In part 1, we saw that Messiah, King of the Jews was arrested and captured, treated as a common criminal, tried and falsely convicted of sedition, sentenced to death by a very cruel execution — crucifixion — and left for dead. But probably being saved by loyal friends, the King of the Jews was hidden and nursed back to health until he was well enough to escape to a land far away from his persecutors.
But you may say, “But Jesus freely gave his life, died and was resurrected after 3 days and afterwards ascended into Heaven and his ascension as even witnessed by 500 people, according to the Bible!”
The Bible is a book that is full of stories and “prophesies” that are impossible to be true:
- “the virgin birth” (mistranslation),
- “coming out of Egypt” (out of context),
- “the slaughter of the innocents” (out of context, forgery),
- “the Nazarene” (no such prophecy exists),
- “the lost years of Jesus” (missing information),
- “the false doctrine of the Trinity” (interpolation),
- “the forgery of the story of Jesus’ baptism” (forgery),
are only a few forgeries and false prophecies listed here. If you dig a little you will find much more.
There are so many discrepancies and inconsistencies in the Bible, to name a few:
- Was Jesus’ birth in the time of King Herod or ten years after Herod’s death?
- Was Jesus born in Bethlehem or Nazareth?
- Did the angel appear to Joseph after Mary becomes pregnant with Jesus or did the angel appear to Mary before she becomes pregnant?
- Was Jesus born in a house or a stable? Is Jesus birth visited by the Magi or by shepherds?
- Did Jesus and family flee to Egypt after his birth or did they travel to Jerusalem to the temple?
- Is all Jerusalem afraid of Jesus or is he warmly welcomed there and recognized as the Messiah?
- Do Mary and Joseph go to Nazareth to avoid the tetrarch of Judea or did they return to Nazareth because it is their home?
These discrepancies are impossible to reconcile no matter how you arrange the narratives. When you put these two stories of Jesus’ birth and childhood together you see that there are parts that directly contradict one another — they are real contradictions not just apparent ones — that’s what makes it impossible. The Bible is NOT inerrant — not even close!
How about Jesus’ Genealogy?
- The genealogies of Jesus in both Matthew and Luke are completely different — they can’t both be of Jesus. (forgery)
- One of them is about 30% longer than the other, even though they both begin with Adam and end with Jesus. That means either one or both have been either modified or forged. (forgery)
- The Messiah has to be a direct blood descendant of King David through his son Solomon (not Nathan). The royal lineage of kings in Matthew begins with David’s son Solomon, the genealogy in Luke begins with Nathan. (misinterpretation and forgery)
- Christian apologists claim that the lineage in Luke is different because it is the lineage of Mary, however Mary was a Levite and the genealogy in Luke is of the tribe of Judah. (misinterpretation)
These are not exhaustive lists of all the inconsistencies, contradictions, forgeries, fabrications, interpolations, and texts that were purposely left out while copying. More exhaustive studies have been done, but the ones on this site seem to be sufficient to make the main point. There are some lists that exist online are much longer.
The point of this whole article is that according to the Old Testament prophecies, the Messiah King of the Jews was very clearly defined as a real Earthly king, with a literal government and a throne, a great human leader who was anointed in ceremony as was King Saul and King David (thus the title Christ or Anointed one).
He never had a throne; he was never a ruler in a government over Israel; he never had a military to fight against the Romans (at least from what we read in the Gospels); he had no training to be a king; he had no authority as a king or officials under him. To sum it up, he had no traits or behaviors or abilities that could be recognized as a king.
Jesus, who was believed to be the Messiah King of the Jews, never literally was any of these things, never did actually fulfill the prophecies of delivering Israel from their enemies that they might live in peace and safety — obviously.
On the contrary, in his day, Jesus was captured, tortured and executed. Thousands of Jews who put their faith in him as their king, were massacred and scattered throughout the world in one of the most horrific tribulations of their history.
Could it be that to cover up for such a horrendous catastrophe and failure to fulfill prophesy: the authors may have had to have invented Jesus being raised victoriously from the dead and Jesus was a king with a kingdom “not of this world”?
Either Jesus was God come in the flesh — the second person of a triune godhead, who gave his life in exchange of the sins of the world, or he was just a man like you or me who went around teaching the truth and was executed for sedition and might have believed he was Messiah, or even King of the Jews.
Maybe he was just a man like you or me who went around teaching the truth and was executed for sedition and might have believed he was Messiah, or even King of the Jews.
“But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel… and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.” (Lk 24:21)