Today, in the world, Christianity is under tremendous attack; however this is not new, ever since Jesus appeared on the world scene some 2000 years ago He and His Gospel have been on Satan’s radar screen to obliterate completely.
The Bible warns every believer that, because the world hated Jesus it will also hate His followers (Matt. 10:22, Mark 13:13, Luke 21:17. Thus, Christianity has been under attack since Jesus claimed to be God incarnate (John 10:25­33).
The DaVinci Code book is just another blatant attack on Jesus Christ and the Bible (God’s word for all generations). Why is the book a best seller? It is a best seller because it tries to destroy Jesus’ resurrection (true purpose for His coming) and the truth of the Bible stories about Him. The book was written by Dan Brown, and he admits in that his book is pure fiction. However latter he recanted and said, all the facts in the book are true. The book is built on a conspiracy theory about the truth of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene and the child named Sarah they begot, that has been hidden by the Roman Catholic Church. This theory is not new; it was promoted in the 1983 book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, whose authors just lost a big law suit against Dan Brown for plagiarism. This first book was shown to be based on fraudulent manuscripts and poor scholarship and the authors of this book admit that their book is pure fiction. Why, then, does Brown use the same material as his primary source? To make money! All he did was to embellish it more in order to make it more exciting and real.
The claims in The DaVinci Code Book
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No church father before 325 A.D. ever believed Jesus was actually divine.

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Belief in Jesus Christ as divine was a 4th Century innovation.

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The cannons of the church were imposed on the Christian church by Emperor Constantine at Council of Nicea in 325 A.D.

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The early church fathers suppressed 80 truth Gospels written by the Gnostics and added the untrue Gospels later in church history.

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Jesus was really a feminist, and he wanted his wife Mary Magdalene, who was pregnant with his child, Sarah, to be the rightful head of his church.

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Mary Magdalene’s was secretly moved to France, to start a new blood line through her daughter, and Mary’s tomb contains all the written documents, that proves the Roman Catholic Church covered up the real truth.

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Leonardo DaVinci was a member of a secret Roman Catholic society which knew this truth about Mary Magdalene and Jesus and left behind strong clues in his art work, especially the “Last Supper and The Mona Lisa.”

This paper will undo these so called truths to show that they are based on claims that cannot be proven and this paper will show what the actual facts are.
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The Secret of the Holy Grail
The Holy Grail is supposed to be the cup Jesus celebrated the last supper with, however, Brown in his book, as well as in the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, makes it into Mary Magdalene who supposedly carried the blood line (the Holy Grail) of Jesus Christ to France, and she is also made to be symbolic of the lost goddess which Christ had intended her to become. The quest for the Holy Grail (the bloodline of Jesus Christ) in The DaVinci Code ends up being the search for the tomb of Mary Magdalene’s, which contains secret documents that will destroy Christianity. These documents supposedly contain the true gospel based on women being divine (goddess worship ­pagan worship of women) in which Christ had intended for His church. Thus, leading the world back to more enlighten spirituality centered on the role of the women leading the world. In reality this is nothing more than the worship of Semiramis, the moon God and Ester the Goddess of fertility from ancient mystery Babylon. Brown’s book is not only a direct attack on the Roman Catholic Church but Christianity as a whole.
The vestiges of old pagan religions are undeniably found in the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, the Lutheran Church and Episcopal Church. However to say that all this was covered up by the Roman Catholic Church which did not exist in the first, second or third century is ludicrous. There is no actual historic proof, Biblical or secular that Mary Magdalene was pregnant with Jesus child, and that she was of royal descent (through the house of Benjamin) and married to Jesus. Nor, is their any proof that the Roman Catholic Church because they feared the power of the sacred feminine (women worship –Easter goddess of fertility­spiritual fornication) as reported in Brown’s book.
Pagan Religions
Before the birth of Jesus Goddess worship was well established in the form of halos around the women holding the child and around the child, are found in all pagan societies big time. The goddess depending on the culture was first Semiramis (Babylon), Isis (Egyptian) Ceres (Greek) and Fortuna (Roman). The halo represents the moon, for the woman is the moon goddess. The child represents the sun god. His name was Tammuz (the son who is the husband) who represents Nimrod the virgin born son. Nimrod had married his mother Semiramis (the most beautiful women on earth), however as legend has it, Shem (the youngest son of Noah­Genesis 10:1­10), his righteous uncle was so taken by this mighty sin, that he killed Nimrod, and had his body cut into 100 pieces and sent through out the kingdom to show the people that this was a sin God would not tolerate. Semiramis was so upset when that she bore another son Tammuz whom she called, her husband Nimrod reborn thus the name Tammuz, which means “the son who is the husband.” She also claimed she was not impregnated by any man, but this was a virgin birth. Thus, reincarnation was invented (every birth a rebirth). Hence forth, Semiramis was worshiped as the moon goddess and Tammuz as her husband reborn was worshiped as the sun god (for more information about the Roman Catholic Church and its strong Paganism beliefs and practices, read the book The Two Babylon’s by Hislop).
Thus, in the Roman Catholic Church, Mary the mother of Jesus became Semiramis and Jesus the son became Tammuz (Babylon). Isis and Osirus in Egypt, Ceres and Plutos in Greece and Fortuna
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and Jupiter in Roman. Jesus became Tammuz, so that pagans could easily become so­called Christians without repentance of their sins and receiving Jesus as their Lord and Savior, and they could easily accept the Roman Catholic Church as a pagan religion. Many other pagan vestiges are easily found in the Roman Catholic Church, such as, the wafer with the sun on it, miters, vestments, incense, lighting candles, colors, sacraments save, the alter, the doxology, transubstantiation ­the acts of God­eating­were taken from the earlier pagan mysteries religions. So in the fifth century, Christianity through the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church took on many things borrowed from paganism and it spread to the Lutheran, Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches. Pagan goddess worship in the Roman Catholic Church became the Doctrine of Mariolatry with the use of the rosary. Jesus’ mother, Mary, became the goddess, whose titles in the Church are: The Queen of Heaven, Holy Mother, and The Mother of God. Regardless what the Roman Catholic Church officially states, she is the primary one worshipped in the Roman Catholic Church today and not Jesus. Other pagan practices in the Roman Catholic Church are evident in, praying to saints, praying for the dead, having a priesthood, celibacy and homo sexuality in the priesthood, denying priests to marry, putting the priesthood above the people, purgatory, confession of sins to a priest instead of directly to God, the mass, statutes and idolatry, Jesus always on the cross being crucified, last rites, monks, nuns, monasteries, canonizing saints, calling men father and crating Popes as the Vicar of Christ on earth, etc. See “Constantine did not decide the books of the Bible” below in this report.
Matriarchal Verses Patriarchal­Which Came First
Brown in his book makes the case for the fact that religion was originally matriarchal (women centered) and was later changed to patriarchal (man centered) by the Jews first and then later by the Christians has no bases of fact to support it. In Western Civilization starting with the Babylonians to the Roman Empire never has their been a hint of a matriarchal society once ruling the world. Only from modern day women feminist authors has this concept been developed. Browns book strongly supports the feminist movement.
Leonardo De Vinci Who Was He?
He was born in 1452 in Vinci, near Florence, in northern Italy during the Renaissance period and reportable died near Ambroise, in southern France. He was born to common parents. However at early age his gift for drawing was well recognized and when he was only 13 years old entered Verrocchio’s art studio the foremost Florentine art studio in northern Italy. From 1469 to 1482 he developed his art. From 1483 to 1499 he went to Milan to work for Glan Galeazzo, the regency of the Duchy of Milan. There he learned to be an engineer and architect. He learned to design bridges and buildings as well as artillery, catapults, power of steam engines, casting of bronze, sculpting marble, machinery and the art of war. He excelled at everything he set his mind on. He could play several musical instruments and he designed his own lute. He designed a mechanical lion. Here he painted the “Last Supper”. In 1500­1519 he left Milan and travel a lot. He went to Venice 1501, then Florence, Rome 1915, and in 1516 accepted an invitation from King Frances 1 to come to France, so he left Italy never to return. He is considered a great painter and inventor.
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He designed and built the first bicycle and sketched the first helicopter. It is reported that he was a homosexual which explains why he never married or bore children.
The Last Supper Painting
DaVinci’s most important work in Milan was his painting of the “Last supper” in the refectory of the Dominican convent of Sta Maria delle Grazie. This work is now little more than a ruin, because of the poor materials he had used. Dampness soon soaked into it and ruined it. The damage was irreparable. Copies were made, and they say they are close to the original in composition and color, two are in Paris, one at the Louvre. It is believed the painting represents the moment Jesus announced one of His disciples would betray Him. Each face is represented with a different expression, and a seated drama seems to be going on; surprise, anguish, lots of hand and body moment, the salt shaker is lying on its side in front of Jesus. The problem with the painting all 13 figures had to be faced forward so their faces could be seen, however the Jews, during Jesus time, at the Passover Feast always sit on the floor in a oval or round seating arrangement. The painting in no way represents a true Jewish Passover meal, during Jesus time, in regards to how its members would be seated or vessels placed on a table. There would not be a salt shaker on the table. In Da Vinci’s days anti­Semitism was well established in the Roman Catholic Church.
Brown states in his book through a fiction character named Teabing who is a so called reputable Bible historian, which further encourages the uniformed reader to accept the facts presented in the book as fact when they are not. Teabing explains, that the figure at the right hand of Jesus in not the apostle John, but Mary Magdalene his wife and pregnant with his child. The absence of a chalice in the painting indicates that DaVinci knew that Mary Magdalene was actually the Holy Grail (the bearer of Jesus’ blood). This is reportable reinforced by the letter “M” that is created with the body positions of Jesus and the Apostle John to his right who is suppose to be Mary and not John at all, and the male whom she is leaning against is suppose to be the Apostle Peter. The “Apostle John, under this interpretation, is explained by identifying John as “the Disciple Jesus loves”, allegedly a code for Mary Magdalene. The book also alleges that the color scheme of their garments is exactly inverted: Jesus wears a red blouse with a royal blue cape; John/Mary wearing a royal blue blouse with a red cape­symbolizing two halves of a marriage.
These so called facts in the book are just theories and certainly not provable facts. Most art historians disputed Brown’s claims. There are no historical writings from or about DaVinci that support Brown’s claims on this matter.
In a typical Passover meal during Jesus time there would be three wine cups and not one only, called a chalice. Also there would never be a salt shaker for the meal was to be biter and not flavored. Therefore Da Vinci’s painting is far from being accurate representation of a typical Jewish Passover meal.
The Books Secret Societies
Brown creates the mystery or secrets kept from the world by the Roman Catholic Church in his book based on several Roman Catholic societies trying to cover up what is hidden in Mary Magdalene’s tomb. They are: “The Priory of Sion, The Knights Templar, and The
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Opus Day.”
According to the book, the secrets of the Holy Grail as kept by the Priory of Sion are as follows:
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The Holy Grail is not a physical chalice, but a woman, Mary Magdalene, who carried the blood line of Christ.

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The old French expression for the Holy Grail, San Greal, actually is a play on Sang real, which literally means “royal Blood” in old French.

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The Grail relics consist of documents that testify to the bloodline, as well as the actual bones of Mary Magdalene.

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The Grail relics of Mary Magdalene were hidden by the Priory of Sion in a secret crypt, perhaps beneath Rosslyn Chapel.

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The Roman Catholic Church has suppressed the truth about Mary Magdalene and Jesus’ bloodline for 2000 years. This is principally because they fear the power of the sacred feminine, which they have demonized as Satan.

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Mary Magdalene was of royal descent (through the Jewish household of Benjamin) and was the wife of Jesus, of the House of David. That she was a prostitute was a slander invented by the Roman Catholic Church to obscure their true relationship. At the time of the crucifixion she was pregnant. After the Crucifixion, she fled to Gaul, where she was sheltered by the Jews of Marseille. She gave birth to a daughter, named Sarah. The blood line of Jesus and Mary Magdalene became the Merovingian dynasty of France.

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The existence of the bloodline was the secret that was contained in the documents discovered by the Crusaders after they conquered Jerusalem in 1099. The Priory of Sion and the knights of Templar were organized to keep the secret.

Leonardo DaVinci in Brown’s book was a member of the Priory of Sion and knew about the secret Grail. The secret is in fact the Last Supper, in which no actual chalice is present at the table. The figure seated next to Jesus on his right is not a man, but a woman, his wife Mary Magdalene. The original work, as well as later copies obscures her obvious women characteristics. Also it is reported that the Mona Lisa is actually a self­portrait by DaVinci as a women. The blending of a man with a woman reflects the scared union of male and female which is implied in the holy union of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Such parity between the cosmic forces of masculine and feminine has long been a deep threat to the established power of the Roman Catholic Church.
The problem with Brown’s conclusions about DaVinci is they cannot be proven. Also Da Vinci is reported to of been a homosexual, this would explain why he never married, and why he like to put men’s faces on the women he painted, for men were his deep love and not women. Thus the blending of a man with a woman reflects his love for men and not the scared union between men and women as reported by Brown. So if John the apostle has a women’s face, and is leaning away from Jesus, a case could be made just as easily that it was DaVinci’s way of showing his dislike Christianity Under Attack
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for women and not a marriage union between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Most homosexual men really hate their mothers.
These societies I have looked into, but what is the truth about them I believe no one really knows. There is a lot of information about them available, but I couldn’t not tell you what is fact and what is fiction. Josh McDowell has written a book called The DaVinci Code, A Quest for Answers, that talks about these societies. His reporting about them you can easily find on the internet.
Who was Mary Magdalene?
We only know what the Bible tells us about her in Luke 8:2­3. She was from Magdala, a town on the western bank of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus cast seven demons out of her. To Associate her with a past or immorality, and to identify her as the sinful women of Luke 7:37, seems to be stretching, since she quickly not only gained a position of prominence, but also a position of leadership among the women who followed Jesus. Without question Jesus healed her of mental and physical infirmities, but to declare her a prostitute and an immoral person is again coming to a position the Bible does not support. She could easily been a wealthy woman who both supported Jesus and His ministry. We do know God allowed her to be the first person to see Jesus after His resurrection, thus making her an important person who Jesus considered equal to the men who followed Him as well as the women who followed Him, including Mary His mother. The New Testament strongly supports women as equals to men.
The Bloodline
The thesis the De Vinci Code strongly supports is, that Mary Magdalene was used by God to continue the bloodline of Jesus Christ. The problem with this thesis is that no blood line could ever come through the mother. The Bible states, that life is in the blood. Modern medicine tells us that every child born receives their blood type through their father and not their mother. Jesus had no earthly father. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, so his blood came from the Holy Spirit and not Mary his earthly mother. One reason Jesus could resist from sinning is he had no human blood in him. So he was born without original sin. The original sin that all human beings inherited from Adam comes through the blood. However, for the sake of argument if the story was true and Mary Magdalene conceived a daughter this daughter’s bloodline would end when she bore a child. For the child she bore would not have Jesus blood in it, but the blood of the man she had sex with. The blood line could not go on. Mary Magdalene would have had to conceive a son for any bloodline of Jesus to have continued on.
This goddess concept through the bloodline of Jesus Christ is a huge lie conceived by Satan to confuse man. The so called facts the bloodline theory is based on, medical science can easily disprove.
Jerusalem
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Jew today can prove he is a descendent of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In 130 A.D. Roman again sacked Jerusalem destroying the City and dispersing the Jews throughout their territories.
Therefore the Essenes hid their valuable manuscripts in caves so the Romans would not find and destroy them. Why wouldn’t the Christians have done the same thing? Especially since Jesus had told His followers to leave Jerusalem when they saw the Romans about to attack (history reports they did). For the crusaders in 1099 A.D. to find secret documents, in Jerusalem, a Muslin controlled city for over 400 years (670A.D.­1099 A.D.), which state, Mary Magdalene was pregnant with Jesus child, thus creating a bloodline, in which Jesus wanted to establish Goddess ruling over the Church, is another part of Brown’s book that is extremely hard to accept as factual.
What are the True Facts in the DaVinci Code?
The DaVinci Code has been sold to the public as based on facts; when in fact it is not based on actual facts at all. Brown opens his novel with the words “FACT in bold, capital letters and this statement:
“All descriptions of art work, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate.” First, he has the date, 1950, of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls wrong. Strange that he would mess up such an easy identifiable fact. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found over a period of time, between 1947­1956. The problem is most people are not able to distinguish or filter fact from fiction, and they will absorb as truth whatever someone else says is truth especially if it is in a book. Also, no manuscripts found in the Dead Sea Scrolls repudiate any of the foundational Christian beliefs in the New Testament. Brown’s book contains few historical facts and what few it does contain requires serious investigation. The problem is, the enemies of Christianity such as the Book Review Editor of the New York Daily News hail the book as based on impeccable facts. A huge lie. Brown has stated on television that he became a believer only after he tried to disprove the false theories his book is based on (obviously a Madison Avenue sales technique to sell his novel). One must prove a theory before it becomes a fact. One cannot argue, here is my theory prove it wrong, but this is what Brown does with his unsubstantiated, false arguments.
Teabing, Brown’s so called reputable Bible historian states: “The Bible did not arrive by fax from Heaven…The Bible is a product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically
from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it evolved through countless translations, additions and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book” (page 203). Only heretics, apostates and non believers would ever accept this commentary created by Brown. Since the second century we have every book not only of the O.T. but also the
N.T. To say, “History has never had a definitive version of the book” is not true, since it can be easily repudiated. Also man did not create the Bible.
The Bible states: “All Scripture is given by the inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God be perfect, thoroughly equipped unto all good works (2 Timothy 3:16­17). Knowing this, first that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation. For prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but by holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:20­21). The Bible was given to man by the inspiration of God and it was written by holy men as they Christianity Under Attack
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were directed the Holy Spirit. Remember the Bible is not one book but 66 different books written by 40 different authors over 1500 years telling one story. This in itself is a miracle that only God could have preformed.
So here we have a direct attack against the word of God, by Brown; where he totally contradicts scripture.
Also, there are not countless translations of the Bible, but only two. The Byzantine, or Common Text or Received Text is God’s word the other based on the Alexandrian Texts are not. See my paper on “Which Bible is the Word of God?”, for it clearly answers this question. However today we have many paraphrased Bibles that are basically men’s opinion of what the Bible says and teaches and they are all poor translations. I believe no serious seeker of God’s truth would ever use one. We also have many dynamic equivalency Bibles that also wrongly miss interpret God’s word, these I also believe should never be used by a serious seeker of God’s word. The average Christian follows blindly and accepts whatever their Pastor and Ministers tells them. I know from personal experience just because something is taught in a Christian seminary does not mean it is true. The average Christian seldom checks anything out like the Berean’s in the N.T. did.
Brown continues with Teabing with more specific inaccurate claims as he states:
“Jesus Christ was a historical figure of staggering influence, perhaps the most enigmatic and inspirational leader the world has ever seen …Understandably, his life was recorded by thousands of followers across the land… More than eighty gospels were considered by the New testament, and yet only a relative few were chosen for inclusion­Mathew, Mark , Luke and John among them…The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman emperor Constantine the Great” (page 231).
All this is a huge lie. Jesus as God should have been in his day a great figure but he was not accepted by any world leader or the people at all. Therefore, in his day he was not a historical figure of staggering influence. The historians of Jesus day wrote very little about him. He is only casually mentioned by few of them. Not one of them considers him to be important at all, for he was considered a criminal who died on a Roman cross. Therefore, to state that “His life was recorded by thousands of followers across the land,” is a lie. Only after Christianity became a force in world politics starting in 313 A.D., did Jesus become an important historical figure.
To state, that there were more than eighty gospels in existence, in which the early church fathers could chosen is unbelievable; for there is no record of eighty or more gospels. The relative few chosen are the ones know to be written before 70 A.D. Most all other so called Gospels came on the scene after the third century, and were not written by any original disciples of Jesus Christ. There was universal acceptance by the middle of the second century by the churches for the received text Bibles. All the other Gospels that supposedly have been written during the time of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all strongly disagree with them. Thus, they were thrown out by the original church fathers of the second century.
Constantine did not decide the books of the Bible
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Another major thesis in Brown book is to declare and strongly imply that Constantine was behind the church canon, and he alone was responsible for destroying the Gospels in which he did not approve of, and it was only by a close vote of the bishops present that his desires prevailed, is a huge distortion of history. Constantine as the emperor of Roman was the head of all and every legal religion in the Roman empire. Therefore, he did in fact convened the Council of Nicaea (which lasted only 4 weeks), paid for the expenses of these who attended, and provide his summer lake palace in Turkey for the site, but he exercised no ecclesiastical authority at all. This council overwhelming supported the canonical books of the Bible we have to day, leaving out the Apocryphal books. The information on the Council is enlightening, but in no way supports the idea of a Roman Catholic Church take over of “early Christianity” or any conspiracy at this time in regards to this matter. The Roman Catholic Church did not exist in 325 A.D. It must be remembered that only incomplete records of the canons and decrees exist from the Council of Nicaea. What we do have is the Creed, the disciplinary action against Arians, 20 disciplinary canons, a letter to the Alexandrian church, and an inaccurate list of the bishops present. The Council of Nicea was mainly called to deal with the heresy of Arianism (that Jesus was not equal with God and He never had a human body, but only a spiritual body). Arianism is named after Arius the Bishop of Alexandria who was a Gnostic. The total number of Bishops who attended this Council is not really known; the number 220 –318 had been used. However, it is known that 18 Bishops at the Council did supported Arianism. It is also known that the Bishop of Roman and some other western Bishops with Arius were not at this Council. It was mainly attended by the Eastern Bishops of the Church.
The main things accomplished at the Council were: (1) The adoption of the Nicene Creed, which confirmed Jesus divinity as God the Father’s one and only unique Son and the Bible based on the Received Text. Almost all the bishops present signed the creed, however only two did not, which repudiates Brown’s facts that the vote was close. (2) The date of Easter was supposed to be settled. Most celebrated Easter on Sunday however some celebrated Easter on a weekday. The celebration of Easter was started in the 2nd century. However what the council fathers meant is still disputed and what day Easter should be celebrated on, is still in dispute. We do have a letter to written by Eusebius Caesarea just after the Council, reportable quoting Constantine, that Easter should not follow the custom of the detestable Jews. Anti­Semitism came early in the church. (3) to adopt basic Canons that each church should follow. This Council did not establish the Trinity as, “God the Father, the Virgin Mary, and Messiah (Christ) their Son”, as reported by R.C. Wetzel in his book, The Chronology of Biblical History.
Before 313 A.D, the outlawed Christian church in Rome were in hiding, fearing for their lives, but loving Jesus Christ and obeying His commandments; making disciples and reading their already accepted “Received Text Scriptures”. Few Romans would want to be a member of an unlawful church. To be a Christian would mean, they would no doubt lose not only their lives, but all their worldly possessions and position in their society, i.e. they would be social outcasts. Therefore, for pagan influence such as goddess worship to have obtained a strong influence in the church in a short span of 12 years, from 313 A.D. to 325 A.D., is extremely unlikely.
Mariology was not adopted by this Council, however, this doctrine in the form we have today would be adopted later at the Council of Ephesus in 431 A.D. when the Roman Catholic Church in its infancy was beginning to take power over the western churches.
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What did the Council of Nicea really decide? The main things were, Common Text or The Received Text Bible (which the King James Bible is based on) and not the Gnostics’ bible based on Alexandrian Texts (in which Jerome’s later Latin Vulgate was be based on) was confirmed as the right scriptures for the church, the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Nicene Creed and the church canons. The main thing that was working against the Church Fathers was their relationship to the State. The State had recognized them and had made them an integral part of the State. Constantine had given them worldly riches which they, the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches would never escape from. This in time spread to the protestant state controlled Churches as well. However, the date to remember is 380 A.D. For in 380 A.D. Emperor Theodosius I, The Great, made Christianity the exclusive religion of the Roman Empire; thus fulfilling Matt.13:31­32, The Parable of the Mustard Seed (extreme church growth that Satan would control). For the first time a person could become a Christian by citizenship only and without having to repent of their sins and making Jesus Christ their Lord and Savior. This is where the Roman Catholic Church got its start. For thousands of pagan priests would be adopted into the church as Christian priests, and pagan practices, such as: the doctrine of Balaam, goddess worship, Semiramis and Tammuz worship, idol worship, beliefs, practices, rituals, ceremonies, etc., which would separate them from the God’s word found in the Scriptures, the teaching and doctrines of the early church fathers and the true believers. See “Pagan Religions” above in this report.
In order to make Christianity acceptable to the pagans who for the first time had to become Christians; Mariology which is worshiping Mary, Jesus’ mother, as the Queen of Heaven, and making her equal with God ­goddesses worship found within paganism, was thus introduced to the church. The queen of heaven concept is not new to God or the Bible for in Jeremiah 7:18, 44:17­26 God clearly condemns all to hell, who bow down to the pagan’s queen of heaven. Mariology with the Rosary is the center piece of the Roman Catholic Church and it is all taken from paganism.
So too, Tammuz worship which is an abomination to God, was also well established in Israel during Ezekiel time (Ezekiel 8:13­14), which became Mary and Baby Jesus, was brought into the Roman Catholic Church to appease the pagan majority that had just become so called Christians. Paganism is so steeped within the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church, I assure you, that this Church is far more Pagan than Christian.
Gnosticism
How did Arianism start in the church! It stated with a man named Justin Martyr in Alexandria about 140 A.D., who introduced the heresy of combining pagan Greek philosophy with the teaching of Christianity. He taught Tatian (120­180), who taught Clements (150­210 A.D.), who taught Origen (185­220). Origen said, “The scriptures have little use to those who understand them as they have been written.” So he not only changed N.T. Scriptures but O.T. Scriptures as well. Arius (256­230) as well as Augustine were tremendously influenced by these men. All these men were Gnostics, who lived in Alexandria, who believed they had superior knowledge, and the Christian scriptures should be combined with Greek philosophy, for Greek philosophy in their belief was far superior. Therefore, it is no wonder why the Alexander manuscripts would be corrupted by adding to and deleting God’s word.
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Gospels would be created by them. These men had not only tremendous influence over the Christian Church in Alexandria but also in Caesarea, Antioch and Asia Minor. However those in support of the corrupted Alexandrian Texts and Gospels will say that these Gnostics noted above
were great men of God, another lie; for an honest evaluation of their lives and writings prove other wise.
Even after 325 A.D. Arianism would not go away. The Roman Catholic Church later would still support it because, Augustine and Jerome were tremendously influenced by Arius. The Roman Catholic Church influenced by Paganism and Augustine’s Gnostic teachings in the 5th Century (The City of God) would greatly support the Alexandrian manuscripts where the Orthodox Church would oppose them. Thus, the corruption of the scriptures came early in church history, as predicted by our Lord (Matthew 13: 24­43, The Parables of the: Tares and Wheat, of the Mustard Seed and Of Leaven Bread). However God would persevere His word by allowing 99 percent of the Biblical Manuscripts that have come down from the 1st century are based on the “Received Text” and only one percent are based on the Alexandrian Texts. This is why the Reformation Church Bibles are all based on the Received Texts Manuscripts.”
The Roman Catholic Church did not exist before the 5th Century. The Roman Catholic Church was officially started under Leo I the bishop of Rome, in 440 A.D. when he took for the first time the title of Pope, and declared the ruling of the Council of Ephesus, in 431 A.D. valid. Note: The Apocrypha books were left out as not being canonical at this council, however they would be added latter by the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Trent 1595 A.D.
Adding gospels to confuse the reader
Here Brown again tries to cast doubt on God’s word.
There might have been 50 false gospels written: but certainly not 80, most are known only by name from a few isolated statements by early church writers. The most significant ones are well known and the reasons they never were accepted by the majority of the church is well known and has never been kept secret by any hierarchy (read, “The Lost Books of the Bible” by Dr. Frank Crane). The main reason they were kept out was they did not support the earliest writing but instead contradicted them.
If we say, Jesus not wanting to ride a donkey got into his car and drove to a gas station. We would clearly find fault with this story for it does not report accurately of anyone living in the first century. For example, in the Gospel of Ebionites we find John the Baptist eating only honey and not locusts. The Ebionites were not meat eaters, they were vegetarians. The Gospel of Peter laid blame for the crucifixion solely in the hands of the Jews, exonerating the Romans ­an anti­Semitic stance that Brown considered tolerable, but the Bible does not support. Brown claimed and promotes these rejected gospels as being the true secret gospels, when in fact he offers no tangible proof for his claim. Because he says it, does not make it true. No facts Brown produces can be proven. His so called facts are all hearsay.
Jesus had to be married according to Brown Christianity Under Attack
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Chapter 58, Teabing speaking again:
“…Jesus as a married man makes infinitely more sense than our standard biblical view of Jesus as a bachelor…Because Jesus was a Jew…the social decorum during that time virtually forbid a Jewish man to be unmarried, According to Jewish custom, celibacy was condemned, and the obligation for a Jewish father was to find a suitable bride for his son. If Jesus was not married, at least one of the Bible’s Gospels would have mentioned it and offered some explanation for His unnatural state of bachelorhood.”
Because Brown strongly asserts in his book that Jesus had to be married, therefore Brown states boldly Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene. Brown is committing the classic fallacy of argument from silence – you cannot affirm something from the text when it doesn’t deny it. The Bible doesn’t state that Jesus was married. Therefore, the argument, Jesus had to be married, because the Bible doesn’t say he was not married, is invalid. It is true that Judaism taught that a man is not complete unless he was married, and to be a ruler or a rabbi in Judaism a man had to be married. However many Jewish men in scripture were never married, such as Daniel, Sampson, the prophets: Elijah, Jeremiah, Banus, and Boaz until he met Ruth very late in his life, and John the Baptist. Therefore to make a case that Jesus had to be married is not scriptural. There is no commandment in the 613 Mosaic Laws or the Ten Commandments that state a man had to marry or else he had broken a commandment and thus was sinning.
The Gospel of Phillip
Teabing recommends the Gospel of Phillip as a good place to start. Brown quotes a portion of the text in which Jesus is said to often kiss Mary Magdalene, on the mouth and thereby invoked jealousy of Peter. He goes on to describe Mary as Jesus’ companion and thus supposedly real troubling for Christians who support the Canonical Gospel views. However, Brown purposely forgets that reliable scholarship has totally rejected this gospel as having any authentic historical reliable or contemporary source for the life of Jesus. It is not a first century document all. It is dated as a third century document, about 200 years after Jesus death. It is believed that it is a Gnostic text, and if Brown’s character, Teabing, was as knowledgeable as Brown makes him out to be, he would definitely have know this, for his associates would have laughed at him.
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
This gospel shows Jesus treating Mary as a companion, and depicts Peter’s jealousy after Jesus gives Mary special instructions to run the church after His Crucifixion. This leads to the idea of Mary Magdalene as the female womb that carries Jesus royal blood line (page 248­249). Teabing comments, “Jesus was then the original feminist. He intended for his church to be in the hands of Mary Magdalene. This gospel fares no better that Phillip’s under critical analysis. It too, is a Gnostic document dated in the third century also. Brown wants desperately to rewrite history, claiming that goddess worship and Mary Magdalene’s prominence was the original intend of Jesus’, which early, evil, male dominated church fathers had erased.
The Gospel of Judas as Seen on National Geographic TV Station 04/08/06 Christianity Under Attack
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This Gospel which claims Judas was a good man and what was written about him in the Bible is false, the historians state this gospel was written in the third century by the Gnostics. Once again no serious scholar would ever consider this as any type of proof to discredit the Bible. So why put it on television? Because, bashing Christianity has become good business.
The Gnostics of Alexandria believed they were people with higher knowledge, (the best educated according to man’s laws and not God’s laws) have given themselves a great pat on the back with their PhD’s. They for the most part are so filled with pride they cannot see the trees from the forest. They think they know better than God, and they’re the ones who will not accept God’s word as true and thus, continually work to change it. The Gnostics of Alexander were deep into Greek philosophy, so they regularly changed the Old and New Testament scriptures to fit their beliefs. They created the corrupted Alexandrian manuscripts: the Codex Vaticanus B and Codex Sinaiticus Aleph which most all Bibles of today are based on except for the Received Text of the King James Bible versions. See my paper on “Which Bible is the Word of God.” which details why these Alexandrian scriptures cannot be the word of God, and should never be used by a true believer.
Beware of men with degrees for they for the most part are heretics, who are helplessly lost. They are the ones who have given us over 50 different conflicting Bibles since 1901 A.D., which are not the word of God. Read “For Ever Settled, A Survey of the Documents And History of the Bible”, by Dr. Jack Moorman for the undeniable proof that the “Received Text” is from God and the “Alexandrian Texts” mentioned in this report are not from God, but Satan.
Jesus Christ’s Divinity
The O.T. without doubt boldly states that the coming Messiah (Christ in Greek, the anointed one, is God’s only Son (Psalm 2:7,12 and Proverbs 30:4).
“Therefore the Lord (God) himself shall give you a sign; behold the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son and His name is Immanuel, which means God with us” (Isaiah 7:14).
“And He (Messiah) shall be a sanctuary (a holy place); but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, and for a trap to the inhabitants (non believers) of Jerusalem” (Isaiah 8:14).
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son (not a women) is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called, Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God , The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His kingdom to stand firm, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of Host (God’s army of angels) will reform this” (Isaiah 9:6,7).
“Behold the days will come, says the God, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch , and a King shall rein (Messiah) and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In the Christianity Under Attack
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days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is His name whereby he shall be called THE GOD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS “(Jeremiah 23:5,6).
“Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seven sevens of years, and thirty sevens of years and two sevens of years (69 sevens of 360 day years a period of 483 years), the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after thirty sevens of years and two sevens of years shall Messiah be cut of (killed by a civil trial), not for himself: and the people of the prince (a Roman general) to come shall destroy the city and the Temple and the end there of shall be with a flood (quick destruction), and unto the end of the war desolations are determine” (Daniel.9:25,26).
From the time Artaxerxes the king of Persia, gave the command to Nehemiah to rebuild the streets and walls of Jerusalem, Nisan 1, 445 B.C. to Nisan 10, 32 A.D., which is the exact day Jesus rode in to Jerusalem on the back of a colt. The day we call Palm Sunday. On the following Thursday Jesus was crucified, thus fulfilling this prophesy.
So according to God’s word contained in Jewish Scriptures (N.T.) no one who ever lived could be the prophesized Messiah (God with us) but Jesus the Nazarene
So when Jesus came claiming to be the Messiah He was fulfilling almost everything the O.T. said about Him. There are a few end time prophases still left for Him to fulfill.
Jesus said unto them, “truly before Abraham was, I Am .”(Yahweh­The name for almighty God).
Without a doubt Jesus came as God in human form to be the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world, as foretold in the O.T. Therefore, any supposedly N.T. writings that state “Jesus was not divine” are, without question, false. Also Constantine could not of trick or forced any true Christian believer into accepting Jesus divinity when God’s Scriptures state unequivocally that the coming Messiah had to be divine.
The Da Vinci Code Conclusion
The Bible (God’s Word) cannot win in The DaVinci Code, for Brown has stacked the deck against it in his book. In Browns book Jesus could never be God. This is why his thesis: Jesus wanted women to control His church has been presented as fact. The Bible from cover to cover speaks against women Goddess. Women Goddess is found only in man made Pagan religions, which the God of the Bible hates. Brown is just another agent of Satan trying his best to destroy Christianity, the Bible – God’s word for all generations, and our Lord Jesus Christ as God, by raising doubt through falsified information that the Scriptures are true and Jesus Christ is divine; in which the average uniformed person easily buys into, especially women feminists and sadly many so­called liberal, non­believing, so­called Christians.
All Through the Bible God’s Plan Put the Emphasis on Man
1.
First created being Adam a man and women created from man.

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2.
Noah, found to be a man without blemish and His sons and their wives repopulate the earth

3.
The Abrahamic covenant through Abraham, and his sons, Isaac and Jacob­the Jews became God’s chosen people for redemption.

4.
Moses the great Jewish Prophet sets the Jewish nation apart from the pagan Gentile nations.

5.
The Jewish Messiah who is to come­Jesus First Coming, God in the form of man – the believing Gentiles along with the believing Jews are grafted into God’s plan of redemption.

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The Anti­Christ, Satan’s male off spring (imitation Christ) comes to destroy God’s plan of redemption and to establish Satan as the God of Earth

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Jesus Second Coming, as the God Man; defeats Satan: and sets up God’s Kingdom forever on Earth.

Men are to be the spiritual leader and women are to be man’s spiritual help mate in God’s plan of redemption. In God’s plan women are co­equal with men, but never superior ­they both have different, but equal roles to play in God’s plan of redemption.
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See Picture below of the “Last Supper”.

Copyright 2008 © ­Robert Ricciardi – Biblical Truth Seekers

Daniel 9: 24-27 (KJV)

A.
Verse 24: Gabriel The Archangel Gives Daniel a Mathematical

Prophecy

“Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy place.” (Emphases by author)

The first thing that needs to be addressed is the word weeks. It is the Hebrew word shavuim meaning sevens and it can refer to sevens of anything. However because Daniel has been dealing with the sins of Israel over many years (Dan 9:14-16) and he had been counting up the seventy years of Babylonian Captivity; it is safe too take these sevens to mean seventy years. Therefore seventy sevens of years (490 years) are determined upon your people and the holy city. Your people are the Israelites (the Jewish people of today). Daniel is being told by Gabriel the Archangel that he has come to give Daniel skill to understanding to make and understand the prophesy Gabriel will give him in Daniel 9:24-27. The holy city is Jerusalem.

The Purpose of the Seventy Sevens

The purpose of these 490 years that God has determined upon the Jewish people is to accomplish six things. The first three are negative, undesirable elements, which are going to be removed. The second three things are positive, desirable elements that take the place of the negative three elements.

If these six things do not happen then this all encompassing prophesy is not true and thus God is a lair. But we know God cannot lie! The Preterist’s believe that these 490 years have already been fulfilled and were fulfilled in 70 A.D. when the Temple was destroyed. If they are correct then the purpose of the 490 years has already taken place. However if the purpose of this prophesy has not taken place then the Preterist’s are wrong and not to be believed.

1. To finish the transgression

The first purpose is: to finish the transgression. The Hebrew word to finish means “to restrain firmly,” “o restrain completely,” “to bring to completion.” The word transgression is a very strong word for “sin.” It is a word that literally means, “to rebel.” In the Hebrew text, it has a definite article. It is not merely to finish transgression, but to finish the transgression, to finish the rebellion. It refers to one specific act of rebellion, one specific act of transgression, to bring to a finish, to bring it to completion. The one specific transgression in this context is the rejection of the Messiahship of Jesus. The finishing of this one specific transgression is seen in Isaiah 53:1-9 and Zechariah 12: -13:9. The first purpose then, is to bring an end of Israel’s national transgression: the rejection of the Messiahship of Jesus. Has this happened? No it has not.

2.
To Make an End of Sins

The second purpose is: to make an end of sins. The Hebrew word translated to make and end means “to seal up” or “shut up in a prison house,” “to be securely kept,” “to be locked up,” “to be prevented from roaming at random.” The Hebrew word for sins means to “to miss the mark” and refers to sins in daily life. Sins, then, would be put to an end or taken away. Therefore the Jews will no longer sin against God.

It is known that during the millennium period that here will be sins among the Gentiles who are still in their fleshly bodies (Matthew 25:31-46), and not the Gentiles who are the Bride of Christ, but there will be no sin in Israel. This truth is taught in Isaiah 27:9; Ezekiel 36:25-27; 37:23; Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Romans 11:27. The second purpose is to bring an end to Israel sinning daily. Has this happened? No it has not.

3.
To Make Reconciliation for Iniquity

The third purpose is: to make reconciliation for iniquity. The Hebrew word for reconciliation is a word that means, “to make atonement.” This is the means by which the first and second purposes will be accomplished. The means by which Israel’s national sin of rejecting their Messiah will be removed and the means by which her daily sins will be removed is by atonement.

The third purpose is to make atonement specifically for iniquity. The word iniquity refers to the deeds, works or results of the sin nature that in many places the Bible calls lawlessness (not living according to the moral law – the 10 Commandments). So the third purpose is to do away with the results or accomplishments of the sin nature among the Jews. Has this taken place? No it has not!

4.
To Bring in an Age of Everlasting Righteousness

The fourth purpose of the Seventy Sevens is: to bring in everlasting righteousness or more literally, “to bring in an age of righteousness,” which is what the Hebrew word for everlasting really means. This age of righteousness is called the Messianic Kingdom and the Millennium. This is the same point made by Isaiah 1:26; 11:2-5; 32:17 Jeremiah 23:5-6: and 33:15-18.

The fifth purpose is to bring in an age of righteousness, to establish the Kingdom. Daniel thought the kingdom would be set up immediately after the seventy years of captivity: now he told that this will occur not after seventy years but after seven times seventy (490) of years. Has this taken place? No it has not!

5.
To Cause a Cessation of Prophecy

The fifth purpose of the seventy sevens is: to seal up the vision and prophecy. The Hebrew word for seal up means “to seal up” or to shut up.” It means “to cause a cessation,” “to bring completely to fulfillment.” The word vision refers to oral prophecy, prophecy only made orally by like those of Elijah and Elisha. The word prophecy refers to prophecy found in written form in the writings prophets such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and in the twelve Minor Prophets. The fifth purpose of the Seventy Sevens is to cause a cessation of both oral and written prophecy, because the program of the Seventy Sevens will contain the final fulfillment of all prophecies; the function of all prophecies will cease at the second Coming of Jesus Christ. Has this taken place? No it has not!

Daniel is dealing with the Messianic Kingdom, therefore the question arises and that is: How is it that the Messianic Kingdom will fulfill all prophecies, since there are things concerning the time beyond the Kingdom age, the Eternal State (Revelations 21)? The answer is the Eternal State is New Testament revelation; no Old Testament Prophet was allowed by God to ever see beyond the Kingdom into the Eternal Order. Due to this fact when Daniel speaks about Michael the Archangel having him seal-up the vision and prophecy (Daniel 12: 4-13) about the kingdom, it’s in reference to the Old Testament prophecies being totally fulfilled.

For the Preterits to argue, “because the Eternal State was not mentioned in the Old Testament it therefore cannot happen or be true, and therefore all or parts of the Book of Revelation’s cannot be true: therefore it should not even be a part of God’s Word. Because the Book of Revelations mentions the Eternal State, the author of this paper believes it God’s Word. The Trinity is not mentioned in the Bible anywhere, however it is correctly assumed by the contexts of Words found in Scripture.

The book of Revelations is the only book in the Bible that blesses the person that reads and understands the prophesies written in it and keeps those thing which are written in it (Revelation 1:3).

6.
To Anoint the Most Holy Place.

The sixth and final purpose of the Seventy Sevens is: to anoint the most holy. From the Hebrew, it should read, “to anoint the most holy place. It is not the most holy person, but the most holy place that is to be anointed. The most holy place is the Temple, however it is not the First Temple of Solomon, nor is it the second Temple of Zerubbable, nor the third Temple of the Tribulation. But it is the forth Temple to be built by Jesus, the Lord of Lord, and King of Kings at the beginning of the Millennium period as a part of the Seventy Sevens (Ezekiel, chapters 40 to 48). Has this taken place? No it has not!

Summary:

None of these six prophecies have come to be past; therefore they are still events yet to happen. The Preterist are wrong for they do not take into account that these six pacific prophecies about Israel have not taken place. Replacement Theology teaches that all the promises and covenants God has made to Israel in the Old Testament are today for the Church and not anymore intended for Israel. Therefore Daniel 9:24-27 is now meant for the Church. This theology is from the pit of hell.

B.
Verse 25: The Starting Point For The Seventy Sevens (490) of Years

“Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.”

Daniel wants his fellow Israelites to understand and to discern that the starting point of the Seventy Sevens is given when the commandment or decree is given to restore and to build Jerusalem. Verse 24 already stated that the program of the Seventy Sevens concerns not only the Jewish people, but also the Jewish city of Jerusalem. The Jewish people are God’s chosen people and His chosen city without a doubt is Jerusalem. Daniel is told that the Seventy Sevens will begin with a decree, one that involves the rebuilding of Jerusalem.

The decree that best suits the required start time for the period of 483 years is the decree made by the Persian king Arterexes Longimanus in 445B.C. (Nehemiah 2:1-20). The other decrees are:

1) Cyrus 537 B.C . Ezra 1:2-4
2) Darius Ezra 6:1-5, 8,12
3) Artaxerxes 458 B.C. Ezra 7:11-26

(1) (2) and (3) were to rebuild the Temple only the Artaxerxes 445 B.C. decree was to rebuild the city and the walls.

We must remember during Daniels time period each year was a 360-day year according to the Jewish calendar and not 365 plus days we use to day. The first two time period subdivisions are seven sevens or 49 years and the second time period subdivision is 62 sevens or 376 years. The first and second time period subdivisions cover a time period of 483 years. 69 x 7 x 360 = 173,880 days. See 69 Weeks Chart below.

The First time Period

The first subdivision of time is the seven sevens of years, which is the time period of 49 years from the time from the start date of 445 B.C plus seven 360 day years to rebuild Jerusalem, it speaks of the city being built again, with street and moats even in troublous times. After 49 years the city had been restored. This takes us to 396 B.C.

The Second Time Period

The second subdivision of time within the Seventy Sevens is the sixty-two sevens, comprising a period of 434 years. Insofar as the passage is concerned, there is no break of time between the first and second subdivisions of the Seventy Sevens. The sixty-two sevens immediately followed the forty-nine years. This takes us from 396 B.C. to 32 A.D.

The 69 Week Chart*

Command to The Messiah The King
Restore Jerusalem Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem
March 14, 445 BC Palm Sunday, April 6, 32 AD

69 x 7 x 360 = 173,880 days

Mar. 14, 445 BC – 32 AD = 173,740 days
March 14 – April = 24 days
Leap years = 116 days
Total 173,740 days

*Taken from Sir Robert Anderson’s Book “The Coming Prince”

Sir Robert Anderson was an official and an investigator for Scotland Yard between 1882-1901.

C.
Verse 26: The Messiah Shall be Killed And The Temple Shall be Destroyed.

“And after threescore and two sevens shall the Messiah be cut of, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.”

Verse 26 starts out with the words “after threescore and two sevens,” He means after the first two subdivisions, certain things must occur before the third subdivision of one week or seven years. This phase “after these things” clearly shows that a gap of time exists between the second and third subdivisions.

In this gap of time first the Messiah, “be cut off but not for himself.” The word cut off in Hebrew means karat means to “cut off,” “eliminate,” “kill,” “death penalty.” Jesus fulfills this prophecy when he was first given the death penalty first by the Jews (Mark 11:18) according to Exodus 12:3 when the sheep were selected for the Passover meal to be killed on the10th of Nisan (April 6th, 32A.D.), and then the Romans who then killed Him to fulfill Exodus 12:6. Jesus was put on the cross on the 14th of Nisan (10th of April, 32 A.D.) and died at evening (just before 3 PM) when the Passover lambs are killed (Exodus 12:6).

Second the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the temple by a flood. The word flood in Hebrew sheteph means sudden or swift destruction by water: figuratively it is used in Hebrew as an army in battle over whelming its foes.

The word people in the Hebrew has a definite article. It is the people, a specific people, who are the subject of the action. In other words it is not the prince who shall come to destroy the city and the Temple but rather, the people of the prince that shall come. Therefore the nationality of the prince and the people are one in the same.

In 70 A.D., thirty-eight years after Jesus death the Gentile Roman army came and swiftly destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple, first under the Roman Emperor Vespasian and then under the Roman Emperor Titus.

“And unto the end of the war desolations are determined.” For the remainder of time period between the 69th week and the last seven-year period or 70th week, the land shall be characterized by war. This has definitely been true throughout the history of the Middle east. As a result of wars, desolations are determined, a reference to the state of Israel. The Hebrew word for desolations is shamem meaning “to stun,” “stupefy,” “to grow numb,” “to lay waste,” “to be ravaged,” “to be destitute,” It is something so horrible it can leave a person speechless. I believe this is what has happened to most Jews who have abandoned their God because of the horrors He has allowed to happen to the Jews throughout history. Not only because of their rejection of their Messiah, but because of their rejection of their God who created them.

D. Verse 9: 27: The Seventieth Seven

“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one seventh: and in the mist of the seventh he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abomination he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

The third and last subdivision of time is the last seven of the Seventy Sevens, and is dealt with in Daniel 9:27. This last seven is the same seven years as the Great Tribulation. These seven horrible years are divided into two equal halves of 3-1/2 years each. Elsewhere in Daniel and the book of Revelations they are referred to in different ways: sometimes as 1,260 days (Rev. 12:6); sometimes as forty-two months (Rev. 11:2-3; 13:5); and sometimes as a time, times, and half a time (Dan 7:25). In all three cases they represent 3-1/2 year period.

The third Subdivision starts with the statement: he shall confirm a covenant with many for one seven. This is both the starting point of the last seventieth seven and the starting point of seven years of Great Tribulation.

In Hebrew the pronoun he in verse 27 goes back to its nearest antecedent: the prince that shall come, in verse 26. The he who makes a covenant in verse 27 and the prince that shall come are one and the same person, better know as the Antichrist. The prince that shall come, or the Antichrist, will confirm a firm covenant. The Hebrew word means “firm;” “be stronger,” and “to prevail.” Thus the Antichrist will strong prevailing contract. It will be a new contract with strong guarantees.

It also sates that the covenant is made with the many, not with all but the many. The Hebrew word here means “a lot.” So not only will the leadership of Israel sign the covenant but others also. However the convent is made only for seven years. Seven years is not a long time. Evidently in order for the many to sign this covenant it had to be only for a short time. But to the Jews evidently seven years was better than not having a covenant at all to rebuild their Temple. The Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem are ready to day to start building their temple so they can restart the sacrificing of animals.

The verse sates that in the middle of the seven: he shall cause the sacrifice and the obligation to cease. In the middle of this seven-year period, after the first 3-1/2 years the covenant will be broken. When it is broken, he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. There will be a forced cessation of the sacrificial system. This same act is made in Revelation 11:1-2.

1.
Idol Worship

And for the overspreading of abominations shall he make it desolate. The Hebrew word for overspreading is kanaph meaning, “overspreading,” “wing,” “pinnacle of the Temple:” and it can mean an overspreading influence. This overspreading influence will be upon the pinnacle of the Temple. This specifically refers to the worship of the Antichrist, when he declares himself to be the one true god (2 Thes. 2:3-4). The word abomination in Hebrews refers to “an image” or “idol,” or “a disgusting thing,” a filthy thing,” meaning that an image or idol of the Antichrist will be set up in or on the Temple somewhere that will greatly disgust and upset the Jews. Maybe on the very Pinnacle of the Temple itself or maybe in the most important place within the Temple, the most holy place. This is also spoken in Daniel 12:11, Matthew 24:15 and Revelation 13:12-15.

The one that makes it desolate is the Antichrist, who will cause desolation to fall upon the Jewish people.

2.
The Completion of the Seventy Sevens

“Even unto the consummation, and that determined, shall be poured out upon the desolate.”

The phase even unto the consummation is the Hebrew word kalah that means “utter end,” “full end,” and “final end.” It is the final end of a thing. The Hebrew word here for determine is charata which means, “to be decreed before hand,” because the events spelled out in Daniel 9:27 were already prophesied long before the Great Tribulation. This is seen in Isaiah 10:23 and 28:22.

This phase also means that the Tribulation will not go a single day beyond its predetermined duration. It will end on the exact day. The same point is made in Matthew 24:22, where it reads: “And except those days should be shorten, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shorten.” The Tribulation shall not be allowed by God to go more than seven-360 day years or 2,520 days.

The last phase is: shall wrath be poured out on the desolate. The word Hebrew word translated desolate can also be translated as “a desolator.” If taken to mean “desolate,” it refers to the Jewish people during the second half of the Tribulation, when God’s wrath is poured out on upon the desolate. If it refers to a “desolator,” it refers to the Antichrist and to his destruction at the second coming on the very last day of the Seventieth Seven, which is the same as the very last day of the Tribulation. I believe the word desolate is the right word for Daniel 9:24-27 is God dealing with the Jews in the 6 prophecies in Daniel 9:24.

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Copyright 2010 © – Robert Ricciardi – Biblical Truth Seekers

Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God? The Muslim Religion is built on the person called Muhammad and the Christian Religion is built on the person called Jesus Christ. There are great dissimilarities between them. They speak differently about God and their relationship to God. Muhammad claimed to be a Prophet of God and Jesus claimed to be God in human flesh.
Islam claims Jesus was a mere human being, a prophet of God, superseded by Muhammad who was the last and greatest of all the prophets. Christianity insists Jesus is God in human flesh. If Muhammad is the greatest of all the prophets, then his life should clearly prove Islam’s claim to be true. If Jesus is God then his life should clearly prove Christianities claim to be true. If Muhammad is the greatest of all the prophets then he should have lived a holy, sinless life and should have done greater miracles than all the prophets before him, thus proving he is the greatest. Sadly he didn’t do one miracle, and he didn’t live a holy, sinless life. Jesus on the other hand preformed many miracles and he lived a holy, sinless life.
Their lives are two opposite stories, which they should be! There should be a tremendous difference in the life of a mere created mortal being like Muhammad, and in the life of Jesus as God in human flesh.Therefore, we must examine their lives carefully to clearly understand the contradiction on why one of them cannot be who he said he was, for a holy man of God must live a godly, holy, and virtues life, and he must perform great miracles, if he doesn’t then his words and actions are meaningless, for he doesn’t represent the one true holy God, but Satan who is the father of all lies (John 8:44) and false prophets.
The Law of Non Contradiction
The Law of Non Contradiction states that two contradictory statements cannot be true. One of them has to be false. If I say, my wife is pregnant, and she says, she is not pregnant, it is obvious that one of us is lying, for she cannot be both, for she is either pregnant or not. There is no such thing as being a little bit pregnant.
Also logic and common sense plays a great part in the Law of Non Contradiction and understanding the basic irreconcilable differences between Muhammad and Jesus lives. For instance, if A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then A has to be greater than C. If Jesus is the prophesied Messiah (Immanuel -God with us (Isaiah 7:15, 9:6), and today sits at the right hand of God in heaven (Luke 23:69) without question he is greater than Moses, and Moses without question is greater than Muhammad then Jesus without question is greater than Muhammad.
The same is true about the lives of Muhammad and Jesus, if both their lives contradict the teaching of the one true God of infinite goodness and truth, then both of them are lying, however if only one of these men’s life contradicts the teaching of the one true God, then that one is a liar, and not to be believed, this is called logic. Also, if many contradictions are found within their lives, then one of them should not be believed. This is called common sense. The burden of proof lies within their lives, for a person sent by God should live a moral godly life, for God created every thing, therefore He owns everything, and He gives life to all man and living creatures. Therefore, He can end any ones life in a spit second. Therefore He doesn’t need men to kill men for Him. God needs nothing from man, for God has everything, and the one true God who is holy and just definitely commands all men to live a holy, righteous and virtues life
“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein.
For He has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who shall
ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? He that has clean
hands (murdered no one-done no evil), and a pure heart (a heart without malice, envy.
and Jealousy and never seeks revenge), has not lifted his soul unto vanity (unrighteous
acts) nor sworn deceitfully (lied to deceive). He shall receive the blessing from the Lord,
and righteousness from God of his salvation”
(Psalm 24:1-5).

All men are born to die so why would God need someone to murder for Him? Jihad (murdering in the name of God) is not just, holy, virtues, or merciful and therefore not of God, but of Satan. Only those who live their lives with clean hands and a pure heart and have never sinned and have never been deceitful will received the blessing of eternal life from God. Muhammad cannot pass this test, and no Muslim can pass this test. There is only one man who did and that was Jesus Christ! So how can Muhammad be greater than Jesus? He cannot be greater! A Christian righteousness is not based on his righteous works but only on the atoning righteous work of Jesus Christ. No Muslim can say that Muhammad works will atone for their sins, for Muhammad never lived a righteous life, because he never stopped sinning from the day of his birth to the day of his death. Therefore Muhammad cannot be greater than Jesus.
Islam statement that Muhammad was greater than Jesus has to be proven. The burden of proof is on Islam to prove Muhammad was greater. To say something is easy, however to prove what you say is harder, and Islam has never proven Muhammad is greater than Jesus or Moses, or the life of a common dictator.
In order to understand the tremendous contradiction between Islam and Christianity and do they worship the same, one true God, we must start by investigating the lives of their founders. Muhammad who called himself a prophet and Jesus Christ who called himself the living Son (who has always existed -John 5:27) of the living God and Jesus made all things that are made, seen and unseen (John 1:1-5,14), and is the Savior of the world (John 5:21-25). There are no Old Testament prophecies, not one, foretelling about Muhammad, yet there are over 300 Old Testament Prophesies foretelling about Jesus Christ (John 5:39), and many are still to be fulfilled, and even Moses wrote of Jesus (Deuteronomy 18:15,18,John 1:45, 5:46, Acts 3:17-23). The evidence in the Bible from the book of Genesis to the Book of Revelations, 66 different books, written by 40 different authors, over 1500 years, testify to the fact that that the Prophet just like Moses that was to come, would be the Jewish Messiah (the anointed one); this Prophet can only be Jesus Christ (Messiah), a Jew from the house of David, from the tribe of Judah, and it can never be Muhammad, a non Jew, who hated and murdered God’s chosen people, as Islam falsely claims and teaches.

Jesus boldly stated,
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfill (compete all prophesies about Me). For truly I say unto you. Till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled (completed). Whosoever therefore break one of these commandments and teach men to do so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven, but he shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:17-19).
“You have heard that it was said to them of old time, “You shall not Murder; and whoso­ever shall murder shall be in danger of judgment (going to hell): But I say unto you that whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca (thick headed), shall be in danger of the council: But whosoever shall say, you fool, shall be in danger of hell fire” (Matthew 5:21-22).
In these passages Jesus clearly states He is the fulfillment of all Jewish scriptures, thus making Himself God and anyone who teaches differently shall not be in heaven. Also He clearly states that all who hate, and Jihad is all based on hatred shall go to hell.
Muslim Misunderstandings

1. Muslim’s claim Jesus never claimed to be God.
“I and My Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus
Jesus answered them, Many good works (miracles) have I showed you from My Father,
for which of these good works (miracles) do you stone me. The Jews answered Him,
saying for a good work we stone you not; but for blasphemy; and because that you being
a man make yourself God” (John 10:30-33).

In this passage the Jews clearly understood the fact that Jesus was proclaiming himself
to be God.

2. Muslims deny the fact that Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead three days later, which is the central proof of Jesus claim of being the divine Son of God in human flesh. Contrary to Muslim belief, the evidence that Jesus actually died on the cross is over whelming. Consider the following.
First, the many Old Testament scriptures that predicted Christ (Messiah) would die (Isaiah. 53:5-10); Psalm 22:16; Daniel 9:26; Zechariah 12:10). And the fact Jesus fulfilled these Old Testament prophesies about the Messiah (Matthew 4:14; 5:17-18:8:17; John 4:25-16: 5:39).
Second, Jesus announced many time He was going to die (John 2:19-21; 10:10-11; Matthew 12:40; Mark 8:31). Typical is Matthew 17:22-23 where Jesus boldly states, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men and they will kill Him, and on the third day He will be raised.”
Third, all the predictions of the Messiah’s resurrection, both in the Old Testament (Psalms 16:10; Isaiah 26:19; Daniel 12:2) and in the New Testament (John 2:19-21; Matthew 12:40; 17:22-13) are based on the fact the He would die. Only a dead man body can be resurrected.
Fourth, the nature and extent of Jesus’ injuries indicate that He must have died. He had no sleep the night before He was crucified. The Jews so badly beat him that no man could recognize Him (Matthew 26:67; Luke 22:63-64). The Romans scourged Him unmercifully that His backside had no flesh left on it. He collapsed carrying His cross on the way to His crucifixion. He arrived at the place were they crucified Him (Calvary) totally exhausted and almost dead.
Fifth, the nature of Roman crucifixion assures agonizing death. Jesus was on the cross from 9 A.M. (Mark 15:25) in the morning until 3 P.M.(Luke 23:44) just before sunset. He bleeds from pierced (steel stakes) hands and feet. There would have been tremendous loss of blood from the beatings he suffered at the hands of the Jews and Romans as well from the piercing of his hand and feet over a six-hour period that would have been life draining.
Sixth, the piercing of Jesus’ side with a spear, from which came “blood and water” (John 19:34), is proof he had physically died, before the piercing. The blood and water without doubt is medical proof that Jesus was dead before they took Him off the cross.
Seventh, with all the eye witness that saw Jesus kissed by Judas in the Garden of Gethsemane then taken prisoner by over 400 Jews and Romans guards, condemned publicly to die by Pontius Pilate before a huge crowed, scourged by the Roman soldiers, and then before a huge crowed died on the cross. How could of someone have taken His place as claimed by the Muslim’s? It is impossible for someone to have taken Jesus place.
Eight, the roman soldiers, accustomed to crucifixion and death, pronounced Jesus dead, after they pierced His side with a spear.
Ninth, Pilate double check to make sure Jesus was dead before he gave the corpse to Joseph to be buried. “Summoning the centurion, he gave asked him if he (Jesus) had been dead for some time. And when he had found out from the centurion. He granted the body to Joseph” (Mark 15:44-45). Jesus dead body was at all times under the watchful eye of Roman and Jewish guards, for they watched Joseph embalm Jesus’ body, and they then placed Jesus body in the tomb and they stood watch over his tomb at all times. Thus, Jesus body could not of been switched for another body nor could Jesus have walked out of the tomb unnoticed.
Tenth, Jesus was wrapped with at least seventy-five pounds of spice and linen wrappings and placed in a sealed tomb for at least three days (John 19:39-40; Matthew 27:60). If He was not dead by then, which He clearly was, He would of died from lack of food, water and medical treatment. Also when they went into the tomb after Jesus resurrection the wrapping had not been removed but the wrapping were in place as if Jesus body had just evaporated, like air out of a balloon; only the head wrapping had been removed (Luke 24:12). No man could of done this, but only God.
Eleventh, medical authorities who have examined the circumstances and nature of Jesus’ death have concluded that He actually died on the cross such as, Dr, Pierre Barbet author of “A Doctor at Calvary”, and W. Stroud, author of “ Treatise on the Physical cause of the Death of Christ and Its Relation to the Principles and Practices of Christianity”. An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, March 21,1986, concludes by all medical knowledge Jesus did die on the Cross and those who said He did not die on the cross are at odds with modern medicine knowledge.
Twelveth, non-Christian historians and writers from the first and second centuries record the death of Jesus. Jewish historian of the time of Jesus Christ, Josephus believed that Jesus died on the cross. He wrote “Pilate at the suggestion of the principle men among us, had condemned him to the cross”. Likewise the Roman historian, Cornrlius Tacitus, wrote: A wise man who was called Jesus…Pilate condemned Him to be condemned and to die.” He also noted that Jesus’ disciples reported that he had appeared to them three days after His crucifixion and that he was alive. The second century Greek writer, Lucian, speaks of Christ as “the man who was crucified in Palestine because he introduced a new cult into the world.” The “letter of Mara Bar-Serapion” (c, A.D. 73) housed in the British Museum, speaks of Christ’s death asking: “What advantage did the Jews gain from executing there wise King? Indeed even the Jewish Talmud says, “On the eve of Passover they hang Yeshu (Jesus of Nazareth)…Let everyone knowingly aught in his defense come and plead for him. But they found naught in his defense and hanged him on the eve of Passover. Roman writer Phlegon, who wrote of Christ death and resurrection in his chronicles, saying, “Jesus while alive, was of no assistance to himself, but that he arose after death, and exhibited the marks of his punishment and showed his hands had been pierced by nails.” Phlegon even mentioned the eclipse time of Tiberius Caesar, in whose reign Jesus appears to have been crucified, and the grate earthquakes which then took place.
Thirteenth, the earliest Christian writers after the time of Jesus’ affirmed His death on the cross by Crucifixion. Polycarp a disciple of the apostle John, repeatedly affirmed the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In his Dialog With Trypho the Jew, Justin Martyr a non-believer notes that Jews of his day believed that “Jesus was a Galilean deceiver, whom we crucified.”
The unbroken testimony from the Old Testament to the early church fathers, including believers and unbelievers, Jews and Gentiles, is over whelming evidence that Jesus really suffered, was crucified, and died. However, it is an established fact that the evidence is equally as strong that He rose from the dead. Thus this miracle confirm His unique claim to be the divine Son of God.

3. The Muslim claim that Jesus is not the Son of God.
“The Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you. The son can do nothing of himself, but he sees the Father do: for what things the so ever He does, these also the Son does. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For the as the Father raised the dead, and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life whom He wills. For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son. That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Farther which has sent Him. Truly, truly, I say unto you, he that hears my words and continually believes on Him that sent Me, has everlasting life, an shall not come into condemnation (judgment unto death); but is passed from death unto life. Truly, truly, I say unto you, the hour is know coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. For as the Father has life in himself (saves whom He chooses); so has the He given to the Son to have life in himself (saves whom He chooses); And has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man (God in human flesh). Marvel not at this for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves (dead) shall hear His voice (White Throne judgment, Revelations 20:11-15), and shall come forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life (to live with God in Heaven); and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation (eternal torment in the lake of fire, Revelation 20:15). I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and My judgment is just (correct and perfect); because I seek not My own will, but the will of the Father who has sent Me. If I bear witness of Myself , My witness is not true. There is another who bears witness of Me; and I know that the witness which he witnessed of Me is true. You (the Jews) sent unto John (the Baptist), and he bare witness unto the true. But I received not the testimony from men; but these things I say, that you might be saved. He (John the Baptist) was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a season (a short time) to rejoice in his light (righteousness and correct teachings). But I have greater witness that that of John: for the works which the Father has given to Me to finish (completely do), the same works that I do, bear witness of Me (totally prove who I am-divine God in human flesh). And the Father Himself, which has sent Me, has born witness of Me. You (all Jews, Muslims and other non-believers) have neither heard His voice at any time, nor seen Him. And you have not His words abiding (living) in you: for whom He has sent, Him (me) you believe not. Search the Scriptures; for in them you (Jews and Muslims alike) think you have eternal life: and they (the Scriptures) are they which continually testify of Me. And you (Jews and Muslims alike) will not come to Me, that you might be saved (have eternal life). I receive not honor from men, but I know you (Jews and Muslims alike), that you have not the love of God in you. I am come in My Father’s name, and you receive Me not: if another come in his own name, him will you receive. How can you believe, which receive honor one of another (continually coveting, committing adultery and homosexual acts, and killing, lying and stealing in the name of God), and seek not the honor (honor from living a righteous, holy and virtues life) that comes from God only? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: There is one that accuses you even Moses whom you trust. For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me: for he wrote of Me (not Muhammad as Islam teaches, but Jesus). But if you believe not his writings, how can you believe My words?” (John 5:19-47)
In John 5:19-47, Jesus makes it perfectly clear that He and the Father are one, and He has the power to give eternal life to every person who will believe in Him, and all men should honor Him as they honor the Father. Also He clearly states that the Scriptures testify of Him not only as the Prophet to come but also as the Messiah to come. John the Baptist proclaimed the Messiah would come in his lifetime. John the Baptist asked Jesus if He was the Messiah, and Jesus told John of all the miracles he had preformed that without question proved He was Immanuel (God with-us; Isaiah 7:14; 9:6-7 and Matthew 11:1-6).
To say that Jesus and his disciples make claims that He was God in human flesh does not prove he was God. However the many supernatural miracles that Jesus continually preformed over and over again confirms his claim, the very thing Muhammad recognized as the mark of a true prophet in biblical times (Sura 2:92,210,249). The logic of this argument is verified by the following:
1.
A Miracle is an act of God that confirms the truth claimed associated with it.

2.
Jesus offered unique and multiple different types of miraculous evidence confirms his claim to be God.

a.
His fulfillment of over 300 Biblical prophesies

b.
His sinless life and miraculous good deeds

c.
His resurrection from the dead.

3.
Therefore, Jesus’ unique miracles confirm that he is God.

Jesus fulfilling over 300 prophesies is mathematically impossible thus proving without doubt that He is God. Jesus preformed many miracles that no man before him of after him have ever preformed. However for the Muslims to claim without doubt that Muhammad is greater than Jesus is a lie from the pit of hell. The Muslim religion by its actions clearly shows is not interested in the truth, or a person’s eternal destiny but only its goal to conquer the world by the sword, which also clearly shows it is not of God but Satan. Jesus in Zechariah Chapter 14 comes to destroy all false religions, and to conquer every nation of the world, in order to establish His Kingdom that will last forever. Muhammad plays absolutely no part in Jesus’ Kingdom, for Muhammad will be in the lake of fire, and not in heaven.

Muhammad versus Jesus

Muhammad was born poor in Mecca about 570 A.D. Jesus, the divine Messiah was born poor in Bethlehem about 7-5 B.C. King Herod died 4 B.C. (Micah 5:13) (Matthew 2:1).
He was born in the Arabian environment of Jesus was born in to a Jewish family Tribalism, animism and polytheism. The Arabs steeped in Jewish scripture and worshiped spirits and gods and goddesses. The tradition. He knew the Old Testament most high god was called Al-Allah. The tribes often backwards and forwards. His country fought against each other and had great respect was ruled by the Romans who were for “Warrior Kings”. He was raised knowing that hated by his countryman, the Jews, warrior kings were the most respected among the who were looking for their Messiah to different tribes and the highest position a person lead a revolt against the Romans and to could obtain was that of tribe ruler, for the ruler, reestablish Jewish rule over their ruled as God killing and taking what he wanted country. at will.
His father and mother died when he was young. Was raised by a poor uncle.
It is said he never learned to read or write however now one knows for sure.
wisdom Jesus’ father died when he was over the age of 12: raised by his parents.
Jesus astonished the Jewish leaders by his understanding and answers concerning Jewish scriptures. He could read and write and was full of

(Luke 2:47), doing his Heavenly Fathers business (Luke 2:49).

He married a older rich women who owned a caravan. He ran her caravan. A year before her death in 619 A.
D. He started to have visions about an angel from
God named Gabriel. pleased (Matthew 3:17).
Jesus never married, never had sexual relations with any women. A voice came from Heaven, saying, This Is my beloved son, in whom I am well

Who is greater a man who calls himself a prophet, or the Son of God in whom God
calls his Son, in whom He is well pleased with? Here Jesus is clearly greater than

Muhammad.

To become rich he robbed many caravans.
Personally killed many men and had
many Jews and Christian’s put to death.
He was called, a “Warrior King”, in one battle his
army slaughtered eight hundred male Jews
and took their wives and children as booty.
Pride of life and lust of the flesh ruled over him.

As a “Warrior King” he sought to conquer
and rule over all the Arabian tribes.

Had his followers attack and slaughter other
Arab tribes and His followers staged orgies
and raped their women and stole their livestock.

He gathered an army to conquer Saudi Arabia
for his thirst for gold, silver and power.

Jesus lived without sin, never robbed or killed anyone or had anyone killed. Never encourage His followers to rob or steal, and rape or plunder. He never desired to be rich or to be married. He never wanted to be a Warrior King. Pride of life and lust of the flesh never ruled over him.
Said, His kingdom was not of this world, and taught only love and peace to all. Never sought to rule over any nation.
Jesus’ followers never attacked anyone for personal gain, He never desired riches. He never stole or covet another’s possessions (Duet. 20:13-17). Never hurt anyone, or told anyone to kill or rape anyone.
Jesus taught “he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword” (Matt. 26:52). He never gathered or formed an army to conquer any peoples or lands. He said His Kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36,37).

Muhammad lived by the sword, therefore according to Jesus’ words he will not be

allowed in heaven.
In 630 A.D. he became the ruler of Saudi Arabia Came to fulfill all the things said about
by lying and violating a peace treaty. Him in the Old Testament as the suffer-
He lied and was totally untrustworthy. ing Messiah (God with us). He read
from Isaiah 61:1,2a, proclaiming He was

He married 16 wives, including a 8-9 year old girl, named Aisha. The Quran forbids marrying more than 4 wives. He loved sex, riches and power. Had killed all who opposed him.
In 632 A.D. he died suddenly at home the richest and most powerful man in Saudi Arabia. He was 63 years old. His followers immediately tried to conquer the world by the sword.
the Messiah, thus God in human form. He never lied to anyone.
Jesus never sought power, riches or marriage or sex with anyone. His 1st coming was not to be a ruler, but to be an obedient servant, to die on a Roman cross for the sins of the whole world.
Falsely accused by a kangaroo court, and crucified by the Romans. Died penniless. He was about 36-37 years old. Lived from 7-5 B.C. to 32-33 A.D.

He died naked on a cross, for all his friends had deserted him. Yet he asked for mercy,

He was a vain and jealous man, he forbid all his wives to remarry after his death.
Remains dead in his grave and sins. He is buried in Medina, to which devout Muslims make pilgrimages.
not vengeance on those who wanted him dead.
Came into the world to save sinners. Was never envious or jealous of anyone or anything. He said that, “it’s easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into the kingdom of God.”
Overcame death by raising himself from the grave (John 10:18). Lives today, so all who trust in him shall never fear death. but live with Him forever in Heaven. His body is not a grave.

Muhammad continually lived to have the riches of the world, so according to Jesus’ words he can never

be in heaven (Luke 9:23-26).
His life was never prophesized in any ancient or Old Testament writings.
Muhammad claimed to be a Prophet of Allah.
Jesus fulfilled over 300 Old Testament prophesies about Himself. “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill (Matthew 5:18).
Jesus claimed to be God (John 1:1­3,14, John 8:56-59). That he was,
“The way, the truth and the life, and only through Him could anyone have eternal life” (John 11:25-26, 14:6).
All should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. Must assuredly, I say to you, he who hears my words and believes in Him who sent me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life (John 5:22-24).
Never performed one miracle. Never proved Proved without a doubt that he was who he was a prophet of God. He said he was (God) by raising the
(Sura 17:91-95)
Muhammad was not sinless (Sura 40:55).
His only Prophesy was, that the world would be destroyed within 100 years after his death. His prophesy clearly shows Muhammad to be a false prophet, because he was wrong.
History records that Muhammad received
Divine revelation from an angel name Gabriel while suffering epileptic fits.
dead, healing the sick, healing the death and blind from birth, and those with leprosy and stopping storms, calming seas, feeding over 5,000 people with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread, thus proving without doubt He was God (John 5:36).
Jesus was the only man who lived a sinless life.
Made many prophesies about his death and resurrection. They all came true. Made many predictions about the future and the end times and many them have come to pass (Matthew 24).
Jesus prayed always and said, He did those things that pleased His Father Who was in Heaven, and that He and the Father were one.” Never had an epileptic fit or any physical illness, thus proving He was above even the common cold.
Jesus proved He was divine by performing many miraculous miracles, even bring the
dead back to life, something that only God could do! He also made many prophesies in

which many have already taken place.

Muhammad in a moment of weakness under the inspiration of Satan succumbed to the temptation to appease the pagan mobs in Mecca let them worship the three daughters of Allah: Al-Lat, Al-Uzza, and Manat (Sura 53-19). Thus, proving the name Allah existed in the Arabia culture before Muhammad was born.
Jesus when He was weak met Satan but He successfully resisted Satan by quoting God’s words from the scriptures (Matthew 4: 1-11).

Once again Jesus proves his divinity by being able to ward of the attacks of Satan. Muhammad proved he was not under the protection of God for he was unable to ward off the attacks of Satan, in which a true prophet from God would always be able to do.
The lives of Muhammad and Jesus are so vastly different that you cannot reconcile them.
Muhammad was driven to obtain all the pleasures of a sinful life, lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life. He lived to rule just like all other kings before him, especially the Caesars of Roman and Alexander the Great. Just because he called himself a prophet of Allah doesn’t make him a prophet of God. There had to be a holy and virtues aspect to his life that would clearly show he is who he claims to be, a prophet from God. In Muhammad’s life there are none, absolutely none. He lived his life no different than any tyrant or warlord before him or after him.
Jesus on the other hand was not driven to obtain any of the sinful pleasures of life like Muhammad was. Jesus’ life is a complete opposite of Muhammad’s life. Jesus lived a holy and virtues life and sought after no earthly treasures or power. There is so much in His life that proves He is who He said He was that his life couldn’t be discredited by an honest seeker of the truth.
There are many enemies of Jesus who will disagree with this statement but they cannot prove it wrong or prove that Jesus was not God! Islam, and Christian heretics, along with the humanistic atheists continually find fault with the Holy Bible and the life of Jesus, have in their weak arguments presented no truth or facts to discredit the Bible or the life of Jesus. They say, there is not enough evidence to prove Jesus was who He claimed to be, when the evidence for Jesus is huge and over whelming. They put their false spin and lies based on embellished rhetoric without any concrete evidence or facts to prove their weak, unsubstantiated arguments.

But Jesus prophesied that in the end times people would fall away from Him and the one true God! And all who believed on Jesus would be hated by the world and by their ownfamilies, and that many false prophets would arise and deceive many (Matthew 24:3-14).
Muhammad is just one of many false prophets to come after Jesus. He was not the first nor will he be the last. All who follow Muhammad, and Islam, will end up in the lake of fire (Revelation 20:11-15). Jesus will come as a thief in the night (2 Peter 3:10) and “Behold He will come quickly, Blessed (happy) is he that keeps the prophesies of the Bible (Revelation 22:7), and Jesus’ will reward all who love Him and keep His commandments with the right of eternal life (Revelation 22:12-21).
Hated for all who are not Muslims plays a large part in the Muslim religion. We known that Muhammad ignored God’s salvation plan through Jesus Christ and established his own righteousness based on his evil works, and we know he never repented of his evil works of lying, murdering, coveting women and seeking power and riches. He never realized how precious a human soul is to God or Satan. In the Qur’an, Sura 11:119, Allah states: “I will fill the Lake of Fire with Jinns (demons) and men all together.” Here Allah is portrayed as an unloving god who leads men to hell (Sura 7:178, 186, Sura 32:13). While the Bible states that God wishes no man to perish (2 Peter 3:9) and “For God so loved the world (mankind) that he gave his only begotten (unique) Son, that whosoever believes (trusts) in Him should not perish (In the Lake of Fire) but have everlasting life (in heaven)” John 3:16). “ Beloved let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loves is born of God. He that loves not does not know God; for God is love. In this was manifested (made known) the love of God towards us, because that God sent his only begotten (unique) Son into the world, that we might have eternal live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but He loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation (paid the price) for our sins. If God loved us we ought to love one another” (1 John 4:7-11).
Once again Jesus proves his divinity by being God’s only unique son, teaching God’s unique love for all who will love Him and obey His love commandments and thus never perish.

Muhammad proved he was not a prophet of God, because he did not teach the love of God for all mankind; in fact he taught just the opposite, that God did not love Hiscreation and he taught that God doesn’t care if man perishes or not.
Jesus said, he is returning to judge the world (John 5:20-29). Jesus being the divine Son cannot be separated from God the divine Father, who has given all He has to His unique divine Son. Muhammad even said, Jesus is returning to judge the world. Allah is not God and Muhammad is not God’s prophet. God said, Jesus is my son in whom I’m well pleased. Jesus as the Son of Man was a Jew from the House of David. All who hurt a Jew will be accursed (Genesis 12:1-3). The Arabs are not the blessed people of the one true God for they are not descendents from the House of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Abraham gave all he had to Isaac (Genesis 25:5) and God blessed Isaac (Genesis 25:11). God bless Jacob and promises him that he was both the carrier of the promised seed and the covenant made to Abraham (Genesis 28:10-22). The seed is the Messiah, God with us (Isaiah 7:14, 9:6), who will come and defeat Satan (Genesis 3:15). Thus the Messiah, God Himself (Isaiah 7:14, 9:6) and be from the House of David (9:7). Thus, the divine Messiah and Savior of mankind must be a Jew and can never be a Muslim.
Killing and murdering are the ways of Islam, but the God of the Bible has always hated murder from Cain the first murder (Genesis 4:9-12), to the Noahic covenant where all murders shall be put to death (Genesis 9:6), to Exodus 20:13 “Thou shall not Murder,” to abortion which is murder (Genesis 21:22-33), to Jesus who said thou shall not Murder, nor commit adultery, nor steal, nor lie to anyone for any reason (Matthew 18:19). Yet Muhammad said, it is all right to murder, commit adultery, steal and lie in the name of Allah. Quite a contradiction! Who is right Muhammad a mere man of Jesus, God in human flesh? Jesus is right, for he has proven himself greater than Muhammad. The imposter can never be equal to whom he is impersonating.
The Roman Catholic churched proved its self not to be the true Church of God, when it like Islam in the 12th century tried to conquer the world. It to plundered, murdered, stole and lied to gain the riches of the world. Thus proving it to was not of God but of Satan, who is the father of all lies and a murder from the beginning, For without doubt it is the Church of Thyatira found in Revelations 2:18-29. And it has put Roman Catholic traditions above the word of God and has made Mary a lowly handmaiden, whose spirit rejoiced in God her savior (Luke 2:47-48), into the Queen of Heaven, which is an abomination to God (Jeremiah 7:18, 44:17-25).

Is Allah the same God found in the Holy Bible? The answer is clearly and understandably no, he is not, because he contradicts all of God’s basic truths and teaching found in theHoly Bible.
Before Muhammad was born, the Arab tribes worshipped many Gods. They were pagans who had over 300 deities that they worshipped. The dominant deity was the moon god in several variations, whose title was Al-ilah, shortened in time to Allah. Al is the definite article “the and ilah is an Arabic word for “god”. It is not a foreign word. It is only found in Arabic and never in any other language. It is purely an Arabic term used in reference to an Arabian deity. Allah is clearly an Arabic word-albeit borrowed from Babylon denoting an Arabic deity corresponding to the Babylonian god Baal, Bel or Nimrod. Al Allah a deity well established amongst the many Arabian tribes also had 3 daughters who were also worshipped.
Each of the Arabs tribes throughout the Arabian Desert had their own deity and they had a sanctuary devoted to it. They worshipped the sun and especially the moon. The frequency of the crescent moon found in archaeological artifacts throughout Arabia attests to this fact. They also worshipped black stones, thinking they were from Zeus. They also believed in Jinns or Genies. These Jinn’s were spiritual beings that could be benevolent or demonic – residing in trees, stones, animals and sometimes-human form. In the story of the Arabian Nights, Jinns lived in lamps and granted whishes– the Islamic religion did exist before the existence of Muhammad.
Caravans were the link between the outside world and the Arab world. From the Caravans they would hear stores about the Jewish and the Christian religions. In time the Jews and Christians came to live among them in Mecca and Medina. They had no real hate for the Jews and Christians until Muhammad. Muhammad was the one who instructed his followers to kill everyone who did not convert to Islam (Sura 9:5, 73, 8:59). “Those who reject Islam must be killed. If they turn back (from Islam), take (Hold of) them and kill them where you find them…”(Sura 4:89).
Jesus said, I say to you love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you, and persecute you (Matthew 5:44). Here in this verse Jesus totally contradicts Muhammad. Which Prophet is right? Muhammad who taught hate or Jesus who taught love?
There is no “revelation” in Islam, meaning revelation of God’s nature, but only of his will and obedience to it. Human imperfection (sin) is not subject to improvement (no repentance-no being born again) in the direction of God and any such notion is blasphemous to a Muslim. The New Testament teaches Jesus came to save sinners. In Islam, there are no sinners in need of salvation, no fallen mankind, but only those who do or do not worship or follow Allah. If you follow Allah, you are doing the right thing and might get into Paradise by continually doing good works, however there is no assurance that any Muslim will be in Allah’s paradise. If you do not follow Allah, you are doing the wrong thing and will never get into Paradise, but will go to Hell. This is a total contradiction on what Jesus taught. In Islam you might get into Heaven based on your works for Allah, however no Muslim knows for sure. In Christianity, you cannot be saved by works, but only by faith in Jesus Christ and accepting His death upon the cross for theatonement for your sins (Romans 10: 9-13, 15-17, Ephesians 2:8-10).
Nothing we do, or say, or think is good or bad as such in Islam. Nothing is right or wrong without specific reference to the revealed will of Allah or the traditions of the Prophet. Man doesn’t have free will; Allah, already has determined all. Islam finds it heretical that man has free will or choice in the matter or man’s final destiny. Allah has already predetermined whatever has been or shall in the world, whether good or bad. The total of all deeds and thoughts is irrevocably fixed, preordained and prerecorded from eternity. Allah keeps precise count of good and bad deeds on every person and weighs all words and thoughts against each other to present an error free account on that Great Day or Judgment, the course of life-long anxiety for every Muslim. No Muslim knows why Allah leads some to Paradise and some to Hell. Thus Allah is unknowable and not a god of love. Who would want to follow a god like this? Only a brainwashed person, who has been taught the lie, “that Allah is God and Muhammad is his prophet.”
In Islam, prayer is a payment of debt – not communication with God. To win Allah’s favor, they are made to pray 5 times each day facing Mecca. Allah is unknowable and in personable. He is served out of fear, obedience, submission and hope of bountiful heavenly reward. Islam explicitly rejects Jesus’ words,
“ He who has my commandments and keeps them, he is it who love me: shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him (John 14:21) “If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him and make out home with him (John 15:24)”.
The God of the Bible is a God of love and is therefore knowable (John 17:3); Allah is not a God of love, therefore unknowable. The Quran states: Allah loves those who battle (kill­murder) for his cause…(Sura 8:39, 59-60, 67, 61:6). Those who do his will (Sura 2:222), those who are steadfast and deeds are good (Sura 3:147-148, but never does Allah love all mankind, much less sinners. In contrast to the Bible, where God wishes that no one to good to hell (2 Peter 3:9) and love is the crowning attribute of God, who loves the whole world of sinners, and of whom it is said that He is love. And Jesus as God loves all men, and suffered on the cross for the sins of the whole world, therefore all who come to Him shall be saved (John 3:16; 1 John 4:9,10).
The first and great commandment, “Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your might…you shall teach them to your children.” (Deuteronomy 6:5­7). You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge …you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord” (Leviticus 19:18). In Matthew 22:40 Jesus stated: “On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” In the Parable of the Good Samaritan, it was the Samaritan, who the Jews hated, that had compassion on the Jew who was left to die by those who had robbed him, and not the two Jews who first saw their dying Jewish brother. Jesus taught love your enemies, and not to murder, and not to be angry with out a cause (Matthew 5:22-24,43,44). When Muslims murder their so-called enemy the infidel, in the name of

Allah they are violating the TWO GREAT love commandments of God and will not go to Paradise or Heaven.
The Bible declares unequivocally: “He that loves not, does not know God, for God is love” (1 John 4:8). For the God of the Bible does not want one person to perish, but all should come to repentance and be saved (2 Peter 3:9). Such is the God of the Bible in sharp contrast to Allah. Christianity is to be spread by love and never by the sword. Then Roman Catholic Church did great harm to Christianity when it spread its false teaching by the sword. The Muslim religion is a religion of war and spreads its belief almost everywhere it goes by the sword. The true Christian by contrast is to lay down his life bring the message of God’s love, a message that mankind is free to accept or reject, for love does not force itself upon theone loved (1 John 4:11-21).

Muhammad taught not love but hate (Sura 5:9).
Love not the world neither the things in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust there of: but he that does the will of God (loves not the world) abides forever (1 John 2:15­17). Muhammad loved the world and lusted after the things of the world!
“For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that you should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one (Satan), and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother righteous (1 John 3:11-12). Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know no murder has eternal life abiding in him (1 John 3:15).

Muhammad hated his Muslim brothers who would not follow him, and had thousands of them killed, thus he was a murder no different than Cain. So any Muslim who hates me for writing this report is no different from Cain and IS a follower of Satan.
No Muslim who participates in Jihad can go to paradise. Muhammad taught all who kill in the name of Allah will go to Paradise and have 72 virgins. This is Satan’s lie for no murder will be allowed in Heaven, unless he repents of his sins and makes Jesus Christ his Lord and Savior.

Allah is not the one true God, but Satan, mankind’s mortal enemy, and Muhammad is not God’s Prophet but Satan’s. Thus Islam doesn’t follow the one true God but Satan mankind’s mortal enemy.
To make the Islam religion valid – Muhammad changed many of the stories found in the Bible, for instance:
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Mary, the sister of Moses and Aaron, whose Hebrew and Arabic name is Miriam, lived 1,300 years before Mary the mother of Jesus. But early in the Quran, the two women are portrayed as one and the same person! It says the wife of Moses’ father, Imram (Arram), gave birth to Miriam, who in turn gave birth to Jesus (Sura 3:35). In the second half of the Quran Miriam the mother of Jesus is addressed as “sister of Aaron (Sura 19:28).

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Haman, the villain of the Book of Esther, is made a contemporary of the Pharaoh of the Israelite Exodus and also is said to have help build the Tower of Babel in the book of Genesis (Sura 27:4-6; 28:6,38; 29:39; 40: 23,24,36,37).

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The Qur’an also claims, that Abraham was thrown into a fire by Nimrod. The mere fact that Nimrod died centuries before Abraham was born doesn’t seem to bother the followers of the Qur’an (Sura 21: 68,69; 9:69).

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Sura 4:171, denies Jesus is the Son of God. However after Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (Matthew 3:17).”

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Sura 4:157, declares Jesus was not Crucified, “They slew him not nor crucified…they slew him not for certain.” This denies the cornerstone belief in Christianity that Jesus died on the cross for the sins for the whole world.

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Sura 2:127, teaches that God’s temple was not built originally by Solomon in Jerusalem but is the Kabala in Mecca built by Abraham and Ishmael. However history records the fact that the Kabala was a pagan temple filled with idols; this worship is an abomination to God and forbidden to Abraham and his descendents. Thus Abraham could not of built it, and real truth is Abraham was never in Mecca. Another huge contradiction found in the Qur’an.

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The Qur’an states, that it was not Isaac whom God told Abraham to sacrifice but instead it was Ishmael, another contradiction, or lie.

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The Qur’an also denies the eight Biblical Christian principles below. Islam says the Bible has been corrupted, but they can produce no hard evidence to support this theory. They try to use the Gospel of Barnabas to dispute the resurrection story of Jesus. However, according to Muslim scholars (Islamochristiana, page 68, by J. Stomp), this Gospel is probably a fake. In their introduction to the Oxford edition of the Gospel of Barnabas, Longsdale and Ragg conclude that the evidence show that the Gospel of Barnabas was not written in the 1st or 2nd century, but in the 15th-16th century probably by a Muslim author. The evidence that this was not written by a disciple of Christ is overwhelming.

This gospel is widely used by Muslim apologists today, yet there no reference to it by any Muslim writer before the 15th-16th century. Surely they would of used it had it been in existence. No father or teacher of the Christian church ever quoted it from the first to the fifteenth century.

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The Muslim’s have no evidence that disproves the resurrection of Jesus whatsoever, only their unsubstantiated hearsay.

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To claim you are a prophet of God is easy, however to prove it is near impossible. Jesus not only proved He was a prophet of God, but also He was God the Son, by all the miracles He preformed, that no one before him or after has ever preformed. However, Muhammad never proved he was a prophet of God. He preformed not one miracle, and the only prophecy he gave (the world would be destroyed within 100 years of his death) did not happen, thus proving he was a false prophet.

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“But though we, or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that we have preached unto you, let him be accursed (dammed). As we said before, so I say again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you that that you have received, let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:8-9). Here God clearly tells us that Muhammad will be dammed because he clearly taught another gospel (the good news about Jesus Christ-God the Son). This also applies for every Muslim for they also teach and follow another Gospel.

Is Muhammad the Prophet like Moses that was predicted to come in Deuteronomy 18:18-20, as claimed by Islam? If he is not then Islam is a false religion and Muslims follow a false prophet and a false god.
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren (Israelites), like unto me (Moses from the house of Levite), and put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them (the Israelites) all that I have commanded him. And it shall come to pass, whosoever will hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
Muslims strongly believe that this passage is speaking of Muhammad, as the Qur’an claims when it refers to “the Unlettered Prophet [Muhammad], whom they find mentioned in Sura 7:157, as the prophet described in the Torah and the Gospel.” However this prophecy could not be a reference to Muhammad for many reasons. Thus, the Bible never speaks about Muhammad. If a man falsely calms to be a prophet sent by God and falsely claims to be speaking for God, or in the name of another god, that prophet shall die (Deuteronomy 13:5). Sura 7:157.claims that the Torah and the Gospel speak of Muhammad, however the prophet of Deuteronomy 18:15-20, can never be Muhammad for the following reasons.
It is evident from these passages that the prophet Moses spoke of would without question be a brethren, a Jewish man, just like Moses; a man who met God, a man who spoke with God, a man commanded by God to proclaim God’s word, a man that would do mighty deeds like Moses did, a man God would be pleased in, a man God would raise up to save his people.
Since the word brethren meaning without question refers to Israel, and not to their antagonists, why would God of Israel raise up for Israel a prophet from their mortal confessed enemy?
Muhammad cannot be the Prophet Moses said God would raise up, because it would have to be a descendent of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which Muhammad is not. For it was the nation of Israel that Moses led out of slavery and not an Arab nation. The Arab’s claim Ishmael descendents would qualify for to be this Prophet, but this is a false teaching, For Ishmael was never the son of Promise and all the Covenants that God made with Abraham He also made with, Isaac, and Jacob. He never made the same covenant with Ishmael. For Ishmael would become a wild man and his hand will be against every man (Genesis 16:12).
The Qur’an itself states in Sura 29:27, that the prophetic line came through Isaac, and not Ishmael: “And we bestowed on him Isaac and Jacob, and We established the Prophethood and the Scripture among his seed.” The Muslim scholar Yusuf Ali adds the word “Abraham” to Sura 29:27, and changes the meaning as follows: “We gave (Abraham), Isaac and Jacob, and ordained among his progeny (descendents) Prophethood and Revelation.” By adding Abraham, the father of Ishmael, he can include Muhammad, a descendent of Ishmael in the prophetic line! But Abraham’s name is not found anywhere within the Arabic text of the Qur’an, which Muslims consider to be perfectly preserved. So this is a pure fabrication on the part Yusuf Ali in order to prove Muhammad as the Prophet to come when he can never be the Prophet to come just like Moses.
Deuteronomy 18:18 contains a promise by God to Moses, God promises Moses that He will raise up a prophet “like you.” Why does God specify a prophet like Moses? What was different about Moses compared with other men called by God to be prophets? The unique status of Moses among the others prophets is explained in Numbers 12:5-8:
“Then the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward, He said, “Hear know My words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord, shall make Myself known unto him in a vision and I shall speak to him in a dream. Not so, with My servant Moses, who is faithful in all My house. With him I speak mouth to mouth, even openly, and not in dark speeches, and he beholds the form of the Lord, Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?”
In this passage God declares Moses unique standing before Him. Even with the great prophets like Elijah and Isaiah, God did not reveal Himself directly, but used dreams, visions, and other methods. Moses is the only man who received direct revelation from God. Muhammad received no direct communication from God. However Jesus did receive direct communication from God. Moses was:
1. A Prophet (Numbers 12:6-8).
2. A Redeemer (Exodus 3:10)
3. A Mediator (Exodus 20:18-21)
4. An Intercessor (Exodus 32:7-35)
The Messiah will also fit the Mosaic mold in each of these four areas: He will be a prophet, a redeemer, a mediator and an intercessor. Jesus came as a prophet, a redeemer, a mediator and as a intercessor thus proving He was the Messiah to come.
Muhammad claim to be only a prophet. He never claimed to be a redeemer, a mediator or an intercessor. Muhammad admits that he never talked mouth to mouth with Allah and he did not come to redeem mankind, nor does he act as an intercessor between Allah and mankind.

Muhammad admitted he was not a prophet like Moses. It is Islam who claims this title for Muhammad, and their claim is an obvious fabrication of the truth.
Many Muslims say that from these passages, it is evident that Moses prophesied about a Law-giving prophet only, is wrong, and misleading, for there is nothing in theses passages that speak only of a Law-giving Prophet. The words “like unto Moses” doesn’t mean just a Law-giver, for Moses was much more that just a Law-giver as noted above. He spoke directly with God (Exodus 3:4-6), and God spoke face to face with Moses (Exodus 33:11) and he did miraculous signs and wonders the Lord sent him to do in Egypt, and he did showed the mighty power of God, and performed awesome deeds in the sight of all Israel (Deuteronomy 34:10-12). Muhammad never talked to God, and did not one awesome deed, nor did he show the mighty power of God. Moses was also a redeemer (Exodus 3:7-10); sent by God to lead his people the Israelites out of slavery, out of the land of Egypt (Exodus 3:12-16) to the Promised Land of Canaan as promised to his people the Israelites, by God (Exodus 3:17, 33:1). Moses never conquered any lands by the sword. He gave his people as directed by God the Ten Commandments, the moral law, that command a person never to murder, or covet your neighbors wife or possessions (Exodus 20:13,17, 21:12), yet Muhammad taught his people to murder and to covet your neighbors wife and possessions. Moses taught that a man should never lie to your neighbor (Exodus 20:16). Muhammad practiced lying and taught it is all right to lie. Moses taught that a man should never smite a servant or his wife (Exodus 21:20), yet Muhammad taught it is good for a man to smite his servant and his wife. Moses taught, if any man who steals a man and sells him, or be found with him, who he stole, he shall be put to death (Exodus 21:16). Yet, Muhammad taught it is all right to steal a man and sell him. Yes Moses gave laws that Muhammad was totally against, so how could Muhammad be like Moses, when he was 100 percent different from Moses?
Moses was far superior to Muhammad for Muhammad never spoke to God directly like Moses did. Therefore Muhammad was not like Moses, so how could he be a prophet like Moses? Also God gave Moses a deep love for his people, for when they had sinned greatly against God, Moses was willing to die for their sins (Exodus 32:31-32). Yet there is no record that Muhammad was willing to die for any Muslim sins.
Hence, this Prophet like Moses would have known God face to face and he would have talk directly to God as Moses did, and he would have to perform miracles similar to those preformed by Moses. The Qur’an also confirms the fact Moses talked directly to God (Sura 4:163-164). The Qur’an also confirms the fact that Muhammad never talk to God, and never met God face to face, and He did not one miracle whatsoever (Sura 2:118, Sura 2:145, Sura 6:109 and Sura 28:48). Thus, Moses is greater than Muhammad.
Jesus however matches up perfectly with Moses.
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They both were to be put to death by the ruler of the land they were born in, however they both were saved by God.

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They both were hated by the Israelites whom they loved.

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They both talk with God, and did great miracles, and they both were loved by God

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They both prophesied of future events to come.

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Jesus being the Son of God, knew God the Father face to face as Moses did,

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Jesus is the Image of God and is one with God the Father (Matthew 11:27).

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Jesus is the Word of God, and the Word was God, and the Word created all things (John1:1-3).

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God prepared Moses for his mission by having him being in the wilderness for forty

years; Jesus for forty days (Exodus 7:7 and Matthew 4:1).

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Jesus like Moses liberated his people from bondage; the Israelites from slavery, men from their sins (all of Exodus, Isaiah 53, John 8:32-36: Gal 5:1).

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Jesus like Moses intercedes on behalf of men (Exodus 32:30-32 and 1 Timothy 2:5).

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Jesus, like Moses, is an Israelite from the tribe of Judah (Numbers 26:59: Luke 3:22-38).

Jesus own people testify to the fact Jesus was the Prophet to come:
After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to say, ”Surely, This is The Prophet who is to come into the world.’ (John 6:14).
Again,
On hearing His words, some of the people said, :Surely this man is The Prophet (John 7:40).
The Qur’an in Sura 5:110 Muhammad testifies of Jesus great miracles.
Therefore: Jesus as the divine Son of God is without question is greater than Moses, and Moses Is without question greater than Muhammad. Therefore, Jesus is without question is greater than Muhammad!
Therefore: Because there is nothing in Muhammad’s life that proved he lived a holy, godly life and was a prophet of God, and because there is not one scripture in the Bible that for told of Muhammad coming and he never talk face to face with God, it is evident that Muhammad and the Qur’an are a creation of Islam and not from God.
Therefore: Because there is over whelming evidence that Jesus lived a holy, Godly life and was a prophet of God, and because there are over 300 scriptures that foretold of His coming, and because He talk face to face with God, and He descended and ascended to heaven, and He proved He was the Messiah (God with us) by the many miracles He preformed, and God from heaven said, “This is my Son in whom I am well pleased;” it is evident that, because Jesus is the one that will judge everyone to see if they can enter in to heaven, and thus obtain ever lasting life, He and only He can be the divine Son of God as note in, Palms 2:7and 12, and Proverbs 30:4, and Isaiah 7:14, 9:6-7. Thus, Jesus is to be believed, and trusted, as the divine Son sent by God the Father to save the world, and all who believe in Him shall be saved. “Wherefore God has highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth; and that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:10-11).

The Christian faith is based on these eight principles.
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The Trinity. One God in three persons, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Unity through diversity.

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The Bible, as originally written, is the errant and inspired word of God for all generations. The Bibles that are based on the Received Texts are reliable and can be trusted completely. The Bibles that our based on the Alexandrian Texts cannot be trusted at all and no true seeker of the truth should rely on them. 99 percent of all the Biblical manuscripts that have come down through history are based on the Received Texts and only 1 percent that have come down through history are based on the Alexandrian Texts. Thus the Alexandrian based Bibles we have today and the Paraphrase and Exemplified Bibles cannot be trusted and therefore are not to be used as the infallible word of God.

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Jesus is the Jewish Messiah. He has fulfilled every scripture about Him being the suffering Messiah, and in the future He will fulfill every scripture about Him being the conquering Messiah. The Messiah’s names are: Immanuel (God with us), Wonderful, Counselor, Almighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords and King of Kings (Isaiah 9:6).

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He was born of the virgin Mary in Bethlehem, He is the Lamb of God, who was crucified for the sins of the whole world. Jesus, as God’s only unique Son, came into the world to save sinners (those lost and separated from God in their sins).

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His bodily resurrection: He was pronounced dead by the Roman soldiers, who then personally carried Him to His tomb where His followers anointed Him with mirth and oil under the watchful eye of these same Roman soldiers. Then these same Roman soldiers rolled the stone in place that completely seal His tomb. After the third day, over 500 people and the Apostles saw him. The stone was rolled away by God’s angels not to let Jesus out, but to let man in, so the Jews, along with the Roman soldiers who buried Him would verify Jesus resurrection. Anyone who says that Jesus was not resurrected, are not telling the truth and they are a form of antichrist. Man is born in sin and is separated from God, and the wages of sin is death, and the only way to God is through Jesus Christ, by believing in Him, and living for Him only as our Lord and Savior. Every person must realize they are a sinner in need of a savior, and Jesus Christ is the only one who can be that savior.

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All believers are saved through faith (trusting in Jesus as the Son of God) in Jesus Christ and not by any good works. There is no good works that can save a sinner; only faith in the works of Jesus saves a person (Ephesians 2:8-10).

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On the cross Jesus said, “it is finished” (a Greek word that means it is totally paid for), in other words no other work needs to be preformed by God other than what Jesus did by dying on the cross for a sinful world. He had to be like a lamb without a spot or a blemish. So He was the perfect man without any sin in his life, so His blood (life is in the blood) became the perfect blood sacrifice for all humanity. When any other religion says, “O no, more needs to be done to save a person”, we know they are a false religion. This fact not only applies to Islam but also to, The Roman Catholic Church, The Mormon Church, and The Jehovah Wittiness Church, and it is also what defines a false church or a cult.

This brief essay is design to help the true Christian believer to have a quick understanding on the Subject: “Muhammad Verses Jesus, Do the Muslims and the Christians Worship the same God?” Muhammad never lived a holy, righteous, pious life and Jesus did 100 percent. The answer to the question, do the Muslims and the Christians worship the same God? Is obviously no. This conclusion is based on the vast difference in the lives of Muhammad and Jesus Christ, and the vast differences in their teachings and the vast differences in what the Bible and the Qur’an teach. Only a biased person not interested in the truth, and a mislead person, or a brainwashed person with an agenda, would think Muhammad was a holy man; for there is nothing in Muhammad’s sinful life that can substantiate and support such a belief; for he lived his life just like every Roman Caesar before him and like Alexander the Great who conquered the world by the sword, and like Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. When a Muslim murders people in the name of Allah they are committing a sin that leads to death and never will it lead them to paradise were 72 fleshly virgins await them. For the works of the flesh leads no one to heaven, for God said all Mankind’s works and righteousness are like fifthly rages to Him (Isaiah 64:6).

See: Part 2: The Qur’an verses the Bible, for more in depth information.
The following books were used for this report:
The Islam Invasion, Robert Morey author A Cup of Trembling, Dave Hunt author Philistine: The Great Deception, Ramon Bennett author The Sword of the Prophet, Serge Trifkovic author Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, Dr. Norman L. Geisler author Answering Islam, Norman L. Geisler and Abdul Saleeb authors Messianic Christology, Dr, Arnold Fruchtenbaum author Islam and the Bible, David Goldmann author

Copyright 2008 © -Robert Ricciardi – Biblical Truth Seekers

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.” (Romans 1:16)
Knowingly Christians of different sorts have decided to change “the gospel of Christ” as though it needed to be changed. They fall into two categories. The first category is the Liberal Theology Moment and the second is the Emerging Church Movement.
The Liberal Theology moment, which started in the late 17 hundreds and early 18 hundreds, lead today by the Jesus Seminar group in America, is made up of theologians, pastors and ministers that believe and teach that most all the Bible is based on myths and therefore never really happened, and Jesus Christ was just a man, and certainly is not the divine Son of God and was not born of a virgin, and never rose from the dead. The majority of Protestants churches in American, England, Canada, Australia and Europe have been taken over by the Liberal Theology Movement. So far only in Africa and in the Far Eastern countries of the world has the Christian Protestant churches rejected the Liberal Theology Moments lies and distortions. The motto of the Liberal Theology Moment is, “Orthodox, traditional, Christianity no longer works for our modern times.” The result is they are “ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.” Therefore they want to do away with it, by simply not believing what God said.
The Emerging Church Moment which started in the late 18 hundreds; is made up of so-called and self proclaimed evangelical Christian (i.e. Bible-believing Christians) pastors and teachers that also do not believe the Bible is a true book written by holy men as they were lead by the Holy Spirit. They will state that they are not changing the intent of the Scriptures, but they are only shifting the emphasis of what the Scriptures are conveying. No matter what their rational is, the end result is they also are “ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.” This is a deceptive movement designed to take away from the truth contained in the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a new Gospel of Social works that will save a person.
This paper is not about Liberal Theology Moment but it is about the Emerging Church Movement.
To be “ashamed of the gospel” covers a number of attitudes from being totally embarrassed by it to thinking one can improve upon it a bit to make it more acceptable. One example of the former is the recent claim by an Emerging Church author that the teaching regarding Christ’s paying the full penalty for the sins of mankind through His substitutionary death on the Cross is irrelevant and viewed as “a form of cosmic child abuse.” More subtle examples include trying to make the gospel seem less exclusive, and the “softening” of the consequences from which the gospel saves mankind, such as the wrath of God and the Lake of Fire.
Prevalent among many religious leaders who profess to be evangelical Christians (i.e., Bible-believing Christians) is the promotion of a gospel that is acceptable to, and even admired by, people throughout the world. Today, the most popular form of this is the social gospel.
Although the social gospel is common to many new movements among evangelicals, it is not new to Christendom. It had its modern beginning in the late 1800s, when it developed as a way to address the various conditions in society that caused suffering among the populace. The belief was, and is, that Christianity will attract followers when it demonstrates its love for mankind. This could be best accomplished by helping to alleviate the suffering of humanity caused by poverty, disease, oppressive work conditions, society’s injustices, civil rights abuses, etc. Those who fostered this movement also believed that relief from their conditions of misery would improve the moral nature of those so deprived.
Another driving force behind the introduction of the social gospel was the eschatological, or end times, views of those involved. Nearly all were amillennialists or post-millennialists. The former believed that they were living in a (symbolic thousand-year) time period in which Christ was ruling from heaven, Satan was bound, and they were God’s workers appointed to bring about a kingdom on earth worthy of Christ. Post-millennialists also believed they were in the Millennium, and their goal was to restore the earth to its Eden-like state in order for Christ to return from Heaven to rule over His earthly kingdom.
The social gospel, in all of its assorted applications, helped to produce some achievements (child labor laws and women’s suffrage) that have contributed to the welfare of society. It became the primary gospel of liberal theologians and mainline denominations throughout the 20th century. Although its popularity alternately rose and fell as it ran its course, it was often energized by the combination of religion and liberal politics, e.g., Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. Midway through the last century and later, the social gospel influenced developments such as the liberation theology of Roman Catholicism and the socialism of left-leaning evangelical Christians. It is in this present century, however, that the social gospel has gotten its most extensive promotion. Two men, both professing to be evangelicals, have led the way.
George W. Bush began his presidency by instituting the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. His objective was to provide government funding for local churches, synagogues, mosques, and other religious ministries that were providing a social service to their community. Bush believed that programs run by “people of faith” could be at least as effective as secular organizations in helping the needy, and perhaps more so because of their moral commitment to “love and serve their neighbor.” As he prepares to leave office, he has declared that he considers his Faith-Based program to be one of the foremost achievements in his tenure as president. Presidential candidate Barack Obama stated that, should he win the election, he will continue the Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
Rick Warren, the mega-selling author of The Purpose-Driven Church and The Purpose-Driven Life, has taken the social gospel to where it’s never been before: not only worldwide but into the thinking and planning of world leaders. Warren credits business management genius Peter Drucker with the basic concept that he is executing. Drucker believed that the social problems of poverty, disease, hunger, and ignorance were beyond the capability of governments or multinational corporations to solve. To Drucker, the most hopeful solution would be found in the nonprofit sector of society, especially churches, with their hosts of volunteers dedicated to alleviating the social ills of those in their community.
Warren, acknowledging the late Drucker as his mentor for 20 years, certainly learned his lessons. His two Purpose-Driven books, translated into 57 languages and selling a combined 30 million copies, reveal the game plan for what Drucker had envisioned. Warren had local churches implement this vision from his books through his enormously popular 40 Days of Purpose and 40 Days of Community programs. To date, 500,000 churches in 162 nations have become part of his network. They form the basis for his Global P.E.A.C.E. Plan.
What is his P.E.A.C.E. plan? Warren’s presentation of the plan to the church is found at www.thepeaceplan.com. On video, he identifies the “giants” of humanity’s ills as spiritual emptiness, self-centered leadership, poverty, disease, and illiteracy, which he hopes to eradicate by (P)lanting churches, (E)quipping leaders, (A)ssisting the poor, (C)aring for the sick, and (E)ducating the next generation.
Warren uses the analogy of a three-legged stool to illustrate the best way to slay these giants. Two of the legs are governments and business, which have thus far been ineffective, and, just like a two-legged stool, cannot stand. The third very necessary leg is the church. “There are thousands of villages in the world that have no school, no clinic, no business, no government—but they have a church. What would happen if we could mobilize churches to address those five global giants?” Warren reasons that since there are 2.3 billion Christians worldwide, they could potentially form what President Bush has termed a vast “army of compassion” of “people of faith” such as the world has not yet experienced.
In addition to the Christian version, Warren has an expanded inclusive version of the P.E.A.C.E. plan that has drawn support and praise from political and religious leaders and celebrities worldwide. At the 2008 World Economic Forum, he declared, “The future of the world is not secularism, but religious pluralism….” Referring to the ills besetting the world, he declared, “We cannot solve these problems without involving people of faith and their religious institutions. It isn’t going to happen any other way. On this planet there are about 20 million Jews, there are about 600 million Buddhists, there are about 800 million Hindus, there are over 1 billion Muslims, and there are 2.3 billion Christians. If you take people of faith out of the equation, you have ruled out five-sixths of the world. And if we only leave it up to secular people to solve these major problems, it isn’t going to happen” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGytW4yh0C8 ).
To accommodate working with people of all faiths Warren has revised the “P” in his P.E.A.C.E. from “planting evangelical churches” to “(P)romoting reconciliation” and the “E” from “equipping [church] leaders” to “(E)quipping ethical leaders.” Warren has elsewhere acknowledged his practical shift to pluralism: “Who’s the man of peace in any village—or it might be a woman of peace—who has the most respect?…They don’t have to be Christian. In fact, they could be Muslim, but they’re open and they’re influential, and you work with them to attack the five giants [to which he has added global warming].” He quotes a secular leader who affirms what he’s doing: “I get it, Rick. Houses of worship are the distribution centers for all we need to do.”
Warren has joined the advisory board of Faith Foundation, established by former British prime minister and recent Roman Catholic convert Tony Blair. The Foundation’s goal is to further understanding and cooperation among the six leading faiths: Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, and Jewish. How does the Cross fit into this ecumenical gathering? It doesn’t. Critical to achieving that ecumenical goal is the elimination of the problem of exclusive religions, a concern articulated by one of the World Economic Forum panelists: “There are some religious leaders in different religious faiths who, in seeking to affirm their own faith and its authenticity and legitimacy…deny other people their faith with its legitimacy and authenticity. I don’t think we can keep going like this without…spawning the kind of hatred we are all here to try and solve. I think it’s up to us to hold the clergy’s feet to the fire of whatever faith. That we insist that we affirm what is beautiful in our own traditions while at the same time refusing to denigrate other faith traditions by suggesting that they are illegitimate, or consigned to some kind of evil end.”
The Bible declares all the religions of the world to be “illegitimate” and “consigned” not to “some kind of evil end” but to their just end. Only belief in the biblical gospel saves humanity: “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name [Jesus Christ] under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved;…He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him” (Acts 4:12; John 3:36).
The history of the social gospel is, in nearly every case, a sincere attempt by Christians to do those things that they believe will honor God and benefit humanity. In every case, however, the practical working out of “benefiting humanity” has compromised biblical truths and faith and dishonored God. Why is that? God’s Word gives no commission to the church to fix the problems of the world. Those who attempt to do so are starting out under a false premise, “…a way which seems right unto a man,” not God’s way. So where can it go from there? “The end thereof are the ways of death,” i.e., destruction (Proverbs 14:12). Furthermore, the problems of the world are all symptoms. The root cause is sin.
What percentage of the “people of faith,” who comprise all religions and make up five-sixths of the world’s population, understand and accept the gospel—the only cure for sin? Or how many of the 2.3 billion “Christians” in the world believe the biblical gospel? The numbers tumble down exponentially. “Yes, but…they are a massive volunteer force and distribution outlet of resources for slaying the giants of world suffering!” What does it profit the billions of “people of faith” who may alleviate some of the world’s symptoms yet lose their very souls?
The social gospel is a deadly disease for “people of faith.” It reinforces the belief that salvation can be attained by doing good works, putting aside differences for the common good, treating others the way we want to be treated, acting morally, ethically, and sacrificially—and that doing so will endear humans to God. No. These are self-deceptive strivings that spurn God’s salvation, deny His perfect standard, and reject His perfect justice. Salvation is “not of works, lest any man should boast.” In fact, it is “by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8-9). Jesus declared Himself to be condemned humanity’s only hope for reconciliation with God: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). There is no other way, because God’s perfect justice demanded that the penalty for sin for every human (“for all have sinned”-Romans 3:23) be paid. Only the perfect, sinless God-Man could and did pay that infinite penalty in full by His death upon the Cross. Only faith in Him reconciles a person with God.
The shameful social gospel today not only promotes “another gospel,” it helps prepare a kingdom contrary to the teachings of Scripture. “For our conversation [citizenship] is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Philippians 3:20 ). He will return from heaven (John 14:3) to “rapture,” or catch, those who believe in Him (His bride) up into the clouds and take them to heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:17 ). The kingdom that remains on the earth will be the kingdom of the Antichrist.
Consistent with its amillennial/postmillennial beginnings, the efforts of the social gospel are earthbound in their attempted restoration of the kingdom of God. Eugene Peterson has infiltrated that heresy into his Message Bible: “God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again” (a perversion of John 3:17).
Rob Bell, in his book Velvet Elvis, reflects the “fix the earth” eschatology of nearly all Emerging Church leaders: “Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker. This has huge implications for how people present the message of Jesus. Yes, Jesus can come into our hearts. But we can join a movement that is as wide and as big as the universe itself. Rocks and trees and birds and swamps and ecosystems. God’s desire is to restore all of it….The goal isn’t escaping this world but making this world the kind of place God can come to. And God is remaking us into the kind of people who can do this kind of work.”
For Emerging Church leader Brian McLaren, this is the future way of life for the Christian. In an interview July 28, 2008, on ChristianPost.com, he said:
“I think our future will also require us to join humbly and charitably with people of other faiths—Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, secularists, and others—in pursuit of peace, environmental stewardship, and justice for all people, things that matter greatly to the heart of God.”
No, what matters to the “heart of God” is “that all should come to repentance” and believe in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Anyone who puts his hope in this social gospel, which employs “people of faith” to make “this world the kind of place God can come to,” needs to heed the words of Jesus in Luke 18:8: “When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” People of all faiths, yes, but certainly not “the faith,” for which Jude exhorts true believers to earnestly contend. Lord, help us all not to be ashamed of Your gospel!
Taken from The Berean Call with additions and deletions ( www.thebereancall.org).

Copyright 2010 © – Robert Ricciardi – Biblical Truth Seekers

(Robert H. Ricciardi)

CHAPTER 14

Verses 1-4: Jesus promises that his disciple’s hearts should not be troubled. For in His Father’s house are many mansions (abiding places in the Greek), and if it was not so, He would have told us. He goes to prepare a place for us, and He will come again to receive us, for where he is there we will be always be with Him. And we know the way (for He is the way) to receive these promises. No other religion has their leader making this kind of extraordinary promise.

Verse 6: Jesus promises that He is the way, the truth, to everlasting life: no man comes to God the Father but through Him. How can Jesus make this promise? because He is God!

Verses 7-11: Jesus promises that He and God the Father are one and when He speaks he speaks for God the Father.

Verse 12: Jesus promises that who ever believes in Him will do greater works than He, because He goes to be with the Father.

Verses 13-14: What ever you ask in Jesus name He will do, that God the Father may be glorified. This promise Jesus will repeat many times! (John 15:16, 16:23-24)

Verses 15-17: If you (agapao) will to love Jesus and keep His commandments, He promises that He will pray to the Father and the Father shall give you another Comforter that He may abide with you forever. This Comforter is the Holy Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it knows Him not, but you shall know Him for He shall dwell and be within you. Here we have the Trinity mentioned.

Verse 18: Jesus promises, that He will never leave us orphans, He will always come to us.

Verses 19-20: Jesus promises, that in a little while the world will not see Him, but His apostles will see Him, because He lives eternally they shall also live eternally with Him.

At that day (the day of His resurrection) they shall know for sure, without doubt that Jesus and the Father are one and their disciples also shall be one with God the Father and God the Son.
Verses 21-24: Jesus promises that who continually has His commandments and continually keeps them, He will (agapao) continually will to love them and he that continually wills to love Him shall be loved of His Father and He will, will to love them and manifest Himself to them and We (the Trinity) will make our abode (home) in them.

He who continually wills to love Me not keeps not my sayings (commandments): The words I speak are not mine but the Father’s which sent Me.

Verse 26: Jesus promises that the Holy Spirit whom the Father sends in His name, He shall teach them all things, and shall bring to their remembrance, whatever He have said to them.

Verse 27: Jesus promises, peace of mind to all his disciples. Not the peace the world gives. The peace the world gives is never everlasting. However the peace Jesus gives is an everlasting peace.

Therefore let your hearts not be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Verse 28 The true disciple are to rejoice because Jesus has gone to be with His Father, because Jesus is now with the Father arguing as a lawyer for them in front of Father.

Verse 29: Jesus promises, that He has given true prophecy, so that when it comes to pass His disciples will believe in Him.

Verses 30-31: Jesus Promises, that hence forth he shall not talk much with His Disciples
For the prince of this world (Satan) will comes, but He cannot stop what Jesus has to do.

But the world may know that I (agapao) will to love the Father, and obey the commandments He gave Me.

CHAPTER 15

Verse 1: Jesus promises, that He is the true vine (the only way) and His Father is the husbandman (the one who takes care of the vine).

Verses 2-3: Jesus promises, that every branch that lives in Him that continually bears not fruit he removes, and every branch that bears fruit he prunes it (takes care of it) that it may bear more fruit. That you are then clean (God’s sanctified disciple) through faith in God’s Word which Jesus gave to us so that God the father shall be glorified.

Verses 4-8: Jesus promises, all who abide (live for Him) shall bear good fruit, and lots of it. However if a man who does not abide in Him, he is worthless and shall be cast into the fire (lake of fire). We glorify God the Father by bearing His righteous fruit.

Verses 9-11: Jesus promises, as the Father has willed to love (agapao) Jesus His Son, I have willed to love (agapao) My disciples. Continue in My (agape) needed love.

If you continually keep My commandments you shall abide in My (agape) needed love, even as I have kept My Fathers commandments, and abide in His (agape) needed love.

These thing Jesus has given His disciples that His joy will remain always in them, that their joy will be full (complete – nothing lacking).

Verse 12: Jesus gives a new commandment that His disciples should (agapao) will to love one to another as Jesus (agapao) wills to love His disciples.

Verses 13-14: Jesus Promises, that No greater (agape) needed love has any man than a man dies for his friend. And My disciples are my friends if they continually obey My commandments.

Verses 15-17: Henceforth Jesus promises not to call His disciples servants but friends. I have chosen you and ordained you to be my disciples that you should bring forth much fruit. Whatever you ask in My Father’s name may be given to you. These things I command you, that you (agapao) will to love one another (brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ).

Verses 18-19: Jesus promises His true Disciples that they will be hated by the world as the World hated Him.

Verse 20-25: Because they have persecuted you they will persecute you also.
And who ever hates Jesus hates God the Father also. So that scripture will be fulfilled “They hated me without cause (Psalm 35:19: 69:4).

Verses 26-27: Jesus promises that the Holy Spirit will come who He will send from the God the Father, who will testify of Jesus and bear witness of Jesus because He has been with Jesus and God the Father from the beginning (the Trinity).

CHAPTER 16

Verse 1-4: Jesus promises, that these things He has told his Jewish disciples these things that they should not be offended by the actions of their fellows Jews who will kick then out not only of their Synagogues, but in time theses same Jews will seek to kill them thinking they are doing God a great service. However they’re really doing these things because they do not know their God nor their Messiah. Jesus is telling His disciples these things now so they will remember that He had forewarned them when they do happen.

Jesus promises His disciples that are his true remnant. Even today they are to expect the very same treatment that He and His true disciples in the past received from their fellow Jews.

The Messianic Jew will be unwelcome and unwanted by His Jewish family. However the difference for the Gentile believers is that they will be receiving the same treatment from their so-called Christian brothers. I know from personal experience that the Bible Believing Fundamentals Gentile is not welcome in many Protestant and Evangelical Churches.

Verse 5-6: Jesus states that He will soon be going back to His Father, but none of His disciples asked Him why does He leave to go back to His Father? However because He had said this, His disciples were sadden.

Verse 7: It is expedient that He goes away, for if He does not go away then the Holy Spirit cannot come. The Day of Pentecost, the day Jesus’ Church was born in 32 A.D. would not of taken place (Acts 2; 1-4). In Acts 2: 14-21 Peter mentions the fulfillment of Joel 2:28-32. Peter was only partially right. The fulfillment of Joel 2:28-29 and 31a, did take place however Joel 2: 30—31 and 32b-32c is still future.

Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit.

Verses 8-12: The main purpose of the Holy Spirit coming is to 1) reprove (convince) the world of sin. 2) and of righteousness, 3) and of judgment.

1) Of sin because they have rejected God’s Messiah, Jesus.

2) Of righteousness because they have not believed on Jesus Christ.

3)
Of judgment because they have believed on the Prince of this world.

(Instead of on God’s one and only Son).

Verses 13-15) 4) The Holy Spirit of truth shall teach and guide the true believer in
God’s truth and He shall show the true believer future events that shall
come

5)
He shall glorify Jesus, and make known all the things that belong to

God the Son. (All the things that God the Father has given to His Son).

Verses 16-19: Jesus tells His disciples that in a little while They will not see Him, yet in a little while they will see Him. Jesus is giving them a hint of His coming crucifixion and resurrection from the dead. Thus confusing His disciples.

Verses 20-22: Jesus makes another promise, Truly, truly you shall weep and be in great sorrow, but the world will be glad , but your great sorrow shall turned into great joy.

As a women in child delivery has pain and sorrow, but once the child is born her she remembers no more her sorrow and pain, but rejoices with much joy over her new born child.

You also shall have much sorrow, but when you see me again, your heart shall rejoice and you joy shall return.

Verses 23-24: Jesus makes another promise, “And in that day you shall ask me nothing. Truly, truly I say what ever the Father in My name, He will give it to you.”

“Hitherto (until know) you have asked nothing in My name, ask and you shall receive, that your joy might be full.”

Verse 25-26: Jesus makes another promise, In the past He had spoken to His disciples in Proverbs, but know He will speak to them plainly.

Jesus states, “At that day (the day when they see Him again) you shall ask in My name and I will pray to the Father for you.”

Verses 27-28: Jesus states, “For the Father himself (phileo-brotherly love with common interests-affectionate love) loves you, because you have (phileo-brotherly love with common interest-affectionate love) loved me and believe that I came out from God.”

I came forth from the Father and I come into the world; again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

Verses 29-30: His disciples said, “that Jesus speak plainly to us. Now are we sure that Jesus knows all things, and needs no man to tell Him anything, by this they believe that Jesus came from God.”

Verses 31-33: Jesus states, “Do you now believe?

Jesus makes another promise, “Behold the hour comes, yes, is now come that you shall be scattered, every man to his own (home), and shall leave me alone: and yet I’m not alone, because the Father is with me.”

Her Jesus predicts His disciples shall abandon Him after His crucifixion.
Jesus promises, “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me might have peace. Jesus knows they will not have peace, but turmoil, but they should have peace they should be of good cheer for He has over come the world by his victory over death and therefore they should also should be of good cheer, because they also shall be resurrected from the dead.

THE END

Copyright 2010 © – Robert Ricciardi – Biblical Truth Seekers

Undeniable facts on why the Bible cannot be based on mythology
The First and foremost fact we must always remember that the Bible is not one book. But is an ancient collection of 66 different books written by 40 different authors, who came from all different stations of life, from exalted kings to despised fisherman, from the best educated to being the least educated, spanning a time period of approximately1600 years, written in many different countries; with the Old testament written mainly in Hebrew, with some Aramaic and Caledonian, and the New Testament written in common Greek, telling one unique story covering a time period of four thousand years. It is not based on myths at all, as modern theology strongly asserts, but on actual facts verified by a claimed archeologist’s findings.
Regardless of what some men say, the very fact that this Book even exists, it in its self an unbelievable miracle, for no group of men could of conspired to create this incredible set of Books, especially when we realize the Jews who are totally responsible for the first 39 books, written from approximately 1500-400 BC, call the Old Testament, or Jewish scriptures (the Tanakh), despised the Jewish writers who are totally responsible for the second half of the Book, 27 books, written from approximately 45-67 AD, called the New Testament or the Christian scriptures. For it was the Jews whom had Jesus Christ crucified by the Romans, and who also persecuted the early Christian Church. And it was the early Christian church that taught only love for Jews by Paul the Apostle, and the first believers did not hold them responsible for the death of Jesus, the Jewish prophesied Messiah (God with us -the anointed one). For the true Christian knows Christ came to die for the sins of the whole world, past, and present and future, thus the true believer loves all men and especially the Jewish people who are God’s special chosen people.
During the second century, the original Greek writings were translated into Latin, Coptic (Egypt, Syriac (Syria) and widely disseminated as “The Inspired Word of God” through out the Roman Empire and beyond. The early church father’s writings, were viciously attacked by the Gnostics (men of higher academic learning) located mainly in Alexandria, Egypt, who in the second century created their own Gospels, because they believed that Greek wisdom was far superior to Jewish wisdom. Therefore they sent out to not only rewrite the New Testament, but also parts of the Jewish Scriptures as well.
It is amazing how the Old Testament is the New Testament concealed, and the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed. The Old Testament points to two divine Messiahs that are to come; the suffering Messiah who is rejected, wounded and bruised for the sins of the Israel (Psalm, Chapter 22 and Isaiah, Chapter 53, and the conquering Messiah who will save not only Israel, but all mankind (Isaiah 9:6-7), but the Old Testament doesn’t not tell us who this Messiah will be except for the fact He will be divine, a God-man, and a prophet like Moses (Deuteronomy 18:15-19). The Jewish Rabbis believed there would be two separate Messiahs; the suffering Messiah they called Ben Joseph, after Jacob’s son, who had suffered greatly at the hands of his brothers and for a while in Egypt. The second Messiah they called Ben David for He would be the Kingly Messiah who would be a descendent of King David, a God-man, Jehovah himself as a man, who will save all of Judah (Jeremiah 23:5-6). The New Testament reveals exactly who this Messiah is; not two people but one who will come two times. His first coming was as the suffering Messiah who became as a lamb for the slaughter (Matthew, Chapter 27), who’s death and resurrection is the atonement for the sins of all those people past, present, and in the future who will have a continual trusting, loving belief, called faith, that this Messiah is without doubt Jesus the Nazarene, who proved His divinity by all the miracles He preformed. The Jewish Rabbis rejected Jesus as their Messiah because He was not the Messiah they wanted. They were not interested in the suffering Messiah at all, especially one who came to die for the sins of the whole world, for they wanted a conquering Messiah who would cater to their wants and desires, and establish them as worldly leaders, so they could rule forever.
Just as the Jewish leaders misunderstood and twisted their Scriptures, the Old Testament, and the truth about God who had chosen them to be His special, unique people, for their human fleshly sinful wants and desires, so too does the humanistic modern theologians and clergy misunderstand and twist both the Old and New Testaments, and the truth about God who created them for their human fleshly sinful wants and desires.
The Second fact, we must always remember is, whenever the Bible touches on people, places, times and events it has never been proven wrong by honest archaeology. Non-Christian sources, such as the Smithsonian Institute, report that Jesus was an historical figure who did many unexplainable miracles, and died on a Roman cross in Jerusalem, and was resurrected after three days and nights, and was seen alive by over 500 eye witnesses. It may be said emphatically that no provable archaeological discovery has ever refuted a Biblical reference.
Today modern theology led by the Jesus Seminar group state, that the Bible was written one hundreds years or more after the event, is wrong for these writers could never have gotten the times, the correct people, the right place and exactly what happen correct. Why? You ask, because they didn’t have any real accurate way to record and store information that would last. It would be difficult to keep anything for a long time writing on papyrus and parchment. This is why Jewish scribes continually had to rewrite all their scriptures over and over again, year after year, century after century, in order to persevere their precious scriptures. We know this because many fragments of the Dead Sea scrolls were written on papyrus and parchment, and the better -kept scrolls were written on animal skins. Also, libraries in ancient times were firetraps, that caught fire often, also because there were so many wars continually going on, the libraries they had used to keep recorded information were often destroyed.
Undeniably, when the Bible manuscripts are compared to other ancient writings, they stand alone as the best-preserved literary works of antiquity. There are over five thousand existing Old and New Testament manuscripts and fragments copied throughout the Middle East, and the countries on the Mediterranean Sea that phenomenally agree with one another. The Old Testament manuscripts found in the Dead Sea scrolls date back to 200 AD and the New Testament scrolls second and third centuries AD, with some fragments dating back to the ten to forty years after Jesus’ resurrection. The reason that ten to forty years is believed is the fact the Jewish Temple was so important to the life of a Jew, that its destruction would have been so devastating that one of Jesus’ disciples would surely have reported it in either one of their Gospels or Epistles.
The Third fact, we must always remember is, even through the Bible is not a science book, whenever it talks about scientific facts it is always right, and never wrong. We are not talking about a few facts but over 100 pre-determined scientific facts, such as,
1.
The earth floats free, hung on noting (Job 26:7). Not until the last 525 years did men realize the earth is supported by nothing.

2.
The Earth is round, and is surrounded by darkness (Job 26:10). Men believed the earth was flat until the 15th century, and had no idea that the earth was surrounded by darkness into the 20th century space programs were launched.

3.
All matter is made up of unseen particles such as atoms-electrons and protons (Hebrews 11:3). Not until the 19th century was this truth discovered by scientists.

4.
The Oceans contains springs (Job 38:16). In 1977 with the help of 20th century deep diving research submarines, these springs were discovered.

5.
There are mountains in bottom of the oceans (Jonah 2:5-6) In the 20th century deep diving research submarines were these tall mountains discovered.

6.
Blood is the source of all life (Leviticus 17:11, 14). Up until the late 19th Medical doctors believed just the opposite. In fact George Washington was bled to death, because in his day doctors believed that it was bad blood that made people sick.

7.
The human body is made up of dust of the ground (Genesis 2:7, 3:19)
In the 20th century scientists discovered that the human body is made

up of some 28 base and trace elements-all of which are found in the earth.

8.
Light can be divided (Job 38:24). A Christian, and a scientist Sir Isaac Newton the father of modern day physics, and calculus, in the 18th century discovered light is made up of seven colors, which can be separated and then recombined.

9.
Man is “fearfully and wonderfully made”(Psalm 139:14). Man’s DNA proves that he is like no other, for all men have different DNA. DNA is a code so complex it could never have happened by random chance and natural selection ( The Theory of Evolution -survival of the fittest – per Charles Darwin).

10.
Air has weight (Job 28:25). Man always thought air was weightless until the the 18th Century.

11.
Jet stream anticipated (Ecclesiastes 1:6). Men believed the wind blew straight. The Bible declares, the wind goes to the south, and turns to the north: the jet stream wind continually moves about and comes again on a never-ending circuit. This was discovered during the 1940’s.

12.
The Sun travels through space on a circuit (Psalm 19:6). We now know that the Sun is traveling 600,000 miles per hour in a huge orbit.

13.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics (Entropy) explained (Psalm 102:25-26). This law states everything in the universe is running down, deteriorating and becoming less orderly. Man teaches The Theory of Evolution, if it was true, everything would be getting better and not deteriorating. Yet modern science verifies the universe is growing old like a garment (Hebrews 1:11)

The scientific verses that are contained in the Bible are without doubt undeniable proof that man himself, without divine inspiration could not of written the Bible 2000-4000 years ago, for men did not believe in most the scientific facts the Bible’s foreknowledge reports on until the last century. How could the Bible have known these facts, when at the time no one believed these scienctific to be true? The only way is that they had to be divinely inspired by God the creator of the universe, the real author of the Bible.
The Fourth fact, we must always remember is, about twenty-seven percent of the Bible contains prophecy, and these undeniable foreknowledge prophesies resonate through the Bible from Geneses through Revelations as God’s infallible voice for all generations, to hear and understand that He not only exists, but that He cares about His creation and He and only He has determined the end from the beginning. He has made known, and perfectly clear, to all who willingly love Him and obey His commandments, that they will live forever with Him and His Son Jesus Christ, and His Holy Spirit in His Kingdom (John 3:16-21): and to those who willingly choice not to love Him and obey His commandments that they will live forever in eternal torment in the lake of fire (Revelation 20:11-15).
There are over 1000 verses that predict future events, and close to 670 of them have already taken place or been fulfilled and none have been proven false. Jesus Christ alone fulfilled over 300 of these verses. God in Isaiah 42:8-9 said,

God will declares future events
“I Am the lord: this is my name (I Am); and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to a graven images. Behold, the former things are come to past, and new things I declare: before they spring forth I tell them to you.
God continues,
And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them show unto them. Fear you not, neither be afraid; have not I told the you from that time, and have declared it? you are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yes, there is no God; I know not any (Isaiah 44:7-8).
I have declared the former things from the beginning and they went forth out of my
mouth, and I have showed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass.
I have even from the beginning declared to you; before it came to pass I showed you:
least you should say, mine idol has done them, and my graven image, and my molten
image has commanded them (Isaiah 48:3,5).

Jesus to prove He is God states,
“Now I tell you before it come, that when it has come to pass, you may believe that I AM (God)”(John 13:19, 14:29, 16:4).
Jesus plainly states that He is God and He too can give us history before it happens.
Peter the Apostle confirms that all Biblical prophecy came from God and thus fulfilled prophecy proves Jesus Christ is God the Jewish Messiah (God in human flesh).
“For we have not followed cunningly devised fables (myths -lies), when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty (Creator and Ruler of the universe). For He (Jesus Christ) received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice to Him from the excellent glory (from heaven above), “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” And this voice came from heaven we heard, when we were with Him in the holy mount. We also have a more sure word of prophecy: whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:16-21, see also Matthew 17:1-5). (Emphases added by author for clarity)

God of the Bible is the only true God
God is not a man that He should lie, nor a son of man that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it Good? (Numbers 23:19).
God plainly states, to prove He is the one and only true God he will foretell of events before they happen, and this is exactly what He has done in His word the Bible, for all men will have no excuse to not believe in Him. He has commanded it to happen and it will happen. So once again to say that the Bible was changed after the fact is just unsubstantiated reporting by Marcus Borg and other heretics just like him. Noted below are a few of the 670 prophecies that cannot be explained away.
1.
The nation of Israel will be born in one day (Isaiah 66:8).
On May 14, 1948 Israel became a nation on one day.

2.
Moses predicts the desolation of his people the Israelites, because they willfully stop obeying God’s commandments and started worshiping other gods Leviticus 26:14­39). This was partial fulfilled when the northern Kingdom was conquered by Assyria and the people deported (722 B.C.), and totally fulfilled in 586 B.C. when Babylon conquered Judah the southern kingdom.

3.
Isaiah predicts that Babylon will be conquer and carry away the Israelites southern

Kingdom, called Judah, and Jerusalem will be totally destroyed (Isaiah 39:5-7).
This was fulfilled in 586 B.C. when Babylon conquered Judah.

4. Daniel predicts Babylon will be conquered by the Medes and Persians; the Medes
and Persians will be conquered by the Greeks, under Alexander the Great, who will be conquered by the Romans. Daniel Chapter 2. These Prophecies was totally fulfilled.

Jesus, The Coming Messiah, God In Human Flesh, Fulfilled Through Prophecy
The most important person in the Bible is the Jewish Messiah (God in Human Flesh). All of the Old Testament scriptures testifies of Him (over 300 prophesies) starting in Genesis
3:15 and ending in Revelation chapter 22.
1. Born of the Seed of a Women
PROPHSEY
“And I will put enmity between you and between your seed and her seed: He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel (Genesis 3:15).
This is the first prediction of the Messiah (the Savior of the world) called “the seed of the woman” and this Messiah will crush the head of the serpent better known as Satan or the devil. Eve clearly understands from God’s words in Genesis 3:15 that the serpent will be defeated by a God-Man. She strongly believes Cain her firstborn will be that man. She cries out in Genesis 4:1a, “I have gotten a man, Jehovah”. Most English translation render her statement “ I have gotten a man from Jehovah”, but this is not what the Hebrew is stating.
FULFILLMENT
The bruising of Messiah’s heel took place at Jesus’ crucifixion, painful and devastating but Jesus’ resurrection proved it not to be fatal. The crushing of the serpents head began with Jesus resurrection, proving His power over death, a point made in Hebrews 2:14,
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He (Jesus) also him self likewise took part of the same; that through death might He destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil.”

2. Jesus most be born from the household of Abraham
PROPHSEY
“And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed My voice” (Genesis 22:18).
From Abraham’s future descendents shall Jesus be born, because of Abraham’s obedience to God. The seed of the women is limited to being a descendent of Abraham; the Messiah (God with us) is to be a Jew, and is to be born of a virgin.
FULFILLMENT
And the angel said unto her, fear not Mary for you have found favor with God. And behold, you shall conceive in your womb, and bring forth a son, and shall call his name JESUS” (God is salvation) (Luke 1:26-35).

3. God has a Divine Son
PROPHSEY
“I will declare the decree: the Lord has said unto me, You are my Son this day have I begotten you” (Psalm 2:7, see also 1 Chronicles 1: 11-14: 2 Samuel 7:12-16).
FULFILLMENT
“And lo (behold) a came from heaven, saying, this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3:17, see also Matthew 16:16; Mark 9:17; Luke 9:35; 22:70; John 1:34,49; Acts 13:30-33).

4. Seed of Isaac
PROPHSEY
“But God said to Abraham”…”in Isaac your seed shall be called” (Genesis 21:12).
FULFILLMENT
“And Jesus himself began about thirty years of age,”…”the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham” (Luke 3:23 &34, see also Matthew 1:2-3).

5. Seed of Jacob
PROPHSEY
“I shall see him, but not now; I behold him but not near; a Star shall come out of Jacob, and a Scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the sons of Sheth” (Numbers 24:17).
The Star is the Messiah, and He shall come out of Jacob. The Scepter represents the Messiah’s rulership: He shall rule over Israel’s enemies.
FULFILLMENT
“Jesus, …the son of Jacob” (Luke 3:23&34; see also Matthew 1:1-2 and Luke 1:33).

6. The Messiah will come before Judah loses both its right to rule and its national identity.
PROPHSEY
“The Scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver (ruler’s staff) from between his feet, until Shiloh come(until he comes to whom it belongs) ; and to Him shall be the gathering (to obedience) of the People be”(Genesis 49:10; See also Ezekiel 21:25-27).
The basic meaning of this verse is that Judah will not lose tribal identity or right to rule over the other tribes until the Messiah comes. Judah lost its identity and right to rule in 70
A.D. when the Jewish Temple was destroyed along with all the records that kept the Jewish tribal identities were destroyed. So it can be clearly understood that the Messiah had to come before 70 A.D. It is not possible for the Messiah to come after 70 A.D. The Jews lost their right to rule when they lost their right to execute capital punishment. This happen when Rome conquered Israel in the 1st century A.D.
FULFILLMENT
“Jesus, …the son of Judah” (Luke 3:23 &33; See also Matthew 1:2-3 and Hebrews 7:14).

7. The Messiah will be born in Bethlehem
PROPHSEY
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, through you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall He come forth that is to be the ruler in; whose going forth has been from old, from everlasting” (Micah 5:2)
FULFILLMENT
“Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea” (Matthew 2:1).

8. The Messiah shall be born of the Virgin and shall be God.
PROPHCEY
“Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold the, the Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call his name Immanuel” (Isaiah 7: 14).
FULFILLMENT
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated God with us”(Matthew 1:23, See also Luke 7:16).
9. The Messiah shall be God who created everything.
PROPHECY
“For unto to us a child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be on His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6).
FULFILLMENT
“In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him
was not anything made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men…and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth” (John 1-4,14).
10. The Messiah shall come and be killed.
PROPHCEY
Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks : the streets shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after the threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be Killed, but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined” (Daniel 9:25-26).
The word weeks is the word seventy, so 69 seventy of years, or 483 years has been decreed until the Messiah to be alive in Jerusalem were He will be Killed, but not for himself. The decree to rebuild Jerusalem and the city walls was in 445-446 BC, given to Nehemiah by the Persian King Artaxerxes. Thus in either 32 or 33 AD on Palm Sunday, Nisan 10, on the Jewish calendar, Palm Sunday Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey.
FULFILLMENT
“On the next day much people came to the Passover feast, when they heard Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet Him, and cried Hosanna Blessed is the King of Israel that comes in the name of the Lord” (John 12:12-13).
“And one of them named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, you know nothing at all. nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation…Then from that day forth they took counsel together to put Jesus to death” (John 11: 49-51, 53).
11. The Messiah shall be wounded and bruised.
PROPHCEY
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed “
(Isaiah 53:5, See also Zech.13:6).
FULFILLMENT
“Then he released Barabbas unto them; and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified” (Matthew 27:26).
12. The Messiah shall be crucified.
PROPHECY
“They pierced my hands and feet” (Psalm 22:16, see also Zech 12:10)
Psalm 22 was written 400 years before crucifixion was invented, yet Psalm 22 painstakingly describes what a person goes through when he is crucified.
FULFILLMENT
“And he bearing His cross went forth into a place called, the place of the skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha: where they crucified Him, and two other with Him, on either side one, and Jesus in the mist” (John 19: 17-18).
This is the same area where Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son Isaac. The place were Abraham told Isaac that God will provide Himself a lamb for the sacrifice: the place Abraham named “In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen (Genesis 22:8-14). Here God provided Himself as the lamb that was slain for the whole world to see, thus fulfilling this prophecy also.
13. Sold for thirty pieces of silver.
PROPHCEY
“Then I said to them, If it is agreeable with you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain. So they weighted out for my wages thirty pieces of silver” (Zechariah 11:12)
FULFILLMENT
“ Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priest, and said unto them, what will you give me, and I will deliver Him unto you? And they agreed with him for thirty pieces of silver, and from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him” (Matthew 26:14-16).
14. Made intercession for His Persecutors.
PROPHCEY
“And He bore the sins of many, and made intercession for the transgressors” (Isaiah 53:12)
FULFILLMENT
“Father forgive them, for they do not know what they do” (Luke 23:34).
15. Forsaken by His Disciples.
PROPHCEY
Strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered” (Zechariah 13:7)
FULFILLMENT
“They all forsook Him and fled” (Mark 14:50, Matthew 26:31, Mark 14:27).
16. Rejected by His own people.
PROPHCEY
“He was despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him” (Isaiah 53:3, see also Psalm 69:8 and 118:22).
FULFILLMENT
“For even His brothers did not believe in Him, Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?” (John 7:5,48, see also Matthew 21:42, John 1:11).
17. Hated without a cause.
PROPHCEY
“Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head” (Psalm 69:4, see also Psalm 49:7)
FULFILLMENT
“But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their law, “They hated me without a cause” (John 15:25).
18. His side pierced.
PROPHCEY
“They look on me whom they pierced” (Zechariah 12:10).
FULFILLMENT
“But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear” (John 19:24).
19. Committed Himself to God
PROPHECY
“Into your hand I commit My Spirit” (Psalm 31:5).
FULFILLMENT
“And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit” (Luke 23:46)
20. Buried in a rich mans tomb.
PROPHECY
“And they made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death” (Isaiah 53:9).
FULFILLMENT
“There came a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph…and (he) asked for the body of Jesus… When Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his new tomb” (Matthew 27:57-60).
Just think that there are over three hundred prophecies Jesus fulfilled; yet only 20 are noted to show that no man or group of men could of conspired to bring about just 20 of them let alone over 300 of them.

Take these four truths and put them together it is obvious to the honest observer that the forensic evidence (a body of evidence that points to undeniable logical conclusion) proves that only God could have created the Bible.
Fact 1. 40 different authors, writing 66 books spanning a time of 1600 years, telling one unique story covering a time period of 4,000 years.
Fact 2. The people, the times, the places and events within the Bible have never been proven wrong.
Fact 3. The Bible mentions over 100 predetermined scientific facts that have never been proven wrong; facts that modern science has proven to be correct.
Fact 4. There are over 1000 prophecies found in the Bible and 670 of them have taken place to date with the remainder being future events.
All these 100 and more scientific facts contained in the Bible could not have been known by the men who wrote them unless the God who created the universe directed them to write what they did. Also, man -made science over thousands of years denied the truths contained in the Bible, and many scientists even today claim some of these truths still to be lies. Also any honest observer knows that there is no book in antiquity that would have recorded all the names, places, events and correctly dated the times when these events were recorded, so that the average person could find them in a common book, for there were no common books available to the public, as we have them today. Therefore for men after 100 years after the event could never have recollected the names, places, events, times and scientific facts accurately without God’s direct intervention. Seeing God’s future predictions come to pass is undeniable evidence He exists and He cares for us and the Bible is unquestionably the infallible word of God. So why do the critics of the Bible and modern theologians and their followers deny the obvious? It is because they purposely want to!

Without doubt all the undeniable evidence contained in the Bible proves the Bible is not a set of books based on myths, but is a set of books that only God could have written and put together.
In America, in the 1700s the Bible was held in high esteem, in the 1800’, the years of westward expansion, the Bible was still held in high esteem. However in the late 1800, the industrial revolution birth the age of enlightenment, where man’s ingenious inventions would change the world and how it thinks. This new thinking brought about a shift away from God to man’s superior reasoning powers. Modern man now believed he no longer needed God, or any gods to bring about his search for a longer life and fleshly pleasure. For the first time the now was more important than the future. Historical Christian culture was built upon God’s word that look forward to the future, the hereafter life in God’s wonderful kingdom after death, and how one lived their lives in the present or past was the behavior (obedience to God’s word) that secured the hereafter wonderful life with God. Thus, the Bible came under attack by the academic community as unnecessary, and by many theologians, as nothing but mythology. After the two devastating World Wars of the 20th century (prophesied by Jesus in Matthew 24:6-8), the age of enlightenment, for many turned to the age of disillusionment. The age of disillusionment decided that if there was a God he would never have allowed these wars to happen, thus the “God Is Dead” theory of the 1960’s became prominent within religious circles, and the Bible totally discarded within the circles of humanistic modern theology. Thus the Jesus Seminar group came into existence with its heretical views about the Bible along with the idea in liberal humanistic circles that if anyone really believed in God they were insane which is strongly taught in US public schools curriculum. Therefore God and his laws and demands for obedience, and that mankind live a loving, righteous, and holy life for Him has become totally unnecessary, within the minds of ungodly, unrighteous, humanistic reasoning and living for fleshly sinful pleasure was the correct and right thing to do! This is why traditional historic Christianity
is considered totally unnecessary and should be done away with by ungodly humanistic modern theologians, because it interferes with their sinful living. However, these ungodly humanistic theologians with their Satanic, deceitful lies, will die in their sins, thus they will continually sufferer eternal torment in the lake of fire; unless they turn from their deliberate acts of transgression against God and return to the fundamental word of God contained in the Bible, and realizing that all men are sinners in need of a savior (Romans 3:23; 6:23) and becoming born-again (John 3:5­7).

Why Everyone Needs To Be Born Again
Jesus said, “Truly I say unto you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). A man should never neglect his own salvation (Hebrews 2:3). Let no man deceive you in believing that there is no God, and that He will not judge the unrighteous acts of every person. Without doubt the one true God will judge every person according to their works and their relationship with Jesus Christ (Revelation 20:11-15).
To be born again a person must understand that they are a sinner in desperate need of a savior, and that savior can only be Jesus Christ; God in human flesh. All men are born of water (the water sack that protects the child in the mothers womb), which is fleshly, but to have eternal life they most be reborn spiritually by God’s Holy Spirit (John 3:5-6).
Whoever (continually) believes (trusts) in Him (Jesus Christ) as the savior of the world shall not perish but have eternal life. “For God So loved the world that He gave His only begotten (unique) Son, that whoever (continually) believes in Him, shall not perish (die spiritually) but have everlasting life” (John 3:15-16).
A person must repent of their selfish, self-centered sins and selfish unrighteous behaviors, for repentance persuades God to forgive a multitude of sins committed against Him (Luke 13:3), and start living a sinless, righteous life for Jesus Christ.
Do not say to yourself, “Tomorrow I will repent of my sins and follow Jesus Christ”: for it is your duty to do it to day, for tomorrow might be to late for no man knows the hour of his death.
“Enter you in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and wide is the way to destruction (life in the lake of fire), and many there are which go this way: Because narrow is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads into life (life in heaven), and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13-14). ‘Strive to enter in at the narrow gate’ (Luke 13:24).
The narrow gate is Jesus Christ, which alone leads to ever lasting life, and the narrow way is living a righteous life that lives according to God’s Commandments. The wide gate is man’s sinful, fleshly wisdom, and the wide way is man’s selfish, sinful, flesh nature, living an unrighteous life, for selfish pleasures and desires only. Disciples of Jesus Christ are to strive-diligently working hard-to make their election sure, for if they continually do these things they shall never fail and the door shall always be open into God’s everlasting kingdom (2 Peter 1:10-11).
The gate or door is wide enough for all that are truly grateful and sincere lovers and followers of Jesus Christ, but to narrow that no others may enter into God’s kingdom. Thus there is absolutely no other way to Heaven but through Jesus Christ. “He is the way, the truth and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by Him” (John 14:6).
Jesus said, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved” (John 10:9). “I and My Father are one”(John 10:30).
…“These things says He (Jesus Christ) that is holy, He that is true, He that continually opens, and no man shuts: and continually shuts, and no man can open”(Revelation 3:1).
Jesus opens the door to heaven to all who will continually follow Him, and He shuts the door of heaven to all who will not.

How Can A Person Be Born Again?
Step 1. Repent of your sinful self -centered life and turn to Jesus who is the author of eternal life
1.
Believe and trust that Jesus Christ died on the Cross-for all your sins, past, present and future

Therefore by faith (trusting in God’s word), build your life on God’s word only and not on man’s wisdom (Matthew 7:24-29); for man’s wisdom is foolishness to God (1 Corinthians 1:18-31, 2:1-16). Therefore study the Bible daily. Asked God to find you a fundamental Bible believing church. Attend as many Bible studies as you can.

2.
Repent of your sinful ways and turn to God’s wisdom, Jesus Christ crucified.

“…Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish (die in your sins)” (Luke 13:3). “For Godly sorrow works repentance to salvation” (2 Corinthians 7:10).
3. You must receive Jesus Christ
“ But as many received Him, to them, He gave the power (authority) to become children of God, even to those who believe (trust) in His Name” (John 1:12).
4. You must love and obey Jesus Christ. Then the Holy Spirit shall teach you all Things.
Jesus said, “If you willing love me, keep My Commandments” (John 14:15). The Comforter is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I said unto you (John 14:26).
You are to make Jesus the love of our life. He must become your first love.
If you love something in this world greater than you love Jesus you are not one of
his followers (Revelations 2:4) thus he will not send His Holy Spirit to be with
you; His Comforter to teach you all things.

“Be doers of the word and not hears only deceiving your own selves” (James 1:22).
5. Love not the world
“Love not the world, neither the things in the world. If any man love the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and pride of life, is not of the Father, but of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God lives for ever” (1 John 2:15-17)
6. Diligently live for God and seek His will in every thing you do.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and he will direct your path. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and depart from evil” (Proverbs 3:5-7)
“Without faith it is impossible to please Him (God); for he that comes to God must believe that He is (exists), and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6).
7. Put on the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-26) and put off the works of the flesh (Galatians 5: 19-22). Put on the new man (Ephesians 4:24-32, and put off the old, corrupt, man (Ephesians 5:17-22).
Step 2. You must live a righteous life for God.
“Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulters, nor transvestites, nor homo­sexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit, the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).
“Now the sinful works of the flesh are manifest which are these; adultery, fornication, homo sexual activities, lewdness, excessive sexual pleasures, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, contentions, selfish ambition, wrath, strife, dissentions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, gluttony…they that do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:19-21) God hates sin and no sin against God can be little. Thus, man’s sins are what separates man from God and brings God’s wrath against mankind. Take away sin, and nothing can hurt us; for death, temporal, spiritual, and eternal, is the wages of sin – “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23) – “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). Man is born in sin, and his heart is desperately wicked and incurable sick (Jeremiah 17:9). Man is born under a death penalty (John 3:18), however God has provided man away to escape from this death penalty, and the way is found in loving, believing (trusting) and following in God’s unique Son Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior (Romans 6:17).
“There is therefore no condemnation (death sentence) to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, has made me free from the law of sin and death…to be fleshly minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace, because the mind of the flesh is at war against God they that are in the flesh cannot please God (Romans 8:1-8).
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, kindness; against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the passions and lusts. We live in the Spirit, let us walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, continually provoking one another, continually envying one another” (Galatians 5:22-26).
“And we know all things work together for good to them that continually love God, to them who are called according to His purpose. For whom he did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. Moreover who he did predestinate, then He also called; and whom He called, then He also justified; and whom He justified, then He also glorified” (Romans 8:28-30).
Step 3. You must make Jesus your first love, and continually obey His commandments.
Jesus said, “If you continually will to love me, keep my commandments, and I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter (just like me), that He may live with you forever, the Holy Spirit of truth; but you know Him because he lives within you… He that has my commandments and continually keeps them, he it is that continually wills to love me; and he that continually loves me shall be continually loved of my father, and I will love him, and make my self known to him…The Holy Spirit He shall teach you all things” (John 14:15-27).
Every follower of Jesus Christ must continually will himself or herself to love God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and also continually will themselves to obey God’s commandments in order to receive the treasures and rewards promised every true believer by God.
“I the Lord search the heart, I try the mind, even to every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings” (Jeremiah 17:10).
God knows every man’s heart, and thoughts, and He will judge according to the fruits of
everyman’s sins and righteous behavior.
God is love, and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him. We Love Him
because He first loved us,

…and this commandment have we from Him. That he who continually loves God loves his brother also” (1 John 5:16-21).
“Whoever continually believes (trust) that Jesus is the Christ (prophesied Son of God in the flesh in the Old Testament) is born of God: and everyone that continually wills to love Him that begat (brought forth love) loves Him that has been brought forth by Him. By this we love the children of God when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome” (1 John 5:1-3).
For by grace (undeserving mercy) you are saved through faith (trusting in God’s word); not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; Not of works, least any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Jesus Christ unto good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:8-9).
God demonstrates His love for those who will follow His Son by His Grace (undeserving mercy), true believers return God’s love for them through their faith (trust) in Him, by continually, loving him, obeying His commandments and believing that the Bible is the infallible word of God for all mankind.
The true believer understands that he is a sinner, not worthy to be saved (2 Peter 1:9). Yet God demonstrates His love for all mankind by saving the un-savable, by His Son, Jesus’ death on the cross being the only payment required that will free everyone from their past sins. Once a person chooses Jesus as his Lord and Savior then he is no longer under God’s death penalty and is now eligible for all the treasures and rewards God has promised to all those who will continually love and obey Jesus.
We must always love and obey Jesus Christ
Jesus said, “If you willing love me, keep My Commandments” (John 14:15).
We are to make Jesus the love of our life. He must become our first love.
If we love something in this world greater than we love Jesus we are not one of
his followers (Revelations 2:4).

“Be doers of the word and not hears only deceiving your own selves”
(James 1:22).

Love not the world
“Love not the world, neither the things in the world. If any man love the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and pride of life, is not of the Father, but of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God lives for ever” (1 John 2:15-17)
“If any man love not the lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema (accursed) Maran-atha (divinely cursed) (1 Corinthians 16:22).
Paul the Apostle doesn’t mince words when it comes to the fact a disciple of Jesus must love Jesus as their Lord (divine God).
Step 4. Abide (live in Him) in Jesus Christ and He will send the Holy Spirit unto you.
“Jesus said, “ Abide (remain) in Me, And I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the branch; no more can you, except you abide in me…Herein is my father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples…If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned…if you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love; even as I have kept my father’s commandments, and abide in His love” (John 15:1-11).
“But when the Holy Spirit has come, whom I (Jesus) will send unto you from the Father, the Spirit of truth…He will testify of me” (John 15:26).
“…when He, the Holy Spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of Himself; but whatever He shall hear, shall He speak; and He will show you things to come. He shall glorify Me (Jesus Christ)…all things the Father has are mine… He (the Holy Spirit) shall take of mine and announce it unto you” (John 16:13-15).
Step 5. Proof you are Born Again is when you surrender your life to God and His Son Jesus Christ.
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live: yet not I live, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave His life for me (Galatians 2:20).
“…So run the race that you may obtain the prize…an incorruptible crown”
(1Corinthians 9:24-25)
“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold of eternal life” (1 Timothy 6;12)
“I have fought a good fight…I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for
me a crown of righteousness…but also unto all that continually love His
appearing (2 Timothy 4: 7-8).

“Labor not for the meat that perishes, but for the meat that which endures unto everlasting life” (John 6:27).
Therefore we continually, run to be in heaven, fight to be in heaven, and labor to be in heaven, to receive an incorruptible crown (1 Corinthians 9:25-27).
“I hide the word of God within my heart so that I will not sin against Him” (Psalm 119:11).
“ Let your light so shine, before men, that they may see you good works, and glorify your father who art in heaven” (Matthew 5:16).
“…Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that continually hate you, and pray for them which continually despitefully use you and continually persecute you” (Matthew 5:43-48).
“But he that endures to the end shall be saved” (Matthew 24:13)
“…whoever will be great among you let him be your servant…even as the Son of man came not to be served unto, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:25-28). “If any man serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there shall My servant be: if any man continually serve Me, him will my Father honor” (John 12:26).
Showing your love for God by, no longer living for yourself, and your fleshly selfish wants and desires; but, living for Jesus Christ, by living a righteous life according to the Ten Commandments.
“ I call you therefore brothers by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service (loving God first and obeying His commandments). And be not conformed to this world (seeking worldly wisdom and selfish pleasures): but be you transformed (changed) by the renewing of your mind (repenting of your self center ways), that you might prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect will of God (loving God first instead of self and obeying His commandments)” (Romans 12:1-2).
“Even so faith if it has not works is dead, being alone by itself” (James 2:17).
Continually show your love for God by telling others about God’s plan of redemption and how much God loves them, and that He doesn’t want anyone to perish, but all should come to repentance. (1 Peter 3:9). May His Holy Spirit convict your heart so that you can begin a new eternal life in Jesus, that will lead to trusting Him with all your heart, soul and mind, that will bring about everlasting peace joy in your life; knowing you have nothing to worry about of fear when He, God almighty, is your Lord and Savior.

Copyright 2008 © – Robert Ricciardi – Biblical Truth Seekers

Who is the body of Christ and the Church of God? and what is the Law of Christ and the Gospel of Jesus Christ? The following is what the New Testament (Covenant) states about these questions, and what a believer needs to know about God’s partial rejection of Israel in order for God to build the body of Christ: His Church: His called out ones who are born from above: born-again.

1.
The Theology of Israel’s rejection (Romans 9:6-29)

Paul discusses Israel’s rejection of their Messiah in light of biblical history.

a.
Vs. 6: There is Israel the whole; including all Jews. Then there is the Remnant of

believing Jews in Christ.

b.
Vs. 7-13: Paul compares the non believing Jews to Ishmael and Esau as the sons of the flesh, and the believing Jews to Isaac and Jacob as the Sons of promises. Through these two illustrations, Paul makes four points:

First: Although Israel has failed, God’s Word has not, and in fact, all is going to God’s plan.

Second: Spiritual blessing do not come on the bases of physical descent or personal merit, as the Rabbis taught, but only to those physical descendants who believe on Jesus as their Messiah. And only those physical descendents who believe are Abraham real spiritual children.

Third: The spiritual blessing comes by grace of God solely through the will of God.

Fourth: Physical Jewish descent alone will not obtain God’s promises, but only being both the physical and believing Jews will obtain God’s blessing.

Paul is not saying that the Church has replaced Israel. Rather he is saying that the Remnant of Israel has obtained God’s promises by believing in Jesus as their Messiah, while the rest of Israel has not.

c.
Vs. 14-29: Paul raises two questions and answers them individually.

Vs. 14-18: The first question is: “Is there unrighteousness with God?” Is God unrighteous because he grants mercy only on the part of Israel that believes and not on all Israel? Paul’s response is fourfold:

First: “God forbid,” may it never be, perish the thought.

Second: God can show mercy to whomever He wills.

Third: Paul emphases God’s sovereignty: God is absolutely free in his dealings with men.

Fourth: God will have mercy on whom He wills, and He has chosen to have it only on those of Israel who will believe in Him and in His divine Messiah.

Vs. 19-29: These verses contain the second question and answer. The question is; why does God find fault? The answer is:

First: (vs. 20—21) God is the potter and man is the clay; God’s point is that if God did not elect, none would be saved because none seek God. He also states that men are not hardened so they can be lost.

Second: (vs. 22-23) Paul states that the vessels of wrath fit themselves for destruction and the vessels of mercy are made fit for salvation. Thus unbelievers
make themselves fit for destruction (judgment), while God makes believers fit for salvation.

Third: (vs. 24) God has called both Jew and Gentiles to be saved. Before God had been dealing with unbelieving Jews (the non Remnant) and believing Jews (the Remnant) now Paul states that among the gentiles, God has fitted some for salvation.

Fourth: (vs. 25-26) Vessels of mercy are also found among the Gentiles.

Fifth: (vs. 27-29) A great portion of Israel has become vessels of God’s wrath, although there is still a remnant within Israel that God saves.

d.
Conclusion: Three points serve to summarize this section:

First: Israel’s rejection of their Messiah did not catch God by surprise, for it has always been part of God’s divine plan for both Jews and Gentiles.

Second: Because of Israel’s rejection of their Messiah, God extended mercy to the believing Gentiles.

Third: This was not to the exclusion of the believing Jews, for God will always have his remnant of believing Jews.

2.
The Explanation of Israel’s Rejection (Romans 9:30-10:21)

The second main division gives the reason explanation for Israel’s rejection. There are four subdivisions.

The first: Vs. 9:30-33: These verses describe the stumbling of the Jewish people. In verse 30, the Gentiles have obtained righteousness because of they came on the bases of faith. In Verses 31-32a, Israel failed to attain righteousness because they tried to obtain it by the works of the Law. Finally, the cause of their stumbling is the Messianic Stone which means salvation is by grace through faith in Him (Jesus the Messiah) a part from works (vv, 32b-33).

The second: Vs.10:1-11: The ignorance of the way to salvation. First: Paul begins by describing his own desire (v. 1); that Israel might be saved. He knows (v. 2); that, “they have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge.” They failed to distinguish between legal righteousness and faith righteousness. In verses 3-5, Paul describes legal righteousness: trying to attain righteousness by the works of the Law and so they were ignorant of God’s righteousness, which is salvation by grace through faith.

Second: Paul states that the Jews were ignorant that their Messiah was the end of the Law, since the Law ended with the Messiah’s death. The result was they continually tried to establish their own righteousness by the works of the Law. In verses 6-11, Paul describes faith righteousness, noting that it is not attainable by human effort (vs. 6-7). Rather, the means is faith (v. 8), and the one essential is belief and one must believe and confess that Jesus is the Messiah (vv. 9-11). Paul draws the conclusion: faith is the only way of attaining God’s righteousness and salvation (v.11). The ignorance here was that the purpose of the Law was never a means of salvation, but a rule of life for those already saved.

Third: Paul discusses Israel’s ignorance of the universal character of salvation (vs. 12-13). He points out that God is the Lord of all, both Jew and Gentile (v.12). If salvation is free, it must be free to both Jew and Gentile alike; so all maybe saved, meaning both Jews and gentiles. Then, whosoever [meaning Jew or Gentile] calls upon the name of the lord shall be saved (v.13). The Jews believed and taught falsely “that that God only intended to save only the Jews.” This is why they falsely called the Gentiles “dogs.”

Fourth: Paul discusses Israel’s ignorance of the universal preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ (vv. 14-21). He begins by spelling out the chain of preaching (vs. 14-15). As salvation is for all men, without distinction, it should be preached without distinction. He developed a logical progression as follows: Without faith no one can call on the name of the Lord. Faith cannot be without hearing, meaning one must know what the content of faith is, i.e., what to believe;
Therefore there can be no hearing without preaching; and further more there can be not preaching without a person being sent. Paul then points out that the message was heard , but Israel failed to submit to the Gospel message after hearing it (v.16).

Paul reaffirms that faith comes by hearing, and hearing the Word of God (v.17). Paul states (v.18) that the Jewish people had the word of God and, thus, the message; they had heard the message, but failed to respond to the message.

In addition, Paul states that the Jewish Scriptures anticipated that a message would go out to the Gentiles, and many Gentiles would believe (vs. 19-20). This third ignorance resulted from the second one and the second resulted from the first. The Jews assuming and thus taught wrongly that God only intended to save Jews and never Gentiles: therefore they did not send missionaries to the Gentiles. Therefore because the Jews never believed that God would also save gentiles, they never foresaw God grafting Gentiles into God’s Holy olive tree even though in Genesis 22:18, God told Abraham all the nations of the world would be blessed by his seed (the coming Jewish Messiah). As noted in Galatians 3:16 that the seed is the Messiah.

3.
Grafting in of the Gentiles Into God’s Holy Olive Tree (Romans 11: 13-24)

Vs.13: “For I speak unto you Gentiles, as much as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office:”
Paul calls himself the apostle of the Gentiles. And Paul, of course, paid quite a price for this position as an apostle to the Gentiles; he had to take all types of guff from people, especially from the Jews. They considered him a traitor because he was telling the Gentiles that they didn’t need to obey the law of Moses to be accepted by God. All they had to do was believe in Jesus Christ (Roman 10:9-13). He was telling the Gentiles that they did not have to offer sacrifices in the temple in order to be saved, all they had to do was believe in Jesus Christ and, of course, this created quite a conflict between those Jews who were still seeking a righteousness by the law. It was a threat to them, even as the declaration that a person could be saved through faith in Jesus Christ alone today is a threat to many churches and church systems.
Vs.14: “If by any means I may provoke to emulation (jealousy) them which are my flesh (Jews), that I might save some of them.”
He was earnest in his heart as he said, “My heart-felt prayer and desire for Israel is that they might be saved.” Even though he was called of God as the apostle of the Gentiles, Paul deeply cared for all his fellow Jews, even though he got into all kinds of hot water for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, declaring that the Gentiles could be saved, especially could be saved apart from becoming a Jew. They could be saved by just believing in Jesus Christ and they didn’t have to proselytize and become a Jew, that made him a heretic, and for this reason they tried to kill him several times. But yet, Paul’s desire and prayer for Israel was for their salvation. He goes on to say,
Vs.15: “For If the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?”
God reconciled the world to Himself through Jesus Christ. Not just only the Jewish people, but now the world with the Jewish people. Again dealing with the contrast from the lesser (gentiles) to the greater (Jews) if their casting away brought such reconciliation of the world to God, the Gentile world, then what will it be when God receives them again (the Jews) and gives His divine favor and grace upon them?
Vs. 16: “For if the firstfruits be holy, the whole lump (all oft the firstfruits) is also holy: and if the root is holy, so are the branches.”
The holy firstfruits apply to Abraham, the patriarchs, the fathers, and the Messiah thus all God did was holy through them. The root from which these people came from is God’s Holy Word. When the tree or plant springs from the holy root of God’s Word all the branches are also holy.
Vs. 17-20; “If some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and you have partaken of the root and the fatness of the olive tree; don’t boast against the branches. But if you boast, you bear not the root, but the root thee. I will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in. Well; it was because of unbelief that they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Don’t be high-minded, but fear: They were broken off because of their unbelief, and we only stand by faith.
Here Paul is saying that the Gentiles who have been grafted into God’s holy root have no right to say bad things against the Jews. There are two distinctly different branches. One is the Jewish branch and the other is the Gentile branch. There is not one branch as the some teach for the Jews have not been grafted out. Therefore Anti-Semitism is never to be allowed among God’s disciples.
Vs. 21: “For if God spared not the natural branch, take heed lest he also spare not you.”
Jesus said, “I am the true vine, My Father is the husbandman. Every branch in Me that bears fruit, He washes it that it might bring forth more fruit. Now you are clean through the Word that I have spoken unto you. Abide in Me, and let my words abide in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, neither more can thee, except you abide in me” (John 15:1-5). Abide in Me, the emphasis of abiding. We are the new branch that has been grafted in to the holy root which is contrary to nature. We receive the blessings of God, the blessings of the promises of God to Abraham and to David. We have received the benefit of them through receiving Jesus Christ by faith, and we as Gentiles and Jews together now partake of the same fatness and the same richness and the fullness of God’s love and grace that He had promised unto Abraham, unto Isaac, unto Jacob, and unto David. But we only stand by faith. And again, we our encouraged to abide there through our love for God and are fellow man, and our love for brothers and sisters in Christ.
VS. 22: “Behold therefore the goodness and the severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward you, the goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also will be cut off. “
It was quite severe upon the fall of Israel from the place of God’s favor and blessings. But to those in Christ Jesus, if you continue in Christ, otherwise you also will be cut off from God’s goodness.
Vs. 23: “And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, will be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.”
When they the Jews turn from their unbelief in Jesus as their Messiah, God will then graft them in again.
Vs. 24: “For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and you were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?”
The wild olive tree by nature is the Gentiles, and the good olive tree is Israel. The natural branches are also Israel and if they return to God in belief in Jesus as their messiah, God shall grafted them back into the good olive tree which was theirs by divine promise.
Conclusion:
The branch of a wild olive tree in nature when it is grafted into a good olive tree (a tree that produces fruit) will never produce fruit. Therefore it takes a miracle for this to happen. When a branch from a good olive tree is grafted into a wild olive tree it will normally produce fruit. God is the good olive tree, and Israel was the good olive branch, however it stop producing fruit, so God grafted into the good olive tree a wild olive branch that should never produce good fruit, but because God is a miracle working God this wild olive branch (the Gentiles) does produce good fruit through faith in God’s Messiah. God also restores the good olive branch when a Jew also believes in Jesus as his Messiah.

4.
God has now made the Jew and Gentile One in the Same Body in Christ Jesus’ Church (Ephesians 2:11-22)

First: in Colossians 1:18, the Church is stated to be the Body of the Messiah:
“And he (Jesus) is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have preeminence.”
Before the arrival of the Messiah there was a wall of partition that kept the Gentiles as Gentiles, separated from enjoying the spiritual blessing of the Jewish covenant found in the Mosaic Law. Thus the Gentiles as a whole were not able to obtain the blessing of God upon them as the Jews were. However because the Jews as a whole in unbelief were not able to keep Mosaic covenant that God had made with them, a new and better covenant was required between God and man (Matt. 26: 28-29).

Second: the composition of this Body, that is the Church, is given in Ephesians 2:11-16:

Vs. 11: “Wherefore remember that you being in times past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision (refers to Gentiles not being in God’s Covenant, Circumcision was the outward sign with every Jewish male that they had a covenant with God) by which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
So remember as a Gentile you were totally excluded from God’s Covenant with the Jews. Excluded from salvation unless you became a Jew.
Vs. 12: “That at that time you (Gentiles) were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth (citizenship) of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:”
You as a Gentile: before the coming of Jesus Christ into your life–a real separation, a real spiritual wall between you and God, between you and the people of God. You were without Christ, you were an alien and strangers from the covenants of promise and you had no hope, for you were without God in the world. That is one of the saddest, most tragic pictures of mankind. No hope, without God in the world, without Christ, without hope, without God.
Therefore the Messiah’s death upon the cross at Calvary and resurrection, brought in a New Covenant (The Gospel of Jesus Christ) that broke down not only this wall of partition (Eph. 2:13-15), but also united Jews and Gentiles into one body where Jesus is the head (Eph.2:16-18).

Thus Jesus the Messiah has created a new body of called out ones, born from above, believers in Him called His church Eph. 2:15-22). In Colossians 1:15 Paul describes the Church as the Body of Messiah (Christ). Historically, up until the coming of Christ there were really only two entities Jews and Gentiles. But now God has created a new third entity that is comprised of both Jew and Gentile; the Church (the called out ones), the Body of Christ.

Believing Gentiles in Christ are now fellow citizens with the believing Jews in Christ in the new household of God (Eph. 2:19). The foundation of this new household (the Church) of believing Jews and Gentiles is Jesus Christ (the chief corner stone) (Eph 2:20) , His Gospel found in the New Testament as taught by His Apostles and Jesus Church is now the new spiritual Temple of God (Eph. 2:21-22):

Therefore believing Gentiles are “fellow-heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise of Christ Jesus through the gospel” (Eph. 3:6). Both believing Jews and Gentiles are co-inheritors in Christ Jesus, and the Gentiles are definitely not takers-over.

A major purpose of the Church Age is the calling out from among the Gentiles by the Gospel, according to acts 15:14-15:

“Simeon (Peter) has declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name.”

According to Romans 11:25-27, this calling out of the Gentiles will continue until the full number of Gentiles that God has ordained for the Church has been reached.

“For I would not, brothers that you should be ignorant of the Mystery (what has happened to Israel), least you should be wise in your own conceits (the Gentiles are never to boast in their righteousness, but always to be humble, because no man is saved by his works, but only by the grace of God); that blindness in part is happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of sion the deliverer, and shall turn away the ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my Covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.”

While God is performing a work among the Gentiles, He has also a purpose that is not only Gentile-oriented, but one that is also performing a work among the Jews. One purpose among the Gentiles is to provoke the Jews to jealousy so that during the Church Age Jews may also come to faith in Jesus their Messiah (Romans 11:11-15).

As we have seen above the Gentile believers are enjoying the spiritual blessing of the being grafted into the holy root of the olive tree that only Israel had enjoyed, until their unbelief had separated them from God. The Church is a body composed of both Jews (the natural olive branch) that were broken off and the Gentiles (the wild olive branches) that were grafted in are now members together united in Jesus the Messiah.

Third: entrance into the body is by the baptism and is explained in 1 Corinthians 12:12-14.

“For as the Body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one Body, being many, are one Body: so also is Christ. For in one (Holy) Spirit we are all baptized into one Body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bound or free; and have been all made to drink into one (Holy) Spirit. For the Body is not one member, but many.”

Every member, Jew and Gentile, becomes a member of the Body of Christ: the true born again Church of Christ, by virtue of having a baptized heart by the Holy Spirit, a fact that takes place the moment one truly, sincerely, believes and therefore becomes saved by the Holy Spirit.

Fourth: by use of the future tense, Acts 1:5 Jesus makes clear the Holy Spirit of the heart baptism was still future as of Acts chapter one.

“For John truly baptized with water; but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days hence.”

The first time the word Church, meaning the called out ones, is found in Matthew 16:18, and also the future tense in the Greek is used:

“He (Jesus) said unto them, but whom do you say I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ (Messiah), the Son of the Living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, blessed are you, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood have not revealed it unto you, but My Father which is in heaven. And I say unto you, That you are Peter (a small rock) and upon this rock (the bedrock of My Messiahship) I will build My Church.”

Peter original name is Simon Bar-jona, which means in Hebrew: Simon the son of Jona. But Jesus gave Simon a new name Peter and in the Greek it means a small rock. Therefore what Jesus is saying is: He as the Messiah, the divine Son of God, will build His Church (the called out ones). The Church did not exist in the Old Testament, or in the Gospel’s. It came into being at the Day of Pentecost in the Book of Acts. Which is clear from Acts 11:15-16:

“And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, as on us at the beginning. Then I remembered I the Word of the Lord, how that He said, John indeed baptized with water; but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit. Forasmuch then as God gave them (the Gentiles) the like gift as He did unto us (the Jews) who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I (Peter), that I could withstand God? When they heard these things (Peter meeting with Cornelius the Roman Centurion), they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then has God also to the Gentiles granted Repentance unto Life.”

In no uncertain terms the Church age started on the Day of Pentecost and in no uncertain terms it stated with Gentiles being on board based on their faith (baptism of the heart) alone and not in keeping all the 613 Mosaic Laws. Therefore the Church is composed of only true, born form above, born again believers until the Rapture of the Church (the true called out individuals).

The Rapture excludes the Old Testament saints and the Tribulation saints. The only saints to be raptured shall be the true Church saints. The Rapture passages clearly state that only those who are in Christ will partake of the Rapture. Throughout His writings, Paul uses terms such as in Christ, in Jesus, in Jesus Christ, in Christ Jesus, in Him, in whom, in the Lord, in a very special technical way, referring to those whose hearts have been baptized by the Holy Spirit into the Body of the Messiah, which began in Acts Chapter 2.

5. Unity in the Body of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 12:12-31)

As noted above entrance into the body is by the baptism and is explained in 1 Corinthians 12:12-14.

“For as the Body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one Body, being many, are one Body: so also is Christ. For in one (Holy) Spirit we are all baptized into one Body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bound or free; and have been all made to drink into one (Holy) Spirit. For the Body is not one member, but many.”

Every member, Jew and Gentile, becomes a member of the Body of Christ: the true born again Church of Christ, by virtue of having a baptized heart by the Holy Spirit, a fact that takes place the moment one truly, sincerely, believes and therefore becomes saved by the Holy Spirit.

However every member had a responsibility to the other member:

Vs, 15-24 tells us: that the foot because it is not the hand cannot say to the hand that it is not apart of the body, and the ear because it is not a eye cannot say to the eye that it is not apart of the body. Are not all the parts of the body apart of the body? Yes they are. God has set every member of the body as it has pleased him. There are many parts in the one body. Therefore the eye cannot say I have no need of the rest of the body. Every part of the body needs all other the body parts; therefore there is no part that is not needed. Therefore no part is inferior to another part and no part is better than another part. All the parts are need therefore all the parts have the same value and thus should have the same care. Therefore there should be no schism in the Body of Jesus Christ and in His Church, and when one member of the body suffers, all the members should suffer with it, and when is honored, all the members should rejoice.

Vs. 25-31 tells us: Every true believer is in the Body of Christ, and a required part in the Body. God has set some in his Body, the Church, to be first Apostles, second Prophets, thirdly Teachers, Healers, Helpers, Governments (overseers) and Diversities of Tongues. Not all are Apostles, Prophets, Teachers, or speak in Tongues, or are interpreters. Remember no office or member is better than another office or member.

Therefore every member must love all the other members as Jesus loves His Church
and died for it (John 15:12-13) and also never be jealous or envious of another members office.

6.
Love Conquers all in the Body of Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 13:1-13),

The Law of Christ and The Gospel of Jesus Christ

First: what needs to be understood is the Old Covenant God had with Israel/Jews has been done away with, when Jesus issued in the New Covenant He did away with righteousness through trying to keep the Jewish Torah (Romans 10:4).

“For Christ is the end of the Law unto righteousness to every one that believes.”

Very clearly, Christ is the end of the Law (Torah), and that includes all 613 commandments; hence the Law has ceased to function. There is no justification through it:

“Yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified’ (Galatians 2:16).

“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. “I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly” (Galatians 2:20-21).

Thus it should be very evident that the Law, the Torah, has come to an end in Christ and cannot function in Justification (being saved) or Sanctification (being set apart to be saved). For the believer especially the Law has been rendered inoperative; the following verses show that the Law has ceased to function for all believers.

Second” the Law was never mean to be a permanent administration but rather a temporary one.

“What then is the Law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise had been made…(Galatians 3:19).

Paul is pointing to the Law of Moses as an addition to the Abrahamic Covenant. It was added for the purpose of making sin very clear so that all will know they have fallen short of God’s standard for righteousness. It was a temporary addition until the seed (Christ) would come; now that Jesus has come, the Law is finished. The addition has ceased to function with the cross.

Third: with Christ there is a new priesthood according to the order of Melchizedek, not according to the order of Aaron. The Law of Moses provided the basis for the Levitical Priesthood. Thus a new priesthood required a new law under which it could operate. This is clear from Hebrews 7:11-12, 18:

“Now if there was a perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it all had the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be reckoned after the order of Aaron? For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change of the law…For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness.”

The Law of Moses has been disannulled in favor of a new law, which is the basis for the priesthood according to the order of Melchizedek.

Fourth: The line of evidence for the annulment of the Mosaic Law zeros right in on the part of the Law that most people want to obtain and that is the Ten Commandments.

“You are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men; being made manifest that you are an epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the (Holy) Spirit of the living God: not in tables of stone, but in tables that are hearts of flesh.

And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God; who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the (Holy) Spirit: for the letter kills, but the (Holy) Spirit gives life.

But if the ministration of death, written and engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which glory was passing away: how shall not rather the ministration of the (Holy) Spirit be with glory?

For if the ministration of condemnation had glory, much rather does the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For verily that which had been made glorious had not been made glorious in this respect, by reason of the glory that surpasses.

For if that which passes away was with glory, much more that which remains is in glory” (2 Corinthians 3:2-11).

First of all, one needs to see what Paul is saying concerning the Law of Moses. In verse seven it is called the ministration of death. In verse nine it is called the ministration of condemnation. These are negative but valid descriptions. In verses three and seven the spotlight is on the Ten Commandments since these were engraved on stone. The main point then is that the Law of Moses, especially as represented by the Ten Commandments, is a ministration of death and a ministration of condemnation. if the Ten Commandments were still in force today, this would be true.

But they are no longer in force, for it states in verses seven and eleven that the Law has passed away. The Greek word used is katarego, which means “to render inoperative.” Since the emphasis in the passage is on the Ten Commandments passing away. The thrust is very clear. The Law of Moses, and especially the Ten Commandments, is no longer in effect. In Fact, the superiority of the Law of Christ is seen by the fact that it will never be rendered inoperative (Vs 9-11),

Other passages also teach the Law of Moses has come to an end. One is Ephesians 2:11-16 and another is Galatians 3:23-4:7.

To summarize, the Law of Moses has been disannulled and know we are under a new law. This new law is called the Law of Christ in Galatians 6:2 and the Law of the (holy) Spirit of life in Romans 8:2. This is a brand new law totally separate from the Law of Moses. The reason why there is so much confusion is that the Law of Christ contains many new commandments that are similar to those found in the Mosaic Law and many believe and teach that certain sections of the Mosaic Law have therefore been retained. But this cannot be true since it has been shown not to be the case.

Even though there are similarities that doesn’t mean they are the same. Just because they have similarities many use this as an argument for insisting that all the Mosaic Law must be obeyed. But this is wrong teaching. In the Law of Christ nine of Ten Commandments are to be found. The missing commandment is resting on the Sabbath. Still many believers teach if you are not resting on the Sabbath you’re willfully sinning; which is not the case at all.

The Law of Christ
“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2).
Although Christ has set the believer free from bondage of the Law (torah), he is now under a stillhigher law—the law of Christ. It is also called “the law of the Spirit of life” which has made us “free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2).
The law of Christ does not consist of many detailed ordinances which we are duty bound to obey. It is a law which we want to obey out of love for Christ. “Therefore love is the fulfilling of the law” (Romans 13:10). Paul says that “the end of the commandment is charity [that is, ‘Christian love’] out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned” (I Timothy 1:5). James calls it “the royal law,” defining it simply as: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (James 2:8).
Instead of a law bringing us into bondage, it is “the perfect law of liberty” (James 1:25), setting us free from slavery to sin. With the help of the Holy Spirit living within us it not only gives us the desire to please the Lord, but the the will and the ability to do so.
It is not as though we are now without law and thereby free to indulge our carnal appetites. Paul explains his own new nature thus: “For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more . . . (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ)” (I Corinthians 9:19,21).
In Christ, “the righteousness of God without the law is manifested,” and He is “the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth” (Romans 3:21; 10:4). But though we “have been called unto liberty,” Paul commands us to “use not liberty for an occasion, or license to the flesh, but by love serve one another” (Galatians 5:13). Thus, to believe in Christ is also to willingly obey Him out of our love for Him. We desire to love Him because He first loved us (1 John 4:19).
How beautiful this is! God initiates the response of love: “We love (agapao –will to love) Him, because he first loved (agapao) us” (John 4:19). He begins the working of His law in our hearts. He wants us to express it. His directives guide us in expressing it: “If you love (agapao) me, you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15). So, our expressions of love (agapao) become God’s expressions of love (agapao) through us, “For this is the love (agape-the love we need from God) of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome” (1 John 5:3). No burden! “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love” (1 John 4:18). No fear! Keeping His law of love is neither fearful nor burdensome!
We are justified by grace through faith in obeying the gospel. Efforts to be justified by law would nullify the grace of Christ. Our response to God’s grace is the love which God initiates in us through His Holy Spirit living within us. The New Testament writings guide our love into proper expression.
The Law of Christ is built on the two great love commandments, which are taken from the Ten Commandments:

“You shall (will to) Love God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first great commandment. And the second is like unto it, You shall (will to) love your neighbor as you (will to) love yourself. On these two commandments hang all the law and prophets (Matt 23:.37-40).

Love for our God and His trinity of: God the Father, God the Son And God the Holy Spirit, is what keeps every believer rooted and grounded in God’s infallible Word. God wants you to love Him more than you love yourself and to take your love for Him and show it to the world by the way in how you love (agapao) and help others in need.

The greatest need for anyone is to be saved by God. Therefore the great commission in going into all the world winning souls to Christ should always first and foremost on our minds and secondly helping someone each day should also be foremost on our minds.

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of Angels, and have not love (agape love-the love I need from God), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And through I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. And bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long, and is kind; loves envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up. does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, it is not easily provoked, thinks no evil; rejoices not in iniquity (lawlessness), but rejoices in the truth; Bears all things, believes all things, holes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even also I am known, And now abide faith, hope, love, but the greatest of these is love” (1 Corinthians 13:1-13).

Under the New Covenant a believer is saved (justification) by God’s agapao (will to love us) and agape (the love we need to be saved) love (John 3:16). Therefore a believer keeps himself saved (sanctification) by displaying his or her will to love (agapao) first: God and what He has done to save them through their trusting faith in God’s grace and second: their love (agapao) towards their fellow man and brother and sister in Christ.

Therefore the best gift and most important gift is love, therefore all believers must will themselves to love (agapao) God and their neighbor. Therefore let God build your life in His agapao love (God willed himself to love us –therefore we must will ourselves to love others) thus every believer then will receive God’s agape love (the love you need from God to be saved and stay saved),

Paul the Apostle in Galatians 5:19-21 states exactly what sin against God is, and in Galatians 5:22-26 Paul states what fruitful righteous living is.

Jesus tells us in Luke 9:23-26, that any man that wants to follow Him, that person must deny his flesh nature (1 Corinthians 6:9-11; Galatians 5:19-21) and take up his cross daily, and follow Him. The cross means a person must crucify the sinful desires of his or her flesh nature. No person can do this by their own strength but they can do it by the help of the God the Holy Spirit living within them (John 14:15-21).

(Vs, 15-17): “If you love (agapao-wills to love) me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter (helper like me), that He may abode with you forever; The (Holy) Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees Him not, neither knows Him; but you know Him for he dwells within you, and shall be within you.”

(Vs. 21): “He that (continually) has my commandments, and (continually) keeps them, he it is that (continually) loves (agapao-wills to love) me: and he that loves (agapao) me shall be loved (agapao) by my Father, and I shall love (agapao) him, and will manifest myself to him.”

The Law of Christ is rooted and grounded in God’s Love for us and our love for God and our fellow man and our love for every true believer which is also called the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ (1 John 4:7

John the apostle explains that the new covenant: the Gospel of Jesus Christ is all about willingly loving (agapao) God, and our fellow man, and brothers and sisters in the Lord in 1 John 4: 7-5:1- 5:

(Vs. 7-9): Beloved, Let us love (agapao) one another: for love (agape) is of God: and everyone that (continually) loves (agapao) is born of God, and knows God. He that loves (agapao) not knows not God: for God is love (agape). He that loves (agapao) not knows not God; for God is love (agape). In this was manifested the love (agape) of God towards us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.”

Here John tells the believer that they should will themselves to love (agapao) one another, for the love we need from God is manifested in us by the way we continually will ourselves to love Him and one another. However he that wills not to love God and his neighbor knows not God. God manifested His love-the love we need to be saved, that we might live through His Love that we need to be saved.

(Vs 10-13): “Herein is love (agape), not that we loved (agapao) God, but that he loved (agapao) us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved (agapao) us, we ought to love (agapao) one another. No man has seen God at any time. If we Love (agapao) one another, God dwells in us, and the Love (agape) is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and He in us, be cause He has given us His (Holy) Spirit.”

God so willed to love us that He sent His one and only divine Son to be our sin sacrifice. Therefore because of God so willed himself to love us we should will ourselves to love one another. If we do love one another then God will live in us, and His love, the love we need to be saved, will be made perfect in us. How do we know this? because God’s Holy Spirit lives in us.

(Vs. 14-16): “And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the savior of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love (agape) that God had to us. God is love (Agape); and he that dwells in love (agape) dwells in God, and God in him.”

The true believer knows without doubt that God the Father did send His Son Jesus to be the savior of the world by dying on a cross for the sins of all mankind, past, present and future. And the believer has no hesitation whatsoever confessing Jesus as the Son of God as their Lord and Savior.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ

The believer knows the love God has for them, and that God is pure undeniable love and this love not only dwells within God and in them also.

(Vs. 17-19): “Herein is our love (agape) made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so shall we in this world. There is no fear in love (agape); but perfect love (agape) casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love (agape). We love (agapao) him, because He first loved (agapao) us.”

A believers love for God is made perfect, therefore we have nothing to worry about at the day of Judgment when we meet Jesus face to face, because we will be what He wants is to be and that is just like Him in this present world and that is loving God and our fellow man as He loves them. Therefore we are to have no fear, for we know His love conquers all things. Therefore we love (agapao) Him, because he first loved (agapao) us. Nothing can separate a true believer form the love of God (Romans 8:31-39).

(Vs. 20-21): “If a man say, I love (agapao) God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves (agapao) not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love (agapao) God whom he has not seen.”

Obviously anyone who says he loves (agapao) God and continually hates his brother has not made Jesus his Lord and savior.

(Vs. 5:1-3): “Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ (Messiah) is born of God: and everyone that loves (agapeo) Him that begat (God) love (agapeo) him (his fellow believer) also that is begotten of Him. By this we know that we love (agapao) the children of God, when we love (agapao) God, and keep His commandments. For this is the love (agape) of God, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous (burdensome).”

Everyone who believes without doubt that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah is born of God. and everyone that loves God also must love their fellow believer. We know that we are continually in God’s love when we continually keep God’s love commandments and His love commandments are not burdensome.

(Vs 4-5): For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that over comes the world, our faith. Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God (the Jewish Messiah [ Proverbs 30:4; Isaiah 7:14; 9:6-7; 53:1-12]).

Without faith it is impossible to please God: for he that comes to God must believe (continually trusting) that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6).

(Vs 11-13): “and this is the record that God had given us to eternal life, and this life is in the Son. He that has the Son has life: and he that has not the Son of God has not life. These things I have written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God.”

All these verses in 1 John 4:7-21; 5:1-21 is both the Law of Christ and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is: God bestows Jesus’ righteousness on all true believers because of their believing trust through their faith in knowing that Jesus is the divine Son of God (the prophesied Jewish Messiah) who willing died for their sins, past, present and future, by shedding His blood on the cross at Calvary and by His resurrection: therefore all true believers are saved and will spend the rest of their lives with Jesus Christ in God’s kingdom.

True believers keeps the Law of Christ’s by willing making God their first and most important Love (agapao), Therefore they concentrate doing everything they do heartily on to the Lord, and also concentrating on loving (agapao) all their neighbors as them love themselves and loving (agapao) their brothers and sisters in Christ as Jesus loves (agapao) them. A true believe willing does these things in order to receive God’s agape love. Agape love is the love they need from God in order to be continually sanctified and continually justified.

Copyright 2010 © – Robert Ricciardi – Biblical Truth Seekers

There are seven reasons God chose Israel to be His chosen people. To reveal to the world God’s unique divine righteous personality, character, power and salvation plan. An Israelite has written the Old Testament and most of the New Testament.

1.
To show the world that God has revealed Himself by creating Israel.

a.
Isaiah 43:1-15, 44:1; God created Israel and they are His.

b.
Isaiah 45:12 –25; God has created everything on earth, not in vain, and He shall raise up Israel in righteous to build God’s city on earth. But Israel shall be saved from its idolatry and unbelief. God has not spoken in secret. He always speaks in righteousness and always declares things that are true and right.

c.
Isaiah 54:5; God of the whole earth created Israel, their husband, and

Israel shall be His wife. God will forsaken them for a moment, but with
great mercies He shall gather them again, but this time into everlasting
kindness.

2.
To show the world that Israel is God’s witness to the world and that God does indeed exist.

a.
Isaiah 43:10-15; Israel is God’s witnesses, that they might know Him.

b.
Isaiah 41:8-20; Israel is God’s servant, He has chosen them. He shall

be their strength, He shall always provide for them, so they will know
He has done these things.

c.
Isaiah 44:21; Remember Israel you are God’s servant, He has formed you, thus he will never forget you.

3.
To show Israel that He is the one and only true God that will always be their redeemer.

a.
Isaiah 44:6-11; Remember God is the true king of Israel, the Lord of Hosts (God’s Army of angels), and they are not to be afraid of Him as long as they do not fall into unbelief by making idols of Him or of other gods.

b.
Isaiah 45:4-8,12; For Israel’s sake God created Cyrus, so the world and

Israel would know that there is only one God and he is a righteous God

4.
To show that He alone controls all history, past present and future.

a.
Isaiah 44:7-20; The Israelites shall always be God’s witness for all generations. All other gods are false gods that are created by man’s deceived heart (Jeremiah 17:9-10).

b.
24-28; He declares 150 years before that Cyrus the Persian general (the righteous man from the east –Isaiah 41:2) will conquer Babylon by drying

c.
45:1-8: God created Cyrus to do God’s pleasure, so the world would know and understand that there is only one true God, and that is the God of the Israelites, who desires everyone to be righteous, and to be saved.

5.
To reveal His mighty power and He alone is the creator of all things seen and unseen, known and unknown.

a. In The beginning God created the heavens and the earth Genesis and

everything in them for He is the first and the last, the alpha and omega.

Genesis 1:1-31; in the beginning God created all things
Isaiah 41:4; God is the first and the last
Isaiah 45:12-25; God will raise up His Messiah (the anointed one to save
the captives in paradise), not for financial gain. God will confuse the
world, but He will save Israel into an everlasting salvation. God has
declared it.
Revelation 1:11; Jesus Christ (an Israelite) is the first and the last
John 1:1-5,14; Jesus is God
Colossians 1:15-20; Jesus is God and He is the head of the church (the called out ones) reconciling all things to Him in heaven and on earth.

6. To reveal His providence, that He is in control, and He will make good on all
His promises.

a. Isaiah 40:10-15, 21-31, God has no counselor, instructor or teacher.
The Israelites are His witnesses. None can save themselves.
b.
Isaiah 46:8-13: God declares the end from the beginning. His counsel

shall stand, and He does what pleases Him. His righteousness will stand firm.

c.
Genesis 12:1-3: God’s unconditional promise to Abraham.

d. Psalm 1: Blessed by God is the person who delights in God’s teachings
and does them, but he who doesn’t do them shall perish.

7. To reveal to the World that God alone is the savior of the world.

a. Isaiah 42:1-9; God’s servant (the Messiah-Jesus Christ)
b. Isaiah 43:9-13; Let all the nations be gathered
c. Psalm 3:7-8; salvation belongs to God.

Copyright 2010 © – Robert Ricciardi – Biblical Truth Seekers

The Muslim’s state their religion, Islam, it is built on the Qur’an and the Qur’an is from Allah (the god of the universe) and Muhammad is his prophet. The true Christian’s state their religion, Christianity, is built totally on the Bible and all the Bible is the inspired word of God and Jesus Christ, God’s only unique Son is divine (God the Son in human form) and the Holy Spirit is also divine; thus, the God of the Bible is a trinity, unity through diversity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit – one in essence yet being three distinct persons. Islam is built on the person called Muhammad and the true Christian religion is built on the person called Jesus Christ. There are great dissimilarities between the lives of Muhammad and Jesus. They speak differently about God and their relationship to God. Muhammad claimed to be a Prophet and Jesus claimed to be the Son of God, totally equal with God the Father. See Part 1 for a full examination of Muhammad’s live verses Jesus life.
Muhammad’s life verses Jesus’ life, which are without doubt two completely opposite contradictive stories, which they should be! For Jesus claimed to be from heaven, the creator and maker of all things seen and unseen, and God in human flesh. His life was free on any evil, sin and any wrongdoing, and Muhammad who claimed to be a prophet of God. His life was full of evil, sin, stealing, murdering lying and cheating and lots of wrongdoing. There also should be many tremendous contradictions between a book supposedly written by one man Muhammad over a period of only twenty years and the Bible, which is a series of sixty-six books written over 1500 years by 40 different authors, making one complete story; this in itself is extremely strong proof for divine intervention. Therefore, we must examine the Qur’an and the Bible carefully as we did Muhammad’s life and Jesus’ life to clearly understand the strong contradictions between them by studying what they each teach, in order to understand why one of them cannot be from the one true God. Thus, as we did in Part I, we shall put the Qur’an and the Bible to the test according to the Law of Non Contradiction.

The Law of Non Contradiction
The Law of Non Contradiction states that two contradictory statements cannot be true. One of them has to be false. If I say, my wife is pregnant, and she says, she is not pregnant, it is obvious one of us is lying for she cannot be both, for she is either pregnant or not. There is no such thing as being a little bit pregnant. The same is true for the Bible and the Qur’an, if they contradict one another then one of them is lying. Also, if many contradictions are found within each book; then the book its self should not be believed. This is called common sense.
Muhammad said there is only one true eternal God who created everything seen and unseen, and Christians and Jews profess the same thing. If God is one, then the true religion must be one with God also; for religion is the form on how we follow and obey God’s laws and precepts. For God, and not man, has the eternal, non-changing, ever present truth. Thus, only God’s word can be trusted, and not man’s word. God is infinite; He knows everything; He has neither beginning nor end, and He had no creator, for He always has been and always will be. Man is finite; he knows very little: he is a created being that has a definite beginning and a definite ending. God is not conflicted, because He answers to know one, and thus never needs to change His mind or needs to lie about anything. He knows every person life from their birth (even when they are in their mothers womb) to the day they die. He knows every person inter most wants and desires and He gives to all men according to His pleasure. Therefore if the God of the Bible and Allah are one and the same there should not be any contradictions between them. This is common sense that every true seeker of God’s truth should process.
It is up to the honest non -brain washed investigator to discover which one, the Qur’an or the Bible contradicts its self and is not telling the truth.

The Conflict
Every false religion claims the Bible is full of errors and contradictions and their new prophet, holy book or books will set the record straight. However their so-called prophet and holy books are never based on substantiated facts, but on false unsubstantiated accusations and claims. And Islam along with these false religions has never produce any provable, or substantiated Biblical contradictions.
Islam, in order to make a legitimate claim on being the true religion from the one true God attacks the foundation of the Bible just like the Mormon religion. These two religions claim the exact same thing and that is, an angel from God came with the truth from God and all other religions before them are false religions. However their statements no matter how sincere prove nothing without hard evidence and substantiated facts to back up their claims. However no hard evidence or substantiated facts has ever been produced to support any of their claims. Therefore, without the required proof, these claims have to be considered as nothing but made up lies.
The question that needs to be answered is why would the Muslim’s commit their lives, thoughts, goals and priorities-everything-to a religious view with no questions asked? Are from a seeker of the truth point of view, is to build one’s life upon a slippery slope with no verifiable foundation. Wanting to know what distinguishes faith from foolishness or irrationality, when no coherent logic is ever offered “except it is written” [a popular Muslim saying] should be on every Muslim’s mind. However it is not! To blindly follow is not faith, but stupidity. Muslim’s are extremely hostile to all other religions [no country is free from Muslim terrorism] their thirst for evidence that supports their Qur’an is nonexistent. Sunna (rules of conduct) and Hadiths (correct interpretations of the Qur’an) are all based on non-existent facts and wishful thinking. Their flames of extreme prejudice and hate (not love) to all, including fellow Muslims, who do not think they way they do have burned towards mankind since the death of Muhammad, when Islam almost immediately setout to conquer the world. This war has never ended. The Qur’an strongly teaches that all who are not Muslims are infidels, and all infidels are to be killed or won to Islam, there is no ground for tolerance in the Qur’an; either you’re a Muslim and if not then you are to be killed or made into a Muslim slave; and the only sure way to Paradise in the Qur’an is to die murdering infidels. In the Bible, loving and forgiveness your enemies, and the non-believer is not only taught, but commanded by God, and the sure way to hell is murdering your enemies and the non-believer; no honest Muslim will deny this statement. Without doubt Islam and Christianity are two non-compatible, contradictory, religions based on contradictory, irreconcilable beliefs.
The Bible never attacks the Qur’an for the Qur’an was written supposedly some 2,100 years after the first five book of the Old Testament (O.T.) Bible was completed by Moses and some 600 years after the last book of the New Testament (N.T.) Bible was completed by John the Apostle. Remember the Bible is not one book but 66 books written by 40 different authors over a period of 1500 plus years. The Bible is divided up into two sections, the Old Testament (O.T.) or Jewish scriptures called the Tanakh, and the New Testament (N.T.). It is said, that the O.T. is the N.T. concealed and the N.T. is the O.T. revealed. The N.T. is the completion of the O.T. Islam’s attack on the Bible might be believable if Islam could produce any original manuscripts of the O.T. and
N.T. that supports their arguments and claims that the Bible as we have it today is full of errors and contradictions, however Islam has produced no such first century documentation, therefore their claims to an honest seeker of the truth have never been proven and not one shred of evidence to support it has ever been produced.
“O people of the Scriptures! Now has our messenger come unto you, expounding unto you much of what you used to hide in the Scriptures” (Sura 5:15).
“Allah has told you the people of the Scriptures have changed some of Allah’s books i.e., the Torah, Psalms and the Gospels and distorted it and wrote something with their own hands (Hadith 9:614).
No verifiable old manuscripts of the O.T or N.T have ever been produced to prove any of their claims that the Bible has been corrupted.
The Dead Seal scrolls written between 250-200 B.C. which were found in Israel between 1946
A.D. and 1956 A.D: these O.T. texts that have come to us down through the ages strongly support the Received Text found In the King James Bible, with only spelling errors being found. Also no Dead Sea Scrolls contradicts the N.T. Sura 2:75 in the Qur’an states; “Have you any hope that they will be true to you when a party of them used to listen to the Word of Allah, then used to change it (O.T. and N.T.), after they had understood it, knowing?” No actual written statements have been found in any ancient manuscripts support this Sura statement by Muhammad. Therefore this Sura cannot or should not be believed for there are no supportable factual findings of any pre 4th century manuscripts to support it. Muhammad reportable wrote the Qur’an in the 7th century, and he received all his information from an angel (Sura 5:51). So far no historical artifacts support this so called Muslim teachings either.
We will see that the Qur’an is full of improvable and unsubstantiated statements and facts. The test of non-contradiction proves the accusation that the Qur’an is not a true revelation from God to Muhammad but rather a lie based on previous existing Islamic beliefs. To the honest observer it is obvious that Islam created the Qur’an; the Qur’an did not create Islam. Pre Muhammad Islam believed in many pagan gods, in which Allah, the moon god, was just one of them. After Muhammad’s death it was narrowed down to one god (Allah), and to deny the existence of so called lesser gods, by the sword; however, most all the basic Islamic beliefs before Muhammad; Islam incorporated into the Qur’an.
Paul the Apostle is not well liked by must Muslims because he wrote in Galatians 1:8 in the N.T:
“But though we or an angel from heaven preach any other Gospel (doctrine) unto you than that which we preach let him be accursed (dammed by God).”
Here Paul clearly notes that anyone teaching that Jesus is not God’s Son in human flesh, and that He did not die for the sins of mankind, was not resurrected from the dead and that Jesus will return to claim His Kingdom on Earth is a false teacher. Based on this reasoning, the Qur’an cannot be from God, for it teaches: Jesus is not divine, He was just a prophet, but not a great prophet (Sura 4:171); did not die on the cross and was not resurrected (Sura 4:157).
Also John the Apostle says the same thing as Paul taught in I John 4;1-3,
“Beloved believe not every spirit but prove the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby known you the Spirit of God.”
Every Spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God (the word Christ means Messiah -God in human flesh in Hebrew -see Matthew 16:13-8, where Peter tells Jesus he is the Messiah who was prophesied to come). And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of the antichrist (Satan’s imitation Messiah), whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.”
Anyone who denies that Jesus is the Messiah -God himself in human flesh (Isaiah 7:14, 9:6) -is not of God but of Satan. Islam strongly disagrees with John the Apostle, and strongly refutes the core beliefs of God’s word found in the Bible; thus, Islam, without doubt, is a form of antichrist according to Jesus’ eyewitness; His apostles. So is the Bible correct or is the Qur’an correct?
They both cannot be correct. However Islam boldly states, without any proof whatsoever that only the Qur’an is correct. No reasonable seeker of the truth would ever accept a statement without strong evidence and verifiable facts to support it. Yet the Muslims wrongfully do without hesitation and do willingly and continually.
Some Muslims claim that the gospel of Barnabas is the original word of God that states Jesus is not the Messiah. However it can be easily proven that it is not a 1st or 2nd century document but a false 16th century document created by the Muslims themselves to try and show some evidence to support their untrue, antichrist, claims.

Islam’s attack against Christianity
Islam attacks Christianity by attacking the Bible with improvable lies in many areas.
The first area they say is common reasoning and rationality in all spheres of life. They attack the Roman Catholic Church, and its councils. Because the Roman Catholic Church falsely believed that the sun revolved around the earth for hundreds of years, this makes all Christian doctrine suspect. Also, because thousands of modern, liberal, humanistic, non believing scholars and theologians believe the Bible is full of errors and contradictions, and because these modern day, liberal, humanistic scholars have not only come from the Roman Catholic Church, but also from every Protestant Christian church, and many Evangelic churches as well: these secular liberal scholars have issued thousands of papers attacking the basic tenants of Christianity, and have issued decrees that the Bible is not to be believed: therefore Islam states that the Bible should not to be believed at all by any rational thinking person. So Islam’s argument is, “if modern Christian liberal, non-believing, scholars as a whole will not accept the Bible as being a truthful document why should anyone else?” Therefore, everything about Christianity should be judged according to modern liberal, so -called Christian scholarship.
Answer: The Modern day Christian scholars are divided into two camps, liberal and conservative. Most liberal Christian’s scholars are not Christians at all but instead secular humanists, atheists who will not believe in God. Therefore they will not accept the Bible as the word of God. Most conservative scholars are traditional believers and are Christians and they do accept the Bible as the word of God. The problem is the liberal scholars out number the conservative scholars 10 to 1. However, just because the liberal scholars are greater in number does not make them right. The reason they called Jeremiah the weeping prophet is, because in his day he was almost the only one among the Jews who believed in God’s word. He was rejected for preaching God’s word, and thus, he was arrested, and imprisoned by the Jews for treason, even though he was 100 percent right.
This Islamic argument holds no water, just because the majority believes in something doesn’t not make them right at all. At one time the majority of scientists believed the world was flat; need I say more?
Second: Jesus is the “Son of God”
Traditional conservative belief: Jesus is the only begotten (unique) “Son of God”. He is the second person, fully God in the Trinity.
Modern liberal contemporary scholarly belief: The phase “Son of God” is a metaphoric expression denoting only the strong love God and affection God had for the Jews. This phase does not mean that Jesus is the Son of God!
Answer: The modern liberal contemporary scholars in order to come to their conclusions have to totally deny the following Bible verses:
Psalm 2: 7, 12. I (God) will declare the decree: the Lord has said to me, You are my Son
this day I have begotten You. Kiss the Son, least He be angry, and you perish (die) from the way,
when His (the Son) wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are they that put their thrust in Him (the
Son).

Proverbs 30:4, Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind
in his fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established the ends of the
Earth? What is His name? And what is His Son’s name, if you can tell?

Acts 13:33, God has fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus
again; as it is also written in the Second Psalm, You are my Son, this day I have begotten you.

John 10:32-33, Jesus answered them, Many good works have I have shown you from My Father;
for what which of these good works do you stone Me? The Jews answered Him, saying, For a
good work we stone you not; but for blasphemy; and because that you being a man, make
yourself God.

Modern day liberal contemporary scholars reject what the word of God says! Why? Because they are unbelieving, secular humanists, who willing choose too not believe! However, this fact does not make them right.
Third: The Concept of Original Sin
Traditional conservative belief: By one man (Adam) sin enter the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned (Romans 5:12).
Therefore by the offence of one (Adam) judgment came upon all men to condemnation (death sentence); even so the righteousness of one (Jesus) the free gift of righteousness shall rein in life by one, Jesus Christ. For as by one man’s (Adam) disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one (Jesus Christ) shall many be made righteous…That sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our lord (Romans 5:13-21). For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:23).
Modern liberal contemporary scholarly belief: The belief of original sin came from paganism and the concept of original sin has been fabricated and the verses not read in context. These scholars attest that man’s nature is flawless and each one is born righteous in God’s eyes.
Answer: The Modern day liberal Christian scholars and Islam reject God’s Scriptures and try through vain words to explain away God’s truth contained in the Bible.
The heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord (God) search the heart (a person’s inter most wants and desires); I try the minds, even to give everyman according to the fruit of his doings (Jeremiah 17:9-10). These men do not known how evil and wicked there own hearts are. From selfish ambition and selfish desires they mock the one true God and try to rewrite the meaning of His words. God will bring His wrath upon them in due season.
Fourth: The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus.

Traditional conservative belief: Jesus Christ (Messiah) was crucified by Pontius Pilate. He (Jesus) died for the sins of every person, past, present and future: He rose from the dead after three days and three nights, in a new spiritual body that had flesh and bones, and thus became the redeemer (from death) for all who would believe on Him and become His disciple.

On a dozen different occasions Jesus predicted both his death and resurrection.
We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets (Jewish Scriptures) about the Son of Man (the Messiah) will be fulfilled. He will be handed over to the Gentiles. They will mock Him, insult Him, spit on Him, flog Him, and kill Him. On the third day He will rise again (Luke 18:31-33).
The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders (Jewish Sanhedrin), chief priests, and teachers (rabbis) of the law, and He most be killed and on the third day raised to life (Luke 9:23).
Innumerable eyewitnesses both Jesus friends and enemies saw Him die on the cross (John 19:23-27, 31-35 and saw Him after He was resurrected (Romans 1:3).
After His resurrection, He said to His disciples,
This is what I told you while I was with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms…This is what is written: The Christ (Messiah­the anointed one) will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in His name to all nations (Luke 24:44-47).
Modern liberal contemporary scholarly belief: Jesus was crucified but after the three days and nights he did not die, but came back to life and met his disciples.
Answer: Even the Jews that hated Him have accepted the fact that Jesus died on the cross.
It is only the atheist and Islam that will not accepted one of the most accepted facts in history. There are many Jewish and non-Christian historians in the first Century that wrote about Jesus crucifixion and resurrection. The Roman soldiers pronounced Him dead. He was so beaten by the Roman soldiers no man could recognize Him. He had not enough strength to carry his own cross, so how could he after three days role away a huge stone that took several men to put in place, and how could he have done this without being seen by the guards. Islam states that he got some else to take his place. How could he have gotten someone else to take his place, since he was never out of the sight of the Roman and Jewish guards who put him into the tomb? Islam and these so-called modern scholars never explain the obvious problems with their so-called theories and many false statements.
No dead Sea Scroll repudiates the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
No trustworthy document has ever been found that proves Jesus was ever in India when He was growing up or after he ascended into heaven.

Fifth: Jesus Ascension into Heaven
Traditional conservative belief: About forty days after Jesus was resurrected from the dead, He physically ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of the God the Father.
Modern liberal contemporary scholarly belief: The bodily ascension of Jesus is simply an exaggeration and must be understood as a metaphoric (something that did not really happen) expression.
Answer: A large body of scripture supports Jesus ascension into heaven and His place at the right hand of God the Father.
“And when He (Jesus) had spoken these things, while they beheld He (Jesus) was taken and a cloud received Him out of their sight…behold two men in white apparel (angels) said, you men of Galilee why stand you gazing up into heaven, this same Jesus, which is taken up into heaven, shall come in like manner as you have seen Him go into heaven (Acts 1:9-11).
This Jesus has God raised up, wherefore we all are witnesses. Therefore being at the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promises of the Holy Spirit, He (Jesus) has shed forth this which you know see and hear (Acts 2:32-33).
Therefore let the house of Israel know assuredly, that God has made that same Jesus, whom you have crucified, both Lord (master of all) and Messiah (God to come) (Acts 2:36).
God who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, who He has appointed heir of all things, by whom He (Jesus) also made the worlds; Who (Jesus) being the brightness of glory and express image of His (God’s) image of His person and up holding all things by the word of His (Jesus) power when He had Himself purged (crucified) our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty (God the Father) on High (Hebrews 1:1-3).
But this man (Jesus), after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down at the right hand of God (Hebrews 10:12-18).
The evidence is so overwhelming in the Bible that Jesus is the God the Son and He presently sits at the right hand of God the Father. For any one to say that this is impossible or did not happen is not telling the truth, for they are using poor human reasoning.
Summary of Islam’s attack on Jesus
1.
Islam tries to make Jesus Christ the spiritual Son of God and not the actual Son of God and this is false reasoning designed to reduce Jesus to being only a mortal being and not God.

2.
The concept of original sin was erroneously formulated in the fifth century by church fathers that ignored biblical context.

3.
Jesus survived the crucifixion.

4.
The resurrection of Jesus was a resuscitation of the same body.

5.
There was no physical ascension to heaven. Ascension is a reference to Spiritual ranks.

The answer: Every one of these attacks against Jesus have been proven false by the
eyewitness who knew Jesus personally and wrote the New Testament about
Jesus.
Peter the Apostle wrote: For we have not followed cunning devised myths when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For He (Jesus) received from God the Father honor and glory, when there came a voice to Him from the excellent glory, “This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.” And His (God the Father) voice which came from heaven we heard when we were on the holy mount. We have also the more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as unto a light that continually shines in a dark place, until that day star (Jesus) arise in your hearts: knowing this first that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but by holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 16-21).
Paul wrote the Apostle wrote: All Scripture is given by the inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine for reproof (conviction), for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be complete, continually thoroughly furnished (trained as a soldier) unto all good works (2 Timothy 3:16-17.
But though we, or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed…I say know again, if any man preach any other gospel into you than what you have received let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men or God? or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ (Galatians 1: 8-10).
John the Apostle wrote:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the word was God, The same (Jesus) was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him (Jesus); and without Him nothing was made. In Him (Jesus) was life; and the life was the light of men, and the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not…He (Jesus) was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He (Jesus) came into His own (the Jews) and His own received Him not. But as many received Him (Jew and Gentiles-non Jews) to them gave He power to become the sons of God, to all that will believe on His name. Which were born, not of the blood (the Jews), nor of the will of the flesh (mans good works), nor the will of men (man made religions), but of God. And the Word (Jesus Christ) was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we (thousands of eyewitnesses) beheld His glory (the many miracles He preformed) and the glory of the only begotten (unique son) of the Father full of grace (mercy) and truth (God’s word) (John 1:1:14).
No man has seen God at any time: the only begotten (unique, always existed) Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He (Jesus) has revealed Him (God the Father) (John 1:18).
I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ (foretold anointed Son of God in the Jewish Scriptures)? He is the antichrist that denies the Father and the Son. Whosoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: but he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you, which have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that He has promised us, eternal life. These things have I written unto you concerning those that continually try to seduce you (not believing in the Son of God for eternal life) I John 2:21-26).
Islam’s attacks are based on lies designed to give Islam a greater standing among men, but God will not be mocked (fooled, outwitted) and all the hundreds of prophesies found in the Bible will come true for no man nor Satan can stop them for God cannot lie, nor change His mind as Allah continually does in the Qur’an. No Muslim’s name will ever be found in God’s book of life (Revelation 20:4-15).

Israel and Jerusalem

The Bible strongly supports both O.T. and N.T. that Jesus Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of all who believe on Him, is the central message and most important subject in the Bible: however, with out Israel and Jerusalem there would be no Savior, and God would be a liar. The fact that Israel exists as a people and as a nation today is a miracle in its self: for no nation has ever come back to life after 200 years from its destruction. Jerusalem was totally destroyed by the Romans In 70 A.D., and Israel as a nation was written out of history in 130 A.D.-yet, God allowed no nation to assimilate the Jews into their culture or country. The Jews were kept segregated, and always kept in ghettos; this in its self is the hand of God at work. In May 14th, 1948, Israel in one day would become a nation again; by the United Nations (UN) after 1800 years of dispersion; thus, full filling Ezekiel, chapter 37.
God declared that in the last days He would cause Jerusalem to be “A burdensome stone for all people” (Zechariah 12:3). In 1967 Jerusalem came under the control of Israel. Jerusalem has become such a burden that the UN has spent one-third of its time debating and condemning Israel for defending its self against Islam. The last World War will be fought when all the nations of the world (this also includes every Islam nation) attack Israel and Jerusalem (Zechariah 12:13­14:1-9)-Yet Jesus Christ shall return and to defend Israel and Jerusalem and all the nations (this includes every Islam nation) of the world will He defeat.
Twice in the Bible Jerusalem is called “the City of our God” (Psalm 48:1,8), twice the city of God (Psalm 46:4; 87:3), eight times “the holy city” (Nehemiah 11:1; Isaiah 48:2: 52:1: Matthew 4:5 etc.), and once the city of the Lord of Hosts” (Psalm 48:8). God has decreed that never will there be a city to rival Jerusalem! It is mentioned 811 times in the Bible; but, Jerusalem in not mentioned once in the Qur’an, which argues strongly against the Qur’an being from God. Medina and Mecca are not mentioned in the Bible. Nor is the concept that an angel from God will guide anyone.
Jerusalem destruction and ultimate restoration in the “last days,” was pronounced by O.T. prophets; “the city shall be rebuilt…it shall be holy unto the Lord…it shall not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever”; and by Jesus Christ – “There shall not be one stone left upon another, that shall not be thrown down” (Matthew 24:2). “ And he (the Antichrist) shall confirm a covenant (to rebuild the Jewish Temple)” (Daniel 9:27). God chose Jerusalem, saying, ‘I will put my name there forever” (Kings 21:7: Chronicles 33:7).
“Says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people” (Jeremiah 31:1). “The Lord has appeared saying, Yes, I have loved you with and everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you, Again will I build you, and you shall be built… I shall bring them from the north country (Europe), and gather them from the coasts (all other countries) of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, women with child together a great company shall return there…for I’m a father to Israel” (Jeremiah 31: 3-4, 8-9). The Bible clearly states Israel is God’s chosen people and Jerusalem (the city of peace) is His chose city.
Remember the exact mount where Abraham was going to sacrifice Isaac is the exact place where Jesus was crucified. And Abraham stated that God himself would be the sacrifice and Abraham named the place Jehvahjireh…In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen (Genesis 22:8,14).

Arabian Tribal Culture 600 A.D.
The people of the Arabian Desert were under trial law. Each tribe had its own tribe leader (chieftain) who decided everything and ruled with an iron hand. He was the law unto himself. Each tribe was well known for their deeply rooted loyalty to their own tribe culture. Each tribe had their own deity: usually a heavenly body, such as the sun, stars, and especially the moon called al-ilah – the chief among gods – shorten by usage over time to the Arabic word “Allah”.

Extremist

Each tribe was well known for being extreme in pride, lust, love, hate and no tolerance for others different than themselves, i.e. mercy was not in their vocabulary. Their way was the only way. They took great pride in being extreme to the point they would die for it. True prideful honor was dying for their way. No moderation, no reconciliation with others. If two people had a fight, one would not walk away a lie. Bloodshed was a given to prove one’s honor. Hated fueled their desire to kill their enemies, thus bring honor to their tribe and themselves. Their internal struggle was never to change. Their internal struggle was not to be a better person, but to never change seeking after the honor and conquests that they continually lived for and died for. Without question, Islam, which means internal struggle, has always embraced this extremist non-changing, hateful, prideful, lusting, murdering mentality. This is why Islam will never tolerate another religion that is not of their making. Therefore it is not surprising to find in the Qur’an the following:
“Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that you hate a thing which is good for you and it may happen that you love a thing which is bad for you” (Sura 2:216).
Killing and murdering has always been a way of life for the Arab tribes based on hate for others, including themselves. So the Qur’an is a tool created by Islam to promote and continue its lust for world dominance, regardless of the how many must die by sacrificing their lies for this cause.

Muslim Sects and Movements
Islam is divided into two major basic sects: Sunni and Shi’ites. The Sunnis comprise 80%to 90% and the Shi’ites comprise about 10% of all Muslims. These sects originally arose over the dispute of who should supercede Muhammad after his death. The Sunnis are followers of Hanifa, Shafi, Hanibal, and Malik Schools and they wanted an election held. The Shi’ites held that Muhammad’s successor should be from a blood relative. The Arabs from the north were Sunnis and the Arabs from the south were Shi’ites. Naturally they divided politically according to their tribe’s wants and desires. The southern tribes because of their extreme dislike and hate of northern tribes wanted to dominate over the northern tribes. Thus they continually war against each other, even today, for political gain.
The Sunnis are by far the largest sect in the Muslim world. They take the title of Najiyah, meaning those being saved. They emphasize the power and sovereignty of Allah and his right to do whatever he wants with his creation, as strict predetermination is taught (it is written). They receive the “six correct books” and belong to one of the schools of jurisprudence founded by the four Imams.
The Shi’ites emphasize that they alone are the rightful in the understanding of Islam, and like the Sunnis, they call them selves “al – Muminun,” or the “true believers.” They reject the “six correct books” of the Sunnis, and have five collections of their own. Shi’ism is broken into three main sects> The Twelve – Imam (Persia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan and Syria); the Zaydis (Yemen): the Ismailis (India, Iran, Syria and East Africa). Each group has different doctrine.
Shi’ites are numerous in Iran, they were the ones that disposed the Shah and in his place, installed the Ayatollah Khomeini and enforced Islamic law as the rule of the government. Khomeini has set himself up as equal to the prophet Muhammad. Today with Saudi Arabia they want to eliminate all Jews along with the USA.
The Wahhabis have set themselves apart from the Sunnis and Shi’ites. They are extremely militant. The Wahhabis are the radical wing of the Sunnis who are primary located in Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Laden is a Wahhabi. In all of the Saudi Arabia schools hated is daily taught against, the USA, Israel and all infidels. They believe the true way of salvation is to prostrate one’s self before Allah, who is ever present and to venerate (reverence) Allah; the one without associate or equal. They are the Allah’s Jihad leaders. They live for Jihad. The cry of the Wahhabis is, “Kill and strangle all unbelievers which gives companions to Allah.” On the day of battle, the Wahhabi founder gave each soldier a letter addressed to the treasure of paradise (who ever that might be?). It was enclosed in a bag, which each warrior hung from his neck. The soldier was told that by dying in battle he would go straight to Paradise, without being judged by the angels Munkar and Nakir. Many Iran prisoners in the war against Iraqi that they were duped into hanging a small Qur’an around their necks, so they would be invisible in battle and not seen by their enemies.
The Wahhabis also condemn astrology, but trusting in omens, believing also in lucky and unlucky days, praying at tombs. They disallow the use of a rosary, but attach great merit to counting the ninety-nine names of God on their fingers.
Surfism sect: The Sufis are the mystical spiritual wing of Islam and are numerous in Iran. They have set aside the literal meaning of the Qur’an for a supposed spiritual interpretation. They seek after a direct personal mystical experience of Allah and his divine love. Their understanding of Allah leads to a mystical heretical belief that man can attain divine hood by being absorbed into the being of Allah. This Neo-Platonic [New Age], Hindustanistic, and pantheistic doctrine where man can become God through living a spiritual life is called fanna [annihilation]. “Nothing but Allah exists and when you recognize that you are Allah, and that you are identical with him; there is nothing that exists except him and you. Thus you cannot die spiritually.
Other Sects: The Druze sect is located primarily in Lebanon, Syria and northern Palestine. The Alawite sect is mostly in Syria. The Ahmadiyas sect is a heretical group from Pakistan whose founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, claimed to be the promised Mahdi and Messiah. They are the most active Muslim missionary group in the west.
The Sikhism are in India. The Baha’issm, boast of a prophet, Baha’u’llah, who supersedes Muhammad, and they believe in good works, nondiscrimination, and a federated world government. They are headquarters is in Haifa, Israel, and ten percent of them live in India. Because they willing live in Israel, Iran or Saudi Arabia Muslims does not like them. The Nation of Islam led by Louis Farrakhan, which is considered a heresy by orthodox Islam, since it claims there is another prophet after Muhammad, namely the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

Constant Struggle and Wars
Being violent and courageous was a sign of manhood and honor among the Arab tribes during, and before and after Muhammad. Being quick to kill for any reason was consider a necessity for survival. Thus, Arab tribes fought constantly not only to defend their territory, and water wells, but also to gain more territory and possessions. This mentality of defending and plundering became a basic lifestyle for existing, which Muhammad practiced, and the heart of the teaching within the Qur’an. It is no wonder that Islam would create Allah, a god that would condone their long existing life style of hate, murder, plundering, raping and conquering.
Islam in the Qur’an has embraced warfare (Sura 2:216). Thus Jihad (killing the enemy of Allah wherever you find them. (Sura 4:48) has always been a core belief of Islam, and is not a new revelation from their Allah but is a behavior and belief carried over from their old existing violent ways. As we look at the teaching of the Qur’an: lying, conquest (coveting, stealing and plundering) and bloodshed (murdering) pleases Allah and Islam. However the God of the Bible hates all these actions (Jude 1:11) that are the main teaching of the Qur’an. Muslims will say they are a loving and peace seeking religion, but their Qur’an states other wise. All you have to do is look at the hate the Arabs have for Jews and Christians (Sura 9:29). Allah is only merciful when a non-believer converts to Islam (Sura 9: 5,14).

The Differences in the Nature of God

God’s main attributes noted in the Bible are: God hates lying, God hates coveting, God hates stealing, God hates murder, God is loving, God is righteous (can do no evil-cannot sin), God is faithful, God makes covenants with man (Proverbs 6).
The Allah found in the Qur’an is supposed to be loving and merciful but he is also a god of hate. Islam is supposed to be a religion of peace, but the Qur’an has not one verse in it that states, “Love your enemies” as the Bible does (Matthew 5:44). The Muslims who commit terrorist acts are supposed to be extremists and not true Muslims, but this is not a true or accurate statement. Indeed there are least 114 verses in the Qur’an that speak of love, peace, and forgiveness, however 60 percent of the Qur’an deals with Jihad (killing non believers pleases Allah). A lot of Muslims believe all the verses in the Qur’an that talk about hate and killing supercede and made null and void all the verses that say otherwise.
Sura 9:5, “Then when the Sacred Months have passed, then kill the slay the idolaters wherever you find them, take them captive, and besiege them, and prepare each and every ambush. But if they repent and establish worship, and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
Sura 9:29, “Fight against (kill) such of those who have been given the Scriptures (Jews and Christians) as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day (day of Allah’s judgment), and forbid not that which Allah has forbidden by his messenger (Muhammad). And followed not the religion of truth (Islam)….”(Sura 9:29).
Sura 4: 89, Sura 8:39, Sura 8:67, Sura 9:123 etc. are also verses that tell Muslims to kill and slaughter the non-believer. If I tried to recite all the verses in the Qur’an this Report would be almost as long as the Qur’an and this doesn’t cover all similar passages found in the Hadiths. The Hadiths are books written to explain the Qur’an. How do Muslims justify one part of the Qur’an that speaks of love, peace and forgiveness and the other part that speaks of waging war against infidels? How do we reconcile the teaching that those who leave Islam must be killed, and Christians and Jews may escape death if they convert to Islam and pray Islamic’ prayers?
The answer to these contradictive questions is the Islam “principle of Naskh” (which Islam invented) which is: The revelations found in the later part of the Qur’an overrides, or supercedes the revelations found in the first part of the Qur’an, for all must surrender to Allah or die (Sura 9:73-74). Muhammad’s early writings, when he lived in Mecca, put a peaceful kind face on Allah and his later writings, from Medina, when he was raising an army to conquer Saudi Arabia, put on a non-peaceful, kind face on Allah. Muhammad needed lots of money to raise and keep an army, so he looted many caravans and killed thousands of Jews and Christians for their money and lands.
Muhammad’s revelations on jihad became bolder and more specific, and his religion became extremely political as he sought to make all Arabia submit to him. Later his followers would make jihad their main excuse for trying to conquer the world, which they tried to do shortly after his death, and continual today.
With this history in mind, it is not hard to see why Allah is unknowable. For he was a god of love and piece when Muhammad was in Mecca and another all together different god, a god of conquest, when Muhammad was in Medina. Thus, a huge contradiction exists within in Islam, in which Islam believes it can simply explain away through the fabricated and extremely weak principle of Naskh. Naskh is not of God but of political ploy of men. Thus, another proof Islam is not of God but of sinful men and their lust for power.
Jesus commanded His disciples to spread the Gospel to every nation, but He never condoned doing it by force (the sword) or conquest (plunder, murder and raping). “For all they that take up the sword shall be destroyed with the sword (Matthew 26:52). Jesus taught love your enemies and do good by helping them (Matthew 4:43-45), which is a huge contradiction from what the Qur’an teaches. However the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy under the veil of being Christian – which I assure you they are not, also tried also to conquered the world by the sword. Sadly they are still trying-forgetting Jesus’ words; that His Kingdom is not of this world (John 18:33-37).
Therefore if God of the Bible says one thing and the, so-called god of the Qur’an (Allah), says the exact opposite one of them has to be wrong. Remember the Bible came first and is not written by one man but 44 different men over 1500 plus years. So the God of the Bible in time covers over four thousand years. Thus the God of the Bible has to be proven wrong by substantiated proof and not by unsubstantiated words alone. The Qur’an however, was reportable written by one man, Muhammad, within a time period of 25 years. But many facts show just the opposite.

The Time Line of the Qur’an
570 A.D. Muhammad’s birth 610 A.D. Muhammad’s call to prophethood 632 A.D. Muhammad’s death

The Qur’an was assembled-put together after Muhammad’s death.
700 A.D. Legends and myths 800 A.D. Traditions –700,000 Hadiths (writing that explain the Qur’an) 850 A.D. Bukhari’s Hadith 923 A.D. Tabari’s Commentary
The claim that Uthman after Muhammad’s death assembled the Qur’an has no evidence to support it. Also no manuscripts of the Qur’an have been found to exist before 150—200 years after Muhammad’s death.
The claim that two “original Uthman Qur’ans can be seen at Topkapi, Turkey, and in Tashkent, Russia, are false. The manuscripts are in the Kufic script that did not exist in the 7th Century. They are clearly from the 9th Century and are in the “landscape” format that was not used in or before the 7th Century.
The present text of the Qur’an came from multiple authors using erroneous legends, myths, and stories. It has many additions and deletions, variant readings, and no primary source of materials to support it. It is thus a corrupted text and cannot be trusted to tell us what Muhammad really taught or did not.
The text and stories of the Hadith (writings that try to explain the Qur’an) are as corrupt as the Qur’an. Where is the evidence to support these claims? Thus, Muslims cannot demonstrate that the Qur’an is inspired. Instead the evidence is 100 percent against it. Many Bible manuscripts from the 7th century are available, why then are there not one Qur’an manuscripts available?
Also, almost immediately after Muhammad’s death, Islam tried to conquer the world by using the principle of jihad and they almost did. Today they are trying again to conquer the world by using the principle of jihad.
Contradictions found in the Qur’an

How many angels were talking to Mary?
Sura 3:42,45, Several Angels Sura 19:17-21, only one angel Appear to Mary in Annunciation appears to the virgin Mary.
of the birth of Jesus.

Allah’s day is equal to how many human years?
Sura 22:47 and Sura 32:5, Allah’s day Sura 70:4, Allah’s day is equal to 50,000 Is equal to 1,000 human years. human years.

How many gardens are there in Paradise?
Sura 56, there is only one garden. Sura 18:31,22:23, 25:33 and Sura 78:32, there are many gardens.

How many groups will there be at the last judgment?
Sura 56:7, there will be three distinct Groups of people at the Last Judgment.

Who takes the souls of people at death?
Sura 32:11, the angel of death Sura 47:27, the angels (plural)

How many wings do angels have?
Sura 35:1, Angels have 2, 3 or 4 pairs of wings Sura 90:18-19 and 99:6-8, there will be two Distinct groups at the Last Judgment.

Sura 39:42, Allah takes the souls at death

Sahid Bukhari Hadith: The angel Gabriel has Vol. 4, Book 54 600 wings Page 455

How many days did Allah need to destroy the people of Aad?
Sura 54:19, one day. Sura 41:16 and Sura 69:6-7, several days.

How many days did creation take?
Sura 7:54, 10:3, 11:7 and Sura 29:59, Sura 41-9-12, the description of creation time
Allah made the heavens and the Earth period add up to 8 days.
In 6 days.

Which was created first the heaves or the planet earth?
Sura 2:29, the planet Earth was created Sura 49:27-30, the heavens were created first First and then the heavens. and then the planet earth.

Heaven and earth ripped apart or called together?
Sura 41:11, in the process of creation Sura 21:30, Heaven and earth were first one heaven And earth were first apart and piece and then they were ripped apart. then call to come together.

Does Allah forgive shirk? (association with God other than Muslims)
Surah 4:48,116, No. Surah 4:153 and Sura 25:68-71, Yes.

Moses and the Injil (New testament writings).
Jesus was born more than 1000 years Sura 7:157, Allah speaks to Moses about what After Moses. Is written in Injil (the book given to Jesus).

Who brings the revelation from Allah to Muhammad?
Sura 2:97, the Angel Gabriel.

Alexander the Great.
Sura 18:89-98, Alexander the Great was a devout Muslim and lived to a ripe old age.

Ezra the Son of God.
Sura 9:30, the Jews believed Ezra the scribe is the Son of God – the Messiah.
Sura 16:102, the Holy Spirit.
Secular history records Alexander the Great died at the age of 33. He believed he was divine And forced other to recognize him as such. In India on the Hyphasis River Alexander erected 12 Alters to 12 Olympia gods.
No writings from Judaism or the Bible support this tenant.

The Golden Calf made by Moses brother Levi.

Sura 20:90-100, a Samaritan helped the The Samaritans did not exist as a people until
Israelites build the Golden Calf, and it at least 1000 years after the time of Moses and
Mooed after coming out of the fire. The Israelite exodus from Egypt between 1500­
1400 B.C.
The Time Line of the Old Testament

2000 B.C. (Unknown) Job: Author unknown

1485-1405 B.C. 1407-1367 B.C. 1367-1044 B.C. 1400-400 B.C.
1064 -931 B.C.
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers: Author Moses Joshua: Author Joshua Judges, Book of Ruth, Authors: Unknown The Psalms: Many Authors; Moses wrote one Psalms, David wrote 73 Psalms, Asaph wrote 11 Psalms, Solomon 2 Psalms, Herman and Ethan one Psalm each. The rest of the 62 Psalms the authors not really known. 1st Samuel and 2nd Samuel, Author Samuel, Priest and Prophet
1000 -900 B.C. Proverbs: Authors, Solomon wrote 375, the remaining 284, authors unknown.

971 -931 B.C. 1st Kings and 2nd Kings: Author unknown, Maybe Jeremiah
973 -971 B.C. Jonah: Author Jonah
950 -940 B.C. Song of Solomon: Author Solomon
932 -931 B.C. Ecclesiastes: Author Solomon
767 -738 B.C. Amos: Author Amos
752 – 697 B.C. Micah: Author Mica
740 -682 B.C. Isaiah: Author Isaiah
663 -612 B.C. Nahum: Author Nahum
655 -598 B.C. Habahkkuk: Author Habakkuk
630 -625 B.C. Zephaniah: Author Zephaniah
627 -586 B.C. Jeremiah: Author Jeremiah
586 B.C. Lamientations: Author Jeremiah
601 -586 B.C. Ezekiel: Author Ezekiel
605 -529 B.C. Daniel: Author Daniel
605 -586 B.C. Obadiah: Author Obadiah
580 -530 B.C. Joel: Author Joel
520 -518 B.C. Haggai: Author Haggai
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520 -508 B.C. Zechariah: Author Zechariah
473 -465 B.C. Esther: Author unknown
458 -444 B.C. Ezra: Author Ezra
444 -433 B.C. Nehemiah: Author Nehemiah
444 -439 B.C. 1st and 2nd Chronicles: Author unknown, maybe Ezra
433 -425 B.C. Malachi: Author Malachi
The O.T. was written over a long period of time. In The Dead Sea Scrolls all the O.T. Books were found except for the Book of Esther. The manuscripts found date back 200 -250 years. Not one manuscript found disputes any of the O.T manuscripts we have in the Received Text (The King James Bible) and not one manuscript supports any of Islam claims that the Bible as we have it today has be corrupted. Therefore The O.T. is the must reliable books of antiquity. Not one of the Dead Sea Scrolls manuscripts provides any evidence that supports the claims of Islam. Not one manuscript before the 6th Century has ever been found to support the claim of Islam or the Qur’an that the O.T. has been altered.

The Time Line of the New Testament
45 A.D. to 60 A.D. Matthew: Author Matthew, Mark: Author Mark, Luke: Author Luke and John: Author John 45 A.D. to 69 A.D. Acts, Romans, 1st and 2nd Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 st and 2nd Thessalonians, 1st and 2nd Timothy, Titus: Author Paul. Hebrews: Author unknown. James: Author James*. 1st and 2nd Peter: Author Peter. 1st and 2nd John, Revelation: Author John. Jude: Author Jude*
James and Jude were Jesus half brothers. Matthew, Mark and John were Jesus disciples. Luke was also an eye wittiness. Paul was singled out by Jesus to take His Gospel to the Gentiles. All of the N.T. writers had a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and saw His resurrected body. Without question the O.T. teaches that God has A Son (Psalm 2:7,12: Proverbs 30:4) and the Messiah to come would be God in human flesh (Isaiah 7:14, 9:6-7) and the N.T. teaches that Jesus Is the Messiah (1 John 1-5,14,18), God in human flesh. Also O.T teaches the Messiah was to be Killed 383 years after the decree to rebuild the Jewish Temple (Daniel 9:26). The Persian emperor Artaxerxes gave this decree in 445 B.C. If we add 483 years times 360 days which is the Persian moon calendar we come to Palm Sunday 32 A.D., the 10th of Nissan of the Jewish calendar and Jesus was crucified on Thursday the 14th of Nissan. Jesus arose from the dead on the 16th of Nissan (John 20:1) and was seen by over 500 people. “But these are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ (Messiah), the Son of God: and that believing you might have life through His name” ((John 20:31). These are undeniable facts, which Islam not only refuses to recognize, but strongly denies and constantly tries to destroy.

The God of the Bible Attributes
The God of the Bible attributes: He cannot lie, murder, cheat, steal, and covet, and never asks his followers to lie, murder, cheat, steal and covet for Him. However Allah in the Qur’an does ask his followers to lie, murder, cheat, steal and covet for him.

God Cannot Lie
The God of the Bible clearly states in Numbers 23:18: “God is not a man that He should lie: neither the son of man, that He should repent: Has He said it, and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken, and shall He not make it good.”
Here God clearly states He cannot lie or change His mind. So we need to see if Allah changes His mind and we will discover He does on a regular bases. The Qur’an states in Sura 2:77 the Christians changed Allah’s word, and in Hadith 9:614 the Jews changed Allah’s word. But the Muslims cannot produce any ancient manuscripts to prove their accusations. Thus their statements are not provable and must be considered as lies.
The God of the Bible Hates seven things: Proverbs 6:16-19; “These six things does the Lord hate; Yes seven are an abomination unto Him: A proud look, a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood (murder), a heart that devises wicked (evil) plans, feet that be swift in running to wrong doing (unrighteousness), a false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord (evil gossip) among a relative or friend.” Out of the seven things God hates, He clearly states He hates lying; four out of the seven, plus murder, evil plans (hatred), unrighteous works and evil intent.
John 8:44, Jesus speaking: “You are of your father the Devil, and the lust of your father you do. He was a murder from the beginning and lives not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie he speaks from his own: for he is a liar and the father of all lies.”
Here Jesus clearly states that the father of all lies is Satan and those who lie have Satan astheir father. So God hates liars in the Bible. Yet the Qur’an states it is okay to lie.

Murdering
Exodus 20:13, “You shall not Murder.
John 8:44, Jesus speaking: “You are of your father the Devil, and the lust of your father you do. He was a murder from the beginning and lives not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie he speaks from his own: for he is a liar and the father of all lies.”

The God of the Bible clearly states He hates Murder.
The Qur’an in Sura 2:56, 5:51, 9:5,25,26, 29,&123 states it is okay to hate and murder Jews, and your enemies, Christians and infidels. Allah wants his enemies murdered.
“Those who reject Islam must be killed. If they turn their back (from Islam), take hold of them and kill them where ever you find them…” (Sura 4:48)

Love your enemies
Leviticus 19:17-18, “You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall not in anyway rebuke your neighbor, and not permit sin to come upon him. You shall not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of they people, but you shall love your neighbor as you love yourself: I am the Lord.”
The Qur’an without doubt teaches hate for all non-Muslims but also for other Muslims. Why do Muslims murder other Muslims? because they hate them!

Love is God’s main attribute and not Allah’s.
John 3:16, Jesus stated: “For God so loved the world that he gave His only unique son that whosoever believe on Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
I John 4:8-21, “Beloved let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loves is born of God, and knows God. He that loves not does not know God, for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God towards us, because God has sent His only unique Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but He loved us, and sent His Son to be the reconciliation for our sins. Beloved if God so loved us, we should also continually love one another. No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells within us and Hiss love is made perfect in us. Hereby we know we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He has Give us His Holy Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son, to be the Savior of the world. Whosoever shall continually confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells within him and he in God. And we have known and continually believe the love that God has for us. God is love and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made mature, that we continually have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but mature love casts out fear: because fear has torment. He that continually fears is continually not made mature in love. We love Him because He first loved us. If a man say, I love God and hates his brother, he is a lair: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment have we from Him (Jesus the Son of God), That he who continually loves God continually loves his brother also ”
Here we have a total contradiction between the Qur’an and the Bible. The Qur’an teaches hate toward your brother who is not a Muslim while the Bible teaches love for all men.

The Qur’an ordains violence for any reason.
“For what cause We [Muslims] decreed for the children of Israel that whosoever kills a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth [land], it shall be as if he had killed all mankind…Our messengers came unto them of old with clear proofs 9of Allah’s sovereignty), but afterwards lo! Many of them became continued to commit excess in the land” (Sura 5:32).
The catch phase is “corruption in the land”. Any non-Muslim country as well as Muslim countries that disagree with the teaching of Islam has corruption in the land. Therefore Islam uses this verse so it can easily attack any nation who is not Muslim and even kill other Muslims as they wish.
“The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and his messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be the degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom” (Sura 5:32
Here the Qur’an gives any excuse for Jihad: to kill anyone who disagrees with Islam teaching. Who decides what corruption in the land is and who shall be killed? Any Muslim at any time. Thus murdering is justified for any reason. Who fights against Allah and his messenger are also guilty of corruption in the land. It is a never-ending excuse to kill anyone at any time!
“O Prophet strive against the disbelievers and hypocrites! Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is hell, a hapless journey’s-end” (Sura 9:73)
According to Islamic highest jurisprudence, Sura 9:73, abrogates [cancels] over 100 verses in the Qur’an that calls for tolerance, mercy, peace and forgiveness towards all who follow other religions or life styles. The Law of Abrogation [Al-Nasekh Wal-Mansookh] was given by Allah in the Qur’an, thus Jihad is mandated by the Qur’an.
“Make war upon such of those whom the Scriptures have been given as they believe not in Allah, or the last day, and forbid not which Allah and his apostle have forbidden… (Sura 9:29).
In The Book, How to perfect the Science of the Qur’an AL-Syoti, volume 2 page 37, states: “The verses of the Sword has Abrogated (annulled) 124 Qur’anic verses, and all that came in the Qur’an on matters of forgiving and ignoring unbelievers, have been replaced (Mansookh) by the verse of the sword.” Here we have a strong contradiction in Islam that hundreds of verses contained in their Qur’an are not to be believed! Really! Can Allah make a mistake? I guess so according to many Islam scholars.
The evidence of the abrogation of the many verses that call for tolerance, mercy, forgiveness and patience cannot be refuted. For further examples, refer to the following: Kitab Al-Nasekh Walmanssokh by Al-Nessaburi, Al-Hafeth Ibnu katheer Ibin Abas, Al-Muhammad Inb Hazn, Muhaqiq Abu, Al-Qasim Hibatullah Ibn Salameh, AL-Sudy Wa-Al-Dahak and Muhammad Abdulsalam Faraj.
Muslims are commanded by Allah to fight Jihad. Jihad original meaning was the struggle with each Muslim against sin, but to day it is “The Holy War against every non-believer in the name of Allah (Sura 9:29). There are 123 verses in the Qur’an concerning fighting and killing for the cause of Allah. Every one of these verses abrogates all the other verses that talk aboutloving the unbeliever. Now you know why there are Mullin terrorists all over the world killing innocent people; for the Qur’an teaches that in the eyes of Allah there are no innocent people: this a course includes all babies and all young people. What a God Islam has created! Here are some examples of the 123 verses commanding the Muslims to kill and murder in the name of Allah.
“Oh you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto Him)” (Sura 9:123)
“When your Lord inspired the angels, (saying:) I am with you. So make those who believe stand firm. I will throw fear into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then strike off their heads, strike all their fingers. That is because they oppose Allah and his messenger (Muhammad) and Lo Allah is server in punishment” (Sura 8:12-13).
“Muhammad is Allah’s apostle. Those who follow him are ruthless to the unbelievers…(Sura 48:29).
Muslims are order by Allah to fight against unbelievers (Surah 8:59-60).
Muslims are to fight (war) for Allah’s cause (Surah 2:273).
Muslims are to lie in ambush everywhere against unbelievers (Surah 9:5).
Unbelievers are Muslims deeply rooted enemies (Sura 4:101).
Put to death the unbeliever where you find them (Surah 4:90).
Cut off the unbelievers heads (Sura 8:12).
If a Muslim does not go to war against the non believer, Allah will kill Him (Sura 9:81).
Muslims must make war on the unbelievers (Sura 9:123).
Muslims are to be ruthless to unbelievers (Sura 48:29).
A Muslim must fight for the cause of Allah (Surah 22:78).
A Muslim may kill anyone he wishes if it is a just cause (Sura 6:152).
Allah loves those who kill for His cause (Sura 61:3).
Anyone who fights against Allah or renounces Islam in favor of another religion shall be put to death or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides (Surah 5:34).
Sura 55 and 556 of the Qur’an gives the motivation for suicide bombers, for there will be gushing Fountains, and endless supply of jeweled couches, with immortal young’s…Virgins chaste and fair… with cups of pure wine. The smallest reward shall be an abode with 80,000 servants and 72 continuous virgin wives. The garden and the women of paradise are waiting for you in all their beauty; and the women are calling out ‘come hither, friend of Allah.

Do All Muslims Really believe in Jihad?
No! All Muslims do not believe in Jihad: however we do not know which Muslims do and which do not. As noted above, there are different sects of Muslims. The Sunnis and Shi’ites make up 95 percent, with the Sunnis being in the majority. These two sects do not like each other and they kill and murder each other regularly. The Wahhabis which is the main sect in Saudi Arabia teach hatred for all who do not think they way they do. So this sect kills Sunnis, Shi’ites and other Muslims on a regular bases also. The remaining sects do not like anyone but themselves.
Fore the most part history has shown, that where ever the Muslim religion is in the minority it goes along with the laws of the country it is in, but once it comes close to being in the majority it rages a civil war to take control. In the USA we find the Muslims basically law -abiding citizens. The problem is we never hear them as a group speaking out against their brothers and sisters wagging Jihad in other countries. When 9/11 took place, they were and still are today a very silent group. This is scary. If Islam’s god, whom they call Allah, was truly a loving god then I’m sure we would hear them violently complaining about the Islamic terrorists and the horrifying things they are doing. But their silence is deafening and defining, and it clearly points out that Allah is not the loving God of the Bible. When the Muslims in the USA do speak it is always how the people in the USA do not understand the peaceful Muslim religion. Actions always speak louder than words.

Allah is a schemer
“And when those who disbelieve scheme against you (O Muhammad) to wound you fatally, or to kill you or to drive you forth; they scheme, but Allah also schemes; and Allah is the best schemer” (Sura 8:30).

Allah condones slavery
“All who Islam takes as prisoners of war is the property of his or her master, thus a slave. He/She is subject to the master’s power, insomuch that if a master should kill his slave, he is not liable to retaliation. With female slaves a master has the “mulk-I-moot, or right of enjoyment, and his children by them, when acknowledged by the master, have the same rights and privileges as his children by his wives. A slave is incompetent to anything that implies the exercise of authority over others. Hence a slave cannot be a witness, a judge, or an executer or guardian to any but his/her master and his children. A slave cannot inherit from anyone, and a bequest to him is a bequest to his/her master. The attitude of the Muslims towards the Christians, Jews and any no believer according to Muhammad is the same as that towards a slave” A quote from Lucy Dawidowicz book, The War Against the Jews, Anti-Jewish Legislation, page 72.

Love is God’s main attribute Continued.
“Whosoever continually believes that Jesus is the Christ (Messiah of the O.T.) is born of God: and everyone that loves Him that begat (created love) loves Him (Jesus) also love all men who are begotten (created) of Him (God). By this we know that we love (all) the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and His commandments are not grievous (hard to do). (John 5:1-3)
Love is the central attribute of God of the Bible. Love is not the central attribute of Allah. Thus Allah cannot be the God of the Bible. Allah is a man made god, who shares the same desires of
Satan, i.e. to rule by force and killing all who disagree with him. Thus Islam is a satanic religion.
For if every person became a Muslim, the killing would not stop. The proof for this is in the fact
that many Islamic nations war against other Islam nations and these wars continue today as they

have always done.

The Essence and attributes of God
Christianity
Righteousness and Justice are parts of the holiness of God that are clearly seen in His treatment of His creatures. God will never do anything that is not morally perfect. “For the Lord is righteous, He loves Justice” (Psalm 11:7).
“If you know that He (God) is righteousness, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him (God)” (1 John 2:29).
God loves all mankind. “For God so Loved the world that He gave His one And only Son…” (John 3:16) “God Is love…”(1 John 4:4:8). “We love (God and all men) because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19).
The God of the Bible is always faithful To His word and covenants and never Changes His mind or commandments. “The Lord your God is God; He is the faithful God, keeping His covenant of love to a thousand generations” (Deuteronomy 7:9). “Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or change” (James 1:17).
Islam

There is no law of righteousness (no Ten Commandments) in the being of Allah. He does as he pleases, guiding some men Aright and others astray. Allah created some men and spirits to send them to hell:…that I will fill hell with the Jinn and mankind Together” (Sura 32:13).
Allah has no affection or feelings for any creature. Love is conditioned to those who believe and do good works. “Lo those who Believe and do good works, the Beneficient will appoint for them love” (Sura 19:96).
Allah does not make covenants with man. He can and does change his mind. “And when we put a revelation in place of [another] revelation -and Allah knowest best what he reveals” (Sura 16:101).
Here we have another basic contradiction between the God of the Bible and Allah of Islam.
The God of the Bible is a righteous God, keeps His word and knows the end from the beginning
and Allah is not a righteous God, does not keep his word and doesn’t know the end from the
beginning because Allah is always changing his mind on what is right and what is wrong.

God is righteous and the savior of mankind, who declares the end from the beginning.
Christianity Islam
“God of the Bible foretells of the coming Allah does foretell the future, nor does he of His Son. “Behold My Servant, whom reward righteousness. He only rewards those I uphold; My chosen on in whom My Soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to all nations. He will not cry out or raise His voice, nor make His voice heard in the street. A bruised reed He will not break and a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish”
When His Son comes it will not be by force or great by commanding people to obey Him. He will be kind and gentile. A humble man who will deal honestly and fairly. He will be just not esteeming one man over another for the Spirit of God shall indwell Him (Isaiah 42:1-3)
“I the Lord. I call you (the Son) in righteousness, and will hold your hand and keep (protect) you. And I will give you (the Son) for a covenant of the people as a light to the Gentiles (non Jewish believers); I the Lord: that is my name and My glory I will not give to another (Son), neither my praise to carved images. Behold the later things (prophesies) have come to pass, and new things I declare before they spring forth I tell them (Isaiah 42:6-9).”
“Who has declared this form ancient time? Has told it from that time? Have not I the Lord? And there is no other God beside Me; a just God and Saviour, there is none beside Me. Look unto Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. I have Sworn by Myself, the word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto Me every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall swear. Surly, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength: even to him (the Son) shall men come; and all that are incensed against Him (the Son) shall be ashamed. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory” (Isaiah 45:21-24).
The Life and Ministry of Jesus
Christianity

Conception:
Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:30-31,35) who follow the Qur’an. But the Qur’an is silent on what righteousness is. Righteousness is up to each Muslim to interpret separately on his own.

Islam
Jesus was conceived by a special miracle not by the Holy Spirit (Sura 3:42-47)

Divinity:
The Father loves the Son,… and He who believes on the Son has everlasting life, and he who believes not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him (John 3:35-36)
Jesus affirms He is the Son of God (Matthew 26:63-64)
He that believes on Jesus has eternal Life (John 6:47)
Jesus is the bread of life, that came down from heaven, and who eats this bread shall live forever (John 6:48, 50-51) and never hunger or thirst (John 6:35)
As the Father raises the dead and made them to be alive so the Son makes alive whom He wills (John 5:22).
The Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto His Son (John 5:22).
All men should honor the Son as they honor The Father. He that honors not the Son honors not the Father which sent Him (John 5:23-29).
Everyone that believes on the Son may have Everlasting life and Jesus will raise him up on the last day (John 6:40).
If you believe not that I am (God) you shall die in your sins (John 8:24).
If a man keep my sayings he shall never see death (John 8:51).
I say unto you before Abraham was I am (God) (John 8:58).
I am the door to heaven (John 10:1-10).
I am the good shepherd, who gives his life for the sheep, Therefore the Father loves me, because I have the power to lay down my life, I have the power to take it again (John 10:18).
I and my Father are one (John 10:72-30).
Jesus said to the Jews, for which good work Do you stone me for, they replied not for any good work do we stone they but for blasphemy; Jesus is only a prophet (Sura 19:29-30) Jesus cannot be God, for no mortal man can be God, and Jesus was a mortal man, for all men are created by Allah. Allah would never lower himself to being a man. How can Jesus, a man be God? The concept of God becoming man is not possible in Islam and was conceived by Jesus followers.
because you make yourself God (John 10:33).
I am the resurrection and the life; he that believes on me shall never die (John 11:25-26).
If you have seen me, you have seen the Father (John 14:9).
I am the way, the truth and the life: no man Comes to the Father but by me (John 14:6).
The Jewish scriptures state the God has a Son (Psalm 2:7,12 & Proverbs 30:4) and they prophesied that the Messiah had to be God (Isaiah 7:14, 9:6), What proof does Islam have that Jesus was only a prophet and not God. Absolutely none! Jesus healed people with leprosy; blind people from birth, the death and dumb from birth, people with all kinds of deceases, raised the dead and cast out demons. Only God can do this.
Muhammad couldn’t heal anyone, or cast down fire from heaven like Isaiah did and he preformed no miracles whatsoever, thus he never proved he was a prophet of God. Anyone can call themselves a prophet of God proofing it is another matter. A prophet must live a holy life as Jesus did. Muhammad’s life was full of sin that he never repented of. If Muhammad was a prophet then all the Caesars before him were prophets also for Muhammad lived his life just like
all the Caesars before him.

Jesus’ Nature:
Jesus committed no sin. He lived a perfect life (1 Peter 2:21-22)

Jesus’ Ministry:
Jesus completed the work God had
Given him. “Father…glorify your Son,
That your Son may glorify you…
I have completed the work you gave
Me to do” (John 17:1,4).

Jesus’ God’s Messenger:
Jesus pronounced that all who will to love Him and obey His commandments that He would prey to Father to have the Holy Spirit of truth to live within them (John 14:15-16).
He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him (John 14:21)
Jesus answered, If a man wills to love Me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come Jesus was considered righteous along with others (Sura 6:86)

Jesus life and ministry were inferior to those of earlier prophets as well as those of Muhammad. (Sura 13:38) states Jesus was inferior because He had no wives and children And His ministry lasted only three years. What nonsense!
Jesus limited ministry was to announce the messenger, Muhammad, who would follow him, Jesus son of Mary said…”I am the messenger of Allah…bringing good tidings of a messenger Who comes after me, whose name is the Praised One Ahmad (Muhammad) (Sura 61:6).
unto him, and make our home with him. He that continually loves me not keeps not my sayings: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father which sent me (John 14:23-24)

The Qur’an to elevate itself, changes the Bible in order to elevate Muhammad above Jesus.

Jesus’ Death:
Jesus died on the cross as the perfect sacrifice for sin as foretold in Isaiah 953:1-12).

Jesus’ Resurrection:
Jesus rose from the dead after three days and nights (Luke 11:29-30). and he was buried and he arose on the third day (Corinthians 15:3-4).

Jesus’ Authority:
Jesus has been given all authority in heaven and earth. “Jesus Christ, Who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand-with angels, authorities and powers in submission to Him” (1 Peter 3:21-22).

Jesus’ Intercession:
Jesus has become the High Priest,
Interceding for His followers.
“Because Jesus lives forever, He has
a permanent unchangeable priesthood.
Wherefore He is able also to save them
for ever that come unto God by him, seeing
He lives forever to make intercession for the
them (Hebrews 7:24-25).

Jesus did not die on the cross, someone else died in his place. “They slew him not nor crucified, but it appeared so unto them (Sura 4:157).
Allah took Jesus to Paradise as he had done Enoch and Elijah. “But Allah took him unto himself” (Sura 4:158).
Jesus does not rule. Only Allah has this power.
Jesus is in able to function as intercessor, but Muhammad is. “Allah’s Apostle (Muhammad) said, Allah will gather all people on the Day of Resurrection and they will say, “Let us request someone to intercede for us with our Lord.”… They will go to him (Jesus), and he will say, “I am not fit for this undertaking, go to Muhammad” (Hadith 8:570)
Note: this statement by Islam is not found in the Qur’an but in the Hadith that is written to explain

what Muhammad meant in the Qur’an.

Jesus’ Return
Jesus will return from heaven to earth to rule forever. And out of his (Jesus) mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations; and rule them with a rod of iron: and He treads the winepresses of the fierceness and wrath of God. And he (Jesus) had on his vesture and on His thigh a name written KING OF KINGS, LORD OF Many Muslims scholars believe Jesus will return from heaven in order to punish Christians and Jews for their failure to except Muhammad as the Prophet, and he will establish Islam as the only religion of the world. “By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, son of Mary (Jesus) will shortly descend amongst you people (Muslims) as a just ruler and will break the Cross and the pig: (Hadith 3:425).

LORDS (Revelation 19:15-16).

Note: again this statement by Islam is not found in the Qur’an but in the Hadith that is written to explain what Muhammad meant in the Qur’an. The Muslims must have the Hadith to explain the Qur’an. The Hadiths were created by Islam to keep the Qur’an with in Islam’s ideology. This supports the concept that the Qur’an did not create Islam, but Islam created the Qur’an to fit its
Ideology.

Jesus’ Judgment
When Jesus returns, He will judge the living and the dead. When the Lord Jesus is revealed he will take vengeances on them who know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Thessalonians 7-8). And I saw thrones, and they sat upon Them, and judgment was given unto Them: and I saw the souls of them That were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and the for the word of God, Which had not witness the beast (all false religions), neither his image (false religious books and idols), neither received his mark…and they shall live and reign with Christ (Revelation 20:4).

Jesus will judge the people by the law of the Qur’an. “Allah’s Apostle (Muhammad) said “How will you be when the son of Mary (Jesus) descends among you and he will judge people by the Law of the Qur’an and not by the Law of Gospel?” (Hadith 4:658).
Note: this statement by Islam is not found in the Qur’an but in the Hadith that is written to explain what Muhammad meant in the Qur’an. We have here a contradiction in the Hadith, if Jesus is not worry to act as intercessor then how can he act as judge? For a Judge is far more important and worthy than an intercessor for it is the judge that rules on the matter and not an intercessor. The Bible tells us the Jesus is both Judge and intercessor. It is Islam not the Qur’an that states that Jesus is unworthily to be an intercessor; but, worthy to be the Judge.

The Holy Spirit
Christianity
The Holy Spirit is God and has all the Attributes of God. “You have lied to the Holy Spirit…You have lied not to men But to God” (Acts 5:3-4)
He is the a person who is the Convictor, Convincer, and Converter of Sinners. The counselor… will convict the world of guilt, or righteousness and judgment” (John 16:7-8). He will guide every believer in all truth. He shall glorify Jesus Christ. For all the Father has He has given to the Son, and the Holy Spirit shall take what the Father has given to the Son and show it to every believer (John 16:13-15).
Islam
The Holy Spirit is the angel of revelation, Gabriel. “we gave Jesus…clear proofs (of Allah’s sovereignty) and we support him with the holy spirit” (Sura 2:253). Muslim scholars Agree this passage refers to the angel Gabriel.
The Spirit is Allah’s own breath. “So as I have have made him [Adam] and have breathed into him of My Spirit” (Sura 15:29). The Holy Spirit is not a person in Islam.
The Holy Spirit indwells every true believer Allah guides no man by His Spirit but only by
in Jesus Christ, guides them, empowers his law. There is no spiritual indwelling and
them to be more like Christ. “By the Spirit no empowering.
you put to death the misdeeds of the
body…You are led by the Spirit of God”
(Romans 8:13-14).

The Holy Spirit inspired men to write The scriptures were written by Allah and sent
the Scriptures. “Knowing this first, that down to man. “Adam said… to Moses, Allah
no prophecy of the Scriptures is of any favored you with His talk and He wrote [the
private interpretation. For the prophecy Torah] for you with His own hand” [Hadith
came not in old time by the will of men, 8:611].
but holy men of God spoke as they were
moved by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:20-21)

The indwelling Spirit of God allows fellow-Allah has no fellowship with man, and His
ship with God. “Don’t you know that you breath does not live in Man, nor is man
are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives whatsoever His temple.
in you” (1 Corinthians 3:16).

Jesus said, “God is Spirit and they that The Qur’an uses the word spirit 20 times, but
worship Him must worship Him in each time they believe the word refers to a
Spirit and truth (God’s word)” creative being that has a fleshly body. Muslims
(John 4:24) “Hereby we know who dwell cannot be born again. They have no spiritual
in Him, and He in us, because He has understanding. For they live in totally in their
given us His Holy Spirit” (1 John 4:13). flesh nature.

Islam cannot understand Galatians 5:17-26 whatsoever, for they are spiritually separated from
the true God of the universe, the God of the Bible. Therefore, they can only understand their god
from a fleshly viewpoint. Thus, they have received the wisdom and spirit of the world, the lust of
the flesh, the Lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the World (1 John
2:16), so they feed only their fleshly wants and desires and they are spiritually discerned.

“Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect (full grown) yet not the wisdom of the
world (survival of the fittest), nor of the princes (rulers) of this world, that come to naught
(nothing). But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery (secret), the hidden wisdom which God
ordained before the world unto our glory. Which none of the princes of they world knew for had
they known, they would not have crucified the Lord (Jesus Christ) of glory. But as it is written,
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things that God
has prepared for them that love Him. But God has revealed (made known) unto us by His Spirit:
for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of
man, save the Spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knows no man, but the
Spirit of God. Which things also we speak, not in words that man’s wisdom teaches, but with the
Holy Spirit teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receives not the
things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because
they are spiritually discerned (separated). But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he is
judged by no man. For who has known the mind of the Lord (Jesus Christ) that he may instruct
Him? But we have the mind of Christ (we always want to do those things that will please Him) (1
Corinthians 2:6-16).

Here Paul the Apostle carefully explains that the natural man is spiritually separated from God,
because the natural man is not interested of concerned with the spiritual things that can come
only form God. Islam totally rejects the Holy Spirit, therefore they can never receive the Spirit of

God. Islam relies on the wisdom of man and totally rejects the wisdom of God that can only come through God’s Holy Spirit.
Islam is built totally on man’s wisdom, which is the battle of the fittest, where only the strong survive through the use of the sword. God’s wisdom is built on love where to be the greatest in the God’s kingdom one must become the servant of all (Matthew 20:25-28), and not king of all, which is a direct contradiction to Muhammad’s life where he killed and murdered to be the Prince of Islam. Jesus who was God incarnate came not to be served but to give his live as a ransom for many, so all those who will love and obey him will be saved, His life was one of serving and not to be served.

The Blessed Trinity
The word Trinity is not in the Bible; however, God in the Bible is clearly called three persons, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit: There are three that bear witness in heaven, The Father, The Word (the Son Jesus Christ-John 1:14), the Holy Spirit: these three are one (1 John 5:7). The Bible without question teaches the Trinity!
I

God the Father
God the Father says, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I Am well pleased”
(Matthew 3:17, 2 Peter 1:17).

I will declare the decree: the Lord has said unto me (Jesus Christ), you are My Son; this day have
I begotten you (Psalm 2:7). Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish from the way when
His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are they that put their trust in Him (the Son)
(Psalm 2:12). Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in
his fist? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you can tell? (Proverbs 30:4).

“And God said to Moses, I Am Who I Am, and He said, Thus you shall say to the children of
Israel, I AM has sent me to you to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to
all generations (races) (Exodus 5:14-15).

I AM, the First and the Last: besides me there is no other God (Isaiah 44:6).

And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of
Israel, I AM has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all
generations” (Exodus 5:14-15).

Hear, O Israel! The Lord our Gods (Elohenu-plural in Hebrew), The Lord is one (echad –in
Hebrew means a “compound one”) (Deuteronomy 6:4). In Genesis 2:24, a man an a woman
come together in marriage “and the two shall become one (echad) flesh.”

Your throne oh God is forever and ever; a scepter of righteousness and hate wickedness;
Therefore God (Jesus Christ), your God (the Father) has appointed You with oil of gladness more
than your companions (Psalm 45:16-17).

And there is no other God besides Me, a just God and savior: There is none beside Me
(Isaiah 45:21). You Shall Know the I, the Lord, am your savior (Isaiah 60:16). For God said,
surely they are my people (Israel), children who will not die. So He (God) became their savior
(Isaiah 63:14).

Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my call, I AM He; I AM the first, I AM also the last. Mine
hand also has laid the foundations of the earth, and my right hand has spanned the heavens:
when I call unto them, they stand up together. All you assemble yourselves, and hear; which

among them has declared these things? I the Lord has loved Him (the Son); He will do His pleasure on Babylon, and His arm shall be on the Chaldeans. I, even I have spoken: yes, I have called Him (the Son): I have brought Him, and He shall make His way prosperous, come you near to Me, hear you this; I (the Son) have not spoken in secret from the beginning, from the time it was, There I AM: and now the Lord God, and His Spirit, has sent Me (the Son) (Isaiah 8:12-16). Here the Trinity is clearly shown by God.

God the Son
Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Before Abraham was I AM” (John 8:58). I and My
Father are one (John 10:30). The Jews answered Him, saying, for a good work we stone you not,
but for blasphemy, and because that you being a man, make yourself God (John 10:33).
“Therefore I say unto you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I AM
(John 8:58).

I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending, says the Lord (Jesus Christ),
which is, which was, and which is to come, the Almighty (God) (Revelation 1:8).

Jesus said, I AM He that lives, and was dead (crucified); and, behold I AM alive forever more,
Amen: And have the keys of hell and of death (Revelation 1:18).

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He (Jesus)
was in the beginning and He was in the beginning with God (the Father). All Things were made
by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. And the Word was made flesh
and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as the only begotten of the Father), full of
grace (mercy) and truth (God’s word) (John 1:1-3 & 14).

Paul the apostle states, “For by Him (Jesus Christ) all things were created that are in heaven and
that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones of dominions or rulers or power. All things
were created through Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things exist (Colossians
1:16-17). “Beware least anyone take you captive through philosophy and empty deceit,
according to the traditions of men (wrong religions), according to the basic principles of the world
(pride of life, lust of the flesh and lust of the eyes, fornication, greed and selfish ambition), and not
according to Christ (God in human form). For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead in
bodily form (human flesh); and you are complete (save, set apart and glorified) in Him, who is the
head of all principality and powers” (Colossians 2:8-10).

God the Holy Spirit
The Spirit of God has made me, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives me life (Job 33:4)
Cast me away not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me (Psalm 51:11).
Where can I go from your Holy Spirit, or where can I go from your presence? (Psalm 139:7).
And the Spirit of the Lord shall be upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord (Isaiah 11:2).
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, He turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them (Isaiah 63:10).
Jesus said, “And I will pray the Father and He shall give you another Comforter (another like Me), That He may abide (live) with you forever; The Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees Him not, neither knows Him; but you know Him; for He dwells within you, and shall be in you” (John 14:16-17). But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things”…(John 14:26). “Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I do depart, I will send Him unto you. And when He has come, He will reprove (convince) the world of sin, and of unrighteousness, and of judgment, because the prince of this world (Satan) is continually judged …Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth is come, He will guide you into all truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall He speak; and He will show you things to come. He shall glorify Me: for He shall receive of mine, and shall show it to you. All things that the Father has are mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and show it unto you… for I go to the Father” (John 16:7-16).
But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?…And Peter said to Ananias wife, Sapphria, how is it you have agreed with your husband to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried your husband are at the door, and shall carry you out. Then she fell down and died…and great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things (Acts 5:1-11).
Conclusion
All three, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are called He. He is a name for a person, separate and distinct from any other person or individual. The Bible states that God, God the Father, Jesus God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit raised Jesus from the dead (Acts 17:31, John 2:19-21, Romans 8:11), in order for this to be true, which it is, all three have to be God. The logical explanation of the essence of God is, He is compound unity. So when God stated let us make man in our image, after our likeness (Genesis 1:26): God the Father was talking to God the Son and Holy Spirit and the likeness is man is also a compound unity of spirit, soul and flesh and the image is, as God has dominion over all His creation, He gave man and female dominion over
the planet earth.
Creation
Christianity Islam
God created all things, life, space, time, Muslim’s strongly states all things were not
matter and energy through His word made through Jesus Christ, God’s Son, but
who is Jesus Christ (John 1:1-4) Allah only made all things.
God created all things in six literal days, Allah created all things but he needed no
and rested on the seventh day rest. “And verily we created the heavens and
(Genesis 1: 1-2:2) (Exodus 20:11) the earth and all that is between them, in six
days, and naught of weariness touched us”
(Sura 50:38). Sura 41:9-10,12 teaches it
took Allah eight days to create the world,
another Qur’an contradiction.
God made man in His own image i.e., There is no teaching in the Qur’an that
capable of fellowship with God. states man was created in Allah’s image.
(Genesis 1:26-27) Man has no fellowship with Allah.
All that God had made was very good Allah is the author of good and evil.
(Genesis 1:31). “say: I seek refuge in the Lord of Daybreak
from the evil of that which He created” (Sura
113:1-2).

Adam and Eve disobeyed God Because of disobedience man had to leave In the Garden, by eating from the the garden which was in Paradise and not on Tree of Good and Evil. They were expelled from the garden and cursed because they had disobeyed God. (Genesis 3:16-24). The Garden was on Earth.
Original sin; Since Adams fall, each person is born with a sinful flesh nature ((Psalms 14:3, 51:5) and is separated from God, and has a heart that is desperately wicked and incurably sick (Jeremiah 17:9) and is under judgment and needs salvation (Romans 3:23).
earth. However man was forgiven, and told by Allah that he had nothing to fear, if he followed Allah’s laws.
Adam repented and was forgiven. There is no fall. Each person is good but weak. Man does not need a savior. “Allah would make the burden light for you, for man was created weak (Sura 4:28). No relationship between man and Allah ever existed, thus nothing was lost when Adam sinned i.e., there is no fall.
Muslims note that Qur’an emphasizes Allah’s creative powers, and that the world is morally and material good, and that good and evil are Allah’s creation. All mankind has to do to get right with Allah is obey His laws, found in the Qur’an and the Hadiths. Muslims are required to pray five times a day as a good work that obeys Allah’s laws.

Mankind’s relationship with God
Christianity
God desires a personal relationship
with man. (Proverbs 3:6, Job 13:3 )

Fellowship with God is hindered by
Man’s sinful nature. “If we claim to
Have fellowship with Him, yet walk
In darkness (unrighteousness), we
lie and do not live truth (! John 1:6).

God reveals Himself by His Son,
His Spirit, and His creation. “In
these last days he has spoken to us
by His Son” (Hebrews 1:2, John 15:26,
Romans 1:20).

God provides for all who love Him.
God knows what is best for his disciples,
therefore he meets the needs of each
disciple both spiritually, materially and
emotionally.
“And we known all things work together
for good to them who love God and are
called according to His purpose. For
whom He fore knew He also predestinate,
to conformed to the image of His Son,
that He might be the firstborn among
many brothers (Romans 8:28-29).

Islam
Allah has no personal relationships with his creation.
Allah has decreed everything before creation. He chooses man’s fate before a person is born. Man lives out what Allah has decreed. Everything is written (maktoob). “Adam said to him. O Moses…do you blame me for the action of Allah had written in my fate forty years before my creation? (Hadith 8:611).
Allah reveals only by his commands. He does not reveal himself but only his will (Qur’an 15)
Allah prospers (materially) those who obey him.
Islam teaches that Allah is unlike mankind and is unknowable. Man is Allah’s slave. The inability to know Allah is fundamental in Islam. Thus Allah is more ready to punish than reward, to inflict pain more than to bestow pleasure, to ruin than build, to hurt than relieve pain.
The Bible teaches just the opposite. The Bible teaches that God loves His human creation and deeply desires to have a personal relationship with every person He created. However this relationship is hindered by sin. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only unique Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). Jesus Christ came to Earth to die for the sins of everyone who ever lived. He bore the penalty for every ones sins. He did not miss one person, past, present or future, when He was crucified and He showed the world that he has the power to over come death when He arose from the grave. So he has also the power to raise everyone who has ever lived from the grave also. A personal loving relationship can be restored through a loving obedient faith in Jesus Christ. A follower of Jesus Christ becomes a son and daughter of God’s and never a slave in God’s kingdom.
“For by grace (God’s love for you) you are saved through faith (your love for God): and not of yourselves: it is a gift (grace is a free gift) of God. Not of works (faith is not a work its an expression of overflowing gratitude-we love God because He first loved us and died on a cross to save us) least any man should boast (we can never boast for He died for us when we were hopelessly lost in our sins).
No Muslim can say he loves Allah. He is obedient to Allah only out of fear and honor and never out of love. It is honor, fear and hate that drives the Muslims who in the Qur’an are commanded to murder not only Jews and Christians but also fellow Muslims in order to obtain paradise -a
huge contradiction.

The Way of Salvation
Christianity
Jesus by dying on the cross for mankind’s sins, offered Himself, as God’s perfect sinless sacrifice, His only unique son. “Now He (Jesus Christ) has appeared to put away sin, by the sacrifice of Himself And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was offered to bear the sins of Many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time Without sin unto salvation” (Hebrew 9:23-28).
Jesus Christ lived a perfect and sinless Life: “My little children these things I write unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and He is the propitiation (reconciler of our sins with God) for our sins: and not for our only but also for the whole world” (1 John 2:1-1).
By accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you have accepted His atoning sacrifice for your sins, thus you will go to heaven and not Hell. “For all have sinned an come short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).
Islam

Absolutely no sacrifice for sins is required or necessary. Allah can forgive whomever he wants, for Allah is not a just. Islam minimizes sin and unrighteousness behavior. Thus no reason to be good person. It is okay to be a evil person, for who knows if Allah predestined you to be evil or good. Thus the crucifixion of Christ was totally unnecessary. This is exactly what a person would expect Satan to say. Also living a faultless life is totally unnecessary to please Allah.
Jesus is faultless. “He said I am only a messenger of thy Lord, that I might bestow on thee (Mary) a faultless Son” (Sura 19:19). Jesus faultlessness means nothing to a Muslim, for He just did it to please his mother.
Every soul must work his way to Paradise. No one can vicariously atone for another’s sins. “each soul earns only on its own account, nor does any laden bears another’s load…”(Sura 6:164) Jesus dying on a cross to atone for another’s sins is not allowed in Islam.
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Roman 6:23).
By faith in Jesus Christ, man will receive the Holy Spirit to guide, direct him and give him power to resist sin. “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also make alive your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwells within you. For as many are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God” (Romans 7:9-17).
When one accepts Jesus as his Lord and Savior, he enters God’s kingdom as a adopted son of God. “Yet to all who receive Him (Jesus Christ), to those who believe (trust in Him) in His name, He gave the right to become children of God” (John 1:12)
Jesus taught and exemplified the daily life as God desires it. the Epistles further explain how this life is to be lived. “Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5).

People by their own efforts, free themselves from the power of sin. Really. Then why didn’t Muhammad free himself from the power of sin, and stop murdering, plundering and raping. No man can free himself from the power of sin.
Man can never become a son of God. Salvation is granted to a person who repeats the Creed: I bear witness that there in no God but Allah; I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah”-and lives according to the Islamic Law. So a person is saved by just a Creed and living by Islamic Law as they Interpret it. No wonder we have Muslims killing Muslims.
Muhammad taught and exemplified daily life as Allah’s desires it Muhammad bears witness to truth. “And those who unto whom they cry instead of him possess no power of intercession saving him (Muhammad) who bears witness unto the Truth knowingly” (Sura 43:86). If Muhammad’s life is to be the example for all Muslims then Islam is in deep trouble, for Muhammad lived an extremely unrighteous life. He was not a pious person at all.
The Bible teaches that a holy God is grieved and troubled by the sinful rebellion of mankind. Did not God cause a world flood to destroy sinful men who were doing what was right in their own eyes? Did He not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah for their sinful behavior of homosexuality? So God wants all His disciples to be holy as He is holy (2 Peter 2:1-22).
God’s eyes are to pure to look on evil (Habakkuk 1:13). He (God) does not remain aloof from the world, isolated in splendor of His holiness. He is the holy one among you (Isaiah 12:6). No God is extremely interested in this planet He named Earth (Isaiah 40:12-31). He is not aloof taking a piss somewhere.
Yet Allah of the Qur’an forgives man based on man’s good works and obeying Islamic Law and saying Creeds and shouting Glory to Allah and Allah is most great. There is no promise of heaven, because Allah decides who will forgive and who he will not forgive based on how he is feeling that day. Only Muslims being killed in the name of Allah during Jihad, or holy war are promised to go straight to Paradise, where each man will receive seventy-two perpetual virgins. Which is another clue this religion is based on man’s fleshly wants and desires.

Women’s Rights
The Bible
It is not good for man should be alone,
I will make him a helper suitable for him
(Genesis 2:18).

And the from the side, that the Lord
God had taken from man (Adam), made
He a women, and brought her to unto
man. And Adam said, this is now bone
of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, she
shall be called women, because she
was taken out of man (Genesis 2:22-23).

And Adam called his wife name Eve,
because she was the mother of all
living things (Genesis 3:20).

God created man in His own Image, in
the image of God He created him; male
and female. God blessed them both; and
said to them, be fruitful and multiply, and
fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over
the fish, of the sea, and the birds of the
sky and over every living thing that moves
on the earth (Genesis 1:27-28)

For this reason a man is to leave his father,
and mother, and cling (hold fast) to his wife
(wife singular), and they shall become one
flesh (Genesis 2:24).

Nevertheless to avoid fornication, let every
man have his own wife (plural), and let
every women have her own husband
(plural). Let the husband render unto the
wife required kindness, likewise also the
wife unto her husband (1 Corinthian 7:2-3).

And unto the married… let not the wife
divorce her husband… let not the
Husband divorce his wife (1 Corinthian
7:10-11).

They said unto Jesus, “Why did Moses

The Qur’an

Silent on women being a suitable helper for men.
Men are in charge of women, because Allah has made man to excel over women (Sura 4:34).
Women have less intelligence than men (Hadith 1:301).
Mankind was create from a single soul, and from that soul women was created for man’s comfort (Sura 4:1).
Muslim men may marry up to four women (Sura 2:28).
A women man have only one husband at at time, and thus sexual relations with only one man (Sura 4:3).
It is acceptable for Muslim Men to beat their wives (Sura 4:34).
Wives are subject to the control of their Husbands (Sura 2:223).
Women was created to marry, and have children but if the wife has no children then, the man may divorce her, for Allah will give him a better wife (Sura 66: 1-5).
A man may divorce his wife by pronouncing it twice (Sura 2:229).
And if he has divorced her (the third time), then Command to give a certificate of divorce,” … Jesus said unto them, “Moses because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for adultery, and marries her who is divorced commits adultery “ (Genesis 19:7-9).
A women’s testimony is equal to that of a man’s.
A women gains salvation in the same Manner a man does.
Both men and women are born sinful, But in Jesus both are equally valued, and both can be saved by accepting Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
There is no discrimination between Men and women in heaven.

she is not lawful unto him thereafter until she has wedded another husband (Sura 2:230).
It is no sin for you if you divorce women yet you have not touched them, nor appointed into them a portion (inheritance),… if you have appointed them a portion, then pay half of what you have appointed, unless they (the women) Agree to forgo it, or he agrees to forgo it in hand is the marriage bridegroom. To forgo is nearer to piety (Sura 2:236-237).
A women’s testimony is equal to only half of a man’s. “He (Muhammad) said so” (Hadith 1:301).
A women gains salvation by pleasing, and obeying her husband (Hadith 1:28).
Women are seen as the major cause of sin in a man’s life and arte to be kept under control.
In Paradise a man may have many maidens (virgins) as sexual partners (Sura 78:33). But no companions (sexual partners are promised for the few women who reach paradise.
Temporary marriage (Muta) was allowed in the early days of Islam. Shia Muslims still practice it though it is claimed to be outlawed by Hadith 7:52. The God of the Bible hates divorce for God made women equal with man. Man is to leave his family and cling to his one wife, and the two shall become one flesh. The God of the Bible does not teach polygamy. Yet Allah does not hate divorce. He allows men to have at least four wives and to divorce his four wives as many times as he wants. Allah clearly teaches polygamy. Here is another huge contradiction between the God of the Bible and Allah. The Qur’an states that the God of the Bible and Allah are the same god: but how can this be? For if the God of the Bible says one thing and Allah say the opposite, then one of them must be lying: thus he cannot be the one true God.

Conclusion
The Bible and the Qur’an are two incompatible books. The Bible contradicts the teaching found in the Qur’an and the Qur’an contradicts the teachings found in the Bible. It is obvious that both cannot be from the same one true God.
Jesus Christ alone has proven beyond all doubts, the truth of His divine mission; by the many great miracles He preformed, and by His resurrection from the dead after three days and the many prophesies He made that did come true and many that are still waiting to happen His birth, life and death had been foretold by God’s called prophets, recorded in Jewish Scripture hundreds of years before His coming to earth and completely verified by the Dead Sea Scrolls. His sinful like proves His divine nature and the fact He is the Messiah, the anointed one, and the prophet just like Moses, God had foretold would come. Jesus told all to love one another and to be kind and compassionate to everyone’s needs. He came down from heaven so all mankind could be saved from their sins. No greater love could God show to mankind than to send His only unique Son to die on a cross, so all who would Love and obey Him would be saved from their unrighteous sins against not only God Himself but also against there fellow man. True Christianity is not following a man made religion but it is living for Jesus Christ. “I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives within me: and the life I know live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20). “For by grace we are saved through faith, not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works that any man should boast. For we are His workmanship created in Jesus Christ unto Good works, which God has ordained that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:8-10).
God shows His unique grace (love) for all men by sending His Son to die for our sins, we return that love by our faith in the saving works His son preformed when He died on the cross for our sins. “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved it is the power of God (1 Corinthians 1:18).
Muhammad preformed not one miracle, and made only one prophesy, and that was the world would come to an end in 100 years. This miracle a course never happened. Muhammad professes Jesus virgin birth and calls Him a prophet (Sura 5:119), yet to Muhammad the death of Jesus was a stumbling block, and so in the Qur’an he rejected the death of Jesus on the cross: thus Muhammad reject the one true God’s plan of redemption for himself and all mankind: thus Muhammad could never be a true prophet of God, but only a false imitation.
Muhammad clearly states in Sura 42:13, God commanded unto Noah, Abraham and Jesus to establish the right religion. Here Muhammad clearly states that the religion taught by Noah the man of righteousness, Abraham the faithful man of God and Jesus the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world, is the one true religion and the way of salvation, andwithout observance of this revealed religion all other faiths are of no avail. What further proof does the Muslims need from the testimony of there own prophet?
The allegations made by Muhammad and his followers that Jesus (the revealed Word of God) had been subsequently corrupted by Christians after the death of Jesus, is a thing that neither Muhammad or his followers could ever prove, and have been shown by this report to be nothing but made up lies. Allah in the Qur’an is unknowable and totally unloving, while the God of the Bible is completely knowable and extremely loving of all His creation.
The first duty of a truth seeker is to examine all the evidence pro and con honestly to determine where the real truth lies. To abandon the idea of truth and honesty leads only to corruption, deceitfulness and dishonesty. To follow any religion blindly without examining its tenants is plain foolishness. This report has clearly shown what the Qur’an and the Bible teaches. They are totally incompatible with one another as fire and water are, therefore you must decide which God you would want to follow: the God of the Bible who is knowable and loves you and wants all to love Him and be in heaven with Him: by believing in His Son Jesus Christ, or Allah of the Qur’an who cares not about you, and does not care if you love him or if you are in heaven at all. It is your decision, for if you chose Allah you will be eternity lost forever, but if you chose Jesus Christ you will be in heaven for eternity.
“Enter you in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which go there in: because narrow is the gate, and narrow is the way which leads to life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13-14). Most all chose the wide gate and the wide road; for the narrow gate is Jesus Christ whom must all reject, and the narrow road is obeying the God of the Bible commandments. Chose wisely or be forever condemned to the lake of fire (Revelation 20:11-15).

Copyright 2008 © -Robert Ricciardi – Biblical Truth Seekers

(Robert H. Ricciardi)

Introduction
Counting all the manuscripts available there are 5,239 of them. However only 45 of them (1%) support the Alexandrian manuscripts and 5,210 of them (99%) support the Received Text.
Those in favor of the Alexandrian manuscripts will argue that the people in favor of the Received Text had very few manuscripts to work with. This is a huge lie. The historical evidence proves just the opposite. There are very few Alexandrian texts even to be found, and there is an overwhelming number of Received Texts to be found.

Today the Word of God is under extreme attack. Bibles of all kinds are being printed. Each new addition claims to be the best addition available. Do these rash statements have any credibility or are they just Madison Avenue sales techniques, to pump up sales. I have heard that over 160,000 Bibles are sold each day. Selling Bibles is big business.
Did God preserve His Word perfect for us today, or was it only perfect “in the original autographs?” If God has not allowed His Word to be preserved perfect, but has allowed His worded to be corrupted, and not reliable, then we have a loving God who doesn’t care if we know Him or not. But we do have a loving God who loves mankind (John 3:16). Therefore we know he would not allow His Word to be corrupted.
The Bible says:
Being born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which lives and abides forever.” 1 Peter 1:22­23
Is God a liar?
“God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent; hath He said, and shall He not do it? Or has he spoken, and shall He not make it good?” Numbers 23:19
HOW DO WE GET FAITH
By the Word of God!
The Bible says:
“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17 “Being born again, not of corruptible see, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever.” 1 Peter 1:23
THE WORD OF GOD IS VITALLY IMPORTANT
“And that from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” 2 Timothy 3:15
HOW ARE WE SAVED
“For by grace you are saved through faith: and not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, least any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8­9
DO WE HAVE GOD’S WORD TO DAY?
“All scripture is given by the inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, For reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” 2 Timothy 3:16 The words of the Lord are pure words… You shall keep them, O Lord, you
Shall preserve them from this generation for ever.” Psalm 12: 6­7
If we believe that the Bible is still perfect and has not been corrupted, then we must answer the question, “Which Bible has God preserved for us?”
For over 1700 years the Byzantine Bible also called the Common Text, Received Text, or the Majority Text manuscripts had been used by our church fathers. Not until 1881­to the present has the Bible texts noted above been abandoned for two other lesser used manuscripts, known as the Alexandrian manuscripts. They are the Codex Vaticanus B and Codex Sinaiticus Aleph. The reasoned used for supporting the Alexandrian manuscripts over Byzantine or the Received Text manuscripts is: The Alexandrian manuscripts found are reported to be older manuscripts; therefore, they must be the most reliable. This statement cannot be verified. It is just assumed to be true. Westcott and Hort, two Englishmen led the fight to throw out the Received Text better known as The King James Bible in favor of the Alexandrian manuscripts, which were and still are today strongly supported by the Roman Catholic Church. Let’s examine the EVIDENCE.
THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE
What about the manuscripts? What kinds are there? There are four kinds of Greek manuscripts:
(1) papyri, (2) uncials, (3) cursives, and (4) lectionaries.
(1)
Papyrus: These are small pieces of papyrus. It is kind of paper, that is very brittle, made from the papyrus plant, which grows plentifully in Egypt. Most papyri do not have many verses on them. It is reported that there are eighty­eight of them (Forever Settled, by Pastor Jack Moorman), thirteen (15%) go along with the Alexandrian manuscripts; seventy­five (85%) go along with the Received Text.

(2)
Uncials: The word uncial means “large or inch long letters”. These are manuscripts written in capital letters, which run together. There are no punctuation marks and no spaces between the letters. There are some old uncials and some newer ones. In all there are 267 of them. Only nine (3%) of them go along with the Alexandrian manuscripts, while 258 (97%) go along with the Received Text manuscripts.

(3)
These letters flow together as our own “cursive” writing does today. There are 2,764 of them, however only 23 (1%) of them go along with the Alexandrian Manuscripts, while 2,741 (99%) go along with the Received Text manuscripts.

(4)
Lectionary: Lectionaries (to read) were portions of scripture in Greek and Latin that were read in churches on certain days. There are 2,143 of them and all of them (100%) line up with the Received Text, not one of them that support the Alexandrian manuscripts.

Counting all the manuscripts available there are 5,239 of them. However only 45 of them (1%) support the Alexandrian manuscripts and 5,210 of them (99%) support the Received Text.
Those in favor of the Alexandrian manuscripts will argue that the people in favor of the Received Text had very few manuscripts to work with. This is a huge lie. The historical evidence proves just the opposite. There are very few Alexandrian texts even to be found, and there is an overwhelming number of Received Texts to be found.
(5) Missing verses: The last twelve verses of Mark (the resurrection verses) are missing in the Alexandrian manuscripts. There are 18 uncial and 600 cursive that contain all these missing verses.
In a court of law, if you had 600 witnesses that said they saw a person murder someone and 18 who said they did not see it happen. Would you accept the testimony of the 600 or the testimony of the 18?
Let’s look at the early church fathers. We have writings by Irenaeus dated about 150 A.D. and Hippolytus dated about 250 A.D. quoting from these last twelve chapters of Mark. The oldest and so­called most reliable manuscripts of the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus were dated between 350­370 A.D. If indeed, the last twelve chapters of Mark did not exist before 350 A. D., where and how did Irenaeus and Hippolytus get them when they quoted and cited them?
We have writings from Ignatius, died in 110 A.D. supporting the Received Text. Yet Westcott and Hort said there is no proof of the Received Text readings before 400 A.D., another huge Lie! Of the reported 100 church fathers whose writings we have from 100­300 A.D. a ratio of 3 to 2 wrote in favor of the Received Text. Today, writers in favor of the Alexandrian manuscripts frequently make the false statement that there are no references to the Received Text before the fourth century. Who is the Father of all lies? Satan; who desperately wants to destroy God’s Word.
MORE EVIDENCE
In 325 the Council of Nicaea, which was called by the Roman Emperor Constantine to not only determined which canonical books should be followed and which books not to be followed, but also to deal with the heresy of Arianism (that Jesus was not equal with God and He never had a human body, but only a spiritual body). The total number of Bishops who attended this Council is not known; the number 220 –318 have been used. However, it is known that 18 Bishops at the Council did supported Arianism. It is also known that the Bishop of Roman and other western Bishops were not at this Council. It was mainly attended by the Eastern Bishops of the Church.
How did Arianism start in the church! It stated with a man named Justin Martyr in Alexandria about 140 A.D., who introduced the heresy of combining pagan Greek Philosophy with the teaching of Christianity. He taught Tatian (120­180), who taught Clements (150­210 A.D.), who taught Origen (185­220). Origin said, “The scriptures have little use to those who understand them as they have been written.” Arius (256­330) was tremendously influenced by these men.
All these men were Gnostics, living in Alexandria, who believed they had superior knowledge and the Christian scriptures should be combined with Greek philosophy, which in their belief was far superior. Therefore, it is no wonder why the Alexander manuscripts would be corrupted. These men had not only tremendous influence over the Christian Church
in Alexandria but also in Caesarea, Antioch and Asia Minor. However those in support of the Alexandrian Texts will say that these Gnostics noted above were great men of God, another huge lie; for an honest evaluation of their lives and writings prove other wise.
Even after 325 A.D. Arianism would not go away. The Roman Catholic Church would still support it and Jerome also was tremendously influenced by Arius. The Roman Catholic Church influenced by Paganism rituals and the writings of Augustine (The City of God) would greatly support the Alexandrian manuscripts where the Orthodox Church would strongly oppose them. Thus the corruption of the scriptures came very early in church history, as predicted by our Lord (Matthew 13: 24­43, The Parables of the: Tares and Wheat, of the Mustard Seed and Of Leaven Bread).
Also, Jesus speaks to this fact when He addresses the seven churches of Asia in Revelation, Chapters 2and 3. Already bad doctrine had taken a foothold in many of the early churches and bad things were happening. They were holding to the doctrine of Balaam and the Nicolaitans and they allowed that women Jezebel to teach and seduce my servants.
1.
In 385­405 A.D. Jerome was asked by the Bishop of Rome to write a new Latin Bible, later called the Latin Vulgate using the Alexandrian manuscripts. The first Latin Bible was supported by the Eastern Church (380 A.D.) however it was written from the Greek text based on the Received Text in the second century, about 120 A.D. This Latin Bible was called the Old Latin Bible, but to the people it was the original Latin Vulgate. Vulgate means common.

2.
From 33­100 A.D.: All of the Apostolic Churches used the Received Text, as well as the churches in Judea and the Syrian Church in Antioch

3.
From 100­313 A.D.; The Peshitta Syriac Bible 150 A.D. used the received text, as well as the italic Church in Northern Italy (157 A.D.); The gallic Church in Southern France (177 A.D.); The Celtic Church in Great Britain; The church of Scotland and Ireland; The Pre­Waldensians and Waldensians churches (120A.D.);

4.
From 312­1453 A.D.: The Gothic Version of the 4th century used the Received Text, as well as the: The vast majority of extant new testament manuscripts, this includes the 99% of the manuscripts available; as well as all the Greek Orthodox Churches; as well as all the churches of the reformation.

5.
From 1453 –1880 A.D. all the Reformation Bibles that used the Received Text are:

Martin Luther’s German Bible (1552)
William Tyndale’s Bible (1525)
The Great Bible (1539­41)
The Geneva Bible (1557­1560)
The Bishop’s Bible (1568)
The Spanish Version (1569)

The Beza Greek New Testament (1598)
The Czech Bible (1602)
The Italian Version of Diodati (1607)
The King James Bible (1611)

Paul in his travels went 100 percent to the area we call Byzantine which included Syria, modern day Turkey and modern day Greece. His travels started in Damascus, in Syria, where Jesus converted him to being a Disciple. His travels took him through Syria to Antioch at the lower end of modern day Turkey, through all the seven churches in Chapter 2 and 3 of the book of Revelations which are all in modern day Turkey to Philippi, Athens and Corinth which are all in modern day Greece. Eventually he ended up in Rome where he was beheaded. None of his trips took him to Egypt. In fact none of the apostles went to Egypt. God’s word tells us nothing good can come out of Egypt. So the Church was started in Jerusalem and spread up through Syria to the east and up through Turkey and Greece to Rome. So it is easy to understand why lots of Bibles would be required in these areas. But the Church didn’t spread down through Egypt for a long time after Paul’s travels. So fewer Bibles would be required in Alexandria..
Who lived in Alexandria were the Agnostics. Men of great learning who believed they were smarter than God and wanted to improve upon His word. They didn’t believe Jesus was God in human flesh, nor that any of his miracles really happened. So they started editing what the Bible taught. They would pick and choose as they chose to correct God’s word. Just like the school of higher criticism and The Jesus Seminar group do today.
There is a lot more.
THE CORRUPTION
The Received Text was received by the all the churches of the Protestant Reformation until the German Rationalism began to doubt it in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, published in 1850, was taking hold of the European Continent. So when Westcott and Hort came in with their argument and deceitful lies, that the Alexandrian manuscripts were older and therefore more reliable than the Received Text manuscripts; the Bible the Church had be using for 1700 years, was cast aside. The Word of God was once again under tremendous attack by modern humanistic, heretical, theology and the Roman Catholic Church. Those in favor of the Alexandrian Texts said that Westcott and Hort were great men of God, another huge lie; for an honest evaluation of their writings prove otherwise.
The Alexandrian manuscripts had many deletions from the Received Text manuscripts. The textual critics are divided into two camps. Those who hold to the Alexandrian text say, the Received Text has many additions. The copyist would add their own little commentaries, thus there were many unwarranted additions. Those who support the Received Text complain that Alexandrian school of text is full of many important deletions.
When it was decided about 1860 A.D. to update the language of the King James Bibles to modern English, deleting the thee’s and thou’s . There were not to be any major changes, by those who were appointed to the committee. However Westcott and Hort had different ideas. With great support from the Oxford Movement and the Tractarian Moment, they would greatly change God’s word. The Oxford Movement under the direction and control of the Roman Catholic Church secret agent named John Newman within the “Tractarian Movement” which was secretly created by the Roman Catholic Church to destroy the Anglican Church (The Church of England) and the King James Bible. In July 1833, the Tractarians called themselves the association of the friends of the church. But they never said which church. John Newman, a strong leader in the movement, brainwashing tactics were so successful that they shifted the thinking of English Protestants and drew them closer to Rome. In 1846 Newman became a Roman Catholic Priest, and some 250 protestant ministers, theologians and near 625 professors, members of parliament, etc. were lead to serve Rome. The Roman Catholic Church states that the Oxford Moment ended in 1845, but this is not true. By the year 1870, so powerful had its influence become, that a theological bias in favor of Rome was effecting men in high authority within the Church of England. Many of the most sacred institutions of Protestant England had been assailed and some of them had been completely changed. The demands for revising the King James Bible were a rouge to really revise the scripture as much as possible towards the Church of Rome’s teachings as possible. So successful was the Oxford and Tractarian Moments against the Church of England, the fact is, today the Church of England does not exist as a Protestant Church at all but a strong friend who strongly supports Roman Catholic Church.
Westcott and Hort as tools of the Roman Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Oxford Movement were strongly in favor of the Alexandrian Text. So they in 1881 made up their new Greek Testament, which was taken fully and completely from the Alexandrian manuscripts.
By the way the two Alexandrian manuscripts do not even agree with one another; there is some 5,000 areas in which they differ.
Westscott and Hort before the translation had even begun stated circulating among the committee their revised Greek New Testament. They pushed and pushed for their Westcott and Hort new translation. Thus, instead of only a view changes being made, there were 5,337 changes made from the Received Text. Now these two men also belong to The School of Higher Criticism. The School of Higher Criticism was in league with the Roman Catholic Church, which also questioned the inerrancy of the Bible. They questioned the authenticity of the Bible. They were the ones who said the book of Isaiah was not written by one person but maybe by three Isaiah’s, and the Book of Daniel was written by two or three Daniels around 200 A.D.; certainly not 480 A.D. as reported. The Book of Genesis never happened, it’s all mythology. Also these men refuse to acknowledge the presupposition that the Bible is the infallible word of God and they state boldly there is not one biblical prophecy that has ever been fulfilled. When confronted with Jesus words they also boldly state Jesus didn’t know what he was talking about. This means they will not recognize Jesus as the God either.
Westcott and Hort with their friends were able to convince and influence the revision committee with the strong help of the Oxford Movement that they had a higher knowledge, so the committee bought their academic argument: that they were smarted than anyone else because of their educational back ground. Today most all the new Bible translations are based on the Westcott and Hort Greek New testament such as the NIV, ASV, NASV and NEV. You will find on that on many of these Bible committees have Roman Catholic theologians on them. So today the Christian Church is being told to believe that the 99% of the manuscripts that have come down through the ages are TOTALLY unreliable and the 1% of the manuscripts that the church
did not use for 1700 years are the MOST RELIABLE! What nonsense! How can this be happening? For the same reason The Theory of Evolution is so wildly accepted when there is no concrete proof for it. If you don’t accept it you will not get a job at a major university or be accepted as a minister in a major religion. The fox (Satan) is not only guarding the hen house he is taken over what the hens produce (what is being taught in Christian Seminaries).
A Brief look at Westcott and Hort’ s views
Hort writing to a friend in late 1851:
“I had no idea till the last few weeks of the importance of texts, having read so little Greek Testament, and dragged on with the villainous Textus Receptus. Think of the vile Texus receptus leaning entirely on late MSS; it is a blessing there are such early ones.”
But the Alexandrian texts are not earlier ones. Who told him they were earlier? Being a Roman Catholic pretending to be a Protestant it had to be the influence of the Roman Catholic Church that led him to state this huge lie.
In 1852 Hort had agreed with Westscott on how exactly they would revise the King James Bible. It is believed that it was really Hort’s idea on how to not only revise the KJB but to dispose of it. Their motto was “the shorter reading is to be preferred”. The thinking was; the longer something is the more corruption it must have.
Westscott writes to his fiancée in 1847:
“After leaving the monastery, we shaped our course to a little oratory which we discovered on the summit of a neighboring hill…. Fortunately we found the door open. It is very small, with one kneeling­place; and behind a screen was a ‘pieta’ the size of life
(i.e. the Virgin and a dead Christ)…Had I been alone I could of knelt there for hours.”
Hort Writes to Westcott, October 17, 1885: “I have been persuaded for many years that that Mary­worship and ‘Jesus’­worship have very much in common in their causes and results.” This proves He was a Roman Catholic.
Hort writes to Westscott, September 23, 1864: “I believe Coleridge was quite right in saying that Christianity without a substantial church is vanity and disillusion; and I remember shocking you and Lightfoot not so long ago by expressing a belief that ‘Protestantism’ is only parenthetical and temporary.” Perfect Catholicity has been nowhere since the Reformation.”
Hort writes to Rev. John Ellerton, April 3, 1960: “The book that has most engaged me is Darwin. Whatever may be thought of it, it is a book that one is proud to be contemporary with… My feeling is strong that the theory is unanswerable. If so opens up a new period.”
Westscott writes to the Archbishop of Canterbury on Old testament criticism, March 4,1890: “No one now, I suppose, holds that the first three chapters of Genesis, for
example, give a literal history­I could never understand how anyone reading them with open eyes could think they did.”
Hort writes to Mr. John Ellerton: “I am inclined to think that no such state as ‘Eden (I mean the popular notion) ever existed, and that Adams fall in no degree differed from the fall of each descendents as Coleridge justly argues.”
Here Hort states that the book of Genesis is a myth, and did not really happen.
Both Westcott and Hort rejected the atonement of the substitution of Christ for the sinners, or vicarious atonement; both denied that the death of Christ counted for anything as an atoning factor. They emphasized atonement through the Incarnation. This is the
Roman Catholic doctrine which defends the Mass as necessary for continual forgiveness of a person’s sins.
Westscott writes to his wife, Good Friday, 1865: “This morning I went to hear the Hulsean Lecturer. He preached on the Atonement. All he said was very good, but then he did not enter into the great difficulties of the notion of sacrifice and vicarious punishment. To me it is always most satisfactory to regard the Christian as in Christ – absolutely one with Him, and he does what Christ has done: Christ’s action become his, and Christ’s life and death in some sense his life and death.”
Hort writes to Westcott, October 15, 1860: “Today post brought letter. I entirely agree
– correcting one word – with what you say on the Atonement, having for many years believed that the absolute union of the Christian (or rather, of man) with Christ himself is the spiritual truth of which the popular doctrine of substitution is an immoral and material counterfeit… Certainly nothing could be more unscriptural than the modern limiting of Christ’s bearing our sins and suffering to his death; but instead that is only one aspect of an almost universal heresy.”
Other members of the revision committee along with Westcott and Hort were William Roberson Smith and George Vance Smith. William Robert Smith in his articles that appeared in the Encyclopedia Britannica on the subject of the Bible: These were filled with speculation and unbelief. He denied the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch. He denied the accuracy of the Masoretic Hebrew Text (The Dead Sea Scrolls verify the reliability of the Masoretic Texts): He denied the reliability and authorship of the Psalms. He later was renounced by the General Assembly of the Free Church as an heretic, yet his writing today are accepted by many Bible scholars.
George Vance Smith, minister of St, Saviours Gate Unitarian Chapel, New York City, had equal vote on the revision committee, although he had plainly and publicly denied the deity of Jesus Christ. A strong public outcry ensued, but Westcott and Hort with other members of the revision committee threatened to resign if Smith was not allowed to participate! He remained on the committee with other modern revisionists. The Word of God that had come down through history, The Received Text, was to be thrown out for the Alexandrian Texts that were never used by the true believer of God’s word. The Roman Catholic Church had one a great battle against God’s Word.
From the beginning Satan has directed his attack against the word of God. Against the work of the Holy Spirit and the atoning work Jesus accomplished on the cross at Calvary and the Deity of Jesus Christ. These are Satan’s major targets. Way back in the Garden of Eden Satan began his attack. First of all, he questioned God’s word: Has not God said! (Genesis: 3:1­5). There are many today even in the pulpit and teaching in Christian seminaries that attack God’s Word. They say, is the word of God reliable?; Can we trust the Bible as God’s word to man? They deny that the Bible is indeed God’s inspired word. They say deceptive things as, the Bible contains the word of God, but which words are really the word of God, no ones really knows for sure. The Bible just doesn’t contain the word of God, it is the word of God.
The shift of authority from God’s word to mans intellect as the right (correct) authority has severe problems. Man gets to determine which words of God were really said and which ones He did not say. One problem that arises is: most men are not in agreement on which words are truly from God and which ones are not.
The second attack by Satan is deleting and changing God’s word in the Scriptures. Satan did this to Eve in the Garden. Has God not said you can eat of all the trees in the Garden?
(Genesis 3:1). Eve knew Satan was not telling the truth, so she replied, “We may eat of every tree in the garden, but of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat of it, neither, shall you touch it or you shall die” (Genesis 3:2­4). Satan replied with a lie,
And the Serpent said unto the women, “you shall not die” (Genesis 3:5). A cleaver deletion of a word, here or there, can change the meaning of a verse completely.
For instants
Matthew 1:24­25
The Received Text: Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the had told him And took unto him his wife: And knew he not till she had brought her first­born son: and he called his name Jesus.
Alexandrian text: And Joseph awoke from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him. But he had no union with her till she gave birth to a son: and he gave him the name Jesus.
What is missing is, first born, which implies Mary had other children after he had Jesus. But because the Roman Catholic Church teaches the perpetual virginity of Mary, by not putting in the word first born and the fact Mary had other children caters to Roman Catholic Church’s wrongful teaching.
Mathew 8:29
Received Text: And behold, they cried out, saying what have we to do with you, Jesus, the Son of God?
Alexandrian Text: What do you want of us Son of God?
Jesus has been deleted. Therefore, he is no longer the Son of God.
Matthew 9:13:
Received Text: But you go and learn what that means, I will have mercy and not

sacrifice. For I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Alexandrian Text: I desire mercy not sacrifice, for I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.
Called sinners for what? What about repentance, it is missing, thus the whole thought has been changed.
Matthew 12: 35
Received Text: A good man out of the good treasures of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil of treasures brings forth evil things.
Alexandrian Text: The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him,
What is missing? The evil in man and his heart is wicked. This denies the depravity of man
and his sinful nature.
Luke 2:33
Received Text: And Joseph and his mother marveled at those things spoken about him.
Alexandrian Text: And the child’s father and mother marveled at what was said about him.
No longer is the Holy Spirit Jesus father, but Joseph.
I Timothy 3:16
Received text; “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; God was

manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached into the gentiles, believed on in the world, received into glory.”
Alexandrian text: “By common confession, great is the mystery of godliness: He was revealed in the flesh, was vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up into glory.
Received text says, it was God who was manifested in the flesh, not He. Who is he? It
does not have to be Jesus Christ.

MISSING VERSES IN THE ALEXANDRIAN TEXTS

Remember there is over 2,500 of them

Lets look at some of them:

Some Bible Verses Totally missing in The Alexandrian Text.

Mathew 18:11: For the Son of man has come to save that which was lost.
Matthew 23:14: Scribes and Pharisees will receive the greater condemnation
Luke 9:56: For the Son man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.
John 7:53­8:11: The women taken in the act of adultery
Mark 13:14: Daniel’s prophesy totally missing as spoken of by Jesus.
2 Peter 3:2: No Holy Prophets
Luke 4:4; No truth in God’s word.

From only just two manuscripts, one in the Pope’s library in Rome, the other found in a
wastepaper basket bin ready to be burned in a Roman Catholic monastery: with two Roman
Catholic men posing as Anglicans, backed by the Roman Catholic supported the Oxford
Movement – are the reasons why in the 20th century the Church is awash with modern
corrupted Bibles.

Corrupted Bibles based on the Alexandrian Text:

1881 English Revised Version
1901 American Standard Version (ASV)
1901,1913, 1917 Moffit: The Historical New Testament
1952,1963 Revised Standard Version (RSV)
1959,1963,1973 New International Version (NIV)
1958 Amplified Bible
1961 New English Version (NEV)
1971 Revised English Version (REV)

THE BEST SELLING CORUPPTED BIBLES TODAY ARE:

Paraphrase Bibles:

The Message Bible: by Eugene Peterson. Rick Warren wants this Bible to be the main Bible
for all Christians. What does this tell us about Rick warren? Volumes. His Purpose Driven
Church and Purpose Driven Life Books are not from God, and he is not a man of God
preaching God’s word, but he is an agent of Satan: changing God’s word to glorify himself.

The Amplified Bible
The Interpreters Bible
The Good News Bible

Dynamic Equivalency Bibles.
The NIV, RSV, ASV, TEV, NEV
The opening sentence of the NIV Bible sounds warning: “The New International Bible is a completely new translation of the Holy Bible.” The first impulse is the NIV is to be as close to the text as possible, but it is not founded on the Received Text or the Hebrew Masoretic Text at all. It has been founded on the Alexandrian Texts and the new way of retelling the truths found in the Bible, which is called “Dynamic Equivalency”, which is nothing more that changing what the Bible is really trying to communicate, based on the committee feelings and how the committee interprets of scripture.
The Christian in the pews, and the laity, follow their pastors and ministers blindly, like dumb sheep. The majority of Christian pastors and ministers have gone the way of Balaam (greed­to make more money) and Korah (pride­to have a large congregation, so they can boast) (Jude 1:11). No longer do they faithfully serve God out of love and obedience, but they server their fleshly wants and desires and they seek after the things of the World.
Satan has taken over most of our Christian seminaries, and men who should know better want to be recognized by men and they thus no longer deny themselves and crucify their flesh daily and serve the one true God (Luke 9: 23­26).
In writing this paper, I know, I will have many so­called Christians finding fault with me. However if they do their homework correctly, they will not be able to repudiate the facts presented in this report. Some will say. “We don’t believe well meaning men would lie to us.” Well this is exactly what the Jewish Rabbi’s were doing to their people in Jesus’ time and continually do today. If you look at the committees that put out these Bibles you will find Roman Catholic priests on many of them and every born again Christian knows the Roman Catholic Church leadership is a cult. Also, you will find many men or women who will not accept the scriptures as God’s word for all mankind. Do I really need to say more?
“Forever, O Lord, your word is settled (established – stands ­never to be removed) in heaven” (Psalm 119:89).
Books I relied on are: Forever Settled A Survey of the Documents and History of the Bible, by Dr. Jack Moorman, Did the Roman Catholic Church Give us The Bible? By David W. Daniels and Defending the King James Bible, By Pastor D.A. Waite
Please read them if you truly want to know the truth!

Copyright 2008 © ­Robert Ricciardi – Biblical Truth Seekers