In Italy publisher "Piemme" published the book Roberto Beretta and Elisabetta broli "ten commandments". Italian journalists were advised by Gianfranco Ravasi, the famous Milan theologian, specializing in the study of the Bible. As journalists themselves - Roberto Beretta and Elisabetta broli - operate in the paper "Avvenire", which is the official organ of the Pontifical biblical Commission. So the authors of the book is not some three heretic-pretender, but a very dear people, which has enlisted a blessing and a guidance of the Vatican.

In his book "Eleven covenants" they gathered about 60 erroneous statements, public places, false information or incorrect interpretations included in the text of the Bible and transmitted Christians from generation to generation. While writing this book, the authors of the source is used the discoveries made recently and accepted by the Church, which still does not know the main part of believers. According to Enrique MIREA, President of the Association of theologians behalf of Pope John XXIII, "always existed two branches of faith: one of them belonged to the educated elite, who watched new discoveries concerning the biblical teaching and the other ordinary people, which for many years was kept in the dark, perhaps in order not to provoke their anger". But today biblical revisionism has already penetrated the Church itself.

Eve's Apple.

Fruit plucked eve, because of which all mankind were expelled from Paradise, is not an Apple. And the reason is simple: where, by assumption, was the garden of Eden, apples do not grow. Such a misunderstanding occurred because of an error remaining unknown publisher of the Bible, who translated "malus-malum" ("evil" or "fruit") as an Apple. And only from this moment "eve's Apple" became a bone. In the opinion of the Jews, she tore off a Fig, walnut, or the fruit of the carob tree; Orthodox Christians believe that it was orange. Protestants blame it on honey, and Muslims believe that eve offered Adam to drink a glass of wine.

From the ark to submarine Noah.

The ark that Noah built at the behest of God to save his family and to every creature on a pair of those that inhabited the earth, was not a ship, but rather something like a submarine. Because the flood is not a flood, but the kind of "the water sandwich": the oceans of heaven fell upon the Earth, in order to turn it into a primordial sea. Noah was between the earthly and the heavenly water flows and had to fulfill his God mission. In addition, the rain continued for forty days, and for a year and ten days. Moreover, Noah took not for each creature on the pair, and seven pairs of "pure" animals and only one pair "evil".

From the red sea to the Bitter lakes.

The Jews persecuted by the soldiers of Pharaoh, not crossed the Red sea on the bottom, when Moses had paved the way for them with his staff, as shown in the famous scene in the film directed by Cecil C. DeMille (we are talking about black and white picture "Ten commandments", filmed in 1956. - Approx. translated). All turned out to be much more prosaic, and on the other shore of the Jews moved into a place called the Bitter lakes, or Reed sea, which itself is shallow, and they passed it at low tide. But was stopped by Egyptian soldiers it started tide. In the XIII century John Wycliffe properly translated into English the name of the Reed sea as "Reed Sea". After three centuries Luther confuse this with the "Red Sea", which in English means the Red sea, its error lives on to this day.

From the ten commandments to the twelve.

Traditionally it is considered that the divine commandments, written on the tables and transferred to Yahweh on mount Sinai Moses was ten, but it is not. The commandments was 12, and received, not Moses. Modern Bible scholars claim that the commandments were born gradually, one by the zadruga, and finally started yet to crystallize as a whole only to the VII century BC, while the Jews ' Exodus from Egypt and the years of the life of Moses date from approximately 1200 year B.C. moreover, the last seven commandments were already known and studied in Egypt. The Jews still remember the twelve commandments, while the Catholic Church teaches only the ten commandments, collected by Saint Augustine Blessed and approved in the XVI century Church. The ten commandments are ten fingers.

From manna to the resin.

Mann, revealed by God in the desert his people to satisfy hunger, was not some kind of wonderful food, and some resinous substance. To this day you can find some bushes growing in the area of the Sinai, you only have to have some patience. As they say, when you want to eat the bread is stale does not happen.
Neither of Jericho pipes, not China, and the belly which lived ion. The walls of the ancient city of Jericho does not descended from the sound of the trumpets of the Jews. During the Exodus neither the city nor its walls there was not. And the prophet Jonah, God's call and went to Nineveh, to inform the people of this town a punishment that God is ready to bring down the unbelief, the whale could not swallow. In the text of the Bible was only used literary turnover: it says that a simple man, plunged in thought, and turned to God, can become a prophet, able to overcome any obstacles.

Saint Joseph: from a carpenter to a bricklayer. Millions of Catholics believe that the Holy Joseph - imaginary father of Jesus Christ was a carpenter and married Marie, as much in years. Nothing of the kind. Joseph was something of a technician-Builder and he had married Mary, when he was 18 to 25 years old.

Nor soothsayers, nor the star of Bethlehem, nor nursery schools. The Magi who came to worship the newborn Jesus, the wise men were not, and they were not three. In fact still not found credible evidence of their existence, though they still hand out sweets to children and bring them gifts (the Catholic Church celebrates on January 5, the day of offering of the wise men gifts to the newborn baby, and it was then and not for New year or Christmas to all children receive gifts, and the procession of the Magi throws candy came to meet her kids. In addition, there was no star, which would have led the Magi to the gate of Bethlehem, and they certainly found nothing: it was not there, nor barn, and in it, nor ox, nor his ass, which could give its manger, so that a newborn could warm up. The story of the Magi found only in the apocryphal Gospels, and is no more sacred than a fairy tale.

Jesus was not born on December 25, and not at night, and not in the first year of a new era on the calendar, in which we all live, and a 5 or 7 year BC. This error was caused by the sixth century monk Dionysius Small, incorrectly calculated the calendar.

And Jesus died not at the age of 33. In the Catholic proverb says, Thirty-three, the age of Christ minus one year". But this is not true. There is evidence that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified on 7 April 30 years of our era and at that time he was 36 or 37 years. Moreover, in opposition to all that is said about his path to the cross on Calvary, three times he did not fall, Veronica was not wiped the sweat from his face with his handkerchief, and it is possible that Jesus at the moment of crucifixion was naked. And it looks more reminiscent of the ordinary Jew and was not similar to those images that have been preserved in the classical iconography.

And Peter was not denied three times, and Paul did not fall from a horse. And in the Gospels, and in the Christian tradition has preserved some of the stories from the lives of the apostles, but they are not truthful. The scene where Paul persecuted Christians from Damascus, fell from a horse, there is only the paintings by Caravaggio. It's just a painting of appeals to the true God of the Apostle of the Gentiles. There was not, and the famous three-fold denial of Peter from his teacher, after which shouted cock. Peter is not denied, nor the cock was crowing not. This story is only an allegory of the departure of the apostles, are confident that the Kingdom of God has the power to establish the angels, and are unable to take the crucifix from his teacher.

Author: Jose Manuel Vidal, EI Mundo, Spain
Source: "Interesting newspaper. The world of the unknown" №12, 2012