What the Bible Really Tells Us

By Adrian Benard

So many of us grow up being constantly reminded about an all-forgiving, merciful, and beneficent deity. All throughout life, it can even be drummed into us that we cannot live happy, purposeful lives without a heavenly father who protects us and grants our wishes through prayer. And if things don't go according to plan,

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inks and Bindings, LLC
• Release date: Apr 19, 2022
• ISBN: 9798886150278

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Copyright © 2022 by Adrian Benard

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Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Duplicate Gods

Chapter 2 The Two Gods—God and the Lord God

Chapter 3 The Creation

Chapter 4 The Creation of Man

Chapter 5 The Fall of Adam and His Woman

Chapter 6 The Story of Cain and Abel

Chapter 7 The Sons of God

Chapter 8 God, the Lord, and Noah

Chapter 9 Noah Becomes the Savior of the World

Chapter 10 The Generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth and the Gentiles

Chapter 11 The Tower of Babel

Chapter 12 About Abraham and His Son

Chapter 13 God, Moses, and the Pharaoh

Chapter 14 The Pharaoh’s Magicians and about Diverse Gods in History

Chapter 15 Seeing God

Chapter 16 The Foreign Gods Who Have Existed throughout History

Chapter 17 The Story of Job

Chapter 18 The Gods Do a Lot of Things That Human Beings Would Do

Chapter 19 Revelation Analyzed

Chapter 20 The Missing Books and Other Weird Things

Chapter 21 The Trinity

CONCLUSION

Preface

Who would want to write about an illusionary deity, particularly if he or she were born and raised in a religious environment where parents, school, and church constantly remind him or her of the all-forgiving, merciful, and beneficent deity? All through life it has been drummed into you that you cannot live without a heavenly father who protects you and grants your wishes through prayer, and if it does not come out according to expectations, then you are told that God works in mysterious ways! He always wins that way and never can be wrong because He knows what is good for you even if it does not appear that way—similar to St. Nick.

When I was a teenager, I asked many questions and was told to read the Bible, because all the answers were in there, and ask God for enlightenment. However, when I did read and ask for enlightenment and when I analyzed the Bible, more questions came up. I was then told not to read too much into it and not to take everything literally. My questions remained and were never satisfactorily answered. So, when still a teenager, I started to write down everything that could not be explained. I remained a devout Christian in my way because I figured, What do I have to lose if I agree with what I am being indoctrinated in?

You can ask the same question to different clergy, and you’ll get a different answer from each one—or they will tell you nothing in so many words.

Churches are nice in the respect that everybody in a church believes in the same thing, supposedly, even if every church has different dogmas and beliefs but the same God. Churches are businesses—big business—if they cannot make money, they are out.

I was in France in the late forties and found in an old Bible there a little card that gave the owner of that card a guaranteed entry into heaven, but originally, he or she had to pay a price to acquire that privilege. This is just one example, and there are not too many churches nowadays that give free tickets to heaven for a price. The Roman Catholic Church did so many years ago and maybe still does—if the price, or the donation, is right.

Anyhow, this booklet is not written for you to read in bed before you go to sleep, though it may make you sleepy and drowsy enough to fall asleep. No, it needs an alert mind to analyze and comprehend what is written about the diverse subjects. And it is not a book to be read from A to Z in one sitting. It needs to be studied.

Chapter 1

Duplicate Gods

Anyone who is even a little bit familiar with the Bible knows that the very first verse is written as follows: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. What not too many people know is that in the original manuscript, it is written, In the beginning the Gods created the heavens and t he earth.

However, it is never translated with the plural Gods. Why is that?

There are numerous references to the Gods in the Bible. We will look at this in a little while.

The scriptures that are being used are from the King James Version (Protestant), the Douay Confraternity and Vulgate (both Roman Catholic), and the New International Version (protestant).

Henceforth, when applicable, the following conventions are followed:

The King James translation will be referred to as KJ.

The Douay Confraternity will be referred to as DC.

Which can not be quoted due to copy rights.

The New International Version will be referred to as NIV.

Also copy righted.

The Hebrew Bible will be referred to as HB.

The original Hebrew Bible has been translated many times, by five or six different translators, and by many more people who all did their best in translating. Many of them were killed by the church, if the Vatican did not like their translations.

Originally the Hebrew Bible was translated into the Greek language and from there into the Latin versions. After that, there were again hundreds of translations made by diverse people, also clergy, around the Middle Ages, and all had good intentions, but some of them wrote translations that were not accepted by the Vatican, and those poor guys were murdered on the orders of the Vatican and their works burned. Then the translation to the King James Version happened, and many more translations came about after that. They are still being produced.

What happened with the latest Bible translations, called the New International Version, the Revised English Bible, the New International Bible, or whatever else? They took the original Bible, which is and was God’s word, as it was accepted and originally written supposedly by God’s inspiration.

The original Bible has been molested in the new translations to the extent that the majority of all the words and verses throughout the Bible have been changed. If you read the King James next to the New International Version, you will have a heck of a time trying to follow it. Sentences that cannot be explained as written and to the liking of the translators have their wording changed, and whole verses are changed just so it suits most of the Christian denominations.

This indicates God has to be corrected, because it seems God did not know what He was doing when the Bible was put together, even if it was all done by His inspiration.

Blasphemy is what it is, correcting His word, with all good intentions.

Some sayings by God or even Jesus have been changed, indicating that the people who are making the new translations supposedly knew better than God what it should say.

It is written in Revelation 22:19, And if any man shall take away from the words of this book, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things written in this book.

As it states on the cover of the New English Bible (NEB), Although it stands firmly in the tradition of the NEB, the extensive changes now made, and to the degree to which it has been enhanced …

Why do we need a new, extensively changed and enhanced Bible?

Is it because the original translation of the Bible, which is supposed to be God’s word, was not good enough? All through the ages, it was good enough.

If it was only to change the thee and the ye and the thou and some more words that don’t belong in our language anymore, that would make sense.

Have you ever heard of anybody trying to change or enhance the works of Shakespeare, for example, because they needed to be explained or enhanced? Or did anybody ever attempt to change the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Shaw, or even the great composers like Beethoven and Mozart?

No, their work is and stays as finished, and nobody will touch it to change or enhance it. The Bible is God’s word as it was originally written. Can we as humans improve on His word?

Who wrote the first five books in the Bible? According to religious history and theologians, it was Moses. He was raised for forty years and tutored in the Egyptian courts as an Egyptian and as the son of a pharaoh; that way, he became quite well versed and indoctrinated in the ways the Egyptians believed and in their way of living. He became, for instance, thoroughly familiar with the stars, the Egyptian Gods, and all their rituals. He obviously was not trained in the beliefs of his ancestors by the Egyptians.

Moses probably had no idea that he was an Israelite. But he had to flee from the Egyptians after taking the side of the Israelites. So he went to Sinai, and there he stayed for another forty years, living as a shepherd. He married while living there. His father-in-law was not all that helpful in training Moses either. He was the one who told him, Now I know that the Lord God is greater than all Gods. Moses himself made that same statement later to the Lord God.

Now, all of a sudden, he was chosen by the God of Israel to become the leader and to help the Israelites get out of Egypt. He lived to be 120 years old. The first forty years he lived as an Egyptian and the next forty years as a shepherd, and the last forty years he spent in the desert. He had to have written the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, while in the hot desert. Yes, he did. But he must have gotten the details of the story from Genesis to Deuteronomy mostly by hearsay.

And while being indoctrinated in Egypt for forty years, he could even write about his own death and some more events that happened after he died. Well, more about that later. Back to the beginning of the Bible and this book.

Every clergy worth his or her salt knows that it is written in the original Hebrew bible in the following way:

It says, in the beginning Elohim (the Gods) created the heavens and the earth.

Elohim is plural for Gods.

Eloha is a singular God.

Consequently, anywhere throughout the Old Testament where God is mentioned; then it means the Elohim God (the Gods).

As proof go to Gen 1:26, where in every bible it says; God said "Let us [the Gods] make men in our [the Gods] image in our [the Gods] likeness.

When I served at Cannon Air Force Base, I discussed this one day with a captain there. He told me I was full of it, because he had never heard that— just like the majority of Christian people. They also have not heard that, or they don’t want to hear about it. We agreed he could call any clergy in town and ask him or her about it. He chose to call a Methodist preacher. His part of the telephone conversation went like this:

It does say so? How come I never heard of this?

When the conversation was over, he gave me a puzzled look, like he was lost, while shrugging his shoulders. Then, without saying anything, he went back to his office. So, I never heard the answer. But so be it.

We can prove that the plural form is not used in the manner for royalty, like in the olden days, as in we for the king of England. Then royalty was used in plurality. Besides, this plurality in the English language had nothing to do with the creation of the Bible, and most of the countries that had kingdoms did not use this expression. Only in England was it used.

Also, it is not feasible to look at it as representing the Trinity, because the Trinity came about when the first pope after Peter put out an edict that from then on, God, His son, and the Holy Spirit would be looked upon not as three Gods but as only one God.

This was done by the first pope who reigned after Christ’s existence—again, not to be confused with Peter, who is also referred to as the first pope. So, the Trinity did not exist in the Old Testament, and the Trinity was never mentioned by God or Jesus! The original pope did not call them a trinity either. However, the Bible, in some instances, makes references to the father and the son being the same, but never as a trinity, per se.

Neither God nor Jesus nor the Holy Spirit ever proclaimed that they were part of a trinity. By the way, the Holy Spirit never made any statements according to the Bible.

The original pope, who was the emperor of Constantinople, told the other religious leaders, they had to many Gods, like the Roman Gods, the Greek Gods, the Scandinavian Gods, the Indian Gods, the Egyptian Gods, and so on.

However, they rebutted his argument with You have three gods yourself— that is, God, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They caught him with his pants down, so to speak. And they were right!

Consequently, he made the edict that henceforth the three deities would be looked upon as one God. How convenient. And later, in the year 325 at the Council of Nicene, this creed became an agreement with the clergy. Fifty-six years later, in 381, it was adopted at the next council of Constantinople and became the standard creed of the Catholic Church. Later it was also adopted by almost all Protestant denominations, except for the Universal Church and a few other denominations, who did not believe in the Trinity. They were persecuted and killed on orders from the Vatican! Many of them fled to Poland and Holland in the Middle Ages, and most of them were killed if they did not believe in the Trinity—again, on orders from the Vatican.

Let’s face it; there is more than one God. Let’s look at a few.

First, we have to look at the name God. God is a generic name; this means that all deities, wherever they might be, are named God.

God

Everybody knows and is familiar with the Christian God. This is the God all Christians believe in.

No matter which denomination—and there are quite a few Protestant denominations, sects, and cults—they all believe in the same God; however, each one’s followers think they alone have the right religion for salvation. They never like a different church because there are too many things wrong with those other churches, like their dogmas and creeds. They profess according to them and believe the only right church for salvation is the one they belong to! So why are there so many different churches? They all believe in the same God, Jesus the Christ, and Satan.

This indicates churches are big business. Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of Latter-Day Saints, the Baptist Church, Scientology, and some other large, created churches. I am not talking about the smaller ones. Most of those preachers can barely scrape by.

Muslims know God, and at least they gave Him the name Allah instead of the generic name God. And he is the Supreme Being for them.

The Hindus also have their Gods but have different names for them obviously. So do other religions.

All over the world, the name God is used when swearing, as in God damn! or when one is surprised, then it is used as God Almighty! or Oh my God!—even when God told everybody in one of His Ten Commandments, You shall not use my name in vain. But what was his name? According to the Hebrew Bible, it was not God, but Elohim and obviously not Yahweh because this could not be pronounced.

God mentioned Ishi. Yes, He wanted to be called Ishi and not anymore Baali. This will be discussed later in this chapter.

God

But where He came from is something else.

In the Hebrew Bible, God is known as Elohim or the Holy One. And the Lord or Lord God with a name that nobody was allowed to say became known as Jaweh or as the most Holy one.

In the Bible, it is written literally as follows:

God came from Teman and the Holy one from mount Paran (Habakkuk 3:3).

Here, we have two Gods living in different locations in Israel!

God does not come from heaven? No, sir, He came from Teman. Anyhow, we have here two distinct, different Gods:

God, the Holy One

The Most Holy One.

That sounds almost like saying John is from New York and Harry from Chicago. Teman is a city close to Edom. This still does not tell us much. Is wisdom no more in Teman? (2 Jeremiah 49:20).

If God came from Teman and the Holy one from Paran, then maybe they had a summer residence there? Regardless, they are identified as two different Gods: God and the Holy One!

The Holy One lived on Mount Paran.

In Genesis 21:21, it is stated, And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. The Bible talks here about the son of Hagar. Hagar was Abraham’s substitute wife. She was the maid of his wife, and his wife wanted him to have sex with her just to produce offspring. Abraham did get a child by Hagar, and he became the father of Hagar’s son, who was named Ishmael. He was involved with the Islamic religion.

Abraham’s wife, Sarah, could not produce a child, so she wanted her husband to have a child with Hagar her maid. And he did have a child with her. This part of the Bible and other similar occasions do not say much about the matter of matrimony, like the NIV version and