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BET EMET MINISTRIES
Pastor Craig Lyons M.Div.
Disclaimer: It is important for the reader to understand that in this website, in comparing the Jewish Messiah and Messianic prophecy as against the Christian Messiah and Christian Messianic prophecy, I will use a "literal-historical" approach to the "Jesus Story". If you have studied our other websites then you know that "the Christ" can be interpreted from 3 different perspectives down through recorded history: "mystical", "mythological", and "literal-historical". Only after one has spent a considerable time in dedicated and scholarly studies can he understand which two of the above three methods of interpretation of "the Christ" are accurate and factual. Again for purposes of comparing Judaism vs Christianity we adopt in this website and for all studies in this website a supposed "literal-historical" interpretation of "the Christ" as well as the Jesus of the New Testament. As you study other sites and your knowledge increases then you will come to understand why I said "supposed" as referring to a "literal" or a "historical" Jesus Christ. But for know know only that in so doing can we adequately contrast the truths of Judaism and their Messianic Prophecy vs Christianity and their "Messiah" along with their conflicting theology when contrasted with Judaism and their truth. I will let you be the judge of the results of such studies and leave to the reader to draw the necessary conclusions as we attempt to compare Messianic prophecy from both a Jewish and Christian perspective all the while dealing with the New Testament Jesus in a "literal-historical" manner. Now on with the study.
Well that is quite a statement which the vast majority of Christians in the world today fail to understand or grasp with their limited knowledge of the origins of their own Christian faith let alone the corruption of the Hebrew Scriptures when they were translated into Greek; unknown to almost all Christians is the FACT that these forged translations became the very foundation for all later corrupt Latin and English versions of Christian Old Testaments and the subsequent quotes in their New Testaments. In other words the Bible Christians and followers of Jesus carry are corrupt and forged versions of the Hebrew Scriptures in "key places" and more than likely at this time in your life you are not aware of this tragic event! It is these same forged passages that we find repeated in the New Testament as attributed to Jesus in one way or the other; the result of which is a false religious belief system concerning not only him but the characterization of the Jewish Messiah. And we will never know the depth of such deception until we begin to study the differences between these Hebrew passages and their corrupt counterparts in our Greek, Latin, and English Christian Bibles!
These falsified passages found in different versions of Christian Bibles are not only not accurate to the truth concerning the depiction of the Jesus and the Jewish Messiah but can be shown upon examination and comparison with the Hebrew to be little more than corrupted verses taken from the Hebrew Scriptures which have been manipulated, purposefully misquoted, purposefully taken out of context, purposefully mistranslated, and even invented out of thin air by overzealous antisemitic Gentile Christians of centuries ago in order to make the Roman Jesus’ life fit traditional Jewish messianic parameters, and to make traditional Jewish messianic parameters fit the life of Jesus.
I have just made an amazing claim that staggers the imagination of most Christian readers. The question you have to ask yourself is: "Can he prove this to be so?"
I surely can or else I as an ex-ordained Pastor would not be devoting my life and the considerable time it takes to research this information and make it available to the Christian community in hopes of restoring Biblical truth concerning this Jesus and the Bible the Jewish nation used in the first century before it was corrupted and debased by the early antisemitic Gentile Church of Rome during the early centuries of the emerging Church. Sadly we find these same corruptions in our Christian versions today and they go unnoticed by almost all except those who have taken the time to investigate this amazing deception. This, among other reasons, is why I could no longer continue my successful pastorate once learning of this tragic fact concerning the documents and my Christian Bible which I was taught to use for my faith and practice in the Christian faith. Seminary did not teach me this, however, it provided the Biblical skills and tools to do such studies and research, which when done by me, uncovered these sad events in the history of my faith. These studies were one during the early years of my pastorate as I was studying and looking for the Jewish Jesus in an attempt to recover the Hebrew Roots of my "then" Christian Faith. What I discovered not only broke my heart but shamed me before God that I could have fallen into such a trap of deception. Armed with this knowledge I devoted my life to teach this truth to my brothers and sisters in my birth faith. I heavyheartedly would find that that no matter how hard I tried to change Christianity for the better by restoring these Scriptural truth it was almost hopeless and resignation eventually of my pastorate was my only recourse. The question that I and you face is if we want to be a man-pleaser or a God-pleaser. I have answered that for myself and the information on this and other websites provided by Bet Emet Ministries will help you in your answer to that question as well.
The readers of this website will be shown multiple comparisons of Scriptural passages taken both from the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, and various Christian Bible translations.
Answer for yourself: And why will we do this? Only in so doing can the reader see for himself how "messianic prophecy" from the Hebrew Scriptures and the earlier Hebrew Bibles have been purposefully altered and changed and how these adulterated passages were later made to apply to a new Testament Jesus when the original Hebrew passages were never intended to refer to him in the slightest sense! Those who manipulated the Word of God in those days and who corrupted these Hebrew Scriptures in the New Testament in order to force "fulfillments" in the life of Jesus show little if any fear of God since they with abandon consistently "added to" and "took away" from the Word of God in forcing these false fulfillments of messianic prophecy as applied to Jesus. The evidence will speak for itself as you see example after example of Christian forgery of the Hebrew Bible...the Bible the Jews used in the first century!
There is much difficult material ahead for the Christian to see and ponder. Understand from the get go that this website is an affirmation of the truth of Judaism and the faith and religion of the Jewish people and is not intended to prove Christianity wrong, but rather the religion of the Jewish people and Judaism right. It is not my intention to hurt anyone or to destroy anyone's faith; however it is my intention to reveal to seekers of truth what has happened to the Jewish Scriptures and the depictions that exist in the antisemitic Gentile New Testament where so many religious doctrines that accompany and are applied to this Jesus render the reader and believer in such "dogmas" an idolator and blasphemer before God. It is my prayer that a truthful presentation of such materials collected in over twenty years of in-depth Biblical scholarship will break up the fallow ground and hearts of the reader in hope of repentance when you see such errors taught as supposed truths by orthodox Gentile Christianity.
Christianity has based itself on the Hebrew Scriptures. Rome has too. If it did not then it and its brand of Christianity would be a completely detached religion which could not validate itself on the claimed fulfillment of Judaism's Bible. But, Christianity is built upon Judaism's foundation and, therefore, is made vulnerable to Judaism's interpretation of its own Holy Book. Let us not forget that Christianity is supposed to the the "fulfillment" of Biblical Judaism; it either is or is not based upon the fulfillment of the Jewish Scriptures. The problem we encounter is if we have in our Christian Bibles faithful representations of these Hebrew Scriptures both in our Old Testaments and the quotes from them in our New Testaments.
Answer for yourself: How many scholarly books on this "one" book of Christianity [the New Testament] have you ever read?
Answer for yourself: Have you ever taken the time to look at and compare the quotes of the Hebrew Bible as found in your New Testaments which are passed off as "fulfillments of messianic prophecy" with those in the Hebrew/English Bible? Well I and many others have and what we have seen and learned is not only alarming but life-changing!
The question that has to be asked now is this:
Does the Jesus of the New Testament fulfill the Hebrew Scriptures or is he made to seem to be the fulfillment of them though clever manipulation of the Hebrew Scriptures though the purposeful mistranslation, misquotation, misapplication of them and even the taking of them out of context for Gentile theological purpose?
Judaism is a faith built on solid Hebrew Biblical knowledge. Jews have always lived attached to every word, every sentence, every nuance in the Scriptures. Study of God's word has been a holy activity for devout Jews throughout the ages, even to the detriment of earning a living. This is common knowledge concerning their dedication to God made available to anyone who would inquire. It has been said by many that no one knows the holy revelation better than those to whom it was addressed, namely the Jewish people. To think that Rome and the later Gentile Church is a better interpreter of the Hebrew Scriptures than the Jews and their scholars is ludicrous and stretches the believability of our very own minds.
What the vast majority of Christians fail to realize is that the Hebrew Bible has nothing to say about Jesus, not one thing. Notice carefully I said the "Hebrew Bible"; not the Greek mistranslation of it with its hundreds of alterations and purposeful misquotations and mistranslations done in order to write within it foreign Gentile religious concepts concerning a son of God and sun-godmen. It is these added religious concepts which were added into the Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible by the apostate Essenes of Alexandria, Egypt, in 200 B.C.E., which will in a little over 200 years from their forgery be applied to a Jesus by the Gentile Church and other apostate Essenes of the first century. For after all they were the first "Christians" noted in Acts 6:
Acts 6:7 7 And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith. (KJV)
It would be these apostate Essenes who not only had departed from normative Judaism but would also instruct many of the Greek and Latin Church Fathers, and in so doing, provide the impetus to the reinterpretation of the Jewish Messiah and we find their legacy only picked up and later elaborated upon by Rome since both were heavily influenced by the Sun and Sunworship.
Christianity's use of the Hebrew Bible is both their strength and their flaw. It is their strength because the Hebrew Bible is the word of God. It is their flaw because Gentile Christianity misinterpret and misappropriate the Hebrew Scriptures to support their claims. But, when Christianity claims fulfillment of, and yet obliterates, the Hebrew Bible's message and prophecies, then all truth seekers have a right, even a duty, to demonstrate this terrible error which is passed off to the unsuspecting Gentile world as the "infallible, inerrant, and inspired" Word of God. Such a Christian's Bible with such falsehoods and Scriptural adulterations is anything but the Word of God. Secondarily, the Jesus depicted within such a document is anything but the "real;" in fact we accept uncritically the New Testament's depiction of the Jewish Jesus along with all the forged and falsified texts that surround him and are never aware of the need to investigate or question this "counterfeit" Jesus. Not being versed in Biblical Judaism before reading the New Testament then it is impossible to spot the forgery from the truth when reading the pages of the New Testament; we accept without question that all contained within the New Testament must be true because we have been told it is. We are set up to be deceived when but a little study into these matters will reveal the truth about the New Testament in this regard. The result is a belief in a Jesus and "the Christ" that never existed as depicted in the New Testament and often such beliefs render the believer as stated above an idolator and blasphemer before God! But again we will never know we are wrong and our true spiritual condition before God because we were taught never to doubt the New Testament or ask questions about its reliability and integrity. We never knew we could be wrong yet the Jews have told us this for over 2000 years by consistently maintaining in the jaws of death inflicted upon them by the Christian Church that the Christian Jesus and Christian Messiah is not "the" Jewish Messiah and we seen not to take heed because we read corrupted and falsified texts over and over again never knowing what happened to the Hebrew Bible at the hands of the Roman Church!
When a person undertakes such a study of the forgery of religious texts within Gentile Christianity and their Bibles then he quickly sees that Christianity's faith cannot be accepted by anyone who is even slightly knowledgeable of the Hebrew Scriptures and who uses his reasoning ability. As God created our minds, He expects us to use our reasoning together with our faith. Faith is not a substitute for reason, but a development from it and alongside it. God never gave you a lie or told to to believe a lie and when your study reveals to you the corruption of the Hebrew Scriptures and their twisting into false fulfillments concerning Jesus as found in the New Testament then understand God never gave you these purposefully misquoted, mistranslated, and verses taken out of context that you find your Christian Bibles. Antisemitic Gentiles are the culprit here; the same ones that gave you not only the Roman New Testament but the worked-over Old Testament as well. It is time to learn the truth concerning this matter before we die and meet the Creator with idolatry as the cornerstone of our faith.
In no place in the New Testament did Jesus claim to be God, or God incarnate, or part of a Trinity, or in any way a special substance of God. This idea of Christianity has no basis in Jesus' pronouncements and finds its beginning in the forgery of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek and later all English versions of the Old Testament with its resultant quotes in the New Testament. Religious concepts having more in common with "literalized" Sun worship and "literalized" astral worship were written into the Greek and later English versions of the Hebrew Scriptures and all quotes taken from them as found in the New Testament and were applied to this Jesus. In so doing a human messiah and anointed one of God becomes a "literal" Sun-godman and even God himself. Idolatry and blasphemy are the fruit of such forgery and seldom does the New Testament Christian know of this because it never dawns upon him to investigate the integrity of his Christian Bible and its faithfulness in translation from the Hebrew Bible that Jesus used. The Jewish Messiah WAS NEVER TO BE GOD INCARNATED!
In the passages that follow for your examination you will see beyond any doubt that Jesus' God is the God of the Jewish people as they know Him, no other. As startling as this may be to Jews and Christians, when searched with an open mind, the New Testament of Christianity shows that the Jesus of the New Testament lived and died a Jew who believed in Judaism, the God of Judaism, and the everlasting nature of Judaism. Jesus of the New Testament was not a Christian and never advocated the establishment of any new religion. Unknown again to most Gentile Christians is the fact that the non-Jew has his place within Biblical Judaism as he adheres to the Covenant and Laws of Noah which Judaism has taught for over three thousand years. Instead of this Divine legacy Christians adopt a New Covenant of man's making and literally stand without a Covenant before God; again this is not understood by most Christians who accept their Bibles uncritically and without question. Simply said the word "new" spoken by Jeremiah means in the Hebrew "renewed" not "replaced" as later misquoted in the Book of Hebrews! This is just part of the deception.
Even though Jesus in the New Testament believed in the Jewish religion, it is obvious that Christianity does not. Christianity is not the religion of the New Testament Jesus, but a "religion about this Jesus" created by Rome. There are many contradictions and conflicts that exist in the New Testament and these are presented through Scriptural comparison in this website for all to see.
What I present in this website is evidence that, contrary to Christianity's claim, there is no confirmation of Christology in the Hebrew Scriptures, none whatsoever. Christians use proof-texts to advance their position that Christianity is the fulfillment of Hebrew Scripture but unknown to the readers of such "proof texts" is that they are taken from forged texts!!!
The so-called proof-texts, forgeries unknown to most without study, are used to confirm the Christian beliefs. In this website I will demonstrate that these verses from the Hebrew Bible are not proof-texts at all for the message of Christianity but outright lies and deceptions when compared with the earlier Hebrew Scriptures. These forged passages are all erroneously utilized as stated above. I have chosen to list these forged Christian passages and have organized them and explained them, commenting on their fallacies as presented by typical Christian exegesis. Not one alleged proof-text has any merit in proving Christianity as you will come to see if you have the courage to continue such study. They are faulted in many ways as you will quickly come to realize when you study them. They are taken out of context, twisted in meaning, forced in connection, mistranslated, misquoted, or a combination of these formidable defects. In addition, many of the events related in the New Testament were clearly written to fit or created to fit the Hebrew Bible's verses. We need not ascertain whether the event really occurred or not and this is easily done when such events are researched in Comparative Religions and found to have existed thousands of years earlier as applied to the gods. Yet we are taught that these events are "Divine" and "Unique" as applied to this Jesus; in reality these events are only replayed as applied to Jesus as another in a long line of Gentile Sun-gods by Rome. The New Testament openly states that it was "done that it may be fulfilled" but your study into the materials in this website will prove to you otherwise. Such a "fulfillment" is obviously valueless as truth or a proof if the passage at question is purposefully altered, misquotes, mistranslated, invented, or taken completely out of context. Biblical prophesy says nothing of Christology, and Christology has no legitimate basis in the Hebrew Bible.
What we do find in the Hebrew Bible are verses which show that personal salvation and life eternal is obtained through Judaism. The Christian is unwilling to see this, for if he did his whole mission of soul salvation for the world would crumble. But, the Hebrew Holy Bible is replete with passages which prove personal salvation is secured through Judaism. Moreover, Jesus also said this in the New Testament itself. God is shown in the Holy Bible to have a special relationship, a Covenant, with the people of Judaism, which is perfect, unbreakable, and eternal and it is this "Holy Nation and Royal Priesthood" which is to be a light of this Divine Revelation to you and me.
The Bible describes the Messiah and the Messianic Era. The Hebrew Messiah and the Christ of Christianity have absolutely nothing in common. Jesus did not fulfill the Messianic expectations for the Messiah at all as found in the Hebrew Scriptures. The Jesus of the New Testament is made to appear as if he did but you will quickly see when comparing the Hebrew with the Greek and English passages that no fulfillment is accomplished. The Jews have known this for centuries because only they have the true Bible given by God to mankind and never corrupted it as has been done by the Gentiles. This is new knowledge for the typical Christian which he will find hard to believe. After reading the following passages, one by one, and comparing the Hebrew passage with the forged Christian passage in the Christian's Old and New Testament, then it will become apparent to him that someone has tampered with the Hebrew Bible and altered the Revelation from God intended for the world along with "key" passages concerning the Jewish Messiah. In light of such charges made against Gentile Christianity and their "new" religion history records for us that Christianity's Christ is supposed to have a second coming to accomplish the expectations. However, there is nothing in the Hebrew Scriptures about a second coming. Such a doctrine is born out of desperation when confronted with the facts from the Hebrew Scriptures. Jesus' followers are mentioned waiting for his immediate return and did so during their lifetimes in hopes that he would accomplish his supposed Messianic role. This, of course, did not happen, and Christianity has had to explain this nonoccurrence now going on 2,000 years. But, their explanation still leaves the Hebrew Messiah awaited.
So What Is The Truth About The Matter...Did Jesus Fulfill The Messianic Prophecies In The Hebrew Bible?
Well...lets look at the evidence and make an intelligent decision..shall we?
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