Nghiên cứu về khoa học huyền bí, tâm linh, ufo, chính trị, tôn giáo
Đây không chỉ là nguyên nhân tôn giáo, mà còn là nguyên nhân ở con người chính trị, định chế chính trị. Nhưng tôn giáo là chất xúc tác đẩy mạnh tội ác trong những trường hợp này. Quả thật:
“Chúng ta có đủ các tôn giáo để khiến chúng ta căm thù, nhưng lại không đủ để làm cho chúng ta yêu thương lẫn nhau”-(We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” Jonathan Swift nhà tư tưởng chính trị 1667-1745.
Còn nhiều nghiên cứu và tranh luận về “Kinh Thánh”, nhưng một điều khẳng định, nó không phải là lời “thánh” hay “chữ viết của Chúa”, và rõ ràng càng không thể là mẫu mực của hành xử văn minh, tiến bộ, và nhân bản hôm nay.
“Tôn giáo là một sự xúc phạm đến phẩm tính con người (nhân phẩm). Có hay không có tôn giáo, chúng ta cũng có người Tốt làm Tốt và người Ác làm Ác, nhưng với những người Tốt mà làm Ác, nó cần tôn giáo”- (Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.) Steven Weinberg 1933 Nhà Vật Lý (Nobel)
“Chúng ta có thể sống mà không cần tôn giáo và tĩnh tâm, nhưng chúng ta không thể tồn tại mà không có sự chăm sóc yêu thương của con người”- (We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection- Dalai Lama thứ 14-(1935)
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Thánh Thư (Deuteronomy 20:10-14)
Khi các người tiến tấn công một thành phố, trước tiên cho họ điều kiện giàn hòa (tức là đầu hàng-nkptc). Nếu họ chấp nhận điều kiện của các ngươi và mở cổng cho các ngươi, thì tất cả dân chúng trong thành sẽ bị cưỡng bách phục vụ các ngươi (nô lệ). Nhưng nếu chúng từ chối giàn hòa và tiếp chiến, các ngươi phải tấn công thành đó. Khi Chúa Trời của các ngươi cho thành phố này cho các ngươi, hãy giết tất cả đàn ông trong thành. Tuy nhiên các ngươi được phép giữ làm của riêng tất cả đàn bà con gái, trẻ em, súc vật, và các thứ chiến phẩm khác. Các ngươi được phép hưởng thụ những mất mát của kẻ thù các ngươi mà Chúa các ngươi đã ban cho các ngươi. (As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
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The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people’s Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.
- Letters from the Earth
The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same; but the medical practice changes…The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession- and take the credit of the correction. During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. the Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church, after eight hundred years, gathered up its halters, thumb-screws, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood.
Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry…..There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.
- “Bible Teaching and Religious Practice,” Europe and Elsewhere
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
- Mark Twain’s Notebook
=============The Bible we all predominantly use is the 66 book protestant bible.
But the real Bible has more than 66 books.
There are 72 books in the Original Books. 6 of these were removed by the protestants in the 16th century.
6 Old testament books were removed by Protestants.The New Testament is same for both Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox christians.( 27 books).
But the Orthodox and Catholics Old Testament has 45 Books.
While the Protestant Old Testament has just 39 books.
The 6 books that were removed by Protestants were all Old Testament Books. They are:-
1) Maccabees
2)Tobit
3)Judith
4)Wisdom of Solomon
5)Bara Sirach
6)Baruch
In addition to this, the protestants also removed several parts from the existing 39 books of their OT such as:
*After Daniel 3,23- the Prayer of Azariah and the three Young Men, who were put in the fire by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar
*Story of Susanna in 64 verses (Chapter 13 of the Book of Daniel)
*The Bel and the Dragon (Chapter 14 of the Book of Daniel)
*Some parts of Esther.
*Psalms 151
Why did they edit the Holy Bible?Why did the Protestants decide to remove the 6 books from OT in 16th century after the Reformation in Europe?
Reasons:
1)The books that were removed supported such things as:
• Prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45)
• Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7)
• Intercession of saints in heaven (2 Maccabees 15:14)
• Intercession of angels (Tobit 12:12-15)
2)Orthodox Christians follow the Older version/canon of the Jewish Scriptures(OT) which was in Greek*.
While Protestants follow the Masoretic Hebrew Text which was a new canon or version invented by the Jews in 7th Century Ad (a new version of Old Testament 7 centuries After Christ!).
{* Around 5 centuries before Christ, The Greeks colonised the Holy land and Egypt. They stayed for hundreds of years bringing hellenistic influence to West Asia.
Greek became the official language and the language of the rulers.
So Jewish scholars, philosophers etc switched to Greek from Hebrew, just like we deal more in English than in Malayalam these days.
So the Scripture that was written down in the last 400 years Before Christ were all in Greek.
The Greek Old Testament (Septuagint) is the worlds oldest surviving version of the OT}
Jewish Council removes the 7 books after AD 90!The difference in the Old Testaments actually goes back to the time before and during Christ’s life. At this time, there was no official Jewish canon of scripture.
The Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the second century before Christ. This translation of 46 books, called the Septuagint, had wide use in the Roman world because most Jews lived far from Palestine in Greek cities. Many of these Jews spoke only Greek.
The early Christian Church was born into this world. The Church, with its bilingual Jews and more and more Greek-speaking Gentiles, used the books of the Septuagint as its Bible. Remember the early Christians were just writing the documents what would become the New Testament.
After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, with increasing persecution from the Romans and competition from the fledgling Christian Church, the Jewish leaders came together and declared its official canon of Scripture, eliminating seven books from the Septuagint.
The books removed were Tobit, Judith, Maccabees, Wisdom (of Solomon), Sirach, and Baruch. Parts of existing books were also removed including Psalm 151 (from Psalms), parts of the Book of Esther, Susanna (from Daniel as chapter 13), and Bel and the Dragon (from Daniel as chapter 14).
The curse of RevelationsThe Jews removed 7 books that meant ERASING 400 years of history. It also helped them to deny their Messiah- Jesus Christ.
The protestants removed these 7 books because they supported christian practises such as Intercession, Saints etc.
“I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book. “–Revelations 22:18,19
The unbroken Word of God.http://groups.msn.com/easternorthodoxchristianity/orthodoxbasics.msnw
An excerpt from an article by Fr.Dr. Reji Mathew, principal STOTs seminary, Nagpur:
“If our Bible should contain the unbroken Word of God from the Beginning of the World (Genesis) towards the End of the World (Book of Revelation) how can then there be a silence for 400 years ?
Nevertheless, if we take the Deutero-canonical Books as the Word of God then there is no break at all. They tell us how God interacted with His people during the Inter testamental period of 400 years.
Thus the Deutercanonical Books makes a good bridge between the Old and the New Testament period. We also understand the Judaism of the time of Jesus in a better way if we read those books.”
Martin Luther’s aversion to Scripture.http://members.aol.com/johnprh/deuterocanonical2.html
check out this article, it is informative:-
Martin Luther had developed his theory that only those books that taught his Dogma of Justification by Faith Alone should be accepted as part of the canon. However, he didn’t work out this theory until after he had lost a debate with a Catholic (either Cardinal Cajetan in 1518 or Johann Eck of Ingolstadt in 1519 AD), when 2 Maccabees 12:43-45 was quoted to refute Martin Luther’s “Faith Alone.”
The book of James contradicts Luther’s principle of Justification by Faith Alone.
James 2:24 says “See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.” Rather than change his theology, Luther just denied that, James the Apostle, was the author of James and removed it from his canon.
Writing of Apostle James, he says, “He does violence to scripture and so contradicts Paul and all of scripture. He tries to accomplish by emphasizing law what the Apostles bring about by attracting men to love. I therefore refuse him a place among the writers of the true canon of my Bible.”
Luther challenged an Apostle in such a crude way and said such insulting things about James’s ability to write (which was guided by the Holy Spirit.)
In Luther’s commentary on Book of Revelations he wrote,
“Everyone may make up his own mind as regards this book. As for me, I have a personal aversion to it and that is enough.”
72, 73, 74 or 75?The Book of Maccabees are sometimes split up into 4, since its pretty large.
In some Bible’s there is 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees. In other it can go upto 4 Maccabees.
If we take Maccabees as 1 book, there will be only 72 books. If we take them as 4, then there will be 75.
This is a source for confusion for many, as different websites show different numbers.
The reason is only this.
Scripture used by the Apostles.The Apostles quoted from the Septuagint many times. You will not find many of these verses in the protestant bible:-
http://www.geocities.com/aprofaith/bible.htm
Heb 11:35, “…Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, that they might find a better resurrection.”
The only place in the O.T. that you will find reference to that is 2 Macc 7:1-29. The first half of Heb 11:35 is found in 1 Kings 17:23 and 2 Kings 4:36.
Heb 11:38, “They wandered in deserts and mountains…”
This is found in 1 Macc 2:28-30 and 2 Macc 5:27.
Jn 10:22, “Now there took place at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication…” The inauguration of this feast is found in 1Macc 4:36 & 52-59.
Jn 14:23, “…If anyone love Me, he will keep My word…” This is in Sir 2:18.
Rom 9:21, ” is not the potter master of his clay…” Found in Wis 15:7
1Pet 1:6-7, “…gold which is tried by fire…” See Wis 3:5-6
Rom 1:20-23, “For since the creation of the world…” Found in Wis 13:1-7
Mt 7:12, Lk 6:31, “…all that you wish men to do to you, even so do you also to them…” Extension of Tob 4:15
Lk 25 35-36, “I was hungry and you gave me food….I needed clothes and you clothed me.” Based on Tob 4:16.
Rev 21:18, “And the material of its wall was jasper; but the city itself was pure gold, like pure glass.” See Tob 13 end.
Mt 13:43, “Then the just will shine forth…” Found in Wis 3:7
Mt 27:42, “…if He is the King of Israel, let Him come down now from the cross…” See Wis 2:18-20.
Lk 24:4, “…two men stood by them in dazzling raiment.” Found in 2 Macc 3:26.
Rom 11:33, “…How inscrutable are His judgments and how unsearchable are His ways.” Found in Judith 8:14.
1 Cor 10:20, “…they sacrifice to demons, not to God…” Found in Baruch 4:7.
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Torah versus Talmud?
The first thing to know is that the Torah consists of two parts: The Written Torah, and the Oral Torah.
The Written Torah totals 24 books, including the Five Books of Moses and the prophetic writings – e.g. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Psalms, Proverbs, etc.
The Five Books of Moses – comprised of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy – was written down by Moses in 1273 BCE, and includes all 613 commandments (mitzvahs).
Perhaps part of the reason for the confusion is that the Five Books of Moses has many names. It is referred to as the Bible (meaning “book” in Greek), the Chumash (Hebrew for “fifth”), the Pentateuch (Greek for “five scrolls”), or generically “Torah” – Hebrew for “instructions,” because its purpose is to instruct. (Jews consider it insulting to call it the Old Testament, as this implies a New Testament, which Jews reject.)
But whatever the name, it refers to the best-selling, longest-running book in the history of mankind.
So what is the Oral Torah? Its name derives from the fact that it was not allowed to be formally written down but had to be taught orally. It contains the explanations of the Written Torah. One cannot be understood without the other.
In 190 CE, persecution and exile of the Jewish people threatened the proper transmission of the Oral Torah. Therefore, Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi compiled written notes on the Oral Torah called the “Mishnah” (Hebrew for “teaching”). Rabbi Yehudah arranged the Mishnah into six sections: Laws of Agriculture, Festivals, Damages, Marriage, Purity, and Offerings. Rabbi Yehudah wrote the Mishnah in code form, so that students would still require the explanation of a rabbi – since this information was meant to remain oral.
In 500 CE, the Jewish people again suffered an uprooting of their communities, and two Babylonian rabbis – Rav Ashi and Ravina – compiled a 60-volume record of rabbinic discussions on the Mishnah, called the “Gemara.” Together, the Mishnah and Gemara comprise what is commonly called the “Talmud.”
The Oral Torah also includes the Midrash, an explanation of the Written Torah, comprising both ethical and legal components. Much of this material is also contained in the Talmud.
The Oral Torah also includes the works of Kabbalah, a tradition of mystical secrets of the metaphysical universe received by Moses at Mount Sinai. It was first published as “The Zohar” by R’ Shimon bar Yochai (170 CE), and elucidated by the Arizal (1572 CE).
Torah is not to be regarded, however, as an academic field of study. It is meant to be applied to all aspects of our everyday life – speech, food, prayer, etc. Over the centuries great rabbis have compiled summaries of practical law from the Talmud. Landmark works include: “Mishneh Torah” by Maimonides (12th century Egypt); “Shulchan Aruch” by Rabbi Yosef Karo (16th century Israel); “Mishnah Berurah” by the Chafetz Chaim (20th century Poland).
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