(ThaNks, R. :)

Reader Ron writes:

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Re: Reader: 'Totally disagree with you about t....

G’day Hobie,

I trust that the current turmoil in the US is not adversely impinging on you.

Reader C writes:

‘As well, you are assuming a LOT when you say that the Bible copies from any other texts--it is probably the reverse… There is no other book on the planet like the Bible, as encoded, as predictive, as true and poetic and literal and sweeping.’

Arguably the Bible DOES copy from others. How could it not?
And is it possible for the Bible to be encoded, predictive AND literal?

Arguably the Bible didn’t exist until about 300 years after the crucifixion of Christ Jesus. After Emperor Constantine had presided over the Council of Nicea establishing the Christian religion in 325 AD he is said to have commissioned fifty Bibles for the Church of Constantinople in 331 AD, but little else is known. In fact, it is said that it is not even certain whether his request was for fifty copies of the entire Old and New Testaments, only the New Testament, or merely the Gospels.

In any event the Bible is obviously a pastiche since it includes the Old Testament (the Torah), a Levitical and Pharisaic ideological political concoction based on plagiarised earlier spiritual stories and writings; and the New Testament which was written generations after the crucifixion of Christ Jesus. Moreover, the Bible writings were distorted and corrupted by Roman emperors, Pharisees and others. It is NOT the unadulterated divine teaching of Christ Jesus. A recent distortion was the The Zionist-Created Scofield 'Bible' - Link http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/The-Zionist-Created-Scofield-Bible.shtml

A major part of Jesus' teaching was the "Good News" about reincarnation. The Pharisees worked long and hard to eliminate that truth from the historical record. The Bible doesn’t tell Christian adherents this truth because Emperor Justinian eliminated virtually all references to Jesus’ teaching about reincarnation from the Bible. This was finally achieved during the Fifth Ecumenical Council in 554 AD. At that time Emperor Justinian arrested Pope Vigilius for Believing in Reincarnation and had the Council declare:

If anyone asserts the fabulous preexistence of souls, and shall assert the monstrous restoration which follows from it: let him be anathema. (The Anathemas against Origen), attached to the decrees of the Fifth Ecumenical Council, A.D. 554, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 2d ser., 14: 318). See eg: Pope [Vigilius] Arrested for Believing in Reincarnation - Link http://abundanthope.net/pages/Political_Information_43/Pope-Vigilius-Arrested-for-Believing-in-Reincarnation.shtml

Peace and Blessings,
Ron

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