The original "Jesus" would not have claimed to be God, since he was a Jew. A Jew would never claim to be Yahweh or the son of Yahweh. That would be blasphemy. Even the "Jesus" that we know in the New Testament writings did not claim to be God. He called himself "the son of man." The priests of the Roman church are the ones who wrote or doctored up the gospel so that "Jesus" takes on the role of God and savior. The "Jesus" in the Bible is not the real man who taught people to love one another. This "Jesus" did not exist except in the minds of the writers who changed the scriptures. You cannot blame a man who did not exist for what was written about him. The real "Jesus" would not have made these claims.
In 2 Samuel:3, David says," My God is my rock. I shall take refuge in Him. My shield and my horn of salvation, my secure height, and my place for flight, my savior; from violence you save me." In verse 32, he says, "For who is God besides Yahweh?nbsp; And who is a rock besides our God?quot; In Isaiah 43:8-10, Yahweh says: "Bring forth a people blind though eyes themselves exist, and the ones deaf though they have ears. (9) Let the nations
(us) all be collected together at one place and let national groups be gathered together. Who is there among them that can tell this?nbsp; Or can they cause us to hear even the first things?nbsp; Let them furnish their witnesses that they may be declared righteous, or let them hear and say, 'it is the truth.' "
(10) "You are my witnesses," is the utterance of Yahweh" even my servant whom I have chosen, in order that you may know and have faith in me, and that you may understand that I am the same one. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there continued to be none. (11) I--I am Yahweh and besides me there is no savior."
There is a false prophet, but it was not the real "Jesus". It is the people who make these false claims about him--who inserted all of the claims that he is God or savior. They did it after all the disciples were dead, and they killed anyone who could dispute what they wrote. All of this happened before the Bible the common man was allowed to read the Bible.
You have the privilege of believing whatever you wish. However, if you study your Old Testament (and if you do not study it, why is it there?) you will find that it is repeated many times that Yahweh is and will always be the only true God and savior. It says that the Gentiles (us) or the nations will believe a lie. This is repeated in the New Testament.
The New Testament is based on the Old Testament. If you do not believe the Old Testament, then perhaps you should just cut your Bible in two and leave out the Old Testament... Throw it in the garbage. Then you can start studying The Mysteries and find out more about your god. Why do you think Babylon The Great has "Mystery" written on her forehead?nbsp; Because she is the Mystery Religion in disguise. She sits on 7 mountains. That's Rome. She's "the mother of harlots." she is "drunk with the blood of the saints." Rome and the Roman church is drunk with the blood of the saints. The Roman Church is the mother of all the churches that came out of her...all the protestant churches. Why in the world would anyone think that God's organization could possibly come out of Rome?nbsp; The Roman government killed "Jesus", all of his disciples and the early Christians. Why would they suddenly start a religion around the man they killed unless it was to change him into something that he was not in order to strengthen their government? They did it because the early (Jewish) Christians had a tremendous following. Otherwise, would they not have just kept him alive?nbsp; The early Christians, as well as "Jesus" and his disciples, were a threat to the Roman government. That's why they killed them. Why would a murderer like Constantine endorse the Christian church?nbsp; He changed the doctrine to blend it in with the pagan story. Surely if you read the Old Testament at all, you know that the pagans were God's enemies all through history, and the enemies of God's people, the Jews. Although the prophets said themselves that God was angry with His people, He promised to bring them back to Israel and restore the kingdom. There was a "time for the Gentiles." It was prophesied that it would be over.
The reason that Yahweh was angry with Israel was because they were doing the very same thing that Christians are doing today. They were worshiping the same false gods that the "Jesus" of the church was patterned after. They were weeping for Tammuz (the Easter story.) They were worshiping a trinity of gods--three gods in one--Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. They were worshiping a baby born of a virgin whose father was a god (the Christmas story) They were bowing down to the sun. Easter and Christmas are in honor of the sun god. See Ezekiel 8:12-16. Yahweh says to Ezekiel, verse 18," And I myself also shall act in rage. My eye will not feel sorry, neither will I feel compassion.. And they will certainly call out in my ears with a loud voice, but I shall not hear them." And then Yahweh told the man with the inkhorn (repeated in Revelation) to put a mark on the foreheads of the men that are sighing and groaning over all the detestable things that are being done in the midst of it (the city). Those who continue to do these things today will also receive this mark. Remember the mark of the beast?nbsp; That is the mark.
I implore you to use your heads for something besides to hold your hat.
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