Before the Bible Began
Roman and Hebrew Historians Documented a Theology Older Than Judaism Itself — and Nobody Talks About It There is a question that sits underneath everything else in this argument, and it needs to be asked directly: How old is the God that Jesus pointed toward? If the answer is Yahweh — the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — then the timeline is roughly four thousand years, beginning with the patriarchs and running forward through the Hebrew Bible into the New Testament.
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Roman and Hebrew Historians Documented a Theology Older Than Judaism Itself — and Nobody Talks About It There is a question that sits underneath everything else in this argument, and it needs to be asked directly: How old is the God that Jesus pointed toward? If the answer is Yahweh — the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — then the timeline is roughly four thousand years, beginning with the patriarchs and running forward through the Hebrew Bible into the New Testament. That is the story Christianity inherited and teaches. But if the Greek and Roman historians are right about when Zoroaster lived, and if the Magi who recognized Jesus were priests of Ahura Mazda, then the God Jesus pointed toward is not four thousand years old. He is closer to eight thousand. And the historians who documented this are not fringe writers or religious polemicists. They are Aristotle.
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Behistun Inscription · Hebrew Bible · New Testament