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WHY ARE WE HERE? A Scary Truth Behind the Original Bible Story | Full Documentary

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    I've been a preacher for more than 30
    years. I've studied and taught through
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    the book of Genesis many, many times
    in churches all around the world
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    and I've trained pastors in the skills of
    interpreting texts
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    and it's very clear they're not stories
    about Gods.
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    They're stories about the powerful ones in
    the Bible.
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    And the sky people, the Anunnaki
    and the Sumerian tablets
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    [Narrator] In 1896 eminent scholar
    Nathaniel Schmidt
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    was fired from his position
    as Professor of Semitic languages
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    at Colgate University
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    For eleven years, this American University
    had enjoyed Nathaniel Schmidt erudition?
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    and Semitic Languages
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    He delivered numerous courses in Hebrew,
    Aramaic, Coptic , Arabic , Syriac
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    and other ancient languages besides
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    In fact, Nathaniel Schmidt was one of
    America's leading scholars in the field
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    So why, after eleven years
    of outstanding achievement
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    was he tried for heresy,
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    and fired from his tenure in 1896?
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    Though a devout Christian
    and a Baptist pastor
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    The authorities considered
    that his recent
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    theological papers had struck
    at the very roots
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    of two world religions
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    Christianity and Judaism.
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    What Nathaniel Schmidt had done wrong
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    was read the Sumerian and Babylonian
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    and Assyrian text and notice
    that they were full
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    of fascinating parallels.
    Stories that occurred there
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    that were uncannily similar to all
    the stories and beginnings
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    of the Bible.
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    Stories like: Adam and Eve
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    The Fall , Cain and Abel
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    The Flood, the limiting of human life,
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    the event of the Tower of Babel,
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    and Schmidt's work demonstrated that
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    the Sumerian accounts
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    and those that follow it
    from nearly 6000 years ago
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    where in all probability
    the source of all those familiar
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    biblical stories.
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    Now, that was a problem
    in the 1890's
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    because if you think about it
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    the Church was still reading from
    the after effects of
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    [Paul] Charles Darwin's
    "On the Origin of Species"
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    and it is busy
    putting together
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    new doctrinal basis
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    and new doctrines
    of biblical inherency
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    to shore up the ship
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    So the idea that the Bible
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    might actually be based
    on somebody else's stories
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    was a bit of an embarrassment
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    It shouldn't have been
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    because Judaism
    and Christianity
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    both find their roots
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    in the story of a Sumerian family.
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    The family of Abraham and Sarah.
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    Abraham and Sarah
    grew up and spent
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    the best part of their lives
    in (research name)
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    A Sumerian culture
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    and so when they emigrated
    from there
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    it's hardly surprising that
    they would carry with them
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    [Paul] all the stories of beginnings
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    that they had
    grown up with.
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    and sew them
    into the foundations
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    of what was to become
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    their culture
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    their religion
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    and their Bible.
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    And so, it shouldn't be a surprise
    that in the Bible
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    we have a summary version
    of all these stories
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    that ? the Sumerian, Babylonian
    and Assyrian texts.
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    The problem and the shock horror
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    is that the original versions
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    the Sumerian versions of these stories
    make no mention of God at all.
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    In the Sumerian originals
    these are stories
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    of our ancestor's contact
    with another species.
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    A species called
    The Anunnakki.
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    [Narrator] Could Judaism
    and Christianity
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    familiar stories of God
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    really be a retelling of our
    ancestor's close encounters
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    with extraterrestrials?
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    the cuneiform tablets which has fascinated
    Nathaniel Schmidt were first on Earth in 1500.
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    As colonial powers began to escalate the ancient
    sites of Mesopotamia.
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    Over the decades had followed some 200,000 clay tablets were uncovered.
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    The tablets were adorned with strange etchings
    hieroglyphs

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    made when the clay was soft.
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    Scholars of the day divided us to the meanings of these markings
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    Some believe that the glyphs to be an unknown written language.
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    Others refuse to accept this.
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    since the tablets appear to predate any known language.
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    They presume the markings to be no more than decoration.
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    And so the tablets were archived,
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    the secrets were locked away for three centuries.
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    Until it 1835,
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    Henry Rawranson arrived. In south western Iran.
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    Rawranson was a military man. He was employed by the East India Tea Company.
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    And he was in Iran helping the Shah of Iran to train his troops.
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    As worth pausing there for a moment because if you thought that
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    corporations rivaling nations states was something new
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    take a look at the East India Tea company.
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    A tea company that's able to move a standing army
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    around the world and train the armies of nation states.
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    That's quite a tea company.
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    In fact, Rawranson presence in Iran wasn't part of quid pro quo for trading rides.
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    He was there for access to the district of Behistun.
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    He wanted to find the Behistun inscription
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    [Narrator] the Behistun inscription was an ancient royal proclamation
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    carved into a cliff face.
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    It was written in three known languages persian, elamite and akkadian.
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    Which was the common language of Mesopotamian cultures.
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    The inscription expressed all three languages in
    cuneiform script.
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    It was the translation key that cuneiform tablets have been waiting for.
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    The memories of the Mesopotamian ancient cultures was suddenly an open book.
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    The glyphs were not made decoration after all.
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    They were banking records
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    business agreements,
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    shopping lists,
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    contracts,
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    recipes,
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    inventories,
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    royal histories and the most ancient narrative in the history of the world
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    It was in these ancient narratives that the source of the bible familiar stories
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    began to emarge.
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    At the academic level Nathaniel Schmidt was in good company,
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    He was one of the small number who began confronting us with this new layer of our history.
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    I should mention just to reassure you that shortly after Colgate university fired him
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    he did get a new job with Cornell university. and he was a professor of Semitic languages for full 36 years.
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    So, he did land on his feet.
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    His work continued to argue that the cuneiform reveal that
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    earliest history are not about god. They are about a prehistoric contact with the Anunnaki.
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    [Narrator] In the 20th century, the writer Zecharia Sitchin began pouring over the cuneiform texts.
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    He highlighted the clear implications of the
    Sumerian's stories.
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    That the Anunnaki were powerful and advanced extraterrestrial species.
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    Their arrival on planet Earth put them at the top of the terrestrial food chain.
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    To create a local work force, the Anunnaki used sequences of their own genetic code
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    to hybridize a primed ancestor into a human, ready to put to work for their Anunnaki masters.
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    Such an argued the word Anunnaki means those who came from the heavens to Earth.
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    A phrase that made clear that the
    extraterrestrials origin.
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    Zecharia Sitchin was not an academic. He was not a Phd or a professor.
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    He had a degree from the London School of Economics and worked in commerce.
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    The LSE I should is a pretty august institution
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    He wrote at a popular level. Let's to say for general audience.
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    And not with the kind of referencing and footnotes
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    that you expect to see in an academic kind of tome
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    An academic critics don't like that. They think that slack.
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    Some might identify mistakes or bias in his work.
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    And that's then their pretext to disregard his contributions
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    which is an important one.
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    Now, some writers in the field reject Sitchin's translation of the word Anunnaki
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    and they would contend that the word usage
    tells us
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    that it simply means nobility or royalty.
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    the rulers
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    I am not persuaded by that. It's not that that's not true.
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    It's just a very partial answer. It's a very lazy explanation.
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    It simply doesn't ask enough of questions.
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    Who were the rulers identified by this word?
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    why is that word associated with the rulers?
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    You see if yo look at the etymology of the word,
    at it's roots meanings
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    look at the component parts you have
    Anu
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    which means heavens
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    ki which means Earth.
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    Anunnaki are those who came from the heavens to the earth.
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    You can follow the logic ,but even if you didn't have
    the narrative
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    imbedded in the word itself
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    as soon as you read the cuneiforms, the stories
    themselves
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    unpack that that's exactly what was going on.
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    And the glyph that they used to indicate the rulers
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    who come down from the heavens at the beginning of the story
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    that glyph simply indicates the sky
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    So, these Anunnaki are from the heavens.
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    The sky people.
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    [Narrator] Many of the world's oldest mythologies claim
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    that the governance of human society began
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    with dominance over human beings, being
    established by superior beings or gods.
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