Extract from The Gods, All of them (Religion)

by David Turell , Monday, December 06, 2010, 15:02 (5101 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

From Xeno
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> >You won't find a single (practicing) Jew who will agree that the Messiah was prophecied at all in Genesis. In fact, according to modern scholarship, it has been discovered that Genesis, as we know it now, is the product of at least 4 source documents that were combined into the form we recognize today; you might argue with this, but I will give the last word about the Pentateuch to Jewish scholars any day of the week.
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> >Christ was reinterpreted backwards to Genesis. If you don't believe me, pick up your Oxford NRSV 4th edition. Scholars do not agree with you here.
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> If you want to play the "Jews did it first so they must be right." card, I will have to play the "Jews did it at the very best third, and even then they were at least 500 years to late" card.
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> I suppose I would hate to break it to every single practicing Jew on the planet that the Vedas (1500 BCE)predate the Torah (950 BCE) by at least five centuries, and some scholars argue that it might be as much as nearly 4000-6000 years older. The Egyptians also had the same Triune mythology approximately 3000 BC. complete with snake wrapped staves and all that jazz. -As the non-practicing Jew on this site, I don't understand Tony's comments. I think he misinterpreted Matt's comments, which are absolutely right on. Genesis is what it is. Very competent scholars have made interpretations, of which I have copies. We don't know how much of the other religious writings the ancient Hebrews had knowledge, if any. As a desert nomadic folk, I doubt any at all. What is important is that the same stories and illusions appear throughout the ancient writings, suggesting Sheldrake's search for a human species consciousness has some validity. That is a conclusion worth studying.