GOD vs. The Bible
In order to believe that the bible is the word of God, one must believe that God commits and orders acts of genocide, incest, rape and murder. To believe that the bible is the word of God, the bible which is filled with voluptuous debaucheries and unrelenting vindictiveness, requires the believer to not know the difference between good and evil. According to the new testament, God commits an adulterous act with a married virgin, and then allows the offspring of that supposed act (a male), to be brutally tortured and executed in expiation for the sins of the world. To suppose an Almighty God found it necessary to resort to these ludicrous acts, when God could achieve the same result merely by willing it, insults the intellect while blaspheming God at the same time.
The god described in these two testaments commits, or asks others to commit, countless other acts that a good and just God would never commit, nor would ever ask anyone else to commit. Truly, however, one can assume that the so-called act of expiation was a total failure when one examines the atrocities committed since that supposed act of expiation, such as, in the Crusades and the Inquisitions. If one is willing to examine worldwide events, the current atrocities being committed on planet earth as a result of people believing in what is written in these books, far surpasses all the previous atrocities combined.
The only peace that is available to mankind originates from The Source of Peace, The Source of Love, The
Source of Mercy, and The Source Of All Things Good. That Source is the one true God, The Infinite and The
Eternal One. If we seek peace, we seek it in vain - if we seek it elsewhere.
NOTE:
Thomas Paine, one of America's Founding Fathers, was persecuted and almost lost his life for writing "The Age of Reason". This section is a complementary discussion that encapsulates Paine's arguments, and introduces others he did not pursue, but which I feel are equally important. In all of his writings, I find no disagreements with him theologically. I disagree with him and Aquinas on how we are able to know God face-to-face, as it were. This is a separate discussion. (CLICK HERE to view it.)
The old testament and the New Testament will be shown to contain lies, contradictions, fables, and so on.
Just as the New testament is associated with Christians, the Old Testament is associated with Jews. I do
not make a quantum leap by making assertions regarding Jews and Christians based on these books. I
am merely reviewing the books, not the people who subscribe to them. I can judge a book and show the
proofs for making my judgments, but only God can make eternal judgments of His creatures.
Furthermore, there are in my opinion, divinely inspired works in both these books, as there are in the
Koran and other holy books of the East. My intentions are not to throw the baby out with the bath water,
but rather to show that in all religions, there are works inspired by God, and works not inspired by God.
In either case, it is very easy to know the difference, once you know the one true God.
GOD
God is absolute truth - eternally.
God's laws, God's nature, and all there is concerning God, cannot be contradicted.
If God is infinite today, God is infinite eternally.
There is absolutely nothing false about God, there is nothing contradictory about God.
Truth is God. God is truth.
GOD VS. The old testament (For God VS. The new testament, click here.)
The bible contains the opposites of truth, such as lies, blasphemies and myths, and therefore, it is not a
truthful document, and definitely not, "the word of God". Some of these lies, blasphemies and myths are
explained below, although it only takes one lie or one blasphemy to prove the document is not the word
of God.
Lie Number One
When the bible attributes the first five books in the old testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers
and Deuteronomy) as being written by Moses, the old testament begins with a lie, because they were not
written by Moses. For example, Genesis 14 verse 14, reads:
When Abram heard that his nephew had been captured, he mustered three hundred and eighteen of his
retainers, born in his house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
The place called Dan did not exist in Moses' lifetime. The Danites took the city of Laish, immediately after
the death of Samson, and renamed it after their ancestor Dan. This account is given in the book of
Judges:
18:27 Having taken what Micah had made, and the priest he had had, they attacked Laish, a quiet and
trusting people; they put them to the sword and destroyed their city by fire.
18:28 No one came to their aid, since the city was far from Sidon and they had no contact with other
people. The Danites then rebuilt the city, which was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob, and lived
there.
18:29 They named it Dan after their ancestor Dan, son of Israel. However, the name of the city was
formerly Laish.
Lie Number Two
Genesis 36-31 reads:
The following are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites.
No kings reigned over the Israelites until hundreds of years after Moses died, so Moses could not have
written that passage. Whoever wrote that passage, had to have lived during or after the time the
Israelites were ruled by kings. Moreover, that passage and those following it were copied from
1Chronicles1-43, which shows that Chronicles was written before Genesis, precluding Moses from having
written either document.
Lie Number Three
Exodus 16-35 reads:
The Israelites ate this manna for forty years, until they came to settled land; they ate manna until they
reached the borders of Canaan.
Whoever wrote this passage, must have known the Israelites reached the borders of Canaan, but Moses,
according to the bible, died in the wilderness and never reached the borders of Canaan. According to the
bible, it was Joshua, his successor, who reached the borders of Canaan.
From the book of Joshua (Chapt.5, verse 12):
after the Passover on which they ate of the produce of the land, the manna ceased. No longer was there
manna for the Israelites, who that year ate of the yield of the land of Canaan.
There are many more lies in which the book entraps itself. Some are even more obvious than these. If it
seems that "lies" is a harsh word, it is only because someone is falsely attributing writings to persons
who are not the writers of those books. There is no other word to describe these misrepresentations,
especially, when they misrepresent God by claiming that God directed them to commit genocide and
other barbarous acts, which contradict God's nature and moral perfection, as will be shown in the
following paragraphs.
Blasphemy Number 1
Since God is omnipotent, God never gets tired, and therefore does not have a need for rest, else God would not be
omnipotent. Yet, in Genesis 2:3 it states God rested:
So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work he had done
in creation.
Some who insist that the bible is the word of God, will argue that the word "rest" means something
different, such as, God stopped creating and "viewed" His works. They dig themselves deeper in the hole
because now they blaspheme God by insinuating that God "stopped" creating, as though they know the
mind of God (since God has not stopped creating because His infinite love and nature is such that He has
infinite reasons to share His love through incessantly creating new universes - as we speak), and also,
God's omniscience does not require Him to "view" what He created because He is pure act and knows
from all eternity what His will is. One can know this without fully knowing the mind of God (which is
impossilbe because we are finite.) My refutation will not please those who insist the bible is the word of
God, and undoubtedly, they will come up with another explanation for the use of the words "and God
rested", only to dig themselves even deeper in the hole they have created.
Blasphemy Number Two
And now it's time for a test.
Who said "..kill men and women, children and infants"? Was it Hitler, Caesar, or the Barbarians?
According to 1Samuel 15-3, it was God. So based on the Old Testament, God supposedly is a genocidal
maniac just like Hitler was. If you have read the old testament, you will read countless other passages
where God supposedly says similar crazy things. For example, the sun stands still for an entire day, yet
no one in other parts of the globe has written anything about this extraordinary event.
JOSH 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, while the nation took vengeance on its foes. Is
this not recorded in the Book of Jashar? The sun halted in the middle of the sky; not for a whole day did it
resume its swift course.
I am not an astronomer, but if the sun and moon stood still while the earth rotated, a person viewing this
"phenomenon" would perceive that the sun and moon were moving. Assuming, however, that the writer
believed as they did in those times that the sun revolved around the earth, and therefore, wrote from
that perspective, then in that case, the earth would have to cease its rotation (and the moon as well). The
effect would be as follows: the atmosphere would still be in motion at roughly 1100 miles per hour, and
whatever was not permanently attached to the earth's crust such as the soil, rocks, trees, buildings,
animals and so on, would be lifted into the atmosphere. None of that happened, so neither the earth nor
the sun stood still. And no one can produce the book called Jashar. There are theories about the book of
Jashar, but no book of Jashar exists today. Since as I mentioned I am not an astronomer, I am sure that
if the earth were to cease its rotation, or if the sun were to really stand still, I am sure there would be
other signicantly noticeable phenomena that would occur in addition to those I mentioned.
The next section includes quotations from the founders of this great country and provides additional
proofs that the bible is not the word of God. It also gives reasons why the founders insisted on including
the separation of church and state doctrine in the Constitution.
QUOTATIONS FROM THE FOUNDING FATHERS ON RELIGIOUS TOPICS
George Washington Quotation::
Every man "ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own
conscience." - Letter to the United Baptist Churches in Virginia in May, 1789
Thomas Jefferson Quotations:
In a letter to James Smith, Jefferson says:
"Christianity...(has become) the most perverted system that ever shone on man. ...Rogueries, absurdities
and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by
Paul, the first great corrupter of the teachings of Jesus."
"The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth
and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs"
"The Athanasian paradox that one is three and three but one, is so incomprehensible to the human mind,
that no candid man can say he has any idea of it, and how can he believe what presents no idea? He who
thinks he does, only deceives himself. He proves, also, that man, once surrendering his reason, has no
remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of
every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm of reason, and the mind
becomes a wreck." (Works, Vol. iv., p. 360).
"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition
of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of
innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured,
fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and
the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth."
"The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and
adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these
clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ."
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our
particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and
mythologies" (Letter to Dr. Woods).
Jefferson's word for the Bible? - "Dunghill."
NOTE: I purposely used the quote above, commonly attributed to Jefferson, to show how he did not
mince words, but also to explain the context in which the word "dunghill" was used. Jefferson believed
that Jesus' words were mixed with myths in the new testament so he cut and pasted those parts that he
believed were sound, theologically and morally, into a "new bible" that he called "The Life and Morals of
Jesus of Nazareth In Four Languages" (English, French, Latin and Greek). In a letter to Samuel Adams in
October of 1813, he explained that when you compare the words of Jesus with everything else in the new
testament, they were as easily distinguishable as diamonds in a dunghill. So to him, the bible WAS a
dunghill, except for the words of Jesus. Jefferson was so enlightened, I am providing the following link to
more of his writings that I treasure: click here for more of Jefferson's quotes:
John Adams Quotations:
If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right,
the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the
right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and
voluntarily become a slave.- Rights of the Colonists, 1772.
The doctrine of the divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity.
Adams signed the Treaty of Tripoli in which Article 11 states:
The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.
Thomas Paine Quotations:
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions,
the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent
that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served
to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
I would not dare to so dishonor my Creator God by attaching His name to that book (the Bible).
Among the most detestable villains in history, you could not find one worse than Moses. Here is an order,
attributed to 'God' to butcher the boys, to massacre the mothers and to debauch and rape the daughters.
I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by (attaching) it to this filthy book (the Bible).
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of atheism; a sort of religious denial of God. It professes to believe in a man rather than in God. It is a compound made up chiefly of man-ism with but little deism, and is as near to atheism as twilight is to darkness. It introduces between man and his Maker an opaque body, which it calls a redeemer, as the moon introduces her opaque self between the earth and the sun, and it produces by this means a religious or an irreligious eclipse of light. It has put the whole orbit of reason into shade.
Accustom a people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins...and you will have sins in
abundance.
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus)
who lived a life of poverty.
James Madison Quotations
Religion . . . is the basis and foundation of government . . . before any man can be considered as a
member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife
that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
What influence in fact have Christian ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society? In many
instances they have been upholding the thrones of political tyranny. In no instance have they been seen
as the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty have found
in the clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate liberty, does
not need the clergy.
Benjamin Franklin Quotations
I believe in one God, Creator of the universe...... As to Jesus ... I have ... some doubts as to his divinity;
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