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Belief in the One male God of Judaism, Christianity and Islãm can be traced back for something over 2,500 years to the time when the Hebrew scripture of Genesis was compiled in the 6th century BC. The narrative content of Genesis was clearly derived from older traditions but, on the face of it, we have no documentary evidence from any other source of a monotheistic culture in respect of this particular God from before that date. In The Origin of God, written but not published before his untimely death in August 2010, Laurence Gardner, author of the international bestsellers Bloodline of the Holy Grail, Genesis of the Grail Kings and Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark, undertakes a biographical exploration of the deiform character variously known as Yahweh, Allãh, or simply The Lord. He seeks to uncover and evaluate His original identity, as against His eventual religiously motivated portrayals. Beginning with documents that pre-date the Bible, Laurence Gardner's final quest was to discover from all available sources what evidence there is, if any, to support the long-standing and widespread notion of God's existence, posing the question: If the Bible had never been written, would we know about God from any more original source?
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Laurence Gardner's eighth book in well over twenty years of thorough and well referenced research on the many aspects of secular and religious history, challenges what we have been taught about history, science, religion and God. As with his first book Bloodline of the Holy Grail, this book is bound to be a best seller, and will create waves within the rigid established doctrines of those who seek to dominate and control free men and women. This masterpiece completed before his death from a long illness in August 2010, brings together from his and other considerable archives of research and information, the most important story of our incredible ancestors, their advanced civilisation, and the identity of the flesh and blood individual and his family, who led the re-start of civilisation and agriculture. Only after they had disappeared from the Middle Eastern scene were they worshipped in the religious sense; and they were then so enveloped in supernatural trappings that their intrinsic advanced and benevolent characteristics were swamped in a morass of pseudo-religious adulation - Edkidu Nov 2010
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The Origin of God by Laurence Gardner is no ordinary book. In it, he traces the twenty-five-hundred-year-old idea of one God or monotheism back to its original sources in the ancient world, some going back as far as 6,000 years ago. Given the influence of monotheism over the past 2,500 years and the number of people who currently embrace its three great religions in the modern world, this is an important achievement because, as brought out in the book in great and glowing detail, it has only been within the last 100 years or so that these sources -- many going back almost 3,000 years before the time of Moses -- have been known about through recent archaeological discoveries.
These sources manage to shed new light on everything, including the idea of one God, and this book shows how.
What I particularly like about the book is that Gardner doesn't jump to conclusions. He presents evidence -- and what startling evidence it is! The book is well researched and documented, with extensive Notes and References, and is a treasure trove of further reading, all of it quite academically respectable. It's just that most of its extensive Bibliography is so new to so many that it's like discovering a whole new world within something that everyone thought they already knew.
It's an extraordinary achievement and a fitting capstone to his life's work.
These sources manage to shed new light on everything, including the idea of one God, and this book shows how.
What I particularly like about the book is that Gardner doesn't jump to conclusions. He presents evidence -- and what startling evidence it is! The book is well researched and documented, with extensive Notes and References, and is a treasure trove of further reading, all of it quite academically respectable. It's just that most of its extensive Bibliography is so new to so many that it's like discovering a whole new world within something that everyone thought they already knew.
It's an extraordinary achievement and a fitting capstone to his life's work.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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The Origin of God by the late Laurence Gardner is a thought provoking,thoroughly researched masterpiece on a subject that one way or another affects a significant number of people. There are those who will appreciate his efforts to identify the source of the biblical God and there are those who will not. That he made the effort to try to offer an unbiased view should be applauded by all open-minded people. Going back over a period of some 6,000 years, his book's conclusion is that "to believe or not to believe remains a matter of conjecture and personal opinion". Doubtless there will be people who disagree with his conclusions, but before making a judgement this excellent thought-provoking book should be studied in detail.
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The last words of a brilliant scholar who has opened many eyes
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I owe a great deal to Laurence Gardner. Each of his books have helped me straighten out a conventional and often convoluted history of our beginnings which have been written to... Read more
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