Basic Dimension
Genesis or the Sacrifice Cultus.
Psychological breakthrough from sacrifice
We know that polytheism and monotheism are crucial aspects of the Jewish faith. But these concepts are not found explicitly in Genesis. But what we do find is the concept of 'sacrifice'. And Dr. Jordan Peterson provides a psychological basis for this remarkable habit:
The Old Testament is based on the interweaving of fragments of numerous ancient myths into a new overarching narrative to underscore the unity of a coveted monotheistic Jewish State. And this Hebrew Bible also contains a clear moral message. This philosophical wisdom became evident for a broader public through psychological lectures of Dr. Jordan Peterson (Biblical Series), who clarified that sacrificing to God is actually negotiating with the future by making sacrifices for a better life, as to invest in a study for a better job.
This means that the morality of the Bible is not about pursuing hedonic happiness, the contemporary globalistic opium for the people, but about realizing that especially human suffering creates the conditions for understanding the true depth of life. And that the pursuit of a low life of hedonistic happiness does not provide enough resilience to the adversities of the future.
But if it is really the case that the moral basis of Genesis is to educate people to sacrifice present privileges in order to gain a better future, then we can fit 'sacrifice' into our theory as well as 'polytheism vs monotheism'.
In the true Myth of Abraham, God pronounced as a Solomon judgment that people may reincarnate on Earth if they continued to worship God in the parallel universe (the first time in Genesis that 'worship' is used).
And although Isaac would be sacrificed literally, 'reincarnation' would be sacrificed only figuratively.
Now think about it. If ancient people knew what it was all about, they needed to memorize only the sacrifice of Isaac to understand that it was actually about reincarnation. And human culture went over into resurrection much earlier than Desert Religions came up. I think about 8,000 years ago. And that means that in the myth of Abraham reincarnation was disguised already long before the "Abrahamic" religions:
Biblical Series XII: The Great Sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac
BD: So 'reincarnation' probably faded away as a concept sooner than 'Isaac'. And if Jewish scholars really wanted to emphasize the morality of sacrifice in Genesis, as Dr. Peterson supposes, then the greatest sacrifice a father could make was his own child. Which means that God demanded from Abraham the heaviest sacrifice imaginable, which gave Jewish new morality the strongest boost possible, while at the same time showing the immorality of their sadistic God, as being a monotheistic God, who is above any law. (While at the same time another rule of Jewish scholars was that no ruler is above the law: emperor Marduk in Mesopotamian religion, Abraham, Isaac and Joseph).
Then, the emphasis on reincarnation had to give way to the emphasis on murdering one's own son at God's command, which is yet another explanation of the false Myth of Abraham.
It is with this alleged immorality of God that Dr. Peterson has great moral difficulties (3:08/2:33:31) and decided that the new Jewish morality apparently meant that one should make the highest conceivable sacrifice for one's future well-being. He also concluded that morality was harsh in those days. But anyway there is enough room for misunderstanding in Genesis.
And so, for Jewish scholars the temptation was great to leave out 'reincarnation', also because it was at odds with 'resurrection' with which the Jewish State could draw all power to itself.
And it worked out excellently, because believers feared their immoral God, THE characteristic feature of God in the Hebrew Bible, and that is also why Muslims celebrate the Feast of Sacrifice every year, because Isaac did not need to be killed by their cruel God, while Muslims at the same time unconsciously honor the Feast of Sacrifice because God apparently allows reincarnation anyway:
Eid al-Adha (Arabic: عيد الأضحى ʿīd al-aḍḥā, [ʕiːd ælˈʔɑdˤħæː], "Festival of the Sacrifice"), also called the "Sacrifice Feast", is the second of two Muslim holidays celebrated worldwide each year, and considered the holier of the two. It honors the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son, as an act of submission to God's command. Before he sacrificed his son God intervened by sending his angel Jibra'il (Gabriel), who then put a sheep in his son's place. The meat from the sacrificed animal is divided into three parts: the family retains one third of the share; another third is given to relatives, friends and neighbors; and the remaining third is given to the poor and needy.
In human tribes, inbreeding must be imposed on females, who naturally opt for outcrossing, which is why a vigorous and sadomasochistic relationship is necessary to subject the females. On the other hand, outcrossing peoples in Northern Europe developed an equal relationship between man and woman converging into Vanilla-dyad:
Now see here the reason of our implementation of the sadistic God against his masochistic believers:
If we really want understand human religion we must accept that sadomasochism in sexuality is by far the most glorious evolutionary attainment of bipedal primates, more than Einstein's relativity theory, and I'm not joking.
Because of course, God must be immoral in Desert Religions, in which the whole husband wife relationship already was based on SM-dyad. And so, the proposed sadistic murder of Isaac is yet another reason for the neglect of reincarnation.
For the sake of completeness in this place Jordan's remarkable interpretation of the Myth of Adam and Eve:
Contemporary explanation of the Myth of Adam and Eve:
(52:20/5:59:14)
Dr. Jordan Peterson: The Exclusive Uncut Interview with Dr. Oz.
- Adam and Eve: Self Consciousness.
- Scales falls from their eyes.
- Realized their nakedness.
- Realized their vulnerability.
- They clothed themselves for not to be hurt.
- Everyone else is vulnerable too.
- You could hurt them.
- That's why the knowledge of good and evil goes along with nakedness.
- Morality: Only human beings can manipulate others, unlike animals.
BD: Now remember, before the onset of Homo sapiens there was only a Tree of Life (Tree of Inbreeding). Because up to Homo erectus, hominins had abundant genetic diversity to survive inbreeding, apparently. See Homo erectus variation in Dmanisi:
'Traditionally, researchers have used variation among Homo fossils to define different species. But in light of these new findings, Dr Lordkipanidze and his colleagues suggest that early, various Homo fossils, with their origins in Africa, actually represent variation among members of a single, evolving lineage - most appropriately, Homo erectus.'
But Homo sapiens got a disastrous impoverished genome, with alleles the same and prone to autosomal recessive disorders. Therefore I placed the wording of the Tree of Knowledge of autosomal recessive disorders at 74,000 years ago, central in the outburst of Mount Toba on Sumatra. The genetic downfall of Homo sapiens actually was from 100,000 - 50,000 years ago.
So from then on a new version of the Myth of Adam and Eve started and was in function till the onset of Desert Religions, about 4 thousand years ago. Thereafter the myth split for Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Search on this page for The Origin of the Myth of Paradise. The remarkable interpretation of Dr. Peterson is a new and psychologically based version and the State of the Art from our time.
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