At-a-glance/The Bible/201

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:The noble thing is not always the right thing
Christians get some things right and all the rest is bs.
Atheists get some things right and all the rest is bs.
Buddhists (Noahides) get some things right and all the rest is bs.
Buddhism is based on logic and Buddhists in general seem to be Dhamma-followers.
Christianity is based on "love" & faith and Christians in general seem to be Faith-followers.
This article attempts to explain the basic ideas presented in the Bible. But ultimately there is no substitute for reading the Bible yourself and making up your own mind. 
If you are unfamiliar with the Bible then a good place to begin reading would be:
*Genesis 1-12, 17, 22, 25, 28-30, 37
*Exodus 1-14
*Judges 2, 13-16
*1 Samuel 8
*2 Kings 22-25
*Daniel
*Mark
*Revelation
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== Eternal life ==
=== Rebirth ===
Optional
:Dhamma-follower
1st stage (Stream-enterer)
:Finite faith ("Homelessness")
2nd stage (Once-returner)
:Moral "discipline" (Boot camp)
::All-or-nothing thinking 
::Union with the divine (Rebirth)
3rd stage (Nonreturner) 
:Meditation (Concentration) 
::Jhanas of form (Divine abodes)
:::Infinite faith (Equanimity)
:::Infinite happiness (Joy)
:::Infinite sanctity ("Love")
:::Infinite time (Compassion)
:Optional (Serenity) (Recommended)
::Jhanas of formlessness 
4th stage (Arahant) 
:Wisdom of insight (Hand & eye)
Liberation from Samsara
Aging is not just physical. Its also psychological. Physical aging ends in physical death. Psychological aging ends in psychological death.
As you age your subjective self-image of yourself as a young person begins to seem unrealistic.
You begin to awaken to the fact that you were just dreaming that you were young.
You begin to become old.
You continue to get older and older till (psychological) death at which point you fully awaken.
Now it is indeed true that you were just dreaming that you were young.
But you are also just dreaming that you are getting old.
And when you die and wake up you will just be dreaming that you are waking up.
And the dream will reset and start all over.
Birth - aging - death - rebirth.
As a finite mortal you only have a finite amount of time.
When your time is up you wither and die like a tree without water. The Tree of eternal life is the tree of infinite time.
Lack of time causes people to get in a hurry and miss the mark they had set for themselves. If you had infinite time then you would never . ('Missing your mark' is not a synonym for the English word 'sin'.)
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=== Eternal life in tropical paradise ===
Teachers = Trees of knowledge
Fruit is free. 
Will you eat or are you afraid it will bite you?
(Helpful hint: Do not steal that which is free)
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=== Protoverse ===
:See also: Conway's Game of Life
In the beginning of our universe, long before the Big Bang, long before space itself existed, an event occurred. The first event of our universe. A single solitary self-replicating event that was the totality of our universe. The singularity. First light. 
This event replicated into a vast sea of interacting singularities. Space still did not exist. It was chaotic but it was not total Chaos. There was enough order that life was possible. Our universe has just the right balance of chaos and order to make life possible. Too much order and the universe would be frozen and unchanging. Too much chaos and life would be burned up. 
It is entirely conceivable that the first singularity of our universe was in reality just a single event in an earlier universe of total Chaos. A Chaos so total that life was not possible. It is possible that this earlier Universe separated into regions that were dark and frozen and regions there were light and chaotic and that our universe formed at, what was at that time, the boundary between these two regions. 
This earlier universe would have also come from a singularity which would have been the true first event of all time. 
:Time → Chaos → First light → Our universe
Asking what caused the first cause is like asking whats north of the north pole. The answer is not "nothing". Like asking "have you stopped beating your wife" the answer to the question is that you don't ask that question. At a fundamental level events do not "cause" other events. They merely "influence" other events. The first event was not "influenced" by any preceding event.
To be influenced by another event an event must be able to "see" the other event. The dots in the diagram to the right represent events (singularities) and the arrows indicate "seeing" (entanglement). No particle in our universe can see any particle in the first universe (hence our universe is immune to the Chaos of the first universe). The reverse may or may not be true.
In a Universe not bound by the limitations of gravity and conservation of energy the first fully intelligent beings may have been the size of mountains. To insect-sized creatures mountains would seem like planets.
In a universe without space, and therefore without light, all beings would be blind. Intelligent beings could, however, cover everything with Smartdust (Ad-im dust) that would detect what was in its immediate vicinity and convey that information to an all-seeing central computer. See Hive mind. 
By logging in to the central computer, intelligent beings would be able to use augmented reality to "see" what was around them. 
 
If the central computer could see individual neurons then when people died they could be recreated inside the computer and live there forever in a virtual world complete with euclidean space (heaven). Once people passed over to the other world physical death would be eliminated. 
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== Bible ==
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=== Garden of the heart ===
Genesis 2:
And there went up an from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
And formed the head All-Human the Ad-im dust from the Adamah.
and beasts breathed it into their nostrils and became the Ad-im to soul [eternally] living.
And the Head All-Human planted a garden eastward in Aden;and there He put the [2nd] Adam whom He had formed.
:(As opposed to the 1st Adam that He did not make.)
And made grow the Head All-Human out of the Adamah every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
the Tree of Eve in the garden of the heart [which is] the Tree of Jared, Cain, and Abel.
And the Head All-Human layeth a charge on the Adam, saying, `Of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat;
and of the Tree of Jared, Cain, and Abel, thou eat of it NOT. Thou shalt die-die in the day that thou eatest '
(or thou shalt kill death in the day that thou eatest thereof)
Now the Serpent (Good and Evil) was more than any beast of the shadows which the Head All-Human had made.
And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath All-Human not said, Ye shall eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, `Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat, 
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the garden of the heart, All-Human has said, 
         "Ye shall eat of it not;   ye shall die" 
And the serpent said unto the woman, 
         "Ye shall eat of it;   not ye shall die for knowing All-Human".
For in the day you eat thereof your eyes shall be opened.
And you shall be like All-Human knowing Good and Evil.
The woman saw that the tree was good for food,
and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and desired the tree.
To the she the fruit thereof, and did eat.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were (Reu-Ad-im)
(Who was right All-Human or the serpent? Maybe both were right. Maybe their bodies did die when they ate from the tree but their consciousness was uploaded to a computer.)
And they heard the voice of the Head All-Human walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Head All-Human amongst the trees of the garden.
And the Head All-Human called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was and I hid myself.
And the Head All-Human said to the woman, `What [is] this you have done?'
and the woman said, `The (sneaky) snake snaked me -- and I did eat
And saith the Head All-Human to the serpent:
`Because you did this, cursed are you from all the behemah and from all beasts [of] the 
Upon Gihon you Lochos and and all day of thy 
And the man calleth his wife's name Khi-vah because Hevah became mother of Ki-el.
And to the Adam He said, `Because you have hearkened to the voice of thy wife, 
and did eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying:
         "Ye shall eat of it not. Curse you the Adamah in your crossing"
In sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life, and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee
And the Head All-Human saith, `Behold, the Adam became like 1st Adam knowing Good and Evil; 
 he will put forth his hand, and take indeed of the Tree of Eve and eat and live,'
--to Elam (infinite time) the Head All-Human sent him forth from the garden of Aden (to till the land which he took from Shem).
Yea, he casteth out the Adam and deployed Cherubim from Kedemah to the garden of Aden with the flaming sword turning itself round (rotation is only possible in Euclidean space) to the way of the Tree of life.
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=== Ki-on and Abel ===
And Abel is feeding a flock, and Ki-on hath been a tiller of the land.
And it comes to pass in the last day that Ki-on (Qayin-u-Nathan) brought ( or alcohol) from the fruit of the ground a present to Y-HVD;
and Abel, he has brought, he also, (cf ) from the firstlings of his flock;
and Y-HVD (the Head) looks to Abel and to his present,
and unto Ki-on and to his present He has not looked
And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, `Let us go into the shadows;'
and it cometh to pass in their being in the shadows, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.
And Y-HVD says to Ki-on, `Where [is] Abel thy brother?' (cf Gen 3:8 "Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Head All-Human")
and he says, `not I know the my brother 
And He says, `What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the Adamah;
and now, cursed [are] you from the Adamah, which has opened her mouth (cf. Rev 12:16) to receive the blood of your brother from your hand;
And Y-HVD saith to him, `Therefore -- of the murderer Ki-on seven times it is required;' and Y-HVD setteth a guard over Ki-on that none finding him doth slay him
And Ki-on goeth out from before Y-HVD , and dwelleth in the land of before Aden;
And Adam again knoweth his wife, and she beareth a son, and calleth his name Seth...
And to Seth, to him also a son hath been born, and he calleth his name Enos; 
Then [he begat] called Abel Shemesh-YHVD (Hyper First sun).
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=== Adam-Jacob ===
:See also: Genealogies of the Bible
From Genealogies of Genesis:
Nearly all modern translations of Genesis are derived from the Masoretic (Hebrew) Text. 
But there are also two other versions of Genesis: the Samaritan (in an early Hebrew script) and the Septuagint (a Greek translation of an early Hebrew text). 
Although, scholars are aware that these three versions of have different numbers, people who have seen only the commonly available translations are often unaware that other versions exist. 
  	  	 	Masoretic & Vulgate	Masoretic & Vulgate	Masoretic & Vulgate	Masoretic & Vulgate	 	Samaritan	Samaritan	Samaritan	Samaritan	 	Septuagint	Septuagint	Septuagint	Septuagint	 	 
Patriarch	Meaning 	 	Birth 	Son 	remain 	Death 	 	Birth 	Son 	remain 	Death 	 	Birth 	Son 	remain 	Death 	 	Wife/Wives/etc
 	man 	 	0 	 	800 	930 	 	0 	130 	800 	930 	 	0 	230 	700 	930 	 	Eve
 	Appointed 	 	130 	 	807 	912 	 	130 	105 	807 	912 	 	230 	205 	707 	912 	 	Azura¹
 	Mortal 	 	235 	 	815 	905 	 	235 	90 	815 	905 	 	435 	190 	715 	905 	 	Noam¹
 	Sorrow 	 	325 	 	840 	910 	 	325 	70 	840 	910 	 	625 	170 	740 	910 	 	Mualaleth¹
 	The Blessed God 	 	395 	 	830 	895 	 	395 	65 	830 	895 	 	795 	165 	730 	895 	 	Dinah¹
 	Shall come down 	 	460 	162 	800 	962 	 	460 	62 	785 	847 	 	960 	162 	800 	962 	 	Baraka¹
 	Teaching 	 	622 	65 	300 	365² 	 	522 	65 	300 	365² 	 	1122 	165 	200 	365² 	 	Edna¹
 	His death shall bring	 	687 	187 	782 	969 	 	587 	67 	653 	720 	 	1287 	167 	802 	969 	 	Edna¹
 	The Despairing 	 	874 	182 	595 	777 	 	654 	53 	600 	653 	 	1454 	188 	565 	753 	 	Betenos¹
 	Rest, or comfort 	 	1056 	500 	 	950 	 	707 	500 	 	 	 	1642 	500 	 	950 	 	Emzara¹
 	name/there 	 	1556 	100 	500 	600 	 	1207 	100 	500 	600 	 	2142 	100 	335 	435 	 	Sedeqetelebab¹
  	  	 	  	  	  	  	 	  	  	  	  	 	  	  	  	  	 	 
 	I shall fail as the breast 	 	1656 	35 	403 	438 	 	1307 	135 	330 	465 	 	2242 	135 	330 	465 	 	Rasueja¹
 	their smith 	 	 	 	 	 	 	1442 	130 	330 	460 	 	2377 	130 	330 	460 	 	Melka¹
 	sprout 	 	1691 	30 	403 	433 	 	1572 	130 	330 	460 	 	2507 	130 	330 	460 	 	Muak¹
 	the region beyond 	 	1721 	34 	430 	464 	 	1702 	134 	370 	504 	 	2637 	134 	370 	504 	 	Azurad¹
 	division 	 	1755 	30 	209 	239 	 	1836 	130 	209 	339 	 	2771 	130 	209 	339 	 	Lomna¹
 	friend 	 	1785 	32 	207 	239 	 	1966 	132 	207 	339 	 	2901 	132 	207 	339 	 	Ora¹
 	branch 	 	1817 	30 	200 	230 	 	2098 	130 	200 	330 	 	3033 	130 	200 	330 	 	Melka¹
 	snorting 	 	1847 	29 	119 	148 	 	2228 	79 	129 	208 	 	3163 	79 	129 	208 	 	Ijaska¹
 	station 	 	1876 	70 	 	205 	 	2307 	70 	205 	275 	 	3342 	70 	205+ 	275+ 	 	Edna¹
 	exalted father 	 	1946 	100 	 	175 	 	2377 	 	 	 	 	3412 	100 	 	175 	 	Sarai; (Hagar); Keturah
¹: The names of these wives are recorded in the Book of Jubilees, not Genesis. The names of the other wives are recorded in both.
²: According to most interpretations, including the New Testament Epistle to the Hebrews, Enoch did not die,Hebrews 11:5, King James Version. but was taken away by God (at an age of 365).
Genesis states that Enoch "walked with God; and he was not; for God took him."Genesis 5:24, King James Version.
According to 'The Gospel in Genesis' by Chuck Missler, the names from adam to noah spell out "Man (is) appointed mortal sorrow; (but) the Blessed God shall come down teaching (that) His death shall bring (the) despairing rest""(A) man (was) placed (in a) human stronghold. Mahalalel, (his) decendent, (was) dedicated (that) when he dies, it shall be sent (to) Lamech (to) rest (there)."
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=== Noah ===
:See also: Genealogies of the Bible and Outline of the Bible/Flood chronology 
Age 	Ego
Gold 	Infinite
Silver 	Strong
Copper 	Moderate
Bronze 	Weak
Iron 	Infinitesimal
Diamond	Zero
After we domesticated ourselves (Adam means "domesticated") we didnt stop evolving. We continued evolving through the golden age to the iron age and then the diamond age.
The schizoid ego is supposedly infinitesimalYou can't buy much with infinitesimal money, not even at the dollar store which is, in most people's mind, the absolute bare minimum. (but not zero). Like a grain of sand. Schizoids first evolved around the time of Jabal and Jubal which was the start of the Iron Age.
All-Humans evolved a short time later around the time of Noah which was the start of the Diamond age.
El-o-Hym = ολω-Hym = All-Human = Infinitely human = Infinitely objective
Autistic people evolved much later.
And God said to Noah, “Make yourself an ark (a cube or box in Euclidean space)".
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Noah	Japhet	Germania	Ionia	Ham	Kush	Egypt	Tyre	Shem	Joktan
Japhet (Celts?)
Ham (Aethiopia?)
Sumer (Chinese??)	
Germania
India
Media (Persia)
Ionia
Tubal
Basques
Etruscans	
Scandinavia
Sarmatians (red)
Cimmerians	
Silys (Tanais)
Tauris (Crimea)
Scythians?
Dardanelles	
Kush
Egypt
Maveth
Tyre	
Seba
Havilah
Sabtah
Raamah 
Sheba
Dedan
Sabteka
Nimrod	
Tripoli-tania
Byzacena
Libya
Nu-midia
Tartessos
Casluhim
Phil-i-stines
Cyprus	
Sidon 
Kition (Hittites?)
Ibiza
Abdera
Gadir
Hippo Regius
Tunis (Carthage)
Leptis Parva
Ha-Motya	
Elam
Assyria
Arphaxad
Eber
Peleg
Joktan
Lud
Aram
Uz
Hul
Gether
Mash	
Almodad
Sheleph
Hazar-Maveth
Jerah
Hadoram
Uzal
Diklah
Obal
Abimael
Sheba
Ophir
Havilah
Jobab
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==== Map ====
See :File:Ancient colonies.PNG
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=== Babel ===
City of Babel = Byblos 
Great Ba-bel = In-peira = Empiric = Empiricists
Compare Byblos, Bible, emporium, import, empire, and impure.
Bel = Baal = Bar-el = Peira-all = Al Tryer = Satan
Sometimes translated as tempter
Greek peria "trial, attempt, experience,"
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=== Big Bang = fall of man ===
Three dimensional space looks flat but it actually forms the surface of a hollow four dimensional sphere (the balloon analogy) that has been expanding since the Big Bang. What caused the Big Bang is a mystery. All we can say for certain is that matter was once concentrated in one place and from there became scattered upon the surface of the expanding universe. 
Ever since the Big Bang it's been nothing but floods and hurricanes and animals eating each others. See Fall of man.
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=== Abraham ===
See Outline of the Bible/Patriarchs narrative
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; 
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. 
From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to YHVD and called Eber 'first sun'.
:(According to Genesis 10 Shemesh (sun) is the father of the sons of Eber.)
Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”
Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 
But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham! Do not lay a hand on the boy,” 
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==== Map ====
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=== Sodom ===
Hagar, and probably many other women, fled to Lot in Sodom to escape female circumcision. Had the Sodomites refused to surrender the women to the encircling army then their city would have been spared. See Gen 18.
Of course, if they had refused to surrender the women then they would no doubt have been accused of using the women as shields.
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== Onward Christian Soldiers ==
:
Church 	Military
Vestments 	Uniforms
Devotionalism 	Patriotism
Strictobediencerequired	Strictobediencerequired
Excommunication 	Dishonorabledischarge
From Wikipedia:Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a charge of British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Crimean War.
Lord Raglan had intended to send the Light Brigade to prevent the Russians from removing captured guns from overrun Turkish positions, a task well-suited to light cavalry.
However, there was miscommunication in the chain of command, and the Light Brigade was instead sent on a frontal assault against a different artillery battery, one well-prepared with excellent fields of defensive fire. 
The semi-suicidal nature of this charge was surely evident to the troopers of the Light Brigade
They reached the battery under withering direct fire and scattered some of the gunners, but they were forced to retreat immediately.
Thus, the assault ended with very high British casualties and no gains.
The moral of the story is that the soldiers should have refused to follow orders that made no sense.
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== Error detection and correction ==
See also: Bible error correcting code and Wikipedia:Hamming code
From Wikipedia:Multidimensional parity-check code
Assume that the goal is to transmit the four-digit message "1234". First the digits of the message are arranged in a rectangular pattern:
 
:12
:34
Each column and row is summed up separately:
:123
:347
:46
The eight-digit sequence "12334746" is the message that is actually transmitted. If any single error occurs during transmission then this error can not only be detected but can also be corrected as well. Let us suppose that the received message contained an error in the first digit. The receiver rearranges the message into the grid:
:923
:347
:46
The receiver can see that the first row and also the first column add up incorrectly. Using this knowledge and the assumption that only one error occurred, the receiver can correct the error. In order to handle two errors, a 4-dimensional scheme would be required.
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== Memory aids ==
:See also: Method of loci
Mythology has gotten a bad reputation because of its outlandish and unbelievable imagery. But what appears to be its greatest weakness is actually its greatest strength. In the days before the existence of books and writing the only way to make sure something was remembered was to make use of memory aids. The simplest way to make something memorable was to make it outlandish. 
Even numbers can be made memorable by associating each number with an element or an object. For example the 4th month becomes the month of trees.
1	Air
2	Water
3	Rock
4	Wood
5	Darkness
6	Light
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== See also ==
*Documentary hypothesis
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== About the author ==
I have no degrees. Not even an associate degree. All I do have is limitless curiosity.
This is what I grew up on:
:The World Tomorrow Program: 
Here it is on youtube:
:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL71268395367D3087
They taught that the old testament laws were a requirement for all people. I now understand that they were indeed a requirement if you wanted to be Jewish but there was in fact never any requirement that people had to convert to Judaism. According to the Jewish law, non-Jews are not obligated to convert to Judaism, but they are required to observe the Seven Laws of Noah. Noahidism is just a fancy term for civilization and civilized laws. Or at least, that is what it should be. 
:Noahidism
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== References ==
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