How the Notion of God and Israel Developed
http://www.blissful-wisdom.com/how-the-notion-of-god-and-israel-developed.html


Video explanation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_328442&src_vid=0l80Alsiw40&v=MlnnWbkMlbg

Yahweh-Elohim's Historical Evolution (Pre-Biblical)
written by Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld y de la Torre, M.A. Ed.
http://www.bibleorigins.net/YahwehYawUgarit.html
This brief article investigates the "historical evolution" of the Hebrew God, variously called Yahweh, Yaw, Yah, Ya, Yahu, El, Elohim or Ehyeh asher Ehyeh ( "I AM that I AM" Hebrew: Hayah  Ex 3:14) over a period of 3,000 years (the 4th -1st Millenniums B.C.)

Exodus never happened and the walls of Jericho did not come a-tumbling down. How archaeologists are shaking Israel to its biblical foundations.
http://freethought.mbdojo.com/archeology.html



Professor Shlomo Sand takes on thorny issue of Zionist myths at New York University.
Israeli historian explains 'invention of Jewish people'
By Philip Weiss - NEW YORK    http://www.viewzone.com/jewsinvented.html

Two Jewish Rabbis are interviewed over Iranian television
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TlNs66HESw&feature=related

Evidence: Western News Agencies are 'propaganda firms'
http://www.blissful-wisdom.com/who-owns-news-and-media-networks.html



Israeli citizen exposes more recent Israeli history
This author born in Israel, condemns Israeli policies and lies and reveals the truth about the Zionist state.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCKWDarNdGw&feature=related

"The incursion and bombardment of Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is not about stopping rocket fire into Israel, it is not about achieving peace. The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction on Gaza, to use lethal weapons of the modern battlefield on a largely defenseless civilian population, is the final phase in a decades-long campaign to ethnically-cleanse Palestinians.

Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army, and calls it a war. It is not a war, it is murder.

When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You can't defend yourself when you're militarily occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like, it's not defense.”

Dr. Noam Chomsky      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wnxYjSYK80

Discussion of the contradictions in the Old Testament
On her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance.
The following response is an open letter to Dr. Laura, written by a U.S. man, and posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative:

Dear Dr. Laura:
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination ... End of debate.
I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other elements of God's Laws and how to follow them.
1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians.
Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?
2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of Menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15: 19-24. The problem is how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors.....They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?
6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination, Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there 'degrees' of abomination?
7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?
8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?
9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend).
He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev.24:10-16. Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)
I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so I'm confident you can help.
Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
Your adoring fan,

James M. Kauffman, Ed.D. Professor Emeritus,
Dept. Of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education
University of Virginia




Some personal thoughts:
Mono-theism is a belief in a 'personal' God. 
Poly-theism is a belief in many gods.  
Pan-theism is the belief that there is no division between a Creator and the substance of its creation.  A-theism is the rejection of belief in a 'personal' God or diety.  

Ramana Maharishi, Sai Baba,  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Buddha, and even the enlightened Christ, were A-theists in that sense of the term....where, the illusion of a sage and a perceived personal God,  has fallen away.   From the Sage's perspective there is nothing but the non-dual, all-pervading, Pure Existence termed the 'Self' of all beings.

Understanding those definitions, one could say that in his earlier years, Jesus was a 'mono' theist when he said 'I am a messenger of God'.  Possibly his experience had shifted slightly when he stated 'I am a servant of God'.  As time went by,  his Mono-theism began to shift to Pan-theism, when Jesus began to see God within and behind all of life.  Thus, he stated 'I am a son of God, Ye also are sons of God'.  Yet in his completed enlightenment, Jesus shifted to A-theism, where a 'personal' God no longer exists. 
He expressed that state of realization when he said 'I and the Father are One'. 

The Buddha upon enlightenment stated  'I am the Saint, the Perfect One, the supreme Buddha'

Sathya Sai Baba stated 'God is neither distant nor distinct from you'

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: 'Those who meditate, they retire from the outside, they take their awareness from the outside and gradually go deep into the thinking process and eventually go beyond the thought. Transcend thought and then the thinking mind, the conscious mind becomes consciousness. When it goes beyond thought then it transcends thought and becomes consciousness. This consciousness is pure consciousness. The nature of this pure consciousness is bliss.---the Absolute. This is called Being'

Mata Amritananda Mayi: "There is no difference between the Creator and creation, just as there is no difference between the ocean and its waves."

Krishna spoke to Arjuna on the battlefield:  "I am That, Thou art That, All this is That"