2004.07.1.03 The Bible Is Not The Word Of Yahooeh Created by James3 on 8/17/2019 12:17:09 PM The Bible Is Not The Word Of Yahooeh
Greetings
This article was written on 05 November 2001 and never published. It now seems to me that I should publish it "as is" even though it is nearly three years later (3 September 2004).
I cannot explain why it seems important to publish without completing, changing the Name of the Almighty to Yahooeh or making any other changes which under other circumstances I would typically make.
Warm regards and blessings
THE BIBLE IS NOT "THE WORD OF YAHWEH"
CAUTION
This article addresses an issue which for most of us, the WRITER INCLUDED, is immensely challenging.
In presenting this article the writer is intensely aware of the controversy that is likely to surround what is contained below. However, the writer is also absolutely certain that this message IS from Yahweh and that Yahweh requires this message to be presented at this time in order to assist readers to better understand certain prophetic utterances given to the writer in recent weeks concerning developments in the United States, the Great Tribulation, the Black Beam on The Dome of The Rock, etc.
To further highlight the extent to which the writer has been discomforted and challenged by what Yahweh has commanded him to write, it is important to place the writer's personal experience in context. In 1993, on the basis of a life experience to that date in which the writer had REJECTED the Bible and therefore backslidden over a period of twenty years BECAUSE he could NOT intellectually reconcile certain aspects of what was contained in the Bible and following a major encounter with the Living Elohim, and based on assurances by various people whose testimony he respected, the writer took the Bible in his hand before Yahweh and stated "Father, these people tell me this is YOUR WORD. I don't understand it but BY FAITH, I choose to believe that this IS YOUR WORD and I ask you to answer ALL my questions."
Since that date, Yahweh has been faithful in answering that request in thousands of different ways, which account for much of what has been published by ETI since inception over three years ago. There have, however, been certain questions which the writer has avoided asking or which having asked, did not appear to get an answer to.
This article presents the culmination of Yahweh requiring the writer to confront the questions that he had been avoiding and to HEAR the answer that he did not want to hear!
With this in mind, I urge restraint on all who read this.
Please do not summarily reject what follows. It is written with absolute certainty that it is truth and that it IS from Yahweh.
In recent weeks a number of prophetic statements have been made regarding the level of error in the Body of Believers. It has also been noted that the writer has been experiencing an increasing tempo of revelation in this area.
The article 1A1.01.11.01 "Some Critical Principles Required to Understand the Present Spiritual Situation and to Overcome to the End" (04 November 2001) addressed a number of issues regarding the book we know as "The Bible". Significant errors in translation as well as issues of missing books and the fact that in all translations there is an element of doctrinally founded interpretation and not just translation were addressed and a number of critical errors in the areas of the true Names Yahweh and Yahshua were discussed. It was also noted that there is no scriptural basis for the so-called "canon of Scripture" and that there is no basis to conclude that the "canon" is complete. Yahweh is at liberty to speak to His people through His prophets today, just as He has in all previous ages. It was also noted that the function of prophets had not changed after the sacrifice of Yahshua at Golgotha and that the Bible represented one continuous progression of ongoing Revelation from Yahweh, NOT two discrete and finite "Testaments". It was concluded that it was an act of amazing Grace that Yahweh had not destroyed mankind in the wake of the perversion of the Scriptures.
From the perspective of the writer, the most paradigm rocking aspect of this message, added after some hesitation, was the passage which compared the death of Judas Iscariot (Yahudah from Qerioth) as reported in Matthew 27:3-10 and Acts 1:16-19. It was concluded "These two passages are not reconcilable. One says Judas bought the field, the other says the High Priests bought the field. One says Judas hanged himself, the other says he 'fell headlong and burst open in the middle and all his entrails gushed out'". When the writer confronted the need to address this irreconcilable difference and seek Yahweh for an answer, which frankly I have been avoiding for some years, the answer give was simple, in the book of Acts, Luke had "a folk tale". The writer was then advised that Yahweh had permitted this in order to cause men to turn to Him and His Set Apart Holy Spirit and NOT to trust in books or in men!
Following publication of this article, as the writer reviewed the implications of the above conclusion of "irreconcilable differences" in the Bible which included a "folk tale" without foundation, the writer found himself rapidly confronted with other passages that he has avoided obtaining an answer on for some years or where I have accepted modern "folk tales" which seek to explain the differences.
Following are a few of them:
Acts 9:22-29 reports that following Saul (Paul's) conversion he went to Jerusalem and fellowshipped with the believers there:
"22 But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this Yahshua is the Anointed One.
23 Now after many days were past, the Jews plotted to kill him.
24 But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates day and night, to kill him.
25 Then the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a large basket.
26 And when Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple.
27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. And he declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Yahshua.
28 So he was with them at Jerusalem, coming in and going out.
29 And he spoke boldly in the name of Adonai Yahshua and disputed against the Hellenists, but they attempted to kill him." (NKJ adjusted)
Galatians 1:15-2:2 reports that after Saul left Damascus he "went not to Jerusalem" but went to Arabia for three years and then returned to Damascus whereafter he went to Jerusalem but met ONLY Peter and James and then after a further fourteen years he returned to Jerusalem and met with the other apostles:
"15 But when it pleased Yahweh, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace,
16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,
17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days.
19 But I saw none of the other apostles except James, the Lord's brother.
20 (Now concerning the things which I write to you, indeed, before Yahweh, I do not lie.)
21 Afterward I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
22 And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which were in the Anointing of the Set Apart Holy Spirit of Yahweh.
23 But they were hearing only, "He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith which he once tried to destroy."
24 And they glorified Yahweh in me.
CHAPTER 2
1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and also took Titus with me.
2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I might run, or had run, in vain." (NKJ adjusted)
In verse 1:20 Saul is at pains to stress that he only met with Peter and James. It almost seems that he is seeking to refute a report that might be in circulation?
In verse 2:1 Saul states that it was only a FURTHER fourteen years later that he went up to Jerusalem again, WITH Barnabas whereas the passage in Acts indicates that Barnabas was ALREADY in Jerusalem when Saul went to Jerusalem, apparently after his conversion.
At best a degree of mental gymnastics is required to reconcile these two passages but, in terms of rigorous semantic analysis, they CANNOT be reconciled.
Yahweh says that the passage in Acts is "a folk tale".
This is particularly significant since there is a material body of doctrine based on the passage in Acts, regarding submission of apostles and prophets in particular to the "established order" and which ignores the passage in Galatians which clearly establishes that Yahweh can call a man as an apostle or prophet, ordain him through an unknown believer and send him out in ministry for years without so much as notifying the "established order".
Matthew, Mark and Luke all report the incident in which Yahshua comes ashore, meets a demon possessed man or men and sends the demons to a herd of pigs which run into the sea and are drowned. The three passages all agree in every detail EXCEPT that Matthew says there were TWO men and Mark and Luke say there was one:
Matthew 8:28 "When He had come to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, there met Him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass that way." (NKJ)
Mark 5:2 "And when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit," (NKJ)
Luke 8:27 "And when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time. And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs." (NKJ)
In the broader scheme of things it is probably NOT material whether there was one man or two. However, IF one is going to claim that the Bible is the "inerrant Word of Yahweh" and that every word is directly inspired by Yahweh as many, including the writer, have passionately believed. This presents a problem. If EVERY word of the entire Bible is breathed by Yahweh, it must be possible to resolve this difference in some acceptable fashion. It is EITHER an error in the manuscripts OR it is an error in the report itself. This is made more challenging by the fact that Matthew was presumably present while Mark and Luke were unlikely to be present. If it is an error in one or more of the reports, it again seriously challenges the view that EVERY word of the Bible IS inspired by Yahweh.
This same discrepancy occurs in George Lamsa's translation from the Aramaic of the Peshitta, the manuscripts which are regarded as being closer to the originals and more reliable. In other words, the error occurred at a very early stage.
On referring the matter to Yahweh, the writer was told "Matthew is correct, the finer detail was lost in the verbal accounts on which Mark and Luke base their reports".
Matthew and Luke both report detailed genealogies for Joseph the earthly adoptive father of Yahshua. From King David to Joseph these two genealogies DO NOT AGREE AT ALL!:
Matthew 1:1-16 "1 The book of the genealogy of Yahshua the Anointed One, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham: 2 Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers. 3 Judah begot Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez begot Hezron, and Hezron begot Ram. 4 Ram begot Amminadab, Amminadab begot Nahshon, and Nahshon begot Salmon. 5 Salmon begot Boaz by Rahab, Boaz begot Obed by Ruth, Obed begot Jesse, 6 and Jesse begot David the king. David the king begot Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah. 7 Solomon begot Rehoboam, Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot Asa. 8 Asa begot Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah. 9 Uzziah begot Jotham, Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah. 10 Hezekiah begot Manasseh, Manasseh begot Amon, and Amon begot Josiah. 11 Josiah begot Jeconiah and his brothers about the time they were carried away to Babylon. 12 And after they were brought to Babylon, Jeconiah begot Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel. 13 Zerubbabel begot Abiud, Abiud begot Eliakim, and Eliakim begot Azor. 14 Azor begot Zadok, Zadok begot Achim, and Achim begot Eliud. 15 Eliud begot Eleazar, Eleazar begot Matthan, and Matthan begot Jacob. 16 And Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Yahshua who is called the Anointed One." (NKJ adjusted)
Luke 3:23-38
"23 Now Yahshua Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli, 24 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Janna, the son of Joseph, 25 the son of Mattathiah, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, 26 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathiah, the son of Semei, the son of Joseph, the son of Judah, 27 the son of Joannas, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, 28 the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmodam, the son of Er, 29 the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, 30 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonan, the son of Eliakim, 31 the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattathah, the son of Nathan, the son of David, 32 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon, 33 the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, 34 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, 35 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, 36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, 37 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan, 38 the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of Elohim." (NKJ adjusted)
There is NO MATERIAL conformity between these two genealogies WHATSOEVER!
There is a particular school of thought that holds that one of these genealogies is of the father of Mary, the mother of Yahshua and that she had no brothers and that the bloodline and inheritance therefore passed through Mary. This is possible and could be desireable in order to establish Yahshua as the "Son of David" insofar as Joseph was NOT his natural father. In the Quran, Yahweh, stresses that Yahshua was the "son of Mary", stressing his physical parentage. On the other hand, since Joseph effectively ADOPTED Yahshua, this established a legal basis for Yahweh to adopt those who believe through the Name of Yahshua!
However, BOTH genealogies end with JOSEPH, not one with Joseph and one with Mary or the father of Mary.
The two genealogies DO NOT EVEN AGREE on who Joseph's father was!
The same discrepancy occurs in George Lamsa's translation from the Peshitta, again indicating that it occurred at a very early date.
On referring the matter to Yahweh, the writer was told "Matthew is correct. In ALL areas of discrepancy between other 'New Testament' texts and Matthew, Matthew is ALWAYS the more reliable authority. This reflects the fact that Matthew was trained as an 'accountant' and his record keeping had to be precise. This does NOT mean that Matthew is always correct!"
In the article yesterday, it was stated that the books up to Malachi were more reliable than those from Matthew to Revelation because of the issues of intermediate translation through Greek, corruption of Greek manuscripts, etc.
However, this morning the writer was AGAIN reminded of the discrepancy between 1 Chronicles 21 and 2 Samuel 24 as to who moved David to number Israel resulting in the death of thousands of people:
1 Chronicles 21:1-2 "1 Now Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel. 2 So David said to Joab and to the leaders of the people, "Go, number Israel from Beersheba to Dan, and bring the number of them to me that I may know it."" (NKJ)
2 Samuel 24:1-3 "1 Again the anger of Yahweh was aroused against Israel, and He moved David against them to say, "Go, number Israel and Judah." 2 So the king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, "Now go throughout all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the number of the people." 3 And Joab said to the king, "Now may Yahweh your Elohim add to the people a hundred times more than there are, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king desire this thing?"" (NKJ adjusted)
1 Chronicles 1 states that SATAN moved David, 2 Samuel 24:1 states that YAHWEH moved David. It is not possible to get any further apart than that! Again there are various rationalizations and apologetics to explain this discrepancy. A footnote to 2 Samuel 24:1 in "The Living Nach; Early Prophets", a modern Jewish translation, part of the "Living Torah" series published in 1994 by Moznaim Publishing in New York and Jerusalem, translated by Yaakov Elman includes the statement "Rashi explicitly confesses his puzzlement" relating to Yahweh moving (the Living Nach says 'incited') David to number Israel. It further quotes an explanation from Rambam in "Guide to the Perplexed" suggesting that the intermediate cause is sometimes omitted "in the words of the prophets".
While it is conceivable to construct some form of thesis around Satan being the wrath of Yahweh OR Satan going to Yahweh and inciting Yahweh, that is NOT what these two passages say. One says Satan did it and the other says Yahweh did THE SAME THING!"
On taking the matter to Yahweh, Yahweh states "SATAN incited David". Yahweh states further "2 Samuel reflects a religious tradition regarding the event which, as indicated in the footnotes in 'The Living Nach', has no Scriptural basis. I [Yahweh] was not in any particular way angry with Israel at the time. Satan tempted David and David succumbed. The books named "Samuel" were, in large measure, NOT recorded by Samuel, they are a collection of reports, just like Kings and Chronicles and DO contain errors."
It is apparent that the religious tradition in 2 Samuel 24:1 that Yahweh refers to above contributes to a tendency to view Yahweh as unpredictable and capricious when, in actual fact, Yahweh has provided the information we need to understand the manner in which bad things happen to us and how to prevent them happening! Refer particularly the article 1A1.01.01.01 "The Wrath of Yahweh for the Church: Why Judgment is Coming on the Church Today" (04 January, 2001).
THE BIBLE HAS NEVER BEEN THE INERRANT WORD OF YAHWEH!
Yahweh states categorically that ALL the errors reported above were introduced BY THE PEOPLE WHO ORIGINALLY RECORDED THOSE TEXTS!
This must be taken in the context of recognizing that most, if not all, of what is attributed to Job and his friends in the book of Job, most, if not all of what is stated in Ecclesiastes and statements by unbelievers, heretics, apostates, etc in numerous other books of the Bible were NOT inspired by Yahweh, they are merely reported as having been said.
Furthermore, the so-called "Five Books of Moses" include reports of events after Moses death. There is tradition or folk lore that Yahweh dictated those books in totality to Moses on Mount Sinai, BEFORE most of the events reported in them occurred. There are other traditions that Yahweh showed Moses what would happen after he died and that Moses completed the books BEFORE he died. Yahweh says that these traditions are "not true, the books are compilations of writings throughout the life of Moses, assisted by Joshua and were completed by Joshua after Moses died."
THE "WORD OF YAHWEH" ARE THOSE WORDS DIRECTLY ATTRIBUTED TO YAHWEH IN QUOTATION MARKS!
The rest of the Bible comprises words written by men under various levels of inspiration by the Set Apart Holy Spirit of Yahweh ranging from 100% inspired to 0% - nothing to do with Yahweh. A substantial portion of the Bible IS inspired at a very high level of precision but BY NO MEANS ALL.
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