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Hebrew For "The House of Truth"
Most Christians live their whole lives never noticing or reading closely the New Testament to recognize that the gospels of the New Testament Jesus is 180 degrees opposite when compared with the gospel of the Paul of the Roman New Testament. I was one of those whom I just described until I began to study Judaism and read various scholars and writers that opened my sight and understanding in these areas of divergence. Many of you probably are startled at the at the title of these articles since never dreaming that these "gospels" contradict each other but let me assure you that when you are finished reading just these three presentations and articles, you will begin to see deeper into the deceptions and the conflicting "messages" of the New Testament than ever before. You may not be aware of it but there are "two" conflicting messages or "gospels" contained in the New Testament; one of which agrees 100% with Biblical Judaism and the religion of Jesus and "the Christ" who is depicted as a Jew and one totally alien to it which is laid at the feet of this "Romanized" Paul. With such new perspective which we will teach you will come your realization that there are two completely conflicting messages and doctrines in the New Testament which are presented as the "ONLY" way to inherit Eternal Life. Since these "salvation messages" are contradictory then it goes without saying that such "opposites" cannot be right therefore one of them is wrong and the other right; the problem for the New Testament believer today is to not only recognize that "conflicting gospels" exist within the teachings of the New Testament, but arriving at an intelligent decision regarding which "gospel" to accept and which "gospel" to shun.
Often I hear from someone who will write us or call us at the Ministry and respond by saying "there is no contradiction" within the New Testament. Such shallow perspective by good-hearted people will be shown to be foolish let alone critically flawed in these next three articles. I would hope you muster up the courage to deal with what will be shown to you in the following pages as often the material will be "heavy" and one's "heroes" often exposed for what they really were: false teachers who opposed the "real salvation message" if God given mankind in the beginning of time. Now let us seriously sanctify the Name of the Lord by studying in earnest the Revelation of HaShem as it has come down to us; all the while picking the "meat" from the "bones" as we find it in the New Testament.
Answer for yourself: We have all heard of the "Good Samaritan" but have we all understood the real message of this parable?
This is the question before us as the implications from such in-depth study challenge the validity of the New Testament and Gentile Christianity's teachings regarding inheriting Eternal Life in many places. This will be a shock to many as you see what follows so just stay with it.
I will begin with what is known as the Parable of the Good Samaritan, but will rename it " The Parable of the Priest, the Levite and the Samaritan."
The parable is chiefly remembered by most for what it is taught as in Bible classes: as a lesson to be kind to your neighbors and to alleviate suffering. Although this is true these lessons are incidental only, and of quite secondary in importance to the main issue which the parable teaches; the main issue in the parable escapes the awareness of most readers and in reality concerns the very foundation of the religion of this Jewish Jesus before us and is not concerned with just "loving" others. True, the parable is the gem of the narrative; but its value, nevertheless, is in the setting of it, and not in the lesson of kindliness which it incidentally instills. We must go beyond the surface and its elementary meanings understood by most to grasp the real intent of this parable.
The Gentile Christian Church desperately needs to hear this message and repent of many of their doctrinal positions which oppose the real meaning of this parable.
To understand the real and full significance of this parable we must note what has led up to it. A lawyer came to heckle this Jesus. Like every great reformer, Jesus is depicted in the New Testament to have had his opponents, great and small. There were those who were uncompromisingly hostile either from a mental bias or from personal motives. There were the sectarians who opposed the new and deeper teachings of Jesus on on doctrinal grounds. And there were those who claimed to be liberal-minded, but who regarded the doctrines preached by Jesus as far-fetched, utopian and altogether impracticable.
To this latter class belonged, evidently, the lawyer who are depicted standing up and " tempting" Jesus, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life ? "
Answer for yourself: What a question that goes to the very crux of God's salvation message. We need to open our ears to hear this message of salvation like never before because it applies equally to the Jew and the "non-Jew". What was the core issue addressed in the previous questions poised to this Jesus?
Every believer desires to inherit Eternal Life. This is beyond question. But you will be amazed to find out that it is not as easy as you have been taught. Read on please.
We are talking about "eternal life" and Jesus' understanding of God's salvation. We must not loose sight of this for the parable of the Good Samaritan is really about how to obtain "salvation" and inherit "eternal life". You will better understand as we delve further into the parable and Jesus' message within it.
Notice up front, that the lawyer who asked Jesus the question about "eternal life" did not ask the question as one desiring to be instructed, but " temptingly." It was a challenge, as from one knowing what answer he would get and who is prepared to oppose this Jesus if he were to answer the question incorrectly; as if Jesus had some strange doctrine considering "salvation". But in this we find this lawyer to be mistaken. Notice will you that in answering this Jesus, symbol for "the Christ of God", simply referred him to the Law of Moses, the Law of the Jews…the same Law that Gentile Christianity today teaches has "passed away"! Spurgeon, a great Christian preacher sums up the orthodox Christian position of history let alone today when he says that "Jesus is the 'termination' of the Law of the Jews. He goes on to reiterate the Christian position by saying, speaking of this Jesus, that "He has terminated it in two senses. First of all, his people are not under it as a covenant of life. "We are not under the law, but under grace". Again, Christ is the terminator of the law, for we are no longer under its curse". This says it all. But the words of this Jesus should grab out attention more than Spurgeon or any other Christian preacher when he answers forthwith the lawyers' question by stating: "What is written in the law ? How readest thou?"
Man, what an answer.
Answer for yourself: How do we read this Bible we were given by Rome? How do we interpret it? Are we interpreting it correctly? To whom was this message of the salvation of God, intended for all mankind given; Rome or the Jews? Did God ever change His salvation message given to these Jews? Did God forget to tell them? How come today the Jews don't accept this Christian way of salvation and this "end of the Law"? What do they know that we don't? Who do you think is best qualified to interpret the Hebrew Scriptures and this message of salvation given to all mankind, Rome or Jerusalem? What are we to do with this Jesus when he says in this same New Testament which teaches that the "Law is ended"?
John 4:22 22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. (KJV)
Answer for yourself: To whom was this Jesus speaking in the above verse? Would you believe it was a Gentile like me and you?
Answer for yourself: Don’t you find that somewhat surprising; that Jesus would teach a vital relationship between receiving Eternal Life and the keeping of the Law; something the Gentile Christian Church prides itself in having been “abolished” according to tis Romanized Paul and his writings?
Answer for yourself: Did Jesus really connect "eternal life" with the "Law" and what does that mean to the Christian who believes he is “under grace and not under Law”? Have we as "non-Jews" following the texts in our Roman Bibles been possibly misled and don't know it? Did Rome hate the Law of the Jews? Did Rome have reason to reject Judaism and did they? Have you ever read Constantine's Easter Letter? Well you better do it right now! Do you know he did this before commissioning 50 Bibles, or New Testaments, to be written over which he oversaw their production? Are you aware that happened 70 years before the official canonization of the New Testament by the Constantinian influenced Roman Church? Can we think and think hard about this for a second and the implications it has for us today? Can we read between the lines? Does this help explain why this New Testament is full of purposefully misquoted, purposefully mistranslated, purposefully taken out of context Hebrew Scriptures, and even "invented" Scriptures when compared with the Hebrew Bibles used by the Jews? Were you aware of this? What implication does this have for the true salvation message of God given to all mankind? Have you ever done these studies or should you might consider now to do them to confirm what I said is true?
Answer for yourself: Don't you find it rather odd that obtaining "Eternal Life" for this Jesus involved the "Law" when the Christian Church today, which considers themselves followers of this Jesus and "ambassadors for Christ," pride themselves as not being "under the Law" and even call the Law a "curse"? What is this when even prophecy in the Old Testament shows that in the world to come that these same Laws will be observed in the New World and in the New Age to come?
Answer for yourself: The most serious question is: "Has the Gentile Christian Church" of today inherited the antisemitic "traditions" of Rome for their salvation message and completely rejected the true "salvation message of God" which involves man's responsibilities to this same "Law" of the Old Testament [the Laws of Noah and the Laws of Moses]? The answer is “yes”. Are our Bibles faithful representations of the message of God entrusted to the Jewish nation?
I assume the reader understands that the Laws of Noah and the Covenant of Noah was given to all "non-Jews" long before there were any Jews on this world and later only reiterated by Moses (Akhenaten) at the waters of Marah when Moses built upon the Laws of Noah in giving Israel these Laws of Moses which only elaborated and enlarged upon the Law of Noah as the Jew's Covenant with God. Let us read on. I hope you recognize here that there exists common ground in these two Covenants and Laws that will allow the unity of Jew with "non-Jew" as the one people of God.
And in Romans 11: 17 And some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree. Here is clear reference to both the Jews and the Gentiles being grafted together into ONE tree in the ONE ROOT. This is impossible if their Covenants are in conflict but you see they are not! There is and has been for most of the New Covenant era, enmity between the Christians and the Jews. Labelled wrongly as "Christ killers", Jews have been slaughtered and persecuted by the world and Christians alike. Christians have erroneously believed that they have replaced the Jews as God's chosen people. But the Word is very clear, there are two Olive trees which will become one in God and their enmity will be put aside. But this will never occur without the truth being taught and the Christian possessing the necessary knowledge of how this separation of these two peoples of God occurred at the hands of Rome and their forged Bibles which we carry today.
The lawyer rattled off: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.
So far so good.
Answer for yourself: Is your understanding of Christianity's "salvation" as you have been taught by the Gentile Church the same as we read in the above discourse? Before you say "yes" let us keep reading for I assure you it is not as simple as you suppose.
Answer for yourself: Is your understanding of Christianity's "salvation" the same as Jesus both understood and taught it? Already we saw that this Jesus, "the Christ", connected salvation and Eternal Life to the Law of the Jews (including the Laws of Noah) and Christianity prides itself "not being under this Law" so before you rush to say "yes" I would suggest you wait till the following articles have been read and digested before you answer in the affirmative as we will address each word of the above answer in the Hebrew to make sure we understand completely what this Jesus was saying.
And Jesus said to him: Thou hast answered right: this do and thou shalt live" (Luke 10:27-28).
The narrative goes on to say that the lawyer, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, " And who is my neighbor ? "
Here let us pause for a moment to analyze the situation. It will be noticed that the lawyer's question, "And who is my neighbor?" will culminate in Jesus referring to the Commandments within the Second Tablet of the Law only, whereas the reply of Jesus, "this do," made no such discrimination but referred to both tablets of the law. This might seem rather strange at present but I assure you that you will quickly come to understand Jesus' intentions and answer as we let, according to Phil 2:5 5, this mind of Christ be in us as it was in this Jesus: "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" (KJV)
Answer for yourself: How can we do this? How can we think like this Jesus? How can we "believe" like this Jesus? How can we truly be follows of this Jesus and "the Christ" in our lives today when taught differently by an antisemitic, Romanized and Paulinized Christianity for the last 1,800 years?
This is done only by studying the Jewish Roots of Gentile Christianity. After Seminary I set on a concrete bench and talked with God where I said "Lord I have been privileged to be here and truly became a man of God here but Lord I did not learn one thing about a Jewish Jesus here. I can preach and build churches like Paul but Lord I don't know much about this Jesus who is a Jew in my Bible? Lord, I said, what do I believe leaving here today that Jesus, if he were setting next to me right here, would not believe as I do being taught for 3 years a Baptist and Christian doctrine? And Lord, if Jesus were setting here what would he believe that I don't and why not on both counts Lord? What do the Jews not believe in my Jesus? What do the Jews believe that I don't and why not? What does this Jewish Jesus believe differently from me and why?" Having read one Jewish Jesus book before Seminary I found myself 3 years later not increasing my knowledge of a Jewish Jesus one bit so I said: "Lord, I don't have the answers to these questions but I am going to get them" whereupon I got up and left the beautiful grounds of the Seminary and began a serious study of Judaism and the Jewish Roots of Christianity and this led eventually to the establishment of Bet Emet Ministries. The rest is history and that leads to this article.
Now, To appreciate the meaning of the lawyer's question as to "who was his neighbor" we must understand the issue about which the lawyer intended to heckle Jesus.
It is mandatory we
understand that the First Tablet of the Law contained the commandments and
obligations given to man concerning maintaining his relationship with God.
In other words 
these
commandments were "vertical"; between man and God. These
commandments in the First Tablet of the Law dealt with man's relationship
with God and when obeyed guaranteed
man's continued acceptance with God. These Laws, or should I say "categories"
of Laws were manifestations of man's Covenant stipulations with God
whereby if observed "kept" man in good relationship with God
within his respective Covenant. The
Second Tablet of the Law contained the commandments and obligations given
to man concerning man's relationship with man [remember mankind is created
in the Divine image of God].
These "horizontal"
commandments, when observed, guaranteed man's rightness with his
brothers and neighbors and thereby his "rightness" with God as
had the prior commandments from the First Table of the Law.
Ironically, man's worst relationship with others is a direct indication of
his "best" relationship with God.
Now we see that this Jesus, "the Christ", next said something very interesting; he said that the "second" was "LIKE" the "first". Let me explain further. Man was created in the image of Ha Shem and when we relate to mankind we are in reality relating to God at the same time for mankind carries the Divine Image. Egypt was the first to teach this concept believe it or not over 10,000 years ago. Thus the relationship between the "Two Tablets of the Law".
There were two "laws" or "commandments" which were fundamental in Jewish philosophy. These were "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God" and "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Again this is the picture for us in the "Two Tablets of the Law". In both ways, when we are observing and obeying the commandments, we are loving God. It has been said that our "worst relationship with man" is a direct picture of our "best relationship with God". Many but not all of the Sadducees, Scribes and the Pharisees that is, the religious ruling classes, laid all the emphasis on the "FIRST" tablet of the Law but our Jesus did differently; he laid all the emphasis on the "SECOND" tablet of the Law and its commandments.
This is the secret to the whole parable and has momentous importance in one’s understanding of “inheriting Eternal Life”.
The "Pharisees" interpreted the "love of God" to mean prayer, adulation, sacrifice and worship. This is all great but these religious leaders glorified God in a manner that would gratify a human despot. As for the second commandment ("Love thy neighbor as thyself"), it was entirely subordinate and its fulfillment consisted at best in almsgiving.
Answer for yourself: Remember Cornelius? Why did God remember this Gentile and make an example of him?
Acts 10:2 2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people (Second Tablet of the Law), and prayed to God alway (First Tablet of the Law) (KJV)
Cornelius, not a Jew mind you, and not a convert tot Judaism, keeping the Laws of God written on his heart which just happens to be parallel to the Laws of Moses.
Answer for yourself: Remember Dorcas? What is so special about her? What did she do? To whom did she give her alms; to the church or to needy people?
Acts 9:36 36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did (Second Tablet of the Law) (KJV)
Answer for yourself: Did you notice if you read on in Acts 9 that Dorcas died.
Acts 9:37-40 37 And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber. 38 And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them. 39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them. 40 But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up. (KJV)
Answer for yourself: Did you notice that both Dorcas and Cornelius were given alms to the needy? This is always taught by Judaism to result in a life that is honoring to God and the fruit of which earns one Eternal Life! Is is an accident that we see a resurrection from the dead of a person where the only thing mentioned is that she "did good works" and "gave alms" which just happens to be obedience to the Second Tablet of the Law? No, not at all. Is this a coincidence or a "Pattern"? When I studied Judaism for 5 years and even had Rabbis on my television shows in Dallas we taught this to the Gentile Christians; especially since every Christian Church I know of robs God of his tithe from where these alms are to come and go directly to the people and not to parking lots, gymnasiums, insurance, remodeling, rent, functions, hotels, bigger ministries, or pastor's houses or dinners, and I could go on! Christians don't know the tithe and how God commanded it be given and all that they know is that a man stands in front of them admonishing them to "not rob God" but to bring all their tithes into the "storehouse" which the Church defines as "themselves" when the the truth of the matter is that is a "food barn" to feed the homeless, widows, orphans, crippled, sick, lame, blind, deaf, paralyzed and instead the Church makes us accessories to robbery of God by using these fund is ways not commanded by God. That is why when I learned the truth about the tithe by myself I told the senior Pastor where I was on staff that no longer will I tithe to this church but will give my tithe "only" to these areas since God said it! Sad, but we teach error misleading millions who never know the truth because they have little or no personal study of the Bible in their lives.Preaching is a poor substitute for teaching when "teaching is the highest form of worship of God" we can give according to the religion of a Jew like this Jesus.
Jesus, on the other hand, regarded the second commandment as arising out of the first, and, therefore, as its corollary. There was no way of loving God except by taking care of his children. God was the Father of us all. We must hallow him in His fatherhood: "Our Father . . . hallowed be thy Name." This can only be done by a full recognition of our brotherhood. There is no room for racism here. "One is your Master and all ye are brethren." This idea of the Fatherhood of God of all mankind is the foundation of all Jesus' precepts and teachings of "the Christ". It was the will of "our Father which is in heaven" that none of his children should suffer at the hands of each other. "Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of these, ye have done it unto me." "If any offend one of these little ones, better a millstone were hung round his neck, and that he were drowned at the bottom of the sea." Or again, " If thou bring thy sacrifice to the altar and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar and be reconciled first to thy brother." 'Thus, and thus only, can you glorify your "Father which is in heaven". Therefore THE FIRST COMMANDMENT CAN BE FULFILLED ONLY BY THE OBSERVANCE OF THE SECOND. This the pivot of all Jesus' teaching, and it is on this point that Jesus met with the strongest opposition.
Answer for yourself: Why was that? Obeying the Second Tablet of the Law will cost you something!
This led to quibblings as to the relative importance of the two commandments, the first, on which the “scribes and Pharisees" relied; or the second, on which centered the teaching of Jesus and which he contended was " like unto the first."
When, therefore, Jesus simply referred the lawyer to "the law," he made no distinction as between the first and second commandment, for to Jesus the two meant one and the same thing.
Answer for yourself: Does it appear to you that this Jesus thought that he was to be the end of the Law of God to you? You see, you can forge books all day long, and Rome has, and you can change the message of God in these books, but you cannot change the evidence and fruit of obedience of these Laws of God. Even in this New Testament with it host of problems and problem passage the light and truth yet shines forth if you know where to find it and how to recognize it. For me, studying Judaism, the religion of this Jew, I learned these precious Divine Truths over those 5 years and am able to spot this truth in the New Testament and separate it from the falsehoods and theological lies that also are in it.
But the lawyer in this parable disagreed with this Jesus and his view on the Law. Not having received the answer in the form in which he had expected it, and " willing to justify himself," he said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" That is, he challenged this Jesus on the second commandment, evidently trying to show the impracticability of his teaching.
And now the illuminating parable, which I will quote in full:
Luke 10:30-36
Jesus asks him a question. Reluctantly and evasively the lawyer admitted, " He that showed mercy on him." Again he was made to answer his own question.
But the chief significance of the parable he evaded, as do most of our Bible expositors of today. Nor, had it been the object of Jesus merely to teach the lawyer that "he that showed mercy was neighbor," Jesus could have chosen any three men for his parable, whereas he selected on purpose a priest, a Levite, and a Samaritan.
Answer for yourself: Why these three people?
It is just in the selection of the characters that the importance of the lesson is constituted. For the first man whom Jesus made to pass by on the other side was a priest, a man of prayer and fasting, of rites and ceremonials, looked upon as holy by his people. The second man was a religious man as well, equally conscientious in all the rituals of the synagogue.
Answer for yourself: And the third ? Jesus chose you and me for this 3rd example which was shot heard round the world in the ears of bigoted Jews such a the School of Shammai who hated Gentiles and "non-Jew". Jesus chose for this 3rd person a despised alien, a Gentile, an unbeliever, a pariah, loathed by every self-respecting Jew in those days as is a “minority” to-day in Christian America.
Among these Jesus bade the lawyer to choose:
"Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor to him that fell among thieves?"
The lawyer cleverly evaded the main issue by ignoring the status of the three persons named, and according his verdict to " him that showed mercy." To say outright, "The Samaritan", was perhaps too much to expect. He could not so debase priest and patrician, co-religionists and compatriots, as to prefer a Samaritan to them by name. But in this example we should see Cornelius, Dorcas, and ourselves as "non-Jews"!
But, the lawyer had to admit more than he was probably aware of at the time, and that is, that religion of deeds comes before profession of creeds. And that is the lesson of the "Parable of the Priest, the Levite and Samaritan." To speak of it as the "Parable of the Good Samaritan" only is to ignore its chief lesson.
Jesus explained to the lawyer, and to us, what his religion was: Creed, mental assent to religious “dogmas” and “doctrines”, prayer and fasting; patriotism, race, nationality, clanship; wealth and social position; were all brushed aside so as to accord place of honor to a good deed (Second Tablet of the Law), even though performed by one of the least of the sons of " our Father which is in heaven."
In the view of Jesus conventional piety, unsupported by good conduct, counted for nothing; whilst a good deed did not lose anything of its merits because performed by a person not belonging to a particular or to any sect.
We shall see further on that the absence of creed and ascent to “denominational belief systems” was an essential feature of the religion of Jesus, as in true religion it is bound to be. Said more simply, God cares more about how we live our lives than what we believe. We can be wrong about such things as "Who was Jesus, was he the Messiah, did he exist in history" for this does not really matter; what does matter with God is if we live according to the Laws of our Covenant; that "we live like this Jesus and "the Christ" for this is our example and ticket to Eternal Life". Such reliance on “creed” by Gentile Christianity, is the very heart of Gentile Christianity today and it should not be. You have to admit that you are either “in or out”, “accepted or rejected” in Christianity by what you “believe” more than what you “do”. At altar after altar, Sunday after Sunday, multitudes of people seeking God are led to “accept the current theology” of this church or that church and reassured that if they “believe” they shall be saved. The problem is what one is taught to “believe” changes between churches. Literally the Christian Church, due to the misunderstanding of Paul’s epistles, rely on acceptance of “creed” over “deed” for salvation. This Jesus, "the Christ" does not agree with them and neither does God. Think!
This narrative is by no means an isolated passage, but one out of many, all to the same purpose. As our investigation proceeds it will be seen that this Jesus, "the Christ", never uttered a word that is ever so remotely inconsistent with the spirit displayed in this brief but telling narrative. That there are many sayings in the Gospels attributed to this Jesus which are diametrically opposed to it is, of course, admitted and problematic to the discriminating reader. But too few study to this level to see such things. But we shall not find it difficult to show that all such passages are doubtful as today’s scholars teach us. The New Testament is forged and not accurate to the religion of this or any other Jew who is the light to world and possesses the true salvation message of God for all mankind. Dear one, we have two conflicting messages in the Gospels concerning “obtaining Eternal Life” and if you have not seen such conflicting dogmas of this later Romanized Paul then either you have not looked deep enough or you don't study enough. Superficial reading of the Bible profits little.
In this parable we have the key to the religion of Jesus, "the Christ". Traditional Gentile Christian theology extracts nothing more from this parable than an exhortation to be kind and to succor the weak. Blinded by its own dogmas, it never noticed the two leading principles that inspired it, that are the essence of it, and that must be the basis of true religion, if a true religion is possible at all. That true basis for all true religion is living by the Laws of God. Egypt taught us this in the beginning and did so 15,000 years B.C.E. They have the first Torah seen in their 42 negative confessions which they carved on the tombs and ossuaries. They lived their lives prepared to die and receive a good judgment from the Creator. These ancient Egyptians truly were righteous people and their children, the Jews, inherited these same Divine Concepts through Moses and Israel shines bright in a dark place today having the keys to Eternal Life to all those who look.. I did!
We will but briefly note these at present, for we shall see these two principles permeating the philosophy of Jesus.
Take, for instance, the lesson just noticed which Jesus imparted to an antagonist. The lawyer asked, “Who is my neighbor ?" Jesus made him answer his own question and in a way he neither anticipated nor intended. In this instance a bigoted Jew had to answer his own question contrary to his prejudices. We might submit the same problem, thus clearly stated, to every man and woman on this planet, to every Christian, to every Brahmin, Buddhist, Mohammedan or Freethinker with the same result. Its universalism and eternal truth is clearly due to the total absence of any suggestion of theology, creed or dogma.
Even the name of the author might be eliminated without weakening the force of the lesson; for the fact that Jesus was the propounder of it clearly could not weigh in its favor with the heckling antagonist. It is characteristic of all the precepts of Jesus that they intrinsically make for unity, peace and concord, without needing any other support. This the mark of truth and the verification of the true message of God's and His Christ!
Obviously there can be but one true religion, and therefore such a religion—if possible at all—must tend to unite mankind. Indeed, this is the test whereby to distinguish true religion from its counterfeits: "By their fruits ye shall know them."
Answer for yourself: What are the fruits of the pseudo-religions with which we are acquainted—not excepting any ?
They are known to history as religions dissensions, religious feuds, religious wars, religious frauds, and even as religious crimes. Surely no sadder commentary is possible on the general conception of religion than the linking of the word with ideas which stand for its opposite, without anybody being shocked by the incongruity of the combinations, or the paradoxes which they suggest. Such blindness affects the Christian Church yet today.
Matt 22:36-40
On a certain other occasion another lawyer asked Jesus—also " temptingly "—" Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law ?"
Except for the purpose of challenging a statement or an argument, there would be no sense in asking this question of a Jew; as well ask him whether he knows his own name.
Nor was this Jesus an ordinary Jew, or considered such by the heckling lawyer, who addressed him as “rabbi," i.e. " teacher." To assume, therefore, that the lawyer merely wanted to find out whether Jesus knew the commandment is too absurd for even a moment's consideration. Moreover, the narrator plainly says that the question was asked " temptingly," which in itself indicates that an argument was at issue between the lawyer and Jesus. The context not only shows this to have been the case, but from the answer of Jesus, as well as the conversation that followed it, we are able to gather the nature of the argument.
As I have already been pointed out, Jesus laid great stress on the second great commandment—" Love thy neighbor as thyself " (Second Tablet of the Law); whereas the " scribes and Pharisees" held the first great commandment (First Tablet of the Law) to be the supreme law. Hence the challenge of the lawyer, as if saying, "In your concern for mankind you are forgetting God. Do you not know the great commandment in the law ?"
In answering Jesus recited the law and then added: "This is the first and great commandment. By the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
This makes sense of a narrative which, in the form in which it is presented in the English Version, is meaningless. There Jesus is made to say, "And the second is like unto it"—rendering the Greek particle “de" by the conjunction "and" instead of the argumentative particle "but"—which robs the passage of its meaning. For it is not likely that Jesus would have thought it necessary to inform an exponent of the law what the wording of the second commandment was.
Jesus said the “second” commandment is “like” the first. Let us see his thought by examining the word “like” in the Greek”:
3664 homoios-
like, similar, resembling:
You can see for yourself that to Jesus the “second” commandment corresponds and resembles the first.
Mark 12:31
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
This, or a similar incident, is also recorded in Mark, the wording being slightly different. Jesus is there said to have added, "There is none other commandment greater than these two."
There is no contradiction in the two accounts, but rather corroboration. Very probably both versions are correct, the different wordings having been used on different occasions. The accusation that Jesus was ignoring the great law, and that he was teaching heretical and revolutionary doctrines, could not have been an isolated occurrence, but must have followed him. As constant must have been his reiterations that "the second law was like unto the first." Had the incident occurred once only, it would scarcely have survived or been handed down to us. Common to all these accounts we find Jesus emphasizing “deed” over “creed” and let us not forget that the religious leaders of his time had influenced just the opposite (“creed” over “deed” just the way Christianity does today!).
According to Mark: there was a dramatic sequel to this episode. The lawyer was struck by the answer and the interpretation Jesus gave to the two commandments. " And the scribe said unto him, “Well, Teacher, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God and there is none other but he: and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God (Mark: 12: 32-34).
Hidden beneath these texts again is the idea of Eternal Life!
Note the consistency with his reply given to the other lawyer: ''Thou hast said right, this do and thou shalt live." That is, obey these two commandments “and live”.
And now again when this lawyer says that the observance of these two laws "is more than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices," Jesus said to him, “Thou art not far from the kingdom of God";"On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets"; and "There is none greater than these two commandments." True, indeed, that he had not come to destroy the law or the prophets, but to fulfill. It will Roman Christianity and their continued concealment of the truth due to their antisemitism that will rob the Gentile world of this true message of salvation given to all mankind.
But now we must digress in order to restore to the phrase "kingdom of God" its original meaning and to correct a grave blunder committed by the early Gentile Christians and which has been perpetuated to this day in the Christian Church. The Greek word " basileia," here and elsewhere translated "kingdom," has two meanings. Like the English word " dominion " it may refer to the role of a king (which is the original meaning of the word) or, metaphorically, to the territory ruled over.
Jesus never used the phrase in the whole of the New Testament in any other sense than "the rule of God " or "reign of God," as is clear in each case from the context. When, for instance, he said to the lawyer "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God," the phrase can have meaning only if Jesus meant—-as evidently he did mean—that the lawyer was not far removed from the “rule " or "law " of God.
Dear Christian believer, if you have understood what I have shown you so far as to what this Jesus believed and taught over and over again as opposed to the "accepted" religious theology of our day in the Christian Church with our Bibles which says such things as "...you are not under law but under grace" and "Christ is the end of the Law, then this has vital importance for you although you might not have realized it. If your standing in your faith and your "salvation" is founded on your mental ascent and corresponding faith and belief in a Christian doctrine and dogma concerning "this" theology or "that" theology about this Jesus and what is described in the New Testament to have been done him, which I remind you this religious document given us by Rome can be shown to be a crass purposeful adulteration of the Hebrew Scriptures which is again misquoted in the New Testament as well. This book, mind you, is shown by modern scholarship today, to have been created and written long after the time of this reputed Jesus of Nazareth by the Roman church and amended and changed throughout successive centuries and successive Catholic Church Councils as their antisemitic theology evolved century to century. This book, and the preaching of traditional Christian Churches assures us that only have to "believe in Jesus" and that our salvation is based upon what we "believe" all the while down-playing the importance of good works and assures us that they are not required for salvation. Little do Christians know that in the earliest copies of the book or Romans missing is this key "salvation" passage:
Rom 10:9-10 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (KJV)
Our earliest copies of Romans do not contain chapters 9, 10, and 11 and, for our purpose here, we must see and it the startling fact that the above "salvation" passage was not in the original writings of the Gnostic Paul and was not there for a reason; that reason being that he did not believe in such a thing in the first place. Paul, whom Rome has writing 2/3 of our New Testaments was truly a Gnostic at heart but you rarely will see that in our corrupted New Testaments without much study and discernment on your parts. Our salvation, according to Christian dogma, is founded on one's mental belief in the doctrine that is attached to this Jesus and your confession of it to others. That doctrine, mind you, is that this Jesus "died for your sins" and "rose from the dead" and the "belief" is the only thing one needs to do in order to be "saved". This then assures one of salvation when they die. Surely any Christian person knows that "a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law" (Romans 3:28).
Contrary to what we saw Jesus, "the Christ", teach above the traditional stance of Christianity today, and since the earliest centuries of the Christian era, is that NONE of the Old Testament law applies to the Christian today. When Jesus died on the cross, he supposedly put an end to the Old Testament law (Rom 10:4; Gal 3:23-25; Eph 2:15).
Rom 10:4 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. (KJV)
Gal 3:23-25 23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. (KJV)
Eph 2:15 15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; (KJV)
Now we must pay attention closely to what I say next. Here is the ultimate paradox. In place of the Old Testament law, we as "believers" in this Jesus and "the Christ" are told we are under the law of Christ and not under the Laws of Moses any longer. Then we are told, in the same breath, that as Christians we are to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments” (Matt 22:37-40). If we do these two things, we are told that we will be fulfilling all that Christ wants for us to do, “This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3).
Answer for yourself: What? This is circular reasoning at its best and we are back at the beginning of what this Jesus taught but why all this anti-Law rhetoric then in this New Testament given us by Rome? Who can follow this train of thought correctly from beginning to end? Few. Most read one passage like "Christ is the end of the Law" and get up from there thinking that the Laws of Noah and the Laws of Moses are ended and passed away not comprehending the big picture or the message of this spiritual book.
I have heard other preachers say that the Ten Commandments are not even applicable to Christians.
Answer for yourself: Are you aware that you can find 9 of the Ten Commandments repeated in the New Testament (all except the command to observe the Sabbath day), but yet examples where "non-Jews" kept the Sabbath? We must read with understanding and for that to happen we must ask God to open our minds and hearts to see what we have not seen before when reading this book. We must ask God to allow us to see what He wants us to see and not what our Christian tradition and Churches and Pastors want us to see. We need to fall on our knees and stay there till our sight and spiritual perception is opened to the truth of God's message which is not always what traditional Christianity teaches.
Answer for yourself: Now for a big, big question. How do we love the Lord your God with all our hearts and with all our souls and with all our minds? How do we love our neighbor as ourselves?
There are many things we do which we think are right and good but actually in light of what God has commanded in the Hebrew Scriptures is not and we don't know it. Take tithing for example. It is good to give and God has commanded how this is to be done in the Hebrew Scriptures and laid it out plainly for all to see yet we are led in our Christian Churches to give our money and tithes to the Church were almost all don't follow the commandments and laws regarding the Tithe in the Old Testament and don't place and uses these funds correctly only in the areas and manners "commanded by God". You see God has stated clearly "how much" and "where" these gifts are to be used and USED ONLY! God has no slush fund where these fund can be used for whatever purpose the Pastor or board or directors so desires. So, in giving our gifts to God in our churches, we think we are doing good but by giving our funds to such people and not making sure these gifts go to the "places where I placed My (God) name" we become accessories to robbing God and not know it because we again don't know what the Word of God has to say on this matter. Like me once, you just trust your Pastors never knowing these texts well enough to spot disobedience. We may think we are loving God with all our hearts when we give and it "feels right" and we might cry with emotion but actually we are disobedient and never know it having insufficient knowledge of the Hebrew Scriptures. Again, our emotions and our church tradition deceives us. You see dear one, it is impossible to love God with all our hearts and with all our souls without knowing "How" to do it and this is the beauty of the Torah given to both Jews and "non-Jews" because it shows how. This Law, which this New Testament and our preachers assure us that we are no longer "under" is the way whereby God defined for all mankind how to make themselves pleasing to Him and in so doing gave them absolutes whereby they might know what is the perfect and acceptable will of God for all mankind. This Torah is a collection of Two Tablets of the Law containing requirements of mankind in his relationship with God and with his fellow man. There are 613 Laws in the Laws of Moses and 66 Commandments in the Laws of Noah. These Positive Commandments teach us what God "is" and what God "does" and the Negative Commandments teach us what God "is not" and what God "does not do". We are called by God and this is the "PATTERN" given us to shape, train, and mature our Souls in this plane of existence. When we take upon ourselves to live by this pattern of positive and negative commandments, and when the "non-Jew" fulfills the Laws of Noah and applies Isaiah 56 to his life where he goes beyond the minimum and "keep My sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant" then we are assured that our conduct and deeds are acceptable with God. We are admonished to rely not upon our understanding for a reason: "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." (Proverbs 16:25). Only in obeying these Commandments which result in righteous deeds and behaviors can we be assured that our deeds and motives are pure and proper before God and that such obedience is greater than any sacrifice that could be given. These Commandments, mind you, are our Covenant stipulations and which frame our individual Covenants with God.
Let us not forget that "mental assertion or belief in a religious dogma", even if about this Jesus, is not a "deed" but "creed". And within Christianity such mental accent in this "Jesus Story" is rampant to the neglect of the real message of this Jesus, "the Christ", regarding Eternal Life where "deed" is more important than "creed" or "mental belief". If our "dogmas" are correct then our "deeds" will be correct. Thus, the need to study to make sure we have "the truth". It is obvious from the teachings of Jesus that merely by agreeing, accepting, or assenting to a proposition or "religious belief or dogma" that one (the lawyer in the story) could not be any nearer to a locality. Compare also "Thy kingdom (i.e. 'rule' or 'reign’) come: Thy will be done on earth," etc. Believing "IN" someone is meaningless if that person's alleged teachings are not obeyed, or made of no effect by some later doctrine and this is the crucial issue involved with the Roman New Testament and its antisemitic and anti-Law bias.
The Gospels, containing both truth and error, are sadly full of such blundering errors of translation and misinterpretation when compared to the Hebrew Scriptures; sometimes due to the ignorance of the scribes and sometimes on purpose because of Gentile theological biases which were carried over from their past religious beliefs which were transferred and attached to the figure of Jesus. In so doing we lost the truth concerning the "Jewish Messiah" and "the Christ" as well. This might be news to you but serious study into these very difficult areas, such as Comparative religions, Gnosticism, Astronomy, Egyptian Religion, and Astrotheology, areas which makes the student’s task often very tedious and are emotionally unsettling at times, will result in such an undeniable conclusion which I have elaborate above concerning the true Gospel vs the false Gospel in this Roman New Testament. Right now many will disagree with what I have said but they do so only because of prior indoctrination in error and because they have not done the necessary studies and evaluated the vast amount of existing evidence from these areas of study for themselves. I have done this type of study going on twenty years now and so have hundreds of other Christian and Jewish scholars who, when having done such exhaustive and competent scholarly study, will tell you the same truth on the matter. In doing these studies from these above areas and sources and when reading good books we all see the same picture unfold and the same things since the truth is out there and has never changed since the beginning of recorded time; it changed in the 3rd century with Rome and today this same "truth" since the beginning of time lies hidden behind 1,800 years of lies, forgeries, ignorance, and deceptions. The bottom line from such studies is that you will see thatRome has given the Gentile world a false gospel, a false assurance, a false salvation message, a false atonement, a false Jewish messiah, a false Christ, and a false representation of this "Jesus". You will not find such materials that reveals these "changes" in Joshua's Christian Book Stores or at Zondervans, or at a "Family Christian Book Store" but this does not mean such overwhelmingly convincing evidence does not exist. Start by going to Barnes and Noble Book stores or Boarders and spend a few hours reading the titles of books in their non-Christian religious sections. Browse their "theology" sections and their "Jewish" sections along with their "Egyptian" sections and begin to set yourself free of this falsehood fed us since we were children in this country. Bet Emet Ministries stands in the gap to instruct in sound doctrine, reprove, rebuke, and exhort in order that you might find yourself in the true faith of this Jesus and not in a counterfeit faith that has lapsed from the truth.
Matt 19:16
16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
A certain ruler came saying, "Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?”'
Now we find that another approaches this Jesus but not temptingly this time, but comes to Jesus only with a pure desire for information that has an affect on his salvation. We should all hopefully identify with this truth-seeker for it should be us who does the same.
Three of the Gospels record this incident - Matthew, Mark, and Luke; and, barring verbal differences, their agreement as to everything that is essential leaves little to be desired. This seeker of truth was not a heckler. According to all the accounts this man was genuinely desirous of knowing what he should do to inherit eternal life. Notice that he knew what most Christians today do not know; namely, that there are things we must "do" for Eternal Life. Read the passage again and try to convince yourself that "do" should have been " believe" as the Roman New Testament and their Romanized-Paul would have us believe. It says "do" in all three Synoptic Gospels. This "seeker of truth" was a true disciple, for we are told that Jesus, beholding him, " loved him."
Answer for yourself: Are we to deduce that "the Christ" loves "truth seekers" who ask the tough questions in life? I will let you figure that one out for yourself.
Therefore, if ever there was an occasion or an opportunity in the whole career of Jesus to declare his scheme and message of salvation for all mankind, if there was even a time in the ministry of this Jesus to teach and reinforce Pauline doctrine that only those who will come to trust in his soon coming death, burial and resurrection for the payment of their sins and thereby inherit Eternal Life by "believing" in what he was soon to accomplish, surely this was the supreme moment. But this Jesus does not say anything like this at all; in fact he says just the OPPOSITE! And his answer cuts to the very core of his own personal faith. Jesus' answer is the very heart of what Judaism had taught for thousands of years concerning "mankind's salvation" and how mankind is to "obtain Eternal Life". The same can be said for Egypt as well from where the Jews arose. The "Gospels" of Egypt and Judaism are the same!
Answer for yourself: What should we notice now? Dear one consistency is to be strongly noticed and appreciated here. The three Synoptic Gospels stand in complete unity about this "message of Salvation" as opposed to both the Hellenistic Gospel of John and its "message of Salvation" as well as the later forged "Romanized Pauline epistles" which have hundreds of Gentile "footprints" to which the uninformed reader misses when he reads them.
Back to our study notice that Jesus rebuked this disciple for giving him a distinctive predicate: "Why callest thou me good ? there is none good but one, that is God." If you were a Jew then you would know that "good" was a euphemism for God and there is only One God and Only One Good….that is the Creator. This is a "key" that Gentile readers of the Gospel of John, uninitiated with the facts of the Jewish faith fail to catch. Then he gave him this simple direction in answering his question as to the method of obtaining Eternal Life: " Keep the commandments." Again we see the same message over and over and over again and it agrees with thousands of years of Jewish and Egyptian teaching on Eternal Life and can be traced even to 13,000 years B.C.E. in Egypt which is long before the first of the Jewish race ever existed and we see this same consistency and this same message in Jesus' "Salvation Message" in all 3 Synoptic Gospels and this dear one is how one was to obtain Eternal Life.
Now notice closely for we are almost finished. The man responded to Jesus' statement where he said "Keep the commandments" (Laws of your Covenant) with a question: "Which?" Jesus' answer was explicit: " Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honor thy father and mother, anti Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself'' (Mat. 14:16-21).
Answer for yourself: Did you notice anything peculiar in Jesus' answer that was missing from what you have been taught by Gentile Christianity today about the Laws of God regarding how to obtain Eternal Life?
There is NOT ONE word whatsoever in Jesus' answer about "believing" anything or any religious dogma or belief about him, or anything else for obtaining Eternal Life! Its all about "Keeping the Commandments" in our respective Covenants.
No hint about the necessity of baptism for inheriting Eternal Life is mentioned here. There is not even an intimation about attendance at the synagogue or about going to "Church" for receiving Eternal Life. There is not one hint about burnt offerings, blood sacrifices, fastings, or believing in any doctrines or religious dogmas connected somehow with Jesus' later death or believing in some forthcoming resurrection or death on the cross that is connected by Jesus with obtaining and inheriting Eternal Life. One would think that if these issues were integral and necessary for Eternal Life then Jesus would have taught so and warned this man to "don't miss it now". To fail to mention this and hide the truth from this man and teaching just the opposite concerning obtaining Eternal Life would make Jesus a false teacher and the penalty in the Torah for that is death! To do any less or to purposefully deceive this man who asked the most important question of his life is incriminating to the character of one believed by many to be Messiah or God no less. Surely Jesus did not have amnesia. It must be then that this Jesus told the truth!
Answer for yourself: Now some thought provoking questions. Was Jesus out to mislead us? Why did he not refer to the later Pauline doctrines of salvation that would be developed subsequently and afterwards connected with his death or even mention the forthcoming Gospel of John and its theology of the "crucified godman" if these doctrines and beliefs in them would be "necessary" for obtaining Eternal Life as the Gentile Church teaches us today? Why didn't Jesus tell this man to believe in "his identity as the Messiah or 'the Christ'" and "who he was" and "what he was about to do"? Why did Jesus not refer to the "creed" that Paul supposedly would writer later in Romans 10: 9-10 where all mankind only needs to "believe" and "confess" this creed or believe in this creed and Christian doctrine about Jesus to be "saved"? Did you know that this part of the Book of Romans, chapters 9-11, were not in the original Book of Romans and added in the Second Century? I did not know that Paul was on life-supports that long, did you? Did Jesus have the salvation message of Judaism wrong? Was he an illiterate Jew unknowing of his own faith?
You see this Jesus knew, as all good Jews know, that salvation is not about believing in a doctrine about a dying god or godman who is later raised from the dead but about life and how one lives his life before God. That is why we were given these Laws of God in the first place for they are the pathway to Eternal Life and "Heaven" when obeyed and repented of when we fail. them These Laws are to be a life-style!
Now I apologize for jumping so far ahead as we wrap this up.
Answer for yourself: Could it be possible that this Jesus knew, as did many Jews and Rabbis back then, that such doctrines as the "dying and rising god or godman" or "the crucified godman", which had been by the way taught for thousands and thousands of years since the beginning of time in "so-called" and Roman defined "pagan" nations , all the way back in Ancient Egypt some 10,000 years or more, was NEVER to be understood "literally" in context but was ONLY symbolic and allegorical for the Descent of the Divine Soul into matter, into flesh, where it was to be trained daily by these Commandments and Laws of God to control the animal nature of the body and in so doing perfect itself Spiritually in preparation for its return to Heaven one day and its reunification with the Father of Light? A corruption and a false "literalization" of this Ancients spiritual wisdom will be created by Rome in their New Testaments and in so doing the very vehicle given all mankind for his perfection is taken away from them and rendered as a "curse" and "null and void". In its place Rome's replacement salvation message will be built upon a mental belief and assent to a "theology" which they created when they "literalized" the "godman" and taught that such a belief in this Jesus, as this godman, was necessary for salvation and Eternal Life. But such a teaching and "literalization" of the "godman" I found has absolutely no place within Biblical faith, Sinai, Israel, Egyptian religion, or anything to do with the saving God of Israel! That is why you don't find such things as taught by this Jesus, or "this Christ", in the Synoptic Gospels when he was asked concerning the way to inherit Eternal Life.
Dear ones this is the problem that most Christians today are confronted with when they study. If you study long enough and hard enough you will eventually encounter the truth about this Jesus and "the Christ". You, not knowing this Ancient truth, have believed in a book handed down to you by an antisemitic Rome which is a propagandist mixture of "literalized 'pagan' religious doctrines" blended with a little truth from Biblical Judaism. Antisemitic Roman theology has created a "hybrid Jesus" whereby he is pictured in the New Testament both as a Zeus and an anointed Jewish Rabbi positioned to be the Messiah of Israel. Well-intentioned people have put their whole faith into what the New Testament teaches never noticing the many outstanding contradictions concerning doctrine after doctrine that exist when compared with Biblical Judaism which birthed this movement in the beginning let alone Egypt where these first understandings of God, the Divine realm, and Eternal Life began. Dear one it is these "doctrines" regarding the Descent of the Divine Soul into matter, into this fleshly temple made without hands, and its maturation and spiritual development through training by obedience to the Commandments and Laws of God which, when "believed", lead to "doing", and "doing" unto Eternal Life. We either do it right or we do it wrong. If we do it wrong because we are led astray by much in the New Testament then we sin and our Souls lay anemic and unchanged. By declaring the New Testament "inspired, infallible, and inerrant" we have taken from most the initiative to study thereby falsely assuring its readers that this New Testament is "Divine truth" from page to page. No one ever approaches the New Testament desiring to prove it wrong. I did not. It was only after consistent study over the years that these things surfaced to my understanding. Like most I wanted to "believe" and accepted everything in the New Testament as "true". I was "saved". The more I studied Jesus the Jew and his faith did I begin to see the irregularities and contradictions within it when contrasted with what I had been taught as a Gentile Christian. The more study I did when comparing doctrine with doctrine, line upon line, and precept upon precept was I able to detect the forgery and the corruption of the true Salvation Message given us by God and how we are to obtain Eternal Life. Over time I began to see that in many places this Paul and Jesus disagreed on their "salvation" messages. Over time I began to see that the New Testament pitted "creed" against "deed" as connected with Eternal Life. Over time I began to see how the Gospel of John was a total denial and contradictions of the Synoptic Gospels regarding obtaining Eternal Life which stressed "deed" over "creed". As I later began in-depth study in comparative religions I was horrified to find the "Christ story" repeated over and over again in almost every Gentile religion that existed prior to the time of Jesus' life; even as far back as Ancient Egypt where I found the names for "Jesus Christ" and "the Christ". Egypt got it right and so did their children the Jews and today in Judaism we find this sacred truth which is terribly blurred almost beyond recognition in Rome's New Testament. Now pay attention please. Over time I came to understand why these "Jesus Stories" were the same and were copied from nation to nation for thousands of years down through history where only the "names" were changed but the "events" and "sayings" remained intact. These prior "Jesus Stories" were not to be stories of "literal godmen" who died and were raised to life again but pictures, symbols, metaphors, and allegories of the awaking of this God and His Christ within mankind and man's partnership with God in redeeming this Soul as well as this physical plane on which we live and this is done through exerting God's will toward it by obedience to His Laws and Commandments. This is how we "till the garden" of this Earth we call Eden. I soon came to realize I was a "creedal Christian" which held dear to himself hundreds of erroneously understood ancient and "pagan" beliefs that had nothing to do with a "literal Jewish Jesus" at all. This whole Bible was an allegory of a Divine truth interpreted through the development and evolution of a Jewish people, written through the unfolding of a Jewish nation and through their eyes to teach the Souls of all mankind to grow up into God's image. I came to realize that this Earth is a training ground whereby we, as God's Souls and life principles in matter (flesh), a long away from home, develop and mature spiritually to the degree we submit to and obey God's Laws and Commandments. I realized that I had been a follower of a "literalized" Roman Jesus heavily influence by an anti-Law biases from a Romanized Paul and a forged New Testament. That meant simply that I had a false salvation message. I had the wrong "gospel" and only when I discovered the "Jewish Christ", when looking deeply into a "Jewish Jesus", an example for all mankind which had not forsaken the Laws of God but loved and taught them, did I find the real truth of God given to mankind in the beginning of time. The world's oldest and purest religion, the religion of Egypt, testifies to this and the Jews are their biological offspring and carry their parent's revelations of the Divine yet today. Greece destroyed Egypt but try as they may no one has succeeded to destroy their Jewish children and it is here we find the truest reflection of that original message given mankind by God in the beginning of time which shows all how to inherit Eternal Life. Such a "Romanized Jesus" never existed nor these anti-Jewish doctrines about him. I had been deceived. Fifteen years of intense study had paid off for me; but what about you?
You can either read this article and discount it completely or you can open you mind and realize that you need to begin serious study in order to prove you yourself what I have shown you to be true; hopefully in time for your repentance from this Romanized Jesus and Paul before you die and meet the God you love who never gave you such "anti-Jewish and anti-Law beliefs" in the first place. The choice is yours.
Again, not a word was mentioned by this Jesus about "believing" this or that for Eternal Life.
Answer for yourself: Should we suppose that such instruction had been given, but had been lost in the transmission? Is the account as it has reached us perhaps incomplete ? Not so. The narrative does not leave us in any doubt for we have two other Gospels in complete agreement on the issue concerning obtaining Eternal Life. Besides that, it goes on to say that the young man, wishing to be certain about his duties, said: " All these I do already, what lack I yet?"
Jesus said that if he wanted to he perfect, all he could do was to sell what he had, give it to the poor, and help him to preach the SAME gospel to the rest of mankind.
Answer for yourself: Here is almsgiving again and we mentioned that above several times since it is a "deed" that leads to Eternal Life as seen in the examples of Dorcas and Cornelius and showed you how incorrect tithing is an abomination of such a truth! Now do you think you have been taught the "same" Gospel "the Christ" taught or a substitute one?
There is not only agreement between these scattered narratives, in sharp contrast to the substance of the rest of the Gospels, but a most remarkable consistency of aim and purpose. This consistency is not merely between the three incidents we have noticed, but also with the exhortations of the Sermon on the Mount, which, by universal admission, constitute the essence of the teachings of Jesus.
Here as elsewhere, that is, in those portions of the Gospels which in style and diction no less than in doctrine are so easily distinguishable from the rest, Jesus is laying emphasis on what he himself calls " the greatest of all commandments": " Love thy neighbor as thyself." In so doing, that is, in loving our " neighbors," whosoever they may be, we are hallowing the Fatherhood of God.
Rites and ceremonials were of no account at all. This is what the Catholic Church is all about…"creed" for salvation. Before you begin to bash Catholics understand Protestantism is little better. Understand that rites and ceremonies were not condemned in Judaism, but at the same time were admissible only after proper observance of the Law. Every trespass against a fellow-man, even the slightest, was an error which no amount of prayer or sacrifice could condone without repentance. All his precepts and all his arguments are centered around this principle. Our ideal was to be the image of God in this world, the Father which is in heaven.
Contrast now what we have learned above with the following words which are put into the mouth of this Jesus by the Gentile redactors of the Gospel of Mark:
"And he [Jesus] said unto tract, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall he saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned."
Answer for yourself: Is this the same Gospel that this same Jesus has been teaching or has someone tampered with the texts again? I may point out that it is known to me that it has been questioned whether Mark wrote the verses in which this passage occurs. But if he did not, some other scribe did; and the words, forged as they are, summarize well the basic doctrine of Christianity which opposes the truths of Judaism even yet today.
Compare this illogical, incomprehensible and brutal decree ("damned for not believing and damned for being sprinkled"...by the way millions were murdered by Rome for not being sprinkled and for immersing their infants as well as themselves down through church history) with the reasoned, humane and gentle exhortation:
" Love your enemies, bless them that curse yolk, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you; that you may be the children of your Father which its in heaven."
Answer for yourself: Is it possible to believe that the same teacher, so consistent, so clear and logical, and so meticulously just and gentle as is the author of the Sermon on the Mount could have pronounced so unutterably absurd a decree ?
Answer for yourself: What, if we accept this as genuine, are we to make of the other injunction which bids us to be "like our Father which is in heaven" ["deed" again…remember?]? The proposition is too absurd for serious argument.
Dear one take this to heart and understand that Gentile Christianity today follows a religious belief system that in most parts is totally alien to what the true Christ actually believes and has taught men for thousands of years to do to inherit Eternal Life. Decide today to come to know better this symbolic "Jewish Jesus" as symbol and "the vehicle of the Christ", follow this example, learn this religion of the Jew, and help expose the lies taught in the name of the Roman Zeus. Shalom.
Let us continue on the second in this series where we look at the Gospel of the Romanized Paul
Recover "The Faith Once Given To The Saints" Which Has Been Perverted By Gentile Christianity And Their "Literal" and "Historical" Interpretation of the Sacred Texts
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