The Two Gods in the Bible

By Andrew Scrima

This book, The Two Gods in the Bible, is designed and intended to spark and spur the interest of an individual, encourage the intuitive investigative prowess of even the most rudimentary reader to discover and realize the true teachings found and bound within the Bible, and to reveal the secrets and mysteries hidden in between the lines. Not one contemporary or conventional denomination conforms to a strict biblical interpretation, so were left to our own imagination and the infantile illustrations that mainstream media has supplied for decades. Unfortunately, they have been conscientiously consistent with only adhering to and tendering fairy tale versions of the alleged real-life stories details and entailed within. All of which are, in most cases, very far from the truth, according to the Bible. This book exposes the deception thats been conflated by well-meaning but misguided ministers, clarifies the contradictory ambiguity pervaded by the various denominations, and reveals Satans so-called deep secrets actually mentioned in Rev. 2:24.

• Language: English
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• Release date: Feb 23, 2018
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Andrew Scrima

The author, Andy, has been seeking the true truths that he intuitively suspected were mischievously hidden in the Bible most of his adult life. In spite of being a member of The Catholic, Christian, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Mormon, and Jehovah witnesses, he felt a misconnection with the Creator and a maligned misdirection between their various denominational teaching and preaching, and the actual story line and context readily pervade throughout the Bible. After reading, deciphering and dissecting the Bible for TWENTY YEARS, he believes he has indeed found the answers to, the mystery that has been kept hidden for ages and generations mentioned in Colossians 1:26, and even, Satans so called deep secrets Rev 2:24 makes reference to.

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Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1   So When Was The Bible Written, And Who Wrote It?

Chapter 2   Has Anybody Ever Read The Bible?

Chapter 3   The Devil Made ’Em Do It

Chapter 4   OH My GOD!… That’s NOT My God

Chapter 5   In The Beginning! The Beginning Of What?

Chapter 6   The Truth Will Set You Free

Chapter 7   Who’s Your Daddy?

Chapter 8   Who’s The Man?

Please allow me to introduce myself. I am the self-professed, divinely appointed defense attorney for Our Father, the Creator of the universe. I felt and feel an overpowering need and necessity to defend God from all the heinous, atrocious, and inconceivable allegations leveled against him in and through the Bible. The priests, pastors, preachers, and ministers have all just gone along with the program that God is controlling, commanding, manipulative, and murderous. But I’m here today and every day to set the record straight. Someone has to do it. So I’m the One.

You know, as much as we want to believe in the Bible in its entirety, so many curiosities and questions manifest and develop after even the most cursory reading that it makes any reconciliation between the Old Testament and the New virtually impossible. Why would God spend six days and six nights of his precious time creating mankind and the earth, only to realize he made a mistake? That’s right. It seems this God made a mistake. Scripture tells us he was grieved that he made man, and by page 6, he’s ready to destroy the earth and us both within what seems like moments of their creation?

In chapter 6 of Genesis, we’re told fallen alien giants were on the earth in the days of the flood and also afterward in spite of the flood supposedly destroying everybody and everything. We know they survived the flood since they were living in the promised land during the Exodus and the Hebrews were commanded to destroy everything that breathes, including the Nephilim.

Even though sons of god are mentioned twice in chapter 6, it’s not clear whether or not they are the Nephilim or actually sons of god. Are they supposed to be one and the same? It’s not discernable from the wording, sentence structure, or verse, but we are told that the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. So what happened to the sons and daughters of the sons of God? God’s great-grandchildren?

The God in the Old Testament is angry, hateful, vengeful, murderous, and jealous; but the one in the New Testament is loving, kind, compassionate, and forgiving. Theoretically, and theologically, the Lord in the Old Testament chose the Hebrews out of all the peoples on earth to be his children, his prized possessions, but if we are all from Adam and Eve, what choice did he have? According to the Bible, they were supposedly and allegedly the only people on the planet.

Why would God choose a people out of all the peoples on the earth that even according to his own observations and admissions were a brood of evil doers (Is 1:4) and they do all the evil they can (Jer 3:5)? Right up front in chapter 6 of Genesis, the author tells us, The Lord saw how GREAT man’s wickedness had become, and that EVERY INCLINATION of the thoughts of HIS HEART were only evil ALL THE TIME (Gn 6:5). I guess he didn’t see that coming. Or did he?

How can so much evil and wickedness come from a loving and righteous God?

If Noah and his immediate family were the only ones to survive the Flood, how did evil proliferate and profligate right after the Flood and continue to this very day, unless it was Noah, his sons, and their descendants that were and are the evil, wicked men? I’m just askin’.

Is it purely coincidental that all the prophetic books call the Hebrews Jews, Israelites, whatever, evil, wicked, and according to Jeremiah 3:5, They do all the evil they can? If these men were so evil and wicked and their God said they were, why did he choose them, and why would he constantly command these evil people to kill, slaughter, and maim men, women, even children and infants? In some cases, they even killed the animals.

Why would he command them not to kill then command them to destroy everything that breathes? Why would he command them to kill everything that breathes then dictate anyone who kills a human being must be destroyed, all the while killing his own children by the tens of thousands at a time? If God made all mankind, why would he instruct one group of people, his chosen people, to exterminate all the other people who were apparently not his people? Theoretically, aren’t we all his children? Why would the Lord send Moses to ask Pharaoh to set my people free, all the while Hardening Pharaoh’s heart not to let them go? (Exodus 7:3). Why would this God instruct the Hebrews to plunder (rob) the Egyptians or all their silver and gold and then once out in the desert, have them pay him a Ransom for their freedom and their very lives? Did he need the money to pay bills or something? Why would he extricate the Hebrews from enslavement to the Egyptians, only to sell them to their enemies ALL AROUND …, according to Judges 2:14? Then in turn, turn around and sell them again in Ju 3:8 and again in Ju 4:2 and again?

Why was this God’s power apparently limited to the point where he couldn’t defeat a people that had iron chariots in Judges 4:3? Why does the Bible tell us God doesn’t lie or change his mind in Numbers 23:19 then supply dozens of examples where the Lord changes his mind and seemingly lies? Why does the Bible only date Adam and Eve back 5,777 years when we know for a fact that mankind existed long before that? Heck, we’ve found pottery older that that!

Why does the Bible tell us Jesus said, no one has ever seen God, when in the adverse opposite, it repeatedly tells us he appeared and plenty of people have claimed to have seen him?

Why does the Bible tell us in 2 Samuel 24:1 that it was the Lord that incited David to take a census of the people, but then in 1 Chronicles 21:1, it says, Satan rose up … AND INCITED David to take a census? Yes. It was the same census. Compare the two.

All these questions should invariably lead to the quintessential query: Was the (Old Testament) Lord really God, the Creator? You may be surprised at the most obvious, absolute, and unequivocal answer.

Foreword

I was born in a small town in the East, baptized and circumcised (on the eighth day) a Catholic. At the age of five, I entered a Catholic school. For the next eight years, I attended Catholic school and church religiously. I took catechism (a fancy word for programming), said my prayers, repented, and made my confessions to a priest that I called father. We were poor, but my mother, God rest her soul, always made sure we had an offering on Sunday morning. I breezed through elementary school earnestly seeking to meet God’s approval. I was in the choir, on the basketball team, and served as an altar boy. Life was good. As long as I obeyed the Ten Commandments, confessed my sins, and did my penance, I believed I was going to heaven.

Upon completion, I entered the public school system. I quickly fell away from the theology of the Catholic religion. I didn’t feel comfortable with all the requirements and archaic traditions their denomination demanded and exercised, let alone kneeling on skinny wooden rails. For the next seven years, I would live what would be considered a pagan life. Atheistic in actions, but a Christian in my soul. I wasn’t a Goody-Two-Shoes, but I wasn’t a bad boy either. I was adopted into the Mormon religion in my early twenties through marriage. After the Catholic indoctrination, I quickly realized that a man named Mormon made up his own rules and started his own religion. All of a sudden, their god was my god and he was different from the Catholic god I had when I was young. I had to learn a whole new set of principles. I was still young in my mind, and I thought it was curious that there was more than one religion. I went back to a pagan lifestyle for two years but was incomplete. I was raised and taught that there was a God, and I wanted to find him.

Somewhere among and between the denominations I believed I would find the truth. At that juncture, I began a long and arduous journey seeking the word (Truth), redemption, and salvation. After all, I was a sinner. I joined a Methodist church to see what their method was. I wasn’t impressed. After the sermons and speeches, in the end, all they wanted was my money. I was encouraged to complete a form declaring my income and how much I was going to offer to the church over the next year.

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I walked away discouraged and disheartened that their primary concern seemed to be how much money I could give and not the truth. Maybe they thought I couldn’t handle the truth. But then again, you can’t teach what you don’t know.

Since I was baptized by the Catholics, I thought the Baptists may have been the answer. I attended a couple of Baptist churches but never felt at home. Like Jesus said, They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Naturally, the Christian denomination started to become not only popular, but also seemed to be the closest to the Bible. I mean, after all, they named their denomination after Christ. How bad could it be? Being a Christian has got to be the easiest religion (belief) to adhere to. You can go to church, but you don’t have to. Just believe whatever we tell you to think you see in the scriptures. You don’t have to know the whole Bible, just John 3:16. You don’t need to obey or adhere to the Ten Commandments. Especially the fourth commandment. You can work on the Sabbath and God is OK with it. Just believe. Even the first commandment is superseded by the interjected ideology that Jesus is the son of God, and that makes him GOD and you can worship him. Now it’s not God, it’s Jesus Christ is Lord.

Before I began to conduct a thorough investigation into the Bible, I decided to indoctrinate my son into Christianity. By the age of nine, he believed that God sent his only son to die for our sins, which invariably allows us to continue sinning, and Jesus has them all covered. But these beliefs weren’t biblical. It didn’t sound like Jesus was the son of God, let alone a god himself. When The rich young man in Mark 10:18 asks Jesus, Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? Jesus replies, Why do you call me good? NO ONE is good-EXCEPT GOD ALONE. Then there’s 1 Timothy 2:5 that tells us, For there is ONE GOD and one mediator between God and men … Wow! Apparently, Jesus wasn’t God or even THE ONE ALONE that is and was Good. As a matter of fact, Jesus merely called himself the Son of man some seventy-seven times. Heck, as far as this son of god thing goes, look up Luke 3:38 where the author lists Adam (yes, that Adam) as THE SON OF GOD. Another curiosity is that even though the title/name Christ is supposed to mean peace-bringer, in Matthew 10:34, Jesus is quoted as stating, Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth.

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I did not come to bring peace, BUT A SWORD. What? That can’t be right. They told me that Christ means peace bringer and that he will bring peace. Not according to Jesus. Why the mix-up? I’m counting on these fundamental tenets to be able to believe in them.

And if Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, why does Ephesians 5:3 warn, But among you there must not be EVEN A HINT OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY, OR of any kind of impurity, or of greed because these are improper for God’s holy people … Why? What’s the difference if he died for THOSE sins too? Hebrews 10:26 tells us, If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH then NO SACRIFICE for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Nah. He wasn’t the sacrifice, and he didn’t die for your sins. You have to die to them. First Timothy 2:3–4 says in essence, …live peaceful and quiet lives in all GODLINESS AND HOLINESS. This is good, and pleases God OUR SAVIOR, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of THE TRUTH. Wow! How many of us Christians are godly and holy? Not many. Also notice that it indicates that GOD is the savior, not Jesus. He was just a son of God.

Then it turns out from a study of associated scriptures that Jesus wasn’t the only son of God. There were sons of God way back in chapter 6 of Genesis. Adam was supposedly THE son of God according to Luke in 3:38, and in Galatians 3:26 Paul tells the Galatians, YOU ARE ALL sons of God. Oops. Time for another denomination.

For a brief stint, I tried the Calvin cult. But when they started to eat Jesus’s body and drink his blood, I ran out the door screaming. Somewhere along the way, I understood that God had a name, and I was told it was Jehovah. So what else, I joined the Jehovah Witnesses. The pretense of their theology was sound, but once again the requirements were astringent. I thought praising the Lord had to be easier than what these religions had in mind.

The last stop of my search for salvation came at the hands of the Seventh-Day Adventists. A new and novel concept was introduced that I found intriguing.

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Saturday was the Sabbath, and the Sabbath was holy.

That’s all I got out of that. Sure, they had their own idiosyncrasies, but what church doesn’t? After seeing differences between the various denominations, I began an extensive and exhaustive study of the Bible on my own. But the more I read, the more questions I had. Unfortunately, the pastors, priests, and deacons I had encountered couldn’t answer most of them.

I scoured the Bible and found 145 references to God’s name, but when I asked the church why we don’t call him by his name, they said it doesn’t matter what his name is as long as we worship him. I thought that was peculiar and set out on what turned out to be a lifelong quest for answers.

I realized that I would have to do the hard work that takes to decipher the Bible myself. I wanted answers. I wanted the truth. As I read the Bible, I found a number of discrepancies that brought the entire concept of theology into question. But I felt the spirit in me, and I had to bring it out. I read the Bible obsessively and incessantly, seeking the truth on my own. After reading the Bible over and over again, a pattern developed that disturbed me. The loving God that I learned to seek out and desire had a dark side that was never exposed or discussed through the various denominations.

In the Old Testament, he would strike thousands dead on the spot because they angered him. The only way to appease this God was to kill his enemies when he commanded and worship him as God. Moses, Joshua, Saul, and even David all killed in the name of the Lord. The list goes on and on, all at the direction and instruction of the Lord. As I perused the Bible, particularly the Old Testament, I would read the continuous verses where the authors tells us God kills his chosen people over and over again from the Exodus through the David dynasty.

And don’t forget, he killed everyone on the planet right from the git-go except for Noah and his immediate family.

Our first reaction is to believe that they deserved it. After all, God wouldn’t kill or have us kill for no reason. But when the Lord instructed his chosen people to kill men, women, children and infants, I became suspicious. I wasn’t sure if this was my God, the God I believed in. My God loves, this one hates. My God gives life, this one caused death and destruction.

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He instigated and incited the Hebrews to slaughter hundreds of thousands of God’s other children, and I didn’t know why. I had to know why.

One day as I was outside tending to some necessary repairs that needed done, a presence came about me, imbuing me with an indescribable love and warmth that I have never felt before.

This sensation actually spoke to me, but not in audibly perceptive verbiage; it was more like he spoke through my own mind.

He simply asked me, What’s more important? All your worldly possessions or me? I said, "You, of course. You gave me all I have and would gladly give it away to have you as my Father.’ That’s when he told me to walk away from everything but the clothes on my back, go out in the middle of nowhere" Arizona, and find the truths hidden in the Bible. I didn’t know there were truths hidden in the Bible until I read it because not unlike most Catholics, Christians, Baptists, and Lutherans, I just believed what I was told to think. I relocated to a region extremely uninhabited and began my studies without any distraction.

I didn’t search the scriptures, I tore them apart. I dissected them like a frog in biology class. Over the period of twenty years I had been reading the Bible, but now for eight months straight, I researched and analyzed the entire Bible with an objective perspective and not a preconceived denominational slant. I literally read it a hundred times. I had to. It was and is that confusing and contradictory at times.

I believe I have come to a logical, rational, and pragmatic conclusion on reoccurring fundamental themes based on all the evidence and information in the Bible, and not just the denominational quips tendered by the various denominations. The first and most poignant and important aspect I realized was that an impostor had entered the fray of the Bible’s infrastructure and impudently impersonated God, our Christian Father. Unfortunately, assuming that this character in the Old Testament was God the Creator, the various authors were invariably vilifying the Creator and were maliciously slandering Our Father’s name. He’s been portrayed as this mean murderer, angry aggressor, and vindictive villain, and I wasn’t having none of that.

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I spent most of my life searching for God and the truth, and when I actually found it in the Bible, I was dumbfounded, perplexed, and infuriated.

Someone had obviously conspired to defame and incriminate the God I love, in and through the Bible. Now you’ve gone too far, I said. That’s my God and Father you’re slandering, demonizing, and defaming.

During my twenty-year theological journey, I had incidentally studied law as a hobby, not knowing the significance it would have later on down the road.

I know, get a life. Who wants to read the Bible and study law? I do. I did.

I didn’t understand the Bible in its entirety, and that was now my sole goal in life.

Well, God works in mysterious ways. Here I am twenty years later, a counsel of the highest order. A defense attorney for the Creator himself. I have accepted and assumed the mantleship of the Creator’s legal, moral, and theological defender and advocate. After finding these secrets and mysteries, it is my duty as a true Christian to defend him. No one else has.

We’ve all accepted the allegations portended in the Old Testament and church that God could and would command you to love, obey, and kill for him, or, in the alternative, strike you dead on the spot like he did to Uzzah if you didn’t obey him. In Leviticus 26:29, he threatened to make his Children eat the flesh of their sons and daughters and make their life a living hell if they didn’t follow every jot and tittle of his rules, laws, decrees, and of course, commandments. See Deuteronomy 28:15–63.

Unfortunately, the contemporary pastors, priests, and ministers have allowed these slanderous accusations to be leveled against the God we believe in without challenging Judean Orthodox teachings and testing everything like Paul advises in 1 Thessalonians 5:21. Instead of any of the contemporary authorities questioning the accusations, investigating the insinuations, considering the source, or exposing the deceit even they have been subject to, and defend our Father’s reputation, priests, pastors, and ministers have all accepted the presumption that it was indeed the Creator espousing hate and contempt for Jews and Gentiles (anyone not a Jew) alike when they regale us with Old Testament scriptures.

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God will kill or condemn you to eternal damnation for not obeying. That didn’t sound like my God. I had to know the truth.

Enough about me, I’ll let the book tell you about him. Be sure to read it with your eyes wide open. He deserves it and so do you.

But first, shed the blinders of denominationalism and know the truth when you see it with your own two eyes. That’s the least we can do. And when it comes to the Bible, we seem to do the least we need to do. But I wanted to know more about the Bible, the truth, and spirituality. After studying the Bible, I believe I found and know the truth.

In the immortal words of Paul, I . . . speak a message of wisdom among the ‘mature,’ but not the wisdom of this age OR of the ‘rulers of this age,’ who are coming to nothing. NO, we (I) speak of Gods (The Father’s) SECRET wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined FOR OUR ‘Glory’ BEFORE TIME BEGAN (1 Cor 2:6–7).

Like Paul states in Colossians 1:25, I have become its (the truth) servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word (the truth) of God in its fullness (entirety) -the MYSTERY that has been kept HIDDEN for ages and generations, but is now disclosed to the saints. Saints! That’s how highly God thinks of you. The least you can do is read on. You might learn something.

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You can’t believe everything you read?

The Old Testament is a compelling compendium of complex, contradictive, and controversial compilations collated, comprised concurrently by clerical correspondents committed to coloring their commander as the consummate Creator. Nevertheless, there is a veritable cornucopia of questionable curiosities that need to be considered prior to adhering to a presupposed stringent belief system outlined and defined by others.

There. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s get down to examining the Old Testament for the truth and the New Testament for insight and discernment.

Ready … set . . . go!

Welcome to the most intensive, interesting, and informative Bible study you could ever imagine. I guarantee it. We’re going to seek out and destroy the false teachings fallaciously gleaned from very sporadic and specific scriptures that speciously support the tenets and doctrines of the various Western religions that only appear, on its face, to be predicated on an accurate biblical accounting. Along the way, I am going to reveal some of the secrets and mysteries hidden in the Bible that Paul and Jesus refer to and at the same time to expose the so-called deep secrets of Satan mentioned in Revelations 2:24. I suggest you obtain and utilize the New International Bible since that is the one with the most recent modernized English verbiage and vernacular, not to mention it is the one most widely used and accepted around the world. You will definitely want a good ink pen and a notebook or two for jotting down important scriptures and verses to research and corroborate later. You might want to even fashion a seat belt of sorts for when we get into some of the more shocking and fascinating aspects hidden in the Bible.

Introduction

In the immortal words of Paul in Romans 12:2, Do not conform any longer to ‘the pattern’ of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. In Romans 13:11, he states, The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than we first believed. And finally, Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves (2 Cor 13:5). By the way, my posits and I do come with a DISCLAIMER.

BE AWARE: The viewpoints, assumptions, opinions, and conclusions stated and claimed in the following segments are probably, no definitely going to seem provocative, peculiar, blasphemous, and contrary to most biblical teaching, Religious belief systems, and what we consider the common Theological knowledge of Christianity. Nevertheless, the book of Romans warns any senseless, secular skeptics by stating, But for those who are self- seeking and who rejects THE TRUTH and follow ‘evil,’ there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for EVERY HU-man being who does evil … (Rom 2:8).

This book is the truth, according to the Bible, because this book is according to the Bible. Not the movies and not the false teachings of the priests in Jeremiah 5:31 that rule by their own authority. Jeremiah 7:4 warns us, Do not trust in deceptive words, and in verse 8, the Lord says to the people, But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. In Matthew 16:6, even Jesus warned the people, Be on your guard against the ‘yeast’ of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Save yourself! Read this book intuitively, completely, and if necessary, repeatedly.

I don’t know how much time, research, effort, and cross-referencing any of you have done in searching, I mean, really searching for the truth, but I have spent tens of thousands of hours extrapolating, considering, correlating, and postulating the ideas contained in this book. I absolutely and adamantly encourage the reader to open the Bible and check the verses I quote or evoke at the same time you contemplate the particular point at hand. But I also excoriate you to open your mind to the possibility that the presumptions I portend are actual and factual. In other words, I could be right, even if it’s not what you thought.

After all, if it’s the truth you want and not some false cotton candy approach to salvation and eternal life, it would behoove you to consider all plausible and logical conclusions, along with all the biblical dissertations and citing rendered.

It’s important to understand, your spiritual life is actually predicated on what you believe in your mind and in your heart. In Deuteronomy 10:16, the people, we’re told, circumcise your hearts, and verse 11:18 says, fix these words of mine in your hearts. In the Bible, the heart is so important esoterically speaking that it is mentioned some 205 times. And then you have over seventy-five references to our hearts being involved in our thought process along with our minds. More or most notably is when Jesus states in Matthew 15:8, they honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Let’s change that. Let’s stop paying Jesus lip service and use our hearts and minds as well to honor him by learning all we can about the truth and not what we’re told to think.

When it come to the Bible, most, if not all of us think we got it all figured out, even if we haven’t read it. Then when we do go to church we’re told what to believe; so trusting the pastors, ministers, and priests, we blindly believe what we’re told to think. That’s convenient for them but confusing for us because sometimes what we’re told to believe doesn’t make sense when we compare the verses with other associated scriptures. We’re told how what seems to be plain and simple sentences are meant to be considered, even though there’s an obvious and literal [alternative] intendment. What do we really know on our own? We’ve probably never read the Bible in its entirety.

If you are at all theologically inclined, you naturally believe in God. Some of us even go to church to worship God. When we do go to a church, we’re quoted sporadic, vague, abrupt, and sometime specious scriptures to authenticate and substantiate that particular denomination’s doctrines. In essence, the word scripture means the act of writing a script. Scripts are used in movies and plays to supply and inform the actors with what they are supposed to say and do, let alone act.

In church, the script-ures are sometimes used and often construed by a particular denomination to mischievously dictate what we’re supposed to think and believe in spite of what we see with our own two eyes.

We’ve seen religious movies regarding various biblical accounts, but believe me, they are far from the actual (story line in the Bible) biblical version.

The way a particular denomination interprets scriptures creates the doctrines that formulate the basis for their religion. A doctrine is the basic, and I mean basic principle that a particular denomination adheres to. Whatever they believe you’re supposed to believe (if you want to fit in with them).

Baptism, communion, stations of the cross, signs of the cross, confession, circumcision, and penance. Some believe in handling snakes, drinking poison, or speaking in tongues. Even eating Jesus’s body and drinking his blood are included in more and more churches as a means of worship. Then you have the more traditional and fundamental teachings, such as God made man in his image and likeness, God lives in heaven, and Jesus died on the cross for your sins." Don’t question or challenge their teachings and preaching, or you can just go find yourself another church.

Then again, if you don’t go to a church, give the church 10 percent of your gross income otherwise known as tithing and believe what they believe, according to them, you’re going to hell. Wait until you hear the irony in that premise.

It seems like it’s hard enough for us to even go to church for an hour or two on a Sunday, let alone actually read, reread, decipher, intellectualize, analyze, dissect, and assimilate the whole Bible ourselves. Who’s got the time? I do! I have dedicated thousands of hours repeatedly reading the Bible in its entirety. I know, thousands of hours? Get a life.

THIS IS MY LIFE! I have dedicated the last twenty years studying the Bible and any other possible related subject matter. Unfortunately, aside from the Bible, there really is no other source of substantive evidence available to corroborate the assumptions and presumptions created by the various denominations gleaned from their interpretation of the Bible.

But due to the incongruence and inconsistencies of their differing beliefs, it’s self-evident that they can’t all be right—but believe me, they could all be wrong. I’m just sayin’.

Since Jesus told us, The truth will set you free, I’ve trained myself to read in between the lines of the Bible as well as the actual verse and scripture with an objective, discerning intuition to find the truth.

As a result of my exhaustive and extensive research, I’m pretty sure we haven’t been told the (whole) truth. As a matter of fact, I know we haven’t, as you will soon see.

In the book of Numbers, verse 20:11, scripture tells us, Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff, but later on in the book of Psalms 78:20, the author indicates that GOD struck the rock, and water gushed out. So who struck the rock? I guess it depends on who you ask or what book you’re referencing.

In another instance, according to Matthew 27:5, Judas returned the money he received for betraying Jesus then went away and hanged himself. But in Acts 1:18, the author tells us he bought a field with the money he got and there he fell headlong in a field and his guts spilled out. So what happened to the money and how did he die? There’s two totally different stories. When I confronted a minister with this curious contradiction, he actually told me that his denomination’s interpretation, and the only possible explanation, was that while he was hanging himself, it was in a field, and when the rope he was hung on broke, he fell headlong on the ground and his guts spilled out because nothing in the Bible can be wrong. God wrote it. Good luck with that.

But then when pressed further about the silver Judas received, he couldn’t explain why there were two different versions of what Judas did with the money.

See, when you minister the Bible around me, you gotta be quick on your feet. I ask a lot of questions. I don’t know about you, but I just want to know the truth.

We all know about the Great Flood: IT WAS IN ALL THE PAPERS. But did anybody notice that there’re two versions of how many animals Noah took on the ark? Genesis 6:19 tells us GOD commanded Noah You are to bring into the Ark TWO of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. That was God.

But then just five sentences later, the Lord then says to Noah, Take with you SEVEN of every clean, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate. What? Unclean animals? God didn’t say anything about making unclean animals in Genesis 1:25 or taking unclean animals on the ark in Genesis 6:19, but there it is in Genesis 7:2. Can God even make unclean animals? This one did.

So how many animals did Noah take? Did he listen to God and take two of each, or did he listen to the Lord and take seven of every clean and two of every unclean? Or did the Lord change his mind about only taking two of every clean animal and decided at the last minute that we’re gonna need some unclean animals to eat after the Ark lands? Nah. That can’t be.

Numbers 23:19 states, GOD is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should change his mind. And scripture, any scripture can’t be wrong, right? But then again, it did say, God does not change his mind, but it didn’t say anything about the Lord, or The Lord God not changing his mind. Aren’t they one and the same? You’ll see.

Another controversy is something as simple as Jesus last words on the cross. Have you even noticed that there are three different quoted versions. Matthew and Mark indicate and agree that Jesus stole a line right out of The Old Testament in the book of Psalms, 22:1, where David supposedly said, My God, my God why have you forsaken me. See Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34. But then Luke tells us his last words were into your hands I commit my spirit, which is also taken right from the book of Psalms (31:5). And then last but not the least, John, the Apostle Jesus loved, quotes Jesus, saying simply it is finished in John 19:30. What did Jesus really say? I better go ask my minister. There’s three very different versions. I’m sure his explanation will be interesting and entertaining. You know how they like to make the Bible fit their denomination’s interpretations?

I don’t know how you could reconcile this discrepancy unless you fall back to the fail-safe position of it’s all of the above or it really doesn’t matter as long as you believe. But how do you know what to believe if there are three different versions? Does it matter to you what he said? It should.

If the truth will set us free, how are we supposed to know what the truth is when you have different versions of the truth?

How are we supposed to know the truth when we’re told the prophets prophesy lies in Jeremiah 5:31?

Or that the prophets and priests alike all practice deceit according to Jeremiah 6:13? And then there’s Jeremiah 8:8 where we’re even told the lying pen of the scribes, the guys that wrote the Bible, handled IT falsely.

And Jeremiah 7:8 even reveals that they, the little people, were trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. That couldn’t happen to us, huh? Don’t be so sure. In Jeremiah 5:31, the verse ends with and my people love it this way. Go look it up. Who would love being told lies? Apparently, God’s Chosen People.

Or how ’bout this one.

Like I said, scripture tells us, god is not a man that he should lie, nor a son of man that he should change his mind, but when God tells Moses to step back so he can destroy his people, the Bible tells us Moses sought his favor and asks, why should your anger burn against your people … Then Exodus 32:15 admits, Then the Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened. For those of you that are not well versed in the English language, relent is a fancy word for changing your mind. But, but scripture says he doesn’t change his mind. Well, this scripture was wrong. He changed his mind. Or did he? Exodus 32:35 goes on to say, [And] the lord struck the people with a plague … Well, that’s not much of a relent, but scripture tells us he relented. Somebody got it" wrong.

Speaking of the meaning of words, check this out. In Matthew 15:8, when Jesus declares that the Pharisees and teachers of the law were honoring him with their lips but their hearts were far from him, he goes on to say, They worship me IN VAIN; their teachings are but rules taught by men. They worship him in vain? Wait a minute! Doesn’t vain mean you think you’re pretty or handsome? No. It doesn’t. It actually means hollow, false, deceptive. Look it up. Biblically speaking, the word vain doesn’t mean what we thought it did. Even though they seemed to be praising and edifying him, they were plotting to trap him, seize him, and kill him. So if you think about it, even the religious use of the word vain meaning deceptive is actually deceptive when used in a generic sense. That’s why according to 1 Thessalonians 5:21, you’re supposed to test everything.

In 1 Timothy 4:13, Paul advises, Devote yourself to the public reading of scripture, TO PREACHING AND TEACHING. Then in verse 15, he says, Be diligent in these matters, give yourself wholly to them.

That’s what I’ve done for twenty years. Now it’s your turn. I’ve done the legwork and heavy lifting.

So now that you’ve had a taste of my teaching, how important were Jesus’s last words on the cross? What if his last words on the cross were alakazam, ‘hocus pocus, or presto chango, and you would transfigure like he did in Matthew 17:2 and just ascend up into heaven in the twinkling of an eye" like he did in Mark 16:19. Would it be important then? It is to me. Every word, any verse, or a particular sentence could be the one that sets us free. Remember, Jesus told the Jews, The truth will set you free. Come, see the truth and be set free. You deserve to know the truth. In 1 Corinthians 3:16, Paul queries, Don’t you know that YOU are God’s temple and that God’s spirit LIVES IN YOU? Believe it.

Those were just a few of the more innocuous examples where the scriptures are skewed, tweaked, or speciously contradictory where they can, could, and are easily misconstrued to deceive, yes, even the elect mentioned in Matthew 24:24. And I’ve got more where those came from.

I want to be set free like Jesus said I would if I knew the truth. Free from denominational dogmas and false teachings. Jeremiah 14:14 quotes God warning us, The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries, and the delusions of THEIR OWN MINDS. Wow! False visions, divinations, delusions of their own minds? Who could saw that coming? God the Creator, that’s who. That’s why he sent and sends prophets. His prophets show and tell the truth. But there were and are false prophets that prophesy the delusions of their own mind that he didn’t send. We’ve got to use the dissemination and intuition he innately gave us to see and know the difference. Hebrews 10:26 warns us, If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, NO SACRIFICE for sin is left, but only A FEARFUL EXPECTATION of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

Don’t love the lies like the people did in Jeremiah 5:31. Don’t live a lie like the people in Jeremiah 23:14. Don’t make a lie your refuge and falsehood your hiding place like the people did in Isaiah 28:15.

And as a result of the powerful delusion their God sends in 2 Thessalonians 2:11, don’t believe the lie and be condemned for not believing the truth.

Seek, find, learn, know, and hold on to the truth, and the truth will set you free. In 1 Corinthians 2:7, Paul writes, [No] we speak of god’s SECRET wisdom, a wisdom that has been HIDDEN and that God destined for OUR GLORY before time began. Our glory is spirituality.

In my search for salvation, I’ve attended a dozen churches and seven different denominations.

I didn’t understand some of the denominized quips rendered by the pastors, reverends, ministers, or priests. Why do we have so many denominations if there’s one God and one truth?

Denomi-nation means to divide a nation. The nation we’ve divided is the Creator’s nation of oneness and communalism. In chapter 12 of Corinthians, the author tells us, The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form ONE BODY … For we were all baptized by one spirit, into one body … and we were all given one spirit to drink … NOW (that you know the truth) YOU ARE the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it (verses 12,13, and 27).

If the Bible is clear, concise, and unequivocal, why are we divided? Because it’s not, so we are. Since we don’t have the time and patience to examine the Bible and TEST EVERYTHING (1 Thessalonians 5:21), we can just go to church and they’ll tell us what it all means, what’s important, and how we’re supposed to think. It’s soo much easier to just believe what someone else tells us than it is for us to seek the truth in the word ourselves. We’re too busy with our menial little lives. But we need to test what they say we see and question what we’re told to think. I don’t need their help. I can think on my own just fine, thank you very much. We’re supposed to dedicate ourselves to the reading of scripture then preach and teach. But you can’t preach and teach what you don’t know. Remember, Paul told us to Test Everything. Even and especially what I preach and teach since I’m so unconventional. Don’t think what a particular religion tells you to believe. Believe what you see in the Bible with your own eyes.

In his letter to the Galatians, Paul indicates that they are turning to a different Gospel, which is really no Gospel at all. See Galatians 1:6.

Is that what we’ve been doing? According to the Bible (Deuteronomy 29:4), the God of the Hebrews did not give his people eyes that see, ears that hear, or a mind that understands. Yours did.

Paul goes on to warn the Galatians, some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the Gospel of Christ. Well, how hard is that when there’s multiple versions of the same story or instance? The Gospels are four sometime very different versions of the same incidents, conversations, and statements. In Acts 20:30, Luke warns us, Even from YOUR OWN NUMBER, men will arise AND DISTORT THE TRUTH, in order to draw away disciples AFTER THEM. Nah, that’d never happen, huh? Apparently, it’s been happening for thousands of years. Remember, The truth will set you free.

Have you been drawn away from the truth? I hope not for God’s sake and yours.

Don’t believe what they tell you to believe. Use your big fat brain and think about what you thought you knew. Listen to the videos I put out or continue to read this book and see if I make sense. Then if you like, or even if you don’t like what you hear, but it has a ring of truth, continue to read my book and use the Bible as the supporting study guide. Then between the two, develop your own conscious and cogent conclusions. Create a thought process and a belief system you can live with or die for like the ancient Christians did. Remember, they were willing to be torn apart by wild animals to prove their belief. How far are you willing to go?

Who were and are these men Paul was referring to in Acts 20:30 that distort the truth? The prophets and priests.

Even modern-day prophets, priests, and pastors distort the truth to fit their belief. But like Jesus said, Forgive them for they know not what they do. They’re just passing on what they were told to think. And now they want you to reli on what they teach.

Naturally, Jeremiah wasn’t the only oracle sent by the Creator. Malachi 2:7 and 8 state, For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, (the truth) and from his mouth men should seek instruction, BUT, you have turned from the way, and by your teaching, have caused many to stumble.

That’s an understatement. Millions, if not billions, have stumbled over religion for thousands of years. Have the priests, pastors or ministers caused you to stumble? You might be surprised.

So from now on, and I mean now on, starting with this moment, TEST EVERYTHING.

Test me, and test everything you think you know about God and the Bible. Take my word for it; we only think we know what it says, but we are far from the actual truth as you will soon see.

I prepared a parable of my own to illustrate and exemplify the way we learned the contents of the Bible. It’s called the allegory of the ham.

One day, a man came home from work. He observed his wife preparing dinner. They were having ham. As he stood there talking to his wife about the day’s events, he noticed that when she laid the ham on the counter, she was cutting the ends off the ham, thereby wasting some of the ham. She then proceeded to place the ham into a baking dish and placed it in the oven.

The husband asked her why she cut off the ends of the ham before placing it in the dish. She replied, That’s what my mother did, and she baked the best hams ever. The husband found the process of cutting off the ends curious and wasteful.

So the man went to his mother-in-law and asked her where she got the idea to cut the ends of the ham off before placing it in a baking dish. The mother-in-law replied, The reason I cut the ends of the ham off first is because that’s what my mother did, and she always made the best hams ever. The man still didn’t understand the logic and significance of cutting the ends off the ham before baking it. He assumed that it had something to do with enhancing the flavor of the meat.

Later that week, at a family gathering, he cornered his wife’s grandmother sitting in a chair in the living room. He walked up and asked her basically the same question. He said, I noticed that your daughter and your granddaughter cut the ends of the ham off before placing it in a baking dish and that they got the idea from you. What is the reasoning behind cutting the ends of the ham off before placing it in a baking dish to bake? She replied, Well, I cut the ends of the ham off because it wouldn’t fit in my tiny baking dish at the time.

Is that what we do? Do we just do what we’re told to do? Do we just do what we see (monkey see monkey do) and not ask why?

More important, do we believe what we’re told to think? We’re told by experts what and how we should believe if we want to fit in with them.

STOP following tradition. Stop thinking what you’re told to think. Think outside the box. Their denominational box.

If you really believe in and care about salvation and eternal life, read this book, constantly testing everything scripturally by cross-referencing verse and