Author: Menachem Ben David

Biblical Values Essential for World Peace

The acceptance of biblical values is essential for creation of world peace. Belief in false gods and false prophets causes devastating damage to humanity in a number of ways. False gods and false prophets completely destroy the acceptance of a Biblical morality system and completely destroy any unity among mankind.

Each false god is served by false prophets who make conflicting demands on mankind which only serve the interests of the false prophets, resulting in perpetual conflicts, warfare, and immorality among mankind.

The damage to Mankind by false gods occurs whether it is caused by an ancient false god such as Baal, or if it is caused by a more recent false god such as deified Communist dictators. Only the Torah of Israel has the necessary wisdom and truth to save mankind from its own self-destruction. The G-d of Israel is returning the Jews to the Land of Israel to fulfill their role as spiritual teachers of mankind, as the world’s false ideologies collapse before our eyes. We can pray and hope that new prophets will arise in the Land of Israel to lead mankind out of its present abyss.

“For out of Zion shall the Torah come forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”1

For the West to survive without conquest by Islam, socialism, or communism, it must seek its purpose and meaning from embracing biblical values.

Instead of atheist scientism and “progressivism”, a return to monotheistic science based on Intelligent Design and metaphysics would serve the world’s scientific and spiritual needs much better.

Totalitarian movements and governments such as Nazism and Communism seek to enslave Man to their evil agendas and also to suppress religious observances in Man. In a totalitarian regime, Man only serves the purpose of the regime, and cannot serve any purposes for the Creator. Man must serve the Creator, and NOT serve any of the Creations. Traditional Judaism (excluding the liberal religion of the Reform movement) is the only spiritual force that can oppose and expose the falsehoods of both “progressivism” and Islam.

Growing numbers of citizens in the West seem to be attracted to Islam. This may be due in large part to Christianity’s abandonment of much of Biblical Law, and its obsessive focus on an alleged messiah man-god and on being “saved”. This has resulted in a failure to regulate and satisfy Man’s spiritual needs, and has left a spiritual vacuum for Islam to flourish.

Also, the failure of secular “democracy” to offer spiritual solace and a meaningful purpose to life has also left a spiritual vacuum that Islam can attempt to fill.

“Progressivism” with its false messiahs such as Obama, the various false Jewish “messiahs” throughout history, Islam with its false god Allah, Communism and Nazism with their false psychopaths Stalin and Hitler Y”S, have all failed miserably and left the world in shambles.

1 Isaiah 2:3

WALKING GOD’S PATH Book

The “Walking God’s Path” book is available on Amazon.

Although written from the perspective of traditional Judaism, the book is intended for both Jews and non-Jews.

Created in “the image of God”, Man’s mission is to “walk with God”. As explained by the Jewish prophets, Man can “walk with God” by imitating God’s ways, i.e., doing justice, doing acts of kindness, and walking humbly with God.

“Walking God’s Path” exposes and debunks the corrupt and deviant anti-Biblical movements and ideologies that are now wreaking havoc in Western Civilization.

Walking God’s Path explains the nature of the conflict between Biblical values and powerful deviant movements, such as “progressivism”, atheism, and jihadist Islam, that seek to uproot all Biblical values from the West.

The book seeks to warn all decent people about the dire consequences to civilization if progressive, atheist, and jihadist anti-Biblical ideologies prevail over Mankind.

https://www.amazon.com/WALKING-GODS-PATH-Unique-Mission/dp/B09RNS7MV8/

 

Interpreting Genesis

There are many methods of interpreting Genesis, however the Bible was not given to Man as a science textbook.

Dennis Prager has published a set of brilliant Biblical commentaries he calls “The Rational Bible”. These books offer some excellent insights into the relationship between Torah and science. Dennis explains that:

“The notion that the Genesis Creation story must agree with science is itself untenable. . .we have no idea what science will say about cosmology in a hundred years. . .The purpose of Genesis Chapter 1 is not to teach science. It is to teach about God, man, and nature. . .”1

There are many authentic Torah sources that describe the Biblical creation event as “beriyah yesh miayin”, i.e. creation ex-nihilo, meaning creation from absolutely nothing. By definition, such a creation process is scientifically unintelligible to Man. Science is able to a limited extent to recognize a sequence of events in the Creation process, and also to comprehend the created Universe after the creation process was completed by God. But the mechanism of the creation process itself cannot be scientifically intelligible to Man.

The first few chapters of the Bible are intending to convey certain facts, such as the knowledge that God created the Universe, and that a sequence of events occurred, but the Bible is not attempting to explain the mechanism(s) God employed to achieve the Creation. In a number of places in the Talmud, the Talmud explains that “the Torah speaks the language of man.” This can be understood to mean that some Biblical language cannot be interpreted literally, or else some Biblical language is concealing secrets that are beyond the comprehension of Man. A Creation process is being described in Genesis, but we should not assume that Genesis is a science textbook. The purpose of the Bible is to convey God’s commandments, ethics, and wisdom to man, but the Bible is not intended to convey scientific knowledge to Man.

We also should consider that scientific theories have been constantly subjected to revision over time. It is simply unnecessary that we attempt to achieve a detailed correlation between current scientific theories of the origins of the Universe, and the events described in Genesis.

The fundamental events of the Creation are being described in non-scientific language in Genesis, but they do not conflict with the basic scientific evidence that has been discovered. The first animals created in Genesis were simple marine invertebrate in modern language, and afterwards there was a steady increase in complexity of the created animals until finally Man appeared. The fossil record also indicates such a progression occurred starting with the simplest creatures until finally Man arrived. Man represents the pinnacle of the Creation, and is the most complex of the beings created on Earth. What is important is that we recognize the special role granted to Man in the Creation.

1 The Rational Bible on Genesis, by Dennis Prager

Atheist Creationism

While atheists and “progressives” may mock religious believers as some kind of irrational fools, it is actually the “progressive” Left that is becoming increasingly irrational and detached from reality.

Atheists are forced to conjecture how this Universe came into existence, and how the physical properties and constants of this Universe and planet Earth were fine-tuned to an enormous precision, thus allowing for complex life on Earth.

Atheists are forced to claim that undirected, natural causes somehow resulted in the existence of the Universe and in the existence of complex life on Earth. Atheists may tend to zealously wield the term “creationism” against religious believers in a God who created the Universe. However, in truth the atheists themselves are teaching their own, different form of “creationism”, even if they refuse to honestly admit that.

There are three statements below.

One statement is unscientific and incompatible with science.

One statement is compatible with science.

One statement does not contradict science and is the best explanation for various scientific observations.

1. Atheist Creationism = Our Universe had a beginning. BEFORE our Universe existed, either

a) an infinite series of unobservable Universes created themselves, or

b) our Universe created itself!

2. Big Bang Cosmology = The Universe had a beginning. The cause of the creation event cannot be proven by science.

3. Biblical Creationism = The Universe had a beginning. God, an immaterial, intelligent Being created the Universe ex-nihilo through a process beyond the ability of science to comprehend.

No. 3 above, Biblical creationism (at any time in the finite past), is actually the statement most consistent with the scientific evidence. Statement No. 2 is compatible with modern science. Statement No. 1 is incompatible with modern science.

Intelligent Design vs. Neo-Darwinism

Darwinist and Neo-Darwinist theory postulate that random, unguided, undirected, natural processes caused the proliferation of complex life forms on Earth. Although the Darwinist concept of Natural Selection (a component of Evolution theory) by itself is not a random process, Natural Selection can only operate on existing biological features and species. Variations in the biological features and species can only occur due to random genetic mutations.

It seems clear that the objective of Darwinism seems to be to openly deny the requirement of a Creator to explain life, so how can Darwinism not be considered a type of atheist belief system?

In Chapter 19 of the scholarly book “Darwin’s Doubt”, Dr. Stephen Meyer explains how ID opponents have invoked “demarcation arguments” and methodological naturalism against ID. Dr. Meyer then explains how materialistic evolution theories fail the same demarcation standards that are being used to deny the validity of ID.

“I believe we can certainly invoke demarcation arguments against any materialistic explanations for the origins of the Universe and for the origin and development of life on Earth. Assuming the Earth is billions of years old, we cannot observe, measure, or really know exactly what conditions existed during much of those earlier epochs of Earth history. As a result, methodological naturalism must itself rely on numerous inferences and speculations in order to argue for a purely materialistic origin and development of life. Invoking methodological naturalism to explain the origin and development of life requires a much greater inference and leap of faith than ID.”1

The great rabbinic sage and philosopher Maimonides explained a related idea that the state of the Universe during its creation phases did not resemble its state when it was completed. This concept can help validate modern Intelligent Design theory, as Neo-Darwinism erroneously assumes that the same Natural Order we observe now always existed:

“No inference can be drawn in any respect from the nature of a thing after it has been generated, has attained its final state, and achieved stability in its most perfect state, to the state of that thing while it moved toward being generated. . .a being’s state of perfection and completion furnishes no indication of the state of that being preceding its perfection.”2

The treatise “Drush Or HaChaim”, by the 19th Century rabbinic sage Tiferet Israel, cites Genesis Rabbah 3:8 (also Ramban, Ibn Ezra, Recanati) to show that the world had been created and destroyed a number of times, each time in a greater state of perfection, and that the fossil record confirms this. Tiferet Israel was aware of Darwinist theories in his time, but he did NOT support Darwinian evolution. He makes no mention of any Darwinian type evolution processes.

Tiferet Israel also cites the renowned scientist Dr. Georges Cuvier, who taught “catastrophic theory” while firmly opposing evolution. Dr. Cuvier believed that species appeared and disappeared in the fossil record without significant changes to each species while it lived, but overall there was a continual increase in complexity.

It is intellectually dishonest to morph certain Medieval rabbis, who are considered “rationalists”, into some type of modern rationalist Neo-Darwinists. It is evident that the concept of “intelligent design” is not only compatible with Torah concepts, but in fact the study of design in the Universe may have been mandated by some Torah sources.

For anyone interested in the fascinating subject of intelligent design and the influence of various Biblical concepts on Western philosophy and science, I highly recommend the very scholarly book “Return of the God Hypothesis” by Dr. Stephen Meyer.

Although the author is a non-Jew, the book’s thesis seems quite compatible with a Torah based understanding that the Universe and life on Earth could only be the intentional products of a Superintelligence, and not the products of random natural processes such as Neo-Darwinists might claim. Dr. Meyer’s book actually cites Biblical and rabbinic sources in a number of places.

1 Dr. Stephen Meyer http://www.darwinsdoubt.com/

2 Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed, 12th century CE.

Ethical Monotheism-A Great Advancement

The Jewish Bible’s “radical” and “innovative” concepts of ethical monotheism caused a great advancement in human civilization. An advancement from the cruel and primitive pagan barbarism that prevailed in the ancient world to societies that recognized the uniqueness and dignity of Man as a being created in the Image of his Creator.

The concept of ethical monotheism taught in the Jewish Bible promoted a universal morality, a morality that recognized objective standards of good and evil within the world. Man became aware of the possibility of an ultimate purpose and meaning to human existence, as opposed to humans simply seeking gratification of their physical senses in this world. Man also became aware of the possibility of non-physical human existence after death, and the possibility of the judgment of Man for his actions in this world, when he reaches the next world.

The cruel, depraved behaviors of the ancient false gods encouraged and legitimized such behavior among humans who worshiped such false gods. The Bible’s denial of the ancient false gods who engaged in the most depraved aspects of human behavior, and the replacement of those false gods with one incorporeal, ethical God for all of mankind, was a great step forward for mankind.

Biblical Principles: Rational and Scientific

In many ways, Biblical principles are more rational than modern atheist “scientism” and modern nihilist social movements such as “transgender”.

A Biblical believer is not required to believe claims that conflict with rationality, such as somehow the Universe could have created itself, or that a person can “transform” themselves to a different gender than the one they were born with, or that a marriage can be constituted by two men or two women.

This is not to say that Man can solve all his own problems purely by “rationalism”, but rationality is a necessary component for civilization to maintain itself.

Although the Jewish Bible is intended as an ethical guidebook for Man, and not as a science textbook, the basic sequence of events that were explained in Genesis using simple language so that all could understand, are perfectly compatible with advanced modern science.

“The waters shall team with swarms of living creatures (sheretzim). . .”1

The basic sequence of events described at the beginning of the Biblical book of Genesis are actually quite consistent with modern scientific evidence:

1. The Universe did not exist forever and had a beginning in the finite past.

2. According to Maimonides (12th century CE) we cannot know exactly when the Universe was created because time itself was created. As mentioned earlier, this idea is also expressed in a modern astrophysics textbook.

3. The initial Universe, described as unformed matter in Genesis 1:2 was an extremely tiny point of formless matter.2

4. All the matter in the Universe was initially created (Genesis 1:1) and the components of the Universe were gradually separated.3

5. The verse in Genesis 1:20 explains that the first animals that appeared on Earth were various types of swarming marine invertebrate. This is consistent with the scientific evidence of the “Cambrian explosion” where many phyla of animals suddenly appeared on Earth without a gradual evolution from more simple animals. This evidence actually confirms the Biblical account and actually disproves Darwinist evolution.

6. The Biblical account is describing how God caused a gradual increase in complexity of the lifeforms. This was a gradual, metaphysical upward increase in biological complexity over time that was NOT due to Darwinism.

7. The Biblical account describes how Man (as we know him) is the most complex creature and was created last and very recently4. Thus recorded human history is much shorter than the age of the Universe.

1 Genesis 1:20

2 Nachmanides (13th century CE) commentary on the Bible.

3 Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed II:30

4 Genesis 1:26

Evolutionist-Atheist-Nazi Links

Replacement of Biblical monotheism with an atheist Darwinist pseudo-religion will inevitably result in tragic consequences for Mankind. These consequences include, among others, loss of any ultimate purpose to Man’s existence, loss of recognition of Man’s immaterial soul, moral relativism and loss of any objective ethics system, and subjugation and genocide of allegedly inferior races.

It is quite fascinating that many “progressives” go ballistic against religious opponents of Darwinism and religious opponents of homosexuality, when in fact these two ideologies have been shown to be fundamental components of Nazism.

There is a clear link between atheist viewpoints and Darwinist evolution viewpoints.

“He (Richard Dawkins) revealed that his understanding of evolution led him to atheism and is puzzled by belief in God among individuals who are sophisticated in science.”1

“The evidence in this universe for design or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by enough time is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.”2

There is strong evidence that Darwinist evolution theories had a major influence on German Nazi ideology.3 Nazi ideology emphasized a Utopian project, inspired by Darwinist thinkers, with a goal of biological improvement of the human race.

I personally do not believe Darwinian Evolution is true. But IF someone believes that Darwinian Evolution is true, isn’t that person then compelled to believe that certain (unnamed) races are lower on the evolutionary scale and therefore inferior to other races?

Transgender Madness

The “Identity Politics” movement has aggressively embraced so-called “transgenders” as alleged victims of bigotry and hatred. In truth the real enemies of these pathetically deluded “transgender” people are the dishonest, corrupt “progressives” who pander to them with nonsensical lies and disinformation. In truth, “transgender” is a scientific impossibility!

“Progressive” deviants are exploiting public school classrooms to encourage innocent public school children to accept or engage in homosexuality, or to encourage them to “transition” to a different gender (a scientific impossibility in any case), or else to expose the children to so-called “drag queen” deviants. These pathetic cases of “grooming” young children by exposing them to disgusting sexual deviancy are being well documented by the “Libs of TikTok” author on her Twitter, Facebook, and other websites.1

Modern science has taught us that men and women have different gene sets, so that every cell in a man’s body differs from every cell in a woman’s body. Even if occasionally mutations occur, only two genders are scientifically viable. Biblical gender principles are in fact quite consistent with advanced modern science.

The Jewish Bible is quite clear that God created only two genders, male and female:

“And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”2

According to the Jewish Bible, gender is the only human physical characteristic that is significant, one’s race and skin color are not significant.

Thus we see that so-called “transgender” is really a scientific impossibility, an absurd fantasy invented by the depraved Left. Mutilating oneself using perverse medical procedures, while suffering from delusions about “transitioning” to a different gender, is sheer madness. It remains an immutable fact that if a person is born with a penis, they are a male and will remain a male for the rest of their life.

Another very significant teaching in the Jewish Bible in regards to so-called “transgender” is that cross-dressing is a prohibited abomination:

“לֹא־יִהְיֶ֤ה כְלִי־גֶ֙בֶר֙ עַל־אִשָּׁ֔ה וְלֹא־יִלְבַּ֥שׁ גֶּ֖בֶר שִׂמְלַ֣ת אִשָּׁ֑ה כִּ֧י תוֹעֲבַ֛ת יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ כׇּל־עֹ֥שֵׂה אֵֽלֶּה׃ {פ}

A woman must not put on man’s apparel, nor shall a man wear woman’s clothing; for these behaviors are an abomination to the LORD your God.”3

If a person is born a female, that person remains a female for her whole life, regardless of whether a fake penis is attached to her and regardless of the insane rantings of transgender activists.

Recently I had an interesting discussion with an experienced pediatrician. The doctor confirmed what I suspected:

  • There are only TWO genders. Both the Jewish Bible and modern science are in perfect agreement on this.
  • Even when a human is born with genetic defects, no third gender ever exists, no spectrum of genders ever exists.
  • So-called transgender is scientifically impossible. A person’s gender is encoded in their chromosomes which cannot be altered.
  • The individuals trying to convince us that imaginary genders exist are apparently psychotic.

2 Genesis 1:27

3 Deut. 22:5

“Gay” Marriage Brought the Flood

We can easily debunk homosexual propaganda that may claim that since certain “gay” men are allegedly not having anal intercourse, therefore the “gay” movement is not necessarily resulting in any violations of Biblical or ethical laws.

In the Midrash, an ancient commentary on Genesis, the Torah Sages explain that mankind committed many sins during the times of Noah, but the sin that finally caused God to destroy the world via flood was the sin of forming marriage contracts between two males, or between man and animal:

“רַבִּי הוּנָא בְּשֵׁם רַבִּי אָמַר דּוֹר הַמַּבּוּל לֹא נִמּוֹחוּ מִן הָעוֹלָם עַד שֶׁכָּתְבוּ גִּמּוֹמְסִיּוֹת לְזָכָר וְלִבְהֵמָה.”1

We are constantly being lectured by proud, self-righteous homosexuals that they were born homosexual and that they are unable to avoid homosexual relationships. Despite the ever present barrages of “gay” propaganda, no “gay gene” has ever been discovered. Unless a ‘gay gene’ is identified, I have no idea how anyone can claim they were born gay.

As a heterosexual, I believe God designed me that way. I have no pride about that aspect of myself any more than I am proud that I breathe air and drink water. Even IF the homosexuals could prove they were born homosexuals (something which has never been proved), what exactly are they proud about?

In various social media forums, those who dare question in a respectful, non-abusive manner the homosexual or transgender narratives are likely to be subjected to a torrent of vicious insults, abuse, and defamation by gay rights advocates who aggressively deny free speech rights for those with different opinions.

It is a given that Biblical law allows no homosexual behavior by either Jews or non-Jews, regardless if intercourse occurs. However, we are being bombarded with propaganda and false conceptions that not only contradict the Bible, but they also contradict science and logic. For example, false claims that Biblical law allows homosexual marriage as long as no intercourse occurs, or false claims that one can change the gender one was born with.

Biblical monotheists must not be afraid to reject the false narratives of the homosexuals and transgenders who are demanding that we validate and respect their beliefs. We must assert our rights to respectfully present our viewpoints without offering apologies or being intimidated or shouted down by the gay rights militants.

1 Midrash, Breisheet Rabbah 26-5