17. God tells a lie, while the serpent speaks the truth
Genesis 3:3-5:
"But God did say, "You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die." "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman, "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
The chapter continues by saying that Adam and Eve went on to eat from the forbidden fruit and events ensued which cannot be attributable to Almighty God.
18. The Bible says: God came down from heaven to break the people's unity
God is said to have come down from heaven in order to break the unity between the people by making them unable to understand each other's language. Is it for that reason that God is afraid of their unity?
"Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastwards, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used bread instead of stone, and tar instead of morter. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth." But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." So, the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it is called Babel -because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth."
19. God contradicts himself by his actions
Genesis 6:3:
"Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
Let us look at Genesis 9:28 to see if God abided by his words or if in fact He contradicted Himself:
"After the flood, Noah lived 350 years. Altogether, Noah lived 950 years, and then he died."
It is thus clear that the 120 years already specified as man's lifetime by God have been surpassed.
20. God is described as an angel, or vice versa
Genesis 16:9:
"Then the angel of the LORD told her, "Go back to your mistress and submit to her. The angel added, "I will so increase your descendants that they will be too numerous to count. The angel of the LORD also said to her, "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery. He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility towards all his brothers." She gave this name to LORD who spoke to her: "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "I have now seen the One who sees me."
How can these statements be Gospel or Revelation? Wisdom alone tells us that this cannot possibly be the case. These traits cannot be associated with Almighty God. The statements are therefore all wrong.
OLD TESTAMENT DENIES GODS' KNOWLEDGE THAT ADAM WAS NAKED
According to Genesis 3:11, God is said to have asked Adam, "Who told you that you were naked?" If God did not know that Adam was naked, then why was he questioning him about it? If we read further into the verse, we see that God apparently did not know that Adam had for sure eaten from the forbidden tree and, too, questioned him about that. Adam explains that Eve had given him the fruit.
How can we therefore raise the Old Testament to the level of God's Gospel? The only level it should attain is that of ignorance.
Now, as regards the serpent. The Lord; Almighty God damned the serpent in the Old Testament for showing Adam (God's chosen Creation) the way to the knowledge of good and evil. Knowing the difference between good and evil is a great virtue and we should thank the ones who show us how to attain this great virtue, which will show us the way to Heaven. Therefore, this indeed cannot be Gospel from God.
GOD MAKING ANOTHER GOD
Progressing through the Old Testament, we come across another astonishing point:
"Then the LORD said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet."
Are we to assume from this statement that God is not the only God, because He Himself sees others as partners for Himself, and they in turn have prophets?
You may, by now, have some feeling as to how the writers of the Old Testament have injured the Lord God and how bravely they have changed His words, construing them and even turning them into lies. Please give it careful consideration and you will see that anyone with a little wisdom would ask, 'Why should God create another God besides Himself and give him a prophet?' Are these not blind statements and man-made lies?
Dear Christian friend, how could you believe such a thing to be the Gospel from God?
A SHORT SUMMARY ON WHY GOD CANNOT BE SEEN
Every matter or body is a physical property that has been created. It cannot be considered a creator. Everybody or physical matter that we can see depends on several things; first, a place; this the law of physics, to fill a certain area, and, second, light, which has to be reflected from its body and enter our eyes in order for us to see other forms such as shape, direction, colour or other things, such as temperature and pressure in order to beget form.
This is not the place to give a course in physics but we see from the aforementioned discussion that if God were matter, He would need all of the above and much more. This is surely impossible for God. Besides, a body is limited by three dimensions. To be in one place, God would need to walk, but God is everywhere, so how could he be a physical body. Almighty God is independent of all needs.
In Genesis 3:8, the following is written:
"Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden."
This idea may be good for making movies, but not for the wise, thinking human being.
THE OLD TESTAMENT HAS SEVERAL GODS
In Genesis 3:22 it is written:
"And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil."
Once again, we cannot relate these words to Glorious God. This phrase means, quite clearly, that other gods exist besides God, and that Adam is going to be like one of them, knowing good and evil. This cannot be Gospel from God by any means.
The Old Testament also implies that God is afraid of Adam, as we see from Genesis 3:22:
"He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live for ever."
This is truly amazing. Could God not make Adam blind, so as not to see the tree, or take the power from Adam's hands so that he could not reach it? Maybe the Old Testament is saying that God is powerless! No wise man would ever think that. More than that, it is saying that God is holding grudges against Adam (P) and even hates him. By no means can this be Gospel.
In verse 24, we read:
"After he drove the man out, lie placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life."
If we analyze this statement we may ask this question: What is the use of driving Adam out of the garden when such a powerful guard existed to guard the tree of life? The guard is a flaming sword turning in every direction to protect the tree. Are we to believe that the flaming sword would not have affected Adam? And if so, it would have been little more than a toy the Lord was playing with. What kind of Gospel is this?
HOW DOES THE OLD TESTAMENT RESPECT ITS PROPHETS?
In Genesis 9:20 we read the following:
"Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent."
Could even the lowest degree of believers be accused of such behavior? Let alone such a great Prophet, God's messenger, whose words and actions are an example to all people for total obedience to God. What I mean is that Noah is the symbol of Truth and Reality. People of the Book look up to him, his Holiness would not permit him to behave in such a way, especially the consumption of wine. I will explain the prohibition of wine later.
Only the wisest human being can be a Prophet, a messenger of God. A drunk cannot be a prophet and this is certainly not a wise man's behaviour.
Let us see what kind of prophets the Bible has.
TRAITS OF THE PROPHETS IN THE BIBLE
Jesus (P)
1. The Bible, in John 7:2-10, accuses Jesus (P) of lying:
"But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, Jesus' brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do. No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world." For even his own brothers did not believe in him. Therefore Jesus told them, "The right time for me has not yet come; for you any time is right. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is evil. You go to the Feast. I am not yet going up to this Feast, because for me the right time has not yet come." Having said this, he stayed in Galilee. However, after his brothers had left for the Feast, he went also, not publicly, but in secret."
2. The Bible in John 13:23 says that Jesus (P) set his disciple on his bosom and loved him:
"One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, "Ash him which one he means." Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, "Lord, who is it?"
3. In Galatians 3:13, Jesus (P) is accursed:
"Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."
4. The Bible says that Jesus (P) is the son of God. Does a man's son become his Lord?
Matthew 1:1:
"A record of the genealogy of Jesus the son of David, the son of Abraham..."
See now Matthew 22:41-45:
"While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" "The son of David," they replied. He said to them, "How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him "Lord" For he says, "The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet." If then David calls him "Lord", how can he be his son?"
Prophet David
In the Bible, Prophet David is accused of committing adultery and other sins.
Samuel II 11:2-27:
"One evening, David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, "Is this Bathsheba not the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?" Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she went back home. The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, "I am pregnant." So, David sent this word to Joab: "Send me Uriah the Hittite." And Joab sent him to David. When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet." So, Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master's servants and did not go down to his house. When David was told, "Uriah, did not go home," he asked him, "Have you not just come from a distance? Why did you not go home?" Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my master Joab and my lord's men are camped in the open fields. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and lie with my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!" Then David said to him, "Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back." So, Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. At David's invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master's servants; he did not go home. In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In it he wrote, "Put Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so that he will be struck down and die. So, while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David's army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite was dead. Joab sent David a full account of the battle. He instructed the messenger: "When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle, the king's anger may flare up, and he may ash you, "Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn't you know they would shoot arrows from the wall? Who killed Abimelech son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn't a woman throw an upper milestone on home from the wall, so that he did in Thabes? Why did you get so close to the wall?" If he asks you this, then says to him, "Also, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead." The messenger set out, and when he arrived, he told David everything Joab had sent him to say. The messenger said to David, "The men overpowered us and came out against us in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance to the city gate. Then the archers shot arrows at your servant from the wall, and some of the king's men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead." David told the messenger, "Say this to Joab: "Don't let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city, and destroy it." Say this to encourage Joab." When Uriah's wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the LORD."
Have you ever heard such a story of cunning as the killing of Uriah, of how David committed adultery with the wife of Uriah and then made him drink wine so that he could lay with his wife, and then finally sent him to the battlefield to be killed, and how he was killed!
Now let us read about the offspring of that married woman who committed adultery with David! In Matthew 1:6, we have:
"And Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah's wife."
In Samuel II 12:9, we read:
"Why did you despise the word of the LORD by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites."
Now see how God seeks revenge, in Verse 11:
"This is what the LORD says: "Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight. You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel."
According to Chapter 16:22, the threat was carried out:
"So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he lay with his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel."
Prophet Lot
Later on, a hair-raising accusation about Prophet Lot will be given in details.
Prophet Jacob
In Genesis 29:11, Prophet Jacob is accused of kissing a strange woman:
"Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud."
Then, in Genesis 27:1-35, he is accused of deceiving. Later on, this story will be discussed with details.
It is a strange accusation that a prophet should kiss a woman or drink wine, or deceive his father in order to get blessing. Is it possible that these words are True? No, because these are NOT Revelation.
You, yourself, read the Bible. See for yourself them
accusations made towards the children of the Prophet. Even if we suppose them to be true, it is not appropriate
to mention them. Read how Dinah, the daughter Prophet Jacob is accused of adultery in Genes 34'1:
"Now Dinah, the daughter of Leah had bone to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land. When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and violated her."
Prophet Solomon
See Kings I 11:1-10 for the following report:
"King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter-Moabites, Ammonites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, "You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been. He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done. On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites. He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods. The LORD became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomoh. did not keep the LORD's command."
How earl God accuse a Prophet of things admonishable?
These are not God's words.
