DECEIVING DOCTRINES OF JESUS CHRIST
Jesus first and foremost duty was to deliver what he called true doctrine unto
the world. He claimed to be God's definitive communicator. With such a heavy
job he could not afford to tell doctrinal lies and discredit himself completely.
Somehow or other he did it. I suppose he saw how stupid or evil his fans were.
Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for man and man was not made for the
Sabbath (Mark 2). It was to be the day of rest and prayer for people. But God
owes himself all his love and not us so anything he does is for himself. And
don’t object that God cannot be selfish. Philosophy says that as God is perfect
he has to love himself only for he deserves it. It is only justice so he is not
selfish. Anything else would be injustice and therefore immoral. If love is
sacrifice then God is doing us a favour by making us for the sacrifice of
offering prayer to him. People are to pray all the time on the Sabbath which is
why it is a day of rest from work. It is a day of spiritual communion. People
were made for the Sabbath for they were made for prayerful sacrifice. The
Sabbath couldn’t really be made for people when people are urged to rest on it
regardless of what is best done. A man who rests most of the week and finds
Saturday the best day to work hard is condemned though he is doing what is best
for himself and then Jesus comes along to challenge this! Slander. The man is
accused of blasphemy for saying that the Sabbath was not made for him. Jesus
definitely espoused the making of rigid rules regardless of whether they were
good or bad or ideal for everybody.
Jesus said that the law and the prophets, in short, the Old Testament, is enough
to persuade people to convert to his ideas and that if they will not heed it
then even a person rising from the dead to talk to them will do no good (Luke
16:31). People in his day could not utilize archaeology or anything to prove
that the Old Testament was truthful and a miracle of a man returning from the
grave would be stronger evidence of the need for faith and obedience to God than
that the Old Testament was true. But he denied that here even though at other
times he said it was faithless to look for signs from God. What was he doing
rising from the dead and demanding faith in him when he said that a man who
crawled out of his grave and went back to his brothers after being dead for a
while would not be convincing?
Jesus said that the Devil who likes to appear to be a gentleman and send
prophets who falsely claim to have been sent by God would do false signs and
wonders so great that they could mislead even his chosen people (Matthew 24:24).
The miracles might be faked rather than be supernatural wonders. But no matter,
he is declaring that miracles were not to be considered evidence for anything
all the while appealing to his own miracles which are probably natural ones as
opposed to supernatural, as evidence that he was God’s Son (Matthew 9:6;
14:26,33; Mark 1:44). Jesus' lies cast doubt on whether the miracle stories are
true or correctly reported by the gospels, for only liars write books to get
liars taken at face value.
Jesus said in Luke 16 that a servant who dishonestly undercharged when selling
his master’s goods was right. The Church says he didn’t say that but only that
the prudence of the servant was good but not the dishonesty of it. But to praise
dishonest prudence is to praise dishonesty for the two go together. And Jesus
said that you have to make friends for yourself with bad money so that when it
lets you down you will go to Heaven. The context is about bad dishonest money so
Jesus is commending opportunism. Even though Jesus condemns dishonesty in the
next breath it is clear that the person who put the dishonest servant story in
the gospel did not understand it when he put this condemnation into Jesus’
mouth.
Jesus said that even the weakest faith had the power to do miracles if God
willed it (Matthew 17:20). He said that God willed Peter to walk on water but
when Peter sank he told him it was because his faith was so weak (Matthew 14). A
complete contradiction!
We hold that if a person should be made happy and helped, that the person is
more important than happiness. It is because the person is so important that we
have to make the person happy. The person is more important than quality of
life.
Jesus said that birds are cared for by God so we should feel safe in God’s arms.
If God made animals just for us then Jesus’ deduction would be incorrect. Jesus
implies that wanton cruelty to animals is bad. If you should not be cruel to an
animal then an animal should be happy and an animal should be happy only if it
is more valuable than happiness. Therefore the reason for saying that a person
is more valuable than quality of life also implies that animals are absolutely
valuable. Still, Jesus was as two-faced as the world has always been for he said
our lives are more valuable than those of conscious animals (Matthew 10:31).
That is one of the lies that you have to tell to avoid being a fish out of water
in this world. He supported the cruel practice of kosher meat for the Law said
that flesh with blood in it could not be eaten so the animal had to be bled to
death. Jesus supported the Law.
When the Jews suggested that Jesus’ exorcisms were just tricks of the Devil,
Jesus said they were not for Satan could not cast out Satan and destroy his own
kingdom. This tells us that the Devil cannot have a kingdom without possessing
people. It is implied then that most people must be demon-possessed for Jesus
described the devil as the prince of the world and the devil even offered Jesus
all the kingdoms of the world as if he owned them. This suggests that when he
tempts all he must possess all. They can blame the Devil and not themselves then
for their sins. Jesus used fear and terror to derange people and manipulate them
so that they hardly knew what was real. Moreover, Jesus knew the Devil could
cast out demons under certain circumstances for he would only be sending them to
somebody else anyway. Jesus lied. Whoever is not against the Devil is for him.
Not once did any gospel verify that anybody Jesus was
cured of a Devil stayed cured forever or was really cured. Jesus said a demon
will come back if a man is not holy enough which is a good excuse for a fake
exorcist who fails so he must have needed the excuse. Jesus was a false prophet
and when one of them does exorcisms is enough to prove that he is using the
Devil to do them if the Devil exists. Jesus even went as far as to say that
anybody suspecting that the Devil was doing his miracles would never be saved so
he was going to make sure that people would be afraid to think about his
miracles. He was the one that said the Devil is very crafty.
Jesus said that unclean spirits like to come back to the man they left behind
because they can find nobody else to take over (Matthew 12). As if there were no
sinners in the world! Jesus was denying that to sin was to serve the Devil and
to give him consent that you will let him do as he pleases with you! Moreover,
he said that if demons come back to a man it is because he had himself swept and
tidied for them - that is, that he wanted them back. Just before that he had
been accused of casting out demons by the Devil’s magic, which implies that his
teaching was an attempt to convince people that his failed and seeming exorcisms
really had worked. No alleged victim of possession acts possessed all the time
and Jesus was trying to tell people that if a person went quiet when he was
around that it was because he put the demon out. He was capitalising on that.
When there were few people in those days who were not dramatically possessed and
hardly anybody these days it indicates that either that that generation was
worse than ours – not true though espoused by Turton (page 367, The Truth of
Christianity) – or more likely that Jesus sent the demons into the people in the
first place in order to make it seem that he could put them out.
Jesus in Mark 9:42 said that it was better for anybody who caused one of the
children around him to sin to be drowned if that child was a believer in Jesus.
This implies it is not so bad to make other children sin. This is sectarianism
and arrogance at its worst.
Jesus said that since sin deserved everlasting punishment that it was an
infinite evil to sin against God. God would do infinite good to you so sin is
infinite ingratitude. If sin is infinite it cannot be any worse therefore there
cannot be degrees of punishment and Jesus was telling untruths when he said
there were (Luke 20:47). So the sin of telling a small lie is as bad as murder
in the sight of God.
Jesus told the people he cured that their faith did it. The Church says that
sometimes when God sees it is fit to work a miracle he will do it if the faith
is strong enough. Suppose miracles enable a person who experiences them to have
true and genuine faith. If Ann has a little faith, she needs the miracle. Why
should Johnny with a strong faith get the miracle? Why would God indicate to
Johnny, "I want to make you proud and arrogant of your faith which is so great
that I had to do a miracle to honour it." It would contradict the doctrine of
Jesus that the best thing to do if you have faith is not to show it off but to
try and be discretely good. It would contradict the doctrine of Jesus that
miracles are signs that God does to authenticate the mission of Jesus.
So the Church says God rewards strong faith with a miracle. Did Jesus did not
teach that if you believe enough you will receive healing? Some theologians say
that Jesus did not say that anybody who is sick is sick through their own fault
or because they did not believe enough. Or did he? Jesus knew that one will
trust in God without being able to believe in him and yet we read that he
couldn’t do healings for unbelievers. Jesus said people need faith to receive
the miracle of healing. For Jesus, God is that which can be trusted so an
atheist will have the attitude, “If God exists then he can be trusted and I
trust him for I agree that he can be trusted. My problem is not trusting God but
being sure that he exists”. Jesus certainly meant intellectual adherence to the
dogma of the existence of God and not mere trust. Jesus just cured people
because they agreed with as much of his dogma as they were able. He condemned
unbelief as sinful so he was saying that if the sick were not healed it was
their own fault. He often complained that he lived in unbelieving times. Our
generation is worse so the true Christian blames sickness on disbelief or weak
belief. The sick deserve no compassion or help except a lecture in this view. At
least, what Jesus said about faith curing people proves that he was not claiming
to have the power to heal but that their faith did it. Thus the illnesses were
psychosomatic, in the mind.
A man told Jesus to cure his son for he was his only child (Luke 9). Jesus did
not condemn him for saying that and did what he asked. But it conflicts with the
theistic law that Jesus should not help the boy because he is the man's only boy
but only because it pleases God. Jesus said we are to love God as Lord with all
our being - meaning we do all for him. This proves the miracle never happened
and was invented by the Church. The man did not know of the principle that God
comes first. Jesus told the man he had no faith. The gospel would have said that
Jesus told him about the principle instead of saying that. So Jesus did not
mention the principle. The story cannot be edifying for us without that. The
gospels do not use the miracles to give us edifying lessons to help us get
closer to God and see what he is like. It is all about the magic.
Perhaps the man meant that he should want his boy to live for being the only
child God would want him to? But Jesus accused the man of having no faith. And
the man would have known that Jesus wanted everything done for God’s sake and
would have said, “Jesus, God gave me this boy and he is the only one so God
might not want him to suffer and die. Save him”. But he didn't. Jesus
supposedly used the cures to bring people to God and would not have healed a
person unless it explicitly did that. The story is a fraud. Or perhaps the boy
got better without Jesus's intervention and Jesus took the credit for it.
It was appalling that Christ had to get the boy brought to him and him kicking
and screaming. Why didn’t he take some of the crowd with him and go to the boy’s
house? It is odd that this miracle was done to impress the people when Jesus was
being secretive about superhuman powers at this time according to Mark.
The Church today tells outrageous lies that Jesus never moralised in relation to
any individual person and was radically critical of society and he was too
loving to impute wrongdoing to anybody. They say he never criticised the Scribes
and Pharisees for their weakness. And then they might admit that he gave out to
them how they took the joy out of a relationship with God and put rules and laws
in its place. What do they mean by a non-judgemental Jesus? If he regarded human
evil as weakness then clearly there is no point in worrying about promoting
rules about right and wrong. You will be no different in practice from the
relativist who says that morality is rubbish.
A man whose doctrinal errors and lies made it even into his religion’s
scriptures must have told more lies than these and told worse – a lot worse. It
just shows that the people who know and praise a man like that don’t cherish
integrity.