THE BIBLE UNMASKED

An excellent book written by Joseph Lewis in 1926. Read complete book here

Excerpts from 2 chapters:

Chapter XV.

The Virgin Birth, or Mary,
The Holy Ghost, Joseph and Jesus.

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In a public debate with the Reverend Charles Francis Potter on the question of the “Virgin Birth of Christ,” the Reverend John Roach Straton, before a crowded audience in Carnegie Hall[12] read the details of the birth of Christ as recorded in the book of St. Matthew of the New Testament.

In reading the description of the birth of Christ before this public gathering I maintain that the Reverend Mr. Straton insulted not only the moral sensibilities of the people who heard him, but also their mental sensibilities, when he exposed his monumental ignorance in accepting this narrative as the truth. I venture to say, if the Reverend John Roach Straton were to detail the birth of any other person in the same language which was used relative to Christ, his audience would have rebuked this insult in the unmistakable terms of hoots and hisses. No less a person than the Reverend John Haynes Holmes, in a public statement, has characterized this narrative as obscene.

From the pulpit of Calvary Baptist Church, of which Reverend John Roach Straton is pastor, the Reverend W. L. Pettingill, as reported in the New York Sun of December 4, 1923, said this:

“Only those who believe in Christ as God, in His Virgin Birth and in His Resurrection in the body — the irreducible minimum of the Christian faith — will go to heaven. Those who deny any or all of these tenets will be lost — they will go to hell.”

“We have got to smoke them out,” cried the reverend, and when he made this last statement I suppose he forgot for the moment that he was not living in the days when thousands suffered death by fire and fagot for denying the very things that he now demands that we all accept. If the ecclesiastical arm were as strong now as it was then, how sweet would the “smoke” of my flesh be to the nostrils of the Reverend Mr. Pettingill. What this reverend gentleman said further particularly interests us at this moment.

“These things do not permit of interpretation. There is no altering the words written. Either the Virgin Birth is truth, or two things must be — the Bible must be false in regard to this or Jesus of Nazareth was a bastard. Either Jesus was God or a hideous impostor.” [Italics Mine.]

I reject the Virgin Birth as Biblically related, Reverend Mr. Pettingill, and accept the alternative.

That Jesus was a hideous impostor has been conclusively proven by others. As we are not concerned with his imposture in this book, we cannot go into details of that element of his deception. We are concerned with his illegitimacy, and to that end we will continue; although in doing so I will be acting contrary to the attitude of a celebrated author, who, when asked during an address before the students of a prominent college what he thought of Christianity, replied: “I am not interested in Jewish family scandals.”

I quote the Gospel according to St. Matthew, Chapter 1, Verse 18.

18. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

The inference here is too plain for even a dullard not to understand. A young girl is betrothed to a young man. Mind you, not to a “holy ghost”; not to something intangible and unseen, but to a young man, virile and in possession of all his faculties. “Before they came together,” which needs no elucidation, the girl was found to be “with child.” Now the writer of this narrative was fully aware of the fact that before a child is born it is necessary for a man and a woman to “come together.”

Laying aside the pertinency of a child asking an explanation of what is meant by “coming together,” we see the necessary male adjunct of this union by the introduction of the Holy Ghost. In claiming that it was the Holy Ghost who cohabited with Mary and was the father of Jesus, Elbert Hubbard thought it was the greatest compliment ever paid to man.

I say this solemnly and with deep conviction: If all the acts of adultery and unfaithfulness could be blamed upon the Holy Ghost and accepted as such by the injured party, a great deal of misery and sorrow of the world would be avoided. Men are so jealous of their loved ones, that if they find them liberal even with their glances and smiles to other men, a situation hard to overcome presents itself. What, I pray you, would be the result of the situation in which we find Mary, the espoused of Joseph and mother of Jesus? I am sure the Holy Ghost story would not hold water. I am sure the young man would say: “If you are unfaithful to me before we are married, what can I expect after we are wedded?” I am inclined to think the young man would say that he was “finished with her” and would demand the return of his diamond ring. More than one proposed marriage has been broken for a far less cause than that of finding the espoused “with child.”

Men are very adverse to supporting other men’s children. As each man, in a situation of this kind, is a law unto himself, we will proceed with the story as it concerns Joseph.

St. Matthew, Chapter 1, Verse 19.

19. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.

Bully for Joseph! His act is commendable. Surely worthy of our praise. But why “put her away privily”? And why was he not willing “to make her a public example”? Why was he not jubilant that God complimented him to such an extent that he chose his sweetheart to bear his son and Savior of the world?

It is quite evident from the narrative that Joseph bore a great love for Mary and was willing to marry her despite the fact that she had slipped from the path of virtue even after her betrothal to him.

That some sly and smooth-tongued seducer was responsible for Mary’s plight cannot be denied. A super Don Juan he must have been to be able to entice a girl already pledged to another to suffer his embrace.

And although it is claimed by some that Pandora, a “good for nothing” neighbor, was responsible for Mary’s condition, the time is far too distant for the production of any credible evidence regarding the notorious affair, as evidence in such cases is considered the most difficult to secure. “Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily,” is sufficient evidence alone to brand Mary’s condition with the stamp of unfaithfulness.

No doubt the parents of Mary, to avoid having a public scandal and to check the vile tongue of Mrs. Grundy, pleaded with Joseph to take Mary to a place where they were unknown until after the delivery of the child. Such a thing is done now, and there is no reason to suppose that it wasn’t done then. No doubt Mary herself was anxious to repent, and in her pleadings with Joseph must have promised him — faithfully — that she would never again stray from the path of virtue and rectitude. Joseph evidently believed with Shakespeare, “that love is not love that alters when it alteration finds,” and so he overlooked the slight “alteration” he found in Mary. If the angel of the Lord could tell Joseph about the Holy Ghost, he could surely inform him what Shakespeare was to write more than 1,500 years hence!

But despite his great love for Mary and despite her “slight alteration” Joseph began to have his doubts about the Holy Ghost version of her condition as the narrative continues.

St. Matthew, Chapter 1, Verse 20.

20. But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

One thing the above quotation proves. It proves that Joseph did not believe that the child conceived by Mary was of the Holy Ghost. Joseph gave the matter serious consideration.

And if Joseph, who was on the scene and acquainted with all the facts of the deed, did not believe the “ghost story” how can you expect us, after nearly two thousand years have elapsed, to accept it as a verity? As for having the truth revealed to him in a dream by an angel, that is too laughable for mention. Truly that is “such stuff as dreams are made of.”

That the story of Christ and his so-called virgin birth is a pure fabrication and myth, and was invented by the deluded and superstitious believers of that time, is attested to by the following verses of the narrative. It was an attempt on the part of some to “contest or reinterpret” the “first will” or Old Testament, in an endeavor that they might become the favored ones of God. The text proves unequivocally that it was not the miraculous birth of Christ that was of so much concern; the supreme importance was the fulfillment of the so-called prophecy that “a virgin shall conceive and bear a son”; as the following text proves.

St. Matthew, Chapter 1, Verses 21-25.

21. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.22. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 23. Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. 24. Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: 25. And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.

It is unnecessary for me to show the falsity of the prophecy, “now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying:

“Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel; which being interpreted is, God with us,” because Thomas Paine has so admirably unmasked this monstrous lie, I am going to quote his version of it from his celebrated “Age of Reason.”[13]

“Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son,” Isaiah, chap. vii. ver. 14, has been interpreted to mean the person called Jesus Christ, and his mother Mary, and has been echoed through Christendom for more than a thousand years; and such has been the rage of this opinion that scarcely a spot in it but has been stained with blood, and marked with desolation in consequence of it. Though it is not my intention to enter into controversy on subjects of this kind, but to confine myself to show that the Bible is spurious, and thus, by taking away the foundation, to overthrow at once the whole structure of superstition raised thereon, I will, however, stop a moment to expose the fallacious application of this passage.Whether Isaiah was playing a trick with Ahaz, king of Judah, to whom this passage is spoken, is no business of mine; I mean only to show the misapplication of the passage, and that it has no more reference to Christ and his mother than it has to me and my mother. The story is simply this: The king of Syria and the king of Israel, (I have already mentioned that the Jews were split into two nations, one of which was called Judah, the capital of which was Jerusalem, and the other Israel), made war jointly against Ahaz, king of Judah, and marched their armies toward Jerusalem. Ahaz and his people became alarmed, and the account says, verse 2, “And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.” In this situation of things, Isaiah addresses himself to Ahaz, and assures him in the name of the Lord (the cant phrase of all the prophets) that these two kings should not succeed against him; and to satisfy Ahaz that this should be the case, tells him to ask a sign. This, the account says, Ahaz declined doing, giving as a reason that he would not tempt the Lord; upon which Isaiah, who is the speaker, says, ver. 14, “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign, Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son“; and the 16th verse says, “For before this child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest, (or dreadest, meaning Syria and the kingdom of Israel) shall be forsaken of both her kings.” Here then was the sign, and the time limited for the completion of the assurance or promise, namely, before this child should know to refuse the evil and choose the good. Isaiah having committed himself thus far, it became necessary to him, in order to avoid the imputation of being a false prophet and the consequence thereof, to take measures to make this sign appear. It certainly was not a difficult thing, in any time of the world, to find a girl with child, or to make her so, and perhaps Isaiah knew of one beforehand; for I do not suppose that the prophets of that day were any more to be trusted than the priests of this. Be that, however, as it may, he says in the next chapter, ver. 2, “And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, and I went unto the prophetess, and she conceived and bare a son.” Here, then, is the whole story, foolish as it is, of this child and this virgin; and it is upon the barefaced perversion of this story, that the book of Matthew, and the impudence and sordid interests of priests in later times, have founded a theory which they call the Gospel; and have applied this story to signify the person they call Jesus Christ, begotten, they say, by a ghost, whom they call holy, on the body of a woman, engaged in marriage, and afterward married, whom they call a virgin, 700 years after this foolish story was told; a theory which, speaking for myself, I hesitate not to disbelieve, and to say, is as fabulous and as false as God is true.[*] But to show the imposition and falsehood of Isaiah, we have only to attend to the sequel of this story, which, though it is passed over in silence in the book of Isaiah, is related in the 28th chapter of the second Chronicles, and which is, that instead of these two kings failing in their attempt against Ahaz, king of Judah, as Isaiah had pretended to foretell in the name of the Lord, they succeeded; Ahaz was defeated and destroyed, a hundred and twenty thousand of his people were slaughtered, Jerusalem was plundered, and two hundred thousand women, and sons and daughters, carried into captivity. Thus much for this lying prophet and imposter, Isaiah, and the book of falsehoods that bears his name. * In the 14th verse of the 7th chapter, it is said that the child should be called Immanuel; but this name was not given to either of the children otherwise than as a character which the word signifies. That of the prophetess was called Maher-shalal-hash-baz, and that of Mary was called Jesus.

I challenge every minister of Christianity to refute Thomas Paine’s exposure of this all too monstrous lie and the most dastardly piece of imposition ever perpetrated upon the human race! I make no restrictions to this challenge. It includes every gentleman of the cloth of every church professing the Christian doctrine.

Prove Thomas Paine false or cease your hypocrisy with its unholy gain!

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Chapter XVI

The Birth of Jesus Christ
According to
The Gospel of St. Luke

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Perhaps the birth of Christ as related by St. Matthew was not minute and conclusive enough as to the details of the sexual act and so we turn to the Gospel of St. Luke to supply this most interesting account.

As we have already reviewed cases of unfaithfulness, incest, polygamy, prostitution, rape, adultery, child by whoredom, and almost every phase of immorality known to man, it will not, I am sure, be inappropriate to continue with this version of the birth of Christ.

I quote The Gospel According to St. Luke, Chapter 1, Verses 26-28.

26. And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,27. To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. 28. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

One difference already noted between the narrative of St. Matthew and St. Luke regarding Mary and the conception of her child, is that in St. Matthew it is the Holy Ghost who is responsible for her pregnant condition and in St. Luke the angel Gabriel is mentioned. And although here is a distinct contradiction between the two accounts, the designation of the character by different names responsible for the condition makes very little real difference. What we are concerned with is the fact that it was someone else than the man she had promised to wed.

We have read of angels “whispering” to a person, but we have never heard of an instance where “the angel came in unto her.” And the word Angel is equally appropriate as that of the Holy Ghost.

The Gospel according to St. Luke, Chapter 1, Verse 29.

29. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

Ah! We have the secret direct from the Bible. Let me repeat the above quotation to bring its full significance to you. “And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.” I wonder what this he angel proposed to Mary that made her “cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be”? Is it possible that she was innocent of the relationship he proposed, or was she simply amazed at his daring and boldness? especially so, since she was already engaged to some one else and was mindful of her virginity. And what an altogether different story it would have been if God had sent a she angel to visit Mary! To my mind a woman is a nearer approach to an angel than a man could ever be.

No wonder the poor girl was troubled. She had a difficult problem on her hands. Although the Bible is not explicit in what this he angel said to Mary, we are not devoid of imagination; and so continue.

The Gospel According to St. Luke, Chapter 1, Verse 30.

30. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.

From this verse we glean the manner of pursuit and what the angel was after. “Fear not” is the pet phrase of the seducer. The angel’s courting has not been in vain. Victory has been achieved. Similar action to that of Mary is taking place, at this very moment, throughout the world. Seduction, unfortunately, is still too commonly prevalent. Is it possible that the angel “doped” Mary as sometimes happens in cases of this kind and when she “awoke” she was unaware of what had transpired? For she says,

The Gospel According to St. Luke, Chapter 1, Verse 34.

34. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

You see Mary was aware of the fact that without a man’s help she could not have a child. Where Mary received her sex education I do not know; perhaps from the story of Tamar and Judah? And so we continue with the unusual story of the intercourse of an angel with a maid.

The Gospel According to St. Luke, Chapter 1, Verse 31.

31. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.

Yes, the deed is done. The angel has satisfied his desire. The prophecy is well founded. As truly “prophetic” as Isaiah and his subsequent action. Although any potent man could accomplish the same result. For more of this kind of “literature” continue the narrative as it consecutively appears in the Bible.

But it occurs to me that if Jesus was to be immaculately conceived, and God was to be his father, he should have chosen a different place of incubation than that of a woman’s womb. It is in the womb that all of us mortals are conceived and the Bible’s own testimony regarding this birth is rather disconcerting to those devout believers in the miraculous birth of Christ. If there were to be a really and truly miraculous birth, conception should have taken place in the ear, or arm, or leg, but in the womb — never!

It is quite probable that a story like the one just related, detailed in any other book than the Bible, would be construed as being of a highly spicy tone and condemned as being vicious in its moral conclusion. Surely, Mary would be looked upon as a girl whose character was not worthy of emulation. Her actions indicate that a knowledge of sex would have been very helpful, because her ignorance was certainly not bliss. I wish for the moment to speak to the fathers and mothers of young girls; particularly those of the Christian faith. What would you say if your daughter came and told you that she was “with child by an angel”? What would the young man to whom she was engaged in marriage say about her condition? I am sure you would immediately make a thorough search for this angel and bring him to account. In certain parts of this country, this angel, if caught, would not be given much of an opportunity to explain himself. And if he said that he was “an angel of the Lord” you know how much weight that would have.

And now you parents, you who are so anxious about the welfare of your daughter, and so mindful of her amusements and companions; if your daughter were reading a book, whose plot corresponded to the story of Mary, would you not admonish her that such a book was unfit to be read, that its example was vicious and detrimental, and that “nothing good” can come from such stories? Wouldn’t you make an effort to discourage her interest in such literature? By what rule, then, does a story which is suggestive in any other book, become of high moral value when it is found in the Bible?

Now let me say a word about the moral import of this narrative. It is of the grossest obscenity. It poisons the minds of children not only to the vital facts of biological science, but even prejudices the minds of adults to these vital facts. Would you think of reading this story to your children for the purpose of drawing a moral lesson? What moral principle can be inculcated from this narrative? Is it the seduction of Mary and the illegitimacy of Christ?

BIBLE COMBAT KIT

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INDEX

A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, K, M, O, P, R, S, T, W

A

	ABRAHAM
	ABSURDITIES
	AIDS AND HOMOSEXUALITY
	ALCOHOL
	APOSTASY
	ARABS AND ARABIA
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B

	BACA IS MECCA
	BASTARD
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C

	CIRCUMCISION
	CONTRADICTIONS
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D

	DAVID
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E

	ELOHIM
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G

	GENEALOGY OF JESUS
	GOD WITH A SMALL “g”
	GOD
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H

	HOLY GHOST
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I

	INCEST
	ISHMAEL OR ISAAC
	ISRAELITES
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J

	JEHOVAH
	JEREMIAH
	JESUS (pbuh) (SUNDRY TIDBITS)
	JESUS (pbuh) A “GOD”
	JESUS (pbuh)
	JESUS (pbuh) (A RACIST)
	JEWS
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K

	KETURAH
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M

	MASSACRE
	MELCHIDESEK
	MESSIAH TRANSLATED “CHRIST”
	MUHUMMED (pbuh)
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O

	ONANISM
	ORIGINAL SIN
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P

	PAUL
	PIGS
	POLYGAMY
	PROPHESIES
	PROPHETS (BUT NAKED)
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R

	RAPE
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S

	SABBATH
	SARAH
	SLAVERY
	SODOMY
	SONS OF GOD
	SWINE
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T

	TRINITY
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W

	WHORRING
	WINE
	WOMEN
	WORD OF GOD
	WORSHIP
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1. AIDS AND HOMOSEXUALITY: The Holy Bible gives the cause of this cancer and blight: ” Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. Romans 1:22-27

2. ARABS AND ARABIA: In the Christian Bible. (a) the burden upon Arabia” ISAIAH 21:13. “Burden” = responsibility. God has imposed upon the Muslims, the duty to deliver His Message to mankind. ISAIAH mentions this after having seen the vision of a chariot of asses and a chariot of camels (ISAIAH 21:7) The chariot of asses turned out to be Jesus (PBUH) who entered Jerusalem riding on two donkeys (Matthew 21:7) Who then was of the “Chariot of Camels”?

It could be none other than Muhummed (PBUH) who came about six hundred years after the advent of Jesus Christ (PBUH). If this conclusion is not accepted, then this prophesy would still remain unfulfilled.

(b) ” . . the villages that Kedar doth inhabit ISAIAH 42:11 Kedar being Ishmael’s offspring. “Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar. . .” EZEKIEL 27:21

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia quotes the following from A.S. Fulton:

“. . . Of the Ishmaelite tribes, Kedar must have been the most important and thus in later times the name came to be applied to all the wild tribes of the desert. It is though Kedar (Arab Keidar) that Muslim genealogists trace the descent of Muhummad from Ishmael.”

(c) “. . . he (Muhummed pbuh) shined forth from mount Paran (in Arabia), and he came with ten thousand saints. DEUTERONOMY 33:2. (Referring to the conquest of Makkah). (d) ” . . and I (God Almighty) will move them (the Jews) to jealousy with those (the Arabs) which are NOT A PEOPLE (a non-entity): I will provoke them (the Jews) to anger with a FOOLISH NATION,” |the pre-Islamic Arabs) DEUTERONOMY 32:21

3. ABRAHAM: He wedded his own sister (Sarah.) (?) (a) “Why saidst thou (O Abraham), she is my sister? So l might have taken her to me to WIFE . . . now take her (Sarah) and go thy way. GENESIS 12:19 (b) “And yet INDEED she (Sarah) is my sister (!) and she became my (Abraham’s) WEE” GENESIS 20:12 Hagar Abraham’s wife! ” . . and (she, Sarah) gave her (Hagar) to her husband TO BE HIS WIFE GENESIS 16:3

Unfulfilled prophecy (a) “And I will give unto thee (O Abraham), the land wherein thou art a stranger, ALL THE LAND OF CANAAN (Palestine), for an ever-lasting possession, and I will be their God GENESIS 17:8. Also GENESIS 13:15 and EXODUS 32:13. Poor Abraham (pbuh) did not receive a single square foot of land FREE! (b) “And he (God Almighty) gave him (Abraham) NO inheritance in it, NO, NOT SO MUCH TO SET HIS FOOT UPON; but he (God) promised that he would ,give it to him for a possession . . .” ACTS 7:5

4. ABSURDITIES: in the Book of God (?) the Holy Bible (a) A TALKING ass. NUMBERS 22:27-28 (b) FOUR footed fowls. LEVITICUS 11:20 (c) Birth of females a DOUBLE pollution LEVITICUS 12:1,2,5 (d) Shamgar KILLS 600 with an ox goad JUDGES 3:31 (e) Samson KILLS A THOUSAND with the jaw bone of a donkey. JUDGES 15:15-16 (f) A SEVEN HEADED leopard REVELATION 13:1-2 (g) To eat SHIT and drink PISS. 2 KINGS 18:27 and ISAIAH 36:12 (h) DUNG on your faces. MALACHI 2:3 (i) To eat cake with SHIT. EZEKIEL 4:12-15 (j) Samson has SEX with a whore in Gaza JUDGES 16:1 (k) Ruth COHABITS with Boaz in the barn. RUTH 3:4-l5 (1) David SLEEPS with a young virgin l KINGS 1 1:1,3

5. ALCOHOL: devilish advice in God’s (?) Book? (a) “Alcohol is for people who are DYING, for those who are in MISERY. Let them drink and FORGET their poverty and unhappiness.” (From the “Good News Bible In Today’s English”) PROVERBS 31:6-7 Alcohol recommended in preference to water! (b) “Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities 1 TIMOTHY 5:23 What does the AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) say? (c) Alcohol is the Devil’s handiwork says the . . . Holy Qur-an 5:93

6. APOSTASY: ” . . neither shall thine eye pity him (the apostate), neither shalt thou spare him, neither shalt thou conceal him: “But thou shalt SURELY KILL HIM: thine hand shall be first upon him TO PUT HIM TO DEATH . . .DEUTERONOMY I 3 -8 9

7. BACA IS MECCA: the holy Ka’ba built by the prophet Abraham (PBUH) and his son Ishmael (PBUH) is in Mecca.

The name Mecca (Makkah) is mentioned in the Holy Qur’an in 48:24. Another name for Mecca is Bakka, depending on the dialect of the tribe: this is also mentioned once, in Sura 3:96

“Verily, the first house (of worship) appointed for mankind was that in Bakka (Mecca), full of blessing, and guidance for all people.” Amazingly enough, this word Bakka is mentioned by the prophet David (PBUH) in the Bible:

“Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well, the rain also filleth the pools.” (Psalm 84:6)

The well here is the well known well of Zam-Zam, still present now, close to the Ka’bah; after thousands of years.

8. BASTARD: This word occurs in the Bible THREE times (a) “The BASTARD shall not enter the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation . . . DEUTERONOMY 23:2 (b) “And a BASTARD shall dwell in Ashdod . .ZECHARIAH 9:6 (c) “But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then ye are BASTARDS and not sons. ” HERREWS 12:8

9. CIRCUMCISION: A perpetual pact with God� (a) “He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money (your slaves), MUST needs be circumcised and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an EVERLASTING covenant. ” GENESIS 17:13 (b) The uncircumcised to be “CUT OFF” (to be killed).GENESIS 17:14

10. CONTRADICTIONS: In the Bible� (a) The “Lord” tempted David . . . 2 SAMUEL 24:1 or “Satan provoked David . . . I CHRONICLES 21:1 (b) 700 or 7000? “Horsemen” or “Footmen” . . . ? 2 Samuel 10:18 vs 1 CHRONICLES 19: 18 (c) Solomon had 2000 baths or 3000 baths? 1 KINGS 7-26 vs 2 CHRONICLES 4:5 (d) Solomon had 4000 stalls of horses or 40000? 2 CHRONICLES 9:25 vs 1 KINGS 4:26 (e) Did Saul enquire of the Lord or didn’t he? 1 SAMUELS 28:6 vs 1 CHRONICLES 10:13-14 (f) Heaven, no man hath ascended JOHN 3:13 Contradicted by. 2 KINGS 2:11 Elijah ascended, and GENESIS 5:24 Enoch ascended. (g) Jesus lost “None” of his disciples JOHN 18:9 Contradicted by. He lost only “One” JOHN 17:12 (h) ALL are sinners 2 CHRONICLES 6:36 Contradicted by: “Whosoever is born of God DOTH NOT commit sin. . .” 1 John 3:9

11. DAVID: “Man after God’s own heart”� Commits adultery with Bath-sheba the wife of Uriah: (a) “And David sent messengers, and took her (Bathsheba); and she came in unto him, and he LAY (had intercourse) with her. . . 2 SAMUEL 11:4 (b) David wickedly caused the death of Uriah, the husband of Bath-sheba. 2 SAMUEL 11:6-25 (c) David shamelessly dances NAKED, see in index under “PROPHETS, but naked.”

12. ELOHIM: In Hebrew it literally means “gods”. This word Elohim is consistently translated as “gods” in one hundred and ninety-six places in the Old Testament. The Christians however make an exception when this term occurs the very first time in the Holy Bible. Amazingly this they do in the very first book, the very first chapter and the very first verse of their so-called book of God:

“In the beginning God (literally it should have been gods) created the heaven and the earth.”

13. GENEALOGY OF JESUS: The Christians have contrived two separate lists of the ancestors of Jesus (PBUH); a. Matthew 1:1-16 and b. Luke 3:23-38. In these two lists consisting of sixty-six names, there is only one name which is common to both and that is of Joseph the carpenter, and he should never have been mentioned since he was never responsible for the conception of Jesus (pbuh).

14. GOD: Qualities ill-befitting God� (a) A hissing God (?) ISAIAH 5:26, 7: 18, ZECHARIA 10:8 (b) A “roaring” God (?) ISAIAH 42:13, JEREMIAH 25:30 (c) A “barber” God (?) ISAIAH 7:20 (d) A “penitent” God (?) JEREMIAH 15:6, GENESIS 6:6 (e) A God “riding” a cherub (?) 2 SAMUEL 22:11 (f) A God murders 50,070 for looking into a box (?) SAMUEL 6:19

15. GOD WITH A SMALL “g”: In Arabic, Hebrew and Greek there is no differentiation between a capital “G” for God, and a small “g” for god, as in the languages of the Western countries today; yet the Christians have played fast and loose when translating the Bible i.e.

(a) ” In whom the god (the Devil) of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not “2 Cor 4:4 (b) “And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. ” Exodus 7:1 Compare the above with JOHN 1:1, where the Christians have used capital “G”‘s and “W”‘s when referring to Jesus.

16. GOD: His contradictory attributes� (a) “No man hath seen God at any time John 1: 18 (b) ” (God) whom no man hath seen, nor can see .,.”I TIMOTHY 6:16 (c) “And he (God) said, Thou canst see my face: for there shall no man see me, and 1ive. EXODUS 33:20

Contradicted by: (a) “And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend Exodus 33:11 (b) ‘And they (Moses, Aaron and seventy others) saw the God of Israel . .” EXODUS 24:10 (c) “And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved GENESIS 32:30

And as a special favour God shows his back parts to Moses “And I (God) will take away my hand and thou shalt see my back parts . . . ” EXODUS 33:23

17. GOD: Is not a fabricator of confusion� (a) “For God is NOT the author of confusion . .” I CORINTHIANS 14:33 Contradicted by”. (b) ” . . I make peace, and CREATE EVIL . . .” ISAIAH 45:7 (by But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and AN EVIL SPIRIT from the Lord troubled him. I SAMUEL 16:14 (c) “And for this cause God shall send them a strong delusion, that they should BELIEVE A LIE.” 2 THESSALONIANS 2:1 1

18. GOD: Further contradictory qualities� (a) GOD AS AN OMNIPOTENT BEING: “And Jesus saith . for with God ALL THINGS are possible MARK 10:27, also MATTHEW 19:26 Contradicted by. “And the Lord was with Judah, and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain, but COULD NOT drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had Chariots OF IRON.” JUDGES 1:19 (b) GOD’S ANGER ABIDETH FOR A MINUTE: For his (God’s) anger endureth but a MOMENT.” PSALMS 30:5 . Contradicted by: ” And the lord’s anger was kindled against Israel and he made them (the Jews) wander in the wilderness FORTY YEARS…” NUMBERS 32:13 (c) GOD DOES NOT SHOW ANY SELF-REPROACH: “God is not a mar, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent . . .” NUMBERS 23:19 Contradicted by. ” . . and the Lord REPENTED that he made Saul king over Israel ” SAMUEL 15:35 Also: ; And the Lord REPENTED of the evil which he thought to do unto his people (Israel)” EXODUS 32:14 (d) GOD’S MERCY ENDURETH FOR EVER “For the Lord is good; and his mercy is Everlasting.” PSALMS 100:5 Contradicted by: “I (God) remember that which Amalek did to Israel (four hundred years before) . . . Now go and smite Amalek and UTTERLY DESTROY ALL they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling ox and sheep, camel and ass (the donkey) I SAMUEL 15:3 (e) GOD DWELLS IN LIGHT: ” . . (God) dwelling in the LIGHT which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see . . ” 1 TIMOTHY 6:16 Contradicted by: “Then spake Solomon, the Lord said that he would dwell in the Thick Darkness.” 1 Kings 8:12 (f) GOD DOES NOT ENTICE MAN: ‘Let no man say he is tempted, I am TEMPTED of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, NEITHER TEMPTETH he any man” JAMES 1:13 Contradicted by: ‘And it came to pass after these things, that God DID TEMPT Abraham . ” GENESIS 22:1

19. HOLY GHOST: Every sect and denomination of Christian cults claim the “Gift” of the HOLY GHOST. This gift is so cheap that 75,000,000 “BORN AGAIN” Christians of America are also boasting this possession. (a) “and he (John the Baptist) shall be filled with the HOLY GHOST, even from his mother’s womb. LUKE 1:15 I have not yet been able to establish what this phrase means from his mother’s womb . . .” really Alas, poor Jesus (peace be upon him) had to mark time for THIRTY YEARS after his birth to obtain his gift of the HOLY GHOST on his baptism at the hands of John the Baptist (MATTHEW 3:16). (b) ” and Elizabeth was filled with the HOLY GHOST. LUKE 1:41 (c) “And his father Zacharias was filled with the HOLY GHOST . . .” LUKE 1:67 (d) “he (Jesus pbuh) breathed on them, and saith unto them, receive ye the HOLY GHOST.” JOHN 20:22 (e) “But he that shall blaspheme against the HOLY GHOST � hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.” MARK 3:29. HOLY GHOST: The words “Holy Ghost” here, should read the ”HOLY SPIRIT,” a reference to the Holy Prophet of Islam, the Holy Prophet Muhummed (pbuh). For a detailed exposition obtain the FREE copy of my Book � “Muhummed (pbuh) the natural successor to Christ (pbuh).”

20. INCEST: “Sexual intercourse between two persons who are too closely related.” (New Collins Dictionary). For example, between father and daughter, son and mother, father-in-law and daughter-in-law, brother and sister, etc. INCEST IN GOD’S BOOK (?) BETWEEN A FATHER AND HIS DAUGHTERS: (a) “That night they (both the daughters of Lot) gave him (their father Lot) wine to drink and the older daughter had INTERCOURSE with him … “The next day the older daughter said to her sister, I slept with him last night. now let’s get him drunk again tonight, and you sleep with him. Then each of us will have a child by our father. So that night they got him drunk and the younger daughter had INTERCOURSE with him … “In this way both of Lot’s daughters became PREGNANT by their father. ” GENESIS 19:33-35 (From the “Good News Bible- In Today’s English”). In the older Versions, like the King James and the Roman Catholic Versions, “SEXUAL INTERCOURSE” is vaguely described as “COLLECTING THE SEED OF OUR FATHER.” INCEST BETWEEN MOTHER AND SON: (b) “While Jacob (Israel) was living in the land, Reuben (his firstborn, his eldest son) had SEXUAL

INTERCOURSE with Bilhah, his father’s concubine. GENESIS 35:22. The older Versions of the Bible, use the word, “lay” for SEXUAL INTERCOURSE. INCEST BETWEEN FATHER-IN-LAW AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW: (c) “When Judah saw her (Tamar, his daughter-in-law), he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her face. “He went over to her at the side of the road and said, “ALL RIGHT, HOW MUCH DO YOU CHARGE?” (He did not know that she was his daughter-in-law) {The words in parenthesis i.e. within brackets from He did not know to daughter-in-law are not in the original Hebrew manuscripts. They are the editors g loss.}

“She said, what will you give me?” (To have sex with me) ‘He answered, I WILL SEND YOU A YOUNG GOAT FROM MY FLOCK “She said, “All right, if you will give me something to keep as a pledge until you send the ,goat. ‘ . . He gave them (the pledges) to her. Then had INTERCOURSE, and she became pregnant GENESIS 38: 15-18 (Quoted from the ”Good News Bible”). CONCUBINE and WIFE are synonymous terms in the Bible. Look for it in the index under ”KETURAH” (the third wife of Abraham). Out of this incestuous relationship between a father-in-law and his daughter-in-law, twins were born, who were destined to become the great-grand-fathers of Jesus Christ see Matthew 1:3; “And Judas begat Phares and Zarah of Thamar . . . INCEST AND RAPE BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER (d) ” . . he took hold of her (Thamar, his sister, not to be confused with Tamar in “c” above,, and said unto her, Come lie with me (have sex with me), my sister. “And she answered him, Nay, my brother (Amnon, one of the sons of David, the man after God’s own heart) do not force me . . . “But he would not listen to her, and since he was stronger than she was, he overpowered her and RAPED her (his sister). ” 2 Samuel 13:5-14 WHOLESALE RAPE AND INCEST BETWEEN SON AND HIS MOTHERS! (e) So they set up a tent for Absalom (another son of King David) on the palace roof, and in the sight of everyone, Absalom went in and had INTERCOURSE with his father’s concubines ” 2 SAMUELS 16:22

“. . . In the sight of every one” is rendered in the King James Version as “in the sight of all Israel.” This is a fulfillment of God’s promise to David the King:

“Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee (David) out of thine own house, and I will take THY WIVES before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor (actually thy son) and he shall lie (have sexual intercourse) with thy wives in the sight of sun (for the whole world to watch the fun).

For thou didst it secretly (with Bath-Sheba the wife of Uriah): but I will do this thing before ALL Israel, and before the sun.” 2 Samuel 12:11-12

You can well guess where “Penthouse” and “Playboy” got their inspiration from. Wherefrom if not from the Book of Books?

(f) For other various types of incest see LEVITICUS 18:8-18. 20:11-14 and 17-21. Concubine seems synonymous to the word wife in the Bible. Look for this reference in index under “Keturah” the third wife of Abraham.

21. ISHMAEL OR ISAAC?: A controversy has raged between the people of the Bible and the House of Islam as to which of the sons of Abraham (pbuh), Ishmael or Isaac was offered as a sacrifice.

The Bible is quite clear in designating the offering:

“And he (God Almighty) said, take now thy son, THINE ONLY SON . . ., whom thou lovest, and et thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering . . .” Genesis 22:2.

If at anytime, an offspring of Abraham (pbuh) can be described as “thine only son: it could only be Ishmael, because for more than thirteen years, he was the only son and seed of Abraham.

God Almighty acknowledges Ishmael as the “son and seed” of Abraham in no less than twelve places in the Book of Genesis alone. At no time was Isaac the only son and seed of Abraham!

The false pen of the scribe was in the hand of the Jews who edited the Books of Moses (pbuh), as the prophet Jeremiah bewails:

“How do ye say, We are wise, and the law (the Torah) of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in VAIN made he it; the PEN OF THE SCRIBE IS IN VAIN.” Jeremiah 8:8

When the Jews are found to convert an Israelite into an Ishmaelite when no motives are involved, then how much easier for them to change the word “you only son Ishmael” to : your only son Isaac!”

Confirm the Jewish sickness in your Bible:

“Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite . . . ” 2 Samuel 17:25

Contadicted by

“. . . and the father of Amasa was Jether (dame as Ithra) the Ishmaelite.” 1 Chronicles 2:17

22. ISRAELITES: Insatiable whores� (a) “Thou hast played the WHORE also with the Assyrians, because thou (the Israelites) wast UNSATIABLE; yea, thou hast played the HARLOT with them, and yet couldest NOT BE SATISFIED.” EZEKIEL 16:28

WHOREDOMS OF THE 2 SISTERS � AHOLA AND AHOLIBA: (b) “And she kept LUSTING in the style of concubines belonging to those whose fleshly member (genitals) is as the fleshly member (genitals) of male asses (donkeys) and whose GENITAL ORGAN is as the GENITAL ORGAN of male horses. EZEKIEL 23:1-49 (New World Translation) (c) ” . . for the spirit of WHOREDOMS hath cause them (the Jews) to err, and they have gone a WHORING from under their God ” HOSEA 4:12, 6:10, and 9:1

23. JEHOVAH: It is an amazing fact, that if Jehovah is the name of God as the Jehovah’s Witnesses so boldly claim, then this high-sounding word does not occur even once in the original manuscripts of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament.

For further details obtain a FREE copy of my book – “What is His Name?” from the IPCI.

24. JEREMIAH: Made a prophet before his birth (a) “Before I formed thee in the belly (of your mother) I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5

JEREMIAH DECEIVED BY GOD (?): (b) “O Lord, thou hast DECEIVED me, and I was DECEIVED: thou art stronger than 4 and hast PREVAILED: I am in derision daily, everyone mocketh me. JEREMIAH 20:7

25. JESUS (pbuh): HIS FIRST MIRACLE IN THE HOLY BIBLE AND THE HOLY QUR’AN: To turn water into wine at the marriage feast at Cana JOHN 2:9 In the Holy Qur’an his first Miracle was to defend his mother, as an infant, against the false accusations of his enemies. SURAH MARIAM 19:30-33

HIS INVECTIVES AGAINST THE ELDERS OF HIS PEOPLE: (a) Ye hypocrites. . . MATTHEW 23:13 “Ye wicked and adulterous generation Matthew 12:39 “Ye whited sepulchers . . . MATTHEW 23: 27 “Ye generation of vipers . . . ” MATTHEW 23:33 (b) He calls his mother “WOMAN” JOHN 2:4, the same manner in which he addresses a prostitute, “. . . WOMAN where are those thine accusers?” JOHN 8:10 “THE PRINCE OF PEACE,” boasts that he had not come to bring peace on earth but fire and division! “I came to set the earth on fire, and how I wish that it were ALREADY KINDLED. ‘Do you supposed that I came to bring peace to the world? No, not peace BUT DIVISION.” I LUKE 12:49 and 51 (JESUS) NOT GOD! Jesus would not allow anyone even to call him “good”, let alone call him god, even with a small “g”. “Small “g” See in the index for “GOD” with a small “g”.

“One came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? ‘And Jesus said unto him, WHY CALLEST THOU ME GOOD? there is NONE GOOD BUT ONE. THAT IS GOD” MATTHEW 19:16-17

(JESUS’) POWER NOT HIS OWN: (a) And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, All power is GIVEN unto me in heaven and In earth MATTHEW 28: 18 (b) ‘T can of mine own self DO NOTHING: as I hear, I judge . . . JOHN 5:30 (c) ” . . I by the FINGER OF GOD cast out devils . . (d) “And Jesus lifted up his eyes (towards heaven) and said, Father, I thank thee that THOU HAST HEARD ME. “And I know that THOU HEAREST ME ALWAYS: but because of the people which stand by I said my supplication aloud that THEY MAY BELIEVE that thou hast sent me. “And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, lazarus, come forth “And he that was dead came forth . . .JOHN 11 :41-43

Who then gave life back to Lazarus? The answer is “GOD!” For God heard the prayer of Jesus, as always!”,,,

LISTEN NOW TO PETER’S TESTIMONY: (e) “Ye men of Israel (Jews!) hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, A MAN approved of God, , , _ (meaning a prophet) among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which GOD DID BY HIM in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know.” ACTS 2:22

WAS LUKE INSPIRED BY GOD TO SAY THAT JESUS (PBUH) WAS THE SON OF JOSEPH? “And Jesus himself began to be ABOUT (“about” the Holy Ghost did not know for sure) thirty years of age, being (AS WAS SUPPOSED) the son of Joseph . . . LUKE 3:23

The words “(as was supposed)” appearing in brackets are not in the original Greek manuscript of Luke! These words are a gloss of the translators.

In the different vernacular languages of the world, like Arabic, Afrikaans, Zulu, etc. the words “as was supposed” are retained in the translations but the brackets are removed. Thus by removing the brackets the words become the declaration of Luke, and if Luke was inspired then the words are transmuted into an utterance of God. This is how easily the word of man is transformed into the word of God in Christianity.

JESUS (PBUH), TOO SELF-CONSIDERATE: “There came R woman with a box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his (Jesus’ Pbuh) head . . “But when his DISCIPLES saw it, they had INDIGNATION, SAYING, to WHAT PURPOSE IS THIS WASTE? “For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. (When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. “For ye have the POOR ALWAYS WITH YOU; but me ye have not always.” MATTHEW 26:7-11

26. JESUS (pbuh) A “GOD”?: Powerless (a) “I can of mine own self W NOTHING . . .” JOHN 5:30

HE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE HEREAFTER (b) “But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, NEITHER THE SON, but the Father ” MARK 13:32 HE WAS IGNORANT OF THE SEASONS (c) ‘And seeing a fig tree afar of having leaves, he came if happily he might find any thing there on. and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, FOR THE TIME OF FIGS WAS NOT YET.” MARK 11:13

JESUS (PBUH) AS A THIRSTY “GOD’? (d) ” . . (Jesus) saith, I THIRST.” JOHN 19:28 JESUS (PBUH) AS A WEEPING “GOD’? (e) Jesus WEPT. JOHN I 1:3 5 Remember that this is the shortest sentence in the Bible! (Only two words)

IMAGINE A “GOD” BEING TEMPTED by THE DEVIL (?) (f) “Where he (Jesus) stayed forty days, being tempted by Satan” MARK 1:13

27. JESUS (pbuh) (A RACIST): Only came for the Jews (a) these twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them saying GO NOT into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans ENTER YE NOT. “But go ye rather unto the lost sheep of THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL (to the Jews only).” MATTHEW 10:5-6 (b) “But he (Jesus) answered and said, I am NOT SENT but unto the lost sheep of the HOUSE OF ISRAEL (the Jews only). “Then came she (the Canaanite woman) and worshipped him, saying Lord, help me (to cure my daughter). “But he answered and said, it is not meet to take the children’s bread and CAST IT TO DOGS (the non-Jews). ” MATTHEW 15:24-26

28. JESUS (pbuh) (SUNDRY TIDBITS): JESUS’ (PBUH) SECOND COMING, NEVER MATERIALIZED: “But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye unto another, for VERILY I say unto you, Ye shall NOT HAVE GONE over the cities of Israel till the SON OF MAN (as referring to himself) BE COME.” MATTHEW 10:23

The disciples of Jesus fled and they fled, and have now perished for two thousand years, with no sign of the return of Jesus.

JESUS (PBUH) SPOKE IN PARABLES TO DECEIVE THE UNINITIATED: . . all these things are done in parables. That seeing they may see, and NOT perceive; and hearing they may hear, and NOT understand, LEST at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven ” MARK 4: 11-12

HATE AS FOUNDATION OF HIS (Jesus) FAITH: “If any man come to me, and HATE NOT his father, and mother, and wife, and children. . . HE CANNOT be my disciple.” LUKE 14:26

PETER CONTRADICTS JESUS (PBUH) REGARDING HIMSELF AS IF THE ONLY WAY:” “Jesus saith unto him, Z am the way, the truth, and the life. no man cometh unto the father but by me. JOHN 14:6 Contradicted by: “Then Peter opened his mouth . . . But IN EVERY NATION he that feareth him (God), and works righteousness, IS ACCEPTED with him (God).” ACTS 10:34-35

29. JEWS: A rebellious people “Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you DEUTERONOMY 9:24

A STIFF NECKED PEOPLE: ‘For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, Ye have been rebellious against the Lord, and how much more after my death? DEUTERONOMY 31:27

A SECOND BONDAGE IN EGYPT: ‘And the Lord shall bring you (the Jews) into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spate unto you (Jews), Thou shall see it no more again. and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and NO MAN shall buy you DEUTERONOMY 28:68 . . now will he (the Lord) remember their (the Jews’) iniquity, and visit their the Jews’) sins: they shall RETURN to Egypt (for a second bondage). HOSEA 8:13

THE JEWS TO BE SUBSTITUTED: “Therefore said I (Jesus)\ unto you (Jews), The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. MATTHEW 21:43

30. KETURAH: The third wife of Abraham “Then again Abraham took a WIFE, and her name was Keturah GENESIS 25:1 Keturah being the WIFE of Abraham is being contradicted in the self-same “Word of God” � i.e. I CHRONICLES 1:32, where Keturah is described as Abraham’s CONCUBINE. Here is an extra contradiction in the Bible, unless ‘WIFE” and “CONCUBINE” are synonymous terms.

31. MASSACRE: At the hands of the Jews� (a) “Now therefore KILL every male among the little ones, and KILL every woman (female) that hath known man by lying (having sex) with him. “But keep ALIVE for yourselves all the GIRLS and all the women who are VIRGINS.” NUMBERS 31:17-18 “And the Jews salvaged for themselves 32,000 virgins, verse 35; see also verse 40. (b) But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou (o Jews) shall save alive NOTHING that BREATHES. DEUTERONOMY 20:16 (c) ‘And they (the Jews) UTTERLY DESTROYED all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep, and ASS, with the edge of the sword ” JOSHUA 6:21 (Even donkeys were not spared) (d) “He (Joshua) let NONE remain alive.” Joshua 10:28

32. MELCHIDESEK: This High Priest of Salem has qualities which outshines, even Jesus Christ (peace be upon him). “Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life. . . HEBREWS 7:3 (These attributes only befit God!)

33. MESSIAH TRANSLATED “CHRIST”: Messiah is a very common noun in Hebrew. Translated into Greek it became “Christos”, which in plain English means ANOINTED Every where the word “anointed” appears in the English translation of the Bible (any Version) that word in the Hebrew original is invariably the word “MESSIAH”! Here are a few ready examples (a) “I am the God of Beth-el, where thou ANOINTEDEST (messiah) the PILLAR. . .” (Christ Pillar!) Genesis 31:13 (b) ‘And Moses took the ANOINTING (Messiah) OIL, and ANOINTED (Messiah) the TABERNACLE. . .” (Christ Oil! and Christ Tabernacle!) LEVITICUS 8:10 (c) . . he (the Lord) shall give strength unto his king and exalt the HORN of his ANOINTED (messiah) . . � (Christ Horn!) I SAMUEL 2:10 (d) “Thou art the ANOINTED (Messiah) CHERUB (Christ Cherub!) EZEKIEL 28:14 (e) thus saith the Lord to his ANOINTED (messiah) CYRUS. . . (Christ CYRUS!) ISAIAH 45:1 (God addresses even a pagan king as His Messiah!)

34. MUHUMMED (pbuh): Is a true prophet of God according to the Bible (a) ” . . Every spirit (meaning every prophet) that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in flesh is of God 1 JOHN 4.2 Compare with Holy Qur’an 3:45 and many other Qur’anic references where Jesus (pbuh) is referred to as the CHRIST.

MUHUMMED (PBUH) MENTIONED BY NAME IN THE BIBLE: (b) “his mouth is most sweet: yea, he is (Muhummed-im) altogether lovely, this is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. SONG OF SOLOMON 5:16 From the original Hebrew manuscript the word “MUHUMMEDIM”, is translated as “altogether lovely’ which is actually the word MUHUMMED with “im” added. “IM” is the plural of respect in the Hebrew language.

MUHUMMED A “COMFORTER” LIKE JESUS, PEACE BE UPON THEM (c) “And I will pray the father, and he shall give you ANOTHER Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. JOHN 14:16

Jesus (pbuh) was the first Comforter, and ANOTHER would have to be one like him, of the same kind as Jesus, a man and not a Ghost.

35. ONANISM: “The withdrawal of the penis from the vagina before ejaculation.” (The New Collins Dictionary). Medical term � “coitus interruptus.” “And Judah said to Er’s (deceased) brother Onan. Go and sleep (have sex) with your brothers widow. . . “But Onan knew that the children would not belong to him ie. would not carry his name), so when he had INTERCOURSE with his brother’s widow (Tamar), he let the semen (the older Versions call it “seed”) spill on the ground, so that there would be no children (no name) for his brother. GENESIS 38:8-9

36. Original Sin: he Christina dogma that sin is inherited is against all ethics, morality and common sense. It is against the explicit pronouncement of God:

“The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son (the progeny of Adam) shall not bear the iniquity of the father (Adam), neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.” Ezekiel 18:20-21

(a) In Islam the notion of original sin is regarded as inconsistent with the justice of Allah. How could a just and loving God make an innocent child responsible for, or at least bear the guilt for the sins of a distant ancestor? (Steve A. Johnson)

(b) No heathen tribe has conceived so grotesque an idea, involving as it does the assumption, that man was born with a hereditary stain upon him, and this stain for which he was not personally responsible was to be atoned for, and that the creator of all things had to sacrifice His only begotten son to neutralize this mysterious curse. (Major Yeats Brown)

That Jesus (pbuh) himself regarded children as innocent and pure, and NOT BORN IN SIN, is clear from his reported saying:

“Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for such is the kingdom of God . . .” Mark 10:14

37. Paul: On his own admittance being cunning, used deceit “But be it so, I did not burden you nevertheless, being crafty, I CAUGHT YOU WITH GUILE.” 2 CORINTHIANS 12:16 (GUILE: means ruse, sharp practice, treachery, trickery and wiliness.)

38. PIGS: See “Swine” in the index

39. POLYGAMY: Solomon the wise had a thousand wives and concubines (a) “And he (Solomon) had seven hundred wives, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart (towards other gods). “KINGS 1 1:3 (b) Abraham the friend of God had more than one wife; and so had Israel (Jacob) and David the king. There is not a single word of reproach in the “Book of God” the Holy Bible against polygamous marriages.

40. PROPHESIES: Empty threats� (a) “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou 1� Adam) shalt not eat of it. for IN THE DAY that thou eatest thereof thou shalt SURELY DIE.” GENESIS 2:17

Contradicted by*. (b) And all the days that Adam lived were NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS: and he died” GENESIS 5:5 Amazing! In the language of God (?) “In the day” does not mean That very day” but centuries later (?). According to the Holy Bible the devil was more truthful about the consequence of eating the “forbidden fruit,” he had assured Eve� (c) ( And the serpent (the devil) said unto the woman, Ye shall NOT SURELY DIE.” GENESIS 3:4

41. PROPHETS (BUT NAKED): If such are the priests, God bless the congregation� (a) “And he (Noah) drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he lay NAKED within his tent.” GENESIS 9-21 (b) ‘And he (Saul) stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down NAKED all that day and all that night Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets? ” 1 SAMUEL 19:24 (c) “How glorious was the king of Israel (David) to day, who UNCOVERED (became naked) himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly UNCOVERS himself 2 SAMUEL 6:20 (d) And the Lord said, like as my servant ISAIAH hath walked NAKED and barefoot three years . . . ” . . young and old, NAKED and barefoot, even with their buttocks UNCOVERED, to the shame of Egypt. ISAIAH 20:3-4

42. RAPE: Brother rapes and commits incest with his sister� (a) Howbeit he (Amnon, one of the sons of David) would not hearken unto her this sister Tamar’s voice: but, being stronger than she, forced (raped) her, and LAY (had sex) with her.” 2 SAMUEL 13:14 Son commits incest and rapes his mothers wholesale! (b) “So they spread Absalom (another of the sons of David) a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom WENT IN (had intercourse) unto his father’s concubines (same as “wives”, see KETURAH in the index) in the sight of ISRAEL” 2 SAMUEL 16:22

43. SABBATH: Sabbath as a standing insult to God in the Bible� ” . . for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and WAS REFRESHED.” EXODUS 31:17 On the contrary the Holy Qur’an states: “His throne doth extend Over the heavens And the earth, and He feeleth No fatigue in guarding And preserving them For He is the most High, The Supreme (in glory).” Holy Qur’an 2:255

44. SARAH: The Holy Bible does not even spare God from illicit sexual aspersions being ascribed to Him: In the case of the conception of Jesus Christ (peace be upon him), God Almighty arranged for Mary to conceive Jesus by the intervention of the Holy Ghost, as witnessed in the Bible: (a) “The Holy Ghost shall COME UPON thee (the question is, how?) and the power of the most High shall OVERSHADOW thee (again, how?). LUKE 1:35 Whereas in the case of Isaac, his conception took place in the womb of Sarah by the direct intervention of God himself, as recorded in His (?) Holy Book: (b) “And the Lord VISITED Sarah, as he had PROMISED and FULFILLED what he had SPOKEN. And Sarah CONCEIVED . . . ” GENESIS 21:1-2

45. SLAVERY: Sanctioned by God� “ye, shall take them (the slaves) as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them (the slaves) for a possession, they shall be ,your BONDMEN (slaves) for ever . . . LEVITICUS 25:46

46. SODOMY: The Bible’s reason why human beings become lesbians and homosexuals ‘Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and WORSHIPPED and SERVED the creature (like men and monkeys) more than the Creator . . . “BECAUSE THEY DO THIS (worshipping men and monkeys), God has given them over to shameful passions. Even women pervert the natural use of their sex by unnatural acts (like lesbianism and bestiality). “In the same way. . . the men burn with passion for one another (as sodomites and homosexuals) . . . ROMANS 1:25-27 (The Good News Bible).

47. SONS OF GOD: The Bible ascribes sons by the tons to God. (a) ‘Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the SON OF GOD.” LUKE 3:38 (b) “That the SONS OF GOD saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took wives of all which they chose. “. . when the SONS OF GOD came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” GENESIS 6:2 and 4 (c) ” . . Thus- saith the Lord, Israel is MY SON even my FIRSTBORN.” EXODUS 4:22 (d) ” . . and Ephraim is my FIRSTBORN,” JEREMIAH 31:9 (e) ” . . Thou (o David) ART MY SON; this day have I (God) BEGOTTEN thee. ” PSALMS 2:7 (TONS A ton is 2000 lbs weight, that is about a thousand kilograms.) (“FIRST BORN:” How can there be two “firstborns”?) (“BEGOTTEN” How can God beget David at the age of forty? “This day’?)

(f) “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the SONS OF GOD. ‘ ROMANS 8:14

48. SWINE: The flesh of the swine forbidden _ (a) “Of their flesh (of the swine) shall ye NOT EAT, and their carcass ye shall NOT TOUCH; they are unclean to you ” LEVITICUS 11:8

Jesus (pbuh) destroyed 2000 pigs to heal one man� (b) “And forthwith Jesus gave them leave (permission). And the unclean spirits (the devils) went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea (they were about two thousand); and were choked in the sea MARK 5:13

49. TRINITY: According to the Athanasian Creed:

“The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God.”

In this Holy Trinity: “The three Persons are CO-EQUAL and CO-ETERNAL: all alike are UNCREATED and OMNIPOTENT.” (The Catholic Encyclopedia)

Thus the Trinity is considered to be: (One God in three Persons.”

There is only one verse in the whole of Holy Scripture called the Bible which unequivocally supports this Christian dogma, and that is:

“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one. ” The first Epistle of John 5:7

Dr C.I, Scofield, D.D. backed by eight other D.D.’s in a footnote to this verse opine:

“IT IS GENERALLY AGREED THAT THIS VERSE HAS NO MANUSCRIPT AUTHORITY AND HAS BEEN INSERTED.”

The fundamentalist Christians still retain this fabrication whereas, in all the modern translations including the Revised Standard Version (RSV) this pious fraud has been unceremoniously expunged, thus confirming this Qur’anic refutation:

“They do blaspheme who say: God is one of three In a Trinity: for there is no God except one God. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them.” Holy Qur’an 5:76.

Thank God! The Christians are willy-nilly discovering pagan forgeries in their “word of God”, but they are still dragging their feet.

50. WHORRING: See under “ISRAELITES” in the index.

51. WINE: Look for “Alcohol” in the index.

52. WOMEN: Forbidden to open their mouths in the Church�

(a). . for it is a SHAME for women to speak in the Church” 1 CORINTHIANS 14:34-35

(b) To chop off her hands for saving her husband’s life. Deuteronomy 25: 11-12.

(c) Her husband to rule over her. Genesis 3:16. The head of the woman is the man. 1 Corinthians 11:3. Man can sell his daughter. Exodus 21:7.

53. WORD OF GOD: Not to add or delete a word from it.

“Whatsoever thing I command you, observe to do it; and thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.” Deuteronomy 12:32.

54. WORSHIP: The word “worship” in Mark 5:6 and many other places means to adore, to adulate, to respect, to revere. Compare the same verse with LUKE 8:28 where the word “worship’ is alternatively recorded as “FELL DOWN BEFORE HIM.”

Thou Shalt Sacrifice Thy Family For The Good Of The Church! – Bible Secret 4

From http://irregulartimes.com/familyvalues.html

Christian Family Values?

One of the favorite pasttimes of conservative Christians is to wag their fingers at the rest of society, reprimanding secular and liberal Americans for abandoning what they call “family values”. They’d like us to believe that conservative Christians have better, more devoted lives with their families and that being liberal or unreligious is incompatible with happy family life.

Sometimes you’ve got to wonder what these holier-than-thous are talking about. For all the propaganda from right-wing Christian preachers about making the country safe for children, hardly a week goes by without some preacher getting arraigned for molesting the children of congregation members. As a matter of fact, the highest divorce rates in the country are not in the relatively liberal and secular regions of the Northeast and the West Coast, but in the Bible Belt states in the highly conservative and religious South.

Man Leaves Wife For The Pope

The absurdity of conservative Christianity’s claim to ownership of family values was demonstrated yet again this week by the announcement by the Vatican that it had been successful in its efforts to force a former archbishop to abandon his wife and reaffirm his faithful obedience to the Pope. Archbishop Milingo originally left the Catholic Church in order to marry a South Korean acupuncturist whom he had never met, but was chosen for him by the Reverend Moon, head of the ultra-conservative Unification Church. Milingo and his wife were married in a church-organized mass wedding in a hotel in New York City.

Reverend Phillip Schanker of the Unification Church’s Family Federation for World Peace and Unification made an official church announcement when Milingo and his new wife had sex for the first time. Now, Milingo’s wife says that she may have become pregnant just as he has left their home to reunite with the Pope, to whom he has written, “I am your humble and obedient servant.” She has not been allowed to see her husband who is reportedly confined within the walls of the Vatican, and considers him to be a prisoner of the Catholic Church. She has pledged to engage in a hunger strike until she is allowed to see him.

“What the Vatican has said until now has been all lies,” she says. The Reverend Schanker agrees, saying, “Tonight I fear only for the archbishop’s life because any institution built on such falsehood will crumble no matter what. This isn’t the Middle Ages. If the Vatican wants to do the right thing, they should let Milingo speak for himself.” A Baptist minister who supports Milingo’s wife has stated that, “The archbishop’s silence leads us to believe that his human rights are being violated.”

Am I the only one who thinks that this all is kind of kinky? Here we have a battle of two churches: one church that orders its priests not to get married and another church that not only orders its members to get married but tells them who to marry, conducting communal weddings in hotels. The priest, even after getting married, is pursued by the leader of the first church, who us upset and jealous that the priest put marriage ahead of obedience to the church. The honeymoon is hardly over before the priest abandons his wife, who may now be be pregnant, to pledge his renewed faithfulness to the Pope, promising to be a good, obedient servant to him! When the priest’s wife starts a hunger strike just in order to see her husband and talk to him about their marriage, the Pope still won’t allow them to meet. Apparently, the Pope is willing to let a wife starve before she can be in the presence of her husband.

Thou Shalt Not Pray in Public! – Bible Secret 3

It’s tricky to make generalizations about Christians. After all, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of independent Christian sects, each one formed by followers who believed that all the other Christian sects were not following the proper Christian path. Such widespread lack of aggreement is remarkable given that the heart of Christian dogma is the assertion that the Bible is the single written text of divinely-revealed truth. If all Christians accept the same book as the word of God, containing absolutely unquestionablew instructions about how to live in the correct way, how come Christians end up dividing themselves into competing groups according to their disagreements about the right way to live?

One explanation is that the Bible is poorly written, with vague instructions, faulty logic, and an inconsistent collection of messages which contradict each other. Another explanation is that Chrisitians don’t really base their religious lives upon the teachings of the Bible.

The latter explanation is supported by the public, ostentatious manner in which most Christians pray. The Bible is very clear in what it says about the proper way for Christians to pray, stating in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 6, verses 5-6,

When thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

The UnChristian Ostentation of Religious Charities – Bible Secret 2

From: http://irregulartimes.com/secretalms.html

In one of his characteristic awkwardly improvised responses to a question that any intelligent adult should be able to answer without much consideration, George W. Bush answered, “Jesus Christ”. The question: who was his favorite political philosopher. Jesus a political philosopher, huh? Well, I thought that Jesus was famous for saying that we ought to keep the things for God and Caesar separate, but I guess if I had to try to construct a coherent political philosophy out of the ramblings attributed to Jesus, I’d look to the Sermon on the Mount, commonly identified as the foundation of all of the teachings of Jesus.

This is where things get confusing for me. On the one hand, George W. says that Jesus is his favorite political philosopher. On the other hand, as President he advocates policies that directly contradict the teachings that Jesus is reported to have given during the most important sermon of his short career.

What I’m saying may confuse you if you adopt the popular conceptions of Christianity. On the other hand, if you’ve actually read the Bible, you’ll know what I’m talking about: The book of Matthew chapter 6, verses 1-6. Look it up, now. That’s where Jesus instructs his listeners,

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

In sum, these Biblical verses give the following message: don’t make a big deal about it when you do charitable acts. Don’t do them in front of others in order to impress them, Jesus says, even when your charity is done in a holy place. In fact, you shouldn’t let anyone else know of your charity. It should be kept private and individual, even to the extent to which you shouldn’t focus on your actions too much within yourself.

Genocide – Bible secret 1

From: http://irregulartimes.com/secrets1.html

Christians like to tell the rest of us that their religion teaches peace, love and understanding. They also are fond of saying that the Bible is the greatest book ever written. Well, folks, they can’t have it both ways. The fact is that the Bible promotes genocide, the systematic destruction of entire populations of human beings. If that’s Christian compassion, then I’m the Pope.

Don’t believe that the Bible teaches genocide? Check out the following verses, just two of the many from the Bible that suggest that God himself thinks that genocide is a wonderful idea:

Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images (For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.)

Exodus, Chapter 34, verses 11-14

You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you. For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you. You shall eat the old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new.

Leviticus, Chapter 26, verses 7-9

So this is God’s love: if he looks favorably upon you, he’ll help you go out and slaughter ten thousand people just because they belong to another ethic group and are already living on the land you want for yourself. Furthermore, the Bible says that he wants you to go out and commit cultural genocide, destroying the religious buildings and holy objects of rival religions. So come on, Christians! Hop to it! Surely you believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God, don’t you? I’ll bet you can find some non-Christian temple and start your pillage today!

If you think I’m being sarcastic, or am just making an academic point about a couple of long-forgotten verses that have no connection to the way that Christianity is practiced today, you’re wrong. These biblical verses, and others like them, have been used by Christians for thousands of years to justify hundreds, if not thousands, of horrific acts of genocide. Just in the last couple of years, the Christian Yugoslav government led by the popular leader Slobodan Milosevic slaughtered huge numbers of ethnic Albanian Muslims, citing the Bible’s genocidal language as justification.

Top 6 Incestuous Relationships In The Bible

From: http://listverse.com/religion/top-6-incestuous-relationships-in-the-bible/

Religious scholars say that God suspended the laws of incest in the early days of man in order to ensure that man spread on the earth. In the words of the commentators of the Douay Rheims Bible: “God [dispensed] with such marriages in the beginning of the world, as mankind could not otherwise be propagated.” Despite that, these tales are not all simply matters of procreation – particularly item 1. So, here is a list of 6 of the more questionable relationships in the Bible.

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Cain and his Wife

And Cain went out from the face of the Lord, and dwelt as a fugitive on the earth, at the east side of Eden. And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and brought forth Henoch: and he built a city, and called the name thereof by the name of his son Henoch. [Genesis 4:16-17]

Cain was the first born son of Adam and Eve, and Abel was the second. In Genesis 4 we read how Cain kills his brother and is sent east of Eden where he marries a woman and “lays” with her. Because Adam and Eve were the first humans – from whom all people come – Cain’s wife was his sister – and, consequently, all of the early Biblical relationships were incestuous (with the exception of Adam and Eve). Cain, incidentally, was the guy that caused so much trouble for the Mormon’s who believed that the cursed “Mark of Cain” meant black skin, leading them to forbid blacks from entering the Mormon priesthood (God “revealed” that they were allowed to let black skinned people in to the priesthood in 1978). You can read more about that blunder here. In the image above we see Cain killing his brother Abel.

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Abraham and Sara

Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife. And after God brought me out of my father’s house, I said to her: Thou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall come, thou shalt say that I am thy brother. [Genesis 20:12-13]

Abraham married his half sister Sara in Ur. The King of Gerara took her from Abraham and God sent him a dream to tell him that he would be destroyed for taking a woman who already had a husband (God approved of the marriage between the brother and sister). The King returned Sara to Abraham and they remained together as a couple until she died at the age of 127. Incidentally, Abraham died 38 years later at the ripe old age of 175.

Did Jesus really live?

by Marshall J. Gauvin

Scientific inquiry into the origins of Christianity begins to-day with the question: “Did Jesus Christ really live?” Was there a man named Jesus, who was called the Christ, living in Palestine nineteen centuries ago, of whose life and teachings we have a correct account in the New Testament? The orthodox idea that Christ was the son of God — God himself in human form — that he was the creator of the countless millions of glowing suns and wheeling worlds that strew the infinite expanse of the universe; that the forces of nature were the servants of his will and changed their courses at his command — such an idea has been abandoned by every independent thinker in the world — by every thinker who relies on reason and experience rather than mere faith — by every man of science who places the integrity of nature above the challenge of ancient religious tales.

Not only has the divinity of Christ been given up, but his existence as a man is being more and more seriously questioned. Some of the ablest scholars of the world deny that he ever lived at all. A commanding literature dealing with the inquiry, intense in its seriousness and profound and thorough in its research, is growing up in all countries, and spreading the conviction that Christ is a myth. The question is one of tremendous importance. For the Freethinker, as well as for the Christian, it is of the weightiest significance. The Christian religion has been and is a mighty fact in the world. For good or for ill, it has absorbed for many centuries the best energies of mankind. It has stayed the march of civilization, and made martyrs of some of the noblest men and women of the race: and it is to-day the greatest enemy of knowledge, of freedom, of social and industrial improvement, and of the genuine brotherhood of mankind. The progressive forces of the world are at war with this Asiatic superstition, and this war will continue until the triumph of truth and freedom is complete. The question, “Did Jesus Christ Really Live?” goes to the very root of the conflict between reason and faith; and upon its determination depends, to some degree, the decision as to whether religion or humanity shall rule the world.

Whether Christ did, or did not live, has nothing at all to do with what the churches teach, or with what we believe, It is wholly a matter of evidence. It is a question of science. The question is — what does history say? And that question must be settled in the court of historical criticism. If the thinking world is to hold to the position that Christ was a real character, there must be sufficient evidence to warrant that belief. If no evidence for his existence can be found; if history returns the verdict that his name is not inscribed upon her scroll, if it be found that his story was created by art and ingenuity, like the stories of fictitious heroes, he will have to take his place with the host of other demigods whose fancied lives and deeds make up the mythology of the world.

What, then, is the evidence that Jesus Christ lived in this world as a man? The authorities relied upon to prove the reality of Christ are the four Gospels of the New Testament — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These Gospels, and these alone, tell the story of his life. Now we know absolutely nothing of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, apart from what is said of them in the Gospels. Moreover, the Gospels themselves do not claim to have been written by these men. They are not called “The Gospel of Matthew,” or “The Gospel of Mark,” but “The Gospel According to Matthew,” “The Gospel According to Mark,” “The Gospel According to Luke,” and “The Gospel According to John.” No human being knows who wrote a single line in one of these Gospels. No human being knows when they were written, or where. Biblical scholarship has established the fact that the Gospel of Mark is the oldest of the four. The chief reasons for this conclusion are that this Gospel is shorter, simpler, and more natural, than any of the other three. It is shown that the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were enlarged from the Gospel of Mark. The Gospel of Mark knows nothing of the virgin birth, of the Sermon on the Mount, of the Lord’s prayer, or of other important facts of the supposed life of Christ. These features were added by Matthew and Luke.

But the Gospel of Mark, as we have it, is not the original Mark. In the same way that the writers of Matthew and Luke copied and enlarged the Gospel of Mark, Mark copied and enlarged an earlier document which is called the “original Mark.” This original source perished in the early age of the Church. What it was, who wrote it, where it was written, nobody knows. The Gospel of John is admitted by Christian scholars to be an unhistorical document. They acknowledge that it is not a life of Christ, but an interpretation of him; that it gives us an idealized and spiritualized picture of what Christ is supposed to have been, and that it is largely composed of the speculations of Greek philosophy. The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, which are called the “Synoptic Gospels,” on the one hand, and the Gospel of John, on the other, stand at opposite extremes of thought. So complete is the difference between the teaching of the first three Gospels and that of the fourth, that every critic admits that if Jesus taught as the Synoptics relate, he could not possibly have taught as John declares. Indeed, in the first three Gospels and in the fourth, we meet with two entirely different Christs. Did I say two? It should be three; for, according to Mark, Christ was a man; according to Matthew and Luke, he was a demigod; while John insists that he was God himself.

Cruelty and Violence in Bible

Onan's Sin : The Unspoken Bible

From http://www.usbible.com/Sex/Onans_sin.htm

In brief, when Judah sent his son Onan to impregnate his dead brother’s wife Tamar, he committed coitus interruptus and spilled his semen to avoid conception. Yahweh was not pleased and killed him. From this story, onanism has become synonymous with masturbation and coitus interruptus.

There have been a variety of interpretations why Yahweh was not pleased. Onan has been accused ofcovetousness and theft for disobeying his father Judah. He had no intent to reproduce. He showed selfish intent by denying offspring to his brother’s widow, and by employing an unnatural method. He refused to carry the royal line of Judah to David. He destroyed his seed. He was willfully disobedient towards Yahweh. Though Onan hasn’t been accused of homosexuality, the act of spilling semen stretches to homosexuality. In sum, religionists have applied the story of Onan to practically every form of male non-procreative sex.

Genesis 38 is ordinarily treated as if it contained two distinct stories, the first about Onan and the second about Judah and Tamar. Actually, Onan’s role is contained within the story of Judah and Tamar. It is not until we get to the end of the story when the real reason for Onan’s death becomes apparent.

Every interpretation I’ve seen relates Onan’s demise to coitus interruptus. This report argues that he wasn’t killed for reason of coitus interruptus. He was killed because of what he did before he committed coitus interruptus. That is by penetrating her, he consummated the marriage. Because Judah had married a Canaanite woman, Onan was half-Canaanite. Thus he blocked Judah’s name from the tribes of Israel.

The object of the story is to have Judah produce offspring with pedigree bloodlines. Unlike Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who married within their family, we are not told anything about Tamar’s background; but her behavior is flawless. There is a parallel to Mary, the mother of Jesus.

The OT writers don’t portray their heroes as perfect, but neither are they condemned. Judah made the mistake of marrying a Canaanite woman. Onan and his older brother Er paid with their lives, but Judah saved his third son by keeping him away from Tamar. Even Judah’s Canaanite wife died prematurely, leaving Judah a widower.

This left an opportunity for Tamar to save Judah’s name. She was still young enough to bear children, and beautiful enough to lure Judah by dressing as a harlot. All ends happily when she bears twins.

There is a moral to this story. Ancient Hebrew law held that the next surviving brother shall take the widow of his deceased brother as his wife. He shall bear children to the name of the dead brother so his name may not be blotted out of Israel. Yahweh’s intervention preserved Judah’s pedigree name. Judah’s half Canaanite son has children by another woman and is never mentioned again.

DECONSTRUCTION

ONAN

SUMMARY – GENESIS 38:1-10

Judah, son of Jacob, married the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua and conceived three sons, Er, Onan and Shelah. Judah took Tamar to be the wife of his first-born son Er, but Yahweh killed him for his wickedness. Judah sent Onan to Tamar to perform the duty of raising children for his brother. Not wanting to raise children for his brother, Onan went into Tamar but withdrew and spilled his semen on ground. This displeased Yahweh, so he killed him.

DECONSTRUCTION

Judah went to Adullam to meet his friend Hirah. There he saw the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua. He married her and they tried to have children right away.

¹It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
²There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; he married her and went in to her,

She conceived three sons. Er first, then Onan, then Shelah.

³and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.
⁴Again she conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.
⁵Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. She was in Chezib when she bore him.

Judah chose Tamar to marry his first-born son Er. But Yahweh killed him because he was wicked.

⁶And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.
⁷But Er, Judah’s first-born, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.

Then Judah told Onan to take his older brother’s place and produce an offspring for him.

⁸Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. After he penetrated Tamar, he pulled out and spilled his semen on the ground. -There were two actions. First he penetrated Tamar; then he withdrew and spilled semen on the ground. By penetrating her he became the rightful husband.

⁹But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother’s wife he spilled the semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.

But Yahweh was displeased for what he did, so slew him.

¹⁰And what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD, and he slew him also.