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bsd - bs d - Why dont the Jewish people recognize the New Testament? by Eliyahu Silver From Site: geocities/Metzad/Notstmnt.htm .......All Biblical quotations are taken from the King James translation, the Authorized Version, unless specified otherwise. .......The Jewish reader is advised not to pronounce the names Jesus and Eastre; The names of other gods you shall not mention, nor shall your mouth cause it to be heard. Exodus 23:13 Introduction. .......For almost 2000 years the Jewish people have not recognized the New Testament, although all those who contributed to the New Testament were Jewish. All the writers of the New Testament were Jewish, but nevertheless the Jewish people reject that which 1,000,000,000 people consider to be the word of G.d. .......What is it that the Jews see in the New Testament that is apparently not seen by all the Christians? The Jews look at the New Testament from an Old Testament viewpoint. About 3300 years ago G.d gave the Torah to the Jewish people. Millions of people watched this event when G.d spoke from Mount Sinai to the Jewish people. There G.d gave to the Jewish people the Holy Torah, which is the first five books of the Bible; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. This does not only contain the Ten Commandments, but it contains a total of 613 commandments that G.d commanded the Jewish people to fulfill. The Torah is the most Holy part of the Hebrew Bible. .......Later prophets arose, whose works are added to form the Hebrew Bible. The Torah teaches that there is one G.d, Y-H-W-H, who is a jealous G.d, who allows no other gods beside Him. See Exodus 20:3. G.ds name, Y-H-W-H, appears almost 7000 times in the Old Testament. The King James translation translates this name as The Lord. This G.d is the one and only G.d for the Jews, as it is written in the Hebrew Bible; ......Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord, he is G.d in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath; there is no other. Deuteronomy 4:39 See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no god with me. Deuteronomy..32:39 I am He, before Me no god was created, neither shall there be after Me. Isaiah 43:10 Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel and his redeemer, the Lord of hosts, I am the first, and I am the last, and beside Me there is no god. Isaiah 44:6 I am the Lord, and there is none else. Isaiah 45:18 This Jewish G.d is one, as it is written; Hear Israel, Y-H-W-H is our G.d, .Y-H-W-H is one. Deuteronomy 6:4 The King James translation translates this as: Hear Israel, the Lord our G.d is one Lord. . Here in Deuteronomium 6:4 too, the word the Lord stands for Y-H-W-H in the Hebrew text. When we insert G.ds name into this translation, we get; Hear Israel, Y-H-W-H our G.d is one Y-H-W-H. This is not a correct translation, the correct translation is as above mentioned; Hear Israel, Y-H-W-H is our G.d, Y-H-W-H is one. ....The fact that G.d is one is so important that G.d commands this to be in the heart. It must be diligently taught to the children, the Jews must talk about it when they sit in their houses, when they walk upon the way, when they lie down and when they rise up. They must bind it as a sign upon their arm, and it must be frontlets between their eyes, and they must write it upon the doorposts of their houses and upon their gates. See Deuteronomy 6:4-9 -- ----The Jews until this day do this. Every morning they put upon their arm and upon their forehead their phylacteries, (prayer belts) that consist of black straps with black leather cubes, that contain parchment upon which is this Biblical text that says that G.d is one. Upon the doorposts of the houses of the religious Jews there are small boxes or containers that also contain parchment upon which is written that G.d is one. So for the Jewish people there is one G.d, and that one G.d is one. One means one. That is not two, not three, not three in one, not two in one, but.ONE. wwwAnd then a Jew stands up and claims that he is the messiah, the redeemer that is announced by the prophets. But he did not do what he was supposed to do, set the Jews free from their oppressors, the Romans, and establish an era of peace and tranquility for the Jewish people and all mankind. Instead he was killed, and all that is left of him is a collection of writings, called the New Testament. For the Jewish people, the Old Testament is the established word of G.d. Therefore, everything written in the New Testament must comply with the Old Testament, and not the other way around. The Old Testament can without any problem stand on his own, without the New Testament. The Jewish people have shown this already for more than 3000 years, but the New Testament can not stand on its own without the Old Testament, because it claims to be the fulfillment of the Old Testament. Look for this fact in the following verses: wwwwMatthew 5:17; Think not that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets, I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. ------Luke 4:16-21; And there was delivered to him the book of the prophet Esaias ... and he began to say unto them: This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. So if the New Testament goes against the Old Testament, it must be rejected as being false. Now let us take a closer and open-minded look at the New Testament. 1. The reliability of the New Testament .......Lets start at the beginning, that is the book of Matthew. It starts with a genealogy of Jesus, starting with Abraham and ending with Joseph, Marys husband, of who is born Jesus, who is called Christ. Matthew 1:16. It is further stated, in verse 17, that all the generations from Abraham to David were 14 generations, and from David to the Babylonian exile were 14 generations, and from the exile to Christ were 14 generations. Here already we stumble upon a major problem; in the Holy book of Chronicles, I Chr. 3:10-24, the genealogy of the family of Solomon is given, and in the book of Chronicles there are 18 generations between King David and the Babylonian exile, and not 14. Hebrew Bible -------------------------New Testament I Chr. 3:10-16 .............................Matthew 1:6-11 Solomon ......................................Solomon Rehoboam ...................................Roboam Abia ............................................Abia Asa..............................................Asa Jehoshaphat .................................Josaphat Joram ..........................................Joram Ahazia .........................................--- Joash ...........................................---?.. --.? Amazia ........................................--- Azaria .........................................Ozias Jotham ........................................Joatham Ahaz ...........................................Achaz Hezekia .......................................Ezekias Manasseh.................................... Manasses Amon......................................... Amon Josia............................................Josias Jehoiakim.....................................--- ....? Jeconia........................................Jechonias .......In the genealogy in the Book of Matthew we are missing four names that are clearly listed in the Hebrew Bible. So according to the Holy Old Testament there are 18 generations between King David and the Babylonian exile, whereas the New Testament claims that there are 14. If the New Testament is the divinely inspired word of G.d, then how can such a mistake appear in it? In this context it is also interesting to look at the book of Luke, chapter 3, from verse 23. Here Luke also gives the genealogy of Jesus, but a brief reading is enough to show you that this genealogy is completely different from Matthews genealogy. In the book of Matthew the father of Joseph is Jacob, whose father is Matthan, whose father is Eleazar. In the book of Luke the father of Joseph is Heli, whose father is Matthat, whose father is Levi. How can this be?...... Was Mary married to two Josephs? .......Things like this constitute a grave problem for somebody who looks objectively and open-mindedly to the New Testament. .......Some say that Luke gives the genealogy of Jesus through his mother Mary. But this makes no sense, because it is clearly written in Luke 3:23; And Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, who was the son of Heli, who was the son of ... It clearly gives the genealogy of Joseph. The name Mary is not even mentioned in this chapter. .......So the New Testament not only contradicts the Old Testament, but it also contradicts itself. Since we have two different genealogies, at least one must be wrong. These difficulties were already recognized in the time of Paul. Therefore he wrote to Titus: But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and strivings about the law, for they are unprofitable and vain. Titus 3:9. See also I Timothy 1:3-4. But avoiding the problem does not make it go away. The facts are that here already are big mistakes in the gospels. wwwwIn Matthew 1:18 we read: Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise; When his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child of the Holy ghost. When Joseph wanted to leave her, because she was pregnant with somebody else, an angel came to him (verse 20) and said: That what is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. It is clearly written here, and firmly believed by Christianity, that Joseph was not the father of Jesus. Then what is the point of trying to prove that Jesus descended from King David (Matthew 1:1) by giving the genealogy of Joseph who was not his father? The angel tells Joseph (Matthew 1:22-23) that this is done in order to fulfill the word of the prophet: Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel. This prophecy is recorded in Isaiah 7:14. There it says: Behold a virgin shall conceive and bare a son and shall call his name Emmanuel. But for the Jewish reader who knows Hebrew, this also raises problems. The Hebrew word in Isaiah 7:14 that the king James translation translates as virgin is almah. In Hebrew almah means girl, young woman, that can be, or not, a virgin. Therefore the word virgin in Isaiah 7:14 is a wrong translation. The Hebrew word for virgin is betulah, that word is used for instance when the Holy Torah speaks about Rebecca in Genesis 24:16: ...a virgin, neither had any man known her .....This fact is recognized by many Christian Bible translators, for instance The New English Bible, The Good News Bible, and The Revised Standard Version have translated this verse in the right way, and not as virgin. . -----The King James translation recognizes this fact too. When we look for instance at Exodus 2:8, and at Proverbs 30:19, there the Hebrew text also uses the word almah, and there the King James translates it with maid, which is a girl or young woman, whose state of virginity is unspecified. And in psalm 68:25 the King James translates almah as damsel, whose meaning is similar as maid. So the New Testament is here misquoting the Old Testament. .......Nowhere in the Old Testament is there a prophecy that the messiah will be born unto a virgin.... In fact, nowhere in the Old Testament do virgins give birth. This concept is only to be found in pagan mythology. .......The angel goes on quoting the prophet Isaiah saying: And they shall call his name Immanuel. But this is not what is written in Isaiah 7:14; there it clearly says in the Hebrew and in the King James translation, that she, the mother, shall call his name Immanuel. This prophecy is never fulfilled in Jesus, he is never named Immanuel, instead his name was Jesus. This verse also cannot apply to Jesus because it says in verse 16: For before the child shall know to refuse evil and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of their kings. It says here that there will be a time period that the child will not be able to refuse the evil. And since Jesus is, according to Christianity, without any sins, this verse cannot apply to him. ... And when we look at this verse in the right context, when we look at the whole chapter of Isaiah 7, then we see that this verse is definitely not refering to the coming of the messiah. This chapter talks about G.d giving a sign to Achaz, that he will have tranquility in his days. We see from this two things: the whole chapter speaks about the days of Achaz, about 700 years before Jesus; verse 14: Therefore the Lord himself shall give you (King Achaz) a sign. G.d would not give him a sign by having a baby born 700 years after his death. The second thing that we see is that the baby that is talked about is only a sign, not a redeemer. G.d is the redeemer, as it is written in verse 17: The Lord shall bring upon thee... .......But quoting prophecies or conveying happenings from the Old Testament is not really the strong side of the New Testament. Look for instance at the book of Acts chapter 7. Here Stephen is arrested and led before the high court, accused of blasphemy. He speaks there about G.d calling Abraham. Acts 7:4 says: He dwelt in Charran, and from there, when his father was dead, He removed him into this land wherein you now dwell. Here it clearly says that Abraham left Charran after the death of his father. Who was his father? See Genesis 11:26: And Terah lived 70 years and he begot Abram, Nahor and Haran..................................----------.........................................------- --.- ----So Abrahams father was Terah, who was 70 years when he begot Abraham.-Genesis 12:4: And Abraham was 75 years old when he departed from Haran. At this time, when Abraham departed from Haran, his father was 70+75=145 years old. And how long did his father live? Genesis 11:32: And the days of Terah were 205 years and Terah died in Haran... ....... When Abraham left Haran his father was 145 years old. His father lived to be 205 years old. That means that after Abraham left Haran, his father lived another 60 years. (205-145) So how can Stephen say that Abraham left Haran after the death of his father? .......In the same chapter it is written, Acts 7:14; Then send Joseph and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. Now look what the Holy book of Genesis says about this event. Genesis 46:27; All the souls of the house of Jacob that came into Egypt were threescore and ten souls. So the Torah says that 70 people of Jacobs household left for Egypt, and Stephen says 75. How can this be? .......In verses 15 and 16 of Acts 7 Stephen says; So Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers, and were carried over into Sychem, and laid into the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor, the father of Sychem. -----...This verse contains multiple mistakes. Jacob was not buried in Schem, he was buried in the cave of the field of Machpela at Mamre. Genesis 49:33; And when Jacob had made an end to commanding his sons he gathered up his feet into the bed and yielded up the ghost and was gathered unto his people. Genesis 50:13; For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpela which Abraham bought with the field for a possession for a burying place of Ephron the Hittite before Mamre. So we see that Abraham did not buy a tomb in Schem, but in Mamre, which is Hebron, (Genesis 23:19) and there was Jacob buried, and not in Schem. .....There was in fact a burial place in Schem, but it was bought not by Abraham, but by Jacob, and not Jacob, but Joseph was buried there. See Joshua 24:32: And the bones of Joseph which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground that Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of silver. .......About Stephen it is written (Acts 6:5), that he was full of the Holy Ghost, and that they were not able to resist the spirit and wisdom by which he spoke. (verse 10) What kind of wisdom is this, making mistake after mistake after mistake, all these misquotations? Can somebody who is full of the Holy Ghost make so many mistakes? What does this say about the reliability of the New Testament? ........And what about the leading figure of the New Testament, Jesus, how reliable are his statements? Look at a statement by him from Mark 2:26. Here he says that David entered the Temple (Tabernacle) in the days of Abiathar the high priest and ate the showbreads. This event is recorded in I Samuel 21:1; Then came David to Nob, to Achimelech the priest, ... During this incident Achimelech was high priest, and not his son Abiathar. A high priest functions until the day he dies, and then his son takes over. So only after the death of Achimelech, recorded in I Samuel 22:18, did his son Abiathar succeed him, as we can see in I Samuel 30:7; And David said to Abiathar the priest, Achimelechs son, ... Let us take a look at an other of Jesus statements, from Matthew 23:35: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of the righteous Able unto the blood of Zacherias son of Berachias, whom you slaughtered between the Temple and the altar. This event is recorded in II Chronicles 24:20-21; And the spirit of G.d came upon Zacheriah son of Jehoiada the priest which stood above the people, and said to them ... And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones, at the commandment of the King, in the house of the Lord. . ....... Here we see that the Zacherias who was slaughtered between the Temple and the altar was the son of Jehoiada, and not the son of Berachia, as stated by Jesus. Jesus was mixing up two things: There was a prophet Zacherias son of Berachias, but he was not the one who was slain (II Chronicles 24:22) in the Temple courtyard. Zacherias son of Berachias was the prophet who gave us the Bible book Zacheriah. Look in Zacheriah 1:1; In the eight month in the second year of Darius came the word of the Lord (Y-H-W-H) to Zecheriah, son of Berechiah, son of Iddo the prophet... This Zecheriah lived after the destruction of the first Temple, during the rebuilding of the second Temple. The killing of Zacherias son of Jehoiada in the Temple courtyard happened in the first Temple period, long before Zecheriah son of Berechiah. In case that in your Bible translation Zacheriah 1:1 says Zecheriah, son of Iddo the prophet, ... then be assured of the fact that the Hebrew text says; Zecheriah, son of Berachiah, son of Iddo the prophet, ... In some Bible translations is the text corrupted in order to cover up this mistake of Jesus. .......So from this we see that even the words of Jesus are not reliable. .......How can it be that the son of G.d, according to Christianity G.d himself, makes such elementary mistakes? .......To a Jewish reader this indicates that the people from the New Testament just did not know their Bible. .......For a Jew this is enough to disqualify the whole New Testament. .......The arguments; O.K, the New Testament is not reliable, but the Old Testament, which is much older, is also not reliable, or the argument; The Jews changed the Old Testament after the rise of Christianity, in order to discredit Christianity are not valid. The Torah, the most Holy part of the Hebrew Bible, is transmitted through the ages, over a time period of 3300 years with an astonishing degree of accuracy. There are very many rules that apply to the copying process of Torah scrolls: They may only be written on parchment of kosher animals, which must be sewn together with tendons of kosher animals. It may only be written by a Jew, dressed in a Jewish garment, in a state of ritual purity, which means that, amongst other things, he must wash himself in a ritual bath. Even his state of mind is subjected to certain rulings. The whole manuscript must be ruled before it is written upon, when three words are written without ruling, the whole manuscript is disqualified and must be buried. The ink may only be black, prepared according to an ancient recipe. The Torah scroll may only be copied from another authentic scroll, and absolutely no deviation is allowed. Absolutely no words may be written without first looking to the example. The length of each column must be between 48 and 60 rules, and the width must be 30 letters. Between the letters must be a space as wide as a hair, between the paragraphs a space of nine letters, between the books a space of three rules. Calculations have been made how many letters there are in the whole Torah, which letter is the middle, how many letters there are in every book of the Torah, how many times certain words and even letters appear in the text. And there are many, many more rules for copying Torah scrolls that are still in effect, up to this day. No other religion had such an extremely precise way of copying their holy texts. This shows the enormous respect that the Jewish people have for the sacred text, and this is the reason that the text is handed down through the millennia with an extreme grade of accuracy. .......Every expert, and everybody knowledgeable in the field of Biblical texts, agrees upon the fact that the Old Testament, even though much older than the New Testament, is handed down much more accurate than the New Testament. .......The Old Testament could not be changed after the arising of Christianity, because it was already widely known to the non-Jewish world. Alexander the Great founded in 332 before the Common Era (B.C.E.) the city Alexandria. The Jews had there from the beginning a prominent place, and at one point there were living there one million Jews. The main language there was Greek, therefore a Greek translation of the Old Testament was made for the Jews there, known as the Septuagint. Septuagint means seventy. It points to the 72 translators, six of every tribe of Israel, who made this translation, which was finished about 250 B.C.E. One copy of the Septuagint was kept in the library of Alexandria. .......When the Jewish people were exiled to Babylon, the land was filled with pagan tribes. They mixed with the remnant of the Jews, and started to take over large parts of the Jewish religion, and they accepted the Torah. A Jewish priest was sent from Babylon in order to teach those pagan tribes, now living in Samaria, how to live according G.ds commandments. (II Kings 17:24-29) When the Jews came back from the Babylonian exile, these Samaritans wanted to join the Jewish people, but they were rejected because they were still involved in idol worship. This caused a great deal of animosity between the Jews and the Samaritans. The Samaritans even obstructed the rebuilding of the second Temple. (Ezra 4) The Samaritans remained a sect separated from the Jewish people and their entire Bible consists of the first five books, the Torah. These events took place about 350 B.C.E. The Samaritans are still around today as a small sect in Israel. The Samaritan Torah and the Septuagint were not subjected to such a very precise copying process as the Jewish Torah. But nevertheless, when we compare the Old Testament to the Septuagint, and the Jewish Torah to the Samaritan Torah, then we see that in most places were Stephen and Jesus made serious mistakes, these texts agree with the Jewish Bible. Therefore, even the Greek Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church of Greek rite, who up to this day have the Septuagint as their official text of the Old Testament, are faced with serious problems. .......Even the name New Testament is not correct: It points to the new covenant that G.d will make with the Jewish people. Paul claims that this is done through Jesus. Paul says in Hebrews 10:15-17; Whereof the Holy Ghost is also a witness to us, for after he had said before: This is the covenant that I will make with them, after those days, saith the Lord, I will put My laws in their heart and in their minds will I write them. And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. This is written in Jeremiah 31:31-34; Behold, the days come saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah. Not according the old covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant they broke, although I was as a husband to them, saith the Lord. But this shall be the covenant that I make with the house of Israel: After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in there inward parts and write it in their hearts, and I will be there G.d, and they shall be my people. And they shall no more each man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord, for they shall all know me, from the least of them till the greatest, saith the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sins no more. Are we now in the days that everybody knows about the Lord (Y-H-W-H)?----.That nobody has to teach his neighbor about G.d? .............................Obviously not! ........So even the reference to the new covenant, the New Testament, is not correct. 2. The divinity of Jesus. .......Let us now take a look at the message that the New Testament is trying to give us, armed with the knowledge that, as shown before, there is one G.d, and that one G.d is one. Surprising as it may be, in the New Testament G.d is also one. Look for this fact at the following verses: Mark 12:29-34. Here Jesus himself speaks: Hear Israel, the Lord our G.d is one Lord. And in verse 32 he is answered: There is one G.d, and there is no other than He, upon which Jesus replies: You are not far from the kingdom of G.d. So also for Jesus G.d is clearly one. .......And what about Paul, who wrote more than half of all the books of the New Testament, what does he think about it? Romans 3:30: Seeing it is one G.d, ... I Corinthians 8:4: We know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no other G.d than one. Idem verse 6: But to us there is but one G.d ... Ephesians 4:6; One G.d and father of all, ... I Timothy 2:5; For there is one G.d ... And look what James says in James 2:19; You believe that there is one G.d, and you do well. ..............................Also in the New Testament G.d is one. .......Please take good notice that nowhere here is spoken about, or even hinted at a trinity. .............The concept of trinity is nowhere to be found in the Old or the New Testament. .......And what does the New Testament say about Jesus? It says that he is a god. Look for instance at what Thomas says to Jesus; My Lord and my god. John 20:28. The gospel of John turns Jesus into the creating G.d. Look at the first verses of John 1; In the beginning was the word, and the word was with G.d, and the word was G.d. The same was in the beginning with G.d. Here, in verses 1 and 2, it clearly says that the word is G.d..... Now look at verse 3; All things are made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. Here it says that everything is made by him (the word), so the word is the creating G.d. Who is the word? Look at verse 14; And the word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father. The word made flesh is, according to Christianity, Jesus. So according the New Testament Jesus is the creating G.d. Also in Colossians 1:16 it clearly says that Jesus is the creating G.d. Please read verse 12-18 of Colossians 1 in order to get a clear overview of this. .......In John 10:30 Jesus says; I and my father are one. .......So here we have a case of a human being saying that he is G.d. But according to the Holy Hebrew scriptures this is impossible, because it is stated in Numbers 23:19, in I Samuel 15:29, and in Hosea 11:9 that G.d is not a man. The Jewish idea about G.d is that He is a spiritual being, and not flesh and blood. See Genesis 1:2; And the spirit of G.d moved upon the face of the waters........... For a Jew it is an abomination that the one true G.d should be a human. G.d is an indefinable, spiritual, invisible being. There shall no man see me and live. Exodus 33:20. By saying that G.d is a man, or that He is 2, or 3, or 3 in 1, you are defining G.d, who is indefinable. .......The idea that Jesus was G.d also goes against the oneness of G.d. How can G.d be one when He is walking around upon the earth as a man and at the same time He is in heaven? .......Even though Jesus says that he and the father are one, this is clearly not the case. Look at Matthew 23:9; And call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your father, which is in heaven. So here Jesus excludes himself from being the father in heaven. Luke 22:41-42; He prayed, saying: ... not my will, but thine be done. This also indicates that the father and Jesus are not the same person, otherwise he would be praying to himself. If they were the same person then Jesus will would have been automatically the will of the father, but he says: Not my will but your will be done. .......So they were clearly two different entities. Even in heaven Jesus is subordinated to the father according I Corinthians 15:28, Matthew 20:23, Philippians 2:9, so it is impossible that they are the same person. We can add many other examples to this. The interested reader can read for example Matthew 24:36, John 5:19-23, 12:27, 17:24, 18:11, Colossians 1:15. When Jesus hangs on the cross he shouts out: My G.d, my G.d, why hast thou forsaken me? Matthew 27:46 ..........................................Did G.d forsake himself? .......This leaves us with a G.d the father in heaven, and a G.d the son on earth. Since we have established that there is only one G.d, and that that one G.d is one, there is now one G.d to many. ........ The one true G.d says: Thou shall have no other gods before Me, ... Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; For I the Lord thy G.d am a jealous G.d. Exodus 20:3+5. Jesus completely agrees with this. He says in Matthew 4:10: Thou shalt worship the Lord thy G.d, and him only shalt you serve. See also Luke 4:8 But how then can we explain the statements of Jesus when he says That all man should honour the son, even as they honour the Father. John 5:23. -- If any man serve me, let him follow me, ...if any man serve me, him will my father honour. John 12:26. How can this be?www This is idolatry!! .......These facts did not pass by unnoticed by the early Christian church. In the early centuries of the Christian church there was no such thing as a trinity. The church looked upon Jesus as a half god, according to the teachings of Origen, who lived from 185 to 254. But in 318, the presbyter Arius got into a conflict with his bishop, because of his firm statements about Jesus. Since he was a Bible scholar, he could not accept that Jesus was a god, since the Bible teaches that there is only one G.d, and therefore he taught that Jesus was not a god but a creature. But his bishop, Alexander, disputed that because the New Testament clearly turns Jesus into a god. This dispute was settled in the synod of 325 in Nice; First Jesus and G.d the Father become a duality, and later the Holy Ghost is added to form a trinity. (History of the church, by Dr. H. Berkhof, 6th ed. 1955, pages 68-70). So the invention of the trinity was a forced way out of the problem of having two gods, where the Bible teaches that there is only one. And this is what the Christian churches believe and teach up to this day, that G.d is a trinity. But nowhere in the Bible can anything be found that says that there is such a thing as a trinity. And what about I John 5:7? For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the word and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. ----Well, this looks like a good verse to prove a trinity, except for the fact that this is a falsification of your Bible. In the original Greek scriptures of the New Testament this text does not exist. This text was added later to the New Testament in a desperate attempt to prove a trinity that cannot be proven. The New Testament has come to us in bits and pieces, a gospel from here, a letter of Paul from there... The first ones who compiled out of this a reliable text of the Greek New Testament, were Westcott and Hort in 1881. In that Greek text I John 5:7 says: For there are three witness bearers. Thats all. Followed by verse 8: The spirit and the water and the blood, and the three are into the one. The whole part about the Father, the word, and the Holy Ghost, and these being one, does not exist in the original Greek text. The Greek text of the New Testament of Dr. Eberhard Nestle is nowadays considered to be the most reliable Greek text available, and in that text the verses 7 and 8 of I John 5 are exactly the same as in the Greek text of Westcott and Hort. (You dont have to take my word for this, just ask your pastor or reverend, and he will confirm these facts, unless of course, he is outright lying to you.) There is no such thing as a trinity, not in the Old Testament and not in the New Testament. The proofs for the oneness of G.d are however abundant. Look at these texts; The Lord, (Y-H-W-H) He is G.d, and there is none else beside Him. Deuteronomy 4:35. See now that I, even I am He, and there is no G.d with me. I kill and make alive, I wound and I heal, neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. Deuteronomy 32:39. O Lord, there is none like thee, neither is there any G.d beside thee. I Chronicles 17:20. Thou, even Thou, art Lord alone. Nehemia 9:6. Thou are G.d alone. Psalm 86:10. I am the Lord and there is none else, there is no G.d beside me: That they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is no G.d beside Me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. Isaiah 45:5-6. This list can be extended with many other verses, but the meaning is already clear: There is only one G.d and there is none else. No son, no Holy ghost, nothing. G.d has no father, no son, and no brother. There is just one G.d. 3. Jesus as the messiah. ........Who and what is the messiah? Let us check according to the Holy Hebrew scriptures what the messiah is supposed to do. .......Isaiah 11; And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. This is what is supposed to happen, as soon as there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a Branch shall grow out of his roots; that is as soon as the messiah comes. Nowhere here is mentioned that the messiah will be killed and that these prophecies will happen at least 2000 years later. ..........Jeremiah 23:5-6; Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. ..........Jeremiah 33:14-16: IN THOSE DAYS AND AT THAT TIME, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. IN THOSE DAYS shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness. When the branch of righteousness springs forth to David, when the messiah comes, THEN, IN THOSE DAYS, Judah will be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. That was not exactly the case in the days of Jesus. After his death the Temple got burned down, Jerusalem destroyed, and the Jews exiled. ..........Zacheriah 9:9-10; Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass. And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. They say that he did ride on a donkey, like the whole Middle East in those days, but that is where it stops. He did not bring any peace, the battle bow, the war horse and the chariots, symbols of war, were not cut off from Jerusalem, and his dominion was not from sea to sea; as a matter of fact, he did not have any dominion at all. ..........Micha 5:2-9; But thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting. Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel. And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for NOW shall he be great unto the ends of the earth. And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders. And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. Also here we have very clearly physical redemption from earthly enemies. The one coming forth from Bethlehem is to be a ruler in Israel, and not a wandering preacher and miracle healer. In order to get around this problem, the Christian church invented the second coming. However, nowhere in the Hebrew scriptures is it written that the messiah would come once, get himself killed, and come again in a second coming. This is a pure rationalization of Jesus failure to function in any way as a messiah. Nowhere in any of the above prophecies does it indicate that there will be a gap of at least 2000 years between the birth of the messiah and the redemption. Nowhere does it speak about a messiah being tortured to death and coming back thousands of years later. On the contrary; when the messiah comes redemption comes. Nothing of this all was done by Jesus. Conclusion: He was not the messiah. Even in his own days people were not sure whether he was the messiah or not, but, he said that he would give a sign. Just one. Matthew 12:38-40; There shall no sign be given than the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whales belly, so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Here he clearly says that the only sign he will give is his being in the grave for three days and three nights. He was crucified on Friday afternoon, the day before the Sabbath. Mark 15:42 He was supposedly resurrected on Sunday morning. Mark 16:9. Can you fit in between Friday afternoon and Sunday morning three days and three nights? From this we must conclude that he did not live up (die up?) to the only sign he promised. .......As for saving us in this world he did not do a very good job. And what about saving us for the next world? According to the New Testament Jesus is the savior of mankind, without him no salvation is possible. What does G.d say about this in the Hebrew Bible? Isaiah 43:3: For I am the Lord (Y-H-W-H) thy G.d, the Holy one of Israel, thy saviour. So here it clearly says that the one and only G.d is our savior. Does G.d need another savior? Is there another savior? Isaiah 43:10-11: Before Me there was no G.d formed, neither shall there be after me, even I, I am the Lord, and beside Me there is no saviour. Isaiah 45:21-22: ... I the Lord, and there is no G.d else beside Me, a just G.d and a saviour, there is no saviour beside Me. Look unto Me and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am G.d and there is none else. Hosea 13:4: Yet I am the Lord thy G.d, and thou shall know no G.d but Me, for there is no saviour beside Me. So here we see that the Lord (Y-H-W-H) is our savior and that there is none but him. G.d is not a man that He should lie (Numbers 23:19); so we must put our trust in G.d and not in a man. Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man... Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. Jeremiah 17:5+7. 4. Jesus as a prophet. .........Let us take a look at the prophetic qualities of Jesus. In Matthew 4:17 he claims that the kingdom of heaven is at hand.. Now, almost 2000 years later, the kingdom is still not here. .......Look for an impressive prophesy in Mark 13:24-30: The sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light. And the stars of heaven will fall and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. And then they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And then he shall send his angels and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven ..... Verily I say to you, that this generation shall not pass till all these things be done. -----See also Matthew 24:29-35 and Luke 21;25-33. . -.....This generation passed away almost 2000 years ago, and no one has seen him coming back on the clouds to establish his kingdom of peace and gather in his elected Christians. .......In Matthew 16:27-28 Jesus says: For the son of man shall come in the glory of his father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, there be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the son of man coming in his kingdom. See also Mark 9:1 .......Did anybody see him coming in his kingdom? Is every man already rewarded according to his works?..... But some of them would not die until they would have seen him coming in his kingdom!...-.Are they still around today?..... Even Methuselah didnt live that long! .,......From this we must conclude that Jesus has a very poor resume as a prophet. What does the Holy Torah that the only eternal G.d gave to the Jewish people say about this? Deuteronomy 18:20-22: But the prophet which shall presume to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if you say in your heart; how shall we know the word that the Lord has not spoken? When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing follows not, nor come to pass, this is the thing that the Lord has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him. .......Here G.d commands the Jewish people to execute false prophets, who are prophets whose prophecies do not come true. Jesus is a perfect example of a prophet whose prophecy did not come true. See also the prophecy concerning the three days and three nights that did not come true. .......And what about the miracles that he is supposed to have done? Jesus placed himself in the place of G.d (John 10:30, 14:9), and he demanded to be worshipped like Him (John 5:23), and people did worship him (Matthew 2:11, 8:2, 14:33, John 9:38*). So if he really performed these miracles, then applies to him the law of G.d that says: If there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or wonder, and the sign or wonder comes to pass whereof he spake onto thee, saying: Let us go after other gods which thou has not known, and let us serve them; Thou shall not hearken to the words of that prophet or dreamer of dreams, for the Lord (Y-H-W-H) your G.d proveth you, whether you love the Lord thy G.d with all your heart and all your soul. You shall walk after the Lord your G.d and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and cleave to Him. And that prophet or dreamer of dreams shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your G.d which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy G.d commanded thee to walk in. So shall thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. Deuteronomy 13:1-5.
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