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First, let me say personally that I hope you enjoy and profit spiritually from the many publications prepared for you on this website as well as others by Bet Emet Ministries. As you read I bet you sure will be stimulated in your thinking after reading them. I urge you to judge for yourself what is being taught in these publications by careful comparison with the Holy Scriptures as written in the Hebrew Bible and not your Christian Bibles for you will come to see that they are far from a reliable translation. You are responsible to "not believe" what I write but to study this information out for yourself to verify what I am saying is the "truth". That means that you will need to purchase or procure some books to see these "truths" for yourself. I suggest that you begin with a Stone Edition Tanakh or the JPS Tanakh in order to do such comparative Scriptural studies of the Hebrew texts and trace their corruption down through the Greek and English Christian versions of our Bibles today. Even more, for the more ambitious students I recommend obtaining the LXX, the Septuagint which is English-Greek translation of the Old Testament for many "falsifications" find their origin here. You can get one on amazon.com. That's right; you will have to do some study on your own in order to substantiate for yourself beyond any doubt that what you read as presented and taught by our Ministry is the "truth" and nothing but the truth. I tell everyone of our students "don't believe anything I teach, but check it out to make sure what I have said is truth". But such personal study to verify what we teach and your faith and any changes toward it is your personal responsibility before your Creator, and as I have found, one's personal study of our inherited Christian faith is the only guarantee of truth that we can have. It will take effort on your part. It is work, no doubt, but truth has always had a price. That is where the problem begins for the Christian believer today; way to much preaching and too little personal study has allowed us to drift from the truth down through the corridors of time. Remember one of the gifts of the Spirit is "teachers" not "preachers". I hope you are baptized with a hunger for truth like never before and that you act on it for God desires that all His children have truth and not fiction as the foundation of our relationship with Him.
As a former baptist boy and later an ordained Pastor who studied to much it give me no joy to have to inform the reader that the New Testament can be proven to be a collection of hundreds and hundreds of purposeful misquotations and mistranslations of the Hebrew Masoretic text and the Hebrew Scriptures. Such numerous errors and purposeful corruptions of the Hebrew texts in our Christian Bibles, in "key" theological and doctrinal positions, are not attributable to "accident"; rather they were premeditated and deliberate "tampering with the Hebrew text" whereby, in reality, a "new religion" was created and in so doing destroyed the "Pattern of Worship" given all mankind by God in the beginning of recorded time. As if that is not bad enough, the New Testament can be shown to be a depository of hundreds and hundreds of passages taken out of context from the intended meaning of the original Hebrew writer and used in the New Testament in alternate ways which does great damage to the intended original meaning of the Prophet and writer. In so doing this original "message from God" was corrupted, perverted, and debased and made almost unintelligible and unknowable today. Understand that this was all done on purpose; to create a "substitute faith" whereby the emerging Gentile Roman Church would not have to submit to the commandments and laws of God, and the end result is that much error has been attached to the life and teachings of "the Christ" as recorded in the New Testament. This "original message of God to all mankind", as well as this "Pattern of Worship" for all mankind, as handed down since Egypt and entrusted to the Jewish nation for all the world, was tragically changed and "reinterpreted" by an emerging antisemitic Gentile Roman Church and Empire in the 3rd century and few know of this today because of the proliferation of their forged and fabricated religious documents which go heralded by the unlearned and unstudious as "inspired, infallible, and inerrant" today!
This literary deception is called today "replacement religion" and this is what we inherited in the Christian Church wether we know it or not. Please study the issues discussed in each article in order to prove to yourself that what we write and teach you is the truth according to the Hebrew Holy Scriptures in their original language. Only in such a way will you, the reader, see these changes for yourself and know what we teach is the truth now exposed for all to see. No wonder "salvation is of the Jews".
If you think you can just read your English KJV and compare a New Testament text to the Old Testament text in your KJV and be assured you have the proper translation then let me said the record straight on that right now. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Both the Old Testament and New Testament in your Christian Bible are frauds in many areas because the "theology" of the Bible Committee responsible for the publication of your Bible made sure that "the Bible" agreed with what they "believed". I always thought that a "faithful and true translation" was what we need to both believe and possess. What I found upon my serious study when prompted by Rabbis to verify my Christian texts was that many, way to many of them was severely incorrect when compared with the Hebrew texts. I don't mean a "different word was used to say the same thing"; I mean outright deception where "religious doctrines and dogmas were changed" from how they had existed in Biblical Judaism and were taught to the earliest Gentile believers before the 3rd century! I sadly found as a Christian pastor that instead of a faithful translation of the Hebrew-Jewish Masoretic text, the Bible that the Jewish people and their Rabbis use, I was given an Essene and Gentile Roman Christian "creationism" instead and never knew it!
Just because you have never hear these things before does not mean
that they are not true; it only means that this information has not
crossed your path as of yet. I maintain that God desires all His children
to know the truth no matter what it is or how hard it is to hear. It is a
shame we have to "unteach" before we can "learn"
today. Had Rome never lied to us and changed the religion of Judaism in
their New Testaments in the 2-3rd centuries then this "unlearning"
and emotional roller coaster would not be necessary. Today archeology has
shown us that this "change" is real and is open for all to see
today if they have the desire.
Often I hear the reply: "I don't know Hebrew or Greek...How am I to know what you say is true?" Well that is really easy. First of all know that all you have to do is ask of us and we will be glad to show you how to begin an elementary discovery of English-Hebrew and English-Greek materials which bring these more accurate meanings of these Hebrew and Greek words under the English of your Bibles to light. But the problem is not just with words in original languages that have different meanings, understand for certain that the problem lies in purposefully altered texts which go unnoticed today when read in our Bibles since most Christians do not have access to or knowledge of such facts let alone a Hebrew-English Bible to compare texts. Therefore we end up reading, believing, and trusting falsehoods that we read in our Christian Bibles trusting everything we read; never realizing we don't have the truth when we read these "key" passages over and over again. Our religious belief systems are build upon error, lies, and deceit and we never know this until we die and then find the truth as we stand before God. Better to learn now and repent of the hidden idolatry that goes with so much of this "replacement religion" of Rome. We must remember that the Bible was NOT written in English and we have only an English translation, and a poor one at that for the most part. It is from such research and the results we uncovered from comparative manuscript evidence and truth seeking over the years that we at Bet Emet have learned to repent at much of what is taught today by normative Christianity. Much of what we hear sermonized Sunday after Sunday, much of which is read in the New Testament as fulfillment of the Hebrew Old Testament that implies that Jesus is the fulfillment of the Hebrew Messianic Scriptures let alone "God" is simply not found in the original language of the Hebrew Scriptures and Jewish Bible when taken back to the Aramaic and Hebrew. We as Gentle Christians and followers of "the Christ" have been duped and never knew it!
The tragic part for the unsuspecting believer is that much of what we speak about is often believed and done by believers unknowingly as they are falsely assured by their pastors who, unacquainted with the Greek and Hebrew foundations of their Bible, lead them falsely astray. Just think for just a moment, there are over 2,000 different denominations today, but one Lord, one baptism, one faith! Just one faith!
Answer for yourself: How many different "Jesus" and "Christs" are out there and why so many theological differences and competing and conflicting Christian denominations for this "one faith"? How can Christianity be the fulfillment of Biblical Judaism when the Christian Old Testament and later quotes from it as found in the New Testament can be shown to unfaithful, traitorous, untruthful renderings and corruptions of the true Hebrew Scriptures? How can such improprieties be taken with the Sacred Hebrew Scriptures in the New Testament and yet be considered "truth"; a truth we base our Eternal Life and Salvation upon?
Answer for yourself:
Which one of these 2000 plus denominations has this ultimate saving
truth? Is this "ultimate truth" even to be found anywhere in
Christianity? Could this "ultimate truth" and path to Eternal
Life rather be found in Judaism in their Hebrew Scriptures before they
were purposefully corrupted, debased, and perverted and we again not know
this due to repeated indoctrination by Gentile Christianity and their
forged texts?
Answer for yourself: Do you have or are part of this "one faith" or are you coming to a better awareness of what it actually is because of your diligent study into such areas of truth as shown by Bet Emet Ministries?
It is my desire that we all come to the unity of "the faith" once given to the saints as the Bible instructs.
I hope you still want to hear this truth once the bubble is burst. The reason I say this is for this simple fact: the truth hurts. God's truth should not hurt those who desire God above all things, but it will hurt those who are uncomfortable being shown that their religious belief system is wrong in some areas. But let the joy at seeing this new and higher truth replace any loss and sadness of giving up what was never true in the first place. Most people want to hear the truth, but when it is shown to them, and it is against their popular beliefs, they reject it outright often not knowing why they do so. Just because something you read goes against what the "majority believes" does not negate the fact that it might be a higher truth than you have ever heard before. Lets face it, few if any readers of Bet Emet Ministries have done the necessary study to know of what I will share in these article before they read them. Few have developed the necessary skills to do this type of Bible study let alone are proficient in areas of study like comparative Scriptural analysis, Biblical Judaism and the Jewish Messiah as contrasted with the later Gentile Christian Messiah, the purposeful forgery of Messianic Scriptures in the Christian Bible, the Covenant and Laws of Noah, the true origin and development of the New Testament, the misrepresentation of the Apostle Paul in the New Testament, the hidden truths of Daniel chapter 9, the Essenes and their role in altering the Hebrew texts, the replacement of the Gnostic First New Testament with the Second Roman "literalized" New Testament, the early Gnostic Chrestians, Egyptian religion let alone the field of Astronomy and how it was the basis for all later "Jesus Stories". It seems so silly to me that when I write an article and send it out to our vast readership that almost always a few respond saying they they want to be taken off our article list. Just because one has never heard this information before does not mean it is not true! Staggering is the fact that many possess little if any knowledge of what I write and instead of truth that they said they desire, when given it, they choose to remain in the dark, in ignorance and illiteracy of the facts of the faith that they follow. And God watches us reject Him and this truth concerning the only faith ever given to mankind; the "faith once given the saints". Bet Emet Ministries is an "information" ministry dedicated to recovering the truth behind the "Jesus Story"; in all of its ramifications.
The reason why the sons of men hate the truth is
because they are being governed by a force more powerful than they. This
force is received by the carnal mind, which is governed by none other than
one's flesh (our evil natures/the yetzer ha-ra). The Scriptures say that
the carnal mind is bitterly opposed to the ways of God (the truth, the
law; see Rom. 8:6). Therefore those who get offended by the truth, having
never verified what I write is the truth by their own personal study,
choose the path of least resistance and outright oppose the facts and
information sent them never once verifying if what I wrote is true or
false. Verify it!
I have a recommended book list
that will help anyone see the truths about what I write. I don't "invent"
anything; only gather the facts available to us today and bring them to
the attention of others if they so desire. I am sorry, but those who won't
respond in appropriate actions to verify what I say is true are carnally
minded, and often they are not even aware of such. In order to accept an
idea as true, one needs to have convincing evidence that it is true. I
provide that in our websites for all to see and hopefully you will take up
the mantle of personal study and investigate this evidence for yourself.
Again the "recommended book list" is very helpful in this
regard.
We at Bet Emet make no apology to man or organization
for scrutiny of Christianity and what we have accepted since childhood as
presumed "truth," which, when put under linguistic, historical,
cultural, and archeological examination, cannot stand the test of
scholarly analysis. We must repent dear brothers and sisters when shown we
are wrong in our religious beliefs because a "religious belief system"
governs our conduct and actions. Our
LORD wants you and I to have faith in the facts, faith in the truth, not
faith misdirected toward fables that can be proved wrong today.
It is in this spirit of Jeremiah, chapter one, that we examine what the
Christian Church teaches its congregants today as the "will of God
for their lives," and it is through such thorough examination of our
Christian faith that we have subjected such "man made doctrines"
to comparative analysis by the Hebrew Scriptures and the other disciplines
mentioned above. In those cases where what we have been taught by
Christianity is in error we at Bet Emet, in the spirit of Jeremiah tear
down and destroy this error and deception in order to build and plant a
lasting righteousness in our lives, and desire the same for you,
for if you will be truthful, most
of what you believe is what you have "heard" others say and
little you believe is from what you have personally sought out in
scholarly study of the Bible in its original languages let alone scholarly
study into the origin of your Christian faith. This should not
be so! We live today in an information age and there is no reason we live
and die not knowing the truth about Christianity and the "Jesus Story".
So we ask your indulgence to not reject outright what we present for your study and enlightenment, but to search out for yourself and your family's sake to see if these things be so; that you strive for and adhere to "THE" faith once given to the saints. We desire no harm to anyone in denouncing error taught as truth, but we feel we should not only believe as God intended but take personal responsibility to assure ourselves that we are following "truth" in our lives concerning God.
2 Cor 13:5 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in "the" faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? (KJV)
Notice "the" in the above passage. This definite article indicated that there is "only one" true faith. I hope to show you this as we study and slowly and sadly it will dawn upon you that we don't have it as Christians. It may surprise you but many of the words in your Bible, when looked up, command us to hate error, false teaching, and call for the strictest judgment upon those who deceive the flock regardless of the motives. Remember that when you think at times I am too harsh in pointing out how Christianity has led us astray.
Answer for yourself: Could you, for one moment, say what I have presented over the past year as well as now is not correct because you have personally studied the same materials for yourself and proved what we have shown you to be wrong? Believe it or not I never have gotten an email from a reader who has studied the same materials and in so doing told me later that I was wrong. I only get emails occasionally that say I am wrong because the "New Testament says" this or that. Dear ones, that is the whole problem; the reliability of this Roman Second New Testament as a barometer of Spiritual Truth. I never get an E-mail from any of our readers saying that I am "wrong" because they personally investigated what I said, read the books we recommend, and looked at the sources I use and then tell me that they came up with a different conclusion. Emotion fuels such reactions of "rejection" of truth and this dear one is catalyzed by fear and indoctrination of error in the first place. The only way to remove that "fear" is through your personal study where you "examine" the evidence that I present. Please do that before you respond with "take me off the list" or "unsubscribe" or want to debate an issue. There is no higher religion or worship of God than "truth"!
If you had researched to see if "these things be so", you will find the exact same things I did. I guarantee it! Truth is truth no matter where you find it or who wrote it; truth can be verified. Due to such "truths" uncovered over the years of in-depth study, much that I had previously accepted by "faith only" was shown to be false and could not take the test of scrutiny and personal scholarly analysis.
Answer for yourself: Our religious beliefs come from what we read and hear preached from the religious texts we value and if it can be proven that our religious texts are highly unreliable then what does that say about our "faith"? Well, know for certain, it can be proven that the Christian religious texts we have today are highly unreliable when compared to the Hebrew Scriptures.
Because of these findings from scholarly study over the years, I was forced to resign my Pastorate and that is the reason I repented and confessed my "religious and theological sin," much of which I "received" by faith by men whom I perceived as "spiritual authorities" in my life. I never checked out for myself what I "believed by faith"; that is until I entered Seminary and began to think "critically". My error was accepting many things by faith without critical examination of the evidence available. My error was in accepting and believing altered and forged Scriptures passed off as "orthodoxy" never personally verifying their authenticity and reliability. Only when I began to study for myself did "truth" break out in my life. God intended all men have a relationship with Him through His unaltered Word, and not through hearing preaching from a forged Bible for a hour a week! Such love for God and His word caused me to study to show myself approved, and the things I discovered when I dedicated myself to the study of the Word beyond my peers changed my religious belief system and the course of my life and I feel called of the Lord to warn my brothers and sisters of such theological errors and sins that you be judged for the good and not the bad. Your heavenly rewards are at stake! Intense study convinced me that I was wrong accepting much of what my church taught me without critical examination of the "doctrines of Christ" for myself and comparing what Judaism had to say about them as well. When comparing them I had to contrast what was taught me from a Roman Christian perspective as opposed to a "Jewish perspective". I found out that God was right, the Jews were right, and the Hebrew-Jewish Scriptures and not the forged Greek and later Roman New Testament has the last word on the matter. It seemed simple really, since "the Christ" is depicted as a Jew then "this mind of Christ" which I am admonished I must have should also reflect a Jewish understanding of these "doctrines of Christ" and seeing how these Hebrew Scriptures had been altered by Rome then quickly I realized that my religious beliefs in these areas were false. The light was beginning to dawn and my awareness of how far I has strayed from what God had said and desired for me was hitting home. I had been deceived by my Christian Bible!
Answer for yourself: After all, does not every New Testament believer desire to have the "mind of Christ?" Well it begins with a love for truth and acceptance and verification of your "beliefs" as "the truth". That is why Judaism teaches that "study is the highest form of the worship of God".
If that be so, then we must believe all things as the Jew "Jesus" is shown to have believed, and discard any beliefs we have inherited from Roman Christianity which a Jew like this "Jesus" would not have accepted or adhered to in the first century. This is the goal and the pattern to be followed in our study. This becomes very clear when you study from a Hebraic perspective this "Jesus" and "the Christ", for after all he is depicted as a Jew! Salvation is of the Jews, always had, always will be. I don't expect you to understand yet but salvation is of the Jew because Judaism is the living link to the greatest religion every known to man; a religion that revealed and knew this God better than any since (Egyptian religion which is the precursor to Judaism). All religions degenerate over time. Religions never evolve. Contrary to the assumptions of comparative mythology, they do not originate in crude primitive feelings or ideas, and then transform themselves slowly into loftier and purer ones. They begin lofty and pure, and deteriorate into cruder forms eventually ending up in materialism and "literalism" of the letter. This is exactly what has happened with Roman and Protestant Christianity. It is our job at Bet Emet to seek to reconstruct from the scattered remnants this original Divine revelation of God given to mankind in the beginning. Judaism embodies it today but nothing can eclipse its parent faith, the Egyptian religion where we first find the concepts of "Jesus Christ" and the "Messa/Messiah" dating back to thousands and thousands of years in the Old Kingdom. I have got a flash for you. This fact alone should alert us to the fact that we might not have the absolute truth about God, His "Karast"/"Christ", let alone the "Messiah" as taught in Roman Christianity today.
If you want the truth I will share it with you but be prepared to be shaken to your very core since as I stated religions never evolve but degenerate. You will come to see in your studies with Bet Emet that certainly nothing is more true that this statement when looking at Roman and Protestant Christianity today. So sad, but true!