“DE-MIRACLE-IZING THE BIBLE”
“DE-MIRACLE-IZING
THE BIBLE”
As a young
Christian, I attended Christian camps in
the sixties, and there was a Minister, a Dr Lew Born, who headed up the
Methodist Youth Fellowship in Queensland, Australia, who had gone to a
Bible
College in the USA and picked up a PhD in Theology.
We were
absolutely delighted, riveted, with his
explanations about Christ’s miracles, indeed all the miracles in the
Bible, as
he was able to explain them in human terms and understanding … they
weren’t
miracles at all … but natural happenings in everyday life.
He
explained it as de-mythologizing the
Bible, and this was based on Rudolf Bultmann’s works in the 1940 -
1950’s,
which according to him, the Bible had myths, not miracles, that needed
to have
the mystery taken out of them.
All this
was to engage the general man back into
religion by taking the miraculous out of the Bible.
Little did
Bultmann realize, that so doing, he
brought Christianity down to the level of any other religion of good
works, as
no other religions have miracles.
And his reason? To engage the culture and make the Bible more relevant, by taking the supernatural out.
According to Bultmann, the Bible writers tried to explain
what they experienced using the limited language and concepts available to them
at the time, which was inextricably linked to the supernatural and miraculous,
which Bultmann saw as myth.
Of course
he should have been honest and said the
word “de-miracle-izing” … that is … let’s explain away Christ’s
miracles … as
they were not miracles according to him … and call them myths.
Now of
course, everyone just nodded and agreed, and
said “How wonderful to have such a brilliant scholar as Dr Born in our
midst!”
And since
that time, the church has lost power at
increasing speed. This loss started in the early 1900’s with Bible
Training
Colleges questioning the virgin birth with Peake’s Commentary, and has
gathered
momentum ever since.
Indeed
before that in the 1850’s, Madame Balvatsky
and Darwin’s theory of evolution began the rot.
The
Christian church has sought to bring God’s
words, the King James Bible, down to our level of understanding,
instead of
being dragged up to God’s point of view.
Dear
Reader, there are no myths in the Bible. Here
are some of what has come out of this Satanic movement as follows:
1. A camel
through the eye of a needle. The Bible
is correct in its literal wording. What the Jew described was the
impossibility
of this event. The largest animal they knew was the camel and the
smallest hole
would be an eye of an actual needle. This was not a camel attempting to
get
through a little doorway.
2. Hell is
only the rubbish dump outside of
Jerusalem called Gehenna.
3. Healing
the sick is simply positive thinking
4. 153
fish were caught due to the changing of the
tide
5. Five
loaves and two fishes did not feed the
5,000, but a small boy’s generosity helped the crowd to also share
their
lunches.
6. The sun
and moon stood still due to the Theories
of the Relativity of Movement and the Refraction of Light Rays.
7. Jesus
didn’t die … he only swooned in a temporary
coma …before waking up.
8. God
didn’t halt the waters for the priests to cross
the Jordan, but upstream an earthquake occurred which cause the water
to dam up
there, and thus enabled the priests to cross.
9. The Old
Testament Plagues on Egypt were not
miracles but can be explained as the result of ongoing biological and
environmental changes. Google it up and have a read. To start with the
waters
turning to blood were the result of an excess of certain weeds and red
algae.
10. Israel
crossed the Reed Sea not the Red Sea – a
mistranslation by the 1611 Translators.
11. There
was not six days in creation but these
‘days’ in the Bible only are a symbol and great periods of time.
12. The
Gap Theory helps us meld evolution and the
six day creation
13. The
Old Testament tabernacle in the desert was
not covered with badger skins but porpoise and whale skins … thereby
overlooking the fact, that as God looked down from heaven he would see
the
natural enemy of the serpent/the snake, being the badger! Ah yes Dear
Reader,
Satan was excluded from the Tabernacle by the actual animal called the
badger.
14. Jesus
just a good man doing good things … to be
the best example for us to follow … thereby elevating the 2nd
Commandment over the first … that is … Love thy neighbour as thyself,
instead
of the Love the Lord Thy God first.
15. There
were no greyhounds when mentioned in the
Bible, but have since been proved wrong.
16. Conies
not in Bible but rabbits. There are
actual animals called conies.
17. Jesus
started the Christian church
18. Just
do good and you’ll get to heaven … God
weighs us on our good vs our bad.
19. God
loves the sinner but not the sin
20.
Evolution and not creation.
Dear
Reader, need we go on?
If you
explain miraculous away, there is no
Christianity and Christ was a liar and a fraud. Christianity is based
on
miracles … and no other religion is.
Harley
Hitchcock
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