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Most Christians I know and come in contact never heard that their Christian Bibles are full of "forged Messianic prophecies "that were crafted to sell Jesus to the Gentile nations as the "Jewish Messiah." What you most likely fail to understand is that many of these non-Jewish nations themselves looked for incarnations of their sun-g-ds as such false solar myths had previously prepared the Gentile nations of the world to expect (the solar men had come and were to come again). Such g-dmen had come in the histories of the non-Jews throughout the whole world and were destined to reappear as promised in the varieties of sun-worship. By the crafty manipulation of particular texts by the Essenes of Alexandria, Egypt, a whole "theology" was created originally about this "sun-g-dman" and only later applied to and elaborated upon when applied to those believed to be this "re-incarnation" of the sun-g-d. Later the same corrupted texts from the Greek Bible were applied to the Jesus of history. This clever solar-theology which we find in the Greek Old Testament, since a terrible mistranslation and corruption of the Jewish Bible, served as the pattern for further solar-g-dmen as well as Jesus. Simply said If you were like me I grew up hearing repeatedly that my Christian Bible (Old Testament) and the New Testament, were "inspired, infallible, and inerrant" my whole life. It never dawned on me that this might not be the case; not until I went to Seminary and did follow up studies in this regard for ten years following my graduation and my Master's degree. When this "fact" is brought to the attention of a typical Christian emotion always responds with disbelief that such a condition exists or that they have fallen victim to such a deception.
Some attempt to explain these discrepancies by claiming that the Hebrew Bible was altered after the New Testament was written. But a supplement to The Revised Standard Version, a Protestant Bible, states otherwise. Such falsification of the Messianic prophecies in the Christian Bible happened a long time ago and it paved the way for the later publication of a corrupted and adulterated Christian Bible that contains such falsifications (and seldom do Christians stumble onto this fact).
Not possessing this knowledge, they like I, are relegated to quoting and memorizing and attributing such passages in our Christian Old Testaments and New Testaments to Jesus as if they are "Divinely fulfilled" prophecies that prove he is the long awaited Jewish Messiah.
But there is just one problem. The Jews, who have the Jewish Masoretic Text, from which our Christian Bibles should have been translated without errors, do not believe what we do about Jesus and the Messiah.
Answer for yourself: The only way we, as well as the Jews, were told to recognize the Messiah is if the prophecies were "fulfilled" and if they were altered and read completely different, and if we don't know it, then how can it be said for sure that Yeshua is the Messiah or that he fulfilled what was necessary to be the Messiah of Israel? Surely this is a difficult subject and emotion does not guarantee that you arrive at the truth of the matter.
Answer for yourself: Can it be demonstrated that the Jewish Masoretic Text, the Jewish Bible, reads completely different in these crucial Messianic prophecies than what the Greek and all Christians translations have led the Christian to believe?
Let me save you the trouble of scratching your head for an answer because the Jewish Bible reads completely different in these crucial Messianic passages. It is for us, the concerning Christians of the world as well as the followers of Yeshua to find out why and where these "frauds" are among the passages of our Bible. This means that we must separate, if possible, what are Divine revelations from corrupted mistranslations. This is a difficult and time consuming study but necessary. It is like looking for the "needle in the haystack;" but in this situation we are looking for "fraudulent and purposefully mistranslated, misquoted, and lifted out of context passages" that are NOT faithful to the original and have been "twisted" to present a set of beliefs about Jesus which simply are not true. This is not a quick nor easy study as it will pull at your heart and your head till you get mad or even cry. I did both quite often as I undertook such a serious study years ago. All the while I had to remember that G-d never intended we believe a lie or an untruth about Him or Yeshua. Let us never forget that it is not "truth" that sets anyone free, but it is the "knowledge" of the truth that does. Our only fault is that we were not given "truthful knowledge" by our spiritual peers in the Christian church; either because of their failure to possess it or their duplicity to go on with the "program." Neither satisfies the hungry hearts of G-d's children who want to both know Him and worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.
Now let us return to this "Christian Problem."
The Hebrew Old Testament was translated into Greek at Alexandria (285--246 B.C.) in order to provide a copy for the library there, and as a service to the many Greek--speaking Jews. It is known as the Septuagint, a word that suggests the seventy--two scholars whom it is thought were engaged to make the translation, but this is nothing more than engrossing fiction to persuade the masses that such a translation had Divine blessing (you only have to read the introduction to the Septuagint to see what the scholars have to say about it...it is anything but Divine ..and has been called "the worst translated book in the history or mankind"...but yet it became the foundation for all subsequent Christian Bibles no less). The Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible was known to the world 246 years before the birth of Jesus. Therefore, it could not have been altered after the emergence of Christianity. The sad truth of the matter is that the Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures was altered in many places BEFORE the New Testament to render it closer to the theology of the Essenes of Alexandria, Egypt, who were promoting their own brand of sun-worship and solar myths and sun-g-dman in the form of an already credible book known to many as the Jewish Masoretic Text (Tanakh). Sadly those Jews, as well as Gentile Greeks, who could not read Hebrew, were relegated to reading the Greek translation and never knowing that "key selected passages were altered" to come in line with existing Essene solar belief already inherited in Egypt concerning their sun-g-dmen. Egypt, if you remember, was the center of sun-worship for the world anyway. In order to fortify their theological positions in Alexandria, the religious mecca of the world in their day, the dishonest Essenes now crafted a corrupt translation, whose "corruptness" was known only to those who could read Hebrew and compare the two versions (the Greek translation with the Hebrew translation). This appalling translation was done in order to give "Divine Authority" to the the Essene theological positions as against their theological opponents of the day. The Essenes now were equipped with a Divine Book that said "their religious belief system" was not only the correct one but from G-d no less! Besides this, the New Testament writers drew all their quotes from this "corrupted Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures" which means that many of the supposed "Messianic prophecies" believed to be fulfilled by Jesus are nothing more than the personified actions of the sun-g-ds and sun-g-d men of the world. But let us not be to hard on the Greek Fathers for most were educated in Alexandria, Egypt, and fell prey to the same theological deception as you and I. Not being able to read Greek, let alone Hebrew, the comparisons of these corrupted passages was beyond their capability. Can you relate? But thank HaShem that in the age in which we live such drawbacks no longer stop the honest seeker of truth from coming to this knowledge as many good books and honest people have done this study long before me and the results of such comparative study is today made available to all.
As if these errors were not enough, we have the testimony of the early Church Fathers where they admit that much of the New Testament was later altered and "fixed" in order to justify and strengthen their already existing theological positions concerning this solar g-dmen which, knowing or unknowingly, they both inherited and promoted through the soon to be established organized Catholic Christian Church which controlled the religion of the world and the minds of their followers for almost 1500 years.
Answer for yourself: But can you believe me? Should you? Simply said you have not done the homework in this branch of study and you should not believe anything I say. Only let these studies propel you to your own study where you can personally verify what I have said is the "gospel truth." Since now understanding these facts it is paramount that the intelligent Christian look personally into these "myths" about the Christ and compare them with the true Jewish Masoretic Text to see if each of these Messianic prophecies have been distorted, altered, purposefully mistranslated and misquoted, and taken out of context for some theological agenda to which they have fallen prey.
The statements by Church leaders and pioneer researchers speak for themselves:
Dr. Herbert Marsh, Nineteenth--Century English Bishop:
It is a certain fact that several readings in our common printed text are nothing more than alterations made by Origen, whose authority was so great in the Christian Church (A.D. 230) that emendations which he proposed, though, as he himself acknowledged, they were supported by the evidence of no manuscript, were very generally received (. Michaelis, Introduction to the New Testament, ed. Dr. Herbert Marsh (London, 1828), vol. 2, p. 368).
Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim, Eighteenth--Century Ecclesiastical Historian:
Not long after Christ's ascension into heaven, several histories of his life and doctrines, full of pious frauds and fabulous wonders, were composed by persons whose intentions perhaps were not bad, but whose writings discovered the greatest superstition and ignorance. Nor was this all; productions appeared which were imposed upon the world by fraudulent men, [such] as the writings of the holy apostles” (Von Mosheim, Ecclesiastical History (London, 1810), vol. 1, p. 109).
Johann Salomo Semler, Eighteenth--Century Theologian:
The Christian doctors never brought their sacred books before the common people; although people in general have been wont to think otherwise, during the first ages, they were in the hands of the clergy only (Rev. Robert Taylor, The Diegesis (Boston, 1873), p. 48).
William Wake, Eighteenth--Century Archbishop of Canterbury:
It would be useless to insist on all the spurious pieces which were attributed to St. Paul alone, in the primitive ages of Christianity (Wake, Genuine Epistles of the Apostolical Fathers (London, 1719), p. 98).
Lucius Coelius Firmianes Lactantius, Third--Century Church Father:
Among those who seek power and gain from their religion, there will never be wanting an inclination to forge and lie for it (Conyers Middleton, D.D., Letters from Rome (London, 1752), vol. 1, p. 51).
St. Gregory, Fourth--Century Bishop of Nazianzus, writing to St.Jerome:
A little jargon is all that is necessary to impose on the people. The less they comprehend, the more they admire. Our forefathers and doctors have often said not what they thought, but what circumstances and necessity dictated (C. F. Volney, The Ruins (Boston, 1872), p. 177).
Dr.Conyers Middleton, Eighteenth Century:
There never was any period of time in all ecclesiastical history in which so many rank heresies were publicly professed nor in which so many spurious books were forged and published by the Christians, under the names of Christ, and the apostles, and the apostolic writers, as in those primitive ages. Several of these forged books are frequently cited, and applied [in] defense of Christianity, by the most eminent fathers of the same ages, as true and genuine pieces (Middleton, vol. 1, p. 59).
Dr. I. Hooykaas, Nineteenth--Century Reverend:
Not one of these five books (four Gospels and Acts) [was] really written by the person whose name it bears, and they are all of more recent date than the heading would lead us to suppose (Drs. H. Oort, I. Hooykaas, and A. Kuneh, The Bible for Learners, trans. Philip A. Wieksteed (Boston, 1878), vol. 3, p. 24).
St. Faustus, Fifth--Century French Bishop:
Many things have been inserted by our ancestors in the speeches of our Lord which, though put forth under his name, agree not with his faith; especially since—as already it has been often proved—these things were written not by Christ, nor [by] his apostles, but a long while after their assumption, by I know not what sort of half Jews, not even agreeing with themselves, who made up their tale out of reports and opinions merely, and yet, fathering the whole upon the names of the apostles of the Lord or on those who were supposed to follow the apostles, they maliciously pretended that they had written their lies and conceits according to them (Taylor, Diegesis, p. 66).
It is certain that the New Testament was not written by Christ himself, nor by his apostles, but a long while after them, by some unknown persons, who, lest they should not be credited when they wrote of affairs they were little acquainted with, affixed to their works the names of the apostles, or of such as were supposed to have been their companions, asserting that what they had written themselves was written according to these persons to whom they ascribed it (Ibid., p. 114).
To strengthen belief in the resurrection of Jesus, St. Irenaeus invented many stories of others being raised from the dead (Doane, Bible Myths And Parallels In World Religions, p. 231).
As Jeremiah Jones, an eighteenth--century reverend, comments:
Such pious frauds were very common among Christians even in the first three centuries; and a forgery of this nature, with the view above mentioned, seems natural and probable (Ibid).
The following statement illustrates the attitude of the early Church fathers towards truthful reporting and the gullibility of the masses:
St. Augustine, Fifth--Century Bishop:
I was already Bishop of Hippo when I went into Ethiopia with some servants of Christ there to preach the Gospel. In this country, we saw many men and women without heads, who had two great eyes in their breasts; and in countries still more southly, we saw people who had but one eye in their foreheads (Taylor, Syntagma of the Evidences of the Christian Religion (Boston, 1828), p. 33).
The earliest Church officials saw nothing wrong with fooling the ignorant masses, reasoning that they were ultimately saving a populace steeped in unrighteousness, as the New Testament testifies:
I Peter 4:3
Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
The authors of the New Testament had a powerful personality to emulate in Saul of Tarsus (Paul), who openly advocated “pious fraud" and "lying"
Answer for yourself: Read the following quotes taken from what you and I were told was an "inspired, infallible, and inerrant" document and tell me that G-d put his stamp of approval on such lying..if you can. Can you?
Romans 3:7--8
But if through my falsehood G--d's truthfulness abounds to His glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? And why not do evil that good may come, as some people slanderously charge us with saying? Their condemnation is just.
I Corinthians 9:20--23
To the Jews I [Paul] became a Jew, in order to win Jews; to those under the law, I became as one under the law, that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law…that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
II Corinthians 12:16
But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by guile.
Philippians 1:18
What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.
The veracity of the New Testament accounts is called all the more into question considering that Paul wrote more than one half of it!
Besides deliberately deceiving the people, the authors of the New Testament, if honestly unfamiliar with the Hebrew Bible, regardless distorted many facts. As you read the following understand these are not all used as "Messianic fulfillments" but only given to you to show you how prolific such misrepresenting of the truth actually is in the New Testament.
Answer for yourself: Where is the handiwork of the Holy Spirit in what follows?
II Chronicles 24:20--21
Then the spirit of G--d took possession of Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest;…and they conspired against him, and by the command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the House of the L--rd.
New Testament Distortion Matthew 23:35 …that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the Sanctuary and the altar. Zechariah was the son of Jehoiada, not Barachiah.
I Samuel 21:2
Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest, and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said to him: “Why are you alone, and no man with you?”
New Testament Distortion Mark 2:25--26 And he [Jesus] said to them: “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him; how he entered the House of G--d, when Abiathar was high priest,...”
Ahimelech was high priest at that time. Only after his death (I Samuel 22:18) did his son, Abiathar, succeed him:
I Samuel 30:7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech
II Samuel 5:6--7 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites….David took the stronghold of Zion, the same is the city of David.
New Testament Distortion Luke 2:4--5 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed wife who was with child. Jerusalem, not Bethlehem, is called the “city of David.”
Genesis 11:26 When Terah had lived seventy years he became the father of Abram....
Genesis 12:4 ...Abram was seventy--five years old when he departed from Haran.
Genesis 11:32 The days of Terah were 205 years and Terah died in Haran.
New Testament Distortion Acts 7:4 Then he [Abraham] departed from the land of the Chaldeans, and lived in Haran. And after his father died, G--d removed him from there into the land [in which] you are now living. Abraham left Haran when Terah was 145 (70+75), which was sixty years before Terah died (205 – 145).
Genesis 46:27 And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls; all the souls of the house of Jacob that came into Egypt were seventy.
New Testament Distortion Acts 7:14 And Joseph sent and called to him Jacob his father and his kindred; seventy--five souls.
Joshua 24:32 The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up from Egypt, were buried in Shechem, in the portion of ground that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
New Testament Distortion Acts 7:15--16 And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers, and they were carried over to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for the sum of money from the sons of Hamor of Shechem. Only Joseph was buried in Shechem, and Jacob bought the plot, not Abraham.
Exodus 14:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry land; the waters were a wall to them on their right side and on their left.
New Testament Distortion I Corinthians 10:1 I want you to know, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the sea.... One is baptized in water, not under a cloud, and the Jews stood on dry land, not in the sea itself.
Numbers 25:9 And those that died by the plague were 24,000.
New Testament Distortion I Corinthians 10:8 We must not indulge in fornication as some of them did, and 23,000 fell in a single day.
Galatians 3:16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his seed. It does not say, “and to his seeds,” referring to many, but, referring to one, “and to your seed,” which is Christ.
The Hebrew word zera (seed) is invariably used in the singular when referring to progeny, whether one person or many are meant [again Paul misleads his readers due to "his gospel" and for theological advantage...by claiming prophetic authority for his unique doctrines which were never held by those he quotes ....and his readeship, being non-Jews, surely did not know the difference...do you?]. For example, wherever G--d promised to bless Abraham's “seed,” his descendants were intended:
Genesis 13:16 I will make your seed as the dust of the earth; so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your seed would also be counted.
Genesis 15:13 Then the L--rd said to Abram: “Know for sure that your seed will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and they will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years.” Genesis 26:4 ...and I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and will give to your seed all these lands...
Genesis 22:17 ...I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand upon the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies; and through your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have hearkened to My voice.
Exodus 24:6--8 And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins; and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar. Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people; and they said: “All that the L--rd has spoken we will do and obey.” And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and said: “Behold, the blood of the covenant that the L--rd has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
New Testament Distortion Hebrews 9:19--20 For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled on both the book itself and all the people, saying: “This is the blood of the covenant which G--d commanded you.” The Book of the Covenant was not sprinkled with blood.
Genesis 47:31 And he [Jacob] said: “Swear to me.” And he [Joseph] swore to him. Then Israel [Jacob] bowed himself upon the head of his bed.
New Testament Distortion Hebrews 11:21 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff. Joseph bowed upon the head of his bed, not his staff.
Some attempt to explain these discrepancies by claiming that the Hebrew Bible was altered after the New Testament was written. But a supplement to The Revised Standard Version, a Protestant Bible, states otherwise. I alluded to the following "facts" earlier in this article. After having read the above examples of quotes of scholars and Church Fathers, as well as the conflicting passages, the following is presented again to make a lingering impression because it is FACT and can be proven upon serious investigation of the corruption of the Jewish Scriptures; the Bible Yeshua used!
The Hebrew Old Testament was translated into Greek at Alexandria (285--246 B.C.) in order to provide a copy for the library there, and as a service to the many Greek--speaking Jews. It is known as the Septuagint, a word that suggests the seventy--two scholars whom it is thought were engaged to make the translation. The Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible was known to the world 246 years before the birth of Jesus. Therefore, it could not have been altered after the emergence of Christianity. The sad truth of the matter is that the Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures was altered in many places BEFORE the New Testament to render it closer to the theology of the Essenes of Alexandria, Egypt, who were promoting their own brand of sun-worship and solar myths and sun-g-dman in the form of an already credible book known to many as the Jewish Masoretic Text. Sadly those Jews, as well as Gentile Greeks, who could not read Hebrew, were relegated to reading the Greek translation and never knowing that "key selected passages were altered" to come in line with existing Essene solar belief already inherited in Egypt, the center of sun-worship for the world anyway. In order to fortify their theological positions in Alexandria, the religious mecca of the world in their day, the dishonest Essenes now crafted a corrupt translation, which was known only to those who could read Hebrew, in order to give "Divine Authority" to their theological positions as against their theological opponents of the day. Besides this, the New Testament writers drew all their quotes from this "corrupted translation of the Jewish Scriptures" which means that many of the supposed "Messianic prophecies" believed to be fulfilled by Jesus are nothing more than the personified actions of the sun-g-ds and sun-g-d men of the world.
As if these errors were not enough, we have the testimony of the early Church Fathers as well than much of the New Testament was altered and "fixed" in order to justify and strengthen their already existing theological positions concerning this solar g-dmen which, knowing or unknowingly, they both inherited and promoted through the soon to be established organized Catholic Christian Church which would come to control the religion of the world for almost 1500 years.
Since now understanding these facts it is paramount that the intelligent Christian look into these "myths" about the Christ and compare them with the true Jewish Masoretic Text to see if each of these Messianic prophecies have been distorted, altered, purposefully mistranslated and misquoted, and taken out of context for some theological agenda to which we have fallen prey.
This is not an easy study...it is a sad study! It was not easy for me as an ordained Pastor no less and it will not be for you. All that I can say is G-d is not the author of lies and deceptions. Mankind has that dubious honor so without further delay let us see if we really have "the faith once given to the Saints" by the Jerusalem Church or if we are immersed in pagan sun-worship dressed up to make it look as it is a Divine revelation from G-d about Jesus. Either the true Jewish Messianic prophecies were fulfilled by Jesus or they were not. Once seeing the facts and both sides of the two conflicting Bibles, then you can make an intelligent decision. However, lacking such knowledge and as of yet not making a personal comparison of the forgery of the Jewish Bible, you fall prey to "faith alone" and though sincere it is without question, once seeing the evidence, "sincerely wrong." You might not know this yet but I assure you the Jewish Rabbis and Jewish people, as well as Yeshua and G-d know how good minded Christians have fallen for the "lie." It is time we come to the knowledge of the truth and then what you do is up to you....you can either discount what you learn or you can repent of the idolatry that you and I have followed [without knowing] and adjust your worship of the Father in order that from now on your worship of the Creator not be tainted with idolatry but be done in both Spirit and in Truth. Shalom.
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