and taken daily heavenly showers and trims His beard weekly, that still leaves a lot of hours for – well what’s the answer? Perhaps He stands at the Pearly Gates greeting new arrivals, or conducting Heavenly orientation sessions for new arrivals. Maybe He plays chess with Jesus or the archangels. Perhaps He conducts graduate classes in advanced Christian theology. Perhaps He ghost-writes articles for religious-themed magazines; watches those hellfire and brimstone televangelists on YouTube, or maybe once a year takes on the role of playing Santa Claus – no mortal could fill those shoes. Like Santa, God needs to keep a list and check it twice to find out who’s been naughty and who’s been nice to ensure that only those with the Right Religious Stuff enters through those Pearly Gates! It remains however that what God does with His spare time is an anomaly that has never been adequately explained.

Conclusions

This little exercise is barely scratching the surface that exposes that God’s infallible word, as recorded in the Bible, is anything but. It is riddled with fallacies, errors, enigmas, anomalies, and a potful of similar synonyms.

The Ancient Alien’s Bible: Part Two

Since the idea of supernatural deities is nonsense IMHO, perhaps there’s another explanation behind the more likely as not reality molehill hidden inside the traditional religious mythological mountain. That explanation could revolve around an extraterrestrial flesh-and-blood alternative.

Continued from yesterday’s blog…

WHERE’S WHERE

Heaven: The name of God’s spaceship, or starship if you prefer.

Hell: The brig, located off-ship, probably on Earth, where one could be exiled to if need be.

Eastern Mediterranean (Israel; Land of Canaan; the Levant; Near East; Palestine): That part of terrestrial geography assigned to the officers and crew of the Spaceship Heaven as their area of responsibility. Contrast that with Zeus and company assigned the Middle Mediterranean; Odin and company responsible for the Norse lands; and the Great Spirit who looks after the North Amerindians; and so on.

Garden of Eden: Paradise was actually a terrestrial R&R spot for officers and crew of the Spaceship Heaven. God first had to expel human trespassers after they learned or overheard too much extraterrestrial knowledge forbidden to terrestrial ears. Later on however God gave Adam an interstellar ride in his Spaceship Heaven.

Towel of Babel: To disperse in quick-smart fashion the local population to the four corners of the globe, or even within the region, would have required considerable transport infrastructure.

Sodom & Gomorrah: The twin cities were destroyed via fire and brimstone from above, leaving no trace whatever after-the-fact. The obviously high tech weaponry might have been incendiary bombs or even nuclear weapons, but it certainly wasn’t any sort of destructive weapons technology common to that era.

WHAT’S WHAT

Miracles: High technology in action. As the late Arthur C. Clarke tended to put it, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, at least to those not technologically savvy. Among the high tech examples are the medical ones – healing the seriously sick and handicapped; resurrecting the very recently deceased; enabling very elderly women – over the hill and off the pill – to become fertile and bear offspring.

Food: Speaking of high tech miracles, what does one make of manna from heaven; loaves and fishes that multiply; wine from water? This almost makes you think of the food replication device used in Star Trek.

Noah’s Flood: A whole textbook could be written about the impossibilities of the Biblical tale of the flood and Noah’s Ark. The amount of water required can’t be produced. The boat isn’t near large enough to house and feed every species that would need to be given shelter. The crew isn’t sufficient to look after their charges. But, with just a bit of high tech tweaking, what if the Ark wasn’t for an actual universal disaster but a potential one, a real possibility given those high tech star wars, or wars between the various factions of deities (think of the ten year battle between the Titans and the Olympians; or what must have raged between God and Satan or will rage as per the forecast of Revelation; or the battle between the Frost Giants and the Norse deities; or all those aerial wars depicted in those ancient Hindu texts). Now instead of having entire forest worth of plants and all those animals requiring food and waste disposal, on board, substitute a botanical seed bank and a zoological equivalent, a repository of frozen eggs and sperm or embryos or genetic materials, etc. No need for food; no waste products; not much maintenance (crew time) required, and easily room for everything in the space allowed for the Ark in the Book of Genesis. The issue of course is that all of this is high tech way beyond the capabilities of the great unwashed of that era, the locals or natives. 

Burning Bush: This is an example of extraterrestrial hologram technology in action, employed to awe the local primitives, in this case Moses.

The Ark of the Covenant: Apparently a high and rather dangerous technological device, purpose not really well explained, but obviously more than just a storage box for a couple of stone tablets.

Clouds; Pillars of Fire; Flying Rolls; Star of Bethlehem; Aerial Chariots; Whirlwinds; Ezekiel’s Wheel, etc.: A UFO by any other name is still a UFO, and in most of these depictions, the object, say a ‘cloud’, is an actual vehicle that carries a passenger, more likely as not a Spaceship Heaven shuttlecraft. 

Germ Warfare & Biological Weapons: There are numerous examples in Biblical texts where high tech biological weapons were used against populations (i.e. – the Egyptians, even God’s Chosen People) and individuals like Job.

Transfiguration: Jesus led three of his followers up a mountain, and behold his face had a rather disquieting and unnatural glow about it (much like Moses after his CE3K). In fact Jesus, and/or his clothing, shone with some sort of bioluminescence. To add to this anomaly, Jesus had with him both Moses (long since considered the late Moses who had once been abducted) and Elias (otherwise known as Elijah, the abducted). Further a ‘cloud’ that hovered over this gathering ‘spoke’ to them, one and all, with words that implied that this was God himself doing the speaking. Then the ‘cloud’ vanished like a bat out of hell. Wow! There is surely something strange afoot going on here. By the way, in common with a lot of other Biblical tales, this is repeated several times, in the Books of Matthew, Mark and Luke. In fact, I’d suggest that if you eliminated all of the duplications, the Bible would be 10% thinner!

The Ascension: Jesus departs Planet Earth to take up his new job as First Officer on the Spaceship Heaven, sitting at the right hand of her captain.

Hologram Technology: A very useful ways and means of inspiring awe in the great unwashed. Examples that spring to mind include the ‘burning bush’ and Jesus ‘walking on the water’ and appearing in the ‘flesh’ post execution.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

There have been no verified and documented sightings of the main Biblical players (God, Satan, Jesus, angels, etc.) in way over 2000 years. Where are they? I suspect they have gone away. I further suspect God and crew were recalled to home base to stand trial for crimes against humanity, though many, like Jesus, were exonerated, having played no part or role at Sodom & Gomorrah or in the use of biological weapons and waging germ warfare. Satan and his fallen angels were recalled too, probably picked up from exile, to give account for their original mutiny. Perhaps as we read this Captain Jesus of the Spaceship Heaven (or some other interstellar vessel) is boldly going and finding new Garden of Eden locales to R&R in throughout the cosmos.  

CONCLUSION

It is clear that not everything in the Bible can be easily interpreted in an extraterrestrial context, probably because much of the text’s content tends to be rather mundane soap opera of a humans-only nature. That aside, after you take into consideration all the versions, all the translations and associated issues with that, translation and copying errors (deliberate and accidental), embellishments, artistic license, human imagination needed to fill in the gaps, plus the multiple authorship of all the Biblical texts itself, not to forget that the texts weren’t written down till decades, even many generations after-the-fact (it’s like nobody recorded and wrote down today’s news until the year 2112 – many an error would be made), I conclude that the Bible can largely be interpreted not in a supernatural way but rather an extraterrestrial one.

Unfortunately, if I am right, then all your theological baggage of an eternal life everlasting goes right down the drain – maybe not a bad thing if you thought you were Hell-bound, or even if Heaven-bound as the concept of eternal life is actually hellish as you would rather quickly be bored out of your afterlife skull, and you still have infinity yet to come.

What the Bible Doesn’t Mention: Part Two

We all know what the Bible mentions. Books featuring ‘stories from the Bible’ are a dime a dozen in bookstores. What doesn’t the Bible mention is way more interesting and amounts to just about most of life, the universe and everything. What the Bible omits tells heaps about the bona-fides of God the alleged deity, and ultimate author!

What the Bible* doesn’t contain is perhaps of far greater importance than what it does say when one comes to examining the relative importance of the document and it’s proper place in the world’s literature. Because of fairly major omissions, I conclude that the Bible is just a fairly minor piece of site-specific pseudo-historical literature (to be kind) or a potpourri anthology of fairly mundane science fantasy short stories because most of the historical context is unverifiable. 

Continued from yesterday’s blog…

Genesis 1:26: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”

Genesis 1: 27: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

Presumably that means all of the earth’s peoples that populated the earth ultimately were God’s creations (even if many times removed by natural acts of human reproduction), and not just the two original individuals (Adam & Eve) nor just those peoples and human cultures of the Mediterranean region. So, what peoples in general or nationalities or tribes are noted and logged in the Bible (apart from the names of selected individuals).

People’s Positive Mentions: Assyrians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Egyptians, Greeks, Hittites, Israelites, Persians, Philistines, Romans, and probably a few other inhabitants, nationalities and tribal cultures located north, south and east of the (unnamed) Mediterranean Sea.

People’s Negative Mentions: Any and all of the ancestral tribes of the Aztecs, Incas, Maya, and Olmecs fail to rate a mention. Any and all of the various Amerindian tribes you can think of - ditto. Aborigines, Asian(s), Asiatic, Blacks, Celts, Chinese, Cro-Magnon(s), Danes or the Danish, Eskimos, Indians (India), Irish, Neanderthals, Negro(s), Nubians, Sea Peoples, Spanish, Sumerians, Welsh, and on and on it goes, or doesn’t go. While God needn’t have noted the natives of Antarctica (penguins), there’s no excuse for ignoring a rather large fraction of humanity that just didn’t happen to be blessed with a Mediterranean climate. 

Discussion:  There’s a whole potful of people and places that should give God the Big Middle Finger for leaving them out of his Big Picture as related via Biblical texts. For God to entirely ignore the entirety of the Western Hemisphere, all of the Americas and all of her native peoples – who existed in Biblical times – is totally inexcusable and unforgivable. 

What about Northern Europe and inhabitants? Confined it would seem to non-existence. God creates the world and the human species but perhaps is embarrassed by those barbarians and pagans way north of the Mediterranean (again surprisingly not mentioned either) and so Biblically deletes them to a sort of Orwellian non-persons status. 

Of course nearly all of the Southern Hemisphere is also conspicuous by its absence from all things Biblical. No acknowledgement of the Australian aborigines; the New Zealand Maoris; the Polynesians, the Micronesians, the Melanesians. Apparently all of these peoples aren’t important enough to rate a mention in God’s Holy Bible, yet aren’t these humans too supposed to be among God’s creations?

While there’s little or no historical evidence for many of the characters that appear and feature prominently in the Bible, right up to and including Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth depending on personal choice, really real individuals whose historical bona-fides aren’t in any doubt living in that neck of the woods in those times don’t rate even a Biblical one-liner. No Greek philosophers or poets or historians get a mention. There’s no Hercules (Roman) or Herakles (Greek) noted (hey, if the Bible acknowledges Goliath and Samson, the least it can do is tell a tale or two of Hercules – besides Goliath and Samson never rated their own TV shows); King Gilgamesh is conspicuous by his absence; there’s no Ptolemy, Cleopatra or Alexandria the Great; no Agamemnon (of Troy fame) mentioned in passing either.

Egyptian pharaohs aren’t identified by their names even though there are about 240 references to ‘pharaoh’ or ‘pharaohs’ in the Bible. That alone reeks of pure Biblical make-believe and identifies the Bible as having no credibility whatever. Pharaohs had actual names, the same as you and I. So that failure is as phoney as a $3 bill and a disgrace to whoever authored those bits on God’s behalf.

Instead of all of these historical individuals that played major roles in the Mediterranean region during Biblical times, we get science fantasy stories like Moses holding a conversation with a burning bush; Jonah and his whale; Joshua’s sonic trumpets at Jericho not to mention his ability to manipulate celestial physics; Methuselah’s marvellous lifespan; and of course Noah and his (never to be found) ark.  Then there are those loaves and fishes breeding like rabbits! At least King Sargon gets one mention, so that’s a positive, and a Caesar or two gets a mention as well. 

Other Non-Mentions: After places and peoples come things. No famous monuments are given their due in the Bible – not the Parthenon, not cities like Troy, not massive structures like ziggurats or mastabas or the Great Sphinx; not even the pyramids. In fact I don’t believe the Bible mentions any of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – a major oversight IMHO. 

Speaking of the Southern Hemisphere and Noah above, while I don’t expect a massive amount of nitty-gritty detail, there should be some accounting for how a pair of flightless New Zealand Kiwi birds made it to Noah’s Ark and back again! Oh, and by the way, how did Noah have knowledge enough to sex all the animals and how did he know that each pair that he sexed as male and female was actually fertile? Some of those animals may well have been senior enough to have been over-the-hill and off-the-pill or just plain suffering from impotency! Just asking!

Lastly, the Bible fails to mention some fairly obvious legal concepts like genocide is wrong; that there should be equal rights for women; that same-sex relationships behind closed doors is nobody else’s business; that belief in other gods isn’t the end of the world, and so on and so forth. The Bible fails to condemn slavery. It also fails to argue against the death penalty – so much for an all-loving, all-forgiving God. The Bible is very good on instructing people what not to do (‘thou shall not…’), and literal followers of Biblical passages have in fact inflicted massive amounts of personal harm and cultural damage over thousands of years – just ask the Mesoamericans; those tried and convicted by the Inquisition; or alleged witches – always guilt until proven innocent. The Bible most certainly does not turn the other cheek when it comes to paganism and polytheism. It tends to advocate the philosophy of smite first and ask questions later.

Failure to mention, even in passing, all of the above negatives is very odd indeed. It’s as if you built, furnished and decorated your new four-bedroom, two-car garage home, yet the only bits you mention in your letter to Mum was something about the sofa, the kitchen sink, the master bedroom wallpaper and that it was constructed out of bricks – that’s it.

Something is screwy somewhere. So what do we conclude from all of these Biblical omissions?

Despite all the grandiose statements about creating life, the universe and everything, the Bible is just well embellished pseudo-history of a relatively small part of the globe, areas part and parcel of the Mediterranean region, controlled by one alleged deity, no different in principle than Odin controlling the Norse lands; Quetzalcoatl’s strutting his stuff in Mesoamerica; or Viracocha being revered by the Incas of Peru. The proof of that local Mediterranean pudding is that the phrase “God of Israel” appears 201 times in the Bible. Not God of life, the universe and everything – just little old Israel. If you’re not of Israel, then apparently God doesn’t need concern himself with you, at least not in a positive way.

The Bible all up: It’s ultimately a case of what’s included in those Biblical stories (names and places) is not largely supported by archaeological evidence or logic. What is not included is, in a global context, things that any self respecting deity responsible for all things global should have been delighted to have included. That they weren’t speaks volumes – loud and clear.

*King James Version

What the Bible Doesn’t Mention: Part One

We all know what the Bible mentions. Books featuring ‘stories from the Bible’ are a dime a dozen in bookstores. What doesn’t the Bible mention is way more interesting and amounts to just about most of life, the universe and everything. What the Bible omits tells heaps about the bona-fides of God the alleged deity, and ultimate author!

What the Bible* doesn’t contain is perhaps of far greater importance than what it does say when one comes to examining the relative importance of the document and it’s proper place in the world’s literature. Because of fairly major omissions, I conclude that the Bible is just a fairly minor piece of site-specific pseudo-historical literature (to be kind) or a potpourri anthology of fairly mundane science fantasy short stories because most of the historical context is unverifiable. 

In the beginning, the Bible states…

Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

Now that presumably means God created all of the heavens, the entire universe and all it contains, which of course includes the earth and all of the geography therein. Yet only a tiny fraction of ‘heaven and earth’ get a mention in the Good Book! Let’s start with the ‘heavens’ and see what the Bible positively mentions, as well as the negative, what isn’t mentioned.

Heaven’s Positive Mentions: Constellation, Moon, Planets, Stars, Sun – in other words, the basics that you’d expect of any ancient society that had a reason to observe the heavens and chart the pathway of the stars and planets.

Heaven’s Negative Mentions: Asteroid(s), Astronomy, Aurora, Black Holes, Calendar, Comet(s), Cosmology, Cosmos, Eclipse, Equinox, Gaia, Galaxy, Jupiter (the planet), Luna, Lunar, Mars, Mercury, Meteors (and variations), Nebula, Neptune, Outer Space, Planetoid, Pluto, Satellite, Saturn, Solar, Solstice, Terra, Universe, Uranus, Venus, Aliens (as in extraterrestrials), Extraterrestrials – well okay, you get the idea that there’s an awful lot contained in and of the heavens that’s not acknowledged in the Bible.

Discussion: One very interesting question immediately comes to mind. Where did God live before creating heaven by the way? What was his previous address and did he leave ‘heaven’ as his forwarding address? That aside, you’d of thought that a God who created the universe would have had a bit more to say on the subject. Bragging rights perhaps?

Despite God creating the universe (a synonym for heaven?) and all that it contains, there’s no Biblical mention of extraterrestrials. Surely an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-creator God wouldn’t waste all that heavenly space. Surely he’d like more than just human earthlings to worship him. Then too God might be egotistical enough to put humanity in its disgraced state, in its proper place, by rubbing it in that other higher [extraterrestrial] life forms without sin graced the cosmos and were, of course, his creations and they at least paid attention to his instructions! So there!

Well actually God does acknowledge aliens in a roundabout way. It’s contained in statements akin to “Thou shall have no other gods before me”. Those ‘other gods’ are IMHO extraterrestrials. It’s either that or else you’ve got to accept the reality of polytheism and literally thousands upon thousands of supernatural deities.

Earth’s Positive Mentions: Arabia, Armenia, Asia, Assyria, Crete, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Persia, Red Sea, Spain and probably other geographical locations and places surrounding Biblical terrain.

Earth’s Negative Mentions: Afghanistan, Africa, America, Anatolia, Antarctica, Arctic, Argentina, Armenia, Asia Minor, Atlantic, Australia, Black Sea, Brazil, Britain, Brittany, Canada, Caribbean, Chile, China, Cuba, Dead Sea, Denmark, Easter Island, Europe, Fiji, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Korea, Malta, Mediterranean, Mesoamerica, Mexico, Middle East, Near East, Netherlands, New Zealand, New World, Nile, Norway, Pacific, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Scandinavia, Scotland, Sicily, Sumer, Sweden, Switzerland, Tahiti, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam, Wales – well again, you should have gotten the impression by now that there’s an awful lot of terrestrial geography that God totally ignores in his magnum opus. There are also some surprising omissions like the Nile and the Mediterranean Sea. 

Discussion: Well of course not all of those place names were in existence back in Biblical times so you’d argue that their omission is hardly surprising. But since the Bible is God’s holy word, and since God is all-knowing, what better way to show-off and demonstrate his absolute knowledge and be impressive, then and into the future, than through parlour games by predicting with 100% accuracy those eventual undiscovered countries that would eventually be named, for example, United States or Australia? Alas no such thing has come to pass for not even God prophesied such names and places in his holy text – the Bible. He missed a golden opportunity there. 

To be continued…

*King James Version