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Understanding of our ancestors
| 8.4 |
The patterns of similarity of ancient texts
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| While we may choose to look at the merit and message of individual texts and belief systems in search of clues as to the motives of our creators and their history with the human race, we choose in this section to see to find synergies and patterns represented in common belief systems within the texts. | ||
| In this way we seek to identify those stories that appear to have a common basis across different cultures therefore raising the possibility that in the context of external intervention of higher order life might be true. | ||
| 8.4.1 | Differences in what we may have originally been taught | |
| If you were schooled as a Muslim, Jew, or Christian, the belief is that those that created us did so for good and holy reasons. Likewise, the same systems of belief tell us a different behaviour of “God” in the following years via stories such as the Great Flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the mental/physical torture of Job and Abraham. | ||
| To date, this seeming conflict in behaviour has represented a prime paradox in the personality of an apparent supreme being- once being absolute in love and care, while at the same time displaying characteristics that if classed of a human being with high technology (e.g. atomic weapons) would be considered evil. | ||
| God = good, humans = flawed has historically represented the mainstream position of the major religions of the planet Earth for the past 2000 years. Yet even within the Christian fraternity, counter-arguments have also existed and continued in some quarters. | ||
| The Gnostic Christian sects for instance, believed our creators as inherently evil and developed bizarre ceremonies by way of repudiating their power, in order to “purify” ourselves to the deeper message of Christ. While Roman Christian authority has long since massacred and destroyed most evidence of such religious division, the mystery has persisted. | ||
| The reason we mention these examples and conflicts before beginning to look at the similarities and common stories of ancient texts is that you should be prepared to see quite different views and concepts emerging from these texts, sometimes disturbing in their implication. | ||
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