1st Part - Comparing Old Testament And Holy Koran
2nd Part - Comments On Old Testament P1 P2
19th June 1999
Holy Koran, Surah XVIII, The Cave, verses 61 to 100 record some adventures of Moses. I could not find the same in the Old Testament. I don't know what the Muslim scholars have to say about these verses, but for me, I treat them as parables. If the Muslim scholars are adamant that these are true adventures of Moses, then they have to chop off their own heads if they (the verses) are found to be only parables.
Another mention I would like to write is this verse 'Gardens underneath which rivers flow'. This verse keeps on repeating in the Holy Koran for many times. The English version of 'gardens' is plural, I don't know what is the version in Arabic. In the Old Testament the Garden of Eden is only 1.
Let me explain the parables. 1 eye represents Moses and the other the 'angel'.
The nose bridge is the wall between them.
Our face represents the ship. Punching a hole to sink it is to seal the mark on the forehead (Holy Bible Revelation). Another surah about the iron has the same meaning. These are exaggerations to blind readers.
14th September 1999 -- Surah XVIII The Cave
Verse 61: And when Moses said unto his servant: I will not give up until I reach the point where the two rivers (our tears) meet, though I march on for ages.
62: And when they reached the point where the two met, they forgot their fish, (resemble our nose) and it took its way into the waters, being free.
63: And when they had gone further, he said unto his servant: Bring us our breakfast. Verily we have found fatigue in our journey.
64: He said: Didst thou see, when we took refuge on the rock, and I forgot the fish--and none but Satan caused me to forgot to mention it--it took its way into the waters by a marvel.
65: He said: This is that which we have been seeking. So they retraced their steps again.
66: Then found they one of Our slaves, unto whom We had given mercy from Us, and had taught him knowledge from Our presence.
67: Moses said unto him: May I follow thee, to the end that thou mayst teach me right conduct of that which thou hast been taught?
68: He said: Lo! thou canst not bear with me.
69: How canst thou bear with that whereof thou canst not compass any knowledge?
70: He said: Allah willing, thou shalt find me patient and I shall not in aught gainsay thee.
71: He said: Well, if thou go with me, ask me not concerning aught till I myself mention of it unto thee.
72: So the twain set out till, when they were in the ship, he made a hole therein (sealing the Mark on the forehead.) (Moses) said: Hast thou made a hole therein to drown the folk thereof? Thou verily hast done a dreadful thing.
73: He said: Did I not tell thee thou couldst not bear with me?
74: (Moses) said: Be not wroth with me that I forgot, and be not hard upon me for my fault.
75: So the twain journeyed on till, when they met a lad, he slew him. (Moses) said: What! Hast thou slain an innocent soul who hath slain no man? Verily thou hast done a horrid thing.
76: He said: Did I not tell thee that thou couldst not bear with me?
77: (Moses) said: If I ask thee after concerning aught, keep not company with me. Thou hast received an excuse from me.
78: So they twain journeyed on till, when they came unto the folk of a certain township, they asked its folk for food, but they refused to make them guests. And they found therein a wall upon the point of falling into ruin, and he repaired it. (Moses) said: If thou hadst wished, thou couldst have taken payment for it.
79: He said: This is the parting between thee and me! I will announce unto thee the interpretation of that thou couldst not bear with patience.
80: As for the ship, it belonged to poor people working on the river, and I wished to mar it, for there was a king behind them who is taking every ship by force.
81: And as for the lad, his parents were believers and We feared lest he should oppress them by rebellion and disbelief.
82: And We intended that their Lord should change him for them for one better in purity and nearer to mercy.
83: And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys (two eyes) in the city, and there was beneath it a treasure belonging to them, and their father had been righteous, and thy Lord intended that they should come to their full strength and should bring forth their treasure as a mercy from their Lord; and I did it not upon my own command. Such is the interpretation of that wherewith thou couldst not bear.
84: They will ask thee of Dhu"l-Qarneyn. Say: I shall recite unto you a remembrance of him.
85: Lo! We made him strong in the land and gave him unto every thing a road.
86: And he followed a road.
87: Till, when he reached the setting-place of the sun, he found it setting in a muddy spring, and found a people thereabout: We said: O Dhu"l-Qarneyn! Either punish or show them kindness.
88: He said: As for him who doeth wrong, we shall punish him, and then he will be brought back unto his Lord, who will punish him with awful punishment!
89: But as for him who believeth and doeth right, good will be his reward, and We shall speak unto him a mild command.
90: Then he followed a road.
91: Till, when he reached the rising-place of the sun, he found it rising on a people for whom We had appointed no shelter there from.
92: So (it was). And We knew all concerning him.
93: Then he followed a road
94: Till, when he came between the two mountains, (nose bridge, between the nose and temple) he found upon their hither side a folk that scare could understand a saying.
95: They said: O Dhu"l-Qarneyn! Lo! Gog and Magog are spoiling the land. So may we pay thee tribute on condition that thou set a barrier between us and them?
96: He said: That wherein my Lord hath established me is better (than Your tribute). Do but help me with strength (of men), I will set between you and them a bank.
97: Give me pieces of iron--till, when he had leveled up (the gap) between the cliffs, he said: Blow!--till, when he had made it a fire, he said: Bring me molten copper to pour thereon.
98: And (Gog and Magog) were not able to surmount, nor could they pierce (it).
99: He said: This is a mercy from my Lord; but when the promise of my Lord cometh to pass, He will lay it low, for the promise of my Lord is true.
100: And on that day We shall let some of them surge against others, (sealing the Mark on the forehead) and the Trumpet will be blown. Then We shall gather them together in one gathering.
26th Sept 1999 - There are many similarities in the Old Testament and the Koran. The laws for punishment, divorce and others are clearly written. I think they are harsh. This harshness will result in the violent nature of Jews and Muslims. The many places of troubles in the world now are in Muslim territories.
Jews and Muslim are circumcised. They do not eat pork. They pray facing in one direction, the Jews facing Jerusalem and Muslims facing Mecca.
2nd Jan 2000 - As I have already an article 'Comments on Islam' in this homepage, I would like to concentrate on The Old Testament in this article. As I surf the net for Torah text, there is none, so I presume The Old Testament is the Torah.
GenesisC1V11: Then he commanded, "Let the earth produce all kinds of plants, those that bear fruit"--and it was done. V12 So the earth produced all kinds of plants, and God was pleased with what he saw. V13 Evening passes and morning came--that was the third day. (The lights were made on the 4th day, so where the morning and evening came from? By imagination? You are stupid to believe this!)
V14 Then God commanded, "Let light appear in the sky to separate day from night and to show the time when days, years, and religious festivals begin: V15 they will shine in the sky to give light to the earth"--and it was done. V16 So God made the two larger lights, the sun to rule over the day and the moon to rule over the night; he also made the stars. V17 He placed the lights in the sky to shine on the earth, V18 to rule over the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God was pleased with what he saw. V19 Evening passed and morning came--that was the fourth day. (Did God had this in mind to have religious festivals when He created the lights? By your biblical calculation after creation how many years had passed before men started to have festivals on fixed dates?)
V20 Then God commanded, "Let the water be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let the air be filled with birds."V21 So God created the great sea monsters, all kinds of creatures that live in the water, and all kinds of birds. (I surfed the net on 13th January 2000 and came across the Jewish Bible Association. I checked the Genesis and found some words extra in there. They are 'which have soul in each of them'.) And God was pleased with what he saw. V22 He blessed them all and told the creatures that live in the water to reproduce and to fill the sea, and he told the birds to increase in number. V23 Evening passed and morning came--that was the fifth day. (So fishes and birds are intelligent and obedient, since they can understand what God said.)
V24 Then God commanded, "Let the earth produce all kinds of animal life; domestic and wild, large and small"--and it was done. V25 So God made them all, and he was pleased with what he saw. V26 Then God said, "And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small." V27 So God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created them male and female, V28 blessed them, and said, "Have many children, so that your descendents will live all over the earth and bring it under their control. I am putting you in charge of the fish, the birds, and all the wild animals. V29 I have provided all kinds of grain and all kinds of fruit for you to eat; V30 but for all the wild animals and for all the birds I have provided grass and leafy plants for food"--and it was done. V31 God looked at everything he had made, and he was very pleased. Evening passed and morning came--that was the sixth day. (Human beings are like God. So you can not distinguish a human being apart from God. Abraham served food to God when God was about to punish Sodom; and Jacob wrestled with God when he came back from Mesopotamia with his two wives. It was stated males and females were created on this sixth day. God let human beings to take care of the animals, fish and birds, but not to make them food for themselves as God had provided fruits and grains. So human beings were fruitarians at the beginning. And all the animals and birds were vegetarians then. So you believers of this scriptures, are you fruitarian or vegetarian? God did not ask you to eat meat.)
GenesisC2V1 And so the whole universe was completed. V2 By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working. V3 He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working. V4 And that is how the universe was created. When the LORD God made the universe, V5 there were no plants on the earth and no seed had sprouted, because he had not sent any rain, and there was no one to cultivate the land; V6 but water would come up from beneath the surface and water the ground. V7 Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live. V8 Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed. V9 He made all kinds of beautiful trees grow there and produce good fruit. In the middle of the garden stood the tree that gives life and the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad. (God created human beings on the sixth day and were provided with grains and fruit, then why V5 said there were no plants? Is there any logic? You must be stupid to believe this! So on what day did God took some soil and made a man and breathed life into it? On the sixth day God created male and female human beings, so where did this man come from? A tree that gives life can only be God. This tree when you have draw out the branches and leaves, the branches and leaves to the left and right represent our eye-brows. The root base is God, the Mark on our forehead. If you can not distinguish the contradictions of the above verses, you must be very stupid, because God has veiled your eyes.)
3rd Jan 2000 - GenesisC2V10 A stream flowed in Eden and watered the garden; beyond Eden it divided into four rivers. V11 The first river is the Pishon; it flows around the country of Havilah. (V12 Pure gold is found there and also rare perfume and precious stones.) V13 The second river is the Gihon; it flows around the country of Cush. V14 The third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria, and the fourth river is the Euphrates. V15 Then the Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and guard it. V16 He told him, "You may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden, V17 except the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad. You must not eat the fruit of that tree, if you do, you will die the same day." V18 Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him." V19 So he took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and all the birds. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and that is how they got their names. V20 So the man named all the birds and all the animals; but not one of them was a suitable companion to help him. (Birds were created on the fifth day and animals were created before human beings on the sixth day, so how can the man be made earlier than the birds and animals? Use your brain! idiots!)
V21 Then the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, he took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the flesh. V22 He formed a woman out of the rib and brought her to him. V23 Then the man said, "At last, here is one of my own--bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh. 'Woman' is her name because she was taken out of man." V24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife, and they become one. V25 The man and the woman were both naked, but they were not embarrassed. (They became one, so why you believers divorce?)
GenesisC3V1 Now the snake was the most cunning animal that the Lord God had made. The snake asked the woman, "Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?" V2 "We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden," the woman answered, V3 "except the tree in the middle of it. God told us not to eat the fruit of that tree or even touch it; if we do we will die." (The snake spoke like human, so the snake must be very special, but don't forget it was created by God also. Can you believe this to be true or just a fairy tale? Use your brain!)
V4 The snake replied, "That's not true, you will not die. V5 God said that because he knows that when you eat it, you will be like God and know what is good and what is bad." (When you focus your attention on the Mark on the forehead, by nasal gaze, you will become wise and holy.) V6 The woman saw how beautiful the tree was and how good its fruit would be to eat, and she thought how wonderful it would be to become wise. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, and he also ate it. V7 As soon as they had eaten it, they were given understanding and realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and covered themselves. V8 That evening they heard the Lord God walking in the garden, and they hid from him among the trees. V9 But the Lord God called out to the man, "Where are you?" V10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden; I was afraid and hid from you, because I was naked." V11 "Who told you that you were naked?" God asked. "Did you eat the fruit that I told you not to eat?" V12 The man answered, "The woman you put here with me gave me the fruit and I ate it." V13 The Lord God asked the woman, "Why did you do this?" She replied, "The snake tricked me into eating it."
4th Jan 2000 - GenesisC3V14 Then the Lord God said to the snake, "You will be punished for this; you alone of all the animals must bear this curse: From now on you will crawl on your belly, and you will have to eat dust as long as you live. (Some snakes eat live animals, so this verse is wrong.) V15 I will make you and the woman hate each other; (any logic?) her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite their heel."V16 And he said to the woman, "I will increase your trouble in pregnancy and your pain in giving birth. In spite of this, you will still have desire for your husband, yet you will be subject to him." (so modern women want to overrule this curse?) V17 And he said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you. V18 It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants. (There is no mention of animals for food. So the early man was fruitarian or vegetarian.) V19 You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again." (There is no mention of life or spirit in the man, so the verse said only the flesh of man, nothing concern the life-giving spirit.) V20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all human beings. V21 And the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for Adam and his wife, and he clothed them. V22 Then the Lord God said, "Now the man has become like one of us and has knowledge of what is good and what is bad. (We are gods.) He must not be allowed to take fruit from the tree that gives life, eat it, and live forever." (You will forbidden to know the Mark on the forehead, because once you know you will become immortals.) V23 So the Lord God sent him out of the Garden of Eden (a veil was put before your eyes to obstruct the Mark) and make him cultivate the soil from which he had been formed. V24 Then at the east side of the garden he put living creatures and a flaming sword which turned in all directions. This was to keep anyone from coming near the tree that gives life.
The story of Adam and Eve is like a fairy tale or legend. I call it parable. The Garden of Eden is our face with the life-giving tree which is the Mark on our forehead. The stream is our tears. Snake represents our nose which breaths in air and dust. I still cannot figure out the living creatures and flaming sword. They could be our mouth and tongue.
GenesisC4V1 Then Adam had intercourse with his wife, and she became pregnant. She bore a son and said, "By the Lord's help I have gotten a son." So she named him Cain. V2 Later she gave birth to another son, Abel. Abel became a shepherd, but Cain was a farmer. V3 After some time Cain brought some of his harvest and gave it as an offering to the Lord. V4 Then Abel brought the first lamb born to one of his sheep, killed it, and gave the best parts of it as an offering. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering (Is this fair? Also there is killing, so this scripture promotes violence) V5 but he rejected Cain and his offering. Cain became furious, and he scowled in anger. V6 Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why that scowl on your face? V7 If you had done the right thing, you would be smiling, but because you have done evil, sin is crouching at your door. It wants to rule you, but you must overcome it."
V8 Then Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out in the fields." When they were out in the fields, Cain turned on his brother and killed him. V9 The Lord asked Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?' He answered, "I don't know. Am I supposed to take care of my brother?" V10 Then the Lord said, "Why have you done this terrible thing? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground, like a voice calling for revenge. V11 You are placed under a curse and can no longer farm the soil. It has soaked up your brother's blood as if it had opened its mouth to receive it when you killed him. V12 If you try to grow crop, the soil will not produce anything; you will be a homeless wanderer on the earth." V13 And Cain said to the Lord, "This punishment is too hard for me to beat. V14 You are driving me off the land and away from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me." V15 But the Lord answered, "No. If anyone kills you, seven lives will be taken in revenge." So the Lord put a mark on Cain to warn anyone who met him not to kill him. V16 And Cain went away from the Lord's presence and lived in a land called "Wandering" which is east of Eden. (God did not kill Cain for killing Abel, instead God protected Cain by putting a mark on his forehead to warn others, and also anyone who kills Cain will be punished by seven persons. Is this fair? There is no justice. Something is wrong with the Bible. But you take notice of this, Abel killed a lamb and he was killed. This is the punishment which God did not tell in the Bible, but by me alone. Life is lost when there is bloodshed. The guilty one will be punished. If Eve is the mother of human beings, Cain had to fear no one as there were only Adam, Eve and Cain himself only, so where were the others came from? Use your brain, stupid!)
5th Jan 2000 - GenesisC4V17 Cain and his wife (from which parents? If Adam and Eve were the only man and woman, then Cain must have married his sister.) had a son and named him Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son. V17 Enoch had a son named Irad, who was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael had a son named Methushael, who was the father of Lamech.
GenesisC5V1 This is the list of the descendants of Adam. (When God created human beings, he made them like himself. (This is the repetition of another verse on the sixth day of creation. We are no different from God.) V2 He created them male and female, blessed them, and named them "Mankind.") V3 When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son who was like him, and he named him Seth. V4 After that, Adam lived another 800 years. He had other children V5 and died at the age of 930. V6 When Seth was 105, he had a son, Enoch, V7 and then lived another 807 years. He had other children V8 and died at the age of 912. V9 When Enoch was 90, he had a son, Kenan, V10 and then lived another 815 years. He had other children V11 and died at the age of 905.
V12 When Kenan was 70, he had a son Mahalalel, V13 and then lived another 840 years. He had other children V14 and died at the age of 910. (You notice the average age of the early men, they were above 900 years when they died. This shows their purity and morality. When purity and morality decline, men can hardly cross the 100 years of age)
GenesisC6V1 When mankind had spread all over the world, and girls were being born, V2 some of the heavenly beings (God created the universe, so where were this heavenly beings came from? You have to use your brain, because nothing much is said about the heavenly beings) saw that these girls were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked. V3 Then the Lord said, "I will not allow people to live forever; they are mortal. From now on they will live no longer than 120 years." (This sentence is out of place in these verses.) V4 In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendents of human women and heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.
GenesisC6V9-10 This is the story of Noah. He had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Noah had no faults and was the only good man of his time. He lived in fellowship with God, V11 but everyone else was evil in God's sight, and violence had spread everywhere. V12 God looked at the world and saw that it was evil, for the people were all living evil lives. V13 God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to all mankind. I will destroy them completely, because the world is full of their violent deeds. V14 Build a boat for yourself out of good timber; make rooms in it and cover it with tar inside and out. V15 Make it 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. V16 Make a roof for the boat and leave a space of 18 inches between the roof and the sides. Build it with three decks and put a door in the side. V17 I am going to send a flood on the earth to destroy everything living being. Everything on the earth will die, V18 but I will make a covenant with you. Go into the boat with your wife, your sons and their wives. V19-20 Take into the boat with you a male and a female of every kind of animal and of every kind of bird, in order to keep them alive. V21 Take along all kinds of food for you and for them." V22 Noah did everything that God commanded. (If you can build the boat and put every pair of animals and birds into it, I will chop off my head. Just imagine the smell of the animals and birds for 375 over days (from 17th Feb to next 27th Feb the following year) in the boat, without ventilation except the 18 inches gap at the top all round. Imagine what will happen if the tigers and lions etc are let loose, they will eat up all the others, and what food is provided to all the meat eaters. Think for yourself, whether this is true or false, or only a parable. The numbers are Noah and 7 persons, his wife and 3 sons plus their 3 wives. Noah represents the Mark and 7 others the holes on our head.)
6th Jan 2000 - GenesisC9V1 God blessed Noah and his sons and said, "Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth. V2 All the animals, birds, and fish will live in fear of you. They are all placed under your power. V3 Now you can eat them, (before this men ate fruits and seeds only. So after eating meat, men's average age of 900 dropped to below 120.) as well as green plants; I give them all to you for food. V4 The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood. (so killing animals is OK? God must be crazy!) V5 If anyone takes human life, he will be punished. I will punish with death any animal that takes a human life. V6 Man was made like God, (Another repetition that we are like God; so whoever murders a man will himself be killed by his fellowman. If there is no compassion, there will be no end to killing, because Cain started the first killing of Abel and was not killed by God. Think whether this is fair or is there justice?) V7 You must have many children so that your descendants, will live all over the earth." V8 God said to Noah and his sons,V9 "I am now making my covenant with you and with your descendants, V10 and with all living beings--all birds and all animals--everything that came out of the boat with you. V11 With these words I make my covenant with you: I promise that never again will all living beings be destroyed by flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth. V12 As a sign of the everlasting covenant which I am making with you and with all living beings, V13 I am putting my bow [when you see Krsna and Arjuna who carries a bow (represents our eyebrows)] in the clouds. It will be the sign of my covenant with the world. V14 Whenever I cover the sky with clouds and the rainbow appears, V15 I will remember my promise to you and to all the animals that a flood will never again destroy all living beings. V16 When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between me and all living beings on earth. V17 That is the sign of the promise which I am making to all living beings."
V18 The sons of Noah who went out of the boat were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) V19 These three sons of Noah were the ancestors of all the people on earth. V20 Noah, who was a farmer, was the first man to plant a vineyard. V21 After he drank some of the wine, he became drunk, took off his clothes, and lay naked in his tent. V22 When Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked, he went out and told his two brothers. V23 Then Shem and Japheth took a robe and held it behind them on their shoulders. They walked backward into the tent and covered their father, keeping their faces turned away, so as not to see him naked. V24 When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done to him, V25 he said, "A curse on Canaan! He will be a slave to his brothers. V26 Give praise to the Lord, the God of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Shem. V27 May God cause Japheth to increase! May his descendants live with the people of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Japheth." (Just because Ham saw him naked and told the brothers, Noah had to curse his descendants to suffer. Is this justice? My explanation is this: 'we are in the Great Plan of God; we are only the actors and actresses.')
7th Jan 2000 - GenesisC19V1 These are the descendants of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. These three had sons after the flood. V2 The sons of Japheth--Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras--were the ancestors of the people who bear their names. V3 The descendants of Gomer were the people of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. V4 The descendants of Javan were the people of Elishah, Spain, Cyprus, and Rhodes; V5 they were the ancestors of the people who live along the coast and on the islands. These are the descendants of Japheth, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language. V6 The sons of Ham--Cush, Egypt, Libra, and Canaan--were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names. V7 The descendants of Cush were the people of Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were the people of Sheba and Dedan. V8 Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the world's first great conqueror. V9 B the Lord's help he was a great hunter, and that is why people say, "May the Lord make you as great a hunter as Nimrod!" V10 At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia. V11 From that land he went to Assyria and built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calan, V12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
V13 The descendants of Egypt were the people of Lydia, Anam, Lehab, Napthud, V14 Pathrus, Cashuh, and of Crete, from whom the Philistines are descended. V15 Canaan's sons--Sidon, the oldest, and Heth--were the ancestors of the people who bear their names. V16 Canaan was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, V17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, V18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. The different tribes of the Canaanites spread out, V19 until the Canaanite borders reached from Sidon southward to Gerar near Gaza, and eastward to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim near Lasha. V20 These are the descendants of Ham, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.
V21 Shem, the older brother of Japheth, was the ancestor of all the Hebrews. V22 Shem's sons--Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram--were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names. V23 The descendants of Aram were the people of Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshek. V24 Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, who was the father of Eber. V25 Eber had two sons: one was named Peleg, because during his time the people of the world were divided; and the other was named Joktan. V26 The descendants of Joktan were the people of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, V27 Haroram, Uzal, Diklah, V28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, V29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All of them were descended from Joktan. V30 The land in which they lived extended from Mesha to Sephar in the eastern hill country. V31 These are the descendants of Shem, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.
V32 All these peoples are the descendants of Noah, nation by nation, according to their different lines of descent. After the flood all the nations of the earth were descended from the sons of Noah. [From the above verses the people were scattered around the Middle East. None was mentioned of other areas on earth. This means the Bible is for the Middle East only. Since all the people there are descended from Noah, why God must choose one tribe over the others, and slaughter them to distinction, when Moses ordered his men to kill every human beings big or small? (certain raids were conducted to kill every living things) Right now the people there are fighting against each other. Is this logical? Or is the Bible encouraging violence, since Abel killed a lamb and he was killed by Cain, who was spared by God? Since Cain can be spared, so the people can kill in the name of holy war. The Bible is full of bloodshed, no wonder the Middle East has no peace.]
Another point you have to notice is the gender of descendants. They were all males. This proves that man is the authority in the home. The woman is subjected to him, as I have explained in Confucianism.
9th Jan 2000 - GenesisC11V1 At first, the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words. V2 As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there. V3 They said to one another, "Come on! Let's make bricks and bake them hard." So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together. V4 They said, "Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth." V5 Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which those men had built, V6 and he said, "Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want! V7 Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other." V8 So the Lord scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. V9 The city was called Babylon, because there the Lord mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth. (Do you think it was stupid of God to scatter the people and mixed their languages, just because they were building sky scrapers? Just look at the world now, how many tall buildings were been built, but none will reach the sky. That is stupid talk! The tower of Babylon represents our nose, so we have to see the tip to admire the construction.)
GenesisC12V1 The Lord said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you. V2 I will give you many descendents, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing. V3 I will bless those who bless you. But I will curse those who curse you. And through you I will bless all the nations." (So God chose Abram over his relatives and other descendents of Noah. Don't you think God was stupid to choose a nation of rebellious people? The story is repeating itself. First Adam, second Noah and now third was Abram (Abraham). If you are wise, you will take the story as it is, as good will be rewarded and evil will be punished. There is nothing great about Adam, Noah or Abraham. They just acted their part. Abram was from Ur in Babylonia. As he settled in Canaan, he became head of Hebrews; this language is different from those in Iraq, the place of Babylonia.) V4 When Abram was seventy-five years old, he started out from Haran, as the Lord had told him to do; and Lot went with him. V5 Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and they started out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan, V6 Abram traveled through the land until he came to the sacred tree of Moreh, the holy place at Shechem. (Who made that place holy? A tree is a symbol of our eye-brows.) (At that time the Canaanites were still living in the land.) V7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "This is the country that I am going to give to your descendants." Then Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him. V8 After that, he moved on south to the hill country east of the city of Bethel and set up his camp between Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There also he built an altar and worshipped the Lord. (This altar is between two cities, which signify our eyes.) V9 Then he moved on from place to place, going toward the southern part of Canaan.
GenesisC13V14 After Lot had left, the Lord said to Abram, "From where you are, look carefully in all directions. V15 I am going to give you and your descendants all the land that you see, and it will be yours forever. V16 I am going to give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all; (If God can be believed according to these sentence, then why the Jews are so few?) it would be as easy to count all the specks of dust on earth! V17 Now, go and look over the whole land, because I am going to give it all to you." V18 So Abram moved his camp and settled near the sacred tree of Mamre at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord. (another symbol of our eye-brows.)
GenesisC14V17 When Abram came back from his victory over Chedorlaomer and the other kings, the king of Sodom went to meet him in Shaveh Valley (also called King's Valley). V18 And Melchizedek, who was king of Salem and also a priest of the Most High God, brought bread and wine to Abram, V19 blessed him, and said, V20 "May the Most High God, who gave you victory over your enemies, be praised!" And Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the loot he had recovered. (This Melchizedek was king of Salem; where is Salem? He was also a priest of the Most High God; of what order? That time there was no priesthood, so where and when he was a priest? He did not loose any property, why he accepted the one tenth loot? All these questions you have to ponder. Do not tell me he was a shadow of God! This is important because only Paul mentioned Melchizedek again in his letter to the Hebrews. There is another mention in the Psalm.)
11th Jan 2000 - GenesisC15V18 Then and there the Lord made a covenant with Abram. He said, "I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River, V19 including the lands of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, V20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Repaim, V21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites." (This covenant is no longer true; so when was the next covenant to undo this one? If God keeps on changing the covenant with the Jews, can God's words be trusted?)
GenesisC16V1 Abram's wife Sarai had not borne him any children. But she had an Egyptian slave girl named Hagar, V2 and so she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children. Why don't you sleep with my slave girl? Perhaps she can have a child for me." Abram agreed with what Sarai said. V3 So she gave Hagar to him to be his concubine. (This happened after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years.) V4 Abram had intercourse (the Bible is also vulgar) with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she found out that she was pregnant, she became proud and despised Sarai. V5 Then Sarai said to Abram, "It's your fault that Hagar despises me. I myself gave her to you, and ever since she found out that she was pregnant, she has despised me. May the Lord judge which of us is right, you or me!" V6 Abram answered, "Very well, she is your slave and under your control; do whatever you want with her." Then Sarai treated Hagar so cruelly that she ran away. (Is this the way the Jews treat their slaves, no wonder in return they were treated badly by the Egyptians.) V7 The angel of the Lord met Hagar at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur V8 and said, "Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She answered, "I am running away from my mistress."
V9 He said, "Go back to her and be her slave." V10 Then he said, "I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them. (Only God can say this, not an angel.) V11 You are going to have a son, and you will name him Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your cry of distress. V12 But your son will live like a wild donkey; he will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will live apart from all his relatives." (The live of Ishmael was planned by God, so how can he be perfect? This is why I say, our lives are preplanned; we are only actors and actresses.) V13 Hagar asked herself, "Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?" So she called the Lord, who had spoken to her, "A God Who Sees." V14 That is why people call the well between Kadesh and Bered "The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me." (Kadesh and Bered represent our eyes.) V15 Hagar bore Abram a son, and he named him Ishmael. V16 Abram was eighty-six years old at the time.
GenesisC17V1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the Almighty God. Obey me and always do what is right. V2 I will make my covenant with you and give you many descendants." Abram bowed down with his face touching the ground, and God said, V4 "I make this covenant with you: I promise that you will be the ancestor of many nations. (Is this true?) V5 Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, because I am making you the ancestor of many nations. V6 I will give you many descendants, and some of them will be kings. You will have so many descendants that they will become nations. V7 I will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an everlasting covenant. (Is this true?) I will be your God and the God of your descendants. V8 I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants forever, and I will be their God." V9 God said to Abraham, "You also must agree to keep the covenant with me, both you and your descendants in future generations. V10 You and your descendants must all agree to circumcise every male among you. V11-12 From now on you must circumcise every baby boy when he is eight days old, including slaves born in your homes and slaves bought from foreigners. This will show that there is a covenant between you and me. V13 Each one must be circumcised, and this will be a physical sign to show that my covenant with you is everlasting. (Is this true?) V14 Any male who has not been circumcised will no longer be considered one of my people, because he has not kept the covenant with me." (total rubbish. You Christians, Catholics, etc are you not God's people?)
GenesisC17V15 God said to Abraham, "You must no longer call your wife Sarai; from now on her name is Sarah. V16 I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations, and there will be kings among her descendants." V17 Abraham bowed down with his face touching the ground, but he began to laugh when he thought, "Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah have a child at ninety?" V18 He asked God, "Why not let Ishmael be my heir?" V19 But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant. (Is this true?) V20 I have heard your request about Ishmael, so I will bless him and give him many children and many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make a great nation of his descendants. (Is it because Hagar was Egyptian, her son Ishmael was not favored?) V21 But I will keep my covenant with your son Isaac, who will be born to Sarah about this time next year." V22 When God finished speaking to Abraham, he left him. V23 On that same day Abraham obeyed God and circumcised his son Ishmael and all the other males in his household, including the slaves born in his home and those he had bought. V24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised, V25 and his son Ishmael was thirteen. V26 They were both circumcised on the same day, V27 together with all of Abraham's slaves.
GenesisC18V1 The Lord appeared to Abraham at the sacred trees of Mamre. As Abraham was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the hottest part of the day, V2 he looked up and saw three men (so God looks like man) standing there. As soon as he saw them, he ran out to meet them. Bowing down with his face touching the ground, (If Abraham was treating them as guest, why must his face touch the ground? This respect is usually meant for God or elders.) V3 he said, "Sirs, please do not pass by my home without stopping; I am here to serve you. V4 Let me bring some water for you to wash your feet; (why wash the feet not the face and hands? In the New Testament a woman washed Jesus' feet, and in the Diamond Sutra, Buddha washed his feet after meal) you can rest here beneath this tree. (signifies our eye-brows) V5 I will bring a bit of food; it will give you strength to continue your journey. You have honored me by coming to my home, so let me serve you." They replied, "Thank you; we accept."
14th Jan 2000 - GenesisC18V6 Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick, take a sack of your best flour, and bake some bread." V7 Then he ran to the herd and picked out a calf that was tender and fat, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to get it ready. V8 He took some cream, some milk, and the meat, and set the food before the men. (So God is like a man.) There under the tree he served them himself, and they ate. V9 Then they asked him, "Where is your wife Sarah?" "She is there in the tent," he answered. V10 One of them said, "Nine months from now I will come back, and your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was behind him at the door of the tent, listening. V11 Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah had stopped having her monthly periods. V12 So Sarah laughed to herself and said, "Now that I am old and worn out, can I still enjoy sex? And besides, my husband is old too."
V13 Then the Lord asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Can I really have a child when I am so old? V14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? As I said, nine months from now I will return, and Sarah will have a son." V15 Because Sarah was afraid, she denied it. "I didn't laugh," she said. "Yes, you did," he replied, "You laughed." V16 Then the men left and went to a place where they could look down at Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on their way. V17 And the Lord said to himself, "I will not hide from Abraham what I am going to do. V18 His descendants will become a great and mighty nation, (now, is this true?) and through him I will bless all the nations. (Is this correct?) V19 I have chosen him in order that he may command his sons and his descendants to obey me and to do what is right and just. If they do, I will do everything for him that I have promised." V20 Then the Lord said to Abraham, "There are terrible accusations against Sodom and Gomorrah, and their sin is very great. V21 I must go down to find out whether or not the accusations which I have heard are true."
V22 Then the two men left and went on toward Sodom, but the Lord remained with Abraham. V23 Abraham approached the Lord and asked, "Are you really going to destroy the innocent with the guilty? V24 If there are fifty innocent people in the city? Won't you spare it in order to save the fifty? V25 Surely you won't kill the innocent with the guilty. That's impossible! You can't do that. If you did, the innocent would be punished along with the guilty. That is impossible. The judge of all the earth has to act justly." V26 The Lord answered, "If I find fifty innocent people in Sodom, I will spare the whole city for their sake." V27 Abraham spoke again: "Please forgive my boldness in continuing to speak to you, Lord. I am only a man and have no right to say anything. V28 But perhaps there will be only forty five innocent people instead of fifty. Will you destroy the whole city because there are five too few?" The Lord answered, "I will not destroy the city if I find forty five innocent people." V29 Abraham spoke again: "Perhaps there will be only forty." He replied, "I will not destroy it if there are forty." V30 Abraham said, "Please don't be angry, Lord, but I must speak again. What if there are only thirty?" He said, "I will not do it if I find thirty." V31 Abraham said, "Please forgive my boldness in continuing to speak to you, Lord. Suppose that only twenty are found?" He said, "I will not destroy the city if I find twenty."
V32 Abraham said, "Please don't be angry, Lord, and I will speak only once more. What if only ten are found." He said, "I will not destroy it, if there are ten." V33 After he had finished speaking with Abraham, the Lord went away, and Abraham returned home. (Abraham spoke to God in a cordial manner, so why must you fear men? Must you Singaporeans fear Lee Kuan Yew?)
GenesisC19V1 When the two angels came to Sodom that evening. Lot was sitting at the city gate. As soon as he saw them, he got up and went to meet them. He bowed down before them (Do you think there is this type of man waiting on guests to arrive and serve them free meal?) V2 and said, "Sirs, I am here to serve you. Please come to my house. You can wash your feet and spend the night. In the morning you can get up early and go on your way." But they answered, "No, we will spend the night here in the city square." V3 He keep urging them, and finally they went with him to his house. Lot ordered his servants to bake some bread and prepare a fine meal for the guests. When it was ready, they ate it. V4 Before the guests went to bed the men of Sodom surrounded the house. All the men of the city, both young and old, were there. V5 They called out to Lot and asked, "Where are the men who came to stay with you tonight? Bring them out to us." The men of Sodom wanted to have sex with them. V6 Lot went outside and closed the door behind him. V7 He said to them, "Friends, I beg you, don't do such a wicked thing! V8 Look, I have two daughters who are still virgins. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do whatever you want with them. (Got this type of father letting own daughters to be raped?) But don't do anything to these men; they are guests in my house and I must protect them."
V9 But they said, "Get out of our way, your foreigner! Who are you to tell us what to do? Out of our way, or we will treat you worse than them." They pushed Lot back and moved up to break the door. V10 But the two men inside reached out, pulled Lot back into the house, and shut the door. V11 Then they struck all the men outside with blindness, so that they couldn't find the door. V12 The two men said to Lot, "If you have anyone else here--sons, daughters, sons-in-law, or any other relatives living in the city--get them out of here, V13 because we are going to destroy this place. The Lord has heard the terrible accusations against these people and has sent us to destroy Sodom." V14 Then Lot went to the men that his daughters were going to marry, and said, "Hurry up and get out of here; the Lord is going to destroy this place." But they taught he was joking. V15 At dawn the angels tried to make Lot hurry. "Quick!" they said. "Take your wife and your two daughters and get out, so that you will not lose your lives when the city is destroyed." V16 Lot hesitated. The Lord, however, had pity on him; so the men took him, his wife, and his two daughters by the hand and led them out of the city. V17 Then one of the angels said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed."
Edited on 9th June 2008