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Sex, Drugs , Violence and the Bible
By Chris Bennett and Neil McQueen

Ialdabaoth: The Blind God

The God of the Old and New Testaments was known as Ialdabaoth, or Samael, "Blind God", to the Gnostics of the second and first centuries BCE and the early centuries of the first millenniums. They read of his actions and judgements in the Hebrew Scriptures and the early writings of the newly forming Christians, and saw in this being the oppressor and enemy of humankind. To these first Christians, Yahweh, or Ialdabaoth was our imprisoner in a world of his creating; a world of darkness and pain. Salvation was to be found in the overcoming of the physical bonds of creation and in returning to the world of divine world of light. As evidence of their beliefs they pointed to the Bible itself and looked at the behaviour of Yahweh as unbiased readers.

"But of what sort is this God? First [he] maliciously refused Adam from eating of the tree of knowledge. And secondly he said, "Adam, where are you?" God does not have foreknowledge; (otherwise), would he not know from the beginning? [And\} afterwards he said, "Let us cast him [out] of this place, lest he eat of the tree of life and live for ever." Surely he has shown himself to be a malicious grudger. And what kind of a God is this? For great is the blindness of those who read, and they did not know him. And he said, "I am the jealous God; I will bring the sins of the father upon the children until three (and) four generations." And he said, "I will make their heart thick, and I will cause their mind to become blind, that they might not know nor comprehend the things that are said." But these things he said to those who believe in him [and] serve him!"

We ourselves must read the Bible through the same eyes as the Gnostics before the historical realities within its pages are revealed to us. With the blinders of unquestioning belief and faith it is impossible to truly appreciate the incredible tale that it brings us of humanities long and tortuous passage through the ages.

Most readers of the Bible look at it as a sanitized story of the Holy Father of Mankind. But anyone who has the same courage as the early Gnostics will see within its pages the sordid details of genocide, extreme violence, child abuse, rape and gang rape, incest, drug use, prostitution, homosexuality, pathological lying, pagan idolatry. "Yes," you may be saying in agreement, "those pagans certainly were an atrocious bunch..." But these acts were perpetrated by the very "heroes" of the Bible looked to as the models of upright morality and virtue by the millions of believers throughout the world: Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, the kings and prophets, Jesus and even God himself...

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