History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Seventy Faces Articles of Faith Volume 1

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A profound modern Orthodox thinker

Seventy Faces Articles of Faith Volume 1
Norman Lamm
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A profound modern Orthodox thinker .......2006-03-20

Rabbi Lamm is one of the most profound thinkers of modern Orthodoxy . No one has discussed 'Torah v'Maddah' issues with a more deep understanding than he has. These occasional essays show a first - rate mind at work in constellation with and confirmation of Jewish religious faith.

The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides' Thirteen Principles Reappraised (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (Series).)

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a tremendously interesting book
Believe This

The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides' Thirteen Principles Reappraised (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (Series).)
Marc B. Shapiro
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a tremendously interesting book .......2005-08-28

Maimonides asserted that anyone who rejected his Thirteen Principles was a heretic who has removed himself from the Jewish people- yet most of these Principles were at one time or another rejected by leading rabbis both before and after Maimonides.

For example, Shapiro writes that even the view that "the Torah in our hands is exactly the same as the Torah that Moses presented to the Children of Israel" has been widely disputed. To be sure, pre-Reform Jews universally accepted the Torah as Divine and as roughly the same as the original text. But Shapiro asserts that historically there have been minor deviations in Torah scrolls, and that even today nine letters in Yemenite Torahs differ from those in those used by the rest of Jewry. Shapiro also cites numerous medieval commentators' assertions that some non-halakhic portions of the Torah, although true and divinely inspired, were written by Joshua or Ezra rather than Moses.

Shapiro also asserts that some of the Principles were arguably contradicted even by Maimonides' own later writings.

A minor quibble: Shapiro's discussion would have been clearer if he had put Maimonides' own language in his book as an appendix.

Believe This.......2004-03-01

There are those for whom their belief in religion will never quite approach their scholarly understanding of it. But the opposite is probably more prevalent. Many more people sincerely profess faith but are ignorant of the knowledge that should necessarily underpin such faith.

It is to this latter group that Marc Shapiro is addressing himself in his book, traditional Jews who might know halakha but who are otherwise ignorant of what their great spiritual giants believed for millennia. Many of the beliefs espoused by these great men run counter to the Thirteen Principles set down by Maimonides (some disagreements extending into the present!), a situation that, ostensibly, should have prevented them from an afterlife and which would have excised their souls from the Jewish nation.

Besides proving his point exhaustively, Dr. Shapiro is presenting a fine intellectual history of Jewish thought from the vantage point of its outer limits. The appendix even includes pictures of God on the title pages of sacred books written in the past few hundred years!

There is no doubt that this book, based on a controversial and satisfyingly unsettling essay that Shapiro penned just a few years ago, will both elicit praise and scorn, the scorn manifesting itself in book bannings and in the hiring of scholarly mercenaries who will be asked to trash the book, site unseen, in predetermined reviews.

Well, these reviewers will have their work cut out for them because Shapiro's book is thoughtful and nuanced and, thereby, evades pigeon holing. Besides addressing out-and-out disagreements that people had regarding creed, there is the bigger problem of Maimonides contradicting himself in matters of belief, both within different contexts and at different times in his life.

Shapiro also notes at length the recognized yet endlessly ironic fact that Maimonides himself was accused of not believing in his own Principles both during his lifetime and afterward.

Most importantly, by invoking an authority no less central than Maimonides himself, Shapiro debunks the notion, embraced by some writers, that scholarly debate concerning the correctness of doctrine is a relic of the past, and that this pursuit of the truth has calcified into unwavering dogma.

The historical realities are to the contrary. The search for what believers are supposed to believe is still driven by studying sacred texts, by our logic and, to some degree, by our intuitions.

Excellent!

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What modern Christianity needs to be reading

Lessons on Faith: A Selection of Articles & Sermons
A. T Jones
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This is a compilation of articles and sermons given in the 1890's by Jones and Waggoner on Righteousness by Faith. A popular best seller for years, this is one of the finest books on victorious Christian living available. It gives the "how-to" of overcoming, and explains many hard-to-understand passages in the Book of Galatians. Find out firsthand what the 1888 message really is!

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What modern Christianity needs to be reading.......1999-12-13

The collected writings of A. T. Jones establish a powerful definition of faith. This stands in stark contrast to the fuzzy, esoteric notions of faith found in many modern Christian writings. If the faith of which Jones speaks were actually accepted today, there would be no silly talk of "the relationship between faith and works" - the "relationship" would be blatantly obvious. I won't try to dumb it down so I can fit it on this page, but trust me: if you care enough about faith to be reading this review, you'll want this book on your shelf (and in your heart). It's a virtual treasure map to salvation.

Articles of Faith (Missionary Reference Library)

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good book, but get hardcover instead
Keystone Work in Mormon Religious Exposition

Articles of Faith (Missionary Reference Library)
James E. Talmage
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good book, but get hardcover instead.......2007-05-15

the book i got was physically trashed because it was an old little missionary one, which is good if you serve in Africa and it will get ruined anyhow. If you live in a nice place and/or value your books, get a hardcover one

Keystone Work in Mormon Religious Exposition.......2005-12-07

The LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Mormons) church was founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. who went on in 1842 to compose a sketch of his young church for John Wentworth of the Chicago Democrat at the latter's request for information about the church on behalf of a friend. The letter contained thirteen succinct statements of faith which the LDS church has subsequently adopted as canonical in a work called "The Pearl of Great Price." While the LDS deny having conventional creeds, they generally acknowledge that Joseph Smith's "13 Articles of Faith" generally present a good synopsis of their faith, and it was a development of this synopsis that James Talmage, LDS apostle and geologist by training, embarked upon in the current work, "The Articles of Faith."

Talmage was one of the great thinkers of the LDS church (along with B.H. Roberts and John Widtsoe) who, in the very late 19th century and early 20th century articulated a maturing LDS doctrine in a way that has become fairly normative even for modern LDS people. While the early "Lectures on Faith" and similar doctrinal adventures have been put aside, Talmage's works persist as a vital testimony to his importance. Talmage was a systematic expositor and excellent writer. His works can be difficult to read due to his extensive vocabulary. Still, other more modern LDS leaders like Bruce McConkie who followed and often repeated Talmage's footsteps later in the late 20th century, obviously followed the patterns set out by Talmage.

In this book, the ministry of Joseph Smith is reviewed, and a foundation of Smith as a "true prophet" is constructed. Talmage recognized that the rest of the book hinged on the validity of Smith's status as "true prophet." Following that, Talmage treats the very nature of God which diverges from the God of mainstream Christianity significantly. He goes on to set up the LDS paradigm with regard to the nature of man and the "Fall of Adam," and how that Fall is remedied in the "Atonement and Salvation" available through Jesus Christ. LDS soteriology doesn't find a better spokesman than Talmage. Next the two main "principles of the gospel," "faith and repentance" are treated, followed by the first two "ordinances" (similar to "sacraments"); baptism and "the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost," the LDS confirmation. Next, the emblematic nature of the LDS celebration of "the Lord's Supper" is detailed (the LDS deny any "substantiation" in the tokens of the bread and water). A very important chapter on religous authority follows. The LDS claims to a literal "line of authority" from God's heavenly ministers to Joseph Smith, then from him to all others is a feature of the faith claims. Along with that, the LDS claim to have a restoration of the offices of the primitive Christian Church. This is the weakest part of this great work, as Talmage explains the various offices (the LDS have many multiple High Priests who also serve simulaneously in other capacities e.g. Bishop, Seventy without regard for the message of Hebrews in which the office of High Priest was finally filled in Jesus Christ, the perfect, ultimate High Priest). In any event, Talmage goes on to briefly treat spiritual gifts before getting to a very interesting part on LDS scripture (which includes the Bible - with caveats - the "Book of Mormon" - claimed to be a record of God's people in the ancient America's and Christ's visit here, the "Doctrine and Covenants" - revelations from God to modern LDS leaders, and "The Pearl of Great Price" - a collection of shorter documents dealing with Abraham, Moses, creation, the restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ in the LDS church, and the "Articles of Faith"). A feature of the LDS faith includes ongoing revelation from God through living prophets, which Talmage treats. Next, Talmage talks about the dispersion and gather of Israel. "Israel" to the LDS can mean "ethnic/religous Jews," "the lost tribes," "the descendants of the Lamanites in the Book of Mormon" (then believed to be Native Americans), and the modern LDS church itself. This "gathering" reflects a dispensationalism in the LDS theology, ultimately resulting in a "new Jerusalem" which will be in Missouri - a sister city to the older, historical, renewed Jerusalem. Christ will reign personally on the earth in this wonderful future. The LDS accept a corporeal resurrection. The book ends with chapters on religious tolerance and the importance of submission to secular authority. Like my fellow Catholics (I grew up LDS but have since converted), the LDS are not afraid to be involved in politics or social aims that meet religious ends. And finally, the LDS believe in a practical Christianity. It's little wonder that one of the favorite LDS epistles in the Bible is that of James. (While the LDS are criticized for not being "Christian," usually on theological bases, as a practical matter their daily lives are either indisguishable from or even superior to their "Christian" brothers.)

Talmage generally includes in his works copious endnotes, and this work is no exception. Not for the faint of heart, nor for the dabbler, this is a work for the student of LDS theology who wants to understand what the LDS believe. It does not disappoint, and I suppose Talmage's contributions to LDS thinking will persist and he'll always be thought of as an LDS theological luminary.

Articles Of Faith: What Nazarenes Believe And Why

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Articles of Faith addresses the 16 articles that make up the foundation of the Church of the Nazarene. Each of these 16 articles is examined and presented with a fresh and contemporary explanation to provide you with a clearer understanding of what these articles teach and how they can be expressed in your daily life. A deeper understanding of these articles will help you determine how you will live and how you will relate to one another and the world around you.

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