reason you’ll
see so many
contradictions in the
Bible is because
there are at least
seven different
religions in it fused
together as if they
were one.
Originally there was
no Christian Bible
there was only, the
Hebrew Bible, which
was translated into
Greek (called the
Septuagint) around
the third and second
centuries BCE for Greek
speaking Jews living in
Alexandria, Egypt who could
no longer read Hebrew.
The Septuagint was adopted
by Greek speaking Jewish
Christians living in Egypt and
was later translated into Latin
between 382 and 405 CE..
Pope Damasus commissioned
Jerome (Eusebius Hieronymus)
to translate the New
Testament and the Septuagint
from Greek into Latin. Jerome
used these translations to
create the first official
Christian Bible, the Roman
Catholic, Latin Vulgate.
In the fourth century AD, the
Jewish religion was well
established when orthodox
Roman Catholic Christianity
was created, and
subsequently merged the
Hebrew Bible (called the Old
Testament by Christians) with
the New Testament writings to
provide a historical foundation
for their fledgling religious
cult.
The Jews don't accept the
Christian Bible because the
Roman Catholic Christians
reinterpreted their Hebrew
Bible, to make it support their
view that, Jesus was the
prophesized Messiah to come
or God in the flesh.
That’s how we get the first
two religions fused together in
the bible, as if they were
always one.
But even in the Old Testament
(the Hebrew Bible) there are
two different Gods of two
different religions. One of the
Gods was called El or Elohim
and the other was called Yah
or Yahweh.
El was the God of Israel and
you see El as a part of the
names of all the significant
characters who worshipped El
as their God: Michael, Gabriel,
Daniel, Samuel and even in
the name of the nation, Israel.
Yah or Yahweh was the God of
Judah and you see that in the
names of His worshippers, like
Elijah, Elisha, Nehemiah,
Jeremiah and in the name of
the original Jewish State,
Judah.
You don’t believe there were
two different Gods in the Old
Testament and that the
“Children of Israel” had two
different Gods or don’t want to
believe it?
Well let’s look at Kings 12:21
where it's stated, “And when
Rehoboam was come to
Jerusalem, he assembled all
the house of Judah , with the
tribe of Benjamin, an hundred
and fourscore thousand
chosen men, which were
warriors, to fight against the
house of Israel , to bring the
kingdom again to Rehoboam
the son of Solomon”.
The “Children of Israel” split
into two separate kingdoms:
the Northern Kingdom of the
ten tribes of Israel, named
after their God El and the
Southern kingdom of the
tribes of Judah and Benjamin,
who united to form the
Kingdom of Judah, named
after their God Yah or Yahweh.
Do you believe it now?
When we Add these Gods and
religions together with the
previous two, that makes four
religions in the Bible!
The writer of Exodus tries to
hide the fact that the
“Children of Israel” had two
different Gods with this little
bit of rationalizing;
“And God spake unto Moses,
and said unto him, I am the
LORD: 6: 3 And I appeared
unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and
unto Jacob, by the name of
God Almighty (in Hebrew El
Shaddai), but by my name
YAHWEH was I not known to
them”. Exodus 6:2 (You see…
here God says is Name is El
(God) almighty)
God changed his name?
Well it’s obvious that the
“Children of Israel” had no
knowledge of this God, that's
why the writer is trying to
make it seem as though it's
the same God as the “God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” but
that doesn’t appear to be the
case. But here's the kicker,
“God Almighty” in Hebrew is El
Shaddai. El means God. The
patriarch Jacob's name was
changed to “Israel” because
his God was El. As I mentioned
earlier, the characters in the
Old Testament have the
names of their Gods
incorporated into their
personal names.
The writer of Exodus says God’
name is Yahweh but he's
trying to make it seem as if El
and Yahweh are one and the
same, in an attempt to make it
appear as if the “Children of
Israel” were always one nation
who believed in the same
God!
As if the ‘Children of Israel”
had a long historical
relationship with Yahweh
dating back to Abraham which
they obviously didn't. The
Exodus writer tries to hide
this, making it seem that this
is the same God with a
different name. Remember,
he’s writing years after the
fact (if it is a fact) when the
“Children of Israel” were
divided against each other and
in their choice of Gods; but
let’s move on.
And let’s not forget the fifh
religion in the Bible, the
monotheistic religion of Moses,
who led the “Children of
Israel” out of Egypt.
The reason that Moses had to
wander around the desert for
forty years disciplining the
“Children of Israel” was
because after living in Egypt
for four hundred years, they
were more Egyptian then the
were “ Israelite” and kept
reverting back to their old
Egyptian religious practices.
(They were just as much
Egyptian as African-Americans
are Americans after living in
America for four hundred
years.)
Moses was attempting to
create a new people with a
new identity and a new
religion. The poor guy had to
make numerous laws and
prohibitions against any
behavior, ritual or God, that
was like their former religion.
If you read the story, you’ll
see he had a hell of a time
trying make that happen!
Not to mention that Moses,
himself was, an Egyptian; He
was raised and educated in
the Egyptian royal household
from infancy to adulthood (if
you believe the text).
In fact, the text shows that the
daughters of the priest of
Midian couldn’t tell the
difference between Moses and
an Egyptian.
“And the shepherds came and
drove them away: but Moses
stood up and helped them,
and watered their flock.2:18
And when they came to Reuel
their father, he said, How is it
that you are come so soon to
day? 2:19 And they said, An
Egyptian delivered us out of
the hand of the shepherds,
and also drew water enough
for us, and watered the flock”.
Exodus 2:17
I think that pretty much
stamps him as an Egyptian
don’t you?
The writer of Exodus obviously
wanted to keep Moses
Egyptian identity secret,
because he deleted the first
part of his name and only left
the title, Moses. Moses is
Egyptian for son or heir, as
Ben or Bar is son or heir in
Hebrew.
There were many Egyptian
Pharaohs with Moses as part of
their names. There was
Thotmose, Amonmose,
Ahmose, Ptahmose, Ramose,
(translated Rameses in
English) and others. “The final
S is an addition drawn from
the Greek translation of the
Old Testament (the
Septuagint). It's not in the
Hebrew, which has ‘Mosheh’
instead of Moses”. (Moses and
Monotheism, S. Freud, 1939
Vantage Books.)
Current scholarship supports
the idea that Moses was
actually the heretical,
eighteenth dynasty Egyptian
Pharaoh, Akhenaton, who’s
credited with establishing the
first exclusively monotheistic
religion on record.
The archeological evidence
shows that Akhenaton was an
actual historical person, his
tomb, his city and other
artifacts have been found,
while there is no archeological
evidence to support that
Moses ever existed. (“Out of
Egypt, the roots of Christianity
revealed” Ahmed Osman 1998
Random House. “Moses The
Egyptian” Jan Assman, 1997
Harvard University Press.)
And let’s not forget the sixth
religion in the Bible, the
Christianity of the Apostle,
Paul, who never even met
Jesus (real Jewish name
Yeshua, in English, Joshua) but
is said to have had a visionary
encounter with him on the
road to Damascus.
“And as he journeyed, he
came near Damascus: and
suddenly there shined round
about him a light from heaven:
9:4 And he fell to the earth,
and heard a voice saying unto
him, Saul, Saul, why
persecutest thou me? 9:5 And
he said, Who art thou, Lord?
And the Lord said, I am Jesus
whom thou persecutest: it is
hard for thee to kick against
the pricks. 9:6 And he
trembling and astonished said,
Lord, what wilt thou have me
to do? And the Lord said unto
him, Arise, and go into the
city, and it shall be told thee
what thou must do. 9:7 And
the men which journeyed with
him stood speechless, hearing
a voice, but seeing no man”.
Act 9:3
Paul’s name was Saul before
this experience after which his
name was changed to Paul.
Actually, the text doesn’t say
his name was changed; it just
starts referring to him as Paul
instead of Saul.
So you see, Paul never met
the historical Jesus, so he was
focused on Christ, the spiritual
man, while the disciples
focused on, Jesus, the physical
man.
Paul says the he preached his
version of Christ long before
he met the disciples and that
his testimony of Christ wasn't
received from man,
“But when it pleased God, who
separated me from my
mother's womb, and called me
by his grace,1:16 To reveal his
Son in me, that I might preach
him among the heathen;
immediately I conferred not
with flesh and blood 1:17
Neither went I up to Jerusalem
to them which were apostles
before me; but I went into
Arabia, and returned again
unto Damascus.1:18 Then
after three years I went up to
Jerusalem to see Peter, and
abode with him fifteen days
1:19 But other of the apostles
saw I none, save James the
Lord's brother. 1:20 Now the
things which I write unto you,
behold, before God, I lie not.
1:21 Afterwards I came into
the regions of Syria and
Cilicia” Galatians 1:15
In Galatians 2:20 he further
says,
“I am crucified with Christ:
neverthless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and
the life which I now live in the
flesh I live by the faith of the
Son of God, who loved me,
and gave himself for me.”
Paul says that Christ lives in
him, not Jesus, which would
have been a physical
impossibility; nowhere in the
four gospels do the disciples
ever say that Christ lived in
them. This shows that Paul
and the disciples held
different religious view about
Jesus. Paul's Jesus was
spiritual, as was his
Christianity, where as the
disciples Christianity was
physical (centered on the
historical and physical person
of Jesus).
Even Paul's view of what a Jew
is, is based on a spiritual
rather than physical view,
“ For he is not a Jew, which is
one outwardly; neither is that
circumcision, which is outward
in the flesh: 2:29 But he is a
Jew, which is one inwardly;
and circumcision is that of the
heart, in the spirit, and not in
the letter; whose praise is not
of men, but of God”. Romans
2:28
Inwardly, of the heart, in the
spirit, not in the letter are all
proof positive that Paul’s view
of Christianity is spiritual not
literal. His experience of Jesus
was so different from the
disciples that they agreed that
they would preach their
gospel to the Jews while Paul
would preach his gospel to the
Greco-Roman and non-Jewish
world, collectively referred to
as the Gentiles.
Just to piggyback on this
difference between Paul's and
the disciples’ view.
Their focus was so much on
the resurrection of Jesus’
physical body. The writer of
Luke takes pains to show the
resurrected Jesus was flesh
and bones, and even has him
asking for some meat to eat,
as proof that his dead body
had risen from the grave like a
zombie!
“But they were terrified and
affrighted, and supposed that
they had seen a spirit. 24:38
And he said unto them, Why
are ye troubled? and why do
thoughts arise in your hearts?
24:39 Behold my hands and
my feet, that it is I myself:
handle me, and see; for a
spirit hath not flesh and
bones, as ye see me have.
24:40 And when he had thus
spoken, he shewed them his
hands and his feet. 24:41 And
while they yet believed not for
joy, and wondered, he said
unto them, Have ye here any
meat?24:42 And they gave
him a piece of a broiled fish,
and of an honeycomb. Luke
24:43 And he took it, and did
eat before them”. Luke 24:37
The writer of acts has Jesus
ascending to heaven
physically,
“And when he had spoken
these things, while they
beheld, he was taken up; and
a cloud received him out of
their sight”. Act 1:9
But in Corinthians Paul’s
expounds a more spiritual
view of the resurrection,
The first man is of the earth,
earthy; the second man is the
Lord from heaven. 15:48 As is
the earthy, such are they also
that are earthy: and as is the
heavenly, such are they also
that are heavenly. 15:49 And
as we have borne the image of
the earthy, we shall also bear
the image of the heavenly.
15:50 Now this I say, brethren,
that flesh and blood cannot
inherit the kingdom of God;
neither doth corruption inherit
incorruption”. 1Corinthian
15:47
Paul says flesh and blood can’t
inherit the kingdom of God but
Acts has Jesus physically
ascending to heaven.
This illustrates the variant
beliefs Paul and the disciples
had about the resurrection.
The disciples believed Jesus’
physical body rose from the
dead and ascended to heaven
but Paul's believed the
resurrection was of the
spiritual body not of the
physical body.
And the contradictions
abound.
Paul said that the gospel he
preached was the only true
gospel which means all other
gospels were false including
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
“I marvel that ye are so soon
removed from him that called
you into the grace of Christ
unto another gospel 1:7 Which
is not another; but there be
some that trouble you, and
would pervert the gospel of
Christ.
1:8 But though we, or an angel
from heaven, preach any
other gospel unto you than
that which we have preached
unto you, let him be
accursed’. Galatians 1: 6
Paul is so emphatic that his
gospel is the only true gospel
he says, even if an angel
preached any other gospel
besides the one he preached
let him be cursed!
Note, that Paul refers to the
gospel singular not the
Gospels plural.
So does Jesus “And saying,
The time is fulfilled, and the
kingdom of God is at hand:
repent ye, and believe the
gospel”. Mark 1:15
Paul’s writings predate the
writing of the four Gospels and
he said there was only one
gospel, his gospel, presumably
the same gospel that Jesus is
referring to, so where did
these later gospels come from
and Who wrote them?
Before Christianity became
the state religion of the
Roman Empire, it was
originally a Jewish cult
persecuted by Jewish and
Roman clergy as being
heretical. After it became the
state religion of the empire,
the New Testament
documents were written
collected and compiled into
one book with the Hebrew
bible. The doctrine that Old
Testament writings foretold
the coming of, Jesus, their
newly arrived God in the flesh,
was used as rationale for why
this was done.
As I said previously, that’s one
the of reasons the Jews don’t
accept the Christian bible,
even though it contains some
of their writings, because
neither Jesus nor the New
Testament were part of their
original bible.
So with Paul’s and the
disciples’ variant takes on
Jesus that makes seven
religions in the Bible.
So there you have it folks; at
least seven religions in the
Bible.
I know true believers will hide
behind the shield of their
beliefs will try to tear this all
apart.
Go right ahead…you’re
welcomed to try