For the religion of the Mystery Schools they believe that man was held prisoner in the Garden of Eden by an unjust and vindictive God. And that man was not told by this unjust and vindictive God that he could have the same powers. And man was set free from the bonds of ignorance by Lucifer ... And that through the gift of intellect man himself will become God. Bill Cooper
The implication is overwhelming that even the Bible infers that before Adam And Eve there are already other creatures on the Earth, other humans on the Earth ... Where were these people that Cain were concerned about? Bill Cooper
Could these so-called messengers of God have served another function – one not so benevolent or benign? Ancient Aliens s2e13: Angels and Aliens, History 2010
Both in the Book of Enoch and in the Hebrew Bible the fallen angels acted in direct opposition to God’s will by interbreeding with humans. ibid.
According to ancient texts the fallen angels not only had physical relationships with the women of Earth, they produced offspring, the Nephilim, a race of giants. ibid.
Researchers point to thousands of carvings and other depictions of strange winged creatures and other semi-human beasts that commonly appear on ancient walls and artefacts. ibid.
If angels were visitors from other worlds, what was their purpose? ibid.
Could so-called fallen angels, jinns and other mysterious ultra-terrestrial creatures, really help to explain more recent stories? ibid.
Angels and demons. Good versus Evil. But if as many Ancient Astronaut proponents maintain extraterrestrials have been masquerading as angels, jinn and other unworldly creatures, for thousands of years, where did they come from? Why are they here? And could they still be around us in plain sight? ibid.
Mount Hermon is also the site where the two hundred fallen angels descended to Earth according to the Book of Enoch. But why Mount Hermon? ibid.
In the occult science of numerology the number thirty-three represents the ultimate attainment of consciousness. Mount Hermon is located at the latitude of 33 degrees north. Tracing the 33rd degree parallel to the exact opposite side of the globe takes you to the site of the most famous UFO encounter in modern history: Roswell New Mexico USA. ibid.
Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yoghurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else, and to be persuaded only to the extent that you give it. Tell him that the book he keeps by his bed was written by an invisible deity who will punish him with fire for eternity if he fails to accept its every incredible claim about the universe, and he seems to require no evidence whatsoever. Sam Harris
It is time we admitted, from kings and presidents on down, that there is no evidence that any of our books was authored by the Creator of the universe. The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology. To rely on such a document as the basis for our worldview – however heroic the efforts of redactors – is to repudiate two thousand years of civilizing insights that the human mind has only just begun to inscribe upon itself through secular politics and scientific culture. We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself. Sam Harris
If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures. Once again, we need look no further than the Jains: Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: ‘Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.’ Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept. Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a theologically defensible reading of the Bible. Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible – and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world. ibid.
Quite a lot of people are upset that the findings of evolutionary science don’t coincide with what is written in Genesis. And there are people who think Genesis should be taken literally. David Attenborough, interview Horizon: A War on Science, BBC 2006
A kind of conjuring trick of taking a rib out of a man’s side in a trance. David Attenborough, televised interview
The correct transliteration behind the story of Adam and Eve is that mankind was deceived in prehistory by a shape-shifting reptilian creature. Chris Everard, Secret Space II
A wicked world. An angry God. A righteous man named Noah who built an arc and survived a flood. But did it happen the way the Bible describes it? Riddles of the Bible s1e13: Search for Noah s/a The Bible Uncovered
Could Noah really have built a boat that big? ibid.
The story of a man, a boat and a flood first appeared in the middle east ... It’s told in both the Bible and the Koran. The account of a catastrophic event that happened very early in human history. Not too long after the Creation. ibid.
The CIA called it the Ararat Anomaly. ibid.
The Bible tells us that a flood covered the whole of the Earth. But most geologists can’t find any evidence to support such a theory. ibid.
Over the years many different theories have been advanced by creationists to explain how Noah’s flood really happened. ibid.
The Black Sea had been a freshwater lake ... A flood of Biblical proportions ... Water from the Mediterranean started to cut a channel through the Bosphorus. ibid.
As the water surged through the Bosporus at a hundred kilometres an hour it unleashed a volume of water two hundred times that of Niagara Falls ... Such a catastrophic event would have seemed to encompass the whole world. ibid.
In the Bible, in the Koran, is the first death and the first murder. Consumed with rage and jealousy Cain kills his brother Abel and is banished, condemned to wander the Earth alone. The story is full of riddles. Riddles of the Bible s1e15: Cain & Abel
Why would God prefer one sacrifice to another? One brother to another? ibid.
If no-one had been killed before, let alone murdered, how did Cain know how to kill? And did he even understand what he had done? ibid.
If in the beginning there is only Adam & Eve and Cain and Abel, who are the people Cain fears in the wilderness? ibid.
What is the Mark of Cain? ibid.
The mark of Cain has for hundreds of years been used to demonise and destroy people, nations and races. ibid.
Augustine believes the Jews descended from the murderous Cain. ibid.
A powerful story of jealousy and fratricide ... The gods Osiris and Seth. ibid.
Exodus: A Biblical tale of miracles. Catastrophes and history changed by the hand of God. From the burning bush to the death of the first-born, scholars and enthusiasts have pursued natural explanations for supernatural events ... Exodus is a three-thousand-year-old story of terrible plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, and the Israelites freed from slavery in Egypt. The book of Exodus is central to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The faiths of billions. Riddles of the Bible s2e2: Exodus Revealed s/a Bible Uncovered
No evidence of their passage out of Egypt has been found. ibid.
Not a single artefact has been found that could be definitively linked to the Biblical exodus. ibid.
There’s no way to confirm even that the Israelites were slaves in Egypt. ibid.
The Ark of the Covenant: Down through the ages it has inspired terror and obsession. This gold-encrusted chest held the Ten Commandments and gave Moses a direct hotline to God. With it the Israelites conquered the holy land and they built a new temple. Then in perhaps the greatest Biblical riddle ever the Ark of the Covenant simply vanished from scripture. Riddles of the Bible s2e3: The Hunt for the Ark of the Covenant
God’s blueprint for the Ark was exceedingly specific. It was to be a portable wooden chest, about four feet long by two feet wide by two feet high. Made of an extremely resilient wood called acacia. And plated inside and out with pure gold. At the corners of the Ark there would be four gold rings into which gold-plated poles could be inserted for carrying. Its lid – God’s footstool – would be pure gold, with golden-winged angels called cherubim at each end facing each other. The Ark served as Moses’s direct hotline to God. ibid.
But by around 620 B.C. references to the most important artefact in the Jewish religion simply ceases ... But three decades after that, in 587 B.C. came another crisis ... The city and its temple were overrun and looted by Babylonians, led by the famous Nebuchadnezzar. ibid.
Hancock is among those who believe that the high priests in charge of the Ark somehow managed to save it before the city of Jerusalem was sacked along with the Temple of Solomon in 587 B.C. ibid.
Legendary cities destroyed by the hand of God. Sodom & Gomorrah ... and Jericho. Riddles of the Bible: Lost Cities s2e5
The foundations of a town from the time of Abraham or even earlier – just where the Bible suggests Sodom was located. Like the cemetery, the town had been deserted suddenly. ibid.
Jericho was built on an earthquake fault line. ibid.