Renowned author attacks Bible

Harari preaches gospel of transhumanism

Yuval Noah Harari attacks Scripture in his books and speeches. Yuval Noah Harari/Facebook

The Bible is the most examined, analyzed, and scrutinized holy text in the world over millennia. 

Theologians, atheists, agnostics, and others arrogantly claim they have the errors to crush Scripture’s credibility. They constantly fail.

That’s why followers of Jesus Christ must be aware of Yuval Noah Harari, a lecturer of the Department of History at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who also is an author of books that have sold 45 million copies worldwide. 

Harari is connected to the globalist World Economic Forum and has attacked God’s Word twice in 16 months. In June 2023, The Christian Post (CP) reported:

Harari made a similar claim in June 2023, when he predicted the rapid growth of artificial intelligence would result in a ‘new Bible.’

‘In a few years there might be religions that are actually correct,’ he said.

Harari has said that AI will rewrite the Bible. He repeated his mantra recently on his new book tour. He dedicates a chapter of Nexus, A Brief History of Information Networks to the canon of Scripture.

Harari was at the Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany earlier this year. Martin Kraft/Wikipedia Creative Commons license

CP reported on Oct. 25:

In an interview with The Globe and Mail (it is paywalled, emphasis mine) earlier this month, Harari, 48, explained why he devoted an entire chapter in Nexus, A Brief History of Information Networks to the process of the canonization of the Bible.

In the context of examining the transfer of ideas across time and culture throughout human history, Nexus raises doubts about the Bible as a document that was, as the Globe reports, "pieced together over a long period of time that ended with the emergence of a canonical work.’

‘There is a chapter in the book about the process of the canonization of the Bible,’ Harari told the outlet. ‘... We have texts from the second and third and fourth centuries [Common Era].’

According to the outlet, the book argues that the biblical canon wasn’t determined until the late fourth century with the Councils of Hippo and Carthage.

The CP also reported:

Theologians like Bruce M. Metzger, Ph.D., former professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, have long dismissed such arguments and said the official synod decisions were merely recognitions of what was already considered holy writ.

“When, toward the close of the fourth century, church synods and councils began to issue pronouncements concerning the New Testament canon, they were merely ratifying the judgment of individual Christians throughout the church who had come to perceive by intuitive insight the inherent worth of the several books,” Metzer wrote in 2014.

Harari’s arguments have been tried by others and have been weighed, measured, and found wanting.

Harari is an atheist. He also appears to be a closet Buddhist as he practices vipassana meditation, which Buddhists say is a way of observing oneself without judgment. They also contend it helps achieve enlightenment. Harari also is a proponent of transhumanism with science and technology replacing human beings and giving way to tyranny, not rights of individuals.

Zoltan Peto is an historian and researcher in Budapest, Hungary. He wrote a review of Harari’s book Sapiens. He wrote:

The cult of technological utopia is as old as the development of modern technology. The first significant work in this vein is perhaps a Renaissance utopia, namely Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis. Even today, there are ‘techno gnostic,’scientists and philosophers who assume that through technology, man is capable of achieving superhuman states and superhuman knowledge.

The basic formula is simple: through the use of technology, people become smarter, more virtuous, and even more moral. Religion, like in Marxism, is in fact recognized by Harari as a product of the unenlightened person’s ignorance, fear of death, and lack of rational thinking.

Harari also argues the Bible is “just stories,” despite growing archeological proof of the Bible. CP reported:

Harari has also advocated for referring to Christianity’s holy book as “just stories.” In an October 2022 column for The Guardian, Harari pointed to how young children in Israel hear about the biblical accounts of the Garden of Eden and Noah’s Ark long before they’re taught about Neanderthals or cave paintings.

‘To gain some freedom from these narratives and behave differently we need to understand how they were created and spread in the first place,’ Harari wrote. ‘Otherwise, we will never see them for what they are: just stories.’

He has also described Christians as having ‘locked themselves inside of a self-reinforcing mythological bubble, never daring to question the factual veracity of the Bible.’

Harari is a classic atheist, believing he has new arguments against the Bible. Yet, his arguments aren’t new because they've been argued before and proven futile.

Harari isn’t the first person to trust science and machines. However, Jesus Christ died, was buried, and rose again the third day to reconcile human beings to Himself, not androgynous beings. 

If you’re going to live your life as if God doesn’t exist, you had better be right.