Who is this God Guy Anyway?

This whole quest started back in film school when I was planning to make a documentary on finding religion. I’m not a religious person, but a lot of my friends are. What if one of the religions is right? What if I go to hell because I wasn’t dipped in a pool of water by a priest? What if I get reincarnated as a mosquito because I ate a cow? I better find out!

The first thing I had to do for research was read the Old Testament. After all, it’s the foundation of the biggest religion in the world. Instead of reading it, though, I listened to an audiobook of Charlton Heston reading the Bible. Which is awesome, by the way. But my first thought was, “Why do people love this God guy so much? He seems kind of like a dick. Am I missing something here? I don’t see an all-loving God.”

Around the same time, I read the Sumerian texts, which predate the Bible by thousands of years (some estimates say hundreds of thousands) and tell the same basic stories—but with a twist. It wasn’t a single God with a big G, but a bunch of gods with little g’s that all this hoopla was about. I was confused about why there was such a change from multiple gods to a single God, until I learned one important fact: Elohim, which is the literal name of God in the Bible, is actually translated as plural… gods. So Elohim doesn’t necessarily mean God (singular), but more than one god. Well, that puts a spin on things.

With that aside, I decided to hold off on any judgments about what it all meant until I read the entire Bible. So, here’s a recap of what everything means, the questions that came up, and the conclusions from my readings. It’s presented in a matter-of-fact way, putting the stories into today’s terms. The ultimate goal is to figure out what the hell this all means, with an open mind. Before starting this blog, I leaned toward the ancient astronaut theory of human creation, with the Anunnaki of the Sumerian texts being our creators. But I can’t fairly say that until I’ve read the Bible in it’s entirety.

So here it goes.

**** Warning! I’m being honest with my thoughts on these texts. I love comments, and if you have a different way of looking at things, I’d love to hear it. Like I said, I’m open to all possibilities and want to debate these ancient texts’ meanings. It’s only through healthy debate that we can discover the truth together.

P.S. I’m going to use Adobe Firefly (AI Image Generator) to make images for my posts on this. It’s notoriously terrible at rendering images, so this should be fun.