The Bible--A Clumsy Compilation Of Forgeries

By Mark Gelbart
May 8, 2007

I've always known about the disagreements over religious doctrine between different sects of Christianity, but I was unaware how deep those differences about some fundamental topics were until I edited a book written by a strict Presbyterian. I didn't know much about Presbyterians--I assumed they were mild-mannered Protestants. Surprisingly, their doctrine is harsh. They don't believe man has free will. Only those God chose before time began can make it to heaven and nothing the "non-elect" do can change that. Even babies can't make it to heaven because they haven't had the opportunity to learn the correct doctrine through the Holy Spirit and have no chance of being born again. Baptists hardily disagree but are unable to explain Matthew 13 which states that Jesus purposefully teaches in parables so many people can't understand the word and are condemned to hell. Of course, as an Agnostic, I think all this is nonsense. The bible is merely a clumsy compilation of forgeries filled with ridiculous contradictions.

All academic religious scholars agree that the different books of the bible weren't actually written by the phony prophets and disciples whose names appear as the authors. For example Moses couldn't possibly have written Exodus because he wrote about his own death, and Peter didn't write the epistles of Peter. The real author happened to admire Peter and decided to put Peter's name as the author in his honor. In other words they're all forgeries with the exception of some of Paul's books which scholars think really were written by Paul. Evidence that the gospels weren't actually written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is obvious. The disciples were supposed to be Jewish, yet they discuss the Jews as if they were foreigners. John said, "and Passover, a feast of the Jews was neigh." An American wouldn't write, "it was the fourth of July, a holiday of the Americans."

There are literally thousands of contradictions in the bible. Here are three of my favorites.

One of the ten commandments clearly states that there is only one God. However, the old testament refers to multiple Gods over one-thousand times. Some Christians claim these multiple Gods are the parts of the trinity. This is a laughable defense because Jews don't believe in the trinity. The references to multiple Gods unmistakeably links Judeo-Christianity with its pagan ancestry.

I just love the "go-teach-all-nations" forgery. Originally, Christianity was an obscure end-of-the-world cult within Judiasm. In numerous passages Jesus claims he will come back and the world will end within the lifetime of the disciples. Moreover, he said, "I am not come but for the lost sheep of Israel." Gentiles were not part of his flock; only Jews could be saved when the world ended. Later, in Matthew and Mark Jesus contradicts himself and tells the disciples to "go teach all nations." What really happened? The end of the word didn't occur within the lifetime of the disciples and the cult of Christianity was dying out so Paul and other Christian leaders were forced to include the Gentiles in order to keep the cult alive. Some early priests interpolated the "go teach all nations fiction" into the texts of Matthew and Mark. All these early texts were handwritten and only a few people were literate enough to spot this fraud. This interpolation didn't take place until after Acts was written because in this book the disciples act as if they never heard the teach-all-nations command. If the original texts of Matthew and Mark had included this command, the author of Acts wouldn't have found it necessary to make up his story about how Cornelius had to convince the disciples to teach all nations. According to the revised Matthew and Mark, they already were.

Belief in a virgin birth is pagan. The Jews believed the messiah was supposed to be a genealogical descendent of David. The marriage of paganism and Judiasm that is Christianity conflicts here. Both Matthew and Luke give completely different fictional geneaologies in order to prove that Jesus is the biological descendent of David. They both say Joseph, not Mary, is the biological descendent of David. So there's no way Jesus could've been born of a virgin and a descendent of David. To appeal to pagans, some anonymous priests interpolated the story of the virgin birth into the gospels thus creating perhaps the most ridiculous contradiction of all.