The texts of the Old Testament proclaimed by the churches as the word of God often portray God as a blood-thirsty monster that calls for murder, homicidal robbery, genocide, war and animal slaughter.

Right from the beginning, there were serious disagreements in the New Testament. And subsequently, the texts continued to be falsified. Nevertheless, for the Protestant and Catholic institutions, the Bible is the “true word of God” and the “sole guideline” –
with partly devastating consequences
for humans and animals.

In its Catechism
the Catholic Church declares the
following as binding:

“The Old Testament prepares for the New and the New Testament fulfills the Old; the two shed light on each other; both are the true word of God.” (No. 140)

The Protestant-Lutheran Church
determined the following in its Lutheran Confessions that are valid until today:

In this way, the distinction between the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and all other writings is preserved, and the Holy Scriptures alone remain the “only judge, rule, and standard,” according to which, as the only test-stone, all dogmas “shall and must be discerned and judged, as to whether they are good or evil, right or wrong.”
(Formula of Concord from the year 1577
Epitome, No. 7)1
 

Table of Contents
 

Citations about the Bible 6
Did you know? 7
Jerome, his life 8
Jerome, falsifier of the Bible 9
Jerome changed the scriptures
in 3500 places 10
Vatican: “a revelation without error” 11
Jerome withheld essential truths 13
Main point of dissension:
The Nazarene’s love for animals 14
Did Jerome translate an ancient
original Bible? 15
Why did Jerome leave
contradictions in the Bible? 20
Did Peter falsify the teachings of Jesus? 22
Paul greatly falsified the teachings of Jesus 23
Faith instead of the deed 24
Denigration of women 24
Death penalty 24
Military service/Slavery 24
Eating meat 25
Was the Gospel of Luke dictated by Paul? 25
The word of God was falsely
attributed to Moses 27
You shall not kill 31
Even Martin Luther falsified the Bible 34
Biblical falsifications today 35
There were many other gospels 36
Falsifications into the 9th century 37
The one who did not believe was cursed 38
Quotes from theologians ... 40
The German newspaper BILD and
its “Folk-Bible“ 42
Bibliography 44
 

Citations about the Bible


“Corruption”
“The fact that during this period of its development the New Testament text was overgrown to an amazing extent can only be denied by the ignorant. It places the party of dogma, however, in an embarrassing situation, because the deteriorations produced within the Church are treated by them with the same reverence as the genuine text.”2
Adolph Jülicher, German Theologian

“A chaos”
“The original is left further and further behind; contradictions between manuscripts of different traditions multiply, and presently attempts are made to reconcile them. The result is chaos.”3
The theologians Hoskyns and Davey

“Hopelessly corrupted”
“Right up until the 18th century, someone claimed to possess the original Gospel of Mark. It was said to be in Venice as well as in Prague, and that both originals were in Latin, something no evangelist had ever used. In reality, no original ever existed, neither a New Testament text nor any biblical book at all was preserved in its original text form. Nor do first copies exist. There are only copies of copies of copies. Today’s text of the New Testament is a mixed text, pasted together from various writings that had been passed down. The text of the “book of books,” today disseminated in more than 1100 languages and dialects, is thus hopelessly corrupted.”4
Karl Heinz Deschner: Abermals krähte der Hahn
 

Did you know?

In the year 383 Jerome was commissioned by Pope Damasus I to compile a uniform text for a Latin Bible.

Jerome changed the gospels in about 3500 places.

Jerome also wrote that no two texts agreed with each other over longer passages and just as many forms of texts existed as copies; he pointed out that “readings at variance with the early copies cannot be right.”5

The New Testament exists in no less than 800 gospel manuscripts from the 2nd to the 13th centuries. The number of variations and differences in the c. 1500 more or less completely preserved texts is enormous.

There is no single manuscript that would agree with any other. Theologians have counted 50,000 to 100,000 variations.

4680 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament are known, of which no two have the same text.

Despite this, the Catholic Church insists on its doctrine that the Old and New Testaments are the “true word of God.” And for the Protestant-Lutheran Church it is the “only judge, rule and standard.” 6


Jerome

Born in 347 in Stridonious, a small town on the
Adriatic. Died Sept. 30, 419/420 in Bethlehem

Sophronius Eusebius Jerome was born in Stridonius, on the border of the Roman provinces Dalmatia and Pannonia. He was the son of Christian parents who, however, did not have him baptized. He studied in Milano and Rome and continued his studies in Trier.
A vegetarian and animal friend, Jerome became famous through a legend whereby he rescued a lion by removing a thorn from its paw in the Chalcis desert in Syria.
He was consecrated as a priest in Antioch in the year 379. Soon afterward he went to Constantinople to pursue his study of scripture under the instruction of Gregory of Nazianzen, a Greek Doctor of the Church, and learned to appreciate Origen while there.
In 382 he returned to Rome and became secretary to the Roman Bishop Damasus I. Damasus commissioned Jerome, who had mastered seven languages, to produce a new translation of the Bible in Latin. His work is the Vulgate Bible, which the Catholic Church considers to be free of error and binding, right up until today.
After the death of his patron, Pope Damasus, he fled in 385 to Bethlehem because his criticism of the clergy and his advocacy of vegetarianism apparently displeased several lords. Jerome worked as a semi-recluse for 35 years but was intensely active in producing many texts.


Jerome, falsifier of the Bible

The church institutions want their faithful to believe the Bible is the absolute word of God. But this is not so.

The scriptures were falsified right from the very beginning, intentionally or unintentionally, out of ignorance or carelessness.

When Jerome was commissioned by Pope Damasus in 383 to again translate all existing texts of the gospel into Latin and to compile them into one large scripture (Bible), he was close to despair: No two lengthy texts coincided. They all differed from each other.

And so, Jerome wrote the pope:

“… even on the showing of those who revile us, readings at variance with the early copies cannot be right. For if we are to pin our faith on the Latin texts, it is for our opponent to tell us which; for there are almost as many forms of texts, as there are copies.”7

 

Jerome changed the
scriptures in 3500 places

With foreboding foresight, Jerome wrote the pope:

“Is there a man ..., who will not, when he takes the volume [Bible] in hand..., break out immediately into violent language, and call me a forger and a profane person for having the audacity to add anything to the ancient books, or to make any changes or corrections therein?”7

One must admit that Jerome did not have an easy task. He would have preferred to go back completely to the original texts in Greek and correct all the mistakes introduced by “inaccurate translators.”7 And so he writes: “why not go back to the original Greek and correct the mistakes introduced by inaccurate translators, and the blundering alterations of confident but ignorant critics, and further, all that has been inserted or changed by copyists more asleep than awake?”7
But Jerome didn’t dare so much, because the Romans had already become accustomed to certain texts by repeated readings. And so, he wrote that he used his “pen with some restraint.”7 He is said to have changed the scripture in a mere 3500 places.

In addition, the Hebrew and Greek original texts could hardly be relied on, because too much had been changed in them during the nearly 300 years since they had been written.
Considering this and the following facts, it is not only an effrontery to present the complete Bible to the faithful as the “true word of God” (Catholic Catechism) – it also leads them astray.

While for Jerome it was hard to “glean the truth”7 in the scriptures that diverged from each other, the Catholic and Protestant institutions view this very differently.
 

Where for Jerome it was hard to “glean the truth,”
for the Vatican it is:
“a revelation without error”

Excerpts from the decision for dogmatic doctrine of the 1st Vatican Council in 1869-70 concerning the Bible:

“Now this supernatural revelation, according to the belief of the universal church, as declared by the sacred council of Trent, is contained in written books and unwritten traditions, which were received by the apostles from the lips of Christ himself, or came to the apostles by the dictation of the holy Spirit, and were passed on as it were from hand to hand until they reached us…

The complete books of the old and the new Testament with all their parts, as they are listed in the decree of the said council and as they are found in the old Latin Vulgate edition, are to be received as sacred and canonical. These books the church holds to be sacred and canonical not because she subsequently approved them by her authority after they had been composed by unaided human skill, nor simply because they contain revelation without error, but because, being written under the inspiration of the holy Spirit, they have God as their author, and were as such committed to the church.” (Chap. 2:5-7)8

Ever new revisions –
ever new mistakes

Already in 1590, the Vulgate (Latin translation by Jerome) was published by the Vatican under Pope Sixtus V as the “Editio Sixtina” and declared to be free of error. Actually, it was filled with errors. In 1592 it was replaced under Pope Clemens V by the “Editio Clementina,” also considered free of errors, but which also contained many errors. Only the revised edition of 1598 remain binding over a longer period of time – although it, too, was filled with errors.

Jerome withheld
essential truths

Jerome had at his disposal all the still existing scriptures about the teachings of Jesus available at that time. He knew very well, for instance, that Jesus ate no meat and also taught that one should love the animals and not kill them. In a treatise on Jovinian, Jerome made a noteworthy statement on this subject. From this text we can deduce that Jesus apparently commanded that no meat be eaten, which is attested to by many ancient scriptures outside the Bible. Nevertheless, as he compiled the Bible, Jerome withheld this important aspect of the teachings of Jesus, or took over an already falsified text. Every day millions of animals have to pay with their lives for this falsification of the teachings of Jesus. Since then, countless billions of animals have been subjected to lingering illness in dark barns and killed. It is particularly the “Christian” nations that have mutated into meat-eaters. The consequences of this suppression are unimaginable for nature, animals and people ...


From Jerome’s treatise on Jovinian:

“The eating of flesh was unknown until the deluge. But after the deluge, like the quails given in the desert to the murmuring people, the poison of flesh-meat was offered to our teeth... But once Christ has come in the end of time, and Omega passed into Alpha and turned the end into the beginning we are no longer allowed ... , nor do we eat flesh...”9
And in another place it says:
“And so, I too say to you: If you wish to be perfect, then it is good not to … eat flesh.”9


Main point of dissension:
The Nazarene’s love
for animals


Apparently, the vegetarianism of the Early Christians was a great problem for those in power at that time. In no case was it to be included in the Bible. The author Carsten Strehlow writes: “The Church Father Jerome was even driven from Rome because of his clear statements concerning vegetarianism and abstinence from alcohol.”10 He really would have had to fear for his life if he had truthfully included Jesus’ love for the animals in his new translation of the Bible into Latin. “Already under Emperor Constantine I, it is said that liquefied lead was poured down the throats of vegetarian and pacifist Christians. “10

There was much fighting between the parties, because “most Church Fathers strongly advocated vegetarianism, veganism and abstinence from alcohol.”10 But the Roman authorities and the Roman Church that was emerging with their help won out. The following citation may shed some light on the pitch-black power that from then on took possession of the teachings of Jesus.
The new Catholics, for example – before they were forcefully taken into the just developing Catholic Church – were forced to speak out a curse against the followers of Jesus, or rather, against His teachings and thus, in the final analysis, against Jesus Christ, Himself.

“…I anathematize the Nazarenes, the stubborn ones, who deny that the law of sacrifice was given by Moses, and who abstain from eating living things, and who never offer sacrifice...”11

Vegetarian priests
were let go

In the year 314 at a church synod in Ankara the following decree was even issued:

“It is decreed that among the clergy, presbyters and deacons who abstain from flesh shall taste of it, and afterwards, if they shall so please, may abstain. But if they disdain it, and will not even eat herbs served with flesh, but disobey the canon, let them be removed from their order.”12



Did Jerome translate an ancient original gospel?

Furthermore, it is clear from Jerome’s letters that he had in hand a genuine and original gospel, the so-called Hebrew or Ebionite Gospel, which contained the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth to the apostles. The author wrote the book in the Aramaic/Chaldean language, but encoded it with Hebrew letters. Jerome wrote the following to the Bishops Chormathius and Heliodorus about it:
“A difficult work is enjoined, since this (translation) has been commanded me by your Felicities, which St Matthew himself, the Apostle and Evangelist, did not wish to be openly written. For if this had not been secret he (Matthew) would have added to the Evangel that what he gave forth was his; but he made up this book sealed up in the Hebrew characters, which he put forth even in such way that the book, written in Hebrew letters and by the hand of himself, might be possessed by the men most religious; who also, in the course of time, received it from those who preceded them. But this very book they never gave to any one to be transcribed, and its text they related some one way and another.” [“St. Jerome.” v.445: Dunlap, Sod, the Son of Man, p. 46.] Jerome admits, himself, that the book which he authenticates as being written ‘by the hand of Matthew,’ was nevertheless a book which, notwithstanding that he translated it twice, was nearly unintelligible to him, for it was arcane. And he adds further on the same page: And it happened that this book exhibited matter not for edification, but for destruction; and that this (book) was approved in a synod which the ears of the Church properly refused to listen to.”13

With destruction, could be very well meant as the destruction of rigid structures, dogmas, traditions, etc.
“Nevertheless, Jerome coolly sets down every commentary upon it but his own as heretical. More than that, Jerome knew that this Gospel was the only original one, yet he becomes more zealous than ever in his persecution of the ‘heretics.’ Why? Because to accept it was equivalent to reading the death sentence of the established Church. The Gospel according to the Hebrews was well known to have been the only one accepted for four centuries by the Jewish Christians, the Nazarenes and the Ebionites. And neither of the latter accepted the divinity of Christ.

The Ebionites, the genuine primitive Christians, rejecting the rest of the Apostolic writings, make use only of this Gospel (Adv Hev., i. 26) and the Ebionites, as Epiphanius declares, firmly believed, with the Nazarenes, that Jesus was but a man, ‘of the seed of a man.’

At what later period the divinity of Christ was fully established we can judge by the mere fact that even in the fourth century Eusebius did not denounce this book as spurious, but only classed it with such as the Apocalypse of John: and Credner ( Zur Gesch. des Kan, p. 129) shows Nicephorus inserting it, together with the Revelation, in his Stichometry, among the Antilegomena.”13

In this connection, it is also interesting that according to a remark made by Jerome, the acknowledged biblical expert Origen (185-254) “often uses”14 this Gospel of the Hebrews himself.
Origen believed in the pre-existence of the soul. One could assume that he found no contradiction in this book that he “often uses,” and which was, perhaps, even the source of his knowledge.
However, it was Jerome who rejected the Gospel of the Hebrews, and therefore, right up until today, with the exception of very small fragments, nothing more can be found on it. Perhaps it is lying in the Vatican library, firmly locked away from the public? Origen called the gospel the “Gospel of the Twelve.” Jerome also referred to it once as the “Gospel According to the Apostles.” According to A. M. Ritter,15 the Gospel of the Hebrews and the Gospel of the Ebionites are identical – the “secret book” that Jerome translated and from which only a few fragments have been passed down that show that Jesus was against eating meat, for instance, in the verses:


“Jesus: I came to destroy the sacrifices, and if ye cease not from sacrificing, the wrath of God will not cease from you.

Disciples: Where wilt thou that we make ready for thee to eat the Passover?

Jesus: Have I desired to eat this flesh of the Passover with you?”16


This and other essential truths were not permitted into the Bible. According to Jerome, the ears of the church “properly refused to listen.”17

Apparently, the Bible is not “merely” falsified. The suspicion grows that essential truths were meant to be kept hidden from mankind.
Explanations concerning the
Gospel of the Ebionites

Carsten Strehlow writes about the Gospel of the Ebionites, which Jerome translated and then rejected, but often mentioned in his letters, and which Origen “often used,” according to Jerome. On page 43 in his booklet “Vegetarianism/Veganism as a Component of Christianity” we read:

“The Ebionites are said to have had their own scriptures. Among these were the Gospel of the Ebionites and the Gospel of the Nazarenes, as well as the ‘Pseudo-Clementine’ in part. The Gospel of the Nazarene was the original Gospel of Mathew written in Aramaic. The Gospel of the Ebionites is said to be the Greek translation of the Aramaic Gospel of the Nazarenes. Both gospels are passed down only indirectly in the texts of several church authors as worked-over individual fragments, the Gospel of the Ebionites in Epiphanius (367-404) and the Gospel of the Nazarenes with several others, mainly in Jerome (348-420). Ebionitism spread during the 2nd and 3rd centuries, outside of the Roman spheres of power ...
As already pointed out, the Ebionites were the successors of the Nazarenes and thus also of the first community in Jerusalem ... There is also evidence of their vegetarian or perhaps even vegan way of life in their scriptures. In the Gospel of the Ebionites, which is passed down from Epiphanius (Contra Haereses), it is said that John the Baptist ate not locusts, but ‘wild honey, the taste of which was that of manna, as a cake dipped in oil’ (30:13.4f). Jesus also rejected the slaughtering and eating of the Passover lamb (30:22.4). ...
Pliny (the younger) also confirmed the vegetarianism/veganism of the Ebionites in his letter to the Roman Emperor Trajan. ...
Epiphanius (Contra Haereses 30:18.9) reported that when asked why they strictly refused meat dishes and the cult of sacrificing, the Ebionites answered that Jesus revealed it so to them.”18 Strehlow writes that the Ebionites celebrated the last supper as a mere remembrance of the community at the table with Jesus – and it was vegetarian.



Why did Jerome leave contradictions in the Bible?

The Bible is filled with contradictions. We could wonder why Jerome left these contradictions in the Bible. After all, he had all available sources at hand and was authorized by the pope, himself. Perhaps he wanted to show posterity that falsifications had been made in the biblical scriptures. It could be that he welcomed the many contradictions so as not to have to touch texts that would be disagreeable for the pope and the church. An attentive person can thus more easily take the measure of the church manipulations against the teachings of Jesus in this way.
We should not forget that Jerome was the advocate of a certain ethics. He was also a friend of the animals, according to the legend about him and the lion: While in the Chalcis Desert in Syria with several monks, a limping lion suddenly appeared. Filled with fright, his fellow brothers sought safety, but Jerome pulled a thorn from the animal’s paw, thus removing the cause of its limp. The lion, thankful to its rescuer, became his faithful companion thereafter. And, as already mentioned, Jerome was also a vegetarian, which was surely in great contradiction to the traditional customs of the Romans and the church prelates.

Perhaps, despite everything, it is to Jerome, the falsifier of the Bible, we should give thanks that the Ten Commandments and the fundamental teaching statements of Jesus (for example, the Sermon on the Mount) were left in the Bible. Even if the Bible is a selection of countless ancient scriptures, into which many translators and scribes have interpreted their consciousness in numerous passages, those passages necessary for going through our life on earth in a positive way nevertheless still exist. Anyone who reads the Bible using his heart and mind will recognize the still existing truths and from the contradictions perhaps discover the manipulations of the church and then draw his own conclusions and consequences from them ...


Did Peter falsify
the teachings of Jesus?*

A clear incitement against those of other faiths can be found in the Second Letter of Peter:


“But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed ... They are blots and blemishes ...” (II Pet. 2:12)


Here Peter reversed the heart of the teachings of Jesus (love of neighbor, love of enemy, tolerance) into its opposite. Later, during the Inquisition, the Roman Church adopted this viewpoint toward those of other faiths, as did Luther as well.
* The majority of church theologians today assume that the entire Second Letter of Peter is a falsification that was merely attributed to Peter. Nevertheless, the churches continue to see this letter as the word of God.
Paul greatly falsified
the teachings of Jesus*


Paul falsified the teachings of Jesus in the following main points:

Faith alone is enough
Denigration of women
Death penalty
Military service
Eating meat

Paul did not know Jesus. He never met Him. He knew His teachings merely from hearsay. Nevertheless, he spread the teachings just as zealously as he had formerly rejected them and persecuted those who spread them. Following are several examples of the falsifications that are traced back to Paul or to letters attributed to him:
* Or is it that many a falsification was attributed to him?

Faith instead of the deed
Paul taught: “For we hold that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law.” (Rom. 3:28) This was a welcome message for the people. It had nothing more to do with the uncomfortable teaching of Jesus of Nazareth who taught that one should keep the commandments and the Sermon on the Mount and who said: “... do this and you will live.” (Lk. 10:28 / Mt. 7:21&24)

Denigration of women
As was customary in his Roman culture, Paul denigrated women, even though Jesus respected them as equals. “Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.” (1 Cor. 11:9) “… the woman should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate…” (1 Cor. 14:34)

Death penalty
Paul completely adapted Christianity to the Roman Empire by declaring that Christians must obey the authorities of the world, since these are appointed and instituted by God and are “servants of God,” who execute a just “tribunal” with the sword (Rom. 13) – a teaching with disastrous results during the nearly 2000 years that followed. Jesus of Nazareth and the apostles did not teach such things. They said: “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God, the things that are God’s.” (Mt. 22:21)

Military service/slavery
By adapting Christianity to the Roman system, Paul also more or less condoned slavery (Letter to the Philemon) and also military service as a result of his teachings concerning the state, (Rom. 13) – at least, this is what the church understood him to teach.

Eating meat
Paul taught: “Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.” (I Cor. 10:25)
When the first Christians gathered to eat and drink in community, no animal had to die for this. For Jesus of Nazareth had explained to his followers about how animals feel and had instructed them not to slaughter any animals. (see also p. 13ff of this book.)


Was the Gospel of Luke
dictated by Paul?

The Gospel of Luke is the only gospel that describes Mary as a virgin and ultimately serves as the basis for the Catholic dogma of Mary’s virginity.
According to the “Muratorian Canon” from the year 1740, which is based on a document from the year 200 and thus refers back to one of the oldest documents of that time, “the third book of the Gospel is that according to Luke. Luke, the well-known physician, after the ascension of Christ, when Paul had taken with him along as one zealous for the law, composed it in his own name, according to [the general] belief. Yet he himself had not seen the Lord in the flesh ...”19

That in the Muratorian Canon a segment is erroneously translated and copied twice is only one example of how “roughly” the scriptures were in part translated and with how many mistakes they were copied.

Although Paul was persecuted and in the end murdered by the authorities in Rome, whose subject he had wanted to be, the false seeds he had sown grew into a church institution in numerous places of the Roman Empire.

Circa 300 years later, the institution that had meanwhile risen to the position of state church weeded out all the writings of Paul’s opponents. On the other hand, Paul’s writings, which the man from Tarsus could no longer correct, were taken into the Bible and declared without exception to be the “word of God.” However, one cannot rule out the possibility that some things may have been wrongly attributed to the celebrated “apostle” and that his corrections were deliberately ignored. Today, most religious scholars are convinced that some of Paul’s letters did not even stem from Paul, but from his pupils.

The word of God was
falsely attributed to Moses

The falsification of the
commandment on eating

In the beginning, God gave the people a commandment to eat vegetarian/vegan:

Before:

“’Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.’ And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. (Gen. 1:29-31)

After:

After the deluge, God allegedly spoke differently to the people:
“The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.” (Gen. 9:2-4)
As in all religions, the priests and scribes of that time falsified, changed and expanded the scriptures to fit their taste.

The following quote from ancient times could shed some light on the question of why so many cruel commandments concerning sacrifice are in the Old Testament:

“I think that the bloody sacrifices were invented solely by those people who sought an excuse for eating meat ...” (Clement of Alexandria, Paidagogos II) 20


The falsification concerning
animal sacrifices

Instructions for murdering animals
The gruesome instructions that animals should be slaughtered and burned at all celebrations was attributed to none less than God, often with the cynical observation: “as a pleasing odor to the Lord,” as, for example, on New Year’s Day, on the Day of Atonement, for the Passover Feast, the Feast of Weeks, Feast of the Tabernacles, or for the offering of the first grain. (see Numbers chap. 28 & 29)

Already during the exodus from captivity in Egypt, God allegedly commanded them to slaughter “a lamb for a household,” which had to be repeated every year. (Ex. 12:3-6 & 25f.)

But even in everyday life, God wanted to be “appeased” in this way, for example, by offering up to Him “the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys ... it is an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord.” (Lev. 3:1-17)

At least two lambs were killed every day. (Num. 28:3-4)

Before the entrance to the temple the smoke from the burning carcass rises from the altar and the community sings songs of praise to the name of the Lord. (e.g., Psalm 135:1-3) And the God who dwells in the temple says about this place “This is my resting place for ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.” (Psalm 132:14)

Precise instructions for murdering animals are found in the word of God according to Leviticus: With the sheep the priest shall “lay his hand upon the head of his offering and kill it before the tent of meeting ... then from the sacrifice of the peace offering as an offering by fire to the Lord he shall offer its fat, the fat tail entire, taking it away close by the backbone ...” (Lev. 3:8-9)

The priest shall “flay the burnt offering [a bull] and cut it into pieces ... But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head... he shall carry forth outside the camp to a clean place...” (Lev. 1:6; 4:11-12)

With the goat he shall “cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and ... lay them in order upon the wood that is on the fire by the altar; ...” (Lev. 1:12)

The dove, he shall “wring off its head … take away its crop with the feathers … tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it asunder... its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar ... ” Lev. 1:15-17)
These words are in crass contradiction to the words of the prophets, through whom God apparently uncovered and corrected these falsifications.


The words of the prophets expose
falsifications concerning animal sacrifices

Through the prophets God makes it clear that He never demanded the cruel sacrifice of animals and that this is an abomination to Him. This alone gives clear proof that these texts were certainly falsified.

God spoke through the prophet Isaiah:

“I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs ... incense is an abomination to me.”
(Is: 1:11&13)

God spoke through Hosea:

“For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.” (Hos. 6:6)

And through the prophet Jeremiah, God said:

“Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. But this command I gave them: Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people.’” (Jer. 7:21-23)

And God also said through the prophet Amos:

“I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.” (Amos 5:21-23)


“You shall not kill”

Although through Moses God gave the commandment “You shall not kill,” many instructions for murder in the Old Testament are attributed to Him as the word of God. Here are some examples:

So kill everything!

“... you shall put all its males to the sword, but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.” (Dt. 20:13-14)

“I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.” (Dt. 32:42)


Why have you let all the women live?

“... They warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed every male. They killed the kings of Midian ... And the people of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and they took as plunder all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods. All their cities in the places where they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire ... And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, ... and said to them, “Have you let all the women live? .. Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him. But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.” (Num. 31:1ff)


Stoning, killing, impaling ...

“The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die ...” (Dt. 17:12)

“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother ... Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones.” (Dt. 21:18ff.)

“Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor. And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell. And Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, so that he might bestow a blessing upon you this day.” (Ex. 32:27ff.)

“And the LORD said to Moses, ‘Take all the chiefs of the people and impale them in the sun before the LORD, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.’” (Num. 25:4)

“And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.” (Num. 16:35)

“Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.’ And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.” (Num. 15:35-36) (The man had gathered sticks in the wilderness on the Sabbath)

These cruel instructions for murder could not have stemmed from a prophet who had received the commandment from God “You shall not kill,” and taught accordingly!

The falsification of the scriptures brought disastrous results for mankind. Even in our day, politicians defend their actions by quoting the Old Testament. For example, the deceased President of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman: “Genocide is not only allowed, but recommended.”21 He refers literally to the “almighty Jehovah” of the Old Testament.
Nevertheless, the Catholic institution claims that the Old Testament is “inspired by God,” and Christians revere the Old Testament as the “true word of God.”

Even Martin Luther
falsified the Bible

Luther falsified
Jesus’ teaching of “doing”
into a teaching of “believing”

How much positive a person does or does not do is not decisive to Luther and his new Protestant belief. Decisive is that “a person’s works are not necessary for piety and bliss.” Said differently: A person cannot find God through his actions. Luther thus oriented himself to Paul – but Jesus of Nazareth taught the opposite.


Luther falsified hints
of reincarnation

In the letter of James, warning is given that our tongue can set the “wheel of birth” on fire. (3:6; com. Ec. 12:6) This passage can be interpreted thus: Mean words can start a fire, which can set the wheel of reincarnation into motion again for the one concerned. This means that he must incarnate again in order to make amends for the damages.

Martin Luther did not translate the words “trochos tes geneseos” (wheel of emergence, that is, of birth) at all, instead adding three words that he thought fit, namely “the whole world.” According to Luther, the tongue could set “the whole world” on fire.
For this reason, many people think that the knowledge about the “wheel of birth” is not biblical-Christian, but taken from eastern religions.


Bible falsifications today

Pope John Paul II:
“We are not pacifists.”

The caste of priests has condoned war at all times. Today, the so-called defensive war is approved. Even though the pope apparently was against the current war in Iraq – in America, by the way, one hears a totally different tone from the priesthood – this can be understood as something merely politically advantageous. At the time of the war in Yugoslavia, Pope John Paul II declared, on the other hand: “We are not pacifists.”
And the present pope, at that time still Cardinal Ratzinger, said that he rejected pacifism.


From “killing” to “murder”

So, we needn’t wonder why the commandment “You shall not kill” suddenly shows up in the Bible as a qualified statement: “You shall not murder.” Clearly, a modern falsification of the Bible!

So now, we may kill under certain conditions, for example, in self-defense. And killing animals in slaughterhouses, in experimental laboratories and in woods and fields is now condoned by the commandments – because “murdering” refers only to human beings.

In Isaiah 66:3, however, there is a passage that – depending on the translation – equates killing animals with the killing of humans: “He who slaughters an ox is like him who kills a man...”
Such falsifications and manipulations as twisting “kill” into “murder” fit the decline of ethical-moral values, supporting it.
So now, the churches can support a war without any problem, which they have for the most part, anyway. But now they have put together the necessary theological substantiation and anchored it in their Bible. However, such false teachings have nothing to do with Jesus of Nazareth and His teachings. He was a pacifist and taught and lived peaceableness – even though the churches live and teach differently today.
Isn’t it time to leave the churches?


There were many
other gospels

Many people think the Bible contains all the gospels that were passed down.
That is an error. Aside from the four gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John), there were numerous other gospels that were highly regarded by the first Christians. For example, the Nazarene, Ebionite, Thomas, Hebrew and Egyptian gospels. Additionally, there was a Phillip, a Peter, a Mary, a Nicodemus and a Bartholomew gospel, a childhood gospel, a Proto-gospel of James, as well as the Acts of Peter, of John, of Thomas and Paul, and diverse books, letters and other scriptures. Not to be forgotten are the Gospel of the Perfect Life and the Gospel of Peace of the Essenes. All of these scriptures and texts were declared by the church as not genuine and rejected.22


Falsifications into
the 9th century

The teaching of reincarnation
was rejected

“Therefore, there is no genuine gospel containing the absolute truth. All are only copies of copies, in part with considerable changes. With all these corrections, or falsifications, the possibility cannot be excluded that text passages were thereby also removed that bore witness to the vegetarian / vegan, possibly frugivore (terran)* way of living, including the abstinence from alcohol, of Jesus as well as that of the Early Christians ...
Particularly such passages could not be reconciled with the lifestyle of the Roman upper class of that time, which even considered human slavery as fully legitimate.”22

And ever since the Council of Constantinople (553), the church had also rejected the condition that is necessary for the teaching of reincarnation, namely, the pre-existence of the soul. “Into the 9th century, texts and gospels continued to be corrected, or adapted to fit the decisions of the respective councils.”22


The one who did not believe
that the Bible was inspired
by the Holy Spirit was cursed
by the Roman Church

Excerpts from the 4th session of the Council of Trent (1546):

“...all the books both of the Old and of the New Testament … having been dictated, either by Christ’s own word of mouth, or by the Holy Ghost, and preserved in the Catholic Church by a continuous succession... But if any one receive not, as sacred and canonical, the said books entire with all their parts, as they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church, and as they are contained in the old Latin vulgate edition; and knowingly and deliberately contemn the traditions aforesaid; let him be anathema.” 22 (literally anathema sit, which means: “the curse be over him” or “he is cursed” = excommunicated), which means that he was abandoned to the Catholic eternal damnation. Such a curse also had grave consequences for the one concerned even during his life on Earth. He was despised, excluded from society and was thus declared an ‘outlaw.’ He had no kind of state protection and no citizens’ rights. The one who murdered him was not punished. Under certain circumstances, an anathema was the same as an indirect death sentence.”


Although at the Council of Trent in 1546, it was decided to condemn all those who did not believe that the Bible was “by Christ’s own word of mouth,” at the same time it was determined that the Church alone could determine what Christ dictated orally. “Moreover, the same sacred and holy Synod – considering that no small utility may accrue to the Church of God, if it be made known which out of all the Latin editions, now in circulation, of the sacred books, is to be held as authentic – ordains and declares, that the said old and vulgate edition, which, by the lengthened usage of so many years, has been approved of in the Church, be, in public lectures, disputations, sermons and expositions, held as authentic; and that no one is to dare or presume to reject it under any pretext whatever.”23


Citations from theologians
and biblical scholars


Bruce M. Metzger
Princeton University
Professor of the New Testament

“The manuscripts of the New Testament preserve traces of two kinds of dogmatic alterations: those which involve the elimination or alteration of what was regarded as doctrinally unacceptable or inconvenient, and those which introduce into the Scriptures ‘proof’ for a favorite theological tenet or practice.”24


Ditlef Nielsen
Danish religion historian

“First one corrected the handwritten copies of the gospels by deleting and adding, in order to make them agree with each other. When one had thus produced a useable text, one put the entire ecclesiastical skill of interpretation in the service of harmonization, in order to gain a gospel from it.”25


Anton Mayer
German sociologist

“Impenetrable darkness envelops the emergence of the New Testament as a holy scripture. It is more honest to admit that this darkness, which the New Testament shares with all Holy Scriptures, is factually grounded, than to cover it up theologically. ...

No original handwritten copy of the New Testament exists. All are present in later copies, which, aside from fragments, do not go back beyond the 4th century. Only a few handwritten scriptures contain the entire New Testament; none contain the complete original text. Even the oldest ones are not free of mistakes made in passing them down.”26

How does the church react to this?
“From the beginning, the church suppressed the information about the uncertainty concerning the texts in the New Testament, right up until modern times and with severe punishment.”26

The German newspaper BILD and its “Folk Bible”

 

Europe’s largest newspaper has brought a “Folk Bible” onto the market with all kinds of hype. To help promote it, it was presented to the pope to sign – in the presence of the corresponding editor.

The extent of truth in the Bible was betrayed in an interview on Nov. 11, 2004. BILD asked a Biblical scholar about the development of the Old Testament, to which he admitted: “... the Bible was written by people,” remarking, however, at the same time that “these stories are definitely valid.”

To the question whether Adam and Even actually lived, he said candidly: “No, all persons from the beginning of the Bible are merely legendary figures.”
Noah is merely
a “figure from a saga”

These “legendary figures” include Noah, according to a statement by Prof. Manfred Oeming, an Old Testament scholar.
We could ask ourselves why we believe the “legendary figure” of Noah (BILD-newspaper), through whom God allegedly said: “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you.” And: “The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth ...” (Gen. 9:2-3 & this book p. 27) Why do people believe the “legendary figure” of Noah more than the words of God through Moses that said: “... I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.” (Gen. 1:29)

Here it isn’t only the BILD newspaper that questions the value of the Bible. But the professor also has an answer for this: It should open access to the world of God. This may very well be. But the fact of the matter is that countless people have been killed (Crusades, Inquisition, genocide, etc.) because of the falsified Bible and its tendency to split hairs in its theological interpretations; and today in the “Christian” western world alone, millions of animals in dark dungeons under torment must await a gruesome “execution,” in order to be finally consumed by human beings.
 

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