Ezekiel Chapters 6 - 10 Q&A: Bible Study by Atheists

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[00:02:28] But in the first chapter he saw one set of faces and in chapter 10 he saw the same set

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[00:05:14] Alright so we are going to talk first about one of the visions that Ezekiel had.

[00:05:22] Okay.

[00:05:23] Do you remember how first he went into the building and he saw through the building that

[00:05:29] there was a peep hole that got created or whatever?

[00:05:32] So that was where he was seeing them use Egyptian style worshiping.

[00:05:40] Okay.

[00:05:41] Okay, and then the next vision that he had was of Phoenician style worshiping where

[00:05:46] the women were weeping for Tammuz.

[00:05:49] And then the last one was Persian style worshiping where they were worshiping the sun.

[00:05:54] Oh, so they're literally calling, I didn't realize that when we were reading the chapters

[00:05:58] but they're literally calling out specific other gods that they were worshiping and listing

[00:06:04] them off essentially.

[00:06:05] Yes.

[00:06:06] Okay.

[00:06:07] Alright.

[00:06:08] I had to glean that from the notes.

[00:06:10] I pulled that out from the research because it wasn't explicit what gods they were

[00:06:16] worshiping.

[00:06:17] It was just stated.

[00:06:18] It was in the practices that they were doing.

[00:06:20] Right.

[00:06:21] The way they were doing it.

[00:06:22] Exactly.

[00:06:23] They named the practices but not what gods and cultures were associated with.

[00:06:27] Got it.

[00:06:28] So that's why I just wanted to elucidate that a little bit.

[00:06:31] Yeah.

[00:06:32] And say, yeah, so these were the cultures that they were borrowing from.

[00:06:36] Okay.

[00:06:37] But you know we know about their Egyptian stuff.

[00:06:40] We know about the worshiping the god.

[00:06:42] I mean everybody knows about you know worshiping raw kind of thing.

[00:06:46] Sure.

[00:06:47] But we're not going to get into that too much.

[00:06:50] What I really want to talk about though because I had never heard of this before was the middle

[00:06:55] one, the Phoenician worship where the women were weeping for Temus.

[00:06:59] Okay.

[00:07:00] Okay.

[00:07:01] And that specifically is stated in verse 14 of chapter 8.

[00:07:06] Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord and

[00:07:11] I saw women sitting there mourning the god Temus.

[00:07:15] Okay.

[00:07:16] Yeah.

[00:07:17] Why were they mourning and who is Temus and what the fuck is happening there, right?

[00:07:21] Yeah.

[00:07:22] Sure.

[00:07:23] Okay so an ancient ritual of Sumerian origin, the weeping is to commemorate the death

[00:07:30] of seasonal fertility.

[00:07:32] So like the end of spring.

[00:07:34] Okay.

[00:07:35] And the cult stresses the mourning aspect of it.

[00:07:39] Okay.

[00:07:40] Known to the Sumerians actually as Dumazid, the shepherd instead of Temus but it's the

[00:07:47] same guy.

[00:07:48] I think it's interesting though that Sumerian gods survived this long.

[00:07:55] Yes.

[00:07:56] That's something that they and we know that you know much of the Bible is based on an

[00:08:01] Old Testament and was based on older gods and older stories.

[00:08:05] Right.

[00:08:06] Not completely surprising but to actually have a specific practice being mentioned in the

[00:08:11] Old Testament is kind of amazing.

[00:08:12] Oh it gets even better because he was known before that to the Canaanites as Adon.

[00:08:19] Okay.

[00:08:20] Right.

[00:08:21] And you know that's where you get into the Adonai.

[00:08:24] Right.

[00:08:25] Yeah.

[00:08:26] You know like Lord God Holy, right?

[00:08:29] Yeah.

[00:08:30] So Temus was an ancient Mesopotamian deity associated with agriculture and shepherds who was also

[00:08:39] the first and primary consort of the goddess Inanna.

[00:08:44] We've talked about her before.

[00:08:45] Right.

[00:08:46] She was later known as Ishtar.

[00:08:47] Right.

[00:08:48] And remember we did kind of a deep dive on that.

[00:08:51] We did because she was named as the Queen of Heaven.

[00:08:54] And we were like whom's the fuck is the Queen of Heaven?

[00:08:58] And that's why we looked her up.

[00:08:59] We didn't look her up, we looked up who is the Queen of Heaven.

[00:09:03] Sure.

[00:09:04] So and she was at one time God's wife, God's consort.

[00:09:09] So that's also where like the Ashera Pools and stuff like that comes from?

[00:09:13] Yep.

[00:09:14] Okay.

[00:09:15] Yep.

[00:09:16] That is correct.

[00:09:17] Because that's all the same essentially the same realm of worship and whatnot.

[00:09:19] Yes it's the same goddess in various incarnations depending on which region was

[00:09:25] worshiping her but yes that is correct.

[00:09:28] So in the story Inanna is who we're talking about perceives that Dumuzid which is the what's

[00:09:37] his name?

[00:09:38] Temus, same guy.

[00:09:39] Right.

[00:09:40] Okay.

[00:09:41] So Inanna perceives that Dumuzid has failed to properly mourn her death so when she

[00:09:49] returns from the underworld she allows the Galademons to drag him down to the underworld

[00:09:55] as her replacement.

[00:09:57] Okay.

[00:09:58] I don't know what Galademons are but they're under her control and she makes them take him

[00:10:04] down.

[00:10:05] Okay.

[00:10:06] Yeah that could be a whole another rabbit hole possible.

[00:10:07] Oh yeah I had to really restrain myself here because when we start getting into these

[00:10:12] gods the Mesopotamian and the Canaanite things and the Sumerian things they develop into

[00:10:18] the Greek and then the Roman gods that we're familiar with today.

[00:10:23] Okay.

[00:10:24] So I had to really restrain myself.

[00:10:26] Got it.

[00:10:27] Okay.

[00:10:28] So Inanna later regrets this decision and she decrees that Dumuzid will spend half of the

[00:10:33] year in the underworld but the other half of the year with her.

[00:10:38] Oh okay.

[00:10:39] While his sister Geshtinana stays in the underworld in his place those other six months.

[00:10:44] I see.

[00:10:45] Thus resulting in the cycle of the seasons.

[00:10:48] Okay.

[00:10:49] Okay.

[00:10:50] Now in the epic of Gilgamesh.

[00:10:52] Yeah which also has a lot of biblical references.

[00:10:55] Um hum.

[00:10:56] Um Temus again the same dude as Dumuzid.

[00:11:02] Right.

[00:11:03] Okay.

[00:11:04] Temus was the lover of Ishtar's youth and Ishtar again is Inanna.

[00:11:09] Okay.

[00:11:10] Yeah.

[00:11:11] Who was turned into an Alalu bird with a broken wing.

[00:11:17] Okay.

[00:11:18] Okay.

[00:11:19] Yeah.

[00:11:20] So that's what happened to him in that story.

[00:11:24] Got it.

[00:11:24] So there's different stories of him with different names and different um end results

[00:11:30] of his activities.

[00:11:32] Okay.

[00:11:33] So sometimes he's dragged to the underworld, sometimes he's turned into a bird with a

[00:11:36] broken wing.

[00:11:37] This depends again on what region it is and what's happening.

[00:11:40] Sure.

[00:11:41] Okay.

[00:11:42] So Dumuzid was associated with fertility and vegetation and the hot dry summers

[00:11:48] of Mesopotamia were believed to be caused by Dumuzid's yearly death.

[00:11:53] Okay.

[00:11:54] Yeah.

[00:11:55] So as he would go to the underworld, so would go all of the living plantation with him.

[00:12:02] Right.

[00:12:03] Okay.

[00:12:04] Yeah.

[00:12:05] During the month in mid summer bearing his name which is July.

[00:12:07] Okay.

[00:12:08] FYI.

[00:12:09] Yeah.

[00:12:10] Um people all across Mesopotamia would engage in public ritual mourning for him.

[00:12:15] Okay.

[00:12:16] So they're sad because their plans are all dying which means you know not only

[00:12:19] is our agriculture coming to an end for the season but now we're about to freeze to death.

[00:12:25] Sure.

[00:12:26] And that fucking sucks.

[00:12:27] Right.

[00:12:28] Right.

[00:12:29] The cult of Dumuzid later spread to the Levant and to Greece where he became known under

[00:12:34] the West Semitic name Adonis.

[00:12:37] Okay.

[00:12:38] Okay.

[00:12:39] I wondered it kind of sounded like that.

[00:12:40] When I said Adonis.

[00:12:41] Yeah.

[00:12:42] Yeah.

[00:12:43] And I did mention this on Friday too that he is Adonis in a previous incarnation.

[00:12:48] Right.

[00:12:49] The cult of Ishtar and Dumuz may have been introduced to the kingdom of Judah during the reign of

[00:12:55] Maniasa which I find very interesting because to have been brought in that means that it

[00:13:04] wasn't dead yet.

[00:13:05] Right.

[00:13:06] You know what I mean?

[00:13:07] Yeah.

[00:13:08] So these stories kept being there and surrounding them the Israelites and some kings let the

[00:13:15] stories prevail while others tried to stomp out the fires of them.

[00:13:19] Yeah.

[00:13:20] We talk about it all the time how these stories are kind of like an undercurrent in the Bible.

[00:13:25] Not specifically the stories but the reference to these other gods and these other things

[00:13:32] that are happening with regard to other gods.

[00:13:34] Exactly.

[00:13:35] Yeah.

[00:13:36] In Greek mythology Adonis was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone.

[00:13:45] He was famous for having achieved immortality.

[00:13:48] He was widely considered to be the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity.

[00:13:54] So when we see a lot of Greek statues those are generally statues of Adonis.

[00:14:01] Got it.

[00:14:02] That perfect male figure is Adonis.

[00:14:05] Sure.

[00:14:06] And so that's what we mean today if we say wow he's a real Adonis.

[00:14:10] Right.

[00:14:11] Right.

[00:14:12] People our age and younger like we're in our 40s I don't think people 40 and younger would

[00:14:18] use it but I've heard it before.

[00:14:19] It was a term that's been thrown around at recent generations anyway.

[00:14:24] Yeah.

[00:14:25] So yeah.

[00:14:26] So younger people wouldn't know what the fuck we're talking about but younger people

[00:14:29] probably aren't listening and if they are well now you learn a thing.

[00:14:33] So wow what an Adonis.

[00:14:35] Right.

[00:14:36] Yeah beautiful man.

[00:14:37] Maybe you can start making the thing again you know.

[00:14:39] Oh my god I'm gonna make fetch happen.

[00:14:41] Yeah.

[00:14:42] Okay.

[00:14:43] So the myth goes that Adonis was gored by a wild boar during a hunting trip.

[00:14:48] Gotta watch out for those wild boars.

[00:14:50] I mean if you talk to John like Cody Johnston yeah Cody Johnston yeah of some more news and

[00:14:56] even more news yeah he's like terrified of wild boars yeah that's funny.

[00:15:02] Yeah so he died from this gore in Aphrodite's arms as she wept.

[00:15:08] Yeah.

[00:15:09] She was tangled with her tears and that became the anemone flower.

[00:15:14] Oh okay.

[00:15:15] So that's the myth behind where the anemone comes from.

[00:15:18] Got it okay.

[00:15:20] Aphrodite declared the Adonia festival so Adonis.

[00:15:24] Right right.

[00:15:25] Adonis you know Adonia festival to commemorate his tragic death which was celebrated by

[00:15:31] women every year in mid-summer.

[00:15:35] During this festival Greek women would plant so called gardens of Adonis small pots containing

[00:15:42] fast growing plants which they would set on top of their houses in the hot sun.

[00:15:48] The plants would sprout but then would soon wither and die you know because if you leave

[00:15:52] a plant in the sun that's what happens right.

[00:15:55] Then the women would mourn quote unquote right.

[00:15:59] That's kinda cool actually.

[00:16:00] The death of Adonis.

[00:16:01] Yeah I like that.

[00:16:02] I mean I do too is kind of a neat like just kind of appreciating the passing of the seasons

[00:16:09] right.

[00:16:10] Yeah.

[00:16:11] I don't really see a problem with it per se.

[00:16:13] You know what I mean I don't see a lot of problems in a lot of religious practices if

[00:16:19] they are not harmful.

[00:16:21] Right.

[00:16:22] Like in a lot of the more pagan traditions were more based around culture and or

[00:16:28] not culture I'm sorry seasons.

[00:16:30] Seasons.

[00:16:31] And death and things like that.

[00:16:33] Yeah.

[00:16:34] You know like it was very pertinent to be in a human.

[00:16:36] Right exactly survival in the wilds.

[00:16:40] I don't mind those as much as what we've turned religion into in the modern age.

[00:16:45] Right.

[00:16:46] So.

[00:16:47] Right yeah same.

[00:16:48] So the women would mourn the death of Adonis tearing their clothes and beating their

[00:16:53] breasts in a public display of grief.

[00:16:56] So I'm sure.

[00:16:57] Yeah.

[00:16:58] Much like we hear about them doing for whatever reasons in the Bible all the time.

[00:17:01] Yeah.

[00:17:02] Yeah.

[00:17:03] So that just like fit right in.

[00:17:04] Yeah.

[00:17:05] In late 19th and early 20th century scholarship of religion.

[00:17:11] So kind of recently.

[00:17:13] Yeah.

[00:17:14] Adonis was widely seen as a prime example of the archetypical dying and rising God.

[00:17:20] Okay.

[00:17:21] So you know a Jesus type figure.

[00:17:23] Sure.

[00:17:24] Because he did come back.

[00:17:26] Right.

[00:17:27] Right.

[00:17:28] From.

[00:17:29] Every season or whatever.

[00:17:30] Right.

[00:17:31] Yeah.

[00:17:32] The name Adonis is related to Adonai one of the titles used to refer to the God of the Hebrew

[00:17:37] Bible and still used in Judaism to the present day.

[00:17:42] The Syrian name for Adonis is Gaius.

[00:17:46] Okay.

[00:17:47] Which I just think is cool.

[00:17:49] Yeah.

[00:17:50] Other adaptations of Adon in various civilizations include the Canaanite God Ba'al who was

[00:17:56] worshiped in Yugorit.

[00:17:58] Really.

[00:17:59] Of course Temus or Demuzi which that's how we started this piece here.

[00:18:05] You said one of the names for this Adonis or whatever is a name.

[00:18:11] What was the name?

[00:18:12] Like it was a name for God right in the Bible.

[00:18:14] Adonai.

[00:18:15] Yeah.

[00:18:16] Yeah.

[00:18:17] That's a name for God that they say used.

[00:18:18] What I literally just said.

[00:18:19] Yeah.

[00:18:20] No.

[00:18:21] I was just I was going to sorry I'm just recapping because apparently this same

[00:18:24] God is related to Ba'al which is very interesting because we know Ba'al.

[00:18:31] It's almost their direct rival.

[00:18:35] But these names are the same which makes me think that a lot of this was just competing

[00:18:40] the same God competing against different factions.

[00:18:43] Yeah.

[00:18:44] You know?

[00:18:45] Yeah.

[00:18:46] It's all the same sport.

[00:18:47] It's just different teams representing the same sport.

[00:18:51] Right.

[00:18:52] Yeah.

[00:18:53] So he's also known as Temus or Demuzi meaning July which I already said.

[00:18:59] Yeah.

[00:19:00] To the Babylonians and then in Egypt he was Osiris the God of Resurrection.

[00:19:05] Hmm.

[00:19:06] Yeah.

[00:19:07] So that's a whole different bag of worms.

[00:19:09] Right.

[00:19:10] Yeah.

[00:19:11] Okay.

[00:19:12] No I mean it sounds very relevant like in a roundabout way sounds very relevant

[00:19:15] to Christianity.

[00:19:16] Yes.

[00:19:17] So that that's interesting.

[00:19:18] Right.

[00:19:19] Yeah.

[00:19:20] Yeah.

[00:19:21] So it heavily influenced the ideas behind Christianity.

[00:19:24] Right.

[00:19:25] Exactly.

[00:19:26] Or was happening at the same time so that all the names are confused as to who was what

[00:19:31] where.

[00:19:32] Well with regard to Christianity much of this happened prior to Christianity.

[00:19:35] Right.

[00:19:36] Which leads me to believe that probably influenced it heavily.

[00:19:39] Sure.

[00:19:40] Sure.

[00:19:41] At least some of the resurrection ideas and the you know things like that.

[00:19:43] Oh yeah definitely.

[00:19:44] So then so that was that cue that we had.

[00:19:47] Yeah.

[00:19:48] And I would consider that very aid.

[00:19:50] Right.

[00:19:51] So our next cue comes from chapter 10 verse 14.

[00:19:56] Each of the cherubim had four faces.

[00:19:59] One was that one face was that of a cherub not an ox.

[00:20:04] Right.

[00:20:05] The second the face of a human being.

[00:20:06] Okay that one tracks.

[00:20:07] Yeah.

[00:20:08] The third the face of a lion.

[00:20:09] Okay.

[00:20:10] And the fourth the face of an eagle.

[00:20:12] Yeah.

[00:20:13] Yeah.

[00:20:14] So you know that was in verse one or I'm sorry chapter one he described the same

[00:20:19] thing except he said.

[00:20:20] It was not.

[00:20:21] Ox instead of cherub.

[00:20:22] Yeah.

[00:20:23] So what the fuck.

[00:20:24] Right.

[00:20:25] Right.

[00:20:26] So I did as much research as I could and there is no consensus now there are three suggestions

[00:20:35] that all result in.

[00:20:37] Okay.

[00:20:38] So here are the three possibilities and you tell me which you think.

[00:20:43] Yeah okay.

[00:20:44] All right.

[00:20:45] So I explained the discrepancy by saying that these beings are cherubim and each face is

[00:20:52] actually the face of a cherub so there was simply some unknown reason why the substitute

[00:20:56] word was used.

[00:20:58] That's like the most apologist apology.

[00:21:01] That sounds so fucking generic.

[00:21:03] It's not ours to know.

[00:21:05] Right.

[00:21:06] Don't worry about it stop questioning.

[00:21:07] Yeah that doesn't even come close to gleaning an answer for that.

[00:21:12] Yeah like no but I want to know.

[00:21:14] Right.

[00:21:15] Put this in front of me I want to know.

[00:21:17] Yeah and you described it two different ways.

[00:21:19] Yeah.

[00:21:20] So what does that mean?

[00:21:21] Why?

[00:21:22] A human being described it two different ways.

[00:21:23] Yeah.

[00:21:24] So why?

[00:21:25] Why?

[00:21:26] And then told me it was the same being.

[00:21:29] Right.

[00:21:30] Like the living creatures is what he called them.

[00:21:33] Yeah.

[00:21:34] And so I'm like okay so are there two types because he's saying this is the same

[00:21:38] guys.

[00:21:39] Sure.

[00:21:40] So I'm like which one is it.

[00:21:41] Right.

[00:21:42] Okay so that's one explanation.

[00:21:43] Okay.

[00:21:44] I do not accept that one.

[00:21:45] Sure.

[00:21:46] Okay some explain this by saying that the face of a cherub is something like the face of an

[00:21:51] ox.

[00:21:52] Okay.

[00:21:53] And they're like yeah he just didn't see it right the first time.

[00:21:57] I don't know about that.

[00:21:59] No because cherub is what the guy basically is.

[00:22:04] Right?

[00:22:05] Like he's a four faced angel guy.

[00:22:07] Right.

[00:22:08] Right.

[00:22:09] So I'm like he's an angel guy and one of his faces.

[00:22:11] Is an ox.

[00:22:12] Is an angel.

[00:22:13] What?

[00:22:14] Right.

[00:22:15] It doesn't make any fucking sense.

[00:22:17] So I don't accept that answer either.

[00:22:19] Yeah.

[00:22:20] And then some explain this by the error of a scribe who copied the text.

[00:22:25] And that's probably the most likely.

[00:22:26] I'm going to go with that one.

[00:22:28] Yeah.

[00:22:29] Yeah.

[00:22:30] But don't tell me it's not that one because look here's the it's either that or you

[00:22:35] know we have to throw this whole thing out the window.

[00:22:37] Yeah.

[00:22:38] Because it's hypothetically Ezekiel writing this whole book right.

[00:22:43] We're pretending.

[00:22:44] We're pretending like that's the case.

[00:22:45] Yes.

[00:22:46] In Canon he wrote the whole fucking thing.

[00:22:47] In Canon he wrote the whole fucking thing.

[00:22:49] The same motherfucker described the same entity almost to a T exactly the same way except

[00:22:57] for one small fact.

[00:22:59] Yeah.

[00:23:00] He changed the cherub to or he changed the ox to a cherub.

[00:23:03] And it turns out that that one small fact was a pretty big fucking deal.

[00:23:07] Yeah.

[00:23:08] Because that's that ox and cherub are what?

[00:23:13] No.

[00:23:14] Now I will say that the word cherub comes from the same root as the word caribou which I found

[00:23:24] interesting.

[00:23:25] Okay.

[00:23:26] But I didn't see anybody else make that connection that isn't ox and caribou from the same family.

[00:23:33] I could have accepted something along those lines.

[00:23:35] But I didn't see that offered up right.

[00:23:37] I made that connection.

[00:23:39] Sure.

[00:23:40] And I mentioned it more than once and stumbled across it more than once that it came from that

[00:23:46] same root word.

[00:23:47] Right.

[00:23:48] I'm going to lean more that this is a copy and error.

[00:23:52] Yeah.

[00:23:53] Because that tracks better in my mind.

[00:23:55] And it might even have involved that similarity in term.

[00:24:00] Sure.

[00:24:01] You know?

[00:24:02] Possibly.

[00:24:03] Yeah.

[00:24:04] Because the words might have even been close in like how they look.

[00:24:05] Close in the original Hebrew or whatever.

[00:24:07] Yeah.

[00:24:08] Sure.

[00:24:09] So yeah.

[00:24:10] But regardless of how the error came about it was an error nonetheless.

[00:24:14] Okay.

[00:24:15] I'm going to call that one aid but with a question mark and an asterisk and a fuck you.

[00:24:20] So once again the Bible is not infallible.

[00:24:22] Correct.

[00:24:23] This is not the word of God.

[00:24:25] Correct.

[00:24:26] Okay.

[00:24:27] I just wanted to clarify.

[00:24:28] And also because we even are sitting here with these questions about this ridiculous

[00:24:32] book God is a Dick.

[00:24:34] There you go.

[00:24:35] Yeah.

[00:24:36] I mean we got...

[00:24:37] Accepting that there is one which...

[00:24:38] There's not.

[00:24:39] Right.

[00:24:40] Yeah.

[00:24:41] All right.

[00:24:42] Well was that all we had to cover today?

[00:24:43] That is all we had to cover today.

[00:24:45] Okay.

[00:24:46] Consider yourself eight off.

[00:24:51] That was our Q and A for chapters Ezekiel chapters six through ten.

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