First of all, I’m using the name Jehovah for practical reasons as it is the name that is mostly used to call the God that Moses worshiped. You can call it or write it as you wish ( Yahweh, Jahveh, YHWH or whatever as what I mean is the character named with the Hebrew letters ,יהוה), as for the intent of this article, the pronunciation of his name is irrelevant.
I wrote this article as I felt a limit of patience about all that religious naivety that makes people unaware of what they’re dealing with when they adhere or remain in a religious belief that takes Moses as a prophet of the same God that Jesus called “my heavenly father”.
Why am I writing this?
Because I want to be part of the change to have a more peaceful world and I believe that ignorance of what triggers violence the most is the main reason why so much sadness and cruelty keeps manifesting in our lives.
I imagine that most of you have noticed that religious thinking has played an important role in violent behavior. If it is not the case, maybe this article is useless as a following step into resolving the problem.
It would be too long to go on explaining in detail why wars and cruelty are especially nourished by moral and religious thinking. For now I’ll only assume that you have noticed that the most important violent behaviors that we see in the news are motivated by purposes of domination, greed and religious beliefs.
What is particularly my concern is the society closest to me in which violence is very present even if it is not so flagrant as war violence. Even the most subtle verbal violence has the same roots, fear of punishment and expectation of reward.
When we understand and dismantle the main motivation for a huge part of that violence there will be more reasons to celebrate.
Most of the populations including some of you, readers, ignore the traps that are seeded in the religious thinking which you may not even notice that moralistic judgments are part of the puppeteer strings that affect our behavior in a way that we unconsciously become part of the problem.
For those who are familiar with some spiritual paths it is known that being present in the now is such as desirable state of mind. And for that experience of presence to be, the monkey-mind chattering has to be stopped.
Moralistic judgments are obstacle to experience inner peace and being active part of the solutions. Resisting emotionally to whatever is, is a waste of time and accelerates physical and mental ageing at the same time we remain actively or passively part of the problem.
We have all being somehow, domesticated in a way that we learned to think in terms of good and bad, normal and abnormal, just or unjust in a very narrow way and we lose perspective of present needs and living with more joyful values and priorities than avoiding evil and being in a protective or defensive mode.
The point I want to make is that the most joyful and healthy attitude in life is to experience love, forgiveness and lightheartedness that we have lost because we bought into the ideology that we can determine for others what is good or bad for them and that by telling them or thinking I a righteous way we can improve something.
We may think we know what is best but it will makes us resist to accept reality as it is to remain inspired by pure love.
When Christians and Non-Christians experience judgmental thinking and moralistic judgment, that is especially ingrained and rooted especially in the values, rules and reasoning in most of the Old Testament, especially the books of Moses and his concept of God.
Most people who know enough about Jesus of Nazareth’s life and teachings, think of them as inspiring and so Christians become very zealous about that.
What most Christians and general public don’t know is that Jesus (as described in the New Testament) as well as Paul the apostle were completely opposite to Moses teachings and regulatory policies.
In my opinion, a loving Christian, radically engaged in the principles of unconditional love, forgiveness and presence, cannot keep his-her attention in Moses ideology at all.
When we conveniently adhere to Jesus teachings and accept some of the values from the OT, such as moralistic judgments, revenge , condemnation, or whatever non-loving thinking, they unknowingly fall in a trap that they don’t even perceive as such. Especially because they are not alone at all, and because most of the populations think the same way, they think they are right.
People can be right, but they are destructively right, unhealthily right, and unhappily right.
When you notice how intentional was to seed the (unloving) moralistic judgment into our minds for governing the people and you understand the effect of it in our consciousness, emotions and health, you will also find out that we cannot mix the OT paradigm with the one of the NT without losing the pureness, beauty and benefits of the latter.
So, you can notice the contrast between the message that most of the people agree with, from Jesus and the one of Moses that keeps influencing even our own behaviors to the extent of our fears still have control on our consciousness.
Take in account that at the time of the Old Testament, they believed in the existence of many gods but the followers of Moses were forced to worship just one.
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. (or God and Jehovah)
Know or remember that Mathieu wrote in Greek and used the word θεῷ (theos) which doesn’t mean Jehovah as the word theos is used also for the greek gods and the corresponding word for god or gods in ancient Hebrew is Elohim not Yahweh (Jehivak) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim
YHWH is just one god among other gods according to the Old Testament
And God said, let us make man in our image. Genesis 1:26
And the Lord God said, Behold, then man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. Genesis 3:22
Let us go down, and there confound their language. Genesis 11:7
And against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. Exodus 12:12
Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? Exodus 15:11
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods. Exodus 18:11
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. … Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. Exodus 20:3, 5
He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. Exodus 22:20
Thou shalt not revile the gods. Exodus 22:28
Make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. Exodus 23:13
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. Exodus 23:24
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. Exodus 23:32
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. Exodus 34:14
Upon their gods also theLORD executed judgments. Numbers 33:4
What God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works? Deuteronomy 3:24
Thou shalt have none other gods before me. Deuteronomy 5:7
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) Deuteronomy 6:14-15
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords. Deuteronomy 10:17
Thou shalt not … go after other gods to serve them. Deuteronomy 28:14
They served other gods. Joshua 24:2
Fear the Lord … and put away the gods which your fathers served. Joshua 24:14
Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? Judges 11:24
Ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods. 1 Samuel 6:5
And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth. 1 Samuel 28:13
The Lord … is to be feared above all gods. 1 Chronicles 16:25
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty, he judgeth among the gods. Psalm 82:1
I have said, Ye are gods. Psalm 82:6
Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord. Psalm 86:8
For the Lord … is to be feared above all gods. Psalm 96:4
Worship him, all ye gods. Psalm 97:7
Our Lord is above all gods. Psalm 135:5
O give thanks unto the God of gods. Psalm 136:2
I will utter my judgments against them … who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods. Jeremiah 1:16
The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. Jeremiah 10:11
And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. Jeremiah 25:6
I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods. Jeremiah 46:25
The Lord will be terrible to them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth. Zephaniah 2:11
The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? John 10:33-34
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1 John 5:7
Not only that, according to scholars YHWH was worshiped with his wife Asherah http://news.discovery.com/history/god-wife-yahweh-asherah-110318.html
Did you have enough to understand that YHWH is not the Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent consciousness, he is not pure Love and he is not even the God of everyone, he’s just a big egocentric entity, real or just imagined.
I want to emphasize that “Jesus heavenly father” is not Jehovah as it is evident for those who read the attributes of “Jesus God”
BTW, this Jehovah god is the same that Muslims call Allah and the severe and cruel ways that they may accept, come from the laws of Moses, such as the Sharia law, which is not in the Quran. Much of Sharia law is derived from the Hadith, which was written by Muslim scholars. The Hadith was the scholars’ interpretation of what they thought Mohammed wished for his followers.
Here is a link to a similar article http://governmentinexile.typepad.com/government_in_exile/2011/02/is-sharia-law-derived-from-the-old-testament.html
For an evil tree bringeth forth not good fruit; neither does a good tree bring forth evil fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit. Luke 6:43:44
Before showing the evil aspects of “The God of Moses” I’ll quote the chapter 3 of the second letter of Paul to the Corinthians in the New Testament so you can see that Paul, the man responsible for the spreading of the original Christianity was saying already at that time that the ministry of Christ was totaly opposite to the ministry of the Old Testament.
!”1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you? 2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
4 Such confidence we have through Christ before God. 5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life…
The Greater Glory of the New Covenant
7 Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, 8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? 9 If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness! 10 For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory. 11 And if what was transitory came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which lasts!
12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. 13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away. 14 But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. 15 Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. 16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate[a]the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
Now, a little example of Jesus perspective on his heavenly father…
Mathiew 4… 25″Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
26″Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 28And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31″So do not worry, saying, `What shall we eat?’ or `What shall we drink?’ or `What shall we wear?’ 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”and a bit more…
“If any one says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen” 1 John 4:20
Paul affirms that love for others is a complete fulfillment of God’s Law for us. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:14
And how do we demonstrate our love for others? How do we put this love into action? By always treating others as we would like to be treated.
TREAT OTHERS AS YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED. “So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:12
“8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love”. 1 John 4:8
“For if you forgive men for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. “But if you do not forgive men, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions. Matthew 6:14-15
“I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge–that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:16-19 (writen by Paul)
So, do you still read Moses with the veil? Keep reading…
“In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing hthe light of ithe gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” 2 Corinthians 4:4
Notice the immense contrast between Jehovah with all the “evil you’re going to read” and “the Spirit of the Lord in which there is freedom”.
So the all sinful abominable being in the OT (YHWH) and the Spirit of love (Jesus heavenly father) in the NT are not the same character AT ALL.
Remember that Moses and the Israelites believe in the existence of many gods but worshiped one, so it means that YHWH is not The Creator but just another god, their god.
The NT was not found in Hebrew and the words I found in my Greek version were κυριος (Kyrios = Lord) or θεος (theos = god), not YHWH or anything like it. Only translations in English or in hebrew from the Greek may use the tetragrammaton. There are some scholars that theorize that the words κυριος (kirios) and θεος (theos) blurred the original distinction between the Lord God and the Lord Christ, but I believe that a distinction should be made between those two words and the Hebrew יהוה.
A bit of information about Satan
There is a divergence in what the Bible says about Satan. The Old Testament differs from the New Testament; in that the Old Testament never mentions any angel rebelling against God. In the New Testament, however, it talks about the rebellious angels being chained in a certain part of hell, until the end of time. Here are two examples of the contradiction between the Old and New Testament. In the sixth verse of Jude, the fallen angels were said to be chained after they rebelled by taking human wives, in Genesis 6. But in Genesis 6, this wasn’t mentioned. Even though Satan is said to be already bound, he is chained again “for 1,000 years” in Revelation 20:2.
So in some books of the OT Satan is one of the fallen angels referenced in Genesis 6, a rebellious evil doer, always opposing God. But in other books, like Job, Satan is a tester of people’s free will, doing only as God wants him to do.
The name “Satan” originally comes from the Hebrew verb “satan” that means “to obstruct” or “to oppose.” Because the Old Testament was written in Hebrew, the word “satan” also can mean in general “someone who obstructs.” Many times, a verse that was seen as a reference to Satan actually meant “a satan” or “an obstructer,” “an enemy” or “an adversary.”
Satan became the ruler of this world and the prince of the power of the air (John 12:31; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 2:2). He is an accuser (Revelation 12:10), a tempter (Matthew 4:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:5), and a deceiver (Genesis 3; 2 Corinthians 4:4
“And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him.” John 13:2
And a quote to prof that Jehovah doesn’t refer to the “Source of everything”, the word god in the OT is a tittle given to a certain entity :
“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, `This is what the Sovereign LORD says: “`In the pride of your heart you say, “I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas.” But you are a man and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god. Ezek 28:2
So, now that it is a bit more clear that the spirit that drives the New Testament is not the same as the one of the Old Testament, see by your-selves the shocking contrast…
EVIL & FALSEHOOD OF YHWH (Hebrew: יהוה) (the original spelling for Jehovah)
Jehovah Creates Evil
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace and create evil: 1 the LORD do all these things. -Isaiah 45:7
Jehovah Creates Evil for Himself
The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. -Proverbs 16:4
Jehovah Responsible for Ail Evil
Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it? -Amos 3:6
Jehovah Speaks Evil
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? -Lamentations 3:38
Jehovah Plots Evil
Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, thus saith the LORD: Behold, 1 frame evil against you, and devise a device against you. . . . -Jeremiah 18:11
Jehovah Hands Down Bad Laws
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live … to the end that they might know that 1 am the LORD. -Ezekiel20:25-26
Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself … thou mayest sell it unto an alien. -Deuteronomy 14:21
Jehovah Sends Evil Spirits
Then Cod sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech. -judges 9:23
But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him. -I Samuel16:14
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from Cod came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house. -I Samuel 18:10
Jehovah Lies
Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of ali these thy prophets, and the LORD hat spoken evil concerning thee. -I Kings 22:23 (see also II Chronicles 18:22)
O LORD … wilt thou be altogether unto me a liar? … -Jeremiah 15:15, 18
Jehovah Deceives
And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet.. . . -Ezekiel14:9
Theo said I, Ah, Lord GOD! Surely thou has greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem. . . . -Jeremiah 4:10 0
LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed. . . . -Jeremiah 20:7
Cruelty and Degradation
Jehovah’s Cruelty to Children and Pregnant Women
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her Cod: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with children shall be ripped up. -Hosea 13:16
Jehovah’s Cruelty to Children and Women
Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and the ir wives ravished. -Isaiah 13:16
Jehovah Punishes Children for Misdeeds of their Parents
… for 1 the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate mc. . . . -Exodus 20:5 (see also Exodus 34:7)
Jehovah Sells Children into Slavery
I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hands of the sons of Judah…. -Joel3:8
Jehovah Sets Wild Animals on Children
And if ye walk contrary unto mc, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children…. -Leviticus 26:21-22
Jehovah Kills Egyptian Babies
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and I will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgement: I am the LORD …. And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. -Exodus 12:12, 29–30 (see also Exodus 11:3-6)
To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth forever. -Psalms 136:10
Jehovah Declares Females Unclean
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days …. But if she bear a maid child, th en she shall be un dean two weeks …. -Leviticus 12:1-2, 5
Jehovah as Peeping Tom
Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion arc haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts. -Isaiah 3:16-17
Jehovah Commands that Women Be Mutilated
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her band, and taketh him by the secrets: Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her. -Deuteronomy 25:11-12
Jehovah Orders Women Burned Alive
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire. -Leviticus 21:9
Jehovah Orders Execution of Non-Virgin Brides
If any man take a wife, and go into her, and hate her … and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s ho use, and the men other city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you. -Deuteronomy 22:13, 20-21
Jehovah Orders Rapists to Marry Their Victims
Ir a man find a damsel th at is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the dams el ‘s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. -Deuteronomy 22:28-29
Jehovah Orders Rape in Wartime
When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy Cod hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her … thou shalt go in unto her… . -Deuteronomy 21:10-11, 13
Jehovah Treats Women as Property
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun. -II Samuel12:11-12
Jehovah Attempts Murder of Moses
And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt. … And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. -Exodus 4:19, 24
Jehovah Shows His Backside to Moses
And I will take away mine hand, thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen. -Exodus 33:23
Jehovah Orders Ezekiel to Make Bread with Dung
Then said 1, Ah Lord GOD! Behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have 1 not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth. Then he said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith. –Ezekiel 4:14-15
Jehovah Orders Isaiah to Walk Naked for Three Years At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amos, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy Joins, and putt of thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah bath walked naked and barefoot three years. . . . -Isaiah 20:2-3
Jehovah Orders Hosea to Marry a Prostitute
The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms …. So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. -Hosea 1:2-3
Jehovah Destroys Two of His Priests
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put inccnsc thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died beforc the LORD. -Leviticus 10:1-2
Jehovah Threatens to Smear Excrement on the Faces of His Priests
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. Behold, 1 will corrupt your seed and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts. . . . -Malachi 2:1-3 3
BARBARISM
Jehovah Is a God of Fear
Fear ye not me? Saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence? -Jeremiah 5:22
Jehovah Causes Cannibalism
And if ye will not for all this hearken unto mc, but walk contrary to me; Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. -Leviticus 26:27-29
Therefore thus saith the LORD Cod: Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. And 1 will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto 1 will not do any more the like, because of all thin abominations. Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. -Ezekiel5:8-10
And 1 will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. -Ezekiel5:8-10 (Note: Old Testament law, which carefully regulates diet, does not specifically exclude human flesh. Pig and eel are forbidden, and cow and grasshopper are allowed, but human flesh is not mentioned. For a list of tabu food items, see Leviticus 11:1-47.)
Jehovah Demands Human Heads
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, slay ye every one of his men that were joined unto Baal-Peor. -Numbers 25:4-5 (Note: Baal-Peor was a pagan gad of the Moabites.)
Jehovah Makes Firstborns Burnt Offerings
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live; And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the LORD. -Ezekiel20:25-26
Jehovah Demands Human Sacrifice
… both man and beast … every devoted thing is the most holy unto the LORD. None devoted … shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death. -Leviticus 27:28-29
Jehovah Delights in the Death of His Followers
Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. -Psalms 116:15
VIOLENCE
Jehovah ls a God of Assassins
Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and curseth be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. -Jeremiah 48:10
Jehovah Orders Massacres
And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD Cod of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and slay every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
And the children of Levi died according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. -Exodus 32:27-28
Thus saith the Lord of hosts … Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. -Sarnuel15:2-3
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Vex the Midianites, and smite them. -Nurnbers 25:16-17
Jehovah is a God of War
The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. -Exodus 15:3 Jehovah Orders Genocide/War Crimes But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God do th give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save nothing alive that breatheth: But thou shalt utterly destroy the … as the LORD thy Cod hath commanded thee. -Deuteronomy 20:16-17
And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them: … And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy Cod shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: … -Deuteronomy 7:2, 16
Jehovah ls a Savage God
The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness. -Isaiah 34:6
Jehovah Commits Atrocities
And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. -Zechariah 14:12
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. -Deuteronomy 32:25
But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with ali that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD. And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation. -Numbers 16:30-33
Jehovah Bums People Alive
And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched. And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. -Numbers 11:1-3
And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the 250 men that offered incense. -Numbers 16:35
Jehovah Kills People with Snakes of Fire
And the people spake against Cod, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. – Numbers 21:5-6
Jehovah Kills People with Hemorrhoids (“Emerods”)
. .. the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he killed the men of the city, both young and old, and they had emerods in their secret parts. -1 Samuel 5:9
But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and killed them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof. -1 Samuel5:6
Jehovah Kills 50,070 People
And he smote the men of Beth-Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men; and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter. -1 Samuel6:19
Note: The Ark of the Covenant was a box constructed of acacia wood and gold [see Exodus 25:10-22] that contained a copy of the law, ajar of manna, and the rod of Aaron.
Jehovah Kills 70,000 People
So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. And Gad sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, it is enough, stay now thine hand …. -1 Chronicles 21:14-15
Jehovah Kills 185,000 People in One Night
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp the Assyrians an hundred four-score and five thousand: and when they arase early in the morning, behold, they were al! dead corpses. -JI Kings 19:35
Jehovah Annihilates Cities
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fi re from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and ali the plain, and ali the inhabitants of those cilies, and that which grew upon the ground. -Genesis 19:24-25
Jehovah Commits Mass Murder (Omnicide-The Great Flood or Deluge)
And the LORD said, 1 will destroy man whom 1 have created from the face of the earth; bath man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that 1 have made them. -Genesis 6:7 Jehovah Kills Other Gods (Deicide) 0 LORD our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of th y name. They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made ali their memory to perish. -1saiah 26:13-14
(Note: The authors of the Old Testament, who were apparently henotheists, worshipped one god, but believed that other gods existed. In Exodus 15:11 the writer declares: “Who is like unto thee, 0 LORD, among the gods?”)
INTOLERANCE & VULGARITY
Jehovah Threatens Death for Honoring Other Gods
He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed. -Exodus 22:20
Jehovah Orders His Followers to Murder Family Members and Friends
Who Worship Other Gods If thy brother, the son of th y mother, or thy son, or th y daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own sould, entice thee secretly saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers: Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor harken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: But thou shalt surely kill him. . . . -Deuteronomy 13:6-9
Jehovah Orders Pagan Prophets Killed-Even If Their Prophecies Are Accurate
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or wonder, And that sign or wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them …. that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death. . . . -Deuteronorny 13:1-2, 5
Jehovah’s Jealous Nature
For thou shalt worship no other gorl: for the LORD, whose namc is jealous, is ajealous God. -Exodus 34:14
Jehovah Demands the Death of Anyone Who Insults Him
And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him as the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death. -Leviticus 24:16
Jehovah Uses Vulgar Language
Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; year, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. -Ezekiel16:28
The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother; And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. -Ezekiel23:1-3
Thou hast … made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passeth by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. -Ezekiel16:25
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor. -Hosea 9:1
Jehovah Uses a Dildo Metaphor
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them. -Ezekiel16:17
Jehovah’s Vulgar Discussions of Large Genitalia
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast increased th y whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. -Ezekiel 16:26
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. -Ezekiel 23:19-20
PREJUDICE & BIGOTRY
Jehovah Declares Disabled Persons Profane
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a fat nose, or anything superfluous. Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that ha th a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; No man that hath a blemish … shall come nigh …. unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries …. -Leviticus 21:18-21, 23
Jehovah’s Prejudice Against Mutilated Males
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter in the congregation of the LORD. -Deuteronomy 23:1
Jehovah’s Prejudice Against Those Born Out of Wedlock
A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. -Deuteronomy 23:2
Jehovah’s Favoritism Toward His Followers
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy Cod: the LORD thy Cod hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above ali people th at are upon the face of the earth. -Deuteronomy 7:6
(Note: this favoritism has an unpleasant side. In Amos 3: 1-2,.Jehovah declares to the “children of Israel”: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”)
Jehovah’s Glorification of His Followers
But ye shall be named the Priest of the LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves. -1saiah 61:6
(Note: The biblical distinction between the “chosen people” and the gentiles is based on religion rather than ethnicity. Thus when Jesus of Nazareth refers to gentiles as “dogs” in Matthew 15:22-27 and Mark 7:26-28, he is demonstrating a theological prejudice.)
Jehovah’s Glorification of his Followers and His Degradation of Non-followers
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. -Isaiah 49:23
Jehovah Threatens Those Who Refuse to Bow to Him
And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have 1 had mercy on thee. Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may he brought. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. -Isaiah 60:10-1
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy ali the nations that come against Jerusalem. -Zechariah 12:9
THE DARK SIDE OF JEHOVAH
Jehovah Equated with Satan
Note: Two curious passages in the Bible seem to equate Jehovah and Satan.
The passages, which refer to the same event in the history of Israel [King David orders a census of the "chosen people"], are as follows:
The anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel andjudah. -II Samuel 24:1
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. -/ Chronicles 21:1
Jehovah Is Darkness
Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! To what end is it for you? The day of the LORD is darkness, and not light. As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his band on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it? -Amos 5:18-20
Paul criticizes Moses, the Old Testament and the “god of this world”(the devil)…
Read what Paul, the founder of Christianity wrote 20 centuries ago in the 2nd letter to Corinthians chapter 3 …
7 Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, 8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? 9 If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness! 10 For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory. 11 And if what was transitory came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which lasts!
12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. 13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away. 14 But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. 15 Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. 16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate[a] the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” 2 Corinthians 3
New Testament references to the devil, Satan or other names include:
The Devil - (Greek ho diabolos) : Following the use in Job and Zechariah in the Septuagint this title, “the Accuser”, is ascribed to Satan 32 times in the New Testament. The three other uses of the word are for humans - Judas, and gossips.(Revelation 12:9).[7]
Satan - (Greek ho satanas): Luke 10:18 ”I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.” See also Matthew 4:10 Matthew 12:26 Mark 4:15 Luke 22:31 Acts 26:18 1Corinthians 5:5 2Corinthians 11:14 1Thessalonians 2:18 1Timothy 5:15 Revelation 3:9 Revelation 20:2
Beelzebub - (Greek Beelzeboul) : In Matthew 10:25, Matthew 12:24, Mark 3:22, and openly in Luke 11:18-19 there is an implied connection between Satan and Beelzebub (originally a Semitic deity called Baal, and referred to as Baal-zebul, meaning lord of princes). Beelzebub (lit. Lord of the Flies) has now come to be analogous to Satan.
The Wicked One - (Greek ho poneros[8]) : Matthew 13:19–”Then cometh the wicked one.” Matthew 6:13, 1 John 5:19. This title suggests that Satan is one who is wicked himself. Abrahamic religions generally regarded sin as a physical manifestation of opposition to God, and therefore evil; dissent only comes from the topic of ‘where does sin come from?’[citation needed]
Prince of this World - (Greek ho Archōn tou kosmou toutou,[9] Latin Rex Mundi) : inJohn 12:31 and John 14:30.
The Tempter - (Greek ho peirazōn[10]) : Matthew 4:3–”And when the tempter came to him.” Also, 1Thessalonians 3:5
A liar - (Greek psěustēs[11]) : John 8:44–”He is a liar and the father of it.”
Belial - (Greek Belial) : in 2 Corinthians 6:15 ”What agreement does Christ have with Belial?” may be a reference to the Devil, or to eating idol meats. In the Old Testament, rebellious people and nonbelievers are sometimes called ‘sons of Belial’. See also Deuteronomy 13:13 Judges 20:13 1Samuel 2:12 2Samuel 23:61Kings 21:10 2Chronicles 13:7
The god of this world in 2 Corinthians 4:4.
The prince of the power of the air in Ephesians 2:2.
Your adversary - (Greek antidikos) : in 1 Peter 5:8–”Your adversary the devil.” In the Christian worldview, Satan is the adversary of both God and the believers.[citation needed]
The Dragon - (Greek ho drakōn) : in 2 Revelation 20:2
The Ancient Serpent - (Greek ho ophis ho archaios) : also in 2 Revelation 20:2
Some other links on related subjects
Here you can read another list of references of these and other biblical quotes: http://nobeliefs.com/DarkBible/darkbible7.htm#jesus-will-kill-children
and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_teaching_about_the_Devil
http://www.evilbible.com/Murder.htm
http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/
If you read until here you were very courageous. I wish you see the Bible and Christianity differently now.
