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According to Publishers Weekly, in The Face of God: What Enoch Saw in Heaven, "Kakembo examines the biggest of questions: 'How did we actually get here and why, and what or who was responsible?'" He looks for answers through a scientific lens, since religion willy-nilly evokes its creators to account for our origins and to provide us with the purpose and meaning of life. Today, modern technology enables us to look beyond our galaxy all the way to the edge of the universe. Even then, we do not see a creator there, rendering the existence of such a being questionable, dashing our hopes of finding the reason we exist. Science has its own take on how the universe came about and stars and galaxies formed. Despite, It continues to investigate the origins of life, before evolution shaped it into the milliards of forms we see today.

With the help of archeology and DNA studies, The Face of God retraces our ancestors footsteps as they migrated out of Africa to claim the “four corners” of the world by right of “finders keepers.” Then, it explores the cradle of civilization and source of writing. The latter would be central to the building of nations and empires. A deep dive into the background of preeminent scholars, historians, and theologians offers insight into the formation of organized religion from its humble shamanic beginnings to the present. However, an instinct for belief in supernatural powers, superstitions, and stories such as Enoch’s isn’t the only reason behind religion's staying power. Many studies have shown that benefits promoting survival are responsible. Overshadowed by the faith instinct and intertwined with our evolutionary purpose to reproduce, the author detects the true meaning of life embedded with love.

The Face of God is well sourced to satisfy enquiring minds as well as researchers interested in the impact of spirituality on behavior and health when grappling with mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression. It encourages ordinary readers to aspire toward attaining fulfillment, which, perchance, could help them to improve their quality of life. The author, then, suggests means by which readers may come to terms with nature and live in harmony with it and in peace with each other by embracing spiritual practices such as meditation. Also, readers could be more inclined to trace their ancestries through DNA analysis back some generations and grow the family tree. But, above all, leaving aside brain imaging and donning an electromagnetic hat, people shouldn't be dumbfounded to learn that we're divine, especially since Adam, our biblical ancestor, was the son of God (Lk 3:38) and that the Kingdom of God is really inside of us (Lk 17:21). In a nutshell, we are The Face of God.

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WAS MOSES MYTH?

Did the Exodus take place?

Moses didn’t write the Torah as is reported. God only gave him the Ten Commandments. Deuteronomy 34:1 says, “Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses….” But Moses being the first prophet, he couldn’t have written this, as he had died before the book recorded it. Moses died before the Israelites reached the promised land, so before there were other prophets. He also lived centuries before the time of the Edomite kings listed in Genesis, and they couldn’t have denied him passage through their kingdom during the exodus. Sites like Kadesh Barnea, Heshbon, and Gibeon mentioned in Exodus weren’t even occupied at the time. Also, laws credited to Moses were similar to the seventeenth century BCE Babylonian Code of Hammurabi and others. In turn, the code was likely based on the Egyptian 147 Negative Confessions from the book of the dead.

Moses’ story, too, of floating down the River Nile in a basket is similar to that of Sargon of Akkad, a third millennium BCE Mesopotamian king. Moreover, what happened on Mount Sinai (if you can find it) was a copycat. Laws of the Greek mythological god Bacchus, called “the Lawgiver,” were written on two tablets of stone. And one day as the Persian prophet Zoroaster prayed on a high mountain, the Lord appeared before him and handed him the “Book of Law.” Zoroaster brought the book to the King and people at the foot of the mountain. The Persians could have introduced this story when imposing The Law on the Jews after they returned from their Babylonian exile.

Were Moses, Abraham, and Noah humans like us? One could hardly live 120 years with semblance of a sound mind as Moses did, but Abraham’s sojourn of 175 years is a stretch, and Noah’s 950 years a fantasy. None of the tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets from the archives of the ancient city of Mari specifically refers to Abraham either. Failing to find evidence for these figures, or the Exodus—the Egyptians have no records of it—John Loftus, a former preacher, wrote in Why I Became an Atheist, that Jewish history “…rested on myths, legends, and superstitions.”

Because Bible events tally poorly with history, Joseph’s Egyptian stay, the Exodus, and accounts revolving around figures like Abraham and Jacob, were most likely based on earlier Canaanite traditions and written late, according to archeologist Donald Redford. For instance, when Joshua supposedly conquered the Canaanite cities in 1407 BCE, the area was under constant Egyptian rule. Also, cities like Jericho, unoccupied since 1550 BCE, had no sky-high walls, if any. Moreover, even if there had been walls, Joshua would have torn them down before the time of Moses and the Exodus, dated to the thirteenth century during Ramses II’s reign. The Israelites do not mention the Egyptians, as Israel wasn’t a nation yet. Like resettled Jericho, cities that fell did so to the Sea Peoples. And since Pithom was a fort built by Pharaoh Necho around 608 BCE, and Ramses, a city constructed by Ramses II in the 1,200s BCE on top of Avaris, the main center of the Hyksos until 1,550 BCE, Moses couldn’t have existed before the third century BCE, when the Egyptians invented him and gave him an Egyptian name. Ex 1:11.