On Creationism

Four Metal Kingdoms This was a vision Nebuchadnezzar had and Daniel interpreted.  Dan 2:31 “Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. 34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth. This is understood to be four different kingdoms. It is likely this is derived from Hesiod's ages of mankind; golden, silver, bronze, and iron. This can be seen in the fourth Sibyll...

The myth is that Israel was established by Abraham, a man who worshipped one God, and later saved from slavery in Egypt by Moses, who also worshipped this one God. But what if these were stories made up later, after the Israelites became monotheistic. And perhaps David was an anomaly, like Akhenaten in Egypt... The reality is that Yahweh was originally considered a part of the Canaanite pantheon, which was headed by El. Traces of this are still present in the Bible. For example, here we read about El, the Most High, assigning the various tribes to his sons, with the Israelites assigned to Yahweh, the Lord. Deut 32:8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,​ when he divided all mankind,​ he set up boundaries for the peoples​ according to the number of the sons of Israel.​ 9 For the Lord’s portion is his people,​ Jacob his allotted inheritance.​ The Bible was written by the priests of Yahweh. They wanted the people to worship Yahweh, not the other gods. How many kings of Is...

 The Book of Joshua is mostly about the conquest of the Canaanites. It takes place after Moses has died, and describes the military campaign of the Israelites. They made a treaty with the Gibeonites (supposedly tricked into thinking Gibeon was a distant city), and the other Canaanites joined forces and attacked Gibeon. The Gibeonites asked for help. Joshua 10:9 After an all-night march from Gilgal, Joshua took them by surprise. 10 The Lord threw them into confusion before Israel, so Joshua and the Israelites defeated them completely at Gibeon. Israel pursued them along the road going up to Beth Horon and cut them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah. 11 As they fled before Israel on the road down from Beth Horon to Azekah, the Lord hurled large hailstones down on them, and more of them died from the hail than were killed by the swords of the Israelites. So the enemy was already defeated, the Israelites just needed more time to slaughter the defeated armies. 12 On the day the Lor...