The interested reader is also referred to his previously penned masterpiece entitled: The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors. Both works are available from Amazon.

The many errors, absurdities, and contradictions presented here have not gone unnoticed by the Protestant and Catholic clergymen. They have had their apologists and experts make their futile attempts to account for the unaccountable and to explain the inexplicable. However, as humanity progresses, and as their various subterfuges become exposed, the harder their labor becomes. It becomes more and more difficult for them to convince rational men why they should merely accept the Bible as the inspired word of God.

Of the many strategies, employed by the clergy to explain the gross errata, there is one of especial perfidy and importance. It is reliance on the testimony of spurious "historians" who most likely never existed. This is not as incredible a strategy as we may first believe. It has served to cover many inconsistencies that compromise the professed accuracy and legitimacy of the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Since the scriptures themselves are of spurious origin, it is but one duplicitous step more to create fictitious experts, commentators, authorities and clerics to ostensibly "explain" corrupt texts that must either be accounted for or cast aside forever. Our amazement is lessened when we understand just how easy it is to fake, forge, and falsely authenticate. It is not in the art world alone that we find the artifice of the forger and plagiarizer. The greatest examples of this kind of fraudulence are to be found in ecclesiastical circles. The only difference is that the experts in the art world are truly ignorant of their errors in judgment, whereas the experts in the latter case are the culprits in need of exposure. The forger who destroys the original from which he has worked is less likely to be found out. His crime can possibly, in practice as well as in theory, live forever.

When we open a Biblical encyclopedia and see the names and sketches of the many illustrious historians, commentators, clerics, theologians and Church Fathers, it is not our first thought to show doubt regarding their existence. We do not automatically suspect that these figures of the past are concoctions. Those with names such as Herodotus, Eusebius, Josephus, Origen, Tertullian, and so on, have not had their existence proven beyond doubt and, once we are on to the game, we soon can judge from what ancient Roman "think tank" their names and identities were born. Outside the brave work of Conor MacDari, John Remsberg, Kersey Graves, and James Wheless, few writers have taken on the task of delving into the professed existence of the many "historians" and "theologians" put before us since the early centuries AD; those to whom millions have turned for explanations of Biblical conundrums.

In short, there is a scandalous campaign of forgery to be exposed, one of massive scale designed to rob man of his sanity and sound judgment, one meant to cover a barrage of garbled inconsistency and illogical philosophy that could not, in any rational age, hold sway over the minds of men.

Naturally, the rational person cannot believe an absurdity. However, the unsane person has no problem at all in doing so. We must understand how easy it is for the psychologically insecure, existentially vagrant individual to distort the world into a form which suits his own vision and mentality. The toxic mind not only sees a toxic world, it creates one. It is a disturbed and insecure mind which requires a god to rely upon. The mind that cannot feel its own empowerment and that has no sense of Self, is able to center its belief on a dubious, unrealistic, invisible power, essentially greater, and in most cases, external, to itself. This person with this kind of mental disease will then cleave to the company of other people of the same persuasion. These minds will assume their own "Consenus-Trance" and will follow their psychically projected "holographic" god wherever it seems to lead them. If and when the higher centers of logic demand a rational explanation for such antihuman actions and beliefs, the irrational person forcibly quells the remonstrations, repressing all dissent beneath an inflexible and morbidly rigid non-negotiable set of equally irrational pseudo-arguments. This kind of behavior, in turn, fosters great unconscious unrest that, in its own turn, spurs the host to yet further dangerous identification with the supposed source of his peace and salvation. Regardless of what horrors occur on the external stage, and regardless of what angst is felt within, there is little chance of breaking the spell, or the hex. Once man venerates an authority and wisdom-source outside of himself, he is condemned to live estranged from the true source of wisdom that exists within his own temple. The man so divided from his own sanctity is a plague upon the world, a curse to everyone and everything he encounters.

By faith ye are saved, and not of yourselves, it is the gift of God - Paul (Ephesians 2:8)

Many World Bibles

More than twenty sacred books have been found in various countries, which, if not in all cases denominated Bibles, have at least been venerated and used as such, and, properly speaking, are Bibles...All of these Bibles possess some common characteristics.

Paul on the Bible-less Gentiles
In an astounding passage in his Epistles to the Romans, Paul admits that men can have morality and ethics without the need of any Bible. He says:

One can only wonder why we have not heard more debate about this passage. And if Paul (the supposed author) really meant this, we have a great deal to debate. This passage is letting us know that one does not necessarily need the Bible to be moral, a great contradiction to what has been told by the clergy who set forth the Bible as man's only call to morality and salvation. There is another passage containing the same strange message from Paul:

So here we are to understand nature to be a teacher of the ways of god and not the Bible. The very essence of god, we are being told, can be discerned through the physical and natural world. Why was this fact not before those who went around, in the name of Christianity, slaughtering all the nation's indigenous people? And, in same vein, we find Jesus himself saying:

"Authorized" Does Not Mean "Authentic"

Anyone who is familiar with the elements of the higher criticism knows that there are two stories of the Creation and the Fall of Man in the Book of Genesis. The first, or Priestly Account, was written in the fifth century BC, and extends through the beginning of Genesis through verse 3 of chapter 2. The second, or Jehovistic Account, begins with verse 4 of chapter 2, and extends through the third chapter. This version of the story was written in the eighth century BC. It is interesting to note the second narrative is about three-hundred years older than the first.

In the Priestly Version: The earth emerges from the waters. it is saturated with moisture
In the Jehovistic Version: The world is at first a dry plain. There was no vegetation, because "the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth."

In the Priestly Version: Birds and beasts are created before man.
In the Jehovistic Version: All fowls of the air are made of the ground.

In the Priestly Version: Man is created in the image of God.
In the Jehovistic Version: Man is made out of the dust of the ground. It is only after eating of the forbidden fruit that god said: "Behold, the man is become as one of us."

In the Priestly Version: Man is made Lord of the whole earth.
In the Jehovistic Version: Man is merely placed in the garden to dress it and keep it.

In the Priestly Version: Man and woman are created together, as the closing and completing work of the whole creation.
In the Jehovistic Version: Man is created first, then beasts and birds are, which are named by man. Finally, woman is made out of a the man.

Orthodox Christians claim that both of these stories must be believed, even though they contradict each other at numerous points - John G. Jackson (Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth)

The Wrath of Jehovah

God's Home Before the Creation

Creation of the Light
God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he did not make the light-producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day.

Dividing Light From Darkness

Birth of the Earth

"And the earth was without form, and void" says Genesis 1:2. But we wonder how it can be an earth at all then given the usual and rational meaning of the word void. How can an empty nothing be a something with a name? The Bible is off to a great start.

Vegetables Before Animals

Creating the Sun and Moon
In the Bible we are told by the author that Jehovah created "mornings" and "evenings" before he created the sun. Is this another miracle, or just the product of the reasoning and scientific knowledge of the authors of this garbled travesty, composing centuries later, during the Dark Ages, after Christianity had already come into existence to plague the world?

The Lord's Strange Creation Timetable

God Gets Dog Tired

More Insanity in the Making
Due to the controversy over the idea of a six-day creation, Biblical authorities came forth with a seemingly clever explanation. Without precedence they declared that a Biblical "day" was really a period of a thousand years. This seemed the right amount of time to cover the glitch in understanding. A hundred years might sound too short a time, and a million years was certainly too long in their minds. So, with no more ado, a Biblical "day" became a thousand years. Naturally, by the same logic a Biblical week could then be any amount of millennia, and a Biblical year could be any amount of aeons. All this bunk, when it would have been so simple to just have been given the actual length of time in the first place. But of course, we know that this was the problem. The amount of time to create the creation had to be left vague, since there was no such creation as is stipulated in the Bible. The creation, as mentioned in the Bible, is a creation of imagination for the imagination. There is not a shred of fact in it.

Which Came First?

Creation of Eve

In the first chapter of Genesis we are told that Adam and Eve are created together, at the same time, whereas in the second Chapter Eve is created after Adam. (Perhaps this was an editing error).

Adam's Free Time

No, no one could have remembered the billions of animal names, and we can assume that Adam could not have remembered all the names he came up with for all the world's animals. Perhaps he wrote them down with pen and ink provided by the Lord. Perhaps, he was literate enough to read and write as well as name animals. One thing is for certain, Adam must have had a lot of free time to make this task his priority.

Two Creations
There are two Creation stories in the first book of the Bible. One can be found in Genesis Chapter 1, and the other in Chapter 2. In the first Chapter we read that the animals are created before Adam, and in the second Chapter, they are created afterwards. This is a major contradiction in the very same book, just lines away from each other. If this is the level of accuracy in the Bible, we are in trouble from the start. But then we encounter yet another contradiction. In chapter one we read that the earth is created several days before the firmament (heaven), whereas in the second Chapter of Genesis we read that earth and heaven are created on the same day.

Reason for Adam's Creation
Again, the account is contradictory. Genesis 1 says that Adam was created in gods image, but in Chapter 2 he was made to "till the ground" for there was no one to carry out this function. Pity god did not create an already tilled ground when he fashioned the earth. In the first story, Graves notes that man appears to be godlike, and therefore has dominion over the whole earth, whilst in the second chapter he is now a humble servant made to labor in the gardens of the Lord.

• This contradiction is also found between the various world accounts of man's creation. In our book Atlantis, Alien Visitation and Genetic Manipulation, we consider these contradictory accounts and highlight the alternative story of Adam and Eve and their supposed disobedience and "Fall." We explore the stories that were left out of the bible, in which the Tree was guarded to prevent man eating of the forbidden fruit that would make him into a god, and in which we are given a very different portrayal of the serpent than the one provided in the Bible.

Tree of Life
There were two trees in the garden. They are central characters in the primal drama and yet we are told so little about them. One has been referred to as the "Tree of Life" and the other as the "Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil." These attributions are not explained and we are left to imagine what these trees really are and why they were put, as distractions, before the innocent pair whom god had filled with desire to sin. However, when we do our homework we discover that the Tree was a seminal creation image employed first by the Gaelic Magi in Ireland. From Ireland the symbol of the World Tree was transported to the Teutons and the Norsemen, and from there to other locales. The Tree was a symbol of organic creativity, of the movement and mystery of nature. It was a symbol which stylized the descent of creative energy from the supernal realms to the physical. The World Tree was the reverse of the physical tree. Instead of its life-force coming from the ground upward, the World Tree's vital force descended from on high downward. There were 22 branches on the Tree of Life, though the life-force traveled usually through 9 or 10 main centres or spheres. It was such a known and important leitmotif within the Gnostic and Hermetic Traditions of old, that it turned up in the Book of Genesis which, for all its contortions and unnecessary embellishments, is a replica of the Egyptian (and Irish) Creation Myths.

That little is said of the Tree, except that it is an object of desire and forbidden intent, tells us that little was known of it by the Bible authors who appear to not be personally privy to the depth of the original canon that they were plagiarizing. Wherever else the Tree story appears in the world, it is always in the keeping of envious gods who are afraid that its secrets may be known to the angels and human creatures.

In all these legends the serpent is the guardian of the tree, set there by god to protect it from the curious. In some stories the guardian is a monkey; the monkey being a form of the Egyptian god Thoth. In most cases the forbidden secrets of the Tree are available only to those who have the inherent ability to accept the secret. In the authentic telling of the legend, those without the inherent capacity for an understanding of the secret are neither attracted to the secret nor altered in any way from its proximity. In the tangled re-telling of Genesis, it is clear that the primal parents were being punished not for acting on sinful desires put in them by the Lord himself, but for their free-will, their free choice of action against the Lord's meaningless prohibition.

They are penalized and ruined due to the operation of natural drives. They are disobedient to god but obedient to their own senses, their own heart's desire and their own natural inclinations. Though the serpent has come down to be a symbol of temptation, a proper reading of the drama shows the serpent to be more a symbol of independence and freedom. A slave is slave even if god is his master. And slavery is not spiritual, not in any time or in any place. Disobedience can only occur if one has to rebel against something that restrains. And such rebellion is a good and necessary thing. God does not reward man for his natural disobedience, but the serpent does. Man is bestowed total comprehension when he eats of the tree. He does have his eyes opened, and does not die, as Jehovah said he would. The serpent's word is more true than god's word. Adam becomes a god in his own right, and this is surely what compromises the god of the Old Testament. It is that Adam becomes his own authority that rankles the orthodox status quo. And this self-dependence is as taboo now as it was then. Sadly, most men have subconsciously accepted the Orwellian programming of "Obey and be Free!" Some few, however, know this Double-Speak to be the monstrous psychic tyranny it always has been.

Adam Tormented
Adam was told that he would suffer death if he ate of the forbidden fruit. But as Graves relates, how would Adam have known or have feared the nature of the threat since he had never seen anything dead. And we can also question why Adam would have feared death if, as we are told, he was meant to be made in the image of god. Did our progenitor fear as we fear? Was his mind, even at that early time, filled with anxiety and foreboding?

The "God" spoken of in the Book of Genesis, and throughout the Christian scriptures, is, psychologically speaking, a projection of the human ego, which came into being 13,500 years ago in order to offset the complete psychic breakdown of survivors of the great earth cataclysms and upheavals that are now known to have wrought havoc throughout the globe at that time. This "god" is an extension of the human drive or will to exist and is phylogenetically very young. It acts like a child and is patently animistic and violent. Like William Blake's devilish Orc, the ego was born in flames. Man could not have survived without the advent of the ego which, like a muscle, saved human consciousness from complete traumatic overload. However, since the ego was born from trauma of unimaginable magnitude, its drives are "spastic" and overly sensitized to threat. Should a threat appear from outside, the ego reacts with flight or fight tendencies. It does this on the personal level, and also on the Collective level. The scriptures make a great deal more sense when it is understood how god is made in man's image. Man (Adam) has indeed been tormented by the god that saved him from annihilation. This "god" energy functions best under pressure of trauma, and this is why our world and our thinking is so beset. Silence, calm, peace and respite are not conducive criteria for the existence of the ego - the vengeful, brooding god who hides in plain sight.

Uniqueness of Jehovah
There is nothing very unique about Yahweh, as Massey, Kuhn, Graves and others have shown. He was not the only god of the Israelites and his name can be found in earlier times among differing peoples, later falsely purported to be the Israelites of the Old Testament. Moreover, every epithet given to Jehovah ("lord of heaven," "the most high," etc,) were used time and time again for Marduk, Baal, and other gods and deities of the ancient world. If Jehovah was so unique, why did his followers not come up with brand-new epithets? Why borrow from nations thought pagan and infidel? No, facts are facts; there is nothing unique or holy about the Jehovah of the Bible.

Nature of Jehovah

Jehovah's Anger
Man's god is nothing but a projection of his own ego-consciousness. Many are the proofs for this psychologically legitimate assertion. But one of the best proofs concerns the "all too human" traits of Jehovah.

A Few Excerpts:

The Lord is a man of war - (Exodus 15:3)
 

Behold, the Lord rideth on a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it. And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor...And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof - (Isaiah 19)

 

You will recompense them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands. You will give them hardness of heart, Your curse will be on them. You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the LORD! - (Lamentations 3)

 

God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies - (Nahum 1:2)

 

Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him – (Nahum 1:6)

 

Let the saints rejoice in this honor and sing for joy on their beds. May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands, to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles with shackles of iron – (Psalms 149:5)

 

Great is the LORD's anger that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book - (2 Kings 22:13)

 

See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire - (Isaiah 30:27)
 

Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God - (Exodus 34:14)
 

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD Almighty, in the day of his burning anger - (Isaiah 13:13)
 

If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me. I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges on the enemy - (Deut 33:42-43)
 

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. I will heap mischiefs on them; I will spend my arrows on them. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts on them, with the poison of serpents of the dust – (Deuteronomy 32:21-24)
 

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good - (Jeremiah 18:11)

First Act of Genocide and Mayhem

God creates man and then laments that he has created such a wayward and evil thing. He first declares his world "good" but then, strangely, finds it so full of flaws, so full of evil, that he decides to eradicate the whole of his creation. He is full of remorse for creating man, but after he wipes out all creation, he is remorseful about that also, and promises never to do such a thing again (Gen 9). So Jehovah's response to evil in the world, is to commit an act of global genocide. We can only wonder at these accounts, and surmise that what god really objected to was not Adam and Eve's natures, but their lack of obedience. Was it the free-will exercised by the primal parents that so infuriated the Lord? Obedience is after all considered the foremost virtue in the Bible. And the opposite of obedience to authority is free will. Is this the reason for the wrath in the Book of Genesis? It certainly seems to be so.

The Deluge (Flood)
The story of an Ark, a Flood and of the world's destruction did not originate with the Bible's version. In fact, the story of Noah is quite a late rendition. Thousands of years before, the Irish Nuah or Nuada, brought his people to safety on Ireland's shores in long boats constructed to weather the destruction of Atlantis and the lost continents of old. All of the great nations had stories of a great flood and of the few survivors. The Persians and Chaldeans had their survivor Xisuthra, who was warned by god in a dream, and who was told to save his wife and daughter and every pair of animals in the world from the coming destruction by rain. The Greeks had their Deucalion whose story is almost identical. The Chinese have their Fohi, the Brahmins their Manu, and the Hindus their Satravarata. One legend the world over.

The Building of the Ark
God then goes to a drunkard ("man just and perfect") called Noah, and tells him to ensure his own family's survival by building a peculiar vessel that would ride out the cataclysms that the Lord was about to visit on the whole earth. Into this vessel two of every animal on the earth was to be loaded with enough food for its survival. This strange craft is 550 feet and has one small window of 18 square inches. Every animal that "creepeth" on the earth are gathered, and they embark in the ark in one day.

Noah's Character

A Very Full Ark

And, of course, the list of ark inhabitants goes on considerably. There would have been otters, and kingfishers and storks, 900 species of fly-catchers and all manner of insects for them to feed on throughout the day and night, owls with field-mice to feast on, ant-eaters with millions of ants to satiate them, 442 species of monkeys requiring fresh fruit, millipedes, fleas, lice and cockroaches, etc,

God's Trouble-Making Serpent

Crazy Story of Cain

And we note also that Cain did not require any "serpent" to spur him to his murderous deed. So, was his action prompted by his own nature given him by god? Nowhere does it say otherwise. In this case, we have human beings whose malefic actions are not prompted by any external agency. How is this to be explained away?

Crazy Story of Moses
The story of the birth of Moses is a direct copy of that of Sargon the great Babylonian King. But if it were true, this is what we are being told:

The Pharaoh becomes hostile to half-Israelites like Moses' mother. He orders that all Israelite children should be killed at birth. We are not told the reason for this decision. The mid-wives disobey the Pharaoh, saying that the Israelite women give birth so fast and lively that they get their too late to do any killing (see Exodus1:22). Moses therefore survives, and his hidden by his mother. After a period of three months she strangely changes her mind about hiding him, and places him in a basket and sets him onto the river Nile, within shot of the Pharaohs palace. She comes so close to the palace that an un-named Pharaoh's daughter espies the basket as it is travels through the reeds. We are not told why a loving mother who has been hiding her child from death, should suddenly decide to put her child onto the river for the crocodiles to eat. After the Pharaoh's daughter has her servants retrieve the basket, she falls in love with the foreign child and decides to take for herself. The fact that it was totally against the law for any unmarried Pharaoh's daughter to adopt a foreign child does not seem to worry this author, who penned this preposterous story centuries after the time it was said to have occurred. Nevertheless, the next amazing thing that happens concerns the immediate appearance of Miriam, the sister of Moses, who happened to be in the area watching what was happening. Now, seemingly with no care for her own security, she appears to the Pharaoh's daughter to ask her whether she needs a maid to look after the child she has just that moment found among the bulrushes. The Pharaoh's daughter decides that it would be a good idea to get a maid to look after the child, and Miriam suggests that she has the perfect care-giver - the original mother of Moses. She deceives the Pharaoh's daughter who, unwittingly, entrusts her son adopted infant back into the care of the real mother. We are not told why, at this point, the Israelite child is still not in mortal danger that was, after all, the reason for casting him out onto the river. We are never told why the son of Asiatic shepherds would be a threat to the King of Egypt, why his daughter would go against sacred law, or why she would not have care-givers of her own for her child. We are not told why Moses' mother was so close to the Pharaoh's palace, or why Miriam the strange sister should suddenly just appear at the right moment and be able to approach the bathing Pharaoh's daughter, who seems to be hanging around the banks of the Nile to wash herself, in public, as it seems.

Moses, Greatest Writer Ever

Death of Aaron, Brother of Moses

Facts on the Exodus
Chapter 47 of the Book of Genesis, we read that Joseph was given the right by Pharaoh to bring his father and brothers into Egypt, to live in the area known as Goshen. It is from this event that the Israelites begin their stay in Egypt. God declares that his people will spend 400 years in Egypt as slaves (Gen. 15:13). However, in the same book, we have another figure given for the years of slavery. In Exodus 12:14, we read that the period of enslavement was 430 years.

The Red Sea Story
The Israelites come to an impassable sea. God causes a great wind to descend that is so strong it parts the waters pushing them back for a time, allowing the Israelites to cross. Of course we are not told how the Israelites could cross the Red Sea in such a wind, one so powerful as to push back millions of gallons of water. One would think that this wind would be more of a deterrent than the waters themselves.

Jehovah Captured
We are told, in the early books of the Bible, that Jehovah was contained in the Ark of the Covenant and carried around by the Israelites. He was carried by David into war against the Philistines who were winning many victories against the Lord's "Chosen People." Nevertheless, the Philistines slew 30,000 Israelites, captured the Ark with the Lord Jehovah inside, and took it with them as booty. After many decades, the Philistines decided they could not use the Ark and gave it back to the Israelites. As it was being driven home by two cows, it nearly fell off a cliff (Exodus 20:4). A character called Uzzah, seeing that it was about to topple from the road, stretched out his hand to save the cart. He was thanked by being destroyed by the Lord. When the Ark was passing through the city of Bethshemesh, the Lord killed 50,000 people just because two curious citizens had looked upon the Ark.

We must ask how it is that God can be carried round in a box, and then be captured by enemies who then, later, return God to their enemies. We can ask but we can be sure to receive few rational answers. We might also want to avoid the histories that clearly refer to, and even depict, the Hindu Ark and the Egyptian Ark that were also carried aloft by the priests and that operated miraculously.

Daniel, Reader of Dreams
We are told that Daniel was brought before the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar to interpret his dreams. We are not told why Daniel could do what all the Babylonian Magi could not do for their king. Nevertheless, we also find that the king had even forgotten his dream completely. Daniel had to remind the king what his dream had been, before he set to interpreting it. This seems a very convenient set up, making the miraculous prophecy about as convincing as any stage conjurors legerdemain.

Prophecy and Magic
Prophecy, Magic, Astrology, and Divination are said to be taboo and are frowned upon by God. However, the Bible itself is packed with prophecy. Is not the whole Book of Revelation, one long prophecy? And in Matthew 1-2, is not the angel who visited the "virgin" Mary, not making a direct prophecy when he says that a child, a savior, will be born unto her? Did not Jesus prophesize when he told his disciples that he would "come again?" Did not John the Baptist not prophesize that one would come who was "greater" than he? Additionally, did not Jesus prophesize the falling of the temple, the betrayals of Peter and Judas, and did not the "three wise men" know about the birth of Jesus through prophecy? Are not the births of Samson, John the Baptist, and Jesus miraculous. Do Aaron and Moses not engage in magical practices when they do the "rod and snake" trick in front of Pharaoh and his priests? Yes, prophecy and magic is all through the Bible, executed by those who are meant to be the elites among Biblical dramatis personae. Yet, the church forbids believers to empower themselves by Divination. What a mockery! What hypocrisy!

One Tongue, or Many?

Joshua Stops the Sun

The Miracles of the Bible

The Great Exodus of the Chosen

Amazing Increase of the Israelite Race

Yes, an amazing increase indeed. But this kind of account shows us not only how loosely numbers were thrown around, but how ignorant the writers of the spurious accounts were in regards simple mathematics and geography. This kind of account adds credence to those scholars who believe the Israelites to have never existed. The various accounts were hurriedly compiled centuries after the events related were said to have occurred. And we can now go so far as to doubt the events themselves, as well as doubt the idiotic accounts that millions still believe have historical veracity. There is no veracity to an Israelite tribe, for as Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Conor MacDari and Kersey Graves have shown, the original "Hebrews" were Celtic Magi from Ireland and not a race of people from the Middle East. (See Astro Pages 2 and 4). Lately, the question of the veracity of the Israelites has been highlighted by investigators such as Moustafa Gadalla, Ahmed Osman and Ralph Ellis. These investigators find consensus in one particular area, that concerning the lack of historical veracity of Bible's accounts. Though their theories differ from one another they each make better sense than anything afforded us by clerics and Biblical advocates down through the millennia.

Second Passover Feeding Frenzy
When Moses and the so-called "Children of Israel" were in the desert for forty years, Moses was required to provide for their needs. This was especially the case during the festivals of Passover, that commemorated the release from Egyptian bondage.

Israelites Massacre and Rape Midianites

Castrating their Enemies

Warm, Compassionate Phinehas

Stoning Rebellious Children

Israelites, Useless Builders

Compare this with the Egyptian people who could have build a few cities in this time period. The Egyptians are known to have moved entire massive temples a few centimeters in order to maintain their astronomical alignments. Certain temples in Egypt and in Greece are known to have been taken down and moved ever so lightly and then re-constructed from the ground up; and some of these sites had foundation layers made of such massive and heavy blocks that it is a total mystery as to how the re-alignments were made. The famous Phoenician constructed "Baalbeck Stone," in the Lebanon, weighs1000 tons and was originally upright.

Other Gods, Worthier of Worship
We have the prophets themselves giving credence to the existence of other gods. We do not need to look further than the scriptures and Gospels themselves to find proof that other gods exist other than the jealous god Jehovah. Does not the Jethro say: Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all Gods. (See Exod18:11)

Preferential Conspiring Yahweh
It appears very clear that this Biblical Yahweh is a god only for the Judites, the "Chosen Ones." He is not a god of all. His to be prophet Moses is chosen even though he is a murderer. We are told that he murdered an Egyptian soldier who was beating a "Hebrew." Because of his violent, reckless and immoral deed, Moses was on the run from the Pharaoh who, it seems, personally wanted to kill him. It is during his flight that he comes upon the burning bush and becomes the savior of the "enslaved." Strangely, Moses has to ask who this god is who is addressing him, since he has no idea who Yahweh is. One would think that a Jew about to be exalted by god, and one of the "Chosen People," would know who his own god was. But what of the murdered Egyptian? Was he not a human being and one of God's Chosen? Why is Moses not penalized or sent to Purgatory or Hell? Why is he let off the hook? If all life is sacred and if the high ethics of Judaism are truly non-negotiable then how come we hear nothing more about Moses' murderous deeds, and the after-affects. How is it that we hear no remonstration from Yahweh about the slaughter of the Philistines, Amelikites, Midianites, or Canaanites, or the dead first-born among the Egyptians? No, we hear of no lament, sorrow, or remonstration from this merciless god. On the contrary, it is this demonic "god," this fuming, tyrannical, sadistic, megalomaniacal Yahweh, who orders all these atrocities to occur. He punishes his servants for not obeying his cruel commands.

Nature of the "Chosen People"
From a cool-headed observation of the accounts that give insight into the behavior of the Jewish "Chosen Ones," we can see just how primitive they were. Their behavior leads us to believe, along with the most astute investigators, that they were indeed uncivilized wanderers without their own settlements, homes, or cities. Their behavior and habits towards nature, animals, and diet, toward their own king, toward children, women and foreigners, openly betrays this fact. The behavior of the Jews which caused antipathy even among their own "Prophets" reveals that they knew nothing of the customs and morals that were known to civilized city peoples. When we compare this stock to the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Celts, Romans, Chaldeans, Gauls, Goths, Teutons, and Etruscans, to the Brahmins and Chinese and even to the Native American Indians, we get a clear picture of the kind of people we are told to believe were Yahweh's "Chosen." Their own King David declared: There is none righteous: no, not one. Jesus called them: A generation of vipers.

Their own prophet Isaiah (who himself traveled through Egypt and Ethiopia stark naked, see Isaiah 20:3), says of his own people:

Biblical scholar Rev. Hilliard said of them:

And most of these testimonials come from their own prophets and supportive biographers. We can see that they were not worthy of much praise, but they could certainly be useful to the Church later formed in their name, a church that could plant upon them names and titles that did not belong there; a church that could fix upon such rootless people a sublime religion originating elsewhere, in the far western hemisphere of the world. We can empty our finest mansions and sell off the furniture to later find it in the slums of vagabonds and derelicts. The specimen who finds it hard to sit upon a Louis XIV chair is hardly the same specimen who made it. And yet this is akin to that which we are meant to ingest by the Judeo-Christian hoaxers, in regards matters of Biblical history. From all that we read from such sources, it appears sensible to agree with Graves when he summarizes the dilemma:

We might add, in light of these revelations, how unlikely it is that this nation of Jews spent any time in Egypt. It is less likely that they, as scholars like Ralph Ellis insist, were Pharaohs in the land of Egypt. This supposition hardly gels well with the facts regarding their despicable moral and physical nature. At least we must remain suspicious of any modern investigator who insists that the Israelites were elites in Egyptian society. This thesis is getting more and more acceptance of late, and comes to us with its own inconsistencies and errors. (These matters will be dealt with in other works by this author).

Did They Even Exist?
It is not hard to build a case for the non-existence of the so-called Israelite race. And it is even less difficult to build a case for their depravity, given that they did exist. If we are looking for evidence showing how primitive, superstitious, lawless, moral-less, covetous, genocidal, murderous, and maniacal was this tribe, we need look only to their own works and to the accounts of historians who wrote about them. Only a depraved soul can imagine or consider that these entities are identical with the Arch-Magi of Egypt and Ireland, or are the same persons as those who preserved the secrets of the cosmos, the religious elite of ancient times who lived in harmony with flora and fauna and who practiced the highest and noblest sciences. The entities spoken of in these Biblical chapters are hardly identical with those who were in the habit of musing on the deepest matters of philosophy and metaphysics. That millions in the world have convinced themselves otherwise is not strange to us when we realize from what churches and colleges they have received their "knowledge" of history. What kind of minds would be drawn to revere such a perverse god? Clearly, it is similarly depraved souls that seek to identify with the personalities of Christianity’s gruesome scriptures. Although most people will not consciously condone the accounts of blood-lust and vengeance, etc, we cannot avoid suspecting the presence of unconscious drives that find attraction to such deeds. Indoctrination aside, we must ask what other reason could there be that would make any man or woman humble their dignity before a Church and a book built on such perfidy? We might be astonished at the answer.

Character of Abraham

Abraham - Liar Extraordinaire
When Abraham and Sarah, having traveled something like 700 miles across Canaan, get to Egypt the very first thing that they do is lie to the ruling Pharaoh. In the preposterous concocted story Abraham appears a deceiver of great proportion and anything but a man of god. He lies to Pharaoh and makes Sarah out to be his sister rather than his wife. The Pharaoh then marries Sarah and only complains when great plagues fall upon Egypt. Pharaoh suspects something is wrong, that he has offended the gods, and confronts Abraham who then admits that he deceived the king. Now, this is the first crime perpetuated the Bible (after Adam's sin) and suggestively, as we can see, it is perpetrated upon the Jews but committed by one of them. Abraham does the lying and deceiving, not the Egyptian Pharaoh. This cheater made himself fat and rich, and was awarded status and protection in Egypt because of his cunning. What kind of man would do this kind of thing without remorse or hesitation? It is more than suggestive, therefore, that the first son born of the primal parents, Cain, should turn out to be a murderer and that the first Patriarch of the Jews should be a immoral, cunning, lying, reckless, and self-aggrandizing criminal. (See Genesis 12:18, for the Biblical account).

Abraham Sacrificing His Son
Whether it was his actual first-born son, or just that one born from a lesser wife, it appears an that Abraham is all to willing to submit to the depraved will of his Lord, and does not stand and question why this deed should need to be done. Again, we find that obedience is what turns the Lord on, not free-will or independence. And why would an all-knowing god need to check the faith of one of his mortal servants. Does this not imply ignorance on the part of the Lord concerning the actions of his creations. "Now I know that thou fearest god," says Jehovah to Abraham, after the wicked experiment is concluded.

Laban, Master of Treachery and Deceit
Jacob has to hide out from the wrath of his brother Esau, and does so far away from home. He visits his strange and possibly insane uncle Laban, and meets his future wife Rachel there. However, his ungracious uncle makes Jacob jump through some major hoops in order to win his daughter.

Obviously, this story has not a modicum of truth. Still, it is believed by millions of people and millions of scholars and experts. The fact that there is not a iota of sense, logic or plausibility in it, has not troubled those who have lives without sense, logic, or plausibility. "You are what you eat," goes the saying. "You are what you believe" can be its substitute.

David - The Despot, Ingrate, Seducer, and Mass Murderer
It's a case of will the real David please stand up. We don't have one David but two. We don't have one time period in which he lived but two, and they are 500 years apart.

David - The Old Lecher and Seducer
The Book of Kings opens with a remarkable scene. Remarkable for its pornographic features that is:

David - The Rapist
David and his armies are fighting at Jerusalem. David spots the lovely Bathsheba, the wife of one of his chief warriors, a Hittite called Uriah. Behind Uriah's back, this great king, gets his guards to bring Bathsheba, another man's wife, to him so he can seduce her. Bathsheba becomes pregnant as a result of David's fornicating attentions. David then has his guards position Uriah in the front of the battle so that he might be slain. In the Book of Samuel, we read:

What a decent, loving, god-inspired king, was the good David. A man who sends his great allies to be slaughtered by enemies after raping their wives. And many a modern writer (Gadalla, Osman, Ellis, Gardner, etc,) speculate that this David was the same personage as the great Egyptian Pharaoh Tuthmosis III, grand warrior king of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Are we to believe that the greatest Pharaohs of Egypt acted in such a despicable manner? It seems so. David could not murder Uriah at Jerusalem because the soldier did not want to remain in comfort while his troops were suffering hardship in the fields of battle. This is why David had him positioned at the most dangerous locales of the battle instead. Here we see the brutal conniving character of the "chosen" ones of Yahweh, a brutal and conniving god.

David and Goliath
In fact, like the vast majority of the Bible's hodgepodge, the David and Goliath tale was a blatant plagiarism. It was taken from an Egyptian tale, very well known in antiquity, entitled The Autobiography of Sinuhe, which spoke of deeds that occurred thousands of years in the past. It is Sinuhe, not David, who travels and does battle with a strange giant. But the Israelite scribes of later ages believed that few would remember the Egyptian original, and did not mind re-scripting the tale to aggrandize their own hero. No matter that it was among the favorite morality tales of the Egyptians for millennia. So, in light of this, if we take away the stories of the "biographical" David, we are not left with much of a biography. No, we are not left with a David. And the same rule applies across the board, when it comes to the dramatis personae of the Bible.

Fictional or biographical, there is barely a thing that this Judaic David did that was not immoral in the extreme. But we are not given these stories in Sunday School. We hear the edited accounts, that suit the fiction being manufactured for our sullied palates.

The Character of Solomon

Character of Elisha

Character of Jael, Wife of Heber

Character of Constantine - God's Prime Minister

Today such a god would be declared a fascist, or a racist, or a bigot, and would be considered a pariah. But in the world of the Israelites, such a god was worthy of veneration. We can add here, that these stipulations against physical imperfection would be explainable if the god in question was physical in nature, and was involved in some kind of genetic experimentation. For those who think this statement to be contentious and preposterous, we can only repeat Conan Doyle's motto: When one has excluded the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Character of Paul
It would take a volume to elucidate the perfidy of the nature of this creator of the Cult of Jesus.

Jehovah Punishes the Egyptians
Among the vast index of crimes of this depraved god, the one which stands out concerns the treatment of the Egyptian people during the time of the Exodus. We are told that Jehovah needs Moses to secure the release of the "Chosen People," but that he "hardens Pharaoh's heart" in order to prevent their easy release. He also reins down all manner of plagues upon the innocent, slaying thousands who could not in any way be implicated in any crime against the Israelites.

Egypt Flooded
Egypt Flooded Genesis 7:20 tells us that the waters rose 60 feet above the mountain tops, with some of the mountains being over 6 miles high. The waters covered Egypt six miles deep. This is told to us, even though there is not enough water on earth to accomplish this, and even if it did exist, it would have taken Egypt, along with the rest of the world, centuries to recover.

• This was an event that occurred, but the story-tellers did not know this.

Love Thy Neighbor

Cain murdered his brother Abel; David killed Uriah; Judith cut off the head of Holofernes while in bed with him; Jeholada, the priest, murdered his queen; Jael murdered Sisera by driving nail through his head as he slept; Ehud murdered the king of Eglon under the guise of friendship; Absalom murdered Ammon; Joab murdered Absalom; Solomon murdered his brother Adonijah; Baasha murdered Nadab, Zimri murdered Elah, Omri murdered Zimri, Ahab murdered Naboth; Jehu murdered Ahab and Joram; Shallum murdered Zachariah, Hoshea murdered Pekah, the 11 sons of Jacob attempt to murder their brother Joseph, Judas sells out Jesus to his enemies for profit. 30,000 Midianites were slaughtered by Moses. Philistines were massacred by David. The list goes on...

God's Preferences and Prejudices
The god of love and mercy delivers to his prophet Moses injunctions against who can be accepted in his presence. After reading through the criteria for entry into gods presence we might wonder how a Socrates, with his deranged features, would have faired. Like poor blind Homer, he would have been debarred from the temple of Jehovah on account of his unseemly appearance.

Miracles of the Lord's Prophets

Right! This is the precise truth and main point. The idea of these fiction-weavers was to do just that, to outshine the other heathen religions of the world, which meant attempting to beat them at their own game. Certainly, this desire is a far cry from the attempt to convert sane people by sane means of philosophy and reasoning. So, lets admit this and have done with the ambiguity. Lets take these scriptures for the cartoons they are and waste no more energy searching for their redeeming qualities. Are there not other works in this world from the minds of excellent savants, free-thinkers, critics, poets and visionaries, that are worth our time and consideration. Naturally, the answer is in the affirmative. So, why do we not pay them heed and cleave so ardently to the Bible and its spurious fables? We cannot hope to answer such a question without the most inquiring investigation into the psyche of human beings. We would have to spend our time delving into hidden impulses and motives, into the fundamental emotional drives of human beings, and would have to investigate the hemispheres of the human personality, and become acquainted with the manifold compulsions and complexes of the unconscious mind. We would, after such an in-depth investigation, understand man to be a rather existentially frail and fragile creature, full of fear and anxiety, divorced from his center, outer-directed and raging within from all manner of unfulfilled fantasies and desires. We would find him to be the victim of sadism toward himself, and would conclude that his hatred of his own self leads him to perpetrate untold cruelty toward others. We would see that he is not whole within, and that his ego cannot stand aloneness or silence. We would discover that the modern mind is still plagued with ancient fears, and that its morality is but a veneer, a compromise struck with the equally immoral world in which it must exist. We would then understand why such an unhygienic psyche would be attracted to the God of Christianity, and to the lifestyle that comes pre-packaged to him from the authorities who regard him with contempt. Yes, lacking in internal authority, our human creature turns to external representatives to be guided and directed, and also to be chastised for his moral misdemeanors. All the while, the infirm soul does not realize that the god he worships is nothing more or less than a projection of his own diseased consciousness, with all the inflated proclivities that he himself has festering within his being. Out of such a psychic miasma, man crawls forth eagerly toward the priest and the "theology" that tells him how a good god lies behind his every good deed, and how a devil hides behind his every evil deed. "Hallelujah! - peace at last!" cries our good Christian, "all is explained!"

Question of "Graven Images"
There is no greater sin for Christians than idolatry. It is considered worse than murder in the Bible. So important was it that the prohibition, that is found in the Ten Commandments, can be found before that which says "Thou Shalt Not Kill." For all the rhetoric, there is not much sanity in the prohibition.

So, we see the problem in a rational light and uncover yet more insanity in the Christian world. Yet, we must still seek an answer for this strange and seemingly idiotic prohibition. We suspect that other gods were not to be depicted, but also that man was not to use his senses, and his imagination. Man was to obey, and labor, not partake in creation of his own. Creativity was for the pagans. The Christian was not to produce artwork, was not to carve, paint, fashion, sculpt, or give physical expression to his thoughts. He was to ever be repressed, inward, stultified, conservative and morose. Let us remember the cost of obedience to this edict. The Christian world is one without Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Dali or Cezanne. Jehovah casts into his hell Van Gogh, Dante Rossetti and William Blake, and all those children who have dared to draw with crayon and paint-box. Still, we know that the Church could not endure without their pictorialization of scripture. They tried it an found out that the human mind did not suffer such a void. So, they were compelled by necessity to revive and endorse figurative representation. Suddenly, we have the bearded and non-bearded Jesus, and Mary the Madonna; and the disciples at the table of the Last Supper, and pictures of every event in the Bible. We have the medieval painters, the Renaissance Masters, and finally the epic movie-makers such as Cecil B. DeMille - idolaters all, but with sanction from the Pope.

We might muse that Christians are the greatest idolaters of all, since unlike the Jews they worship three gods instead of one: The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are idolatrous in their open veneration of a physical book, namely the Bible itself. Is it not a physical item that has commanded worship, in the selfsame manner as any pagan statue or site?

The Book of Nature
Would man not naturally learn all that he was meant to learn from a natural impulse to do so? Would he not strive to question the meaning of life, even if a holy book did not exist purporting to have all his answers? Are we to believe that without the Bible, man is worse off in his intellectual development? Clearly, a rational person can see that man would be far better off without such a book. But those who refute this point are those who believe that man, left to his own nature, is an ignorant, recalcitrant primitive who can never aspire to morality or sanctity of his own nature. Those who believe this consider Nature herself to be a sorry teacher, unimpressive and dismal enough to never inspire man to wonder and awe. How pessimistic and bleak is this philosophy?

Additionally, are the Jew and the Christian the only ones who are, by way of their supposed divine privilege, capable of creating works of meaning to stir the heart, and mind, and to inspire the world? The Bible would suggest yes, whereas sanity and reason suggests no. The Egyptian's were not Christians, as we would recognize in today's world, yet they surpassed every other nation in craft. Atheists and agnostics have composed the world's finest poetry (Shelley, Swinburne, Rimbaud, Blake, Larkin, Pound, Baudelaire, Lord Byron and Wordsworth, etc), the most philosophical and moving plays and novels (D. H. Lawrence, Emily Bronte, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Ibsen, etc), the world's greatest symphonies (Beethoven, Mahler), the loveliest canvases and sculpture (Van Gogh, Dali, Matisse, Cocteau, Gauguin, Pisarro, Rodin, etc), and the deepest humanistic philosophy (Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Hume, Kant, Avicenna, and Rousseau, etc). Have the Moslems and Moghuls not produced works of art, poetry and philosophy to rival and even far surpass the Jew or Christian? Where the Moors not the ones preserving the works of the Classical Age, and where they not the ones erecting the first modern universities of Persia (Gundishapur) and of Spain (Cordova, Bologna and Seville?). Are we to mock with bigotry the exquisite creativity of Hafiz, Jalaluddin Rumi, Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rabindranath Tagore, Shams-i-Tabriz, Kabir, and Bulleh Shah, or defame Chuang Tzu, Lao Tsu, Tu Fu, and Confucius, because they were not prostrate before the altar of Jehovah?

Alternatively, there are Christians who have brought terror, mayhem and calamity to the world, who have massacred whole tribal groups and indigenous nations, and who have tortured their victims in blood-soaked dungeons, who have slaughtered women, men and children in the name of their lord, and who wage war the world over. So, let us dispense with reverence for those who wave Bibles at us, as if theirs was the whole truth and only beauty.

The Cult of Forgiveness
This one should have gone the way of Indulgences. Put before us as a great Christian virtue, forgiveness has within it hidden dangers not addressed in the holy, holy scriptures. It is not the great and honorable thing that it appears to be. To forgive is to harm oneself, and to go against the dictates of reason. A man cannot forgive another, and it is not his province to do so. He can only forgive himself within his own heart. Waiting for others to forgive us is a form of slavery to the emotions of others, one from which we may never be freed. Moreover, as Graves warns us, it spurs man on to even more injustice. In short, the only persons interested in the potentials of forgiveness, are those given to excessive sin, such as those wearing the robes and crowns, holding the keys to the seminaries and churches of the world.

Jehovah - The Author of Evil

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good - (Jeremiah 18:11)

Passages exist in the Bible proving that Jehovah is the sole author of the evil in the world. For instance, in Isaiah 45:7, God says "I create evil." And in Amos 3:6, Amos is asked "Shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it." And in Jeremiah 18:11, we read: "I frame evil against you."

When Was Jesus Born?

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Major Biblical Contradictions

In this section we present a short list of major Biblical contradictions noticed by scholar Kersey Graves, and delineated in his book Bible of Bibles. The interested reader is directed to this fine work, as well as to the previously penned The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors.

We go to this labor willingly since we cannot hesitate to warn our readers concerning the Bible's outrageously contorted philosophy. This is, after all, a book in which we find mornings and evenings created before the sun, in which sons are two years older than the fathers who give them birth (see Chron 21:20), in which asses can talk and prophesize, and in which god hires his enemy Satan to tempt and then torment the most devoted amongst his believers. It is a book in which the "biographers" of Jesus cannot even agree as to the time of his crucifixion, at which they were present. In short, we need not bother ourselves separating "sheep from goats," just the rational from the irrational. Such a distinction is necessary in this world since it appears that many of the latter sort command the ships of state and hold high office in the lands and since, even in our midst, we must encounter proselytizers, advocates and adherents of this garbled oriental lore that commands so much allegiance and veneration. Indeed, we can declare the Bible to be one of the most useful books in the world, given that it provides us an excellent gauge separating, not believers from unbelievers, but the sane from the unsane.

Does God Ever Tempt?
Neither tempteth he any man (Jas 1:13)
And God did tempt Abraham (Gen 22:1)

Can God be Tempted?
God cannot be tempted (Jas 1:13)
They have tempted me, the Lord, ten times (Num 14:22)

How Many Gods Are There?
The Lord our God is one Lord (Deut 6:4)
Let us make man in our image (Gen 1:26)
There are three that bear record in heaven, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (1 John 5:7)

Is God Subject to Change?
There is no variableness, neither shadow of turning; I change not. (Mal 3:8)
And the Lord repenteth of the evil he said he would inflict...(John 3:10)

Is God Merciful?
The Lord is pitiful, and full of mercy (Jas:11)
His tender mercies are over all his works (Psalms)
I will pity not nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy (Jer 13:14)
Have no pity on them, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling (Sam 15:2)

Is God's Anger Perpetual?
His anger endureth but a moment (Psa 30:5)
Mine anger shall burn forever (Jer 27:4)

Has Man Seen God?
No man hath seen god at any time (John 1:18)
I have seen god face to face, and my life has been preserved (Gen 32:30)

Did Moses See God?
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold (Numbers 12:8)
And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend (Exodus 33:11)
And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live (Exodus 33:20)

Does God dwell in Temples?
I have chosen this (Solomon's) Temple for a house (2 Chron 8:16)
The most high dwelleth not in temples made by hands (Acts 27:24)

Does God Wish for Animal Sacrifices?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet to me (Jer 6:20)
Burnt sacrifices are sweet unto the Lord (Lev 1:9)

Is it Right to Lie?
All liars are to be punished with fire and brimestone (Rev 21:8)
Go put a lying spirit into all the mouths of the prophets (1 Kings 22:21)

What is Clean to Eat?
There is nothing unclean of itself, eat every moving thing (Gen 9:3)
Swine, hares and camels are unclean: ye shall not eat of their flesh (Deut 14:7)

Does God Approve of Marriage?
Marriage is honorable to all (Heb 13:4)
It is good for a man not to touch a woman (1 Cor 7:1)

Should Servants Obey their Masters?
Be ye not the servants of men (1 Cor 7:23)
Servants, obey your masters (Col 3:22)

Is Slavery Right?
Be not called Master...Break every yoke (Isaiah)
Ye shall buy the children of the stranger, and they shall be your possessions (Lev 25:46)

Is Baptism Necessary?
Go ye and teach all nations, baptizing them (Matt 28:19)
Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel (1 Cor 1:17)

Is Idol Worship Correct?
Ye shall make no image of any living thing (Exod 20:77)
Make no likeness of any thing in heaven above or the earth beneath (Exod 20:4)
Moses made an image of a serpent (Num 21:9)
You shall make a likeness of a serpent and a cherubim (Exod 25:18)

Do We Assist Other People?
Bear ye one another's burdens (Gal 6:2)
Every man must bear his own burden (Gal 6:5)

Do We Need to Labor?
Labor not for meat (John 6:27)
He that labors not shall not eat (2 Thess 3:10)

Did Abraham Know His Direction?
He went forth to go into the land of Canaan (Gen 12:5)
He went out, not knowing whither he went (Heb 11:8)

Did Moses Fear the Pharaoh?
Moses fled, fearing Pharaoh (Exod 2:14)
Moses did not fear the Pharaoh ( Heb 11:21)

How Long Were the Pillars of Solomon's Temple?
They were eighteen cubits long (See 1 Kings 7)
They were thirty five cubits long (See 2 Chron 2:15)

Who Came to Worship Baby Jesus?
Wise men from the east (Matt 2:5)
Shepherds from the same country (See Luke 2:3)

When Was Jesus Born?
In the days of Herod (Matthew 2:1)
When Cyrenius was governor of Syria (Luke 2:2)
(A discrepancy of at least 10 years)

At What Hour Was Jesus Crucified?
It was the third hour (See Mark 15:25)
It was the sixth hour (See John 19:14)

Who Bore Jesus' Cross For Him?
Simon of Cyrene (See Matt 27:32)
He bore it himself (John 19:17)

Who Guarded the Empty Tomb?
An angel sitting (Matt 28:1)
A young man (Mark 16:5)
Two men (24:4)
Two angels (John 20:12)

Where Did Jesus Appear After His Resurrection?
At Galilee (Matt 28:9)
At Jerusalem (Luke 24:33)

How Many Times Did Jesus Appear After His Resurrection?
Three times (John)
Six Times (the other Gospels)

From Where Did Christ Ascend?
From Bethany (Luke 24:5)
Mount Olivet (Acts 1:5)

What Did Christ Come For?
To preach glory to god...and on earth peace (Luke 2:13)
I came not to send peace but a sword (Matt 10:34)

Was Christ the Savior?
Christ is the savior of all men (1 Tim 4:10)
Beside me (Jehovah) there is no savior (Isa 13:11)

Was Christ Omnipotent?
I and my father are one (John 10:30)
My father is greater than I (John 14:28)

How Did Judas Die?
He hanged himself (Matt 27:5)
He went out and fell headlong (Acts1:18)

Where Did Christ's Mission Begin?
At Galilee (Acts 10:37)
At Jerusalem (Luke 24:47)

Whom Did Christ Die For?
His enemies (Rev 10)
His friends (John 15:13)

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Problems With Bible Interpretation

There are many reasons why it is difficult to take the Bible's tales and stories as history, or as biography. It is difficult to translate the Bible and it is known that earlier interpreters, scribes, editors and compilers took great liberties with the material at their disposal.

Every personal prejudice was given priority over historical accuracy, and every contortion of original Stellar Theology was given precedence. Every true and accurate reference to the origins of the Christ Story, to the True Natural Religion (of the Egyptians and the Irish Druids) was consciously obscured. But aside from these travesties there are several others to bear in mind. Let us take space to delineate the most obvious and persistent obstacles to interpretation as they affect the Bible and its comprehension, so that we may discover how intricate the web of Christianity is, and why the reason of so many people has become seized, entangled and entrapped in its glimmering but deadly strands.

The Hebrew language does not have clear tenses, and these are almost indecipherable in ancient texts and chronicles. No attempt is made to clearly delineate when an event is meant to have occurred. The most general references and pointers are given most of which turn out, on closer scrutiny, to be wrong. Scholars have difficulty even telling if a thing mentioned, happened in the past. The Book of Isaiah is a clear example of this. As Egyptian scholar and revisionist Ahmed Osman writes: ...whether Isaiah is writing about the past, present, or future depends upon what interpretation the translator put into his words.

Never, in key Old Testament tales, are we given clear references as to which Pharaoh was reigning in Egypt during key events. This persistent omission is a clear indication that the books in question, and the tall tales in them, are compilations of later times. A scribe-historian who actually lived during, or close to, the time when the scripted events were professed to have occurred, would certainly have known the Pharaoh's name and would have stated it with plenty of details about him and his times. This is not too much to ask and is to be expected of any credible historian, of anyone who should be eligible to bear that title. The concoctors of Bible passages are certainly not deserving of the title of "Historian." These same concoctors repeatedly provide excruciating details concerning the most insignificant events and happenings, and labor over meaningless details concerning wells, and trees, and broken down walls, and herds of animals, and all sorts of superfluous nonsense, but pass by the names of reigning pharaohs who are central to their dramas, and who are among the main rivals to the "Chosen People."

There is mention of the work of early historians, such as Manetho and Josephus, and others "historians." Yet we find out, after some study, that we do not possess their original works. We "known of" their works because they were captioned or referenced by later historians that we do know existed. So, it appears that we are to accept the writings of ancient historians because their works are referenced in the works of more recent historians. This is a given in Biblical studies, and the logic of this arbitrary irrational acceptance is rarely questioned. It is unquestioned even when evidence arises that strongly counters centuries of belief, and that disputes the very physical existence of the first breed of historians. However, whether we accept the existence of the early historians or not, we also encounter major problems with their accounts. Some accounts are so preposterous as to not even warrant attention. Others have lapsed from the ranks of credibility as modern science and archaeology expose their innumerable inconsistencies and fallacies.

There are many clearly duplicated stories and accounts throughout the Bible. These are well catalogued. And when they are reviewed objectively they also make us suspicious as to the authenticity of the tale and the credibility of the author.

This leads to yet another important point. We have been conditioned to be inordinately reverent toward the many Bible personalities and toward the supposedly historically existent authors. We are dutifully, but illogically, deferent toward the Jeremiahs, Josephs, Johns, and Jeromes, and the rest of the names and figures sanctified by time. This spontaneous reverence also bends the mind of the student and fogs the perspective. We have handled with kid-gloves that that should have been ditched long ago as utterly worthless.

There are thousands of translations of the single work known as the "Holy Bible." Additionally, it is known and recognized by both Gentile and Hebrew scholars that the first translations of the Bible (primarily the "Septuagint" or first Greek translation), are hopelessly flawed and filled with interpolations and mistranslations, many of which appear to be consciously made. One instance concerns the term "Nazareth." Still, to this day, Jesus is said to have come from Nazareth, as if it were a place. However, at no time, and in no place, is there a record of such a locale. It is known to never have existed. Jesus was a "Nazarene" that is, a member of a hard-line sect of Jews. This discrepancy is common knowledge to most scholars and yet the church-men continue to preach the Nazareth fallacy. There are innumerable other such obvious and pernicious discrepancies.

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http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/index.htm#rc
http://www.cephasministry.com/index_catholic_files.html

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