The Holy Spirit VS. Man's Animal Kingdom

By Paul Cronin

In this book, I attempt to reconcile events in the Bible to factual science discoveries such as archaeological and DNA discoveries. I explain what I believe was Moses’s true motivation for marching the slaves into Canaan and his embedded messages in his writings. Applying this theory, I now believe and explain why creating a god and religion was man’s early way of governing and controlling people, placing priests as the gatekeepers to heaven and giving them power over the masses.

I explain how I believe that Moses’s writings sowed the seeds of racism, tribalism, sexism, and homophobia. The ripple effects through time perpetuated by the priests and clerics have created a divided, dysfunctional, and unholy society in the USA and abroad. Materialism and greed are the gods of today. Our society is and has always been man’s animal kingdom that has murdered Jesus, disconnecting us with the Holy Spirit and derailing our spiritual evolution.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9781662448744

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The Holy Spirit VS. Man's Animal Kingdom

Paul Cronin

Copyright © 2022 Paul Cronin

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PAGE PUBLISHING

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First originally published by Page Publishing 2022

ISBN 978-1-6624-4873-7 (pbk)

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Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Fertile Crescent, the Cradle of Civilization

The Fertile Crescent’s Levant—Canaan (Phoenicia)

Hyksos Rule Egypt Circa 1650 BC

Egypt’s New Kingdom, 1570 BC

Clash of Empires—Battle for Dominance of the Fertile Crescent

Pharaoh Rameses Finds Another Way to Rule Canaan Circa 1250 BC—Moses

Moses’s Blueprint to Create a Slave Army and Domesticate Slaves into a Slave Farm Labor Force

Philistines

Israel’s First King

United Kingdom of Israel

Canaanites/Phoenicians/Carthaginians

Sicily

Romans Rule the Empire, Priests Rule the Israelites, and Jesus Is Born

America, One Nation under God?

Creation 2020

Spirituality or the End of Days

Preface

I was born in this society in 1961 and brought into the American dream of raising a family, owning a home, and being a successful businessman, providing comfortable living for my family. That is the way my siblings and I were raised by our loving parents.

The world around us changed so rapidly since during that time. Housing costs skyrocketed where I grew up in the Northeast; cost of living also increased at a rapid pace. Cell phones, personal computers, then social media. Shortly after marriage, my wife and I purchased a home that required me to travel two hours each way to work daily.

I began my journey into the white-collar world as I had finally graduated college by attending classes in the evenings and working full-time. I eventually passed the CPA exam and felt I was surely on my way to the big time. However, in addition to the American dream that was instilled in me, I, as many of my generation, began to be addicted to acquiring material things for my family and myself like new vehicles, cell phones, and personal computers in the beginning. Even though I lived a great distance from work, I had a hard time keeping up with these new dreams. They were no longer dreams; they were necessities in my mind.

Then after paying bills late and moving to another home, I was hit with the mortgage banking reality. Sure, you qualify for a mortgage; only instead of the going rate, you must pay double-digit interest rates and come up with lots of cash.

Like any addict, I did what I had to—anything—to get my fix. No longer a dream but an addiction. The more money I made, the more the struggle to get more and more of the new American dream: lots of stuff. By no means were we living elaborately, yet the necessities needed to be obtained. Then my children entered college. College tuition and fees had skyrocketed. So I took out Parent PLUS loans exceeding one hundred thousand dollars for my first two children. To make matters worse, now they also have considerable debt—just to acquire a diploma that was and is a requirement in today’s society.

Well, time passed. I climbed the corporate ladder; I was good at what I did, and my ego grew with every accomplishment. As my ego grew, however, so did my jealousy. Why was I not making as much money as those who I deemed less effective at thier jobs than I? They only have a short commute, better home, and much more time at home. Eventually, I hit my corporate world ceiling. Then the financial crisis of 2008–2009 hit. I navigated our company through it; however, that required that I TAKE a 40-percent pay cut, as did many others around me. We did so instead of laying off personnel.

We weathered the storm, and my ego grew. I was the man, mostly in my own mind. Shades of gray grew. I began unilaterally making changes, setting up side businesses. And my jealousy of other executives grew as they had larger pensions and larger salaries and, in my opinion, had coasted through the last eight years while I took on the dirty jobs.

Well, this snowballed more and more with each crisis, and I eventually was running the company as if it was my own. My ego was huge; so was the stress. And I was in way over my head. I could not admit this fact and that I couldn’t fix it.

No, not nearly. I began self-medicating to a point where I was a complete mess. My personal and business life were no longer separated. Not for over five years. Eventually, I was charged, convicted, and sent to prison as a white-collar felon.

Broken, I entered prison. I was determined not to go out this way. I put my innocent, loving family, friends, and colleagues through so much. I set myself three goals: become physically, mentally, and spiritually fit.

Having been crushed by the ramifications of my misdeeds, my ego had dwindled significantly. I began my forced intervention in prison, detoxifying from alcohol and what I now realize was an addiction to greed. According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Greed (or avarice) is an uncontrolled longing for increase in the acquisition or use of material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions); or social value, such as status, or power. Greed has been identified as undesirable throughout known human history because it creates behavior-conflict between personal and social goals.

I started walking daily and reading a Bible that a friend had purchased for me when I was sent to prison. Having never read an entire book before, I started with the Old Testament.

I would read a few passages every day. I became frustrated from the start. A god that kills sinners, his children. I quickly went onto the New Testament. Surely, this would make more sense as my parents were devout Catholics and highly intelligent, in my opinion. I was optimistic.

This optimism was short-lived especially because of the repetitiveness and how the New Testament kept tying Jesus back to the Old Testament. Even so, I kept on reading daily as I promised my ninety-year-old dad I would. I stopped trying to make sense of the Scriptures though.

One of my goals was paying off, though I was becoming increasingly physically fit. The other two goals—not so much. Not only was I not progressing spiritually, I had what is called a manic psychotic episode—hallucinations and hearing voices. This went on for weeks unnoticed by the guards until the episode finally peaked six months to the day that I entered prison. I was shipped off to another more secure facility to be put under suicide watch. They tested me for drugs; there were none in my system. Not a surprise since I only took blood-pressure meds at the time.

I began to come out of the episode after a few days, and they prescribed me some meds that helped significantly.

I was then released to a low-security prison, a huge difference from the camp that I was in earlier. Since I had the psychotic event, I was a security risk. Not to others but to myself. I was assigned a cell (really a cubicle) with a black roommate. He was not thrilled in the least to see me walk in. When he found out that I was from a camp, he was relieved. I wondered why, and he said because that meant you’re not a chomo (child molester).

Eventually, my items showed up from the camp: my Bible, a book on Sicily (my grandmother’s birthplace), writings that I did during my psychotic episode, and my personal belongings.

I left my book about Sicily out and went for a walk. Upon return, my roommate said, Your people were slaves. I didn’t know what he meant until I saw the book of Sicily in his hands. I had not reached that part about my ancestors’ slavery yet. He had, in the short time that I was away, skimmed through the book. He is a smart man and, as it turns out, a great friend.

From that point, he took me under his wing in his tough teasing way. I was easy to laugh at and did not mind it. Especially since after laughing at me, he would tell me why. I always found the hard way to do things, even getting into my top bunk. Finally, for example, after a few weeks of watching me struggle, he would show me the logical, easy way: pull up a chair.

We became and are brothers.

I eventually picked up that Bible again. I was still in recovery and a bit delusional. Maybe as it turns out, that was a good thing—in my opinion anyway.

I started with the Old Testament and initially focused on the Exodus. I said to myself, Okay, look at this from all angles. God doesn’t kill or eat; it was my starting point.

So if the Israelites conquered Canaan, how did they escape, or were they freed? And if so, why?

First, I looked at the map of Exodus in the back of my Bible and the route the slaves took. Resources in prison are limited, so then I picked up my cellmate’s Almanac and Book of Facts to see if it had any information on the Egyptians and Israelites. It did; however, there was this disconnect that I could not reconcile.

Reading Egyptian history in the Almanac and comparing their empire time line to that of the biblical one in my Bible study, I realized that Egypt was a powerful empire long after Moses’s time and Israel fell. I said to myself, What if the Israelites didn’t get freed by God or escaped? Then the Pharaoh must have released them. If so, why?

I’ve always been good at solving problems. I took on this challenge to reconcile the Bible to history and science. I felt if I could not reconcile them; how could I expect my children and other youth to? Especially as they become more and more educated and skeptical. We tell them there is a Santa, a tooth fairy, and an Easter Bunny. Then we tell them there’s this God and you need to have faith, blind faith. Another reason is that my/our children are being overwhelmed by the costs of college, living and housing as I was and had to do something.

How do the victims of tragedy, the poor and starving populations of the USA and the world, reconcile with why they have been cursed? The priests say it is so they suffer and get into heaven after they are dead? This never made any sense to me.

When I was released from prison, I continued trying to reconcile the Bible and science. The Internet helped me piece together my theory, and I hope that it helps others to see that while fragmented throughout the scientific world and ignored by the old-world religions, it’s what has been right in front of us all along.

Science believes in their facts, and religions have blind faith; both remained divided until now as I feel that I have reconciled the two.

I now believe that we are living in a false reality. Man has created and perpetuated his psychotic animal kingdom to dominate and control others. Religions such as the Jewish religion, Catholicism, and Islam have retarded our spiritual evolution. Man created religion to rule/govern other men and women. It had nothing to do with a god—any god.

We need to wake up and stop this runaway train that we are all on. In this book, I’ll expose the Bible’s and old-world religions’ true intent. Not God’s will; it is and was man’s will…

Introduction

What if the foundation of Christian and Muslim society was based on lies? Lies perpetuated by religions. I now believe that it is time to clear God’s name and wake up to a new reality.

The theory of evolution by natural selection, first formulated in Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species in 1859, created a rift between religions and science. Scientists believe that the Old Testament is fiction, and religions have held fast to their blind faith and biblical beliefs.

Albert Einstein concluded that the miracles depicted in the Bible were fictitious. Einstein said that "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

For me, he added, the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

While I believe that this is the case, I also believe that there is more to Moses’s writings in the Old Testament than mere childish superstition.

The Old Testament starts out with Moses writing Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Moses writes of an all-powerful, jealous and punishing god who rewards those that follow his orders and labels those that do not sinners and kills them.

Driving Out the Nations

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you. This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. (Deuteronomy 7)

Moses writes of a family tree that he ties back to Adam and Eve, the supposed first man and woman. One of the family lines found favor in Moses’s god, and a made-up descendent, Abram, is promised Canaan—the land of milk and honey. Moses’s writings tell us of a supposedly sinful branch of Noah’s family, the Canaanites.

Moses and the hoard of Egyptian slaves eventually go on a genocidal quest to eradicate these sinful people in God’s name and claim what they think is their rightful property given to them by God.

So who were these sinners that Moses’s god had the slaves kill? According to historians, the Canaanites or, as the Greeks called them, Phoenicians probably arrived in the area about 3000 BCE. Recent DNA testing has confirmed that the Phoenicians were, in fact, direct descendants of the Canaanites.

According to www.britannica.com,

they were merchants, traders, and colonizers. They were pioneering seafarers, skilled engineers, gifted artisans, and the master entrepreneurs of antiquity. Through a peaceful, long-distance exchange network of goods and ideas, they influenced the trade, communication, and civilizational development of the Mediterranean basin. The height of Phoenician shipping, mercantile, and cultural activity was during the Greek early Archaic period c. 750–650 B.C., laying the foundations for fifth century B.C., classical Greece.

The Phoenicians [Canaanites] went not for conquest as the Babylonians and Assyrians did, but for trade. Profit rather than plunder was their policy.

So why did God want them dead? I believe it was not God; it was greed! Man’s greed—in this case, Pharaoh Rameses.

Ever since man emerged from the Dark Ages, he stopped migrating with the change of seasons and began settling in areas. Claiming ownership, man has waged war on one another out of greed. In the name of God, in Moses’s case. Many others would follow.

My theory is that the Egyptian pharaoh Rameses, plagued by droughts and famine, coveted Canaan’s fertile land and called on Mosses to script a fictitious story demonizing Egypt’s enemy, lead the slaves on an unholy genocidal crusade, and kill these enemies including the Canaanites—laying siege to the land of milk and honey, Canaan.

Canaan’s cedar trees, fertile farmland, and grain would help fill the store cities of Pit om and Rameses that the Bible tells us the slaves had just built before Moses set them free.

I asked myself, Why would the Pharaoh release the slaves if it was not God’s intervention? Reading the online encyclopedias such as Britannica, Live Science, and Wikipedia, I pieced together some interesting facts that supported my theory.

The Egyptians had a long hostile history with the Hittites from Turkey and Amorites from Syria—all invaders of the lands of the Canaanites. The peaceful Canaanite merchants of the Levant who occupied the fertile Levant section of the Middle East now known as Israel, Jordan, and parts of Syria.

Pharaoh Rameses had signed a peace treaty Circa 1258 BC with the Hittites after eighty years of fighting over the Levant. The treaty left the Hittites in control of all the lands north of Kadesh including Canaan.

Approximately eight years after the peace treaty, Moses’s slave army ambushed the Canaanites from the desert circa 1250 BC!

Rameses was fighting campaigns in Africa to the south and sent his slave army to the north. He conquered Nubia in 1260 BC and then Libya in 1250 BC, the same year Moses’s slaves are said to have entered Canaan.

The Hittites were busy fighting the Kaska invaders from the north. I believe Ramses saw his opportunity and unleased his slave army with Moses, with Arran and Arran’s sons as his campaign leaders and generals. The Bible called them Levites; I believe they were, in actuality, the "nrrn (Ne’arin or Nearin), possibly a Canaanite tribe of military mercenaries with Egyptian allegiance that aided Rameses’s during the Battle of Kadesh circa 1274, 24 years prior to the slaves conquering Canaan." I found this tribe during my research on the Battle of Kadesh in Wikipedia.

I also believe that Moses, Aaron, and Aaron’s sons were Egyptian military commanders that Pharaoh Rameses placed in charge of the crusade. They would fake their death along the march to Canaan, make it look like it was God’s wrath when in actuality, they were going back to report on Moses’s progress to the Pharaoh. Then finally, when the time was right, Moses did the same and unleashed the slave army on the unsuspecting Canaanites, ambushing them from the desert.

Do not despise an Edomite, for the Edomites are related to you. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country. The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord. (Deuteronomy 23)

Edom was on the border between Israel and Egypt, so it was imperative that they not quarrel to enable Egypt’s grain to pass peacefully through their territory.

The stories written by Moses were to deceive the primitive, naive Egyptian slaves into believing that God promised their fictitious ancestor Abram Canaan and that they were God’s chosen people. Moses convinced them that they were a chosen people, a superior race. A superior race that he manipulated into participating in an unholy genocidal campaign, slaughtering their kin, the Canaanites, and Egypt’s other enemies along the way.

Moses scripted an ingenious plot that would secure Egypt’s northern border, using the slaves’ ancestral legends and integrating a new fictitious god that would rule them. Moses created a jealous, punishing, and all-powerful god to take ownership of the slaves.

Thou shall worship no other gods was the first commandment. Why? To unite the slaves under one god and control them. Any blasphemy was met with death to ensure Moses’s grip on the slaves stayed intact. Of course, Moses was the only one that ever spoke to God.

Moses created his stories of Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah, and Abram to create a fictitious family tree from the Israelite (Canaanite) slaves back to God’s supposed creation of man when God snapped his fingers and poof! Man was created and later woman to serve man.

Moses filled in his stories with messages of God’s wrath to instill the fear of God in the unsuspecting, naive, and primitive slaves. He also scripted that loyal slaves get rewarded by God. He embedded messages to teach them hygiene, sex education, and much more. For example, here are some passages from Leviticus:

Every bed on which the person with the discharge lies becomes unclean, and everything on which he sits becomes unclean. (Leviticus 15:4)

If a man actually lies with her so that her menstrual impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean. (Leviticus 15:24)

Any bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her like her bed at menstruation; and every thing on which she sits shall be unclean, like her uncleanness at that time. (Leviticus 15:26)

Every saddle on which the person with the discharge rides becomes unclean. (Leviticus 15:9)

I believe the Israelites were descendants of captured people’s many descendants of the Hyksos (Canaanites and other Palestinians) when the Egyptians expelled them from Egypt. That is why their DNA is such a close match to Palestinians.

The Hyksos ruled Egypt for a hundred years. I believe the Egyptians enslaved the Canaanites when they conquered them and that they had been slaves for over three hundred years and lost their tribal identity since they were raised like animals.

Moses depicted man as being created in God’s image to farm the land and herd animals and to ensure that they stayed focused on their new life of slavery in Moses’s farm slave labor camps once they eradicated the Canaanites. Camps that were overseen by Moses’s coconspirators, the Levite tribe, that Moses made priests to rule and collect God’s offerings (really Egypt’s bounty). Providing offerings of grain to God that was to be sent to God’s home in Mount Sinai when in actuality, the grain offerings were sent to Egypt to fill the store cities that the slaves had built.

Yeast was added to the bread offerings so that it would stay preserved; it had nothing to do with God. Salt was also a preservative mandated by God. Offerings were delivered by the new slave masters, the Levite priests.

Moses crafted the story of Creation where woman was made to be man’s helper (slave) so the slaves would reproduce and keep a slave labor force in place for generations. He also embedded messages to stop the slaves from sacrificing children to Molech, a god worshiped by the Amorites and Canaanites.

Adultery was forbidden so the slaves would not fight over the woman that they were given nor the lands. Laws against bestiality and homosexuality were also part of Moses’s plan to keep the slaves on a path to becoming a self-governing and perpetual slave labor force. This was Moses’s succession planning.

Moses’s blueprint of propaganda was used to convince the slaves that they are superior to others, and demonizing people that he wanted to eradicate was like the blueprint that Hitler used to convince the Germans that they were the superior race 3,200 years later.

Fatefully, Hitler demonized the Jews, not God’s will. It is the result of man’s greedy animal tribal kingdom. The result of Moses’s unholy crusade’s ripple effect through time. Manipulate the suffering poor, convince them that they are superior to others, demonize people, and crucify them. All so the elites and priests can become powerful and live lavishly while the masses serve them.

A perfect example is Numbers 3 when Moses has the slaves slaughter the Midianites and keep their women. Why? I believe to use them to breed a workforce for farming Canaan’s land to provide grain and cedar to the Egyptians.

I believe this hypothesis is proven as ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­according to Wikipedia, Samaritans claim descent from the tribe of Ephraim and tribe of Manasseh (two sons of Joseph) as well as from the Levites. The same tribe that Moses was from and one of the twelve tribes that invaded Canaan.

DNA tests have shown that Samaritans descended from Hebrew men and non-Hebrew women. I believe that they are descendants of the Midianite women that Moses gave to the slaves after they slaughtered their men and children.

In Numbers, Moses writes:

So Moses said to the people, Arm some of your men to go to war against the Midianites so that they may carry out the Lord’s vengeance on them. Send into battle a thousand men from each of the tribes of Israel. So twelve thousand men armed for battle, a thousand from each tribe, were supplied from the clans of Israel. Moses sent them into battle, a thousand from each tribe, along with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, who took with him articles from the sanctuary and the trumpets for signaling.

They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every man. Among their victims were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children and took all the Midianite herds, flocks and goods as plunder. They burned all the towns where the Midianites had settled, as well as all their camps. They took all the plunder and spoils, including the people and animals, and brought the captives, spoils and plunder to Moses and Eleazar the priest and the Israelite assembly at their camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Moses, Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp. Moses was angry with the officers of the army—the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds—who returned from the battle.

Have you allowed all the women to live? he asked them. They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

Once the Israelites ambushed the Canaanites from the desert, they soon came into conflict with the Philistines. The Philistines arrived in Canaan approximately the same time as the Israelites. They are demonized and mentioned numerous times in the Old Testament. Recent studies show that these peoples quickly intermarried with the Canaanites, and within a few generations, their DNA was completely Canaanite. Could it be the Philistines allied themselves with the Canaanites against the Israelite invaders to retake lands taken by them? We may never know since history is written by the winners; however, it makes sense to me as the Canaanites were merchants, farmers, and traders. They would hire mercenaries to protect their people and properties. This fits as the Philistines were part of the sea people that raided the coast of Egypt and the Middle East. Why did they separate from the fleet? I believe that the Canaanites hired them to fight the Israelites.

Moses spawned a religion that has crippled our spiritual and humanitarian progression. The Romans did the same when they murdered Jesus. Then after 300 years of crucifying the Christians, they hijacked Jesus’s God and created their get-into-heaven rules for the poor. They found if they could control the messages and propaganda, the people would follow like sheep, as did Muhammad and the offshoots of the Roman Catholic Church.

The meek will never inherit the earth. Man has created a world that will eventually devour himself and our planet. Look at all the death and despair all around us in the USA and all around the world. While we continue our journey into the valley of death and despair, religions have us praying for miracles that will never materialize instead of engaging in social, political, and spiritual reforms that must occur now. Opioid crisis, racism, corporate America sacrificing lives for the bottom line, and millions of women choosing to abort babies instead of bringing them into this society. Now a pandemic that has tested our societies’ moral values versus greed, and greed is winning. Open up the economy so the rich elites get richer and sacrifice the elderly and at-risk people. Herd immunity is our solution. Our government sees us as a herd, not as people that the government was set up to serve. Our government has not served its people. Why not continue to subsidize the millions of people’s lost salaries as the pandemic keeps them unemployed? No fault of their own.

Egypt’s empire lasted long after Moses and outlasted the Israel kingdom. Israel divided into two kingdoms, a northern and a southern kingdom in 930 BC, three hundred years after Moses. The Assyrians (Syria, Iraq) conquered the northern kingdom in 739 BC, then Babylon (Syria, Iraq, Arabia) conquered the southern kingdom in 586 BC. Moses’s god was kept in power by the priests who would continue to script reasons why God punished the Israelites. They would blame the people and tell them that it was their sinful ways that caused God’s wrath.

The Egyptian empire was not conquered until Persia (Iran) conquered them in 539 BC. Egypt’s power lasted almost 1,700 years after Moses’s writings tell us God destroyed them to free the slaves.

Then Jesus was born circa AD 5, delivering a very different message about God. The biological son of Mary and Joseph infused with the Holy Spirit, in my opinion. Forgiveness and love was God’s way for all, not just an exclusive elite of aristocrats and priests. People could have a direct relationship with God. Spirituality comes from within, not in a temple created by the priests nor through rituals. These messages resonated with the poor, threatening the aristocrats’ and the priests’ hold on the people. The priests went to the Romans, and I believe the Romans did not hesitate to kill Jesus.

God also sent Mary Magdalene, Jesus’s main apostle. Together, they were to sow the seeds of God’s love to bring balance and free woman from the