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You were told the Bible is God's preserved word and that it speaks with one voice. This talk says humans wrote it, the book list was contested, and Lord was swapped in for the name Yhwh.
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Summary
The talk demonstrates a reading tool that restores names, so Lord becomes Yhwh, and God becomes Elohim in the Hebrew books and theos in the Greek books, with a definition when a word is tapped. The same tool is used to show that the priestly creation account ends before the Yhwh account begins. A reader is expected to learn those words rather than keep a single English God all the way through. The point is that one English word has been hiding more than one being.
The books were written by humans, after oral memory, and with many hands. Job is given as a book that did not start in the form people now accept, and some older portions were written long after other parts of the same book. In John, the word is a person, Jesus, in line with the Elohim creation, not a manuscript, so calling the Bible the word of God takes a title that belongs to Him. The list of included books was argued for centuries, Marcion's collection forced decisions about the boundary, and councils and empires enforced a canon.
Assembly becomes church, so people picture buildings and clergy, and repentance is a change of mind and action. Ancient copies had no capital letters, and harmonizing the creation accounts or the gospels hides disagreement. The talk treats contradictions as useful and names the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint, and the Samaritan Pentateuch as copies that differ. The talk ends on the Most High dividing the nations, with Yhwh as one of the sons who receives the Hebrews, against a later reading that says sons of Israel.
