The True ORIGINS of Adam & Eve Will BLOW Your Mind!

[@MythVisionPodcast]

What was your favorite part of this video? I want to thank Paul Davidson from the KZbin channel "Inquisitive Bible Reader" for crafting such an amazing video!

[@kariannecrysler640]

The breath giving of all the different tales. I find it very human & beautiful.

[@MaynardSaves]

Me too!

[@raya.p.l5919]

Yr proof J e s u s energy wash Enjoy 🎉

[@IheartDogs55]

No god could defeat the serpent except Horanu, who wasn't even part of the pantheon. That part was interesting to me.

[@elgindor]

I love how often I hear debunked “researchers” like Zachariah quoted. It how’s how little people really care about the truth.

[@MediaCentre-cy1tf]

I saw in the Valley of Kings in an Egyptian Pharaohs Tomb depicted on a wall painting an image of an Central tree with a male and female figure talking with a talking four legged snake. All had cartoon balloons filled with hieroglyphics above their heads. Egyptians had the Adam and Eve story as well - long before Israel.

[@jimmywhitlow2012]

Wouldn't a four legged snake be a lizard?

[@basimali619]

@@jimmywhitlow2012well, a slimmer one possibly, look up a legless lizard.

[@drydizzle2954]

@@jimmywhitlow2012 The serpent before it lost its legs and had to crawl on its belly.

[@thepalegalilean]

I call cap. Sources or it didn't happen.

[@samuelmarberry4761]

So by your logic if someone writes an account of the civil war in 1903, and another person wrote an account of genghis khan in 1973.... Than the American Civil War had to of happened before genghis khan..... your logic is terribly flawed!

[@jeremeygloyd2894]

If the Bible and other ancient texts aren’t enough to make you question at least some of the things we’re grew up being taught, then you’re not ready for the truth.

[@keithmanning2466]

This is a time where you question your faith, are there many truths and untruths.

[@daisyg8384]

Hi. The thing is all of these myths have been written long after the Genesis was written... The video is well made, but these theories are not plausible.

[@mavrosyvannah]

​@daisyg8384 the genesis mythology was written in 600 BC while the criminals of Isreal were captured and contained to protect the world in Babylon. Even the Vedic are thousands of years old. If you believe a single word of the Bible as literal truth, then I've made a mistake try8ng to communicate with you.

[@TryssemTavern]

Correction: If you don't think humans 4,000+ years ago had the ability to fabricate stories to justify their claims of greatness (personal, tribal, or family greatness), you're not ready for the truth.

[@daisyg8384]

​@@mavrosyvannah On a lot of websites about the Bible, we find the information that according to most specialists, it would have been written between the 15th and 13th centuries BC. And what does this have to do with the Vedas ? Even if the Genesis had not been written at this time doesn't mean that it is not the truth, and that the Vedas are.

[@jamesmountz2915]

I still can't believe this guy went from recording his withdrawal from heroin to this. He's lucky you got out before fentanyl took over

[@LongWeiner-x9y]

I didn't follow that journey...I just had the two different interest...I was and am a recovering fentanyl addict...then I also have an interest in if god is real..I do beleive in god more so than not...when I first seen this guy I was like this can't be the heroin withdrawal guy...that arc just makes no sense but it was

[@Renegadereadingsrecovery]

I'm also a recovering addict and focus on spiritual matters today.

[@LouLouLion]

Same ​@@Renegadereadingsrecovery

[@raymond_sycamore]

what

[@stacypastry2440]

He's doing great work! I hope he knows

[@MindShift-Brandon]

My man! I just filmed my episode on Acts for my Secular Bible Study Series and wanted you to know I used the conversation between you and Carrier for a bit as well as his article. That video from you was like 10 months ago, but man did it stick with me. Geeked for this one too! Your origin vids are solid!

[@MythVisionPodcast]

You made my day better bro! Let's connect to record soon!

[@ibrahimelmasry-z3k]

​@@MythVisionPodcast ف Would you accept to host an Arab researcher who presents a different vision than what your channel offers? He is a Muslim and has a book in which it is proven that Jacob, Abraham, Moses, Solomon, David, and Christ lived in Mecca? I made him an offer to host you, and he accepted that and told him that I will offer that to you and await your response. Would you accept to host a researcher who has a collection of books in which he proves that Abraham, Jacob, Job, Moses, Joseph, Christ, David, and Solomon? They lived and died in Yemen? Some Arab researchers have a vision based on field, archaeological and historical research that a falsification occurred to the geography of the prophets and that distortion occurred in order to understand the many gods in the region. Others reject God and religions and consider them superstitions.

[@jeorgebanman5314]

@@ibrahimelmasry-z3k who is it that you speak of?

[@robinette64]

@@MythVisionPodcastThis would be an AWESOME collaboration!

[@Djax111]

The dream team collab for me haha

[@rapmonsterluvr..9076]

When reading the Bible and the gnostic scriptures side by side and along side with the Samaritan tablets it will help the reader find greater insight to what one is seeking to understand.

[@carlamarlene2927]

From Sumer or Samaria? They're vastly different

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

The Book of Enoch, behold!

[@timallen6931]

One should read all ancient scriptures. All lies start with a truth. As a human you will feel the truth. It will be a feeling you will not be able to shake it will dwell within you.

[@carlamarlene2927]

@@timallen6931 so we all have to learn how to read cuneiform? Even Greek and Latin is nigh unlearnable. How are we all gonna read all ancient scriptures if we don't know the language? All ancient scriptures are translated into modern languages through modern humans. It's never gonna be good enough.

[@timallen6931]

@@carlamarlene2927 nothing is impossible to learn. And as I said you as a human will be able to feel the truth. Read the translation and the truth within it will resonate with you. Now it wouldn't hurt to learn Hebrew it's not that hard to learn. I've been working on learning to read Arabic.

[@ADude-f3z]

I think that those who view “Bible stories” as worthwhile parables are not going to care if there are similarities between them and their assumed predecessors… “The song remains the same” In the interim, those that are rigid in their beliefs that the Bible is “the word of God” will consider archaeological research to be sacrilegious… C’est la vie…

[@helmeteye]

They wouldn't consider archaeological search sacrilegious. Why would they? Under what grounds? If you talk to them, they'll tell you that archeology is backing up their book. For instance, they think that they found proof that the Hebrew were slaves in Egypt. They'll tell you the flood is in all of these ancient records, because it happened. I'm not a Christian and yet I haven't seen any archeology that would overturn biblical writings. Religious people would question the ideology of any findings/misunderstandings/Misrepresentations by any archaeologists. It isn't like archaeologists are above the fray.

[@hughjanus5336]

Both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, independent research, point to Botswana as the cradle of mankind.

[@hughjanus5336]

"The one thing we know for sure from geology is that a global flood never happened", said David Montgomery, a professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington in Seattle and other independent researchers. It could only have been a regional flood as far as the eye could see, from horizon to horizon.

[@hughjanus5336]

As of 2017, the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils are from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dating back about 360,000 years. These fossils include skull, face, and jaw bones from five individuals who lived in a cave.

[@TobiasC-mg4zk]

Show us where to find archaeologists who talk seriously about Exodus. I’ll point you to the library archives of the temple at Elephantine. Or the ajrud kuntillet site that also demonstrates Israelite polytheism centuries after king David supposedly lived.

[@ancientfiction5244]

*The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis.* Prior to the 19th century CE, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. ***These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.*** *Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer,* translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians ***before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.*** ***In revising the Mesopotamian creation story for their own ends, the Hebrew scribes tightened the narrative and the focus but retained the concept of the all-powerful deity who brings order from chaos.*** Marduk, in the Enuma Elish, establishes the recognizable order of the world - *just as God does in the Genesis tale* - and human beings are expected to recognize this great gift and honor the deity through service. *"Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text - World History Encyclopedia"* *"Sumerian Is the World's Oldest Written Language | ProLingo"* *"Sumerian Civilization: Inventing the Future - World History Encyclopedia"* ("The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia whose civilization flourished between c. 4100-1750 BCE." "Ancient Israelites and their origins date back to 1800-1200 BCE.") *"The Myth of Adapa - World History Encyclopedia"* Also discussed by Professor Christine Hayes at Yale University in her 1st lecture of the series on the Hebrew Bible from 8:50 to 14:30 minutes, lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes, lecture 4 from 0:00 up to 21:30 minutes and 24:00 up to 35:30 minutes and lecture 7 from 24:20 to 25:10 minutes. From a Biblical scholar: "Many stories in the ancient world have their origins in other stories and were borrowed and modified from other or earlier peoples. *For instance, many of the stories now preserved in the Bible are* ***modified*** *versions of stories that existed in the cultures and traditions of Israel’s* ***older*** *contemporaries.* Stories about the creation of the universe, a cataclysmic universal flood, digging wells as land markers, the naming of important cultic sites, gods giving laws to their people, and even stories about gods decreeing the possession of land to their people were all part of the cultural and literary matrix of the ancient Near East. *Biblical scribes freely* ***adopted and modified*** *these stories as a means to express their own identity, origins, and customs."* *"Stories from the Bible"* by Dr Steven DiMattei, from his website *"Biblical Contradictions"* ------------------------------------------------------------------ In addition, look up the below articles. *"Yahweh was just an ancient Canaanite god. We have been deceived! - Escaping Christian Fundamentalism"* *"Debunking the Devil - Michael A. Sherlock (Author)"* *"The Greatest Trick Religion Ever Pulled: Convincing Us That Satan Exists | Atheomedy"* *"Zoroastrianism And Persian Mythology: The Foundation Of Belief"* (Scroll to the last section: Zoroastrianism is the Foundation of Western Belief) *"10 Ways The Bible Was Influenced By Other Religions - Listverse"* *"January | 2014 | Atheomedy"* - Where the Hell Did the Idea of Hell Come From? *"Retired bishop explains the reason why the Church invented "Hell" - Ideapod"* Watch *"The Origins of Salvation, Judgement and Hell"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica (Sensitive theists should only watch from 7:00 to 17:30 minutes as evangelical Christians are lambasted. He's a former theist and has been studying the scholarship and comparative religions for over 15 years) *"Top Ten Reasons Noah’s Flood is Mythology - The Sensuous Curmudgeon"* *"Forget about Noah's Ark; There Was No Worldwide Flood | Bible Interp"* *"The Search for Noah’s Flood - Biblical Archaeology Society"* *"Eridu Genesis - World History Encyclopedia"* *"The Atrahasis Epic: The Great Flood & the Meaning of Suffering - World History Encyclopedia"* Watch *"How Aron Ra Debunks Noah's Flood"* (8 part series debunking Noah's flood using multiple branches of science) *"The Adam and Eve myth - News24"* *"Before Adam and Eve - Psychology Today"* *"Gilgamesh vs. Noah - Wordpress"* *"Old Testament Tales Were Stolen From Other Cultures - Griffin"* *"Parallelism between “The Hymn to Aten” and Psalm 104 - Project Augustine"* *"Studying the Bible"* - by Dr Steven DiMattei (This particular article from a critical Biblical scholar highlights how the authors of the Hebrew Bible used their *fictional* god as a mouthpiece for their own views and ideologies) *"How do we know that the biblical writers were* ***not*** *writing history?"* -- by Dr Steven DiMattei *"Contradictions in the Bible | Identified verse by verse and explained using the most up-to-date scholarly information about the Bible, its texts, and the men who wrote them"* -- by Dr. Steven DiMattei

[@jacovawernett3077]

God is my Father and rabbi. God spoke to Abraham. L'chaim. My Hebrew name Jacova is the female form of Jacob. ( I was born March 11th in Bethlehem) 11 is gevurah. God spoke fifty sentences to me from above to my ear. His first nine sentences were 8.4.2015 in the morning. That night towards 11pm I sat under the stars alone and heard Tibetan music from the heavens that I knew no one else could hear. Since then I have told people and timestamped many prescient visions that came true. 11.17.2015, Eve Beach, Waikiki early evening. I couldn't find a book reading so I sat under the stars alone. God asked me, What side of the blade are you on. I answered, the side of the righteous my words are my sword. He then showed me my ascension to Heaven. He said, Make Israel one. You are anchor. Amira Malaka Elah 11.11.2015, Honolulu, Nimitz Highway, 18th floor in the morning. God spoke to me from above after weeks. He said, You are rain. I walked out to the balcony, stretched my arms to the sky and said,

[@jacovawernett3077]

11.11.2015, Honolulu, Nimitz Highway, 18th floor in the morning. God spoke to me from above after weeks. He said one sentence. You are rain. I walked out to the balcony, stretched my arms to the sky and said, It's time for a rainbow. Immediately a double rainbow appeared beside the building and reached out to the Pacific Ocean. Geshem Israel Geshem Adonai

[@ancientfiction5244]

​@@jacovawernett3077 😂 That's a good joke. You should write fiction novels.

[@jacovawernett3077]

@@ancientfiction5244 It's not a joke. I used to mock people who thanked God. I have even had gifts literally appear in front of my lap from thin air. 12 hours before the Gaziatep Turkey earthquake I was watching a video on AL Jazeera youtube about the Palestinians. I wrote that God said, Make Israel one. ( it means to bring peace and reconciliation between Jew, Christian, Muslim, cousins by Abraham) A muslim brother answered, Jews and Christians will be humiliated by God. I answered, No. We are all God's children. No one sticks a metaphorical rock in God's throat. The Prephet Muhammad knew this. Sometimes it feels like 500,000 Gazans are holding the world hostage. The earth will quake. And it did quake. I certainly can't divorce myself from my five senses. Deus. Vivitas. Rem. God. Reality. Truth Thank you though. Isaac Asimov is one of my favorite writers. Apparently God has the Einstein Rosen Bridge equation.

[@jacovawernett3077]

@@ancientfiction5244 this youtube is wonky. 12 hours before the Gaziatep Turkey earthquake I was watching a video on AL Jazeera youtube about the Palestinians. I wrote that God said, Make Israel one. ( it means to bring peace and reconciliation between Jew, Christian, Muslim, cousins by Abraham) A muslim brother answered, Jews and Christians will be humiliated by God. I answered, No. We are all God's children. No one sticks a metaphorical rock in God's throat. The Prephet Muhammad knew this. Sometimes it feels like 500,000 Gazans are holding the world hostage. The earth will quake. And it did quake.

[@ritcha02]

New to the channel and listened to a couple of productions so appreciated the scripts but having watched this one, I can’t believe the work and production values that goes into the visuals. What an amazing labour of love and love of knowledge. Incredible work.

[@agopshamelian7742]

Genius. The more points of views & perception we acquire, the faster we get to decipher the larger picture and truth. Thanks to the creator of this Channel and the primordial power for this treat.🎉 it takes two to tango

[@timmacwilliam9519]

You should check out Mauro Biglino.

[@hughjanus5336]

Recent mitochondrial and nuclear DNA research points to Botswana as the cradle of mankind. 0:30

[@Selene13zz]

The story of Horanu and the sky goddess is so reminiscent of the story of Hades & Persephone that I wonder if a thread was carried down to the Greeks to create their myth as well. Very cool.

[@helenr4300]

I love exploring what ideas the Biblical writers had access to, it is not that they just copied but how they retell, and how they change/adapt/even challenge the original shows what they wanted to say as their message - probably in their exile - about their faith/national origin stories. I think about how in the new testament we have Jesus taking the existing passover symbology and introducing the new communion of my body, my blood. I feel the writers of OT mythology are doing the same 'you have heard story A; but what about this version'

[@daoist88]

Stories are retold to suit new paradigms. Not much is new under the sun.

[@definitivamenteno-malo7919]

It's basically "Yeah, all that is real, but, how do you know it was their gods and not OURS!?" Or "Jesus said that the end of the world would come during his generation, but actually, that means OUR generation!"

[@Jaclyn25]

Well of course Israel didn't come first . Thats why it bothers me when you call the God of Israel creator of the universe!

[@Sjsjsosoajansbsb]

Jacob's name was changed to Israel.

[@Sjsjsosoajansbsb]

@@Jaclyn25 ok??? your point is?

[@schnellster1]

Well, if you debunk the blood types source, only 6000 years and multiple types!!! Hindu scriptures have the answers!

[@schnellster1]

Also, this Yahweh made the biggest failed project ... That he had to course correct quite often!

[@Jaclyn25]

@@schnellster1 they just changed the name to Yahweh to make it Monotheistic... Its different entities that's why so many contradictions

[@NaturalismoHumanismo]

Great, Derek! unravel the myths, they are necessary!

[@marktwain5232]

Excellent shorter, concise, presentation on new research revelations! Very much appreciated! I think you have now found your best style!

[@daisyg8384]

Hi. The thing is all of these myths have been written long after the Genesis was written... The video is well made, but these theories are not plausible.

[@healthyselfwithkristi7459]

Yes! Love it!

[@xodarianxo]

@@daisyg8384 Well that's simply incorrect. The dilmun myth is much older than adam and eve myth. 2600 BCE vs 1000 BCE. What are the exact things stated in the video that deem it implausible? Both the dilmun myth and adam and eve myth describe a perfect paradise. In Dilmun, there is no sickness nor death, while Eden is an ideal garden with no sickness nor death. Both stories involve gods creating and interacting with humans. Both are built off themes of creation and fertility, and address the loss of innocence and gaining knowledge, resulting in significant changes for humans. They explore moral questions about human existence and the relationship between people and the divine.

[@Madamefyness]

For 1 adam and eve was not the first people if you read and pay attention to the book of creation it literally says that the creator made men and women (plural) and told them to be fruitful and multiply. Being fruitful and multiply doesn't that mean to mate and create children? Then it breaks down to 1 person the creator made and placed him in this garden. Now lets use some common sense and think about the fact that he never says ANYTHING to adam about not eating off of the two trees correct? Nothing was said in the newer bibles about not eating from trees until after eve was created 🤔. So if you read a bible from the 1800s and/ or a bible from the early 1900s it NEVER says ANYTHING about not eating from two trees EVER instead It talks about adam being in the garden for a while and becoming lonely and the creator notice that adam is lonely and bored so he put adam to sleep takes a rib from adam and creates Eve. I'm pausing from the story for a second because I have to explain something that people look over all because it is intentionally is looked over to misguide us and to push the lie we have been taught! But if adam rib was used to create eve means they have the same blood type and could give bone marrow if a transplant was needed and the ONLY way bone marrow can be transplanted it would have to come from a family member............ Which means Eve WAS NOT created to be adams wife which the bible never says eve was created to be his wife nor lover but was created to be a companion. They were brother and sister because what purpose would he need to create her from a rib when he can create life from clay? Now back to the story..... So after eve was created he tells them that they can not partake of the fruit which if you paid attention to the creator telling the men and women to be FRUITFUL and multiply so telling them to not partake of the fruit means they was not supposed to mate and have children and why is that? Because they was family and not mates! So one day eve is roaming the garden when something calls her name she follows the sound and come across the angel Gabriel (originally it wasn't a snake) and Gabriel BEGUILED now beguiled means to flirtatiously talk to someone to get them excited for sex. So they partake of the fruit and eve loved it and goes to adam and says that he should do what she did and partake of the fruit and she beguiles adam and they partake of the fruit so on e they do so adam and eve notice that adam cant look at eve and not show that they have done what the creator told them not to do (they became sexually aware of the body and adam looking at eve would make him erect when it didn't before so adam thought to grab leaves and cover up his erectness and vover up eves body so it wont cause him to be excited and when the creator show up they became afraid because they knew the creator would know what they did because they are covered now and the creator told them that they would have to die...... The creator was furious about what happened and was upset that adam didnt tell eve to not communicate with the angels (i forgot to say something about that before) so instead of ending them because it wasnt really their fault he makes them leave the garden to be bound together and THEN he cursed Gabriel to become a serpent!

[@marcthedawn]

Why Gabriel (and not Satan/Heylel/Azazel/Beelzebub/some other known fallen angel/principality) when he’s never been described as such and is in fact a righteous angel according to the Canon - the 66 books (not sure about about his backstory in other apocryphal/pseudepigrapha’s works)? Mostly everything else resonated with me except you just replace Gabriel’s name with Satan or some other higher ranked evil spirit.

[@patriciafavela1010]

Why not speak with the angles? ….wouldn’t it ultimately fall upon - dare I say, the creators responsibility to make sure it’s known and wouldn’t forget to mention not speaking to ‘strangers’ (angles) and how would Adam/Eve even KNOW what SIN equates to= death if they’ve no experience with it at all nor sexually - and why STILL let them procreate after the fact !? I’d separate them, like different time out this is your half of the garden and patiently wait to see if perhaps an actual mate would be presented and never ever be alone with sis/bro and to not speak of it ever type of thing? After a long talking to : like education… n such..???

[@tamarapreyepere-sinclair5316]

Longest piece of rubbish I've ever read. If you believe Adam and Eve story then please believe Harry Potter. That's how real it is. This story is FAKE. Adam to time ot Christ is 4,000 years. Humans have been on earth for almost 200,000 years.. this is all just Jewish mythology no one should care about.

[@nunyabiznes6702]

@Madamefyness Very well said. This was the 1st version I learned growing up in Puerto Rico. They have changed and (I think purposefully ) many of the text completely from what I remember. I began studying many of the texts mentioned in the video back in the mid-90s. I honestly believe all Abrahamic and other Old World religions still practiced today are the remnants of nephilim worship. The Israelite yhwh started as a minor cannanite storm god (like the Norse Thor). It then evolved into the israelite god of creation, then the Christian god of creation.

[@mixmike101]

English much? loL👽

[@yousafzai8547]

my man just casually ended all abrahamic religions

[@mannygutierrez7654]

Knowing that the Book of Kings itself mentions the worship of Asherah in the temple of Jerusalem, and I glossed over that passage multiple times in my church years, is genuinely frustrating 😂

[@DavidByers-vs9lm]

Why,they were continually copying their neighbors.Thats why they were always in trouble with the Creator.

[@KennethWilburn-cu7pm]

Albert Einstien...samw​@@DavidByers-vs9lm

[@TobiasC-mg4zk]

This creator you refer to was written about much later to clean up the true history of the Canaanite and Israelite people. We have texts in the form of letters from 7th century CE in Israelite temples at Elepantine. The priests in Jerusalem were allowing things forbidden in the later Deuteronomy. Hezekiah and Josiah made the religion monotheistic and rewrote the texts to make it appear as though Abraham, Moses and such were devout monotheistic Yahwists. Other temples found in Sinai have Yahweh and Asherah being worshipped together. The Bible is a wonderful text to study but it’s now widely understood as a mixture of ancient history, ethics, religion and political propaganda.

[@kwarrior2895]

Which verse please.

[@kwarrior2895]

They will say it was the Canaanites influenced them.

[@adriaanbertdeveldeharsenhorst]

Read Zechariah Sitchen about the Anunnaki warlords from outer space Niberu and you'll understand a lot more about history.

[@jared9537]

So glad I'm not alone in this we need a anannaki meet up or something

[@adriaanbertdeveldeharsenhorst]

@@jared9537 Hell no. Let them stay where they are. They have done enough damage to our planet earth already.

[@vidhead85]

Wow Adam & Eve were plagiarized from Near Eastern mythology? Shocked I tell ya Seriously Derek: I am in awe of this channel and all the effort put into these very informative and educating videos You're doing sacred work

[@broski365]

It depends who wrote it first, what tablets survived... etc It's more likely that these stories originated from large cities than a few Jewish scribes living in small towns near a popular trade route

[@eatfrenchtoast]

And like the scribes of old Derek borrows from the work of earlier content creators 🤣🤙

[@vidhead85]

@@eatfrenchtoast He cites his sources I definitely give him that

[@KetsaKunta]

​@@broski365It depends on who *spoke* it first. These myths were orally transmitted for thousands of years before writing. All of the written myths we know today are just reflections of long lost oral myths.

[@theonlyway5298]

No, I don't think there was 'plagiarism'. Its a mistake to think like that. Abraham came from the very area, where these other legends were known. He brought with him on his journey into Canaan, to the land he was promised, these descriptions. That would be very natural, its simply a continuation of the same type of descriptive legend that he grew up with. That's nothing to do with plagiarism because he owned these descriptions and he just continued them from where he grew up in Ur, Sumeria. However, there is a profound difference in the story of Genesis, first in the fact that Abraham believed in one God - monotheism, and secondly in the profound message and meaning of Genesis, Adam and Eve and the garden - which describes the human condition and the future of humanity that has chosen its own way leading to its own destruction - nuclear arms that can destroy the very creation itself and no hope beyond death...only a miserable grave.

[@josiepens4480]

The Old Testament is Hebrew mythology. It is Israel's way of making sense of their origins & history.

[@aResoluteProtector]

Uhhh no lol.

[@jovanarosic3606]

New is way better with a lot more sense at least in my opinion

[@PhyllisFicarrotta-yg1om]

Everyone should read the book: Urantia. It talks about several Gardens of Eden. The interesting thing about this book is that no one knows who wrote it. Interesting video.

[@macuse2008]

That's the problem. Who wrote it. Some dude on drugs? Who knows

[@PhyllisFicarrotta-yg1om]

@@macuse2008 Doesn’t matter who wrote it. It either makes sense or it doesn’t.

[@macuse2008]

@@PhyllisFicarrotta-yg1om does it make sense?

[@MarmaladeINFP]

For several decades, I've been reading scholarship on ancient culture, philology, Judeo-Christian history, Biblical studies, religious parallels, mythological traditions, astrotheology, etc. The evidence keeps piling up and it is overturning centuries and millennia of orthodox dogma and conventional thought. As far as I can tell, it's not clear there is a single thing that is ultimately original and unique to the Abrahamic religions, maybe not even the character 'Abraham'. Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Manichaeanism, and Islam all developed out of, borrowed from, and were syncretized with diverse other influences closely surrounding them. This is absolutely undeniable at this point, and yet fundamentalist-controlled Biblical studies has been hopelessly trying to hold back the tide. Ancient Jews didn't even recognize themselves as a single people or necessarily always identify separately from other people. Various Semitic, Semitic-influenced, and Semitic-like people were spread out over vast regions; and they mixed freely without clear demarcations. One Jewish scholar went so far to assert that there wouldn't have been a way to absolutely determine who was and was not a Jew in the ancient world. This kind of understanding, though, isn't exactly new. Even in the ancient world, Christian apologists were already forced to admit that so much in Christianity was identical to other contemporary and prior religions. And by early modernity, Biblical studies had advanced to this same admission, among many French thinkers and those like Thomas Paine. Plus, there is the influences from Greco-Roman philosophy: Neoplatonic exegesis, Stoic natural law and liberty of soul, etc.

[@tracewallace23]

While I agree with you. 👍🏻 Whatever you do, don't bring this up around American, Evangelical, Christian Nationalist, Trump voters. 😳 It could get ugly😵‍💫🫣 None are so blind, as those who will not see😞🤷🏻‍♂️

[@roringusanda2837]

​@@tracewallace23those people make up the backbone of studies like this, you're maligning people you don't even know.😡

[@carroyo911]

@@tracewallace23 How insular and obtuse you must be to even bring up Trump into the discussion...

[@helmeteye]

Why does everyone assume that the ancients didn't get their ideas from the ancient Hebrews? Does no one find it weird that writing just appears?

[@roringusanda2837]

@@helmeteye because there are older cultures than hebrews and it's obvious that the hebrews copied a lot of their stuff, sometimes changing it as bit, sometimes not.

[@mystik.mermayde.aotearoa]

It's not just the middle east which has legends of the first person being created from earth/clay! Here in the Pacific we have the same legends... For example in New Zealand our creation story goes that the god Tāne-Mahuta created the first woman from clay and breathed life into her nostrils. She sneezed and came to life. This story gives rise to our traditional greeting (Hongi - touching noses to share breath) and a common exclamation in the Māori language, often used in speeches: "Tihei, mauriora!" Literally meaning "the sneeze of life" or 'sneeze, living soul!"). Thank you for this interesting video! 🙏

[@princehamza890]

well quran mentions when adam was created he sneezed.

[@mystik.mermayde.aotearoa]

@@princehamza890 wow really?! Amazing similarity 🙏

[@eddiehernandez1772]

It's simple. According to the author of Genesis, creation took place about 2500 years before their time. If the Genesis creation story is true, then you would certainly expect to discover many variations of the story even before Genesis was written. Therfore, previous legends that are similar to the latter account of Genesis do not necessarily conclude that Genesis is borrowed or just another copy cat legend. The fact that there are corroborating stories only reinforces the likelihood that the overall story of creation is true.

[@bbl5499]

You're spot on.

[@bobertjones2300]

What about the two creation accounts, the second one starting at Gen 2:4? Revealed religion, verified by Holy Scripture and omnipotence of deity are the shaky trinity of Abrahamic faith.

[@sylenx02]

Exactly ✝️

[@MrMobilePerformance]

This is another well-researched video. Good job, Derek!

[@laniebordador6226]

“They given him the wisdom like anu, given him the robe to rule the land, but they not given him eternal life “…

[@jaysavage777-h2u]

Whenever going out to take someone else's land,Always Say God Promised the land to You!!!It gives you a Legitimate Reason 😉

[@Nozarks1]

😂lol. I unfortunately it seems to be working.

[@Byneford]

Might need to try that with my neighbors house. Thanks!

[@Nozarks1]

@@Byneford lol 😂. The situation isn’t funny, but your comment is.

[@gomerzpyle6805]

But defying all odds though.,. Like when the red men tribes conquered the redhaired giants along with similar biblical accounts like joshua and caleb.

[@djmcmenus5211]

Nice try, but the Palestinians are NOT Canaanites. They are Arabs, who came far after the Hebrews. 👌

[@DrLEMICHAELS]

It's amazing how we forget that the story creation was an universal mythology.

[@matthewkopp2391]

What was really surprising to me in regards to Genesis is the wide spread idea that the first Adam was neither male nor female, and God divided the first Adam to make male and female. So far I have found the idea was the corner stone of the Ebionites belief, the Thomasine Christians, but also Clement of Alexandria‘s belief. And many consider Timothy 1 & 2 a late forgery which indicates that Paul believed as he said that all were equal in Christ. But the suggestion is already in the canonical gospels.

[@Dan-dl7tz]

Thank you for this

[@imaginaryuniverse632]

Christ is our being. Everyone is of the same being just in different states of mind with different points of view. This is the reason for the golden rule and why we are all equal in Christ. The rock of ages is the one Life in which all others appear. Y pluribus unum.

[@Cereal_Killer007]

I dont believe that because the Bible would have said this in genesis. The penis is how men urinate, without that how would he survive? Or are you saying he didnt need to urinate?

[@Dan-dl7tz]

@@Cereal_Killer007 the Bible isn’t the be all end all. But you know that already.

[@Cereal_Killer007]

@@Dan-dl7tz The Bible IS the end all be all. It tells us exactly whats going to happen in the future. Even you have to see that humanity is already gravitating in that direction and many events from revelation are taking place before our eyes. The Bible is proven true with each new archeological dig

[@paul6925]

Very interesting! The fact a perfect and loving god would go ahead and create human beings, knowing it would go terribly wrong, was always one of my greatest problems with being a Christian.

[@XiaoGuanYin104]

God intended the results. Only humans think "it went terribly wrong."

[@paul6925]

@@XiaoGuanYin104 And the loving part of that is?

[@dayofthejackyl]

@@XiaoGuanYin104get your head out of the fairytale

[@DanielImmanuel2143]

This is the great cosmic experiment. To see who loves God and who doesn't from the concept of free-Will

[@tinahalford1941]

@@XiaoGuanYin104 not

[@jamesyoung1022]

Theology's most dangerous idea: "There is no such thing as an unknowable truth. Anyone can possess knowledge of truths that appear impossible to possess by intransigently pretending and insisting they possess knowledge of them." What knowledge do theists insist I should pretend to possess? 1. Should I pretend to know that an undetectable supernatural realm exists inhabited by undetectable, all-powerful, immortal, thinking agents, monitoring every human thought and act, justly entitled to micromanage every aspect of human existence? 2. Should I pretend to know that I have a special intimate personal relationship with the supernatural realm that telepathically endows me with knowledge of unknowable divine truths, to tap into the mind of their God, to know what it thinks and wants? 3. Should I pretend to know that when our ancient ancestors created their religions and wrote their holy books, they did not include in them any imaginary narratives, things that they were pretending to know but in reality, they could not possibly know? 4. Or should I resist the temptation to pretend to possess knowledge I cannot possibly access and instead accept the substantive realities of the observable world?

[@br4524]

Excellent points

[@jmc8076]

I must be in diff time zone here in Canada where it’s only been posted for 16 min. So many who seem to have watched already Lol. It looks great.

[@sabrinanascimento5248]

The 4 Nephilim are still chained under the Euphrates River. They will kill a Third of Mankind 😢

[@rob77793eleven]

"your mind makes it real" - Morpheus

[@jahleajahlou8588]

The Gnostics say that Aeon Sophia (abundant, fruitful, productive, wise) had a "twin sister" described as her opposite (dry, arid, barren, rocky, unproductive, desolate). Sounds like the Earth without any water. The Man fashioned from clay initially could not even stand up and was lifeless. There are 2 lores which state Sophia had to breath into the Man & also that Eve had to breath into Adam to animate him.

[@aResoluteProtector]

Who cares what Gnostics say? They are wolves in sheeps clothing and Paul warned they would enter in soon after his death.

[@bernardok]

i always have disbelief on jewish propaganda whether it's politics, or bed time mythologies. thanks we got archeologist,scholars to show us the truth about this ancient manga stories

[@whyis45stillalive]

It's been common knowledge that, the Israelites "borrowed" their god, and mythology, in part from the Canaanites, as well as, the: Assyrians, Babylonians, Midianites, Judeans, and other Mesopotamians, for many years. Any myth that sounded good was usurped and made more fantastical. This made the new "Jews" the bestest! 😉 Edit: spellchecker

[@timcotterill3952]

Watched about a DVDs worth of great content so here you go. Thanks🎉🇦🇺🎸🎼

[@MythVisionPodcast]

You seriously rock, thank you!

[@plexus]

Tell us your age without telling us your age

[@mardeeshack]

​to grow older is a huge privilege not afforded to all.@@plexus

[@timcotterill3952]

@@plexus it rhymes with “Nifty Nix”. Why the interest in my age?

[@plexus]

@@timcotterill3952 just sayin... using "DVDs worth" as a unit of measurement lol. just cause dvds are practically obsolete at this point.

[@PlanetDeLaTourette]

The name Adam refers to the color red and more specifically blood. It also has the meaning of a vessel/body, or more abstract: matter. I think the idea of soil is derived from this notion and not the other way around. So Adam can be read as flesh (red matter of the body) and I think it means alive / the living (one).

[@ShawnHawkins-sk2df]

Atom

[@ibrahimelmasry-z3k]

Adam is an Arabic word that means a doll or a likeness, and the likeness of Adam is the likeness of the word. The word has another meaning. Adam is from the facet of the earth(أديم الارض = تراب الارض). The dust of the earth has a reddish color, a middle area between red and brown. The angels took a handful of the dust of the earth and made it like(أدم) Adam

[@Jen-e-sis]

Exactly Adam is atom and Eve is our spirit , we became living spirits trapped in flesh.

[@Spagettigeist]

Not sure where you're taking your information from, but while the word Adam is linked to the color red, it's less a blood red and strongly linked to earth/soil, which is called Adamah. Which makes sense when you think about how the story talks about how Adam was made from clay.

[@ibrahimelmasry-z3k]

@@Spagettigeist I wrote for you the meaning of the word Adam in the Arabic language, and also you said adding Adam actually means in one of its meanings the color of blood, and the derivation of the word gives this meaning, and from it was the name of the torn god Demuzi, so his name carries the same meaning that you said. I hope you do not forget that I am Arab. I know the meanings of words. Do not forget that Ibrahim An Arab person, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, David, Solomon, and Christ are all Arabs. They spoke as I speak.

[@frankhernandez6883]

*the flood myth was probably the break through of the Med Sea that created the Black Sea and destroyed the many towns/villages that were there*

[@WalterRMattfeld]

(14 May 2024, 10:25 p.m.) In the 1930s archaeologists excavated the ancient Sumerian city of Shuruppak, mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh. They found the flood silt form a flooding Euphrates river of circa 2900 BC. The flood silt was no more than two feet deep. Shuruppak existed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC when it was destroyed by war and forever abandoned. Gilgamesh (ca. 2700 BC) sought out Utnapishtim, who was granted immortal life for saving the seed of animal-kind and man-kind from a complete annihilation in the world-wide flood waters. Recast as Noah's Flood in the Bible, which dates it ca, 2400 BC. Shuruppak was resettled shortly after the Euphrates flood of 2900 BC.and later destroyed in war by 2000 BC.

[@aResoluteProtector]

"Flood myth" there is plenty of evidence of the flood.

[@frankhernandez6883]

@@aResoluteProtector Well, there's plenty of evidence of FLOODS in general, but not the one that killed EVERYONE on earth. If so, god must've been a SOB!

[@frankhernandez6883]

@@aResoluteProtector there may be, but it was a local flood and NOT worldwide. How else could the primitives have explained it? No One would be alive to write it down, except Noah and the other primitives he took aboard.

[@hughjanus5336]

"The one thing we know for sure from geology is that a global flood never happened", said David Montgomery, a professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington in Seattle and other independent researchers. It could only have been a local flood as far as the eye could see, from horizon to horizon.

[@harijotkhalsa9496]

So I guess Zach Sitchen was full of it because he has a very detailed writing about a Sumerian version of Adam and Eve.

[@Ummchris_]

Why is there just bits of none sense but the Bible is complete

[@TheUnseenPath]

“Nonsense” because these are ancient tablets likely destroyed for some reason.

[@Rocsheed-ge2cr]

The Bible is a compiled book of “nonsense”

[@gunner5217]

Horanus being represented as being a falcon makes sense, in the natural people would often witness snakes being carried off by birds of prey , so that would make them masters of snakes

[@artstrology]

The second decan of Libra is Falcon,...and almost all of the historically famous time pieces and time keepers are born in that time, as was the gregorian calendar which is purposefully designed to confuse people away from natural time cycles. Chasing myths will perpetuate the discussion about genesis and exodus, but learning the 36 decans and 20 days (a score) solves it.

[@cheeseman417]

The Hillsdale college presentation series on genesis with Professor J. A. Jackson is pretty thorough, you should have him as a guest on mythvision one day, if you haven't already, it would make for an interesting interview I think.

[@hughjanus5336]

Dr. Jackson specializes in investigating the intersections between literature, theology and philosophy, and his scholarship and teaching reflect this passion.

[@junehinds9956]

Yahuah and Yahusha keep digging in the language. Shalom

[@bro-watch]

Hey Derek, i'm here from Brazil, by your interview to Antonio's channel. I'm sort of binge watching your channel and I'm really enjoying it. Congratulations for your work!

[@annkarel1672]

My God is the God above all gods. He knows the beginning from the end and makes no mistakes. You are saying God makes mistakes, No.

[@DavidLKaas]

In the Bible there are two Messiah's! The Lamb of God/Jesus and the Lion of Judah/David. Read Hosea 3: 4-5 Isaiah 55: 3-5 Jeremiah 30: 9 Ezekiel 34: 23-24 Ezekiel 37: 24-25 Rev 19: 11-16. Words anti-Christ/Ante' Christ have two different meanings. First is any against the teachings of Jesus Christ. Second is 1500's French Provincial coined by Nostradamus meaning, The One Who comes BEFORE the return of Christ Jesus. As in a game of cards the Ante' comes first before the cards are dealt. A.M/P.M stand for Ante' Meridian/Post Meridian. ❤

[@aResoluteProtector]

That's ONE messiah who comes to offer His life as a sacrifice for sins, and who comes back later, PISSED OFF at the people who denied it.

[@DavidLKaas]

@aResoluteProtector from the start there was Only One Primal Creator that made seven fee Male spirits. They cooperatively created one-thousand Michael's each with seven fee-Male spirits. Then the 8008 Spirits manifested on the 3-D plane a double planetary system named Zeta Renticuli with gold and silver beings that destroyed both worlds in civil wars. Now the Grey/Greens at the DUMB near Dulce New Mexico doing the Cattle Mutilations and making ADRENOCHROME from children's hormonal extract. Next manifested was the Reptilian and Insectoid races on different planets. All of these have telepathic abilities. Earth was originally a Reptilian planet. At this point in time the one-thousand Michael's and mates incarnated for 300,000 years each time upon the moving system Nemesis/Nibiru by orders from the Prime Creator to spread the Human genome upon many planets. This then enabled created spirits to Re-incarnated through different body's. Eventually reaching the human stage and then hearing about a coming day of judgement. On that special day Only the Male stands before his own accumulated Akashic record and not the accompanying seven fee-Males. If found worthy (75%+) then all eight receive Eternal life and a planet to begin to raise-up their own baby spirits through the re-incarnation process until they reach their day of judgement upon which the same happens and the best move up! In this way the Prime Creator is REPLICATING itself in time.

[@Yenhal7]

But my question is it doesn’t matter if there is a lots of books. Which one one is the first book in history?

[@ForkCandle123]

The first books probably don't exist any more. Lost or destroyed. So sad that we'll never know. P.S: we know nothing of what was.

[@brandoncorley5922]

Ancient mesopotamia was where the schools of the planetary prince calagastia stood. These schools were used to teach the evolving colored humans as well as the more primitive andonites(neaderthald) about animal husbandry. Later when the Material son Adam and Eve came to earth they taught in the gardens the skill of agriculture to their direct decendants(midway creatures) and only the most evolved and superior races and tribes. Most notably the hebrew tribes of the yellow/blue race

[@hughjanus5336]

Both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA point to Botswana as the cradle of mankind.

[@brandoncorley5922]

@@hughjanus5336 well then you have a loose idea of what "mankind" is. If you wanna know the truth our actual direct ancestor mutated out of the north america lemur type 1 million years ago. Off the western coast of northern india. The lesser lemurs went south while the newly mutated an evolved mankind with perfect feet and perfect thumbs moved north away from their primitive ancestors to form their own tribes and thats the beginning.

[@hughjanus5336]

A comparison of DNA nucleotide sequences of living primate species show that humans are most closely related to the African apes. Next in descending order of genetic closeness to us come the Asian apes, Old World monkeys, New World monkeys, tarsiers and finally the lemurs and lorises.

[@hughjanus5336]

A comparison of DNA nucleotide sequences of living primate species show that humans are most closely related to the African apes. Next in descending order of genetic closeness to us come the Asian apes, Old World monkeys, New World monkeys, tarsiers and finally the lemurs and lorises.

[@hughjanus5336]

The Urantia Book is said to be the largest work ever channeled by unseen higher beings through human contacts. It contains a large amount of modern science and a detailed biography of Jesus Christ, including facts not found in the Gospels. As a result, many scientists and scholars are dedicated Urantians, although the testable assertions in the book have been increasingly found to be false. The book includes Adventist doctrines, such as soul-sleep and Jesus being Michael the Archangel, as well as the names of famous Adventist leaders.

[@josephthomasjr.6551]

Magnificent Derek!!! Yet another triumph. Keep up the good work, young man. (And, by the way, if you want a profitable side hustle, consider doing NON--MythVision voice overs. You have a marvelous voice, brother! So give that some thought.) For now...ciao.

[@tonygilchrist9113]

Great production Derek (& Paul). Very professional & engaging video 👍

[@SaveAmerica1-pz2xg]

If God was it we would all be living outside with only fig leaves and no shelter. Luckily humans stepped up and came up with inventions

[@waderogers]

I haven't even watched half of the video but I feel the need to comment! Excellent so far! Fills in some blanks for me. The garden story in Genesis is preceded by another middle eastern story that's similar, and I can't remember from which tradition is came but it too had supernatural beings guarding its entrance. These were gardens in either Babylonia or Persia and were 'king's gardens', a place where the king and his family could relax and reconnect with nature and which had caretakers who tended to the garden (like Adam and Eve, who could eat of any fruit they wanted), and these gardens were also a symbol of the king's power since water had to be diverted to make them grow and only the ruling class had the financial means to divert a resource like water. These gardens, like the Garden of Eden, were also guarded at their gates to keep enemies of the king out, so to be expelled from the Garden (of Eden) meant you were no longer in the king's favor. Derek, I believe I picked this up from one of your shows with either Kip Davis or the other guy who often appears with Kip on your show (sorry, so many names, so little time)! Either way, the story in the bible is not unique nor original to the Jews...

[@hughjanus5336]

Both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, independent research, point to Botswana as the cradle of mankind.

[@JohnWood-h2f]

Agree that the efforts of god don’t seem to go as he wanted but will punish others for his actions. Holds grudges, spiteful, jealous, shows signs of being bigoted, bias, prejudice, but since he is god then we are to fear him. Notice the fear factor is never far from source of controlling people.

[@AVADAMS1967]

Outstanding Content!

[@GizmoFromPizmo]

The more you know about the bible, the more you realize that nothing went wrong in the Garden. Everything happened according to plan. God made Adam in His own image and He knew that when He told Adam not to eat of that Tree, it was only a matter of time before he did. We are made in the image of One who has a thick black streak of rebellion in Himself, just like His creation. The commandment, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy god", is a strong indication that God can indeed be tempted. Jesus' temptation in the wilderness is one example. Jesus' temptation on the cross, "If thou be the Son of God..." He was tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin. Anybody who teaches that God doesn't tempt us and neither can He be tempted, doesn't know anything about life or God. James 1:13b - for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: Poppycock.

[@keithjacksonjr6846]

Good episode enjoyed it bro

[@carolynsilvers9999]

Well researched and nicely presented. Very informative.

[@shamol_1961]

I would like to see this kind of more short videos. Your narrative style is fantastic.

[@msprettykawaii950]

The enemy of God will try to replicate God's design to confuse humanity even before it all happens

[@jaredandrews5806]

Wow! I loved this documentary. A lot of connections i hadnt made or even heard of here. Makes me want to play around with my homebrew Pathfinder mythos. Thanks so much :)

[@PacLife-jq5kr]

FIRST ADAM WAS ABRAHAM PLEASE TO ALL HUMANKINDS ON THIS UNIVERSE YUDA KOMFO ANOKYE❤

[@Caleblembrich]

As a Christian the information in this video fascinates me. I would like to show you how I interpret it all. The ancient civilizations mentioned to have books that share many parallels with the Bible all date back to the beginnings of human civilization. They were all from Mesopotamia. They all had very similar stories about a great flood, a garden with cool trees, and deities such as the serpent and gods. To me, this all just gives more proof that the Book of Genesis is historical. If all the earliest peoples shared common stories, they must have come from a common ancestor. This ancestor would have been Noah. Noah and his family were set apart by God and were the only survivors of the flood. The stories of the garden and the serpent which occurred before the flood would have of course been passed down by Noah to his sons, whose descendants created the early civilizations mentioned in this video. --------- An argument given in this video to denounce the author of Genesis is that he copied the books of earlier peoples. The author of Genesis was Moses. Moses was of the nation of Israel. Israel was founded by Abraham. Abraham came from Ur, he was originally a Chaldean. God called him out of his homeland and promised to make Abraham into a great nation. Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. This is how Israel came to be. The book of Genesis was written over 400 years after Abraham, when God divinely inspired Moses to write it along with the next four books that follow it in the Bible. It’s not that Moses copied the earlier books but rather the earlier books had much accuracy in their historical events, although sadly over embellishing the stories and straying away from the true creator God. If you read this I would like to ask you something. Why is it that since all of the earliest civilizations share similar stories with the ones found in the Bible, does it have to mean that the Bible is myth. To me, it shows that they really did come from Adam and Eve and that the events of the Bible are historical.

[@mardeeshack]

You missed a huge point, that these writings existed before the Bible was written. So how were they passed down from Bible stories?

[@jenserikbech]

"Whaat did Children in Nazi Germany worry about"? Did anybody care? You need to know the difference between War and Peace!

[@TreeHairedGingerAle]

Saw you during the 'Recovering from Religion' fundraising stream! Eager to check out your work 🙆🏾‍♀️✨

[@patbrumph6769]

This is a superb video. I long suspected Jewish and Christian religions evolved from pagan religions but only had a couple examples to support my premise such as Noah's Ark and Abraham sacrificing his son. This video really fills out the subject and puts a cap on it. Great job! I love the work you people do.

[@matthewgerwing6520]

Beautiful. Wow. Very professional, and honest. You present the current state of facts that are known...as you know them at least. I think you are one of the least biased people out there. Ty for your work in this subject matter.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

I once saw this thing about Eden. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers have different sources and there are no Pishon or Gihon rivers. But they found evidence of two dried up rivers with a satellite. When sea levels were lower they would've all flowed into one another creating a large freshwater estuary just north of the Red Sea. So it argued that Eden is now under the Red Sea.

[@chirstopheranlcock4616]

When cane killed able and was sent out of Eden he went to join the pre adamites where did they come from if Adam and Eve were the first two people on earth.?

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

And you probably believe that Jesus was Lily white.

[@Nancy-px7hn]

It's Abel.

[@TobiasC-mg4zk]

Cain

[@lisabevans2639]

The pre-adamites were extra-terrestrials.

[@rhov-anion]

My mom's church taught that the people he joined were basically his nieces and nephews, and maybe multiple generations had passed by the time Cain slew Abel. After all, the Bible doesn't say this event happened when Cain and Abel were rebellious teens or anything. They could have been hundreds of years old, their siblings could have been great-great-great-grandparents at this point. Then there's my dad's theory (not a fundamentalist like my mom) which is that God made many "Adams" all around the world, and this is why so many creation stories exist in areas that would have been cut off before the end of the last Ice Age, and while there are similarities, they are anything but identical. My mom also believed the universe was only 7000 years old, yet believed her Native American ancestors came over across the Bering Strait during the last Ice Age... 20,000 years ago. Obviously, there's some timeline issues there, which she simply ignored and chose to somehow believe both are true. Yeah... I never quite understood that level of mental gymnastics. Then one day, her church reversed policies out of nowhere, "A billion years to man is but a day to God," and suddenly the universe really could be billions of years old, humans really could have been around for tens of thousands of years, dinosaurs really did exist, every single member of her church who would have died on the hill of a "7000 year old universe" INSTANTLY switched gears without any sort of debate with the leader, declaring it was "food given at the proper time" and lauding the leadership for being so wise as to figure this "mystery" out... and I realized her "church" was actually a cult.

[@luislugo3800]

The Book of Enki is older than those from Babylon. It states that the clay was used to create the probes in the lab instead of glass, so the minerals from the soil were part of our DNA.

[@janeeb859]

The "CLAY" in the ancient stories is " KI" which The Elohim or Annunaki called the earth. Which was translated to "CLAY" by some , and "DUST" by others. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. It refers to the hominems / beings that were here on Earth ( possibly Denisovians). The ancient stone tablets also refers to them as " the black headed people". As the Annunaki beings where called " shining ones / Nacosh, and depicted in statues made of white porcelain with blue lapis lazuli stones to show they were blue eyed. Whereas the " black-headed people " had brown eyes and hair. This Is also shown in the birth of Noah story, where his father Lamech went and asked his father in law if the child was his because his hair was "white as wool and when he opened his eyes he lit up the whole room". This refered to platinum blond and blue eyed. So the made of " clay" meant made of earth.

[@TheDweller-]

Don't eat from the tree in the knoll ledge. My servant will influence you. My dark side , trying to figure it out .

[@Azupiru]

I love this one. I like when you hit the clay.

[@HalaluYAH_Homestead]

Ab 𐤀𐤁 (Father) 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YaHUaH) b'ha'shamaym 𐤁𐤄𐤔𐤌𐤉𐤌 (In the heavens) atah 𐤏𐤈𐤄 (wrap) barakah 𐤁𐤓𐤊𐤄 (blessings,) chasad 𐤇𐤎𐤃 (mercy,) rapha 𐤓𐤐𐤀 (healing,) chakmah 𐤇𐤊𐤌𐤄 (wisdom,) da'ath 𐤃𐤏𐤕 (all knowledge) and shamar 𐤔𐤌𐤓 (protect) you in His ahabah 𐤀𐤄𐤁𐤄 (love) and shalam 𐤔𐤋𐤌 (peace) aulam 𐤏𐤅𐤋𐤌 (forever) b'Ha'Sham 𐤁𐤄𐤔𐤌 (in the Name of) 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (YaHUShA) Ha'Mashyach 𐤄𐤌𐤔𐤉𐤇 (The Anointed One.) Aman 𐤀𐤌𐤍 (it is so.)

[@BarbosaUral]

This was a really good video, Derek!

[@Coltsfan421]

The bible also says in Isaiah 27:1 that God will kill Leviathan

[@Slickboot21]

My best understanding of the "man from clay" theory came from zechariah Sitchin's THE LOST BOOK OF ENKI. The traditional genetic work of mixing egg and sperm by the Anunnaki was performed in crystal vessels before in vitro fertilization by teams of birthing mothers. However, on Earth, seeking a viable mixture of a native forest creature's egg and Enki's own essence to create a worker race showed to be ineffective, bringing the process to be performed within, not a crystal vessel, but a clay vessel fired from Earth clay. This modification of vessels was the answer they were hoping for and progress was rapid from that point on. Man from clay. -- Texas

[@robinwolstenholme6377]

yhep then it was stolen by akanatum who invented monotheisem withch later turned in to juedaisum witch then turned in to the followers of abaham [ islam] witch then turned in to cristionisum.. all these monothests worshiping a ppollytheistic gods

[@MaryCahoon]

So you are saying that these "God's" of old made human beings in dirty clay jars and it worked but when they tried it in clean crystal jars or glass jars it didn't work at all??? Wow that's why Lucifer broke into the Garden of Eden for!!! He needed Jehovah Yahweh to kick Adam out of the garden of Eden and place him on earth prison planet 1 for disobedience. Why, you ask? Because Lucifer needed Adam's dirty DNA 🧬 to build his hybrid Army of monsters, he planned to use them to fight Michael and his Glory Warriors of Heaven. Because his criminal band of fallen Angels were too small a group to defeat Heavens Glory Warriors. Lucifer had already given it a try and lost, which got him thrown onto the prison planet called Earth. Yeah! That's right I said that this planet is a prison planet full of disobeying failures of Jehovah Yahweh's creative attempts to make life in the cosmos. It's the only thing that makes sense. Lucifer wants out of this small cramped cell of a planet. That's why his demons keep trying to put a hole 🕳️ in the firmament up above us. No one has ever gone anywhere except to the moon 🌝 and they were told to get off and never return. That's why they blew up the rocket 🚀 we sent up with common citizens in it, they couldn't allow that to happen. NASA is a great big Ponzi scheme to get money from the common citizens taxes for doing nothing but making a Hollywood movie seem virtual or real. The Moon is a space station built-in to the firmament of our planet and is manned by Giant Angels 😇 placed there by Jehovah Yahweh to watch over the inmates of his prison planet. Basically the Moon is the guard shack full of Giants who make Goliath look like a toddler next to their true height.

[@tinahalford1941]

Fallen angels corrupting the original creation.. that's probably what you read. Ea, Enki, ,Enlil, Inanna, An, in Eridu or Ur?

[@hughjanus5336]

Sitchin's writings have been universally rejected by mainstream historians, who have labelled his books as pseudoarchaeology, asserting that Sitchin seems to deliberately misrepresent Sumerian texts by quoting them out of context, truncating quotations, and reiterating mistranslated Sumerian words to give them radically different meanings from their accepted definitions to make money from his scam.

[@Slickboot21]

@@hughjanus5336 Yeah. I've heard that before. Thank you.

[@Coltsfan421]

And a true God does not get tired nor would he need men to do anything.

[@Schwarzkald]

Dama=Adama in Spanish means woman! The Eridu Genesis claims that a woman Adamma was created first! That woman through DNA manipulation had 7 daughters then the Gods impregnated them and 7 males were born, and so on! That's where we get the story of the seven sisters!

[@shamashatum7927]

Don't know where you got your info from but in Sumerian tablets it was 7 birth mother might ones each gave birth to a pair male and female each pair in their image, the 7 sisters are not related but are 7 stars imprisoned bound for everlasting destruction

[@shamashatum7927]

Don't know where you got your info from but in Sumerian text it was 7 birth mothers ( might ones) who gave birth to 7 kinds each brought forth a pair male and female in their image and likeness, the 7 sisters are not related to the 7 birth mothers but are 7 stars bound imprisoned for everlasting destruction

[@str45348]

Adamah is the feminine form of Adam meaning "ground"

[@jovanarosic3606]

Sounds like fallen angel work since there isn't Gods but God. Before great flood they really made stupid stories and planted many religions

[@shamashatum7927]

@@str45348 It's Adamah the Masculine which is the tiller of the ground which means the seed planter the seed itself is in the man then Adamah the Feminine in which the seed fertilizer look at it like this someone plants a grape seed ( Adamah Masculine) into the soil ( Adamah Feminine)

[@moontreat4161]

The story of Adam and Eve was a Temple ceremony. Temples were the way to pass down knowledge.

[@dd6742]

Can we just debunk religion already omg

[@squarerootof2]

Omg, omFg! Can we also just debunk philosophy and art, please!

[@robinpresley1746]

Thank you so much for addressing the Goddesses. It's about time . I wish more of the scholars you feature would do the same.

[@tiffanybarbee9316]

Wow. I've started it over or rewinded it 15 times!..to hear something again! Guess I'll be here awhile! PACKED with info and ideas❤❤ 😊 thanks!

[@turanose]

Something often missed in interpretations is how snakes behave and how that influences the story. Snakes are almost universally opportunistic, anxious, territorial predators. You do not control them, you “handle” them.

[@timmyholland8510]

That's an subjective view of things. It's an eccentric fiction as fiction goes, I give it credit for actually trying soo hard to sound serious.

[@soupbonep]

Derek, great doc! I wonder if any colleges use your videos as teaching material in their classes. I can see how they could due to your painstaking research and reference to strong sources. Like you I'm a skeptic, not just about religion, but about all information presented to me. You are a layperson and that is why I have viewed your videos with a skeptic eye, yet your sighting these sources gives your documentaries gravitas and I think they are excellent sources for knowledge of the subjects. So, you've won me over. I really appreciate what you do!

[@brandonrunyon]

I hope Dr Josh and Meghan looked this one over... it is, after all, their field of specialty...

[@kevinbirge2130]

Moses was raised Prince of Egypt. He had access to the most advanced education and knowledge on the planet. He most certainly had access to the Canaanite and Babylonian accounts and perhaps more that are lost to history. The Genesis account is the version he regarded as authentic. This should not be a difficult thing to deduce.

[@atifbangash]

The mountain in the East sounds more like Northern Pakistan. It has abundant rivers, greenery, and irrigation land along with tall mountains. Seven out of ten of the world's top peaks are in Pakistan. Apparently, this area has a Pashtun population who claim to be descendants of Israelites.

Borders of Nepal, Pakistan and India.

[@desmodesrampi9727]

My mind is blown. Thank you

[@leviathanv3135]

What of the Viking serpent Jörmungandr. Thor defeated him and he’s a storm being. Are there parallels with norse mythology

[@Karatop420]

Yes. Many. It's in the Vedas, too. Ancestral indo-european myth, bruh. ...but, Thor doesn't defeat jormungandr until ragnarok. It is Odin that takes the primordial pzza cutter to Ymir during the creation myth.

[@positivedark7721]

Hi guys, 17 year old christian here. Look, i dont want to stop being christian, i have been addicted to atheists videos over the last weeks, i wanted to watch them so i could undernstand how you guys think about religion and, respect it more, but it really hurted me, not only for the believe it self, but because i felt that i was so stupid and pathetic for simply being christian, i know im wrong in this, but what do you guys think i should do?, should i stop watching these videos? Thanks for reading guys, peace ❤

[@stephennadal4103]

God of the Bible is the only true God. Jesus is Lord! Don't be led astray by videos like this. God is the alpha and omega

[@Theyliewesleep]

Study to show thyself approved. A workman rightly dividing the word of truth. 60 year old man and former Christian here. Belief is the enemy of knowledge. People believe many things and people know many things. You are on a journey for truth, and it is gonna be one heck of a ride. Take breaks along the way. Touch some grass. We exist, so there has to be a creator. Nothing can not create something Remember that. Nothing can not creat something. That should be your starting point. Enjoy.

[@johnsmith-ee6tr]

So where is Lilith, before Eve.

[@DegoJen]

I'm glad I'm not the only one familiar with Lilith 🙏

[@strappedfatman7858]

There was only Adam. Adam was naming all of the animals that God was creating! How long was Adam living before the creation of a woman! Genesis 2:18 Then Jehovah God said: “It is not good for the man to continue to be alone. I am going to make a helper for him, as a complement of him.” 19 Now Jehovah God had been forming from the ground every wild animal of the field and every flying creature of the heavens, and he began bringing them to the man to see what he would call each one; and whatever the man would call each living creature, that became its name. 20 So the man named all the domestic animals and the flying creatures of the heavens and every wild animal of the field, but for man there was no helper as a complement of him.

[@forgetful3360]

Hanging out with her mother, her grandmother, and her aunts.

[@forgetful3360]

​@@strappedfatman7858 It appears you are someone of great knowledge. I have a question about the "created in His image" stuff. When God gets a hard on, does His tool curve or is it a straighty? Asking for a friend.

[@strappedfatman7858]

@forgetful3360 Which Tree do you follow! The Cross or the Pole! ✝️⬆️ Straight is the Path. The Tree of Life! Sun, moon and star worship! The first Seal of Revelation is a deception. The Roman Empire created the Harlot with their image the cross. John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. The purpose was to heal them spiritually. So what was they doing wrong to be healed. John 4:22 Jesus was raised up for the healing of the Nations. Even today Christendom uses the image of the cross along with the scarlet colored wild beast. Gog of Magog has been gathering the Nations. England became the 7th Kingdom of the World. Revelation 20:7 Now as soon as the 1,000 years have ended, Satan will be released from his prison, 8 and he will go out to mislead those nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Maʹgog, to gather them together for the war. Revelation 18 tells us to get out of Babylon the Great. The World Empire of False Religion. It started with Nimrod with his , sun, moon and stars worship. The Queen of the Heavens. It was the Nations who worshiped the sun , moon and stars. This is were the teaching of the Trinity came from the Roman Empire. Revelation 17:17 For God put it into their hearts to carry out his thought, yes, to carry out their one thought by giving their kingdom to the wild beast, until the words of God will have been accomplished. Even God's people deviated from true worship to YHVH, the God of Abraham Jeremiah 7:18 The sons are gathering wood, the fathers are lighting the fire, and the wives are kneading dough in order to make sacrificial cakes to the Queen of Heaven, and they are pouring out drink offerings to other gods to offend me. 19 ‘But am I the one they are hurting?’* declares Jehovah. ‘Is it not they themselves, to their own shame?’ 20 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says, ‘Look! My anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the fruitage of the ground; it will burn and will not be extinguished.’ Acts 7:42 But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars. This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets: “’Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel? Numbers 21:8 Then Jehovah said to Moses: “Make a replica of a poisonous snake and put it on a pole. Then when anyone has been bitten, he will have to look at it in order to keep alive.” 9 Moses at once made a serpent of copper and put it on the pole and whenever a serpent had bitten a man and he looked at the copper serpent, he survived. Jehovah's Witnesses do not follow the image of the cross. They follow the song of Moses. The teaching of Jesus raised upon a pole a torture stake.

[@ebonyblack4563]

This presentation was very good, and I especially enjoyed the snake animation of leaving the more innocent skin.

[@franklindzioba13]

Are you telling me that there were other Mesopotamian civilizations before the children of Jacob!?!? No way!!

[@KayWever]

Men have been here at least 36000 years

[@hughjanus5336]

As of 2017, the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils are from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dating back about 360,000 years. These fossils include skull, face, and jaw bones from five individuals who lived in a cave.

[@DHOP-tm2ch]

The Garden of Hesperides in Greek mythology is also an interesting parallel. Heracles has to confront a serpent protecting a tree of sacred golden apples.