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God and the Gods

A Compelling Investigation and Personal Quest for the Truth about God of the Bible and the Gods of Ancient History

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CHAPTER 1

The Story of Modern Man

Genesis tells us that God made man and woman, and yet, Genesis also says that Adam was alone, so God made Eve from his rib while he slept. Adam was made with a mate in Genesis 1:27. What happened to the first woman, if God made Eve later in Genesis 2:17? Why does the Bible not explain more clearly who the first woman was?

For those who are not familiar with Genesis, here is the relevant scripture.

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27, KJV)

But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man and he brought her to the man. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man." (Genesis 2:19, KJV)

This is the beginning of the Bible, and already we have a problem with the creation story. Did the writers of the Christian Bible forget something here? The Bible does not mention who the first woman, whose name was Lilith, until later. Genesis, of course, mentions Adam and Eve, but it does not mention Lilith as the first mate by name. However, the Bible does make reference to her in a later chapter. Lilith is included in the writings of the Torah, and the Christian Bible used the Torah as its source of information. Why did the writers of the Bible leave out Lilith? Lilith is worshiped by a secret society and hidden from the public even today.

Every July, some of the richest and most powerful men in the world gather at a campground in Monte Rio, Calif., for two weeks of heavy drinking, super-secret talks and druid worship, a group of elites, including some past presidents join at a secret Bohemian Grove Club meeting. The waiting list is thirty-three years long, and the grove has several hundred members.

From what I understand about this secret society, they participate in a ritual worshipping of kings or gods of ancient history. This ritual includes human sacrifice; of course the sacrifice is a mock burning. Nevertheless, it is a worship and ritual as old as time, and these powerful leaders enjoy every minute of the parties that follow. The members are not allowed to discuss business deals. The only exception was in 1942, with the planning of the Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the atom bomb. The club is very private and heavily guarded, so little is known as to what transactions really take place. In 2000, Texas-based filmmaker Alex Jones infiltrated the group. Jones entered the camp with a hidden camera and was able to film a Grove ceremony, which took place on stage one night. During the ceremony, members wore costumes and cremated a coffin effigy called "Care" before a forty-foot-tall owl. The representation of this owl figure is supposedly an ancient god or king called Moloch. Moloch was a god worshipped by the Phoenicians and Canaanites. Moloch had associations with a particular kind of propitiatory child sacrifice by parents. Moloch appears in the book of Deuteronomy and in the book of Leviticus. At this ritual, officials speak about information not privy to the public. The group calls them private interest talks.

How odd that they would worship old gods and have an owl in this ritual. Even stranger is the fact that this ancient ritual is still happening today. This ritual may date back to the creation of Adam and the place where Lilith resided after leaving Adam. The Jewish Midrashim on Proverbs states that Lilith was created expressly to harm or kill newborn infants. In fact, SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) was associated with Lilith. However, Lilith swore that she would not harm any infant wearing an amulet with the images and or names of the three angels on it. Is there a connection between Moloch and Lilith pertaining to children? The cremation effigy at this private meeting is that of a child.

In the Jewish Torah, Lilith was Adam's first wife and was created at the same time and from the same earth as Adam

A possible explanation for Lilith in the Bible may be found in Isaiah 34:12.

"Her nobles shall be no more, nor shall kings be proclaimed there; all her princes are gone. Her castles shall be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She shall become an abode for jackals and a haunt for ostriches. Wildcats shall meet with desert beasts, satyrs shall call to one another; There shall the Lilith repose and find for herself a place to rest. There the hoot owl shall nest and lay eggs, hatch them out and gather them in her shadow."

This is the only mention of Lilith in the Bible. The Bible can be perplexing. The writers selected what went in and what stayed out. Was there a reason for that? Did the Catholic Church purposely leave out this other woman?

For thousands of years, man has given homage to a God. The Muslims, Jews, Christians, and other religions pray to one God. Hundreds of thousands of scholars since the beginning of time itself have asked who or what is God?

Jews say God is the father of all mankind, while Christians say God is the Supreme Being, just God; he is the alpha and the omega. Muslims believe that God is the all-powerful Creator of a perfect, ordered universe. God has many names from the different religious sects.

• Some of the ninety-nine Muslim names of God (Asma al-Husna) in the Qur'an are the Creator, the Fashioner, the Life-Giver, the Provider, the Opener, the Bestower, the Prevailer, the Reckoner, the Recorder, the King of Kingship, and the Lord of the Worlds.

• Some of the Jewish names of God are Yahweh, Jehovah, Elohim (God or Authority), El (Mighty One), Shaddai (Almighty), Adonai (Master), Elyon (Most High), and Avinu (Our Father).

• The Christians have the fewest number of names for God. They are Almighty, Lord, Messiah, Alpha and the Omega, and Father.

• Some may laugh at the notion that the word God has any origin or association with Hindu Sanskrit, but there is proof that the word God may have been used by the Assyrians in 2400 BC to 612 BC.

The Sumerians believed their God was Elohim, meaning "those that came from above," also known as Anu, Assur, or Ashur, leader of the Annunaki. The Sumerians' writings are documented as the oldest known to man, older than the Bible and the Torah by thousands of years. It is believed that the writers of the Torah and Bible used Assyrian writings as the basis for creation and the flood, as in the story of Gilgamesh. In fact, there are some seven thousand references to a great flood on earth in the past from around the world.

Thousands of clay tablets written by the Sumerians were found in Iraq. Dr. Zechariah Sitchin interpreted these tablets over a thirty-year period, telling an astonishing story of how mankind came to be.

So who were the Assyrians and Sumerians?

According to the cuneiform Sumerian tablets found in Iraq, Mr. Sitchin interpreted their story.

Between 4500 and 2400 B.C., complex societies appeared in the form of cities and fortifications, with specialization in building and writing. These features were associated with the Sumerians and they quickly spread to other parts of Mesopotamia, including Assyria. In Assyria, settlements had become large and were guarded by fortified walls, which would imply the risk of attack from outside foes, hence the need for defense and warfare. It is in Assyria where the mythological foundation of the Old Testament is found. It is here that the story of the flood originates, 2000 years before the Old Testament is written. It is here that the first epic is written, the Epic of Gilgamesh, with its universal and timeless theme of the struggle and purpose of humanity. It is here that civilization itself is developed and handed down to future generations. Here where the first steps in the unification of the Middle East were taken. By bringing under Assyrian rule the diverse groups in the area from Iran to Egypt. They broke down barriers and prepared the way for the cultural unification which facilitated a great nation in the Middle East. The writings talk about a non-human called the Anunnaki. They supposedly live on a planet called Nibiru, which in the past was in our solar system. This may be the lost planet that is now called planet X. According to the text, The Anunnaki were in need of gold and found it on planet earth. The leaders along with council, decided to make man from the primitive life forms already here on earth. At the time the monkey, or what we call Homo erectus was the closest to human they could find. Over time and many attempts, they decided to engineer the genes of themselves and this monkey life form to create a new man, which we call Homo sapiens. Sound familiar? Adam and Eve? Could this be the creation mentioned in the Bible? Was Adam genetically engineered to be a man on earth? Remember these writings were written some 2000 years before the Torah and the Bibles Old Testament.

Cuneiform Clay Tablets

Cuneiform script is one of the earliest known systems of writing. Emerging in Sumer in the late 4th millennium BC (the Uruk IV period), cuneiform writing began as a system of pictographs. In the third millennium, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract as the number of characters in use grew smaller, from about 1000 in the Early Bronze Age to about 400 in late Bronze Age (Hittite cuneiform).

The original Sumerian script was adapted for the writing of the Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hittite, Luwian, Hattic, Hurrian and Urartian languages and it inspired the Ugaritic and old Persian alphabets. Cuneiform writing was gradually replaced by the Phoenician alphabet during the Neo-Assyrian Empire and by the 2nd century AD, the script had become extinct. All knowledge of how to read it was forgotten until it began to be deciphered in the 19th century. Cuneiform documents were written on clay tablets by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The impressions left by the stylus were wedge shaped, thus giving rise to the name cuneiform "wedge shaped", from the Latin cuneus "wedge".

The cuneiform writing system was in use for more than 22 centuries, through several stages of development, from the 34th century BC down to the 2nd century AD.[3] It was completely replaced by alphabetic writing (in the general sense) in the course of the Roman era, and there are no Cuneiform systems in current use. For this reason, it had to be deciphered from scratch in the 19th century Certain signs to indicate names of gods, countries, cities, vessels, birds, trees, etc., are known as determinants and were the Sumerian signs for the terms in question, added as a guide for the reader. Proper names continued to be usually written in purely "logographic" fashion.

Assyrian cuneiform method of writing continued through the end of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, although there were periods when "purism" was in fashion and there was a marked tendency to spell out the words laboriously in preference to using signs with a phonetic complement. Yet even in those days, the Babylonian syllabary remained a mixture of logographic and phonemic writing.

Ape-Man

Let's look at what history has to say about the theory of monkey to man. I will list the finds and the order that they were found. Before I continue, answer this question. "If God made man (Adam and Eve), then who or what were Neanderthal man, Australopithecus Afaronsis, Taung child, Homo Habilis, Hominids and Homo Erectus?" We do know that Homo sapiens are considered to be modern man, but who or what are the others before modern man.? In a biblical question, did God make all these other ape-like creatures before he made man? Records do show these other man-like creatures were much older than Homo sapiens. According to the recent African ancestry theory, modern humans evolved in Africa possibly from Homo heidelbergensis and migrated out of the continent some 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, replacing local populations of Homo erectus and Homo Neanderthal. The human species developed a much larger brain than that of other primates – typically 1,330 (cc) in modern humans, over twice the size of that of a chimpanzee or gorilla. A number of other changes have also characterized the evolution of humans. Among them are increased importance on vision rather than smell, a smaller gut, loss of body hair, evolution of sweat glands, a change in the shape of the dental arcade from being u-shaped to being parabolic, development of a chin (only found in Homo sapiens). The closest living relatives of humans are gorillas (genus Gorilla) and chimpanzees (Genus Pan). With the sequencing of both the human and chimpanzee genome, current estimates of the similarity between their DNA sequences range between 95% and 99%. By comparing mitochondrial DNA which is inherited only from the mother, geneticists have concluded that the last female common ancestor whose genetic marker is found in all modern humans, the so-called mitochondrial Eve, must have lived around 200,000 years ago. The question of the relation between these early fossil species and the hominid lineage is still to be resolved

• In 1856 in Germany, workers were digging for limestone in a cave. What they found was a skull cap of what was called Neanderthal man. It had large eye sockets and an uncommonly large nasal cavity and was dated to be 40,000 years old. Since then, over 300 were found in Europe.

• It appears that Neanderthal man coexisted with Homo erectus which came from Africa and the Middle East. These two are the earliest of man. There are skulls that are much older. A recent study by the Genome Research Institute found that Homo Sapian and Neanderthal man were not the same at all. Confirmed by DNA testing, they were entirely different species.

• Homo erectus was found in Africa and dated to be 800,000 years old. He walked upright and was six feet tall with a brain cavity two-thirds the size of modern man.

• Homo Habilis man (tool Maker) was dated to be 1.75 million years old found in South Africa.

• Taung Child was dated to be two million years old and was about three feet tall, found in South Africa in 1960.

• The oldest skull along with 50 pieces of bone, were found by Donald Yohanson and others in Ethiopia near an old lake bed. Making the news in recent times, she was called Lucy and dated to be 3.2 million years old.

• Other skulls were found in Java in 1891 dated to be one half to one million years old. It's odd to have factual proof that there were other ape-man like creatures living on earth as long as 3.5 million years ago.

According to writer Zecharia Sitchin, ancient Sumerian clay tablets reveal that gods from another planet Nibiru, which orbits our Sun every 3,600 years arrived on Earth some 450,000 years ago and around 200,000 years ago, created humans by genetic engineering of female monkeys. As we see from above, ape-man like creatures did live on earth before the gods from another planet came to earth. Is it possible these gods used DNA or genes from this early ape-man to genetically engineer modern man (Homo sapiens) mixing their DNA with ape-monkey to create a hybrid man? Were these gods the same God of the Bible, or are they different gods? If you read the above, than the timing would be correct as Neanderthal and Homo erectus lived 400,000 – 200,000 years ago and coexisted, but were different according to DNA testing.

According to some scientists, there is no significant explanation for human beings to be on this planet. Their reasoning is, evolution has not changed over extended time concerning primates and apes in matters of brain functions. If humans were genetically the same as primates, we would not have developed as fast as we have as far as brain function. Without a significant change in human DNA at some time in the past, we would never have developed to be who we are today. We humans are the only species on earth who are capable of speech. What stops apes and monkeys and all other species on earth from speech is a genetic marker.

• Scientists have identified the Fox –P2 gene in human DNA, which may be responsible for speech and we are the only species that have it.

• According to the University of Chicago in a report in 2004 while studying the brain, "It seems that the human brain went through a dramatic genetic change sometime around 50,000 years ago".

Evolution could not have been responsible for such a drastic change in such a remarkably short time. Someone or something of superior intelligence had to modify hominids DNA for such a change to happen so quickly. The question is, was it God or the Anunnaki gods that changed early ape man into modern man? The problem I have is, if God made man in the beginning, what happened to our brain or DNA some 50,000 years ago according to scientific studies? Are they wrong, or have they found something?
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