Bible Word-Count Analysis Vol I: Christian-Jewish Syncretic Worldview Part A

What is a Worldview?

A worldview is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge and point of view. It can include natural philosophy (inspired from mythology, religion, legend, folklore); fundamental, existential, and normative postulates; or themes, values, emotions, and ethics.

Let's take a look at this radar graph, which is charted by size and volume, not relation of centricity . The purple 'heart' outline represents the total Christian worldview, made up up the blue (largest) and green (smallest) combined. In terms of size and volume, which color heart  represents Christianity, and which makes up Judaism worldview inspiration and inspiration philosophy (A. Green or B. Blue)?

(Remember your answer for later)

What Is The Foundation of the Christian Worldview?

The Bible, often the 'Holy Bible,' is the primary reference for modern Christianity which contains:

1. The Old Testament - Segments of Jewish mythology (e.g. Hebrew Bible, Tanakh etc.) for Christians comissioned by Jewish financiers and formulated for Christians by Italian scholars. These first bibles in history, the Gutenberg Bible, originally had only what is now called the 'OT' and was 'gifted' to the Roman Catholic Church in 1475.

2. The New Testament - Literature on the Church's object, Christ, formulated as a response to the Gutenberg Bible. The Novum Instrumentum was commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church in 1500, formulated by Italian theologians, and first printed in 1516 by the Froben Press in Switzerland. It was called the 'Novum Testamentum' in 1519 and changed again in 1535 to the New 'Testament' years after both books were combined and printed under the same cover.

Bible Word Count Analysis

As you can see, the OT (i.e. Jewish) worldview (i.e. textual philosophy) is actually overrepresented by 237%! Yes, there is 237% more Jewish literature than Christian literature in the Christian bible.

The Catholic bible has more literature due to it including the Apocrypha deuterocanonical books (seven Old Testament books not found in other bibles). Therefore, the Catholic Bible actually presents an even more predominantly Jewish worldview than the King James or American Revised versions.

Recall your answer from before--Green or Blue? 

With the full view of the chart 1, Green and Blue actually represent the NT and OT wordcount charted from table 1. 

If it were filled in, the 'blue' would obviously overshadow the 'green,' demonstrating that the Bible presents a predominantly Jewish worldview.

The Biblical Doctrine is Christian-Judaic Syncretism

Syncretism is the combining of different beliefs and various schools of thought. Syncretism involves the merging or assimilation of several mythologies or religions, thus asserting an underlying unity and allowing for an inclusive approach to other faiths.

Modern Christianity is very similar Messianic Judaism, modern syncretic Christian religious movement that incorporates some elements of Judaism and Jewish tradition with Evangelical Christianity. Christians get their worldview from reading Jewish literature (e.g. Old Testament) then wash it down with Christian literature based on Jewish literature (e.g. New Testament).

Further evidence of this is the last and 4th gospel of the NT, John, written to create a link between the OT and NT. In this uniqure gospel, Christ is exhaulted as the 'King of the Jews' who is promoting the 'commandments' of the OT. The KJV was created and dedicated to King James I of England in 1611 by Lancelot Andrewes, an English theologian who selected other theologians to help create the so-called Authorized Version.

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Sources: Wordcounter, The Historical Origin of Islam, Wikipedia