WHY I NOW REJECT THE NEW TESTAMENT



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Is The New Testament Fraudulent?

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This was not created to prove that the B’rit Hadasha/New Testament is authentic. It was created to address particular statements circulating the Israelite community concerning the authenticity of the B’rit Hadasha/New Testament.

To say that the B’rit Hadasha/New Testament is fabricated is to say that Yahusha/Jesus is fabricated, and/or a messiah didn’t come. If you believe that, make sure you read part 12 of this project (Issues with Yahusha/Jesus).

You’ve “awakened” to “the truth” that the B’rit Hadasha/New Testament is fraudulent? Are you sure you haven’t “awakened” to massive brainwashing for a New World Order (the anti-Christian agenda)?

“No one actually knows who authored those books.”

The same argument can be made for the writings of the Tanakh/Old Testament, and many books throughout history.

“They came up with the idea of Jesus, Christianity, and the New Testament at the Council of Nicaea.” “Constantine and the Catholic Church came up with the idea of Jesus, Christianity, and the New Testament.”

These beliefs are widespread right now, and many people, especially non-messianic Israelites, are stating them. This is a part of the agenda, and the people behind it don’t even care that they’re spreading blatant lies. If this were true, these things would have taken place in the 4th century AD/CE (301 – 400 AD/CE), correct?

Jewish Christian

Jewish Christians were the original members of the Jewish movement that later became Christianity.[1] In the earliest stage the community was made up of all those Jews who accepted Jesus as the Jewish messiah. As Christianity grew and developed, Jewish Christians became only one strand of the early Christian community, characterised by combining the confession of Jesus as Christ with continued adherence to Jewish traditions such as Sabbath observance, observance of the Jewish calendar, observance of Jewish laws and customs, circumcision, and synagogue attendance, and by a direct genetic relationship to the earliest Jewish Christians.[1]

The term "Jewish Christian" appears in historical texts contrasting Christians of Jewish origin with Gentile Christians, both in discussion of the New Testament church[2][3] and the second and following centuries.[4] It is also a term used for Jews who converted to Christianity but kept their Jewish heritage and traditions.

First century Jewish Christians were faithful religious Jews. They differed from other contemporary Jews only in their acceptance of Jesus as the Messiah.[5] Those that taught that Gentile converts to Christianity ought to adopt more Jewish practices to be saved, however, were called "Judaizers".[6] Though the Apostle Peter was initially sympathetic, the Apostle Paul opposed the teaching at the Incident at Antioch (Gal. 2:11-21) and at the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15:6-35).[6] Nevertheless, Judaizing continued to be encouraged for several centuries, particularly by Jewish Christians.[6]

As Christianity grew throughout the Gentile world, Christians diverged from their Jewish and Jerusalem roots.[7][8] Jewish Christianity, initially strengthened despite persecution by Jerusalem Temple officials,[citation needed] fell into decline during the Jewish–Roman wars (66-135) and the growing anti-Judaism perhaps best personified by Marcion of Sinope (c. 150).

Source:

“Anti-Christian policies directed at the early church had occurred sporadically and in localised areas since its beginning. The first persecution of Christians organised by the Roman government took place under the emperor Nero in 64 AD after the Great Fire of Rome.”

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And you can do further research on your own (even with better sources you’re going to find the same thing). You can simply search “early Christian history” and you can debunk these beliefs in less than a minute. What’s crazy is that people actually believed this, and then spread it. That’s scary.

Think about this: During the first century, Europeans knew Yahusha/Jesus was black, and even painted him as such. So, you’re telling me that they made up a story about a black Israelite messiah? They didn’t want to make him white and one of their own? During the first century “Christians”/believers/Nazarenes followed the Law. So, Europeans made it up to destroy the Law? Just the fact that people are saying that Rome was behind Yahusha/Jesus and the New Testament is troubling. It shows that these people are lying or don’t actually know history at all. Rome? The same Rome who persecuted Christians? The same Rome who sent out people, later called “early church fathers” (some of them), to corrupt “Christian” doctrine and transform the “religion”? The same Rome who burned Bibles? The same Rome who created the Roman Catholic Church to take control of all Christianity? The same Rome who murdered those who read the Bible and practiced it instead of their new Roman Christianity? The same Rome identified as Mystery Babylon in the New Testament book of Revelation (In the New Testament!)? That Rome?

This documentary reveals a lot about the history of the Catholic Church. You should watch it some time.

A Lamp In The Dark:untold history of Bible – Full Film



Here are some key statements

– But if Constantine were a true believer, how could he turn and persecute other Christians?  Some researchers believe it was because his faith was divided.  Researcher Dave Hunt writes that “While heading the Christian church, Constantine continued to head the pagan priesthood, to officiate at pagan celebrations, and to endow pagan temples even after he began to build Christian churches.”  “As head of the pagan priesthood he was Pontifex Maximus and needed a similar title as head of the Christian church.”  “The Christians honored him as ‘Bishop of Bishops,’ while Constantine called himself Vicarius Christi, Vicar of Chirst.”  For the cause of unifying the empire, the pagan practices of Rome were eventually combined with what was called the Universal, or Catholic, Church.  But many Christians saw in this new system an apostate union between the Church and the powers of the world.  Through Constantine would begin the persecution of those who opposed the new universal faith.  As a result of his edict against heretics, it would be said that more Christians were persecuted after his conversion than before it.  When the Roman Empire would eventually suffer its decline, the bishops of Rome would rise up and take to themselves the titles of Constantine – Pontifex Maximus, Bishop of Bishop, and Vicarius Christi; the Vicar, or substitute, of Christ.  As 17th century historian Thomas Hobbes wrote, “If a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof …”

 

– While some may attribute the beginning of the Dark Age to Constantine, the record of history shows that the name of this era was given because the Bible was forbidden.  The psalmist writes “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”  But in the 13th century, Rome made a concerted effort to put out that light, and to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures.  The conflict began with a Catholic priest named Dominic Guzman.  It can be said that Dominic, along with Pope Innocent III, were the two original founders of Rome’s most dreadful engine of terror and destruction, the Inquisition.  The Inquisition itself began, not because of witches, or as a crusade against Muslims, but rather because of Bible believing Christians.

 

– In the year 1206, the Albigenses made a confession, “That the Church of Rome was not the spouse of Christ but the Church of confusion, drunk with the blood of the martyrs.  That the Church of Rome was neither good nor holy nor established by Jesus Christ.”

 

– By 1233 A.D. Pope Gregory IX would establish the Inquisition as official church doctrine, and thus began some six hundred years of bloodshed against Bible believers.  As a direct result of the Albingensen Crusade, the popes began to outlaw the translation, possession, or reading of the Bible.  Historian David Cloud explains that “The light brought by the Scriptures made Rome’s heresies plain.”  “The persecutions which Rome poured out upon these peace-loving people were intended to destroy them, as well as their Scriptures.”  Beginning with the Albingenses, Rome’s Inquisition continued its bloodthirsty cause for centuries.  Its estimated death toll was recording by historian John Dowling in 1845.  Who wrote, “… it is estimated by careful and credible historians that more than fifty millions of the human family have been slaughtered for the crime of heresy by popish persecutors.”

In modern times, it is traditionally thought that Roman Catholicism was the only form of Christianity until the Protestant Reformation.  But history shows that Bible believers have always existed outside the Roman Church, and were hated by Rome because of it.  A history of these groups can be found in the book The Pilgrim Church by E. H. Broadbent.  Broadbent shows that what these groups had in common was that they did not submit to the Roman Papacy, and they sought to follow God’s Word as their final authority.

– The Jesuit General, a position created by Loyola himself, is often referred to as the Black Pope because of the black robes that he wears and the tremendous power he is said to hold.  Former Jesuit General Michelangelo Tamburini once boastfully said, “See sir, from this chamber, I govern not only Paris, but to China; not only to China, but to all the world, without anyone knowing how I do it.”

 

– With all these things in mind, consider that it was this society that was specifically commissioned by the Pope to launch the Counter Reformation in 1540 under the direction of Ignatius Loyola.

 

– The plan of the society was to overthrow the Bible based education of the Protestants.  In his book on the Jesuits, Rulers of Evil, F. Tupper Saussy writes that “By 1556, three-fourths of the Society’s membership were dedicated in 46 Jesuit colleges to learning against learning … to indoctrinating minds with the learning of illuminated humanism as opposed to the learning of Scripture.”  “This network would expand by 1749 to 669 colleges, 176 seminaries, 61 houses of study, and 24 universities … partly of wholly under Jesuit direction.”  In the 19th century, Charles Spurgeon warned of the impact of Jesuit education.  He spoke of certain preachers, saying, “… they keep back a portion of the gospel … having studied in the devil’s new Jesuitical college.”

Council of Nicaea Myth Debunked



Debunking Council of Nicea Myths



“Marcion created the New Testament.”

This next video features a guy who has had much to say about the Messiah and the New Testament. Some of his other videos are debunked in Is Your Religion the Problem? – 2. This time he says Marcion wrote the New Testament. Ideas like this are the same ideas being taught by some Tanakh-only Israelites.

Marcion Author of the new test. P.1



He said, a couple of times, that Marcion wrote the New Testament.

This can be debunked quickly. Read this and/or do further research:

Marcion of Sinope



What is Marcionism?



What’s going on here? We’ve already seen several accusations turn out to be false. I guess it’s no big deal to spread a false report. And I guess it’s no big deal to believe one either.

But this does not mean that something sinister wasn’t going on. I have a theory on this Marcion issue which I have to look into further: The state of the real Church at that time (Thesis)>Marcion (Antithesis)>“In hindsight, Marcion is seen as one of the first heresiarchs for his deviations from what would become the orthodox positions of the main authorities in the Catholic Church. The suppression of the Marcionist form of Christianity is thus viewed as a catalyst for the development of the New Testament canon, the establishment of a centralized church law, and the structuring of the Church.” (Synthesis). A prostitute is conceived?

“‘Antithesis’ was the name given by Marcion of Sinope to a manifesto in which he contrasted the Old Testament with the New Testament and defined what came to be known as Marcionism.”

Source:

“The Piso family created Christianity.”

There is something that I’ve noticed, and that’s that many black people, being new to knowledge, believe things are true just because it’s written in a book. There’s no search for a source whatsoever, and no thought about where the author got their information from. Let me give you a nugget of truth. Did you know that before the US even existed, and throughout its existence, the Elite unleashed authors, with their pamphlets and books, into populations to further agendas? This means many books are written to purposely mislead you, and purposely guide you.

From what I see, a lot of these anti-New Testament ideas are spawning from a new movement that uses the following book:

The true authorship of the New Testament by Abelard Reuchlin



Some customers have already torn into this book.

A Bizarre Conspiracy Theory.

By zonaras on January 5, 2005

Format: Unknown Binding

Abelard Reuchlin's "The True Authorship of the New Testament" (1979) is a strange little pamphlet. I bought it over two years ago when I saw it advertised in a secular humanist periodical as a definitive debunking of the accuracy of the New Testament. The pamphlet's arguments are not exactly scientific (like secular humanism itself) but belong to pseudo-science, speculation, theory and the occult. It has a portrait of the notable first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus labeled "Arius Calpurnius Piso, pen name Flavius Josephus, a Roman." The introduction to the book welcomes the reader to the "inner circle." Reuchlin's "inner circle" includes those who know about the true authorship of the New Testament and he states his work was originally intended for Jews only (to prevent them from converting to Christianity) but is now seeking a wider audience. In this introduction, Reuchlin also rants and raves against perceived enemies of the Jewish people such as Messianic Jews, anybody who is opposed to the state of Israel (any criticism of Israel inherently hateful and "anti-Semitic," of course), Christian-Identity believers (an arrayed group of Christians who believe northern Europeans like the Anglo-Saxons, Germans, Scandinavians and Celts are descended from the lost tribes of Israel), and Arabs and Communists because they frequently attack Israeli/Jewish political interest through the auspices of the UN.

Reuchlin then goes on to concoct one of the most far-fetched conspiracy theories ever put into print. This might be farther out there than Jesus' secret bloodline but I guess not as far-fetched as black UN helicopters, mind-control technology and weather manipulation devices. According to Reuchlin, the ancient Roman aristocratic family of Arius Calpurnius Piso conspired to gain political and spiritual control of the Roman Empire by forging an entirely new religion based on Jewish Scriptures-and make this religion combat the growing popularity of Judaism and the political power of Jews, who made up ten percent of the Empire's population in the first century. The writings the Piso family produced were encoded in various places through names and hidden symbolism (for example Piso [Pisces] refers to a fish on the zodiac and was a symbol for Christianity). Reuchlin contends that Arius Calpurnius Piso made up the pen name "Flavius Josephus" to write his histories of both the Hebrew people and the Jewish War in Palestine during AD 70 when the Temple was razed by Titus' forces. Other writings were forged by the Piso family and their cronies, which included the Roman philosopher Seneca and the historians Pliny and Tacitus. The entire Greek New Testament; various Messianic prophecies in the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew scriptures; the "Apocryphal" books like Esdras, Tobit, Judith, Bel and the Dragon and I Maccabees; the writings of the early Church Fathers like Clement of Rome, St. Ignatius of Antioch and St. Polycarp of Smyrna; second century Christian texts like the Shepard of Hermas, Barnabas, the Didache and the Martyrdom of Polycarp-all of these were forgeries. Jesus and St. Paul were made up characters and the later Church writings were composed as a form of "self-fulfilling prophecy." The "Apocrypha" was forged to bridge the gap in Scriptural history from 400 BC (the time of the exiles return from Babylon) until the time of Christ. Reuchlin then goes on for several pages using cabbalistic numerology (he adds 2 and 2 to get 22, that how numerology works!) in the Greek and Latin texts to prove how Christianity has been a giant, millennium long conspiracy against the Jews. He believes Christianity to be inherently anti-Semitic because its savior, Jesus, is brought to trial by Jewish religious leaders. Reuchlin also takes potshots against the Koran because it mentions Jesus as a "prophet" of God and speculates that whoever wrote the Koran and backed Muhammad was connected to the same multi-generational conspiracy that created Christianity.

Go ahead and read this book. It does not contain any cogent revelations or information-just hypothetical conclusions drawn from perceived "coincidences" and letter codes--that will shatter Christianity ("and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it").

The logic doesn't add up or it does as a hit peice only

ByAeroEngineeron June 4, 2014

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I don't buy this one at all. From the beginning diatribe about how the TALMUDIC(Babylonian circa 400 A.D. A.D. A.D.) followers are oh so "persecuted" and that "communists in the UN" are persecuting them is patently a huge LIE. Anyone who reads history will know that Marx,Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and even the top members of the Third Reich were ALL either FULL TALMUDIC Jews or at least "half"(mother was Jewish, which is their definition of a full Jew btw). This is a hit piece on Christianity by the Talumudic Jews, nothing more. Did I mention that our modern Bankster system is a Knights Templar(Black Magic) system picked up by the Rothschilds? Hmmm who runs the world? Oh right the "persecuted" ones do.

I agree that the Roman Empire(Vatican) was the primary benefactor of Christianity from a materialist POV but I do NOT buy the story in this polemical pamphlet one bit. First of all the "numbers"(Gematria) logic makes no sense, it is based off of the number correspondence of Hebrew to ENGLISH letters(MM=80 is claimed here, etc) which MAKES NO SENSE in LATIN Roman times. M in Roman numerals stands for 1000(MM=2000 or 2 in the "Pythagorean" system) and if you want, the Greek Gematria M=12(mu) MM=24. Also Piso must have had a huge inside knowledge of Gematria to even make some of the number theory of the Jews, which is very unlikely since it was supposedly an "oral" only tradition until the early 400 AD's or even later in the Sefer Yetzirah and Zohar. Also 666 refers to the Seal of SOLOMON(mythologicl BLACK MAGICIAN), there are 6 point, it's made of 6 lines and forms 6 outer triangles, this is undisputed fact. I could also mention 555 or 111,222,333,444,777,888 and 999 for anyone who understands what I'm referring to btw(black magic meanings as well as architectural).

Another thing is that Malachi Martin, who read and had access to the ACTUAL Dead Sea Scrolls of Qumran mentions that the book of Mark was written less than 10 years after the standard death of Christ(~33 A.D.) in 43 A.D. This means that the claims in this propaganda of Mark being written in 75-80 A.D. are FALSE. I do not trust anything else in this obvious polemical hit piece.

Book makes allegations left and right, but offers no ...

ByRayon September 9, 2014

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Book makes allegations left and right, but offers no proof behind the theory. The book offers no 'footprint' in tracking the allegations down. What were the specific clues that Reuchlin discovered. And considering how anti-Christian Rome was, how on earth did the Piso family benefit from inventing the Jesus storyt? Another wild theory whose sole purpose is to destroy Christianity.

The book is debunked further here:

On the "Roman Piso" Theory



For a look at some of the ideas stated in the book go here:





They’ve even made a documentary out of this nonsense (you don’t have to watch it):

Origin of Christianity The Piso Flavian Dynasty



Do you remember the anti-Christian/anti-religion agenda? The woman in this documentary, Dorothy Milne Murdock (Acharya S), is a part of it.

Watch the beginning - 11:34 and 23:58 - 28:30

The Luciferian Philosophy/Religion vs. The Truth



Could it be that the spread of this Piso Flavian nonsense is a part of the agenda?

“That’s not what it says in the Tanakh!”

Some people have an issue with the New Testament because they believe they see Old Testament scriptures, especially prophecies, being quoted and used incorrectly.

ROMANS

CHAPTER 9

24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but

also of the Gentiles?

25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people,

which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not

beloved.

26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was

said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be

called the children of the living God.

HOSEA

CHAPTER 1

THE word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of

Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah,

kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of

Joash, king of Israel.

2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And

the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of

whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath

committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.

3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim;

which conceived, and bare him a son.

4 And the LORD said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for

yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel

upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the

kingdom of the house of Israel.

5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the

bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

6 ¶ And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God

said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no

more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly

take them away.

7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will

save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them

by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by

horsemen.

8 ¶ Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived,

and bare a son.

9 Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not

my people, and I will not be your God.

10 ¶ Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the

sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered;

and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said

unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto

them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of

Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one

head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall

be the day of Jezreel.

Another example:

ACTS

CHAPTER 15

13 ¶ And after they had held their peace, James answered,

saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:

14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the

Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

15 And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is

written,

16 After this I will return, and will build again the

tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build

again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

17 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and

all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the

Lord, who doeth all these things.

AMOS

CHAPTER 9

8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful

kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth;

saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,

saith the LORD.

9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel

among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall

not the least grain fall upon the earth.

10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,

which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

11 ¶ In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that

is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise

up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all

the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD

that doeth this.

How do you know if it was meant to be an exact quote? How do you know where the quote ends? How do you know it’s not your copy of the Tanakh/Old Testament that is wrong? What you see being done by these writers is not devious or incorrect. Words of prophets, and prophetic utterances of non-prophets, can have multiple fulfillments. People in the New Testament period were seeing some of these things as additional fulfillments. Furthermore, statements made with the aid of the Spirit can have a sentence out of a paragraph that is prophetic (Amos 9:11, for example). You can see a prime example of this throughout the book of Psalms. And I guess you don’t know that nearly every single verse you use to prove you are an Israelite is from the Babylonian captivity, so you’re doing the same thing! For an additional example, take a look at Nahum 3:1-6, a portion of a prophecy against Nineveh, as being for Hollywood, California (if you know of all the celebrities they kill there, and deaths they cause through promoting violence and war). I don’t normally use scripture in this way, but I used this one for Hollywood in a project I did because I couldn’t deny it (especially since verses 5 and 6 were being fulfilled through me at that time). So, in most cases the issue is that you believe writers of the New Testament are intending their statement to refer to the entire verse, chapter, or prophecy from which it came when in fact they are only referring to that one statement they quoted, nothing more; and usually as an additional fulfillment. Examples: 2 Corinthians 6:2 and Galatians 4:27.

Things you should understand about the Gospel accounts and the New Testament

There are times when what you’re reading is the writer’s interpretation, sort of like a Bible commentary. It is how that writer has interpreted something. If false, does that make the rest of the writings false? It doesn’t. But you should still be aware of these personal interpretations, and test them. The book of Matthew is a prime example. It’s almost as if someone took a gospel account and added extra information (commentary) to it. And not only that, they were trying, not telling. In other words, there was purpose and intent behind that version that ended up in the Bible.

“There was a book of Matthew in Hebrew.” That doesn’t mean that the book of Matthew you have is a copy of that book.

It may sound crazy, but in my opinion Luke is the most legit of the Gospels. And speaking of Luke, the beginning of Luke gives some understanding into what the Gospel accounts are, are not, and how some of them, or all of them, came about.

LUKE

CHAPTER 1

(English Standard Version)

1 Since many people have attempted to write an orderly account of the events that have transpired among us,

2 just as they were passed down to us by those who had been eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning,

3 I, too, have carefully investigated everything from the beginning and have decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

4 so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

And of course, it takes time to do such a thing, especially if your country is in turmoil.

With that understanding, now consider the differences between the Gospels. Now consider the differences between the books of Kings and Chronicles. Now consider the differences between one Old Testament papyri or manuscript and another. Conclusion: The differences between the Gospels are not odd at all.

Take a look at this:

An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture



And if you compare the Masoretic texts to other source texts....

Let’s say that you write a book, and years later someone makes changes to it during translation, does that mean you’re false or didn’t exist? And how just/fair would it be for someone to attack you for that, what someone else did (really, a crime committed against you)? What kind of a person would do something like that?

Information that validates the New Testament

Note: The year a work, or copy of a work, was found or dated to is not necessarily the same as the year the work was originally written. And we all know these dates are probably not exact, but it’s all we have to go on right now.

“The Rylands Library Papyrus P52, also known as the St. John's fragment and with an accession reference of Papyrus Rylands Greek 457, is a fragment from a papyrus codex, measuring only 3.5 by 2.5 inches (8.9 by 6 cm) at its widest; and conserved with the Rylands Papyri at the John Rylands University Library Manchester, UK. The front (recto) contains parts of seven lines from the Gospel of John 18:31–33, in Greek, and the back (verso) contains parts of seven lines from verses 37–38.”

“The original editor proposed a date range of 100-150 CE; while a recent exercise by Pasquale Orsini and Willy Clarysse, aiming to generate consistent revised date estimates for all New Testament papyri written before the mid-fourth century, has proposed a date for [P][pic] 52 of 125-175 CE. But a few scholars say that considering the difficulty of fixing the date of a fragment based solely on paleographic evidence allows the possibility of dates outside these range estimates, such that ‘any serious consideration of the window of possible dates for P52 must include dates in the later second and early third centuries.’”

One side:

… the Jews, "For us it is not permitted to kill anyone," so that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke signifying what kind of death he was going to die. Entered therefore again into the Praetorium Pilate and summoned Jesus and said to him, "Thou art king of the Jews?"

The other side:

… a King I am. For this I have been born and (for this) I have come into the world so that I would testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears of me my voice." Said to him Pilate, "What is truth?" and this having said, again he went out unto the Jews and said to them, "I find not one fault in him."

Source:

The Earliest New Testament Manuscripts

The Integrity of the New Testament - Special 2013 Series



And this has been my thought, my argument, for a while now:

“‘As important as this textual problem is, neither variant contradicts any of the teachings of Scripture elsewhere, and both readings state something that is theologically sound,[3]’ (Grudem, Collins, & Schreiner, 2012).”

“Another scholar writes, ‘The verbal agreement between various New Testament manuscripts is closer than between many English translations of the New Testament and the percentage of variants in the New Testament is small…and no matter of doctrine hinges on a variant reading’ (Wegner, 2006).”

Part I of II, Debriefing Outside the British Library: The Reliability of the New Testament



Part II of II, Debriefing Outside the British Library: The Reliability of the New Testament



For more proof of a conspiracy and double standard go here, go to What Were You Thinking? (near the end of the document, centered and in red), find the section entitled Christ Consciousness and read that. You’ll see how you’ve been lied to when it comes to Buddha, and you’ll clearly see the conspiracy and double standard.

Some evidence which suggests that what’s stated in the first few verses of the book of Luke is correct

Read this:

John the Baptizer and Qumran by James H. Charlesworth



Qumran

Most of the scrolls seem to have been hidden in the caves during the turmoil of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), although some of them may have been deposited earlier.

…

The bronze coins identified from Qumran, some dating to the second and third years of the Jewish War, indicate that the site was still in use in 68 CE and only destroyed after 70 CE, perhaps as late as 73 CE.[62][63] The coins from Qumran of this period end with a peculiar series of bronze coins minted in 72/73 CE at Ascalon, which sent auxiliary troops to assist the Roman army in the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE).

In 73 CE the Romans stormed the mountain fortress of Masada, which also was located on the western bank of the Dead Sea. It is more than likely that Qumran was destroyed this same time, as the coin finds from Qumran end with the same peculiar bronze coins minted at Ascalon.

Source:

Unless another date has been determined since, scroll 4Q521 of the Qumran scrolls has been given a paleographical date of 100-80 B.C.

Information on dating the scrolls

RADIOCARBON DATING OF SCROLLS AND LINEN FRAGMENTS FROM THE JUDEAN DESERT



Redating the Radio Carbon Dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls



Qumran scroll 4Q521

[...for the heav]ens and the earth will listen to his anointed one, [and all] that is in them will not turn away from the precepts of the holy ones. Strengthen yourselves, you who are seeking the Lord, in his service! Will you not in this encounter the Lord, all those who hope in their heart? For the Lord will consider the pious and call the righteous by name, and his spirit will hover upon the poor, and he will renew the faithful with his strength. For he will honor the pious upon the throne of an eternal kingdom, freeing prisoners, giving sight to the blind, straightening out the twis[ted.] And for[e]ver shall I cling to [those who] hope, and in his mercy [...] and the fru[it of ...] not be delayed. And the Lord will perform marvellous acts such as have not existed, just as he sa[id, for] he will heal the badly wounded and will make the dead live; he will proclaim good news to the poor and [...] he will lead the [...] and enrich the hungry. [...] and all [....]

Qumran scroll 4Q521. Also known as the messianic apocalypse.

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This was something they attributed to the coming messiah, but it’s also shown by the New Testament to have been known within the main Israelite community.

LUKE

CHAPTER 4

16 ¶ And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought

up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on

the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the

prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he

found the place where it was written,

18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath

anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent

me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the

captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at

liberty them that are bruised,

19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the

minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were

in the synagogue were fastened on him.

21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture

fulfilled in your ears.

What was he saying by saying that?

MATTHEW

CHAPTER 11

AND it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of

commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to

teach and to preach in their cities.

2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of

Christ, he sent two of his disciples,

When he heard about the works Yahusha/Jesus did …. Why the works?

3 And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do

we look for another?

He asked that because of the works, the certain things he did. Certain works identified the messiah.

4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John

again those things which ye do hear and see:

5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the

lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised

up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

This is also found in Luke 7:22.

How did Yahusha/Jesus answer? He confirmed that he was the messiah by the works, specific works they both knew the messiah was going to do. It’s like they were speaking a coded language or secret riddle.

JOHN

CHAPTER 10

19 ¶ There was a division therefore again among the Jews

for these sayings.

20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad;

why hear ye him?

21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a

devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

22 ¶ And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and

it was winter.

23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.

24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him,

How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ,

tell us plainly.

25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the

works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of

me.

26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I

said unto you.

6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

7 ¶ And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the

multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the

wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

8 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft

raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings’

houses.

9 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say

unto you, and more than a prophet.

10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my

messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way

before thee.

John was baptizing in the “wilderness” near the Qumran community, and his existence in history is even verified by Josephus.

“The curious thing is that not all of these miracles, such as ‘raising the dead,’ appear in the passages from Isaiah, which were the source material for the lists—the prophecies being fulfilled. Yet the miracle of ‘raising the dead’ appears in both Luke 7 and the Messianic Apocalypse right before bringing ‘good news to the poor.’”

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So, the “coded language” or “secret riddle,” the works the messiah would do, is not in the Old Testament, but it’s in the book of Luke and the scrolls of the Qumran community.

The people Luke got his information from were drawing from something the Qumran community also had, whether it be documents or community beliefs. If you don’t believe the information in Luke came directly from firsthand eyewitnesses, life at that time, you would have to say it was drawn from the beliefs, sayings, and/or documents of that time. So, it’s a fraud?

And when thinking about the 1st century A.D. Israelites as a whole you have to consider the books they had and learned from, books we don’t have; and the understanding they had as well – understanding they gained by being in the actual community, and understanding they gained through new revelations and new prophecies that came about after the time period of the book of Malachi. People in our time look at the New Testament writers and believe they didn’t know what they’re talking about, when it could be that we’re not even drawing from the same sources they were, and don’t even have the understanding they did. They had many more sources than just the Old Testament, and much more understanding. For a fact, having extra books, being a part of the actual community, and with new revelations and prophecies since the time of the book of Malachi, 1st century Israelites would have had a different understanding of scripture and Yahua than what we can gain by just studying the Old Testament. A study of the Qumran community shows this.

Read these excerpts from 4Q521 and What It Might Mean for Q 3–7 by Gaye Strathearn, associate professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University.

Were the early Christians aware of the community at Qumran and their texts? Did these groups interact in any way? Was the Qumran community the source for nascent Christianity, as some popular and scholarly sources have intimated,1 or was it simply a parallel community? One Qumran fragment that may provide an important window into this discussion is 4Q521.2 Although a fragmentary text, it clearly describes the eschatological expectation of activities that are remarkably close to activities found in a hypothetical document known as Q, which scholars have (re)created from the gospels of Matthew and Luke.

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In 4Q521 we read of eschatological events that will take place at the coming of the messiah: the release of captives, opening the eyes of the blind, straightening out the twisted, healing the badly wounded, raising the dead, and proclaiming good news to the poor (4Q521 2 II, 8 and 12). Both Q 7:22 and 4Q521 are based on a particular messianic interpretation of Isaiah 61—a healing and preaching messiah—that was not a common Jewish expectation in the first century AD.4 Prior to the discovery and publication of 4Q521, however, this interpretation seemed to be peculiar to the Christian tradition. 4Q521 challenges that assumption.

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Thus George J. Brooke correctly summarizes, “Whether we conclude that Jesus must have known of this tradition directly from a Qumran source or that it was mediated to him some other how, the details of the similarities are too great to be brushed aside.”9

In drawing these conclusions about 4Q521 and Q, however, none of these scholars seems to have appreciated the significance of the material in column III of 4Q521’s second fragment where, as Émile Puech has noted, there is fragmentary evidence for an expectation of the coming of an eschatological Elijah.10 Therefore, 4Q521 and Q 3–7 share not only the expectation of a healing and preaching messiah, but also an interpretation of Malachi 4:5–6 (Heb. 3:23–24) that an Elijah figure would be associated with the coming of this messiah.

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Florentino García Martínez writes, “the large number of [messianic] references inserted in every kind of literary context, including legal contexts, testifies to its importance for the Qumran community.”11 Although there is no monolithic messianic expectation, there was an expectation of more than one messianic figure. These figures are variously described performing both political and religious functions, liberating the community from the physical and spiritual oppression of its enemies, interpreting the law, acting as an eschatological judge, and providing an atonement.12 In addition, one passage indicates that the community rules would be in force “until the coming of the prophet, and the Messiahs of Aaron and Israel” (1QS IX, 11:ʿd bwʾ nbyʾwmshykhy ʾhrwn wysrʾl).13 Thus, in conjunction with the messianic figures, we note the expectation of a prophet. Lawrence H. Schiffman interprets this phrase to mean that the two messiahs will be “announced by an eschatological prophet.”14 This interpretation is in keeping with the position of nbyʾ, which precedes the messianic construct in the sentence.15

Unfortunately, the text does not delineate more fully for us the functions of this prophet. There are, however, references in other Qumran materials that enhance our understanding of this figure. 11Q13 seems to describe an eschatological prophet who is identified as “the messenger” who is “anointed of the spirit” (11Q13 II, 15–19).16 Although the text at this point is fragmentary, it is clear that the prophet’s role is to announce salvation, and the context implies that he will introduce the judicial action of the messianic figure, Melchizedek. Similarly, 4Q175 contains a pastiche of texts that the community interprets messianically, including Deuteronomy 18:18–19: “I would raise up for them a prophet from among their brothers, like you [i.e., Moses], and place my words in his mouth, and he would tell them all that I command them. And it will happen that the man who does not listen to my words, that the prophet will speak in my name, I shall require a reckoning from him” (4Q175 5–8).17 Thus the prophet, who is associated in some way with Moses, acts as a mouthpiece for Yahweh on earth. In addition, this prophet in 4Q175 is specifically identified with a messianic figure who will destroy the enemies of the covenant people (4Q175 12–13, drawing on Numbers 24:17).

Although 4Q175 makes the association of the eschatological prophet with Moses, at least fragmentary evidence reveals that the Qumran community also looked for a prophetic Elijah figure. 4Q558 reads, “therefore I will send Elijah be[fore . . .],”18 which phrase clearly presupposes Malachi 4:5 (Heb. 3:23). The Masoretic text of Malachi reads, “Behold I will send the prophet Elijah to you before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes” (cf. Sirach 48:10). The context for this verse is established by Malachi 3:1, “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me [i.e., Yahweh].” Beth Glazier-McDonald has convincingly argued that the messengers in Malachi 3:1 and Elijah in Malachi 4:5 (Heb. 3:23) “are one and the same.”19 She notes that Yahweh sent both individuals (shlkh), their arrival is near (hnh), and both of their missions are to prepare the people for the coming of Yahweh. We have already outlined the Qumran community’s expectation of an eschatological prophet in association with the messianic age. The relationship, if any, between the “prophet like Moses” and Elijah in the minds of the Qumran community is impossible to establish given the fragmentary nature of texts from Qumran, but what is important here is that they did anticipate a prophetic figure and that Malachi’s prophecy was known to them.20 This concept from Qumran is important because Malachi’s prophecy is not commonly found in Second Temple literature, although the messenger becomes important for the Q community (Q 7:27).

We place 4Q521 within this messianic spectrum. The editor of this text, Émile Puech, paleographically dates it to the first quarter of the first century BC, although he notes that our present text is probably a copy of an earlier document.21

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Additional information brought out in that document may give more insight into how the Gospels were created:

“We now turn to Q, which is a hypothetical document that scholars have (re)constructed. They have noted numerous verbal similarities between many of Jesus’s sayings in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke and suggest that these similarities can be explained if both gospels used a source that concentrated on the sayings of Jesus. The discovery of the Gospel of Thomas in the Nag Hammadi Library, which contains 114 sayings of Jesus with only limited narrative context, proves that some early Christians did indeed collect Jesus’s sayings.57”

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Somewhat of a confirmation of what I stated earlier about the book of Matthew:

“In addition to the parallels mentioned, the relationship of the form of Q 7:22 to the scrolls is also significant. The Q editor has clearly gathered together a collection of miracles and activities from a number of Isaianic passages and brought them together as a pesher to show their fulfillment in Jesus. This is an unusual editorial activity for Q but one that is common in the scrolls.”

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Common in the Qumran scrolls? So, writing a text and linking information within that text to prophecies in the Tanakh, particularly the book of Isaiah, was common in the Qumran scrolls; once again showing it’s not something the Gospel writers created, while also giving proof that the Gospels were written very close in time and proximity to the events depicted within them. So, what was that again about Europeans and 325 A.D.?

ACTS

CHAPTER 5

29 ¶ Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said,

We ought to obey God rather than men.

30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew

and hanged on a tree.

31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince

and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and

forgiveness of sins.

32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also

the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey

him.

33 ¶ When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and

took counsel to slay them.

34 Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee,

named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation

among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles

forth a little space;

35 And said unto them, Ye men of Israel, take heed to

yourselves what ye intend to do as touching these men.

36 For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself

to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four

hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as

many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to

nought.

37 After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the

taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also

perished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were

dispersed.

38 And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let

them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it

will come to nought:

39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye

be found even to fight against God.

Franklin Miller (Writeous1)



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