Was Moses high on Mount Sinai?

so Moses was high on Mount Sinai? ..so is Mount Sinai the name of the drug that Moses was using to get high or the name of the mountain where Moses was high on

so Moses was "stone on drugs" ..God told Moses to stone adulterers and unruly children to death...that phrase has a whole new meaning now

When Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, he may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor.

Writing in the British philosophy journal Time and Mind, Benny Shanon of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University said two plants in the Sinai desert contain the same psychoactive molecules as those found in plants from which the powerful Amazonian hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca is prepared.

The thunder, lightning and blaring of a trumpet which the Book of Exodus says emanated from Mount Sinai could just have been the imaginings of a people in an “altered state of awareness,” Shanon hypothesized.

“In advanced forms of ayahuasca inebriation, the seeing of light is accompanied by profound religious and spiritual feelings,” Shanon wrote.

“On such occasions, one often feels that in seeing the light, one is encountering the ground of all Being ... many identify this power as God.”

Shanon wrote that he was very familiar with the affects of the ayahuasca plant, having “partaken of the ... brew about 160 times in various locales and contexts.”

He said one of the psychoactive plants, harmal, found in the Sinai and elsewhere in the Middle East, has long been regarded by Jews in the region as having magical and curative powers.

Shanon acknowledged that he had "no direct proof of this interpretation" and said such proof cannot be expected.

Biblical scholars scoffed at Shanon's suggestion. Orthodox rabbi Yuval Sherlow told Israel Radio: “The Bible is trying to convey a very profound event. We have to fear not for the fate of the biblical Moses, but for the fate of science.”

Was the Bible a history of people who were high and stoned for 3000 years???

This doesn’t even begin to make any sense.

would this be considered as being a miracle?



so you believe that it doesn't make sense that Moses was stone on drugs when he heard voices but yet you believe that it does make sense that Moses heard voices without being stoned on drugs? ...either way drugs was involved or should have been involved in the form of medication

It wasn't just Moses. Between 2 and 3 million people witnessed what happened at Sinai.

In addition the many miracles in the Bible happened over an extended period of time so the premise of being drugged on ONE occasion just makes no logical sense.

Not that logic ever stopped the Bible bashers.

If you hate something you will use everything at your disposal to discredit it whether its logical or not. That's called intellectual dishonesty. There are legitimate points to make in questioning whether the Bible is true. This one is not one of them - if you are honest.

and more than 3 million people watched David Copperfield perform miracles ..but David Copperfeild wasn't on stage claiming that he heard voices



again just because someone heard a voice doesn't make it a miracle ..those mountains can throw an echo pretty good ..it could have been a prankster that said "I AM" and the mountains made it sound like a Godly voice and with a little drug inducment Moses became a believer that it was God

is a bible basher someone that ask questions because they want to know or is the believer a logic basher because they rely on "faith" not to know



and if you were honest you wouldn't be preaching that this type of debate rely on hate to take place, unless you are the one that is doing the hating

Questions are perfectly fine. Saying that the people were smoking pot or something borders on the ridiculous.

There is a big distinction between an honest seeker who has genuine questions about the Bible and someone who is out to destroy at any cost and has no intellectual integrity and honesty.

well it appears "PreciousLife" that you are big on honesty so let me ask you an question ...if you heard the word of God telling you to "stone adulterers and unruly children to death" would you do it today without question?

..er..by stone I mean stone with bricks not drugs ...ok not a brick of cocaine I mean like a rock...ok not a rock of crack..you know hit somebody...no not give someone a hit off a crack pipe ...ok forget it..let's rephase it... would you kill if God told you to kill people like he told Moses

For example an adulterer (or any crime with a biblical death penalty) needs to be warned right before s/he commits adultery that his or her action will result in the death penalty.

Now I have seen it all.....

Do you realize how old that Moses was when he came off the mountain....

so your saying he was just up their getting high and talking to burning bushes

and then came down all stoned to deliver what God (a myth) wanted for our lives.

Tell me was God also getting high with Moses......

I think this takes the cake for the most hysterical religion thread to date.

you haven't seen God yet



drug usage may cause some people to age prematurely besides running out of drugs is a pretty good reason to come off the mountain



well isn't that what people do when that are high on drugs



it's called sharing the experience ...or the hallucination



well God was up there burning a bush ...today thats slang for smoking weed



nah that would be the Jesus is God thread

Ahhh my sweet sweet funch......kisses......

You know I have spoke to the Lord God Almighty

whether you believe or not...well thats your gig.....lol

I highly think even you can't believe the crap of this thread......

I honestly don't.....you just trying to rile the feral....admit...cmon well I won't be riled...because not work for how lame this thread is imo.

No I think they fry eggs in a pan and stand around and say "This is my brain, this is my brain on drugs."

I think God is so hysterical with laughter and anyone that would by the crap of this tread....

may they need to take a long look at their life and give up the drugs......

God had a hand in my recovery....drug and drink free for 18 years....

Yanno funch of all the player at least I gave you credit for having the brain God gave ya.....now very seriously re-thinking that.....Cuz if your buying this crap at all........whewwwwww

yes baby give me some of that sweet loving mama



so are you saying that you also hear voices and God spoke back



well you know my motto..."to believe is to doubt"...funches 3:16



but yet you believe the crap in the bible



not trying to rile you.... we are discussing



"this is my brain on drugs" is probably what someone would say if they heard a burning bush talking



yes smoking a burning bush does tend to make one laugh hysterically



you mean even those that take medication for illness



if you were under the influence when you meet God then why is it impossible for Moses to have been under the influence of a control substance when he heard God



the point is that all belief is crap ...and why none of it should be claimed as being truth

Because there is absolutely not validity to this thread at all.....And funch there is a difference between drugs and meds....