Sustacel250 wrote: 24 Dec 2025, 14:34
Pour_Lui wrote: 24 Dec 2025, 01:35
my Bible has many books removed
I did try to read it because I understand abit of spanish but its 800 pages long. What do you mean by "your bible" did you really compile it all? If so, wow youre really incredible. Much respect. But I will not read it all anyway.
It's not a book written by me, it's the regular books of the Bible, except the books are only:
Job, Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, Samuel I and II, Kings I and II, Psalms, Proverbs, Eclesiastes, Lamentations, in this order
I did mix different translations of the Portuguese bibles in some parts, to get what best expressed my understanding. When I say I compiled I mean this, I ordered them, I mixed translations, I removed books and I indeed compiled in Latex and also made an epub version.
And the reason it's those books and in this order, is because Job, Pentateuch and Psalms are pretty clear in the logic of retribution, which also is applied in the other books in this Canon, but which is broken in the prophetic books of the tanakh, and also broken in the new testament. They also break what Deuteronomy says about identifying false prophets.
20 But the prophet who shall presume to speak a word in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or who shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.’
21 And if thou say in thine heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?’—
22 when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously; thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Those prophets in the later parts of the old testament did indeed die terrible deaths, and had many prophecies which never happened. The jews invented an illogical artifice which does not appear in the Bible, which is of conditional prophecy, which are prophecies that may or may not happen, depending on the merits of the people. This makes no sense as it defeats the purpose of prophecy, which is prediction, and it contradicts what is clear in deuteronomy, which says false phophecies mean false phophet.
Also it says in the Psalms:
19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
20 He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
21 Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
22 The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
Which again confirms retribution, and says that the righteous shall not be slain out of nowhere, which has happened to all those "phophets" from the late old testament.
Peoole say the book of Job is an argument against the theology of retribution, but no, it's an argument in favor of it, because not only Job ends the book in a favorable condition, but he himself confirms that retribution is knowledge of any sage, including himself, multiple times in the book. He says stuff like "yes, retribution is true, but that ain't the reason why I'm suffering!".
All evidence overall point to the Hebrew religion being very different from the Jewish one, which was inaugurated after the split between the kingdom of judah and Israel, or in the babylobian exile.