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I find it necessary, both as a former Pastor and as an intense Bible student throughout the years, to bring a summary of what this Web Site contains. Too often one will read the research I've collected and scrutinize the facts presented and jump to conclusions which are not warranted; incorrect conclusions which will tend to negate the facts presented in these articles. Understandable this is not my desire nor my purpose in making such information available to you. It is my hope that these pages of information and research will benefit both my Jewish friends as well as my Christian friends in their search to draw closer to God. But one thing must be said right up front. The study of "Jesus" and the "Jesus Story" is a very complex study today and must be done on several levels if one is to come to the truth of the matter. At least that is what I discovered for such study encompasses the necessity of obtaining competent knowledge in several areas of study if we ever hope to understand correctly just whom this "Jesus" really is and what lays behind this "Jesus Story". By "several fields" of study I mean such areas such as:
Wow! That is a lot and it is not a quick work that allows one to master this information to see the truth behind this "Jesus Story" that has existed for some 10,000 years and later told from nation to nation down through history in "many different names" (like the first "Jesus Story" found in Ancient Egypt with Osiris and Horus).
But our correct understanding of the "Jesus Story" and what actually encompasses it on these various levels of understanding must first begin with our study of Judaism for the Old Testament is the first introduction for most Christians to the Creator God and His "Divine Revelation" that was handed down through history, beginning first with Sumer and ancient Egypt and later given to the "Jewish people" though association with the Biblical Moses (the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th Dynasty). Too often many of my readers who lack such necessary knowledge of the history and "religious beliefs" of Judaism, as well as early Gentile Christianity and their forgery of the Hebrew Scriptures that comprise our Christian Old and New Testaments, will react out of fear when first encountering this information instead of "repentance" and "faith" in these "facts and evidences" which are uncovered to their very sight and understanding or when reading Spiritual truths long hidden but now exposed. Seeing this deception for the first time is a hard thing to stomach let alone believe as even possible in light of the constant false assurances we have heard our whole lives that only Christianity "has the truth" as well as being told that only Christianity "is the road for mankind's salvation of the whole world". Presentation of further "hidden truths" when exposed and uncovered to the eyes of "truth seekers" will not be evaluated by them objectively either because it hurts too bad or because of snap decisions on their part made in the initial confrontations with such facts and evidence which opposes long cherished Christian religious beliefs that come from the documents of Christianity and their Bibles; never knowing at that time the unreliability of such documents in the first place. Having never studied Judaism let alone knowing intimately the Hebrew Scriptures they are at that time in their life unaware of this abject purposeful mistranslation, misquotation, and pure "invention" of religious texts by the early Gentile Church in their creation of this New Testament which was finally "canonized" in the early 4th century. Let me say up front that one can have belief in "truth and facts" or a belief in "untruths". The choice is yours. God gives mankind free choice but understand that the presentation of the "Jewish Christ", seen as this "Jesus" in the New Testament today is a far cry from the "Jewish Messiah" as both expected and hoped for in the first century by Israel and Biblical Judaism. This statement is not debateable when one possess adequate knowledge of Judaism and its cherished Hebrew Scriptures and what they teach of the Jewish Messiah as taken from the true Masoretic Hebrew texts which have not been altered as well as when one compares "line upon line" and "precept upon precept" these Hebrew Texts with the later Greek purposeful mistranslations and all later Christian Old Testaments and New Testaments built upon these erroneous texts. Error and falsehood is subsequently taught instead of truth and few if any know it in Christianity because they have failed to study or see these facts for themselves. And I mean your teachers and Pastors and even Seminary professors whom I found accept all to easily the "tradition" without serious comparison of such texts where once traces "line upon line" the Hebrew Scripture down through the Greek or Latin finally into the English Old Testament and later New Testament quotes to be certain that the same "idea" has been faithfully carried down through history. Sure, this is slow and tedious study, but all the more necessary because of the many deceptions that pass unnoticed today by most.
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls only 57 years ago along with the Nag Hammadi Library of Gnostic texts in Egypt changed all of this and the "deception" of Christianity hit the proverbial fan, but again you have to know what was discovered in Qumran and Nag Hammadi and their startling implications to Christian Messianic theology which boasts of being basically unchallenged for the last 1,700 years by Rome. But that claim can no more be said once you see that two different Bibles were found at Qumran among the ruins of the Essenes; one is a forged Greek translation which stands today as witness to this "theological" forgery that is passed down through history in the early Gentile Church. Opposed to this Greek Old Testament forgery is an 800 year earlier Isaiah Hebrew Scroll which not only corrects the later forged Septuagint and Greek "mistranslation" but the Isaiah Scroll agrees with the 1000 A.D copies of the Hebrew Tanakh proving that it was never the "Jews" who altered their Hebrew Scriptures but rather the Greek Old Testament which is the now the discerned "forgery" from the earlier Hebrew Scriptures. It is this discovery at Qumran, as well the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library a year earlier in Egypt which gives the world its first glimpse in over 2000 years of the true "Kodak Moment" as to what the religious milieu actually was and what the religious beliefs actually were in these earliest "Chrestian/Christian communities" long before the rise of the Roman Gentile Church which will further perpetuate this theological forgery by their "radical reinterpretation" of "the Christ". In so doing the truth behind this "Jesus" is further clouded and without significant study these facts will never be known by the vast majority of Christians today. Thank God that we live in a time which these documents were discovered and their testimony corrects these later forged "Greek" Old Testaments and all later English Bibles "theologically". But we have to know about this for it to matter to our lives and as late as 1988 Southwestern Theological Seminary taught me nothing about this let alone mentioned theses momentous events at Qumran or Nag Hammadi and the discovery of the Gnostic Library. I had to find this out on my own though my serious study into the "Jewish Roots" of Christianity where I ran across it in later studies. This changed my life and my relationship with God and gave me ample reason for major repentance in my life concerning much of my inherited Christian religious belief system. I firmly believe that God never intended we place our faith in "fairy tales" and "untruths" and neither should you. Faith that is grounded only in truth will bring forth the fruits of repentance which is acceptable to God and allow the seeker to draw closer to God than ever before as he removes from his life idolatry and disobedience which is so often masked by "religion" and many of the doctrine accepted by Christianity today!
With such a motive for this web site, as well as many others by Bet Emet Ministries, I wish to bring a short synopsis of what you will encounter on this web site. My intended goal for you, both Jewish believers as well as "non-Jewish" Christians, is that you become aware of the religious documents and the writers of such documents which underlie the Christian Faith and in so doing equip the reader to understand their reliability pertaining to "Divine Truth" and what value they should hold in one's life today. Only when you come to terms with the credibility of the religious documents that are the foundation for the Christian Church when seen in their historical setting and origin, and when compared with the earlier Hebrew religious texts, will one be better able to evaluate the importance such religious documents that are the foundation for all later Christian religious beliefs, many that surround this "Jesus", and the reliability that you should put into them and the impact, if any, that they should have in one's religious belief system. Once you see for yourself that many such religious documents were created and collected at the whim of Rome, let alone "altered" and "fixed" in their struggle with Biblical Judaism can one truly understand the scope of what I speak. Only when your personal study can show you these hundreds of "alterations" made to these Hebrew texts and prior religious doctrines of Judaism and one assess the scope of such alterations by Rome chronologically and successively from Church Council to Church Council as they "hammered out" the religious beliefs that they wanted connected to this "Jesus" of their making can one fully understand the degree of deception to which we have fallen today. Understanding the scope to which these earlier Hebrew texts which were cherished and protected by Jewish sages were constantly altered and amended following each successive Church Council, then and only then can you make an accurate determination regarding their infallibility and inerrancy and the role they should play in your religious belief system. As if that is not enough one can find that this "error" of alteration of the Jewish Scriptures actually began long before Rome got their hands on the documents and can be traced to the initial corruption of the Jewish texts by the Essenes of Alexandria, Egypt, when they purposefully altered the Hebrew Scriptures when they translated them into Greek. Rome will only pick up where they left off and continue the process. As stated before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls found one too many Bibles at Qumran, the "real" and the "fake". This knowledge should wake the dead! This is a very difficult and lengthy study but one that I think is paramount for a Christian to understand since the facts of the matter at hand reveal the insidious alteration of the Torah and the Prophets in order to "create" a religion of convenience and this ultimate lies at the very core of our inherited "Jesus Story" where he is presented to the world by Rome as the final atonement for sins and the Jewish Messiah. Understand such "altered" and "created" documents play a significant role in one's concepts and religious beliefs concerning this Christian Jesus. Idolatry and blasphemy before God is the result of our failure to do such scrutiny of the origins for our Christian faith and this is the guilt that we carry not knowing the truth of what we are taught to believe since childhood growing up in the Christian Church. Coupled not only with that, once you come to see how hundreds of passages and theological errors are contained in such tampered religious documents which include multiple purposeful mistranslations, misquotations, and the lifting of Jewish Scriptures completely out of context, then will you again be better equipped to determine for yourself if such a document should be categorized as "God breathed", "inspired", "inerrant", and what role it should play in your religious belief system. Please understand that I wish not to denigrate the New Testament because Divine Truths are contained within it in many places, but to approach this New Testament and accepting everything written within it as "Divine" and "literal truth" is unwise and foolish as I found having done so never studying how this book given us by Rome was collected and altered let alone how it compares in its many quotes with these earlier Hebrew texts. You will hopefully come to see that as a "literal" truth the New Testament is not that at all; rather, it is a beautiful book of Divine Allegories of the "incarnated God and Divine Mind" in "matter" or should I say "humanity". All of life is about becoming aware and developing the "indwelling Christ" in yourself: the hope of your glorification" as Paul states. It is my desire to exalt the God of the Jewish Scriptures who called Israel to be a light unto all nations and this includes the Christian as well and in so doing help in some small regard to the restoration of these Hebrew Scriptures to their place of authority that God intended since Sinai.
Isa 42:6 I the LORD have called thee (Israel) in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles.
Israel was given the revelation of HaShem (God) for the whole of mankind, and I personally take offense as should you when you discover that much in the New Testament which is passed off as "revelation" is in reality a perversion of these Jewish and Hebrew Scriptures and violates the commands of God:
Deut 4:2 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Deut 12:32 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
God did not bring a "new" revelation to the "non-Jew"; it was Israel which was to take to the "non-Jew" the revelation of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It was Israel who was to take to the world the Messiah. It was Israel who was to take to the world the Covenants of God with mankind. It was Israel who was called of God to take His Laws to the whole of mankind along with the "Pattern of Worship" of God; a "Pattern" by the way which can be traced as far back as Ancient Egypt but sadly which was destroyed almost beyond recognition in the 3rd through the 5th century by Rome.
Rom 9:4 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; (KJV)
Only when you see for yourself that both the Christian's Old & New Testament is a perversion of the real Masoretic Text, the Holy Word of God, can you then intelligently make a decision before God to "cast out the leaven". The conspiracy is great and done long ago. We unfortunately accept as Christians the documents of the early Gentile Church unquestioningly. Such I will show you is unwise. It is my hopes that once you see this for yourself that you will grow to love the Jewish Scriptures as found in the Stone Edition Tanakh or the JPS Tanakh; for in reality, unless you have either of these translations, you have never read the true Word of God yet in your life because you will come to see, as I and numerous others have seen who have done these types of studies, that the Old Testament translations in the Christians Bibles are "fixed" and the theological and political agenda of men in power are carried out in the religious expressions presented by them. In the pages which follow I will lay out for you these more serious errors which are passed off as "truths" by the Christian Bible.
Lastly we must deal honestly and truthfully with the Jesus of the New Testament. Much is claimed in Christianity and its documents for this Jesus (called Yeshua in Hebrew). Again once understanding the lack of integrity within the Christian documents you will quickly come to see that such deceptions are not limited to doctrines in reaction to Judaism and the Laws and Covenants of God as taught by Gentile Christianity for the last 1,700 years, but extend to the identity of the "key" person behind the whole of the Christian Faith. By that I mean this "Jesus". This identity and truth behind this "Jesus" and the "Jesus Story" can only come once you have equipped yourself with competent knowledge concerning Judaism and the truth about the Jewish Messiah, knowledge of the religious texts of both Judaism and the later Greek Old Testament "alterations" of it along along with its later subsequent carry-over into the New Testament. Equipped with knowledge of Comparative Religions and the hundreds of parallels to the "Jesus Story" down through the ancient nations and their religions we find in the New Testament, knowledge of Gnosticism and how the "Descent of the Soul", or the "Christ Within" was later changed by Rome when they "literalized" this previous understanding of mankind evolving Divinity. These metaphysical ideas were expressed through the ancients writing concerning man's Divine origins that was often expressed through the knowledge of Lunar and Solar Mythology, or should I say Astronomy and how this became, when personified, the story of the "godman" who had "fallen" and "incarnated" into "matter"; a story shred down through ancient religions since the beginning of time and which parallels with the events and sayings found later in the similar "Jesus Story" in our Christian Bible. The parallels of the "perfect man", the "evolving Divine Soul and godman" run the gamut from the beginning to the end of the "Jesus Story" when compared with the nations religions and saviors that preceded Roman Christianity. Along with that comes the understanding how Matthew 1 through Matthew 28 is the "personification" of the path of the Sun through the Zodiac and the Heavens; the story of the evolving Divinity in mankind which the Ancients understood as the Creator speaking to them of the Descent of the Soul and its intended maturation in this physical plane of existence. Also it is necessary to understand how the Ancients used "myths" to tell this story of the Soul and its metaphysical descent into "matter" and the flesh of mankind and how these were the foundations for all later stories of godmen who were but allegories depicting the growth of the Divine Soul in mankind from its incarnation to its release and ascent at the death of the body. In reality the stories of these allegorical "godmen" are the story of "you and me" and our intended Spiritual development while in this physical plane of existence. This prior "Krst/Christ" stories are the story of "you and me"; not the story of another which has been limited to but one person by the hands of Rome. When these types of studies are done by the reader then he will have the truth about this "Jesus Christ" and only then can he correctly interpret this "Jewish Story" as the revelation of the "Mind of Krst/Christ" as expressed through the Jewish Faith. Then, and only then, can one say that no man can ever deceive him again about God and His "Word".
These are hard questions to read let alone answer to one who has grown up in a Church that stress from their forged texts that if one fails to believe the accepted dogmas that a Loving God will burn His children for eternity. Fear and ignorance is the greatest tool that Religion can wield. Power and military come second and Rome had it all. Sadly I must tell you that the answers to these questions are not nearly so easy to obtain as you might think. It take serious study in the "areas" mentioned in the beginning of this article in order for you, the reader and student, to come to the truth of the matter for yourself beyond any doubt. So much as been destroyed to cover up this terrible deception that has stymied the evolution of the Souls of men and women. God has called me to study these theological issues out both before, during, and after my Pastorate and Bet Emet Ministries has various websites detailing the answers to these most important questions that lay before and challenge Christianity today.
Understand my allegiance to God is undergirded by "rightly dividing" the Word of God. In other words, we should translate the Jewish Bible according to existing Laws of Hermeneutics. There are laws which govern how a passage is to be understood and only by adhering to such laws of hermeneutics can we be assured of arriving at the truths intended in such a passage. Emotionalism and agreement to your Church's dogmas and doctrines is a poor substitute for truth and facts when they contradict your "tradition". Again God desires our emotions be attached to truths and not lies. So having stated that let me say that when one becomes familiar with the Jewish and Hebrew Scriptures and not the altered, misquoted, and mistranslated ones as found in both the Christian's Old & New Testament and Christian Bibles today, then and only then can one accurately determine if this Jesus truly lived as a "literal" and "historical" person let alone fulfilled the necessary Hebrew Scriptures to be recognized as the Jewish Messiah. When one becomes familiar with comparative religions then he sees for the first time that his "Jesus Story" is far from being unique or divine; it is the repetition of the oldest story ever cherished by mankind, the story of the descent, incarnation, evolution, and later ascension of the Soul of man told through allegory, metaphor, and personification as found in the "Jesus Story". Judaism has said "No" to this "literal" and "historical" Christian version of the "Krst/Christ Story" for the last 2,000 years and are unwavering in their denial of our Christian Jesus as the expected Jewish Messiah as they should be given the corruption of the holy Hebrew Scriptures and Egyptian religion as contained in the New Testament.
Answer for yourself: What do the Jewish people and scholars know which we in Western Christianity has not been taught? It all comes down to the reliability of the religious texts that we accept and give authority to for our religious beliefs. Discerning the "correct" Scriptures and texts from the falsified ones is the quest for every Christian and this cannot be done without some competent knowledge regarding the religious texts and their alteration given us by Rome. Such alteration of these ancient religious texts and Sacred Science of the Soul is why we have lost the "keys" to rightly dividing the "Jesus Story" today and 2.5 billion people mistakenly believe in a "literal" and "historical" Jewish man from Galilee that never fulfilled the Hebrew Scriptures; only the altered ones given us by Rome. And who knows this since the vast majority of Christians have never undertaken such studies?
Along with this is the very important matter concerning atonement and if any form of atonement can be connected to the death of this Jesus as depicted in this Roman New Testament. As you can see the "integrity" of the documents that we as Christians and followers of this Jesus and "the Christ" are paramount for our religious belief system; either we have believed the truth about this Christian Jesus because our Christian documents can stand the test of scrutiny and are accurate to the Hebrew Scriptures from which they were taken, or else we have believed lies about this Jesus because our Christian documents can be exposed upon scrutiny as frauds.
Answer for yourself: What is the truth in this matter? You will come to see the answer very clearly if you have the courage and the tenacity to study and read through this website and others that Bet Emet ministry has provided. Bet Emet is the Hebrew name for "the House of Truth". Let us never forget that the highest religion ever given man by God is "Truth".
History records that the Kingdom of God did not materialize with Israel in the first century. We today await the arrival of Messiah and the Messianic Kingdom. It is long overdue. But knowing these glaring errors, misquotations, and misapplication of Jewish Scriptures and lies contained in the New Testament, many of which pertain to this Jesus (Yeshua), I cannot before God nor mankind allow such sacrilege of the Holy Texts to go without challenge. Realizing the failure of the true Messianic Prophecies to be fulfilled it is impossible today, without question, to say that "so and so" is the Messiah. This will come as news to most Christians but what you read in the New Testament as "fulfilled" Messianic Prophecies is far from that the true Messianic prophecies as they exist in the Hebrew Scriptures before they were altered by Rome in their translation of them. I firmly believe that God desires we both rightly interpret His Word as well as accurately understand the events surrounding the Roman depiction of this "Christ" in the New Testament. But to insist against all contrary evidences that this New Testament Jesus, created by Rome by Hebrew Scriptural manipulation and misrepresentation of the Hebrew Scriptures as has been done in our Christian Bibles, is the Hebrew Messiah, is folly. It is one thing to "believe in this Jesus" and pattern your life after his example and I strongly recommend that this be done but it is entirely a different matter all together to definitely say or teach that he is the Jewish Messiah and died for our sins when the unforged Hebrew texts discount it from beginning to end. These statements will become a certainty for the reader the more he/she studies and compares the Hebrew Scriptures with the later forged Greek texts as well as the English of our Bibles. Add to that comparative religious study, especially the truths behind the Osiris and Horus Stories which parallel our "Jesus Story" and you see that a metaphysical reality has been false misrepresented as a supposed "literal" and "historical" story by the hands of Rome and made available to man as his remedy for his sin only through the doors of the Roman Church.
So when you read the following articles which expose the crafty misuse of the Jewish Scriptures by the non-Jewish Church of the early centuries, please, please understand that I am not trying to denigrate this Jesus or the "Jewish Christ"; but rather to uphold the sanctity and holiness of the Word of God as given to Holy men of old and point out how it has been twisted by the anti-Semitic Gentile Church in its creation of a religion about JESUS instead of following the faith of JESUS.
Basically the Western Christian Faith of today is a replacement religion that opposed the "Jewish Christ" and the "Mind of Christ" as expressed through the Jewish Faith. As your studies advance this will become all the more real to you but you need the "truth" to see it.
If you truly look to Jesus (Yeshua) as God's example of a life pleasing to God, a life so lived that assured judgment for life and not death, a life that will be rewarded in redemption, and resurrection, then you like I need to understand the true faith of Jesus and repent and return to the faith once given to the saints. This my dear ones is Judaism; not Roman or Protestant Christianity. We find God's Divine Truths best expressed today in Judaism which just so happens to have a place for the "non-Jew" along side the Jew. This task of recovering Divine Truth is impossible if our religious documents that concern God and His "Divine Revelation" to all mankind are in error and Christianity's religious documents in our inherited Bibles can be shown to be in error only when compared to the Hebrew Scriptures. The evidence is there for those interested and concerned enough to look. Let us honor this "Jewish Christ", an allegory for the "Christ Within" and return to the faith of this "Jewish Jesus" exampled to us in the New Testament. Let us as "non-Jewish believers" be grafted into the Israel of God as Godfearers and no longer stand apart from God's people as a competing and conflicting faith. This revelation and endeavor can only be accomplished by serious study where we return to the Bible that Israel used and it's truths concerning the Jewish Messiah along with the correct understanding of atonement and how to obtain it in our lives.
So in the pages which follow you will be shown things that will challenge your present faith in many regards. It is not my intention to hurt anyone by exposing the lies and deceptions contained in the Christian's New Testament. However, I must be truthful to God who called me by recognizing my calling in a similar light as to the calling of Jeremiah the prophet:
Jeremiah: 1:9-10: Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. 10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
It is in the Spirit of Jeremiah I dedicate this web site, as all my websites, to the God of truth and it is my hopes that my pilgrimage and study is edifying to you and yours as we both try to make our calling and election certain.
