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Many people in the Gospel asked that very same question directly to Jesus and let's see what the reply was;
"And behold, one came up to him, saying, "Teacher, what good deed must I do, to have eternal life?"
"And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One there is who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments." Matthew 19:16-17
Answer For Yourself: A question to the Christians is: why would Jesus mislead this man if the only way to heaven was through the blood of Jesus? Surely Jesus would know that later "some" of his followers would teach that we no longer are under Law (Commandments) but grace as Paul would teach in Rom 6:14:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace?
Answer For Yourself: Was Jesus misleading this man by teaching that Works will open the Gates of Heaven?
"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:10
Answer For Yourself: Is Jesus in this verse saying that those who are persecuted for living life devoted to righteousness and who are possibly martyred will go to Heaven and those who die and suffer for a good cause will go to Heaven? NO
According to Thayer’s Greek Lexicon...the word for RIGHTEOUSNESS:
1377 dioko-
Often words have more than one meaning as in this case so one must look at the context of the passages before and after the questionable one to clarity meaning. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus’ theme is holy and righteous living that elevates man toward God. Martyrdom has nothing to do with it but since asceticism is the backbone of Roman Catholicism and they controlled the Greek manuscripts that would later make up the New Testament they made sure their doctrines replaced the meanings Jesus intended when it suited their purpose. No greater example can be found than this for as you can see the meaning intended by Jesus is:
We need only to again look at Thayer's Greek Lexicon for the answer as we examine the Greek word used which means:
1343 dikaiosune-
Answer For Yourself: Is Jesus teaching that there is a "way" in which man can attain a state of approval with God and, according to Jesus, that way is the way or "righteousness"? WOW! Why doesn't Jesus make mention of the Cardinal religious doctrines which will later be formed around him and his life that his later Gentile followers will teach as necessary for Eternal Life and the Kingdom of God like "belief" in his death, his resurrection, or this death as a sacrifice for one's sin? Is it not puzzling that directly from the mouth of Jesus we find no such "teachings" recorded in all his sayings in the New Testament? Could it be that the message of salvation taught by Jesus is not the one the Gentile Church would later teach in his name?
The answers for the above questions are both easy and difficult. Unless one has done some considerable study in comparative religions of the non-Jewish nations and their influence upon certain "sects" within Judaism then one is incapable of seeing that the "salvation message" as taught by the non-Jews in Jesus' name is nothing more than the replaying of the Osirian legend; the only things new is that the doctrines surrounding Osiris are applied to Jesus. You might not want to know this, admit this, or accept this. That is "ok" by us at Bet Emet, by your denial of this does not change the fact THAT THIS PLAGIARISM BY THE GENTILE BELIEVERS IN JESUS EXISTS AND IT IS IN DIRECT OPPOSITION TO WHAT JESUS TAUGHT HIMSELF AS THE WAY OF SALVATION FOR THE WORLD.
Answer For Yourself: According to the certain selected passage, as recorded in the New Testament, are we led to believe otherwise than a way of live lived in obedience to the Commandments of God culminating in a life of righteousness as the way of Eternal Life? We sure are!
Answer For Yourself: And is Jesus again being misleading since all Christians claim that the one and only way to Heaven is through the blood of Jesus as the church teaches since Jesus was persecuted and killed?
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
Jesus said "What is written in the law? How do you read?"
And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."
And he said to him, "You have answered right; do this, and you will live." Luke 10:25-28
The lawyer asked the teacher Jesus how to have eternal life and Jesus replied "Read"... "The Law"..... "Obey the Law" believe in God and love your neighbor.
Answer For Yourself: Why in front of all these people would Jesus not tell them the so-called "only way that the Christians of today are saying" as the way to Heaven..." no way to heaven except through the blood of Jesus", why would Jesus contradict today's Christians and Pastors? Could we innocently be incorrect in what we believe because we have been taught in error because the document we look to for "salvation" has been corrupted from the Eternal Truths such a document should have contained?
Answer For Yourself: Are Christians freed from the Law as the modern Christians teach?
"Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:19
Answer For Yourself: Why would Jesus teach this if he came so that his blood can relax the Law, why is it when he was on earth, he taught not to relax the Law? And notice Jesus says that those who follow the Laws will be the Highest in Heaven.
"Not every one who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is I heaven." Matthew 7:21
Answer For Yourself: Salvation according to some Christians comes from taking Jesus as your god and accepting the claimed blood sacrifice, while on the other hand, Jesus seems to be saying the opposite. Why is that?
Answer For Yourself: Aren't Christians supposed to follow the Teachings of Jesus?
Answer For Yourself: As far as Salvation is concerned, many over the world, in other religions no less, are following the Teachings of Jesus better than most Christians, why haven't the Christians started yet?
"For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother." (Mark 3:35) If Jesus is god, why would he claim that who ever follows the Commandments would be the brother or mother of god ?
Answer For Yourself: What does being a brother or mother of God mean? Try examples of those who are in RELATIONSHIP (in this instance relationship with God)!
"Jesus said to him, "If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me." Matthew 19:21
Jesus said that having treasure in Heaven is accomplished by “giving to directly to the Poor.” Jesus is Teaching Piety to Enter Heaven.
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." Matthew 19:24
This Verse was very revealing to me, Jesus is repeatedly saying, a rich man will not enter Heaven.
Some Christians of today claim that Jesus died for all sins, yet Jesus repeatedly taught that greed will prevent you from entering Heaven.
Answer For Yourself: What about those Christians who are rich? Aren't they saved according to the 10% that they give their church? Remembering Jesus mandate to obey the Commandments of God for Eternal Life, it is not very comforting to learn that the vast majority of Christian Churches which collect the Tithe violate the Commandments regarding Tithing in the way they collect it and how they allocate the funds. In reality they are robbing God by not using the funds collected in the prescribed manners as commanded in the Law. That makes the givers accessories to robbing God as they give to institutions which do not themselves obey the Commandments of God in this regard. Make no mistake about it this is a violation of the Commandments which Jesus already said are necessary to inherit Eternal Life since the Church never used the funds collected in the percentages required by the Commandments which say where the moneys collected are to be used and allocated. Such is robbery of God and few know it! It will be a terrible thing to wake up "dead" one day and find out that all the money you gave to your church financing the "Kingdom of God" did just the opposite and your introduction to God will be as a robber and one who thwarted the Kingdom of Heaven with each check you wrote to your church!
Now according to the vast majority of Christian Churches and Christians of modern day, who ever believes in the blood of Jesus, believes in his resurrection and lordship, and accepts Jesus as god, then that is the only way that person is saved, not through works.
Rom 10:9 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. (KJV)
I must say this is a very "convenient" passage in the New Testament that makes "salvation" so easy; all you have to do to be saved and inherit Eternal Life according to Paul is simply "believe in Jesus," or in a certain doctrine about him; in this case just believe and say that you believe that Jesus was raised from the dead and that makes him Lord then you have received the most precious gift God can give...Eternal Life.
There is but one MAJOR problem with the above verse.
This "convenient verse" cannot be found in the earliest New Testament manuscripts; in fact it is absent in the first New Testament collected by Marcion in and around 150 A.D. In fact, this "convenient verse" does not show up until we reach the second century and then "poof" we have it. I guess Paul was on "life supports" in order to write this verse some 150 years following his death. The attempted humor is to offset the tragic implications that one who is equipped with the facts must realize. The New Testament, in places, is a concoction of religious jargon that has gone a long way to destroy the truth of the faith of Jesus and what he actually taught and believed himself concerning the way of God. Oh my friends, the tragedy of this is our love for God is often compromised by lies taught as truth. Discernment is the key and this comes with a price; much study and knowledge must be amassed before one can find his way through this maze of conflicting religious doctrines in this supposed "Divine" revelation called the New Testament. Oh, by the way, one does not find Romans chapter 9, 10, or 11 till the second century as well, and remember is is there we find "Israel" blinded by God to truth. Again, so convenient to blaspheme the whole of Jesus' people as untrustworthy and incapable of teaching the non-Jews about God in light that they are Eternally called to do so as the "light of the world."
Now let's see if Jesus again contradicts the church;
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes Him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life." John 5:24
It is clear that according to Jesus the way to Heaven is to believe in God (who Sent Jesus) and to hear (follow) the words of Jesus (which happen to be G-d's words) and not the words of the later Gentile Church which is filled with anti-Semitism, so much so that they will change the whole of the salvation message and pretend it was given by God in their altered and forged documents which today find their way into the collection called the New Testament.
Answer For Yourself: Does Jesus want us to believe in his blood or to believe that he and his message is from God?
"Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. John 6:35
Therefore Jesus is telling them that if they believe in him (While he was Alive) that they will receive paradise.
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father." John 14:12
Truly, Honestly, I give you my Word Jesus Says: the Human who does Works as I do (Jesus followed the Laws of Moses) then that human will follow me to the Father (God).
"Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." John 8:12
Answer For Yourself: What does a light do? it guides, directs, it shows you the Right Path, A light does not symbolize one to be sacrificed, but instead, one to Guide.
Therefore I am Puzzled as to why Jesus would name off all these specific teachings and keys to enter Heaven except the one that the Christians teach (his blood). Are you?
According to Jesus, all men are blessed and will be in Heaven because they believe God sent Jesus and they follow works (which is nothing more than the Commandments of God actualized and lived out practically and concretely), I pray that Christians will at least follow the words of Jesus and may "his teachings" lead them to Truth.
This is not to say that we can work our way into Heaven which is a common misunderstanding of Christians. But faith in God. a living faith that obeys, coupled with the knowledge of the Commandments of God, as aspects of Covenant responsibility, as well as obedience to them, are required to inherit Eternal Life according to Jesus. Paul taught otherwise.
You have to decide who you are going to believe; Jesus or Paul. The problem is the corruption of the documents which report to be Divine Revelation and within this New Testament document we have differences and conflicting doctrines on Eternal Life as taught by Paul and by Jesus. Often I hear some say "you are wrong, they don't conflict." Let me say that only betrays the shallowness of one's study; again one might deny, or refuse to admit, or even study such things out, but my justification is that one can never disprove it for in-depth and objective study will reveal it to the honest seeker. The facts are that these documents comprising the New Testament have been altered from the original "mind of Christ" and are not a true picture of the events recorded to the teachings held by the original followers of Jesus. But you have to study this out to see. So hopefully you will do that.
This is to clarify that we can not be saved by Faith alone, even in religious doctrines about the life of Jesus as interpreted by the Gentile Church to inherit Eternal Life; nor can salvation be obtained by adhering or accepting this or that doctrine about Jesus which is nothing but the fruit of Catholic debates over the centuries as they hammered out their own version of Osirian Christology and applied that to Jesus. Again, according to Jesus, our way to Heaven is to obey those Laws of Moses respective of our Covenant to inherit Eternal Life. For the non-Jew he must realize that within these 613 Laws of Moses one finds the residue of a prior Covenant containing 66 Commandments for non-Jews. It is called the Covenant of Noah. That is where the non-Jew must start and hopefully graduating with the knowledge of Isa 56 that he can choose to take upon himself other Commandments and Sabbaths of the the LORD to demonstrate his love for God. Such is love my friend. A love that obeys and reaches out for the righteousness which only comes as fruit from Commandment obeyed and not "passed away" by some new religious interpretation by the anti-Semitic church of yesteryear.
It is said well by Jesus's younger brother and disciple (James) who said; "Faith without works is Dead" {Jas 2:26}
Answer For Yourself: Have you fallen into the deception of death faith?
It is time for serious study to recover the truths about the Historical Jesus, as well as the corruption of the New Testament as a fraudulent representation of the true faith of Jesus before it is too late. What we at Bet Emet will hope you will do is begin a serious study of the early Faith Once Given To The Saints and if you do, then you will discover, as have thousands who have read our Ministry, as well as others, how the New Testament was corrupted by Gentile sun-worshippers who today are called Early Church Fathers and how the oral traditions and manuscripts were altered and passed down to the unsuspecting like you and me today. We have inherited "lies" passed off as religious truths because we accept without question a document which is blend of pagan sun worship in many doctrines, many of which have been passed off as divine truth. Basically, the New Testament is nothing but a re-hash of Osiris and the original G-dman Savior replayed through the life of a Jewish Rabbi. Every Gentile nation has one almost and the many of the doctrines of the New Testament can be traced directly back through successive Gentile nations whereby you can see this for yourself. Surely Jesus is more than a replay of Egyptian Sun Worship.
Answer for yourself: If Jesus is sent by God, and he came to die and his blood was to redeem as parts of the New Testament says as the way to inherit Eternal Life, then why come at all as many pagan myths existed where this was done before prior to Jesus by a whole host of crucified g-dmen? Why come at all if he has nothing new to offer?
I got news for you. Little has changed in the non-Jewish world. Sun-myths reign in 2.5 billion of the world's population today. They are called Christians. Now it is up to you to see if what I have said is true. Sadly, if you look you will find such deceptions in the texts you believe to be Divine and Infallible in the New Testament once you undertake such a serious study. Have faith and above all have courage for the truth can be recovered. You just read it in the mouth of Jesus. But not all who are portrayed with a message from God in the New Testament have one! But understand the faith and beliefs of the historical Jesus stand apart from vicarious atonement and many of the doctrines of Paul and the Church. Many will try to read vicarious atonement" into texts and even alter them to suit their purpose. You can begin with Isa. 53 which the scholars say the Essenes worked over more than any texts they had! That is why the Isaiah in the Christian Bible, for the Septuagint, reads COMPLETELY different from the Isaiah in the Jewish Tanakh! The Essenes to which many look to day for hidden truth developed into little more than sun-worshippers in the days of Jesus in rejection of Judaism toto. Their alteration of the Tanakh proves a different theological agenda from the Jews in Jerusalem. Basically in closing, you have to make a big decision and decide if you want to be a follower of Jesus or a follower of the other doctrines of the New Testament which contradict Jesus' message on how to obtain Eternal Life. The choice is yours. Shalom.
Let us continue our studies by examining what the phrase "Born Again" originally meant.
