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The Massively Incompetent Revelation

THE UNDENIABLE PROOF

5,320,000,000 peoplesome seventy percent of all humanity—do not believe the Christian story. This, after 2000 years. Many have never even heard of it.

Even those who do believe have always been divided on what “it” is. There are dozens of denominations and thousands of sects ranging in adherents from over a billion to just thousands. But, at least, the various sides, absolutely confident in possessing the only truth, are not slaughtering each other as was done for centuries.

If God had made a competent revelationas he could havethese would not be the horrible facts they are.

BUT THERE IS MUCH MORE

  1. Worst of all, Jesus did not reveal to each of his children what is required to be saved, in one simple message so that each person would understand the same thing—as he could have.
  2. Why hide the most fantastic event ever? After the resurrection, Jesus revealed himself only to followers! How different history would have been had he shown himself to, say, the Jews or Pilate—as he could have.
  3. The “quality” of the revelation received, varies ridiculously: from claimed direct witnesses of Jesus and his “miracles”; to those receiving only hearsay once, twice or countless times removed—how did you learn?—to those who never heard a word.
  4. This compounded-hearsay was frozen into what is now the New Testament; a compilation of many books, written by unknown authors—often in conflict—20 to 120 years after Jesus was crucified. No originals of any exist today.
  5. From many manuscripts about Jesus, men decided some 300 years after the crucifixion, which were the truth and would be in the New Testament. Even now, there are many different Bibles, all claimed to be the truth.
  6. The originals were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek; then translated into modern languages, with all the problems inherent in any translation. No one knows what the first manuscripts said.
  7. The version we have today is one of many; it is based on handwritten manuscripts; which in turn were made from handwritten manuscripts which were copies of copies, of copiesgoing back for some 1400 years.
  8. The Bible is replete with contradictions and inconsistencies and demonstrable errors, which disprove that it was guided by the perfect hand of God. There is even a Gleason Archer’s Encyclopedia of Biblical Contradictions ency-clo-pedia!
  9. Many stories and sayings are omitted or radically different in another gospel account. They prove the hand of man. Ambiguity is as bad as error in a Bible, which is supposed to be protected from error by the Holy Spirit/Ghost.
  10. Finally, life-long scholars on all sides of the various issues have written countless volumes debating what was in the original text and what was added—and what the texts mean! Why should you believe a mere mortal?

Is it not clear that God could have and would have done better? How then is it possible that Jesus—a God of justice, love, forgiveness and mercy—could have stipulated that belief in him is required for salvation?

That means if you don’t believe, you are damned for all eternity:

Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3:3.

He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:18.

Because of those statements, found only in John, written about 120 years after the crucifixion, untold millions have sufferedand still sufferfrom the terror-threats of hell; countless have been burned alive and have perished in religious wars.

IT IS ALL A PURE AND SIMPLE IMPOSSIBILITY FOR A LOVING-JUST-MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING GOD.

This was all made infinitely worse when the Roman Catholic Church proclaimedand still proclaimsthe Athanasian Creed:

“Whosoever will be saved, before all things it is necessary that he hold the catholic faith. which faith except everyone do keep whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.”

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IS IT NOT FAR MORE LIKELY THAT THIS TERRIBLY FLAWED
“REVELATION” IS THE WORK OF MAN
SERVING THEIR INTERESTS, THAN THE TRUTH
FROM A LOVING-JUST-MERCIFUL AND FORGIVING GOD?