The Truth Is Better: God Is Ready to Square with His People-The Bible Is Pretending

By Kevin Pruitt

Gain a greater assurance of God's love. Read a book that will change your life forever. God made you and will be taking care of you for always. There is no reason to be afraid of dying.This book instantly changes religious beliefs. Know God, the real God, regardless of your religious background. We're proving how many Bible verses are make-believe. The God of the Bible is a smokescreen, a complete decoy. God is not angry with you. Stop believing in the Bible's scare factors, like hell and the end of the world. Believing a certain way is not a matter of eternal life and death. Stop wondering or worrying about divorce or unmarried sex. You are free to seek happiness and relate to people as you wish. God loves you and would never harm you or anyone else. You were created as God initially intended. This book is proven and supported by many facts and common sense. Everyone is going to heaven. You will see all your loved ones who passed away again. You will live forever. Everyone wants to know what the secret of the universe and the true religion is, and this is it. You can help spread, The Truth Is Better Support Movement, which is divinely guided and the will of God. See the divine revelations on pages 9, 10, and 11.
Two thousand years ago, God felt it was imperative to initiate and implement some form of moral directive. The Bible's stories and teachings were designed to create a certain ideal mind-set in its followers, but its method was to draw upon much fiction in order to do so. So the Bible was not designed just to tell us all that was true, but what it wanted us to believe was true.

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Kevin Pruitt

Kevin Pruitt was raised in Space Coast in Eastern Central Florida and currently resides there. He is divorced and is looking to remarry. He graduated from the University of Central Florida with a medical laboratory sciences degree and has two children. He has become a full-time author. An encounter with God in 1998 changed Kevin’s way of thinking about God and all of life, and now he is both ready and dedicated to helping people full-time.

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Contents

Introduction

1.    Jonah, the Whale, Dagon, and the Ninevites

(Send the Fish God Prophet)

2.    The Pensacola Revival

3.    God as the Wizard of Oz

(and the Crystal Ball Bible)

4.    There Is No Curse of Adam, Fall into Sin, or Need of

Salvation — Here’s All the Proof You Need and

Why It Is So Obvious the Story of Adam and Eve

Is Make-Believe

(First Main Point: The Bible Is Pretending)

5.    Biblical Contradictions

(Second Main Point: The Bible Is Pretending)

Multiple Contradictions for the Alleged Return of Jesus from the Dead

Other Gospel Contradictions

From the Old Testament

6.    Noah’s Ark—Around 2350 BC

(Third Main Point: The Bible Is Pretending)

I.    The Water and the Earth

II.   The Ark and the Animals

7.    In Conclusion

I.    What about Jesus? Lord, Liar, or Lunatic?

II.   Is the Bible True or Not?

III.  Slow to Change

IV.  Sex, Marriage, and Divorce

V.    In Response to This Book

8.    The Truth is Better Final Exam

References

The Truth Is Better Support Movement

I.   What’s next for The Truth Is Better

(God is Ready to Square with His People:

The Bible is Pretending)?

II.  Donations Accepted and Needed

Introduction

Why should you read this book? What will you get out of it? What does the book teach, and what should you believe? IT’S TIME TO REVEAL THE TRUTH.

■ Gain a greater assurance of God’s Love.

■ Read a book that will change your life forever.

■ God made you and will be taking care of you for always.

■ There’s no reason to be afraid of dying.

■ This book instantly changes religious beliefs.

■ Be free of religion while loving and trusting God more.

■ Know God, the real God, regardless of your religious background.

■ This book is ideal for people who wonder if they should be in church.

■ The Bible has never been explained better. See it as it truly is.

■ We’re proving how many Bible verses are make-believe.

■ The God of the Bible is a smokescreen, a complete decoy. God is not angry with you.

■ Stop believing in the Bible’s scare factors, like hell and the end of the world.

■ Once you realize that punishment in the afterlife is totally make-believe, it is just about the best thing to ever happen to you.

■ Believing a certain way is not a matter of eternal life and death.

■ Stop wondering or worrying about divorce or unmarried sex.

■ You are free to seek happiness and relate to people as you wish.

■ God loves you and would never harm you or anyone else.

■ You were created as God initially intended.

■ This is not opinion. All you have to do is accept many proofs.

■ This book is proven and supported by many facts and common sense.

■ It’s a most interesting book and deeply effecting on a personal level.

■ This is the most important book of the century.

■ Everyone is going to Heaven.

■ You will see all your loved ones who passed away again.

■ YOU WILL LIVE FOREVER.

■ This book is very important for the increased happiness of people all over the world.

■ This is the eye opener. This is the answer everyone has been looking for.

■ It’s time to turn on the lights.

■ Everyone wants to know what the secret of the universe and the true religion is, and this is it.

■ You can help spread the, The Truth Is Better Support Movement, which is divinely guided and the will of God. See the divine revelations on pages 9, 10, and 11.

Ecclesiastes 3 says,

TO every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

a time to break down, and a time to build up;

a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

The Bible is a central point of contact for what many people all over the earth believe, but the season is changing. It needs to be understood up front that this book supports the fact that God himself did give birth to Christianity by being with Jesus of Nazareth and giving him certain extra-normal abilities. God authored and condoned the faith. Yet God himself has been pulling our leg about so much, and so have many of his people. The idea to start Christianity was his best hand to play at that time. Everything he has ever done, and is doing, is in our best interest. And it was a brilliant idea, to blend together a strict code of moral conduct and living with an ultimatum. That ultimatum would mean acceptance and eternal reward if you followed and believed, rejection and eternal doom if you didn’t, stated quite simply. Two-thousand years ago, God felt it was imperative to initiate and implement some form of moral directive. The Bible’s stories and teachings were designed to create a certain ideal mind-set in its followers, but its method was to draw upon much fiction in order to do so. So the Bible was not designed just to tell us all that was true, but what it wanted us to believe was true.

This is Green Lights Go for Volume I. The reason this book is titled The Truth Is Better is that the total truth, the reality, is that everyone is headed for a life that gets even better. In the end God won’t be rejecting anybody after they die. His love is unconditional; there are no conditions. This shows a different kind of God’s love for you, yet simple. He is your father, and you are his son or daughter. He is responsible for you in a greater way than earthly fathers and mothers are for their children. And he would never harm anyone.

People will have a chance to feel better after they read this book because if the entire Bible were true, only a few on the narrow path, which is the vast minority of people, will obtain acceptance by God. The vast majority on the wide and broad path will not, as stated in Matthew 7: 13, 14. Also, this book will dispel the notion that our future is headed toward an end-time apocalypse with the world at war, as described in a very general sense in many verses in a few books of the Bible.

One main benefit of this life-changing book is to show people that there is no reason to be afraid of dying. The book is going to dispel many erroneous beliefs in Christianity, and Islam, while also persuading and reaching out to persons of other religions, plus atheists and agnostics, to believe in their Creator. For clarity, I will point out the difference between the Bible’s A) teachings about love, wisdom, and good morality for living and B) what it teaches about history, the future, those things pertaining to miracles, the spirit world, and the afterlife. As an example, the former (A) is what the incredible preacher Joyce Meyer has been teaching us about; the latter (B) is where the duping happens. It has often been an assumption that God dictated each word in the Bible, word for word, to the men who wrote it; hence it has been called, the word of God. But men wrote the books of the Bible, and other men chose the books that were the best of the lot, dismissing certain others. Good enough. Paul the apostle was really good at explaining things pertaining to the new covenant in his letters, so God let him have at it. Paul was allowed to write the majority of the New Testament. Then God gave his stamp of approval to those chosen books and went along with them. We will be discussing how he has had his hand in fueling the fire of the faith in the centuries following Christ until this day.

Not everyone accepts that any religion is true. So there have always been arguments or debates concerning Christianity and questions about whether the Bible is true or not. It seems to always take a shortsighted all or none point of view. I would liken it to two opposing beliefs on both one-yard lines of a football field when the actual truth is more like at the 50 yard line. This is a third point of view that is going to succeed at breaking through the fiction while establishing certain points of the nonfiction. Men of faith and men of science have often been at a great divide, but this book is going to bring the best of both these worlds together. Others may even try to call this belief a cult but in making a certain simple definition of the word cult, I would consider the word to mean any false religion. But this book is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and represents pure truth and the most accurate point of view in religious believing. Therefore, the belief it shows forth is actually the farthest thing in the world from being a cult. And we are clearly establishing and revealing that many all Bible verse believers are actually believing in many things that are very inaccurate as far as reality is concerned and are even quite superstitious.

Explanations will not be complex or crafty. A lot of facts and common sense will be drawn on. I am going to explain about what’s real and what’s not real. So get ready to confront a high degree of realism. As the book continues, you’ll find it to be consistently irrefutable and also overwhelmingly convincing as God intended it to be.

Who I am doesn’t matter. I could be a saint, someone who is unethical, or someone who is somewhere in between. That doesn’t matter because I’m relying on a whole lot of the horse sense God gave me, and so will you. We’ll keep things simple. You should be able to decide for yourself, based on the facts when you see them. In making any decision it is wise to take in as much data as possible before deciding, and this book will contain plenty of that.

One problem is that reading it will cause a crisis of faith in a great many readers. This book will cause much doubt in Bible verses. Many will be afraid because they believe salvation depends on that faith. Many fear the unknown, and to change things now, some two-thousand years later, will be unacceptable to some. We’re not going to be proving things as much as we are going to be disproving things, which is easier. If you believe a certain standard Christian way according to scripture, you’re going to need to allow yourself to be deprogrammed. It takes a person of high integrity to be ready to swerve in a different direction when things begin to be seen differently, yet truthfully. A good judge is impartial, so be your own good judge. And be wise.

I’m actually surprised this hasn’t been confronted before on a wide scale, but people continue to be afraid of the Bible, of what it says, and of God himself. But God isn’t hiding anything. This could have happened at any earlier time perhaps. As a matter of fact, I’m sure he’s more than ready to square with his people. There is a saying: There are advantages and disadvantages to anything. But the advantages have been decreasing, while the disadvantages are on the increase. I speak of the dogma of Christianity itself. The Bible is a very old book and is slowly but surely becoming more and more outdated. It was written for man when times were very ancient and barbaric compared to now. So the time has come to pluck it up, break it down, and keep silence no more, as those verses in Ecclesiastes say. We’ve got to dispel the fear and see his even greater plan and love for all of us.

The main (but by no means only) objective of this book is to show that many Bible verses are fictional so that people can stop worrying about the Bible’s scare factors, such as hell and the end of the world with a great tribulation and World War III. Am I a Christian? You may not think so because of the multiple unveilings of scriptures in order to show how make-believe they are, but if I believe that God sent and was with the man called Jesus and did certain things to ordain Christianity, then I’d say the answer to that question is yes. But I like to call myself a revised and upgraded Christian who sees far beyond the norm. And so can you, starting now. If you are a standard Christian, or even if you do not go to church or you have not devoutly followed Christianity, you can now begin to know God your Father even better than just about any present-day Bible follower. The angry God of the Bible is a smoke screen, a complete decoy. God is not angry with you. He is far kinder than that. He intended to use the religion of Christianity to influence and help people, but following it is not a matter of eternal life and death. You can begin to love him with greater assurance and trust him now more than ever.

God is on my side. I have no doubt of that. As you’ll read in chapter 2, my way of thinking and believing began through a divine revelation at the Pensacola revival, but I find no real need to keep emphasizing God’s direct influence in the matter. All you will need as a reader are logic, simple intellect, reason, and common sense in order to see things as they really are, as I am able to present them. Nevertheless, it was a direct word from the Lord given to a friend of mine and then relayed to me that set in order this proper way of believing and the eventual authorship of this book.

The Pensacola revival was like a clue that time was running out for God’s support of the church. The revival caught fire in 1995 and then slowly simmered to a close, as far as the supernatural, right at the very end of the last century and millennium. God has always known that the Bible is full of pretending. He actually never intended that it be perfect so that he could disassemble the whole thing at a time of his choosing. Or to put it another way, it’s not a screw up on God’s part. The Bible is very flawed but he allowed it to be that way. Otherwise, his relationship with the church would be like a marriage one could never get out of, no matter how much time passes.

This is how God works. He does nothing too abruptly or suddenly. As of now, today, he still officially supports the church, but even now he is phasing it out as he begins to phase in the full truth, as you’ll discover is explained in this book.

Let me point out a few things of note. We won’t be doing any character mudslinging. We’re not into finding fault. We are going to use layman’s terms and explanations so that any high school student can understand, perhaps even those in junior high. Words like according to will be used because there is so much fiction to confront. We’ll try not to use too many words that require grabbing a dictionary to define them. But we will be talking about much error in what various others believe. I’ll be pointing out everything from total error to the downright ridiculous (which is not a nice word) to just a little inaccurate. I am not a meteorologist, genetic engineer, certain kind of anthropologist, or specific kind of scientist. I like to consult Wikipedia and Google for facts. Just in case, I am asking you, the reader, to allow me a margin of error. If 1 percent is mistaken, then it doesn’t really matter because the other 99 percent will be sufficient to convince and drive home what’s needed.

Verses in the Bible will be discussed as they are presented, at their intended and simple face value. I will always quote from the King James Version. I have in the past consulted other versions because of some difficulty in understanding some scriptures in the Old Testament from the KJV, but the New Testament is different and has always been easy enough to understand in the KJV. It is also the most familiar version, so people are most likely to recognize verses that they remember from the King James Version. You, the reader, may wish to have your Bible handy as we walk through discussions about verses in this book.

Allow me to make an illustration. Picture a clock, with its twelve divisions all the way around. Now think of the very center of the clock as the very center of accurate truth. What we’re going to be doing throughout this book is coming from the outside, where there is much inaccuracy in people’s beliefs, and drawing a straight line to that center of truth by explaining correctly how things really are. In other words, think of each of those twelve divisions as representing twelve different angles of approach to the same consistent pattern of truth. Think of each topic as a different angle. Actually, we will be covering more than twelve important topics within all the volumes of this series of books, but I think you can understand the point I’m making. Sometimes when people hear truth, they know it. They may not yet know it, but when they hear it, they are able to recognize it. It sounds right, things fit, it’s reasonable, and it’s perceived as being realistic common sense.

The first two chapters are going to sound somewhat like something written by a run-of-the-mill preacher, but it’s going to be beyond the norm from there. So much bulk value will be accomplished after the reading of chapters 4, 5, and 6. Is what I’m saying true? The contents of this book have the ability, and the power, to change the religious beliefs of the open-minded person practically overnight. It will certainly change your perspective. This pen is mightier than the sword, and we’ve never seen it this wise before. The Bible as it truly is has never been better explained. I suggest you read this book, slow … ly … Absorb what you’re reading. Commit what you can to memory. Enjoy the unravelling experience. Reap the value of God’s intended change. And settle the issue, once and for all, in your life and for your life. Things will never be the same. The books in this series will be the most important books of the century. The timing is right, and the time is now. So read on …

1

Jonah, the Whale, Dagon, and the Ninevites (Send the Fish God Prophet)

From Wikipedia concerning Nineveh: "The English place-name Nineveh comes from Latin Ninive and Septuagint Greek Nineuē (Νινευή) under influence of the biblical Hebrew Nīnewēh ( 336.jpg ) ,[1] from the Akkadian Ninua (var. Ninâ)[2] or Old Babylonian Ninuwā.[1] The original meaning of the name is unclear, but may have referred to a patron goddess. The cuneiform for Ninâ is a fish within a house (cf. Aramaic nuna, fish). This may have simply intended Place of Fish or may have indicated a goddess associated with fish or the Tigris, possibly originally of Hurrian origin.[2]

The book of Jonah is in the Bible, one of the books of the minor prophets in the Old Testament. Therein is the familiar story of Jonah and the whale. I will point out how unique the story is. Usually, the Israelites were supposed to be in and of themselves. Unlike in Christianity, which came later, the people of the Jewish religion weren’t supposed to proselytize the nations surrounding them; nor was that Jonah’s purpose, who was sent to the Assyrian city of Nineveh. In fact, persuading other people to change their lifestyles was indeed uncommon. Yet in this rare story, that was the purpose of the message Jonah delivered. He told them that the city would be overthrown in forty days unless they repented. The story is opposite the one about Sodom and Gomorrah, because those two cities did not heed the warning given them, but Nineveh most certainly did. I once saw a sermon on television that was able to point out that it seemed that after Jonah was coughed up out of the whale near the beach that he swam to, word got out that this person called a prophet had come out of a great fish. People of Nineveh were worshippers of Dagon, who was the fish god. The correlation seems not coincidental. So the reaction to Jonah’s believable warning was immediate and full repentance. The king and the people both went on a fast and sat in sackcloth and ashes. Then, despite Jonah’s disagreement, God decided he would spare the city. End of story.

The whole point of the story was the Lord God had found a convincing way to change Nineveh’s way of living for the better through the unconventional means of pretending. People back then believed in many gods. The true God that Jonah represented wasn’t the important aspect or the main intention of his message. They may have heard about the Hebrew god, but these people were very superstitious and they believed in many gods. So the pagan city seemed thoroughly convinced that a deity and its warning had landed on their doorstep, and they repented. The violence within the city totally subsided, all because of the fish god prophet. The entire story represents a small example of a much greater truth. By pretending God was able to send a more effective message to the people.

2

The Pensacola Revival

The revival at the Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida, began on Father’s Day in 1995. I had been raised a southern Baptist in the earliest days of my youth in Cocoa, Florida. Yet when I was fourteen years old, I began attending a Pentecostal Church of God. (The Church of God and the Assembly of God are similar.) Then I moved to Orlando to attend the University of Central Florida when I was twenty years old. After college graduation I moved back to Cocoa for a while. I wasn’t really attending any church in 1995, Pentecostal or otherwise, so I didn’t know anything about the Pensacola revival at that time. Nor did I know anything about it through all of 1996. I first heard about it in 1997. I read a book about it, Portal in Pensacola. The revival was also featured on ABC’s 20/20 news magazine television show on October 9, 1997. (And a second time in June of 1998) I began to get excited and wanted to go see it. I also went to visit a Pentecostal church in Cocoa Beach, which was being pastored by Tom, a friend of mine. Tom told me that he was going to go to the revival, and he invited me to go along with him. I gladly accepted. So the both of us made the eight-hour drive up to Pensacola in late October 1997. We booked a room at a local hotel and got in the crowded line in the Brownsville Assembly parking lot, waiting to get a seat for the Wednesday evening service. Revival services ran Wednesday through Saturday, four per week. (The church had its regular service on Sunday.) Usually these revival services did things in this order: first a time of praise and worship with music, then a sermon (primarily by Steve Hill, the evangelist), and then prayer time, with the laying on of hands. A select group of people approved by the church wore purple badges and were the ones who would weave into the crowd in order attend to all those people waiting to get prayed for, who were on their feet and crowded toward the front of the sanctuary. Tom and I had split up, but I happened to see Tom have hands laid on him and immediately fall to the floor. Eventually, I reached one of the male prayer-team members and closed my eyes as he laid his hands on me and prayed but nothing seemed to happen.

As Tom and I were walking back to the minivan after the service, which ended around midnight, he asked me, Did you get zapped? I walked calmly with the peace of God all over me, but my reply was, No, not really. I took zapped to mean slaying of the spirit, which is when people feel a transfer of God’s power and fall to the ground, maybe because their bodies go limber. So they fell, and sometimes they even passed out and became unconscious immediately. Back at the hotel, we talked a while and then went to bed. I had a much better than usual night’s sleep, a deeper sleep.

The next day, as we were on our way to the church, Tom asked me, How do you feel? I replied that I felt very peaceful. Then I noticed more than ever that an ongoing impartation of supernatural peace was upon me. I’ll pause here to comment. Many people experience various things in their lives that may cause for them a sense of well-being or being at ease. If someone were to receive a large inheritance, win the lottery, or have some investment come in big, that person may feel a certain relief to know their financial struggles, inadequacies, or dissatisfactions are now over. A man whose fiancée has just said yes to his marriage proposal may feel very glad. A woman who is looking forward to having children and doesn’t yet know for sure if she’s pregnant and yet believes that she is pregnant is going to feel uplifted when the pregnancy test is positive. I’m naming just a few examples from many possibilities in life that may cause a person to feel good. And in religious situations, many people have felt better after things like singing and praying in church, being baptized, or letting it all out in a confession to a priest. Yet none of these things mean that the supernatural peace of God’s Holy Spirit is upon the person. That is when a measure of his actual Spirit is all around you. It’s supernatural. I’m sure if you asked many religious people, Have you ever felt God’s peace? they would say yes, but they probably haven’t. Their answers may be honest, but they haven’t ever really felt that supernatural feeling, and so they have no real point of reference. Anyone who has really felt it is often content to remain still, without moving. This was an ongoing supernatural impartation. I will point out that this kind of peace isn’t something permanent for the rest of our lives for anybody and when it occurs it is usually fairly brief, nor is it limited to receiving it in church buildings. God has sometimes found the opportunity throughout the ages to help confirm something in someone’s life by the timely gift of this feeling. Usually, however, it has been to acknowledge someone seeking salvation at some point in time, what is believed to be the born-again experience. It has helped to increase the resolve of many new and not-so-new Christians over time during these twenty centuries since Jesus’s ministry.

I went to the Brownsville Assembly of God revival five times altogether. The above describes a little about