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May 8, 2007 I've always known about the disagreements over religious
doctrine between different sects of Christianity, but I was unaware how deep
those differences about some fundamental topics were until I edited a book
written by a strict Presbyterian. I didn't know much about
Presbyterians--I assumed they were mild-mannered Protestants. Surprisingly,
their doctrine is harsh. They don't believe man has free will. Only
those God chose before time began can make it to heaven and nothing the
"non-elect" do can change that. Even babies can't make it to heaven
because they haven't had the opportunity to learn the correct doctrine through
the Holy Spirit and have no chance of being born again. Baptists hardily
disagree but are unable to explain Matthew 13 which states that Jesus
purposefully teaches in parables so many people can't understand the word and
are condemned to hell. Of course, as an Agnostic, I think all this is
nonsense. The bible is merely a clumsy compilation of forgeries filled
with ridiculous contradictions.
All academic religious scholars agree that the different books
of the bible weren't actually written by the phony prophets and disciples whose
names appear as the authors. For example Moses couldn't possibly have
written Exodus because he wrote about his own death, and Peter didn't write the
epistles of Peter. The real author happened to admire Peter and decided to
put Peter's name as the author in his honor. In other words they're all
forgeries with the exception of some of Paul's books which scholars think really
were written by Paul. Evidence that the gospels weren't actually written
by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is obvious. The disciples were supposed
to be Jewish, yet they discuss the Jews as if they were foreigners. John
said, "and Passover, a feast of the Jews was neigh." An American wouldn't
write, "it was the fourth of July, a holiday of the Americans."
There are literally thousands of contradictions in the
bible. Here are three of my favorites.
One of the ten commandments clearly states that there is only
one God. However, the old testament refers to multiple Gods over
one-thousand times. Some Christians claim these multiple Gods are the
parts of the trinity. This is a laughable defense because Jews don't
believe in the trinity. The references to multiple Gods unmistakeably
links Judeo-Christianity with its pagan ancestry.
I just love the "go-teach-all-nations" forgery.
Originally, Christianity was an obscure end-of-the-world cult within
Judiasm. In numerous passages Jesus claims he will come back and the world
will end within the lifetime of the disciples. Moreover, he said, "I am
not come but for the lost sheep of Israel." Gentiles were not part of his
flock; only Jews could be saved when the world ended. Later, in Matthew
and Mark Jesus contradicts himself and tells the disciples to "go teach all
nations." What really happened? The end of the word didn't occur
within the lifetime of the disciples and the cult of Christianity was dying out
so Paul and other Christian leaders were forced to include the Gentiles in order
to keep the cult alive. Some early priests interpolated the "go
teach all nations fiction" into the texts of Matthew and Mark. All these
early texts were handwritten and only a few people were literate enough to spot
this fraud. This interpolation didn't take place until after Acts was
written because in this book the disciples act as if they never heard the
teach-all-nations command. If the original texts of Matthew and Mark had
included this command, the author of Acts wouldn't have found it necessary
to make up his story about how Cornelius had to convince the disciples to
teach all nations. According to the revised Matthew and Mark, they already
were.
Belief in a virgin birth is pagan. The Jews
believed the messiah was supposed to be a genealogical descendent of
David. The marriage of paganism and Judiasm that is Christianity
conflicts here. Both Matthew and Luke give completely different fictional
geneaologies in order to prove that Jesus is the biological descendent of
David. They both say Joseph, not Mary, is the biological descendent
of David. So there's no way Jesus could've been born of a virgin
and a descendent of David. To appeal to pagans, some anonymous
priests interpolated the story of the virgin birth into the gospels thus
creating perhaps the most ridiculous contradiction of all.
------------ About the author Mark Gelbart: My book, Talk Radio, is a black comedy about a radio talk show host who gets kidnapped and psychologically tortured by a loser. http://www.authorsden.com/marksgelbart Email: agelbart@aol.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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