In His Name: Vol. V

By E Christopher Reyes

In His Name is a research into biblical history, its ramifications on the thinking of mankind, and its continuous alterations that serve the few.

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• Release date: Mar 26, 2018
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E Christopher Reyes

Surviving Polio at age 3 1/2, then cancer, followed by back surgery, Ed Reyes is a survivor. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California and a graduate of Citrus College, Azusa, California, and California Polytechnic University, Pomona, majoring in Management, Behavioral Science, and Criminal Justice.

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Contents

*Introduction

*The Priest Craft And Early Christianity

*Genesis [like you were never taught before]

*List of Kings

*Noah And The Flood

*Giving Money To The Church

*Tithes and Offerings

*Scare Tactics

*Forgeries and Corruption

*White Man’s God(?)

*Greek Cultural Influence

*Infallibility

*Early Misogyny

*Lies

*An Emperor’s Arrogance [Constantine]

*The Need To Continue Prevarications

*Sex and the Church

*The Prerequisite for Change

*The Early Church

*Celibacy

*A New Opposition [Islam]

*Christian Vampires

*Saint Jerome

*An Empire Built Upon Falsehoods [Paganism]

*Biblical Contradiction:

*Resurrection Vs. Reincarnation

*Conclusion

Dedicated to my wife Enriqueta [Henri] No-Ot Reyes who still believes in Fairy Tales.

*Introduction

For centuries mankind has sat passively while the Christian priesthood spewed their virulent version of mankind, racism, sexism, and tribal prejudices while formulating a creation story, first man, and our obligations and indebtedness to God.

What few Christians know is that the Scriptures, as quoted by their Pastors, Shamans, Priests, Reverends, and Clergymen, are but a falsehood, a falsehood forged a long, long ago to garner money, food, gifts, and respect for their profession as they perpetuate the most segregated hour in America, the Christian Mass.

It was the ancient priest-craft that convinced the ignorant and gullible masses that they had a soul it was the ancient priest-craft that then convinced mankind that the dead never rest, that one’s soul must be saved in order to avoid Eternal Suffering and Damnation.

It was the ancient priest-craft that sold these lies to mankind to benefit from them. And, their victory [priest-craft, spiritual healer, miracle worker] is the world’s suffering if mankind does not accept their God as the One, and Only Messiah and Savior.

*The Priest Craft And Early Christianity

The priest craft is about how power hungry men gained power, how they proclaimed the world under their domain, how they fooled the masses, and how they became rich off the ignorance of the populace.

According to genetic and fossil evidence, archaic Homo sapiens evolved to anatomically modern humans solely in Africa, between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago, with members of one branch leaving Africa by 60,000 years ago and over time replacing earlier human populations such as Neanderthals, and Homo erectus. ~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens

The oldest homosapien fossil is 195,000 years old; while written language is only about 8,000 years old. Man existed 187,000 years without a God, without a nefarious and malevolent priesthood.

It wasn’t until about 40,000 B.C.E., that mankind began thinking of an invisible, powerful, and absolute Divine entity. Cave paintings are among the more intriguing evidences for the age of human civilization. Archaeologists have long used cave paintings as evidence that primitive man live and developed art at least 40,000 years ago. This timeline directly contradicts the Bible, which states God created the earth around 6,000 years ago. Which is correct? ~http://www.blogos.org/scienceandtechnology/cave-paintings-1.php

But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished? For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat. They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;) To dwell in the of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks. Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. ~Job 30:1-10.

Religion is not a set of beliefs and obligations based on the authority of the Church, but as the result of man’s feelings of absolute dependence in a majestic universe in which he is but a small entity. ~Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith, written about 1821.

From early cave drawings, estimated timeline being 12,000 years ago, It is difficult to pinpoint the moment where deities appeared, but their appearance could not be a revolution; a brutal and fast process. Rather, there was more likely a natural, slow evolution of Gods. ~http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/04/scholar-cave-paintings-show-religious-sophistication/

Christians claim that there was an historic upheaval in which mankind had to begin all over again [Genesis 6-9], hence many deny the pre-historic evolution theory of mankind; Adam and Eve being fully developed human beings, capable of verbal communication, social tendencies, and intimate human development. ~Genesis 2:19-25; 3:1-20; 4:1-12.

With fear the power seeking priesthood instills in ancient tales the forces of nature, which man cannot contend with, that is unless man will seek the invisible robust forces of the clergy.

From the threat of fearful experiences the priest craft will indoctrinate their gullible followers into the evils, which lie beyond by describing what lies in the darkness, waiting to crush man, eat or consume him, and his spirit, removing him forever from family, friends, and Salvation.

What of the dinosaurs? Dinosaurs had already become extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, which is 66 million years before any emergence of any human species.

The genus Homo habilis evolved around 2.8 million years ago; Neanderthal man lived over 650,000 years ago and never had to concern himself with being saved by a deceiving and treacherous priest, augur, oracle, prophet, soothsayer, or spiritual adviser. Cro-Magnon like humans lived about to 43-45,000 years ago.

The Biblical Behemoth is said to be the mightiest and most powerful of all God’s creatures, a humongous creature whose tail is likened to that of a cedar tree. ~Job 40:15.

Also in Scripture is the gigantic Leviathan, which is described by ancient priests as huge coiled or twisted creature. ~Isaiah 27:1, Psalm 74:14, Psalm 104:25–26, Job 41:1-5.

Job 41 gives the most detail about Leviathan as an actual sea creature. In that chapter, God describes Leviathan, emphasizing the animal’s size, strength, and viciousness.

The leviathan cannot be tied down or tamed [Job 41:1, 5]; it is frightening to even look at (verse 9); it is best left alone [verses 8, 10]. The Leviathan has a graceful form [verse 12] but is incredibly well protected with scales. ~Job verses 13, 15–17. Its chest is as impenetrable as its back [verses 15, 24]. ~http://www.gotquestions.org/leviathan.html

This monster is described as having fearsome teeth (Job verse 14), and death awaits anyone who approaches it. ~See Job verses 18–21.

Even strong and powerful men are terrified of the Leviathan. ~Job verse 25. No sword, spear, dart, stone, javelin, arrow, club, or lance can defeat it. ~Job verses 26, 28–29.

This Leviathan cannot be caged,due to its mighty strength, which can break iron like straw. ~Job verse 27.

On land, the huge Leviathan leaves a trail of ruts; in the water, it magnifies vast and deep, churning wake. ~Job verses 30–32.

According to the priesthood, God’s description of the Leviathan concludes with a statement that it is the true king of all the beasts: Nothing on earth is its equal—a creature without fear. ~Job verse 33.

The Christian author, Ken Ham, believes by going to the Bible first for answers, we begin to understand that the dinosaurs who were alongside mankind from the beginning.

With the introduction of fear, the priesthood will now introduce the only means of dealing with fear; that of listening and obeying the priest-craft, the only ones who can save us. ~See Isaiah 35:4, 43:1; John 14:2, Joshua 1:9; Matthew 6:34, 10:28; Psalm 23:4, 27:1, 34:4, 94:19, 103:17, 112:1, 115:11, 118:6; Romans 8:38; I Peter 5:6; II Timothy 1:7; Deuteronomy 31:6; I Chronicles 28:20, etc.

And the Bible gives the Church the power and authority to Kill, Murder, Torture all who refuse to accept man’s word as the Word of God. ~Deuteronomy 20:10-14.

From its early conception the Church ostracized, persecuted, and ridiculed all those who refused to accept their doctrines, What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second, and third days, in which the evening is named and the morning, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise like a husbandman? I believe every man must hold these things for images under which a hidden sense is concealed. ~The celebrated Church Father, Bishop Origen, 185?–254? C.E., Greek writer, teacher, On First Principles, trans. G. W. Butterworth, Magnolia, MA: Peter Smith.

There can be no doubt that during a great part of the Middle Ages Papal and other documents were fabricated in a very unscrupulous fashion. ~Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 57.

Does this sound like a religion of Peace, Love, Forgiveness, and Brotherhood? This Christian God business is cold, calculated, and vengeful! Kill them all, for God knows His own. ~Papal legate Arnaud, when asked if Catholics should be spared during the assault on Beziers in 1209, which harbored Christian women and children and which decision Pope Urban II supported.

You must remember, most, if not all Christian ministers, do it for the money, so they speak of sickness being a curse from God for the sins of man. A curse, which only the Church can alleviate, or remove. Such superstitious beliefs live on in this modern era with the followers believing that they must give, and give freely or suffer financial destitution. ~cf. II Corinthians 9:7.

The early Church used [and abused] their self appointed authority, which the naive following obeyed without question, I would not believe the Gospels to be true, unless the Authority of the Catholic Church constrained me! ~Bishop Augustine, De Genesi, 4th century.

The world’s first terrorists were Christians; Christians who set out to conquer the world, to make their fellow man bow down to them. Christians who were fed Christian propaganda to convince them that God wanted them to kill for Him.

From their elevated pulpit the priest craft, every Sunday, cries out for money, and tithes; tithes to sustain their lifestyle, and money supposedly to perpetuate the faith. But, it is in reality, money to continue the lies, money, which for centuries was the cause for discrimination, alienation, persecution, torture, banishment, and worst of all, for the insubordinate Christian, excommunication.

The Biblical ridiculous and sublime are recognized, yet forced upon the naive masses, "There is no way of preserving the first chapter of Genesis without impiety, and attributing things to God unworthy of Him." ~Bishop Augustine, St. Augustine, 353–430 C.E., Church Father, Bishop of Hippo, Africa, 396–430, The Confessions of St. Augustine and City of God, New York: Dorset Books, 1961.

Man’s claim of Divine beings is a theoretical claim, which will divide mankind into believers and non-believers. The priest-craft is about how the Church spread hatred, and not love, warfare, and not peace, intolerance, and not tolerance for his fellow man.

From the Popes, to the glorified Saints, a deception, perpetrated to gain prominence via social status, financial positions, and absolute power. It is the priesthood that will convince mankind that he has a soul, and this soul, when one dies, does not rest; it will wander the earth forever, that is, unless it is saved from an eternity of damnation and suffering.

The priests, shamans, witch doctors, miracle workers convince man that he is born a sinner, and this sinfulness must be overcome, and only the priest can save him; hence, the beginning of a long lasting relationship of credulousness is used to bring riches to the priesthood, a richness of material wealth which continues to this day.

The Christian Jesus taught from the Torah [Old Testament], and his father [Joseph] was Jewish, as well as his mother [Mary] who was also Jewish; yet, the Catholic Church’s hatred of Jews, anti-Semitism went to such great lengths that Christian authorities even denied the origin of their own religion from a Jewish matrix.

Hence, the Final Solution, Jesus is Born of a Virgin,, which eliminates the dilemma of Jewishness.

Opposing a Papal aspirant of Jewish ancestry, Saint Bernard writes, It would be an insult to Christ if the offspring of a Jew occupied the throne of Peter. ~Persecution of the Jews by Lady Hawkwind. Note: Peter was Jewish as were all the Disciples.

But, the Church does not recognize Jesus as God until the 4th century, when with a document, it is written, Brethren, we ought so to think of Jesus Christ as of God… For if we think meanly of him, we shall hope only to receive some small things from him. ~II Clement.

But, Jesus is not God, the Mother of Jesus is not the Mother of God… And both heresies are condemned at the Council of Ephesus in the 5th century… But there are many Christian denominations today who still do not honor the Mother of God, and some even gossip bad about the Mother of Jesus and even abhor her. ~See Nestorius.

Jesus is not God! Is it not written in your Law, I said, ‘Ye are Gods?’ If he called them Gods, unto whom the Word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken; ‘Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ ~Jesus, John 10:33-36.

God came from Teman, the Holy One, from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the Heavens and his praise filled the earth. His splendor was like the sunrise; rays flashed from his hand, where his power was hidden. ~Habakkuk 3:3-4, cf. Revelation 1:12-18.

Eventually, in the 4th century, Jesus is made a Full God: The Roman half-God, the Living God, Emperor Constantine alone determined that the names of two 1st century descendants, Jesu Cunobeline, and Judas Khrestus, be joined as one, Jesu Khrestus, and that would be the official name of the new Roman God.

… The earliest church saw Jesus as a man, and only later, and retroactively, was he promoted to Godhood. This elevation was associated especially with the Roman Emperor’s conversion to Christianity and events like the Council of Nicaea in 325 C.E. Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code argues that Nicaea was the moment at which Jesus became God, as a result of power plays in the empire and church: He owed his godhood to a majority vote. ~Philip Jenkins, Jesus Wars, HarperCollins Publishers, New York. 2010, p. 50.

A vote among the Bishops of Nicaea was taken and it was with a majority show of hands that both men [Jesus and Constantine] now become one God…161 votes to 157; by a difference of only four votes, Jesus officially now becomes the Christian God. Emperor Constantine becomes a semi-God, and Jesus becomes a full fledged God.

The great Druid God, Hesus, will now be joined with the Eastern Savior-God, Krishna, of which Krishna is Sanskrit for Christ, and thus Hesus Krishna will now be the official name of the new Roman God, with both Divinities becoming one God. ~Acta Concilii Nicaeni, 1618.

Hesus, the God of War, is usually depicted as a woodcutter with a large ax, and he took great pleasure in human sacrifice, as testified by the Roman Lucan, but the Hesus myth does not mention any Virgin Birth, and the suggestion that he was crucified is but a twist on the mode of sacrifices offered in his name.

The Virgin Birth was added to the Gospels in the 4th century. So the Greek Father or priest who forged the false Virgin Birth interpolation into the manuscript of Matthew, possibly in ignorance, drags in the false Septuagint translation of Isaiah 7:14 which the Catholic Bishop Jerome purposely perpetuated as a pious Lie to the Glory of God! ~Jocelyn Rhys and John D. Keyser, Was the Virgin Birth Doctrine Part of the Original Gospels?

The text of the Septuagint was regarded as so unreliable, because of its freedom in rendering, and of the alterations, which had been introduced into it, etc., that, during the 2nd century of our era it was discarded by the Church. ~The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol., iv, pg. 625.

As a sacrifice to Hesus, men were tied to or hung from a tree and flayed alive. Since being Hung on a tree was a rather common reference to crucifixion, some suggest that crucifixion is an element found within the Hesus myth.

Bishop Justin Martyr, writing in the middle of the 2nd century, at the same time as or just after the Canonical Gospels were first being accepted, admits that many Christians did not believe in the supernatural birth of Yeshua.

The Universal and Apostolic Catholic Church admits that the anonymously written Gospels, Do not go back to the 1st century of the Christian era. ~Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. vi, p. 137, pp. 655-6.

Although Justin believed in Jesus’ Divine birth, and although he classifies as heretics many sects of Christians whose Orthodoxy as regards Eating meats sacrificed to idols, insistence upon the observance of the Law, and other kindred matters, is suspect, he does not so class those who believe in the normal and natural generation of Yeshua. ~Early Christians were vegetarians. cf. I Corinthians 1:12, Genesis 1:29-30, Isaiah 65:25, Romans 14:21, Hosea 6:6.

Bishop Justin Martyr was quite ready to compromise with those who regarded Yeshua as a man and not a God, and with those who regarded Jesus as a Spiritual being never clothed in flesh, he’s amenable to adapting his argument to Pagan ideas.

In his Apologia Bishop Justin Martyr writes, But when we say that the Word [Greek: Logos], which is the first begetting of God, was begotten without intercourse; Jesus Christ, our Master… We bring forward no new thing beyond those known among you who are called sons of Zeus.

Bishop Jerome’s account of the Divine Birth, the Virgin Birth [Latin Vulgate Bible], is not officially recognized until the late 3rd century, early 4th century.

The words of the Prophet Isaiah 7:14 are contained in this sense by:

✗ Bishop [Saint] Irenaeus, III, 21; see Bishop Eusebius, Hist .Eccl., Book V, viii.

✗ Bishop Origen in Adv. Celsus, I, 35.

✗ Bishop Tertullian in Adv. Marcion, III, 13; Adv. Judæos, IX.

✗ Bishop [Saint] Justin Martyr in Dial. Con. Trypho, 84.

✗ Bishop [Saint] John Chrysostom [The Golden Mouthed] in Homily vs. Matthew, n. 3; in Isaiah 7, n. 5.

✗ Saint Epiphanius in his strong invictive, Hær., xxviii, n. 7.

✗ Bishop Eusebius in Demonstrat. ev., Book VIII, i.

✗ Rufinus in Lib. fid., 43.

✗ Bishop [Saint] Basil in Isaiah, vii, 14; Hom. in S. Generat. Christi, n. 4, if St. Basil be the author of these two passages.

✗ Bishop [Saint] Jerome and Theodoretus in Isaiah 7:14 mistranslation.

✗ St. Isidore in Adv. Judæos, I, x, n. 3.

✗ St. Ildefonsus in De perpetua virginit. s. Mariæ, iii.

The greater Saint, the greater Liar. ~Diegesis.

The gullibility of Christians is exposed by their greatest writers, For as it is not yet 6,000 years since the first man, who is called Adam, are not those to be ridiculed rather than refuted who try to persuade us of anything regarding a space of time so different from, so contrary to, the ascertained truth? ~Saint Augustine, City of God, Ib. xviii, 40; p. 384.

Truth cannot change to satisfy the whims of a few political and religious despots! ~E. Christopher Reyes, 2001.

Bishop Augustine accepts the Earth as Flat and inhabited on the upper side only: As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men who are on the opposite side of the earth, where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours, is on no ground credible. ~Saint Augustine, De Civitate Dei [city of God, xvi, 9; p. 315. http://www.mountainman.com.au/essenes/author_Augustine%20Bishop%20of%20Hippo.htm

*Genesis [like you were never taught before]

Many traditionalists believe that their Bible, whichever version they use, is Inerrant and Inspired by God. Unfortunately, the Bible has been tampered with from inception, each new generation revising it, editing it, and supplementing it with their own personal ideas, beliefs, and opinions, but no Original Gospel texts exist, so we have to take the Christian ministry’s word for it that they are telling the truth.

The first five books of the Pentateuch [Genesis-Deuteronomy], 6th century B.C.E., traditionally, are ascribed to Moses, but by the 18th century, many European scholars began to notice severe difficulties with that preposterous assumption.

Deuteronomy ends with a chronicle of Moses’ death [definitely a pugnacious assignment for any writer to be capable of describing his or her own demise], and the Pentateuch also shows anomalies in literary style, which are hard to explain if only one author is involved.

The Book of Jubilees is a rewriting of Genesis, which is now arranged in 50-year periods ending in a year of Jubilee, or a time for forgiveness of debts.

God made the Heavens and the earth, which is debatable, but acceptable, but, there is more than one God, Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness… So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. ~Genesis 1:26-27.

Many Gods are revealed in Genesis; … And furthermore, my brothers; if the Lord submitted to suffer for our souls, even though he is Lord of the whole world, to whom God said at the foundation of the world, ‘Let Us make according to Our image and likeness,’ how is it, then, that he submitted to suffer at the hands of men? Learn! ~Epistle of Barnabas, 5.5.

Think your Bible hasn’t been tampered with? Then look up Lilith, Adam’s first wife [and also believed to be the first Vampire]. Ancient vampire tales can be found amongst the ancient Chaldeans in Mesopotamia, near the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, and the Assyrian writings on clay or stone tablets.

In the 16th century the Spanish conquistadors first came into contact with vampire bats and documented the similarity between the feeding habits of the bats and those of their legendary vampire superstitions. ~John 6:54. cf. Vlad the Impaler [Dracula]. cf. Ecclesiastes 1:9.

Many Christians overlook the fact that God made two women in Genesis. The first being created from the dust of the earth, and the second, becing created from Adam’s rig. In the Jewish Midrash, Lilith is Adam’s first wife. ~Cf. Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 2:18.

The Lilith controversy is based on Genesis 1:27, which says, Male and female created He them, but, in Genesis 2:18-22 it now says, God made Eve from the ribs of Adam. Two different histories on the creation of man.

The ancient superstitious Greeks also believed in the strigoe or lamiae, who were monsters who ate children and drank their blood [Vampires]. Lamia, as the mythology goes, was the lover of Zeus, but Zeus’ wife, Hera, fought against her. Lamia was driven insane, and she killed her own offspring. At night, Lamia was said to have hunted other human children to kill as well. ~Vampires: The Mythological Neck Sucking Vampire.

The corpse of one revenant is reported to have been found in a grave, swollen, seriously Suffused with blood, and when it was pierced with a sharp object, a stream of blood flew out of the wound, which story is paralleled in many accounts of alleged vampires, and the phenomenon it depicts is, in fact, said to have occurred frequently as part of the natural process of corpse decomposition. ~read Medieval Vampire Stories in England.

In the Dead Sea Scrolls it says, "And I, the Sage, declare the grandeur of his radiance in order to frighten and terrify all the spirits of the ravaging Angels and the bastard spirits, Demons, Liliths, owls and [Jackals…] and those who strike unexpectedly to lead astray the spirit of knowledge…." ~1QpsAp, Dead Sea Scrolls.

In another fable, Caine and Abel are asked by God to present a sacrifice of that which they most cherish, and Caine chooses to kill Abel, his beloved brother, as the offering requested by God. For this heinous action he is exiled to the Land of Nod [forced to wander the earth], where he is taken in by Lilith, Adam’s first wife, and who is disasterously independent.

Gregor Wurst, author of a summary of the arguments used by Bishop Irenaeus against the people he calls Cainites, … "In the newly discovered text there is no mention of Cain or the other anti-heroes from the Jewish Scriptures mentioned by Bishop Irenaeus." ~The Gospel of Judas Edited by Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer, and Gregor Wurst, with additional commentary by Prof. Bart D. Ehrman. National Geographic. p. 126.

I am a jealous God and there is no other God besides me. But by announcing this he indicated to the Angels… That another God does exist; for if there were no other one, of whom would he be jealous?… Then the Mother began to be distressed." ~Secret Book of John.

Eve too has different roles within Gnosticism. For example she is often seen as the embodiment of the supreme feminine principle, called barbelo, barbeloth, or barthenos. As such she is equated with the Light-Maiden of Sophia (Wisdom), creator of the word (Logos) of God, the Thygater tou photos, or simply the Virgin Maiden, Parthenos. In conventional Christianity, this is a prefigurement of Mary, who is also sometimes called The Second Eve.

In other Gnostic texts, such as The Hypostasis of the Archons, the Reality of the Rulers, the Pistis Sophia is equated with Eve’s daughter, Norea, the wife of Seth. As a result of such Gnostic beliefs, especially among Marcionites, women were considered equal to men, being revered as prophets, teachers, traveling evangelists, faith healers, priests and even Bishops.

"Mani said, ‘Then Jesus came and spoke to the one who had been born, who was Adam, and explained to him (about) the gardens [of Paradise], the deities, Gehenna, the satans, earth, heaven, sun, and moon. He also made him fear Eve, showing him how to suppress (desire) for her, and he forbade him to approach her, and made him fear to be near her, so that he did (what Jesus commanded). Then that (male) archon came back to his daughter, who was Eve, and lustfully had intercourse with her. He engendered with her a son, deformed in shape and possessing a red complexion, and his name was Cain, the Red Man. Then that son had intercourse with his mother, and engendered with her a son of white complexion, whose name was Abel, the White Man. Then Cain again had intercourse with his mother, and engendered with her two girls, one of whom was named Hakimat al-Dahr and the other Ibnat al-Hire.Then Cain took Ibnat al-Hirê as his wife and presented Hakimat al-Dahr to Abel, and he took her as his wife.’" ~The Origin of the World.

The early Gnostics accepted Bishop Marcion’s belief that the Wrathful Yahweh of the Torah, and the loving Father of Christianity were two separate Divinities [Docetism], a Good God, and a Mean God. Marcion also rejected the Virgin birth Doctrine.

"The Heaven and his earth were destroyed by the troublemaker that was below them all. And the six Heavens shook violently; for the forces of chaos knew who it was that had destroyed the Heaven that was below them. And when Pistis [Faith] knew about the breakage resulting from the disturbance, she sent forth her breath [Pneuma], and bound him and cast him down into Tartaros. Since that day, the Heaven, along with its earth, has consolidated itself through Sophia [Wisdom] the daughter of Yaldabaoth, she who is below them all. Now when the Heavens had consolidated themselves along with their forces and all their administration, the prime parent became insolent. And he was honored by all the army of Angels. And all the Gods and their Angels gave blessing and honor to him. And for his part, he was delighted and continually boasted, saying to them, I have no need of anyone. ~The Origin of the World.

He said, It is I who am God, and there is no other one that exists apart from me. ~The Origin of the World., also read The Testament of Adam.

Genesis does not tell us how long Adam and Eve spent in the Garden of Eden, but the Book of Jubilees states that they were removed from the Garden on the new moon of the fourth month of the 8th year after Creation. ~Jubilees 3:33, but other Jewish sources assert that it was less than a day.

Before the creation of Eve, ādām, or human, is created from the ‘ădāmāh, or humus, and although a male pronoun is used for this creature Trible argues that it was androgynous, and not yet sexually differentiated, but this interpretation is not the Original, and, it in fact goes back to Rashi, the 10th century Jewish interpreter, and ultimately back to the Greek philosopher, Plato, while Trible also argues that Eve is the crown of creation rather than an afterthought. ~From the works of the feminist theologian Katharine Bushnell.

Shortly after the expulsion, Eve brought forth her first-born child, and thereafter the second; Cain and Abel, respectively. According to Genesis Rabba, and other later sources, either Cain had a twin sister, and Abel had two twin sisters, or Cain had a twin sister named Lebuda, and Abel a twin sister named Qelimath.

In the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, Cain’s twin sister is named Luluwa, and Abel’s twin sister is named Aklia. ~Adam and Eve, http://www.crystalinks.com/adameve.html

In Jubilees, Adam and Eve have two daughters who are named Azura and Awan; born after Seth, Cain, Abel, and nine other sons, and the Azura, followed by Awan. Jubilees states that Cain later married Awan, and Seth married Azura, thus, accounting for their descendants. However, according to Genesis, Rabba and other later sources, either Cain had a twin sister, and Abel had two twin sisters, or Cain had a twin sister named Lebuda, and Abel a twin sister named Qelimath.

In the great Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, Cain’s twin sister is named Luluwa, and Abel’s twin sister is named Aklia.

In Life of Adam and Eve, also known as the Apocalypse of Moses, which consists entirely of a description of Adam and Eve’s life outside of Eden.

As the first man, Adam was was attributed the gift of prophecy and wisdom, but, after Cain killed Abel, and was cursed to wander, allegedly cursed with a mark [blackness, so he can be identified(?), from only three people(?)] and Adam and Eve now conceive a third child named Seth, who, along with Cain, gave rise to the two family lines of the Generations of Adam.

"Mani said, ‘Then Jesus came and spoke to the one who had been born, who was Adam, and explained to him about the Gardens [of Paradise], the deities, Gehenna, the Satans, earth, Heaven, sun, and moon. He also made him fear Eve, showing him how to suppress [desire] for her, and he forbade him to approach her, and made him fear to be near her, so that he did [what Jesus Commanded]. Then that [male] archon came back to his daughter, who was Eve, and lustfully had intercourse with her. He engendered with her a son, deformed in shape and possessing a red [ruddy, dark] complexion, and his name was Cain, the Red Man. Then that son had intercourse with his mother, and engendered with her a son of white complexion, whose name was Abel, the White Man. Then Cain again had intercourse with his mother, and engendered with her two girls, one of whom was named Hakimat al-Dahr and the other Ibnat al-Hire. Then Cain took Ibnat al-Hirê as his wife and presented Hakimat al-Dahr to Abel, and he took her as his wife.’" ~From the Gnostic and heretic Bishop Marcion, quoted in Adam and Eve, http://www.crystalinks.com/adameve.html

According to the Bible, early mankind had the gift of longevity, and Adam finally died at the age of 930 years, the traditional Jewish view being that he and Eve are currently buried in the Cave of Machpelah, in Hebron.

3900 B.C.E. Seth, Adam and Eve’s third child is born: Seth lives to 912 years and fathers sons and daughters, carrying on Adam’s devout family line. Cain’s first child, Enoch, is born. Enoch fathers many sons and daughters.

Cain’s first grandchild, Irad, son of Enoch is born, but no definitive dates or years are given in the lineage of Cain, but many innovations and inventions are ascribed to the mental goings-on of Cain’s posterity.

A financial boon to Christianity: Original Sin now enters the picture, and the serpent that tempted Eve is interpreted by some to have been Satan, although there is no reference to this designation in the Torah. Sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned, says Saint Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, writing in Greek about 58 C.E.

Henceforth the Christian incrimination of women to sinfulness. You are the Devil’s gateway, Bishop Tertullian tells his female listeners in the early 2nd century, and goes on the explain that they were also responsible for the death of Christ, On account of your desert, that is, death, even the Son of God had to die.

Bishop Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 C.E., working with Bishop Jerome’s corrupted Latin mistranslated epistle, the Vulgate, interpreted Paul to have said that Adam’s sin was hereditary, "Death passed upon [i.e. spread to] all men because of Adam, [in whom] all sinned."

In the Sumerian mythology of the Creation, the senior Gods spent their time in leisure, while the junior Gods labored at digging the channels of the rivers and other tasks. Eventually the lower-ranking Gods rebelled and threatened to overturn the Heavenly order.

The senior God, Enki, therefore fashioned the first men from clay, mixed with spittle and the blood of a slain God, so that men could work and the Gods could rest. Originally Enki made seven men and seven women, but the numbers of mankind soon multiplied.

In another Sumerian myth the Goddess Ninhursag created a beautiful garden full of lush vegetation and fruit trees, called Edinu, in Dilman, the Sumerian earthly Paradise, a place which the Sumerians believed to exist to the east of their own land, beyond the sea. Ninhursag charged Enki, her lover, with controlling the wild animals and tending the garden, but Enki became curious about the garden and his assistant, Adapa, selected seven plants and offered them to Enki, who ate them, and in other versions of the story he seduced in turn seven generations of the offspring of his Divine marriage with Ninhursag.

This greatly enranged Ninhursag, and she caused Enki to fall ill, whereupon Enki felt pain in his rib, which is a pun in Sumerian, as the word Ti means both Rib, and Life.

The other Gods then persuaded Ninhursag to yield, and Ninhursag then created a new Goddess named Ninti [a name made up of Nin, or Lady, plus Ti, and which is translated as both Lady of Living and Lady of the Rib, to cure Enki. Ninhursag is known as the Mother of all Living Creatures, thus holding the same position as Eve. ~Adam and Eve, http://www.crystalinks.com/adameve.html

In Genesis 2:4 and 16, Moses writes God’s personal name for the first time [Tetragrammaton], This is a history of the Heavens and the earth in the time of their being created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and Heaven. ~Note: The Tetragrammaton occurs 6,961 times in the Hebrew text.

The proper name YHWH, probably historically Yahweh came to be avoided for tabuistic reasons in Second Temple Judaism, around the 3rd or 2nd century B.C.E. From that time, occurrence of the name in Scripture was replaced by Adonai My Lord in liturgy. ~God and Mathematical Infinity by Brendan Kneale.

But, when Moses wrote this verse, he penned the name of God with only four Hebrew characters as HWHY. Jehovah. Heb[brew], hw:hy] [YHWH, here vowel-pointed as Yehwah’], meaning He causes to Become, from Heb[rew], hw:h; [‘Ha.wah’, To become]; LXX (Gr[eek]) Ky’ri.os; Syr[ian], Mar.ya’; Lat[in], Do’min.us. ~New World Translation Reference Edition, p. 17. See also Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary, p. 344.

"To avoid the risk of taking God’s name [YHWH] in vain, devout Jews began to substitute the word ‘Adona(y)’ for the proper name itself." ~New World Translation Reference Edition, p. 1561.

Saint Augustine’s Genesis allegory as he relates to Adam’s and Eve’s disobedience, and his premise that women are innately corrupt is a mistranslation. ~Augustine and the Archetype of Starvation: Pro Quest Dissertations and Theses, Dissertation: Author: Donyce Lynn Brenneman, 2009, translation 1997, http://udini.proquest.com/view/augustine-and-the-archetype-of-pqid:1941965521/

"No human today can be certain how [the Divine Name] was originally pronounced in Hebrew. Why not? Biblical Hebrew was originally written with only consonants, no vowels. When the language was in everyday use, readers easily provided the proper vowels. In time however, the Jews came to have the superstitious idea that it was wrong to say God’s personal name out loud, so they used substitute expressions. Centuries later, Jewish scholars developed a system of points by which to indicate, which vowels to use when reading ancient Hebrew, but they put the vowels for the substitute expressions [Adonay] around the four consonants representing the Divine Name. Thus the original pronunciation of the Divine Name was lost." ~Reasoning from the Scriptures, p. 195. Note: There are no extant Original Scriptures.

It is Saint Thomas Aquinas who makes the association in Genesis to God the Father, and God the Son, which is vague at best, In the Sacred Scripture, however, the Son is found to have been distinct from the Father even before the Incarnation…We read, also, in Genesis 1:26: ‘Let Us make man to Our image and likeness,’ and in this the plurality and distinction of those who make man is expressly designated. Yet Scripture teaches that man was made by God alone. Thus, there was a plurality and distinction of God the Father and God the Son even before the Incarnation of Christ. ~Saint Thomas Aquinas, The Opinion of Sabellius on the Son of God, and its Refutation, Chapter 5:9 Summa Contra Gentiles, Book Four. cf. Akhenaten: Son of the Sun.

Genesis 11 is the narration of how humans, soon after the Great Flood, built a great city centered around a tower, With its top in the Heavens. The purpose of the Tower of Babel was to allow its builders to Make a name for themselves. Jubilees 10 says that these builders worked for 43 years [50 years of the Jubilee period minus the mystical number seven] and built a massive structure, which was one and a half miles high!

Of course, the discovery of the New World raised considerable questions about the Flood’s extent as the rational thinker, Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, held that it could not have been Universal because there would be nowhere for the water to go.

The first Trinity: Ausar, Auset, and Heru, which has been repeated by the immeasurable Amen used in all Christian ceremonies, Mut, Khonsu and then God, the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, all came from ancient Black societies. The religion of the ancient Akkadians, Shamanism, from the Semitic Shamas = Sun, was both astronomical and phallic.

Of the forged Christian Trinity, Matthew’s witness to the teaching of the Risen Lord in these verses is widely rejected on two grounds. The witness of Acts makes it almost certain that Baptism at first was into the name of Jesus Christ, and not formally into the name of the Blessed Trinity… It is quite likely that Matthew here expresses our Lord’s teaching in language, which the Lord Himself did not actually use. ~New Comm., Pt. III, p. 204; ef. Encyclopedia Biblica, vol. i, 474.

The ridiculousness of the manufactured Holy Trinity is reinforced by the authoritarian Church. Regarding the Trinity, Bishop Tertullian declares, Credo quia incredibilis est – I believe because it is unbelievable; and, like Saint Paul’s, I am become a fool in glorying, he vaunts thus his own folly: "Other matters for shame I find none which can prove me to be shameless in a good sense, and foolish in a happy one, by my own contempt for shame. The Son of God was crucified; I am not ashamed [to believe it] because men must needs be ashamed of it. And the Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed, because it is absurd. And He was buried and rose again; the fact is certain because it is impossible." ~Bishop Tertullian, De Carne Christi, ch. v; Anti-Nicene Fathers, iii, 525. cf. Proverbs 28:26. Cf. Galatians 3:13.

Early Scripture did not identify the Son as the Father before the Age To Come, nor is the Trinity even mentioned. Moreover, God is found, as if needing help, to say, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness.’ But to no one else than to His own Word and wisdom did He say, ‘Let Us make.’ ~Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus, Book 2, Chapter 18.

The Pagans also had their Trinity, a ‘Celestial Father’ and ‘Mother,’ and their off-spring, the ‘Sun God,’ an infant, Sargon, who was placed by his mother in a reed basket, and left on the bank of a river, subsequently found, and eventually becoming king of Babylon, in 3750 B.C.E. The name Adam is derived from the Assyrian Adami, meaning man.

Fundamentalists claim that the "Original" Gospels were written in [Koine] Greek, but the fact is Genesis was first written in Hebrew, and not Greek, which did not hinder Barnabas from writing down [150 C.E.] his interpretation of Scriptures already 4th or 5th generation from the Original, and the Church does not have a New Testament until the 4th century when it is voted upon by the Council of Nicaea, which decides which manuscripts will be included. The Vatican Roma will tolerate no rivals, tolerate no competitors, and put up with no enemies. ~The 2000 Year Vatican Roma War on Orthodoxy

Throughout the meeting of Bishops from the Eastern and Western Roman Empire at Nicaea, Turkey, in 325 C.E., howling factions were immersed in heated debates as to who will be the national God of the Roman Empire, and the names of 53 Gods are tabled for great discussion, As yet, no God had been selected by the council, and so they balloted in order to determine that matter… For one year and five months the balloting lasted… ~Prof. S. L. MacGuire’s translation, Salisbury, God’s Book of Eskra, 1922, chapter xlviii, paragraphs 36, 41.

Cardinal Ratzinger commended a 1993 Pontifical Biblical Commission Statement on Bible interpretation that, Denounced Fundamentalism as ‘Dangerous,’ and a ‘Kind of intellectual suicide.’ The statement alleges that Fundamentalists place, Undue stress upon the Inerrancy of certain details in the Biblical texts, and Naively confuse the Gospels as edited with the ‘Words and deeds of the historical Jesus.’ ~Van Impe’s New Pope Rejects Biblical Inerrancy And is A Mariolater, The Fundamentalist Digest.

Historically speaking, for centuries the zealous Christian clergy have held on to numerous superstitious beliefs, living as hermits in isolated geographical areas, writing and rewriting the Scriptures, and more than occasionally changing a word here or there, and eventually adding their own versions, completely deleting whole books when their Holy See offered them tantalizing financial rewards for discovering new Scriptures. And this practice continues in the 21st century as each Christian sect now owns their own Biblical versions.

There were, and continue to be, numerous arguments regarding the historical Jesus, whom some claimed in the 2nd and 3rd century to be an illegitimate child of Mary and of being a fictitious Prophet.

"Jesus had come from a village in Judea, and was the son of a poor Jewess who gained her living by the work of her own hands. His mother had been turned out of doors by her husband, who was a carpenter by trade, on being convicted of adultery [with a soldier named Panthéra]. Being thus driven away by her husband, and wandering about in disgrace, she gave birth to Jesus, a bastard. Jesus, on account of his poverty, was hired out to go to Egypt. While there he acquired certain [magical] powers, which Egyptians pride themselves on possessing. He returned home highly elated at possessing these powers, and on the strength of them gave himself out to be a God." ~Bishop Origen, Contra Celsum, 1.28-32, Late 2nd century, Translation, quoted from Mead.

Many Christian denominations claim that Jesus of Nazareth is [was] the last legitimate Prophet. Jesus of Nazareth is the major character of the Gospels of Luke, Matthew, and John, although is is completely unknown to the writers of the Epistles supposed to have been written by Saint Paul. None of the Saintly forgers called Paul ever refer to Jesus of Nazareth. ~Frank R. Zindler, Where Jesus Never Walked.

Japhia was the major town in the area and attracted the notice of historians, whereas the area that would become the Village of Nazareth, around the 2nd century, was still used as a graveyard or burial area, hence the Biblical reference to Jesus of Nazareth is a later addition, which is not mentioned historically, as a town, until the late 5th century, early 6th century.

Christian authors are wont to add historical elaborations when it suits their fictions. The Talmud names sixty-three Galilean towns, yet knows nothing of Nazareth. In the fourth chapter of Luke we find a narration about Jesus coming back in his "Home town," about taking a turn teaching in the Synagogue, yet no Synagogue ruins datable to the 1st century have ever been found at the present site.

Prima Facie refers to evidence and claims from the Bible itself. "The Witness of the Spirit" being cited as proof to the person to whom God speaks. The "Transforming Ability" of Scripture is cited as yet another supernatural proof to an individual.

The Unity of the Scripture, despite its myriad of anonymous authors, cultures, and topics, the Historicity of the Bible, and how the archaeological record is interpreted in an attempt to confirm the Bible, the Testimony of Christ, alleged Fulfilled prophecies, Apparent indestructibility of the Holy Scriptures, and the Integrity of its authors are all commonly taught as ways