Author Archives: Doug
Origins of the Gospel of the Nazirenes
The four gospels of the New Testament were largely constructed using material from the Gospel of the Nazirenes (or the Gospel of the Holy Twelve, as it is called by some). An interesting fact is that all four gospels have … Continue reading
Matthew vs Luke Infancy Story
It is impossible to harmonize Luke’s story with Matthew’s. While there are some common elements that point to some shared tradition, the stories as developed by the two authors are contradictory or inconsistent on many points. Gospel Story of … Continue reading
Jesus Loved Animals
There are 45 verses quoted here from the Gospel of the Nazarenes — all about animals. In the canonical New Testament of the Holy Bible, there are no verses at all talking about kindness to animals, yet they are all … Continue reading
Virgin Birth: A Forgery
I am convinced that the virgin birth story is a fraud and a forgery and may even have been inspired by a myth. Further on down I will show why I believe so. It’s not that I don’t believe that … Continue reading
Our Righteousness. Filthy Rags?
The doctrine of the church (originating with Paul) is that any kind of righteous works of our own are repulsive to God, and they also don’t count for salvation. If you don’t believe the correct way like the Christians do, no amount of righteous works count in God’s eyes. If you don’t believe all the right things, confess all the right things and belong to the Christian religion, there is not enough good works that you could do to “get to heaven”. In fact, you could even be a good person all of your life and go to hell and be in anguishing constant unrelenting agony for an eternity! You’ve heard the old expression,
- “The path to Hell is paved with good intentions.”
The original idea is probably more like “good works” rather than “good intentions”, since you always hear that good works won’t get you into heaven. In fact, Paul is the one who says this in the New Testament. They use this verse in Isaiah, out of context as usual, to back up their horrendous doctrine:
- “…all our rigorousness are as filthy rags…” (Isa 64:6)
The Way of Righteousness
In John the phrase “way of righteousness” was removed, evidently because the Pauline doctrine states that salvation is not by works of righteousness. John obviously knew that it was by the way of righteousness that salvation was obtained, but the “correctors” thought it would be a good idea to remove it.
“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” (Jn 1:29)
The next day John saw Yeshua coming to him, and said, “Behold the Lamb of God, **which by righteousness** takes away the sin of the world”. (Gospel of the Nazirenes 10:3)
Gospel Forgery
Eyewitnesses of the Gospels The four gospels that we are familiar with in the New Testament are not actually written by their namesakes — they are anonymous. It is common knowledge that these gospels were written in Greek. The authors … Continue reading
Blind Faith
Blind Faith is not Really Faith at all
Faith is, or should be, trusting in something that you know to be true, or at least have substantial evidence to base your belief on. If you are trusting in something that you have no way of knowing that it is the truth or at least have sufficient amount of evidence that it is truth, then you could really be deceived. Real faith is trusting in something you have a fairly strong reason to believe to be true, not merely in something that you take for granted.
Believing in something that you just take for granted is the best way to be deceived, and worst of all not even realizing it. Most people today trust in what they have been told by the people in their pulpits or something that they have been taught by someone holding some title, diploma or whatnot, who they merely believe to know what they are telling them is true. Now in some cases this might be a good idea, but when it comes to religion, it may be safer to have a good amount of doubt or suspicion.
The problem is that people today haven’t researched for themselves to see if something is true. If you don’t know it for yourself, you could be, and more than likely are deceived. But It’s really hard to blame them though since there are thousands of people in every corner of the earth with their own version of the truth or what they consider to be the correct interpretation of something assumed to be true.
The bible is not absolute truth nor inerrant. As far as the bible goes, which is supposed to be the absolute standard from which to base everything, is not so absolute. In fact, it is full of contradictions, inconsistencies, forgeries, and has undergone surgery, by dishonest men, to remove parts that the church were considered not viable with the doctrines of the church of the day. What’s worse is that to go back to find out what the original works actually said is impossible since there is none in existence — the original documents have been destroyed or lost. The most recent codexes of the bible go back only to the 4th or 5th centuries, several hundred years removed from the departure of the main writings of Christianity, the writings of the which could have lead us to the actual truths that they taught.
The Un-Virgin Birth
In the canonical gospels, as the story goes, Jesus is born of a virgin — Mary. The problem with this, however, is that for Jesus to be the Messiah, according to prophesy, must be a flesh and blood descendant of King David. What’s more is he must be of the same lineage of king Solomon, who is of the Royal lineage of kings. This is because he was not only to be The Messiah, but also The King of the Jews.
“And he said unto me, Solomon, thy son (Messiah) shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father”. (1Ch 28:6)
The only way that Jesus could possibly be a flesh and blood descendant of king David, is if Jesus’ biological father were Joseph. However, this part of the story was left out (on purpose, obviously) when the authors of the canonical gospels rewrote the gospels of the disciples. These authors were evidently Greek followers of Paul. Continue reading
John 3:16 Reworded
The New Testament, as it has come down to us today, has so many contradictions and inconsistencies — even within itself. This is not to mention all of the original teachings that were cut out and concepts that were inserted … Continue reading