God's Will?

James L. Ash, who's not afraid of the truth.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~Bertrand Russell.

*Introduction

The Biblical Word of God is a forgery! It does not mean that God forged a book; it means that a group of callous, greedy, anonymous superstitious men forged a book in God's name.

Some will say they were religious men, and the forgery charge is heretical, heterodox, blasphemous, profane, irreverent, and an insult to all believers, but, is it? All religions are man made, that is unless you believe that some men have the power, or gift, to communicate with invisible people in the sky.

Did ancient Jewish priests do the same thing a thousand years before in compiling their Tanakh, the Old Testament? The article "Israel," in the Encyclopedia Biblica, is a trusted Christian work, written by Professor Guthe, a learned theologian of Leipsic University who says that the writers of the Old Testament have a Mode of regarding the facts in which we can saw The workings of a primitive nature.

Professor Guthe admits that the poor historians of the Jews had a hard job To remove the materials of his story out of the false light in which he finds them.

We must Constantly bear in mind the peculiarities of the narrative, and Professor Guthe also frankly reveals to us that these are "Their legendary character, their conformity to a scheme, and their didactic purpose."

Professor Moore, of Andover Theological Seminary believes that the early unknown historical writers of the Old Testament, were not in the time of Moses, but centuries later, and not, as we have their works now, were mainly honest collectors of stories, legends, tales, and myths, but that later books were put together by the "Mere literary process of conflation and contamination."

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called 'Insanity.' When many people suffer from a delusion it is called 'Religion.' ~Robert Pirsig, Lila, 1991, The God Delusion, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Delusion.

Amazing how some lazy men got together, wrote a book on religion, gave themselves authority to rule over the ignorant superstitious masses, gave themselves fancy titles, and gave themselves authority to punish any who disobeyed them based on a book, which they wrote. And, thousands of years later, many still listen to them and actually pay them to be lied to.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the Truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. ~Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782.

From the 6th to the 12th century Roman priests, and monks, poured out throughout Europe with a flood of forgeries, which the Christian Church profited from. Learned clerical authorities on the Bible now say that many books of the Old Testament, which pretend to be written by religious men did not write them: That many books were deliberately written as history when the anonymous writers knew that they were not writing history: And that the Old Testament as a whole, as we now know it, is a deliberate attempt to convey an alleged historical belief, which the writers already knew to be false. Christian authors write revisionist history to portray their faith in a good light, ignoring facts which are detrimental to their faith.

Faith means not wanting to know what is true. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900.

Christianity was born of lies, and like the corrupt Roman Empire she emulated, early Christianity was also corrupt, decadent, and immoral. From cradle to grave she [the Church] sought to control the lives of its followers.

Medieval Christian Monks were paid for their New Biblical Discoveries, Monks constantly occupied in copying the classic texts, for the preservation and diffusion of Pagan culture, it is an ardent farce as they also inculcated their personal beliefs, thereby purposely adding to Scripture, hence early Holy Bibles were known as the Book of Margins!

Man has yet to invent a God whom I am willing to die or kill for. While some early Christian sects focused on writing fictitious religious material, the future Universal and Apostolic Catholic Church sought to build an oligarchy with a chain of command much like that of the military.

The Hebrews wrote the Old Testament [Tanakh], hence placed themselves as the Chosen People of God. When the Christians wrote the New Testament, an addendum to the Old, they likewise placed themselves as the New Chosen People of the Son of God, who was originally the Son of the Sun, but later transformed to Son of God to rid itself of its Pagan roots. The gaps between Christian so-called realities, and truths, are quite significant, but naive Christians are taught early on to overlook any Biblical discrepancies.

The history of the Paganized Universal And Apostolic Roman Church has been glorified in mysticism and fantasized heroes for centuries by Christian writers who amiably created their own history of what the Church should be. 'Christianity, especially in Italy, where the spectacle of the Holy See inspired disgust, had been prostituted to the vilest service by the Church. Faith was associated with folly, superstition, ignorance, intolerance and cruelty. The manners of the clergy were in flagrant discord with the Gospels, and Antichrist found fitter incarnation in Roderigo Borgia than in Nero. The corruption of the Church and the political degeneracy of the commonwealths had quite as much to do with it as the return of heathen standards. Nor could the Renaissance have been the great world-historical era it truly was, if such demoralization had been a part and parcel of its essence. Crimes and vice are not the hotbed of arts and literature; lustful priests and cruel despots were not necessary to the painting of Raphael or the poetry of Ariosto.' ~John Addington Symonds, quoted in Alvin Boyd Kuhn, PH. D., Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. ~Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer.

The most infamous Christian in history, May of 1904, at age 15, Adolf [formerly Adolf Schicklgruber, from his Jewish father], Hitler received the Catholic Sacrament of Confirmation in the Catholic, Linz Cathedral, Bavaria.

Hitler's Nazis were 95% Christians from top to bottom, 99% if you include Deists, which is roughly 1/3rd Catholic and 2/3rd's Protestant. The Catholic Church considered the Jews pestilent for fifteen hundred years, put them in ghettos, etc, because it recognized the Jews for what they were... I recognize the representatives of this race as pestilent for the state and for the Church... ~Adolf Hitler, speech given on 26 April 1933.

Fr. Martin Luther was Hitler's favorite author, The Anglican Dean Inge, of Saint Paul's Cathedral, London, did not hesitate to say... 'If we wish to find a scapegoat on whose shoulders we may lay the miseries, which Germany has brought on the world, I am more and more convinced that the worst evil genius of that country, is not Hitler or Bismarck or Frederick the Great, but Fr. Martin Luther.' And he gave as his reason that in Lutheranism: 'The Law of Nature, which ought to be the court of appeal against unjust authority, is identified with the existing order of society, to which absolute obedience is due.'  ~Dean William Inge, 1860-1954, English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral.

The Universal and Apostolic Roman Catholic Church never excommunicated the Catholic Hitler, nor condemned his book Mein Kampf, which would have been an admission that he accepted their doctrines.

All religions borrow, steal, or plagiarize each other, building upon the foundations of previous beliefs, which were long ago established, e.g., Genesis was copied from the Sumerian text Epic of Gilgamesh by anonymous Hebrew authors, which, most likely, was copied from the ancient Akkadians.

Some in the Christian ministry still claim that the Pagans copied Christianity. Really? Genesis was written by 1400 B.C.E., while the first Epic of Gilgamesh story that references the global flood was apparently from 2100 B.CE. ~Epic of Gilgamesh, cf. II Peter 2:4-5.

In Christianity, arguments, which use universals such as, Always, Never, Everyone, Nobody, The facts show, History reveals, Everyone knows, The Bible tells us, etc., are often prone to being reduced to ludicrous conclusions. "I would not dare to so dishonor my Creator God by attaching His name to that book [the Bible]." ~Thomas Paine.

History is what man perceives as what should be recorded for posterity, which often does not include the truth, but what is necessary to preserve government or religion. ~E Christopher Reyes, 2020.

The Bible is notorious for taking a little truth and contorting it with a little mythology and fake history. If one replaces the word Heaven, or Heavens in the Bible with Outer Space, or sky, the conclusions are more apparent.

In the Bible, the word Heaven occurs 276 times in the New Testament, and in Genesis, the Bible tells us, ... God called the firmament Heaven ~Genesis 1:7-8, cf. Genesis 1:14-18,  II Corinthians 12:2, Hosea 2:18, Daniel 7:13, Matthew 23:34-37, Luke 10:20, and Revelation 22:2-27.

Our American Founding Fathers were not so easily fooled, The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature... It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the Gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven.... These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses. ~John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1788.

How many Gods has mankind created? The ancient Hittites claimed to have 1,000 deities in their pantheon. So for a rough estimate of the average number of deities per religion, we'll take the average of these three figures, giving 440 deities per religion. This gives an estimate of N = 28,000,000.

Religion is a means of forcing mankind to accept institutional doctrines, often abandoning the truth, for the benefit of the religious institution, greedy clergy, and seldom mankind. ~E. Christopher Reyes, 2017.

How many Gods do theists not believe in? For monotheists, the number of Gods they don't believe in will be N-1, which, of course, will be very close to N. If the estimate above is correct, then atheists and monotheists only differ by 0.000036% in their beliefs. ~https://atheism.wikia.org/wiki/How_many_gods%3F

There are over 2,500 existing Deities in the World today, which one is the True Faith of God? ~Encyclopedia of Gods.

The Pagan Greek conceptions regarding Nature and Nature’s Laws are Valid in Christian concepts that empowered the secular society by teaching that all men had access to God’s Truths via secular Reason.

Saint Thomas Aquinas believed that even God couldn’t violate the Laws of Nature because God is only subject to His own Laws.

I don’t believe in God. My God is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life. ~Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919, American industrialist, and philanthropist.

Saints often disagreed; and the Vatican perceived it would be wise to endorse the philosophical Greek works of Saint Thomas Aquinas in order to Rationalize Christianity.

After all, philosophy and Reason appeared to be the only way to salvage the Church’s credibility after Saint [Bishop] Albertus Magnus the Great’s failure showed that not all Catholic doctrines could be proven with Scripture.

The Church went from anti-Reason to pro-Reason; claiming a faith-based reliance on the literal word of God, to a More practical reliance on theological scholarship; from a conservative institution trying to preserve the Old-Time Religion, to a Progressive institution endeavoring to maintain Relevance and Popular appeal; from a doctrine-based religion that denounced heresy and punished heretics, to a more temperate Love based religion that embraced everyone and punished no one.

In early America, there were Jews, skeptics, Christians, and Muslims. ... The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.... ~Treaty with Tripoli, passed unanimously by the U.S. Senate and signed by President Adams, June 10, 1797.

Amazing how many Christians are willing to give up their hard earned money, yet never bothered to fact check their religious leaders and their Bible. Nowhere in the Bible does it say you have to give ten percent of your money to the priesthood. Jesus [Yeshua] never asked for money. The Christian Church was greedy, financially gluttonous, desirous, covetous, and avarice from its inception, and the centuries have not changed it. These men, lost to all shame, call themselves a Catholic Church, for some, supposing that they will attain prosperity, concur with them. ~Bishop Hippolytus, 170-235 C.E.

Throughout history, various religious scholars have devised assorted arguments to prove their God’s existence, which is best known as Intelligent design.

Numbers 18 was a compensation purportedly package ordered by God for the temple workers because they were forbidden to earn a living by normal means because of their Holy service in the temple. God‘s Holiness demanded that it was to be the Levite priests and the Levites only who were allowed to ask for money. ~Numbers 18:23. Tithing revolved around Holiness that is why it was called a Holy tithe, which was not to be profited from.

Different early Christian leaders preached contrasting theologies. Church officials often used certain passages in the Bible [in the Old Testament], to acquire unmerited wealth as they interpreted Old Testament texts to mean reserved gifts, offerings, blessings, and tithes for the priesthood, which now perceived Bishop Marcion's theology, born 85 C.E., died 160 C.E., as a threat to their financial accomplishments. ~cf. Matthew 6:5. cf. Matthew 16:17-19, John 1:42,  John 21:15-19.

The religious follower is desperate to believe that God can do anything, and if one prays to God religiously, God will grant their wishes. The religious con-man, known as a Prophet, Minister, Pastor, Priest, Shaman, etc., is all too eager to to feed this superstitious belief, for a price; convincing the credulous that they suffer from sinfulness, sins committed thousands of years ago, and only they can give them Salvation, for a price. 

The True Believer actually accepts that no one cannot rest until the whole world bows their knee to his God, whomever He may be.

James Madison wrote, No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust. ~First Amendment to the Constitution,  Article VI.

And yet we have, No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil government of this State, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any court! ~Constitution, Arkansas, Art. XIX, sec. 26. cf.  Luke 1:14.

During the time of Jesus, there were no copyright laws, and once written, a document was virtually in the public domain, and could be quoted, altered, used, and reused, excerpted,  and expanded upon without respect, regard, or attribution to the source, and without any consideration, or thought of wrongdoing, hence the Gospels were written under pseudo-names to glorify the writings of anonymous authors, who would not be punished for lying or forging the writings of others, e.g., The anonymous author of Matthew will use Mark’s Gospel when writing his own, and in the Old Testament, The Pentateuch and Isaiah are generally recognized to be the work of several hands over a lengthy period. The Wisdom of Solomon and the corpus known as I Enoch could be attributed to those named as authors long after their death, without any thought of deceit ...  ~Dunn, J.D.G., 2013, Ephesians, in Barton, J. and Muddiman, J., The Oxford Bible Commentary, p. 1166.

The 3rd century early Church Father Origen... Recorded the following complaint about the copies of the Gospels at his disposal: "The difference among the [Gospel] manuscripts have become great, either through the negligence of some [anonymous] copyists or through the perverse audacity of others; they either neglect to check over what they have transcribed, or, in the process of checking, they make additions and deletions as they please." ~Bishop Origen, 3rd century. cf. Matthew 23:9.

We have met the enemy, and they is us. ~Puck, cartoon character.

*CHAPTER ONE: Demons

Think your Bible hasn't been messed with? The right to search for Truth implies also a duty, one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. ~Albert Einstein.

The Hebrew, in Isaiah 34:14, was rendered by Demons, which may merely mean wild animals.

But, on the other hand, the Hebrew, which is rendered very literally as Hairy ones, is translated Demons by Targum and Peshitta, and is supposed to mean a goat shaped deity analogous to the Greek Pan. And Lamia who represents Adam's first wife, the original Lilith, a spirit of the night who in Hebrew legend is the Demon wife of Adam. ~Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. IV, Demonology.

Cockatrice: And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. ~Isaiah 11:8, KJV, 1611 version.

Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: For out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.  ~Isaiah 14:29, KJV, 1611 version.

They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. ~Isaiah 59:5, KJV, 1611 version.

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord. ~Jeremiah 8:17, KJV, 1611 version.

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder is the same Hebrew word as all other verses translated as 'Adder.' ~cf. Proverbs 23:32, KJV, 1611 version.

Cockatrice or Adder. ~Isaiah 11:8 KJV, et al.

Other Biblical references often deleted include:

Chimeras: Is the Chimera, a half man, half beast, mentioned in Scriptures? Yes. Early Christians were superstitious, naive, and mostly illiterate. ~cf. II Samuel 23:20 and  Cepher Yashar, Book of Jasher: Yashar Jasher 36:28-32.

And the sons of Shoval were Alyan, Manachath, Eyval, Shephiy, and Onam, and the sons of Tsiv`on were Ayah, and Anah, this was that Anah who found the Yemim in the wilderness when he fed the asses of Tsiv`on his father. And while he was feeding his father's asses he led them to the wilderness at different times to feed them. And there was a day that he brought them to one of the deserts on the sea shore, opposite the wilderness of the people, and while he was feeding them, behold a very heavy storm came from the other side of the sea and rested upon the asses that were feeding there, and they all stood still. And afterward about one hundred and twenty great and terrible animals came out from the wilderness at the other side of the sea, and they all came to the place where the asses were, and they placed themselves there. And those animals, from their middle downward, were in the shape of the children of men, and from their middle upward, some had the likeness of bears, and some the likeness of the keephas, with tails behind them from between their shoulders reaching down to the earth, like the tails of the ducheephath, and these animals came and mounted and rode upon these asses, and led them away, and they went away to this day. ~Cepher Yashar, Book of Jasher: Yashar Jasher 36:28-32.

Salvation was a lucky coincidence of ancient Pagan ideas perhaps, which, without doubt, facilitated the reception of it among the gullible, naive, and illiterate Christian faithful. ~cf. Acts 4:13. cf. https://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/places/related-articles/gilgamesh-and-the-bible

Most of Jesus' Apostles, who could neither read nor write wrote the Gospels? For from Jerusalem there went out into the world, men, twelve in number, and these illiterate, of no ability in speaking. ~Bishop Justin Martyr, 2nd century C.E., First Apology, XXXIX. Cf. Acts 4:13.

The Chimera is displayed on a red-figure Apulian plate, 350–340 B.C.E., at the Musée du Louvre. The Chimera, kɪˈmɪərə or kaɪˈmɪərə, also Chimaera, Chimæra; Greek: Χίμαιρα, Chímaira She-Goat,  was, according to Greek mythology, a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of more than one animal.

The Chimera is usually depicted as a lion, with the head of a goat arising from its back, and a tail that might end with a snake's head, and was one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of such monsters as Cerberusand the Lernaean Hydra.

There are numerous ancient genealogies, in one version the Chimera is mated with her brother Orthrusand was the mother of the Egyptian Sphinx and the Nemean lion, while others have Orthrus and their mother, Echidna, mating; most attribute all to Typhon and Echidna.

There are numerous ancient genealogies, in one version the Chimera is mated with her brother Orthrusand was the mother of the Egyptian Sphinx and the Nemean lion, while others have Orthrus and their mother, Echidna, mating; most attribute all to Typhon and Echidna. ~cf. Jasher 36:28-32, and II Samuel 23:20.

Dragons: In the Holy Bible the mythical dragon is altered from a monstrous beast into a giant whale after the naive followers stopped believing in dragons.

Paintings from Val Camonica, Italy, around 10,000 B.C.E., supposedly show extraterrestrial visitors, and ancient astronaut theories center around the proposal that the Earth had, at some point in the distant past, been inspected by some intelligent extraterrestrial beings, and such physical contact is coupled to the origins of [or the physical development on] human cultures and their technologies.

In ancient Egyptian mythology, betrayed by Typhon, a grisly monster with a hundred dragons' heads, Horus, was crucified, buried for Three days, and then, Resurrected [Reborn, Born Again, Revivified, Reanimated]. ~How Does Christians Explain The Similarities Between Jesus' Life and Pagan Gods That Existed Before Him?

The Dragon [In Revelations 13, the Dragon, is Joazar, who attempts to exclude Mary from communion and is prevented by Ananus] gives his power to the Wild Beast to make war on the saints [believers]. Judas is the Wild Beast during the times of Jesus, all non-believers, in the growing group of Jesus’ followers are referred to as Beasts.

"At the Lord's command a large fish [formerly a Dragon] swallowed Jonah, and he was inside the fish for three days and three nights." ~Jonah 1:17, 2:9. cf. Genesis 18:14, II Kings 14:25, Matthew 12:38-41, 16:4; Luke 11:29-32. https://www.quora.com/Do-Christians-believe-the-Jonah-and-the-Whale-story-to-be-literally-true

"... The stories of the bear as a beast of burden; the ring in the fish; the frogs becoming silent, etc.]; his birth is glorified by a miracle; a voice, or letters, from Heaven proclaim his identity [all these score for Jesus the Christ]; bells ring of themselves; the Heavenly ones enter into personal intercourse with him [betrothal of Mary]; he speaks with the dead and beholds Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory; forces the Devil to release people from compacts; he is victorious over Dragons; etc." ~P. Wesley Edwards, Bible Accuracy.

Why the fascination with Heaven? Mankind has sent space exploratory vehicles that have gone beyond our galaxy, taken pictures of other galaxies, and yet, Christians, as well as other faiths still believe in an invisible Heaven. Numberless have been the systems of iniquity.... The most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by the mind of man was framed by the Romish clergy for the aggrandizement of their own order... They even persuaded mankind to believe, faithfully and undoubtingly, that God Almighty had entrusted them with the Keys of Heaven, whose gates they might open and close at pleasure... With authority to license all sorts of sins and crimes... Or withholding the rain of Heaven and the beams of the sun; with the management of earthquakes, pestilence, and famine; nay, with the mysterious, awful, incomprehensible power of creating out of bread and wine the flesh, and blood of God himself. All these opinions they were enabled to spread and rivet among the people by reducing their minds to a state of sordid ignorance and staring timidity, and by infusing into them a religious horror of letters and knowledge. Thus was human nature chained fast for ages in a cruel, shameful, and deplorable servitude. ~John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law, Boston Gazette, August 1765.

Flesh was a contamination of man's Spirit, which poor thing had to live in it for a life time. Sin was a defilement for which the Immortal Soul had to be purified and redeemed.

Mostly derived from Pagan myths, Jesus' birth stories are very dubious, and it very likely that all such beliefs were written retrospectively by the Roman Gospel writers, or were assumed from the outset. There is no evidence or reason to believe that they actually occurred. ~Vexen Crabtree, The Birth of Jesus and the Christmas Story: Pagan and Unhistorical, 2014.

In Puritan New England, Heaven was not considered a comfort but rather, "A way to impose discipline in this life." ~cf. The Code of Hammurabi, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Code-of-Hammurabi

Did Jesus ever exist? Then why didn’t someone write of this marvelous being during his meetings with the multitudes?

The Christian fantasies of miracles grew, while the world remained ignorant of their lying, But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and Pagan philosophic world, to those evidences, which were represented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the Age of Christ, of his Apostles, and of their first Disciples, the doctrine, which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies... The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, Demons were expelled, and the Laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the 'Benefit of the Church.' But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral or physical government of the world. Under the reign of Tiberius, the whole earth, or at least a celebrated province of the Roman Empire, was involved in a preternatural darkness of three hours. Even this miraculous event, which ought to have excited the wonder, the curiosity, and the devotion of mankind, passed without notice in an age of science and history. It happened during the lifetime of Seneca and the elder Pliny, who must have experienced the immediate effects, or received the earliest intelligence, of the prodigy. Each of these philosophers, in a laborious work, has recorded all the great phenomena of Nature, earthquakes, meteors, comets, and eclipses, which his indefatigable curiosity could collect. Both the one and the other have omitted to mention the greatest phenomenon to which the mortal eye has been witness since the Creation of the globe. ~Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776, Volume 1. Chapter XV: Progress Of The Christian Religion. Part IX.  cf. Luke 1:14, https://erickimphotography.com/blog/seneca-essays-1/

When Solomon was anointed king, the people sang and shouted so loudly that it caused an earthquake! ~cf. II Samuel 1:39-40.

The moon produces its own light and the earth does not move, that is, except when God gets angry and shakes the Heavens. ~cf. Proverbs 13:10-13.

In the 5th century C.E., Bishop Augustine of Hippo, Africa, widely considered the greatest theologian of the Roman Catholic Church, cautioned on the literal interpretation of the Old Testament, especially on matters of science and history.

The earliest [complete] copy of the Hebrew Old Testament date only from 900 C.E. In the early part of the 10th century [916 C.E.], there existed a group of Jews called the Massoretes who were quite meticulous in their copying of Scripture, and all these texts were all in capital letters, with no punctuation or paragraphs.

"The names of these Books, original and interpolations, and which are not included in the Hebrew Old Testament, but are in the True Church Bible, are: Tobit, Judith, Baruch, with the Epistle of Jeremiah, Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach [or Ecclesiastics], I and II Maccabees, Prayer of Manasseh, Additions to Esther, and Additions to the Book of Daniel, consisting of the Prayer of Azarias, the Song of the Three Holy Children [in the Fiery Furnace], the History of Susannah, the History of Bel and the Dragon, and sundry such precious fables." ~Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. iii, pp. 267, 270; iv, 624.

The Book of Daniel claims to have been written in the 600's B.C.E., but it’s more likely to have been written about 167 B.C.E., because its so-called Predictions are accurate up to this point and nonsensical thereafter.

Why is there so much confusion in reading and understanding Scriptures? Early Christians leaders were infamous for changing Biblical texts to conform with prevailing cultural norms, and accepted Orthodox interpretations; often destroying older versions, now not acknowledged, e.g., Bar, Son of, is used in Acts 1:23 for James, Joseph Barsabas, in Acts 4:36 Joses, called by the corrupted Bar-nabas, and in Acts 15:22 for Judas, Judas called Barsabas, with Silas, Simon. Brothers of Jesus? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon?  ~Mark 6:3, cf. Mark 15:7, Matthew 13:55-56, Matthew 27:34.

How many things that were articles of faith yesterday are fables today?  ~Michel de  Montaigne, Essays, 1580.

Naive Christian masses will continue to believe fables, legends, and myths as if real and pay little attention to history as the Holy Mother the Church deems it not worth the brutal tortures of their Inquisition to establish whether Saint George really fought a dragon, or that Saint Denis [the Pagan God Dionysus renamed] had carried his head in his hands.

The Inquisition's function was principally assembled to subjugate all heretics of rights, depriving heretics, infidels, non-believers, dissenters, and skeptics of their real estate and financial assets, which became subject to the ownership of the Catholic treasury, with the Church officials relentlessly seeking to destroy anyone who spoke out against their doctrines, or even thought differently than the Catholic Church.

Children were not exempt from being arrested, prosecuted, or tortured. The treatment of witches’ children was particularly brutal. The Inquisitor Jean Bodin, 1529-96, author of De La Demonomanie des Sorciers, Of the Demonomania of Witches, particularly valued children as witnesses for extracting confessions, as they were easily persuaded to confess.

The Inquisition sought to project fear into the gullible, superstitious, and mostly illiterate who failed to  accept the Universal and accepted faith as taught by the Church. Faith is believing in what you know ain't so. ~Mark Twain.

The powerful Christian Church sees itself as the protector of mankind, and in such justifies whatever means it deems necessary to shield society, "When any one uses measures involving the infliction of some pain, in order to prevent an inconsiderate person from incurring the most dreadful punishments by becoming accustomed to crimes, which yield him no advantage, he is like one who pulls a boy’s hair in order to prevent him from provoking serpents [Dragons] by clapping his hands at them; in both cases, while the acting of love is vexatious to its object, no member of the body is injured, whereas safety and life are endangered by that, from which the person is deterred... Wherefore it is for the most part an advantage to themselves when certain things are removed from persons in whose keeping it is hazardous to leave them, lest they abuse them. When surgeons see that a gangrene must be cut away or cauterized, they often, out of compassion, turn a deaf ear to many cries. If we had been indulgently forgiven by our parents and teachers in our tender years on every occasion on which, being found in a fault, we begged to be let off, which of us would not have grown up intolerable? Which of us would have learned any useful thing? Such punishments are administered by wise care, not by wanton cruelty." ~Saint Augustine, Letter 104, translated by The Rev. J. G. Cunningham, M.A.

Compare with:

Exodus 7:10-12.

Ezekiel 29:3.

Ezekiel 32:2.

Deuteronomy 32:33.

Isaiah 27:1.

Isaiah 51:9.

Job 7:12.

Job 40:15-20.

Job 41:18-21.

Psalm 18:8.

Psalm 44:19.

Psalm 74:13.

Revelation 1:7.

Revelation 11:7.

Revelation 12:3-4.

Revelation 12:9.

Revelation 13:1-18.

Revelation 16:13.

Revelation 20:1-3.

Revelation 20:4.

Revelation 20:7.

Lilith: Lilith's dark sinister origins lie in ancient Babylonian Demonology, where amulets and incantations were often used to counter the sinister powers of this winged spirit which preyed upon fragile pregnant women and vulnerable infants.

Lilith later migrated to the mythical world of the ancient Hittites, Egyptians, Israelites, Greeks, and subsequently naive Christians.

Lilith, aka Succubus. In old English versions of the Bible, the term Demon is sometimes translated as Devil, and in the New Testament, Demon is associated with an "Evil spirit," [Incubus, the male Demon, often portrayed as a black raven, and Succubus, the female Demon]. ~See Genesis 6:4, Psalm 91:10.

One might ask why this Divine Creator designed crippling diseases such as Polio, Cancer, Leprosy,  and Cerebral palsy, deadly hurricanes, and earthquakes, and other devastating atrocities. Why was the Biblical Intelligent Designer so merciless?

In the contemporary Bibles we have Adam and Eve partaking of the forbidden apple from the alleged Tree of Knowledge, lest they also partake of the Tree of Life formerly know as The Book of Life, they are expelled forever from the Garden of Eden. ~Genesis 2:9, 3:22, Revelation 2:7, 22:19. Note: In the Jewish Midrash, Lilith is Adam’s first wife. Cf. Genesis 1:27 and Genesis 2:18. The Bible  has Eve eating the apple in Genesis 2:17, but God does not create Eve until Genesis 3:12.

Fact Checking the Bible: When Vesalius, December 1514–15 October 1564 C.E., showed in 1543 that the number of ribs was the same in males as in females, it created a great storm of controversy in the Christian world. ~cf. Genesis 2:19.

Christian Bibles have also removed the name of Lilith for how can they [Christians] espouse "No Divorce," if Adam, the first man, had another wife? Biblically, Lilith is known as a screech owl. ~cf. Isaiah 34:14.

Eve [Hawwah-Mother of All Living Things] is a complete contradiction to the first wife [Lilith[ who is argumentative and does not want children, Eve being obedient, helpful, and having children.

With the knowledge of the discrepancies in Biblical translations, one begins to wonder if the first man was not a Woman instead, noting the similarities in the names Lulla and Lilith.  ~Cf. Isaiah 51:9, Job 26:12, Psalm 74:13, 89:10, II Esdras 6:52, II Baruch 29:3-8, Jonah 2:1. Cf. Galatians 3:13.

Adam listened to Eve, and disobeyed God, so God cursed the ground, and caused thorns and thistles to grow. Before this, according to the fictitious Genesis tale, plants had no natural defenses, the roses had no thorn, the  cacti were spineless, holly leaves were smooth, the nettle had no sting, and Foxgloves, oleander, and milkweeds were all perfectly safe to eat. ~Genesis 3:17-18.

Celsus continually attacked the roaming Christian presbyters, and at one of their gatherings: ... You utter fables, as if in a drunken state, producing self-induced visions, and you do not even possess the art of making them likely. You have altered three, four times and oftener, the texts of your own tales in order to deny objections made to you. ~cf. Bishop Origen, Contra Celsus, Bk. II; xxvii.

Bishop Origen was not the only one to notice the problem; Celsus had, as well, some seventy years earlier. In his attack on Christianity and its literature, Celsus had maligned the Christian copyists for their transgressive copying practices: Some believers, as though from a drinking bout, go so far as to oppose themselves and alter the Original text of the Gospel three or four or several times over, and they change its character to enable them to deny difficulties in face of criticism. ~Tédd St. Rain, Lost Arts Media, The Reason for the Season.

Chapter fourteen of II Esdras gives details on how Biblical Scriptures was destroyed and then rewritten. Nebuchadnezzar burned the Jewish Scriptures [Old Testament] in 586 B.C.E., and Christian writers have been rewriting history ever since.

Eve's second name, אִשָּׁה [Isha in Genesis 2:23], means Woman in Hebrew. Legend has it that the Incubus, and his female counterpart, the Succubus, were fallen Angels, Angels that fell from the sky, the Fallen Ones, and union with an Incubus was thought to produce Demons, witches, or deformed children. ~cf. Genesis 6:4.

Does the Bible speak of a Star Gate, a porthole to another real," Then it happened, as they continued on and talked, that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire, and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into Heaven. ~II Kings 2:11, cf. Genesis 28:16-17, Hebrews 9:15, Matthew 7:13-14, John 14:6, Malachi 3:10, ESV, Revelation 21:4, etc.

The Book of Enoch, a book classified as "Pseudepigrapha," meaning it was written by an author falsely using the name of a Biblical figure, in this case is Enoch, which was never a part of the approved, edited, or corrected Canon of 4th century Scripture, and yet this is what the Christian ministry uses to support their conclusions regarding the Angels and Nephilim that fell from the sky. ~cf. Genesis 6.

Peter and Jude confirm they are Angels when writing about this event in the days of Noah, when Angels... Left their own abode... Having given themselves to sexual immorality. ~cf. II Peter 2:4-5, Jude 1:6-7.

The Nephilim supposedly died, physically, in the Great Flood, Genesis 7:21-23. Satan’s Angels, according to Scriptures, can be found in three separate places, Heaven, as in Revelation 12:7-12, an Abyss, as in Revelation 9:1-3, or wandering the earth endlessly, desperately seeking corporeality, a physical, material form, which is opposite of a Spiritual or emotional by possessing insects, as in II Kings 1:2, animals, Revelation 18:2, or as men, Luke 8:27-32.

Some Christians still believe that the creation occurred 6,000 years ago. 6,000 years ago a war began. A war to rule Heaven and Earth that dates all the way back to the Garden of Eden. In the Garden, God told Satan that one day a woman would give birth to a male child, the Messiah, who would redeem humanity and destroy him. In order to prevent this child’s birth, Satan instigated a fallen Angelic rebellion. ~Ryan Pitterson, Judgment of the Nephilim, https://judgmentofthenephilim.com/

The War is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. ~George Orwell, 1984.

The First Council of Nicaea in 325 C.E., debated over the terms homoousios and homoiousios. The word homoousios meaning of theSame substance, whereas the word homoiousios means Similar substance.

Bishop Arius, a 4th century Alexandrian presbyter whose teachings regarding the Christian God sparked a local theological controversy that eventually spread to involve the sun worshiping Emperor Constantine and inspired the first Imperially sponsored Christian Council, at Nicaea in 325 C.E. 

The Council of of Nicaea then affirmed the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, or that the Godhead, are of the homoousious, of the same substance, which is the the source of the English idiom "Differ not by one iota."

Bishop Athanasius did not perceive how far removed he really stood from the Old Testament conception of God. In his controversy with Bishop Arius he had no scruple in making the fullest use of the Hebraic Old Testament as his Biblical versions were also sometimes challenged.

"Having therefore no reason on their side, but being in difficulty, whichever way they turn, in spite of their pretenses, they [the Arian heretics] have nothing left but to say; 'For as much as we contradict our predecessors, and transgress the traditions of the Fathers, therefore we have thought good that a Council should meet, but again, whereas we fear lest, should it meet at one place, our pains will be thrown away, therefore we have thought good that it be divided into two; that so when we put forth our documents to these separate portions, we may overreach with more effect, with the threat of Emperor Constantius the patron of this irreligion, and may supersede the acts of Nicaea, under pretense of the simplicity of our own documents.'" ~Councils of Ariminum and Seleucia, Holy Scripture: The Ground and Pillar of Our Faith, Volume IV.

Ancient Christian documents say that the First Council Bishops, which met in Nicaea, ended in mid-November 326 C.E., while others say the struggle to establish a Universal God was so fierce that the Bishops actually resorted to physical abuse, and undignified name calling, including personal family interactions, and spitting upon each other as the Gospel debates extended, For four years and seven months from its beginning in June 325 C.E. ~Secrets of the Christian Fathers, op. Cit.

Bishop Arius' viewpoints differed from most of the other Bishops, for which he is heavily criticized, and ostracized. Bishop Athanasius is treated similarly and deposed, exiled, and eventually reinstated as a Bishop five times in his life, the casting of Bishop Arius as a villain who corrupted Christianity was an integral component of Athanasius ' campaign to solidify his authority as leader of the Alexandrian community and of Christians in other cities. Bishops, at Rome, claim Peter is the head of their Church, instead of Christ. ~Ephesians 4:15.

No Biblical passage states that the other apostles ever submitted to Peter's authority. ~cf. II Corinthians 11:5, 12:11.

Catechetical manuals from this time are filled with numerous admonitions that seeing the invisible reality behind visible things was not only required of Christians, but was the most transformative religious technique that they could cultivate.

Bishops and preachers were often offered homilies that depended upon the technique, teaching Christians to see the hidden Demonic world lurking in seemingly innocuous urban spaces or the invisible Angels present in Churches during sacred Christian rituals. ~Ellen Muehlberger, Bringing Angels into the World:  Catechesis and the Christian Imagination in Angels in Late Ancient Christianity, Oxford, 2013; and Dayna Kalleres’ exploration of the hidden city scape created by Christian leaders in Dayna S. Kalleres, City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity, Berkeley, 2014.

The Council of Nicaea, 325 C.E., if embodying the newly recognized Orthodox Christian Church,  should have met at Rome, and not 800 hundred miles away in what is now Iznik, Turkey.

In the 4th and 5th centuries, as the Gospel was watered down to support absolute authority by the priesthood over the multitude, the true worship of God and the inner conviction of the Holy Spirit gave way to more formalized rites called Sacraments.

"Accordingly, though not yet even Baptized, he [the sun worshiping Emperor Constantine in 325] acted as the patron and 'Universal Temporal Bishop' of the Church; summoned the first Ecumenical Council [Nicaea] for the settlement of the controversy respecting the Divinity of Christ [homoosius]; instituted and deposed Bishops, and occasionally even delivered sermons to the people, but on the other hand, with genuine tact [which was in an earlier period, 314 C.E.], kept aloof from the Donatist [Donatists argued that the Christian clergy must be faultless for their ministry to be effective and their prayers and Sacraments to be valid] controversy, and referred to the Episcopal tribunal as the highest and last resort in purely Spiritual matters. [Footnote: Bishop Eusebius in fact calls him a Divinely appointed Universal Bishop, Vit. Const. Vol. I. p. 44.] His son Constantius was fond of being called 'Bishop of Bishops, Pontifex Maximus.'" ~Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol III, Ch. III.

Under the dire penalty, and pressure of banishment, being exiled, all but two of the Bishops present at the Council of Nicaea signed the revised Statement of Faith, "The decision of Nicaea that God himself and not a Half-God [similar to Emperor Constantine] is present in the man Jesus of Nazareth was open to the loss of the Jesus character of Jesus as the Christ or, in traditional terminology, to the denial of his full human nature. And this danger... Was real. Popular and monastic piety was not satisfied with the message of the 'Eternal Unity of God,' and man, appearing under the conditions of estrangement. These pieties wanted 'More.' They wanted a God, walking on earth, participating in history, but not involved in the conflicts of existence, and the ambiguities of life. Popular piety did not want a paradox, but a 'Miracle.' It desired an event in analogy with all other events in time and space, an 'Objective' happening in the supernatural sense. By this kind of piety the way for every possible superstition was opened." ~Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, 11, 142-144.

Saint Augustine stated of the Bishop's conference of Nicaea, Turkey, which edited, revised,  corrected, and formalized what was to be added or deleted in the formation of the Bible, in 325 C.E., that, "When I read the  proceedings, it makes me laugh. These people are trying to give us a religion we had three thousand years ago," which was Paganism.

Most of the Christian ministry denies its Pagan roots, yet celebrate Pagan holidays, e.g., Easter, Christmas, etc. Why? Because Christianity is not new, unique, nor original in any of its teachings. Christianity adopted [80%] of existing practices of Paganism, which is what this is what the eminent theologian and scholar, Cardinal John Henry Newman, 1801-90, on Christianity, Catholicism, wrote: ...The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; Holy water; asylums; holy days and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison, are all of Pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.... ~John Henry Newman, Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, p. 373, 1906 edition.

From the very first early centuries, Christianity changed, and continues changing today; the early Church was a sect within Judaism, and not a new religion, The religion known as Christianity is an anachronism, meaning an institution out of its proper time. By adopting the trappings of Paganism, Christianity reverted to an ancient past. Yet Paganism as a religious movement had been slowly dying out among the educated classes of the Roman Empire. In a curious twist of fate, educated Romans were moving toward the monotheism that Judaism had embraced for centuries. By converting to Catholicism, they fell back into a form of polytheism evidenced by belief in the Trinity. ~Schonfield, Those Incredible Christians.

With pressure from Ecclesiastical authorities, the secular arm will also impose curses, restriction, and penalties upon their constituency if they refuse to accept the Divine Authority of the One and Only True Church.

"Any person or persons having been educated in, or at any time having made profession of, the Christian religion within this realm who shall, by writing, printing, teaching, or advised speaking, deny any one of the persons in the Holy Trinity to be God, or shall assert or maintain that there are more Gods than One, or shall deny the Christian Doctrine to be True, or the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be of Divine Authority, shall upon conviction be disabled from holding any Ecclesiastical, civil, or military employment, and on a second conviction be imprisoned for three years, and deprived forever of all civil rights." ~Statue enacted by King William III, 9 and 10, c. 32.

We have the 'Sons of God,' [Nephilim] who interbred with the earthbound human beings, hence, we have the first Biblical mention of Giants, Giants, who keep appearing in all parts of the globe: In the mythologies and legends of the East as well as the West, in the sagas of Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, 14,000 years B.C.E., and the fabled epics of the Eskimos; Giants have haunt the pages of history in almost all ancient books. ~cf. Job 38:7.

Was Nimrod a Nephilim? In Pagan mythology, Nimrod is known by many names, among them Gilgamesh and Osiris, who were worshiped as Gods. In the ancient Sumerian texts Nimrod is described as 2/3 God, 1/3 man. ~cf. Epic of Gilgamesh

Genesis reads: "And [Cush] begot [Nimrod]: He began to be a Giant upon the earth. He was a giant hunter before the Lord God; therefore they say, As [Nimrod] the giant hunter before the Lord." ~Genesis 10:8-9, LXX version, cf. I Samuel 17:51.

Another Christian Demon: Lilith's breasts are filled with poison, not milk. The ardat lilī is a sexually promiscuous and frustrated  infertile female who behaves aggressively towards young men, causing nocturnal emissions in their sleep.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, in the 13th century, follows 4th century Bishop Augustine's idea, but added that Demonic materialization had sexual connotations because Demons tried to seduce people to commit sexual sins.

King Arthur’s legendary wizard, Merlin, is said to have been the offspring of an Incubus [The word Incubus is Latin for Nightmare]. Irish novelist James Joyce cast Lilith as the horrid Patron of abortions.

The Infallible, but audacious claim of the Vicars of God, Popes, may be stated in the terms of the famous Bull of the Two Swords,  which claims absolute authority both Secular and Spiritual, which will eventually be challenged by monarchs, resulting in King Henry VIII starting his own Church, Under the control of the Church are Two Swords, that is, two powers... Both swords are in the power of the Church, the spiritual and the temporal; the spiritual is wielded in the Church by the hand of the clergy; the secular is to be employed for the Church by the hand of the civil authority, but under the direction of the spiritual power. The one sword must be subordinate to the other; the earthly power must submit to the Spiritual authority, as this has precedence of the secular on account of its greatness and sublimity; for the Spiritual power has the right to establish and guide the secular power, and also to judge it when it does not act rightly.... This authority, although granted to man, and exercised by man, is not a human authority, but rather a Divine one granted to Peter by Divine commission and confirmed in him and his successors. Consequently, whoever opposes this power ordained of God opposes the law of God. ~Pope Boniface VIII, Bull Unam Sanctam, Nov. 18, 1302, Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XIV p. 126. ~NOTE: From his deathbed, Saint Anselm anathematized all who failed to recognize Canterbury's primacy over all the English Church for which King henry removed the taxation of the Church.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an Infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches. ~Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, Summa Theologica.

Genesis 1:27.

Genesis 2:22.

Isaiah 34:14. ~cf. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b274852&view=1up&seq=5

Unicorns: Unicorns are mentioned nine times in the medieval King James Bible

Job 38–41.

Job 39:9–12.

Psalm 22:21.

Psalm 29:6.

Psalm 92:10.

Isaiah 34:7.

Isaiah 43:7.

Numbers 23:22.

Numbers 24:8.

Deuteronomy 33:17.

Julius Caesar described Unicorns in his Gallic Wars as, ... A little below the elephant in size, and of the appearance, color, and shape of a bull. Their strength and speed are extraordinary; they spare neither man nor wild beast, which they have espied.... Not even when taken very young can they be rendered familiar to men and tamed. The size, shape, and appearance of their horns differ much from the horns of our oxen. These they anxiously seek after, and bind at the tips with silver, and use as cups at their most sumptuous entertainments. ~Julius Caesar, Gallic Wars, Book 6, chapter 28, www.classics.mit.edu/Caesar/gallic.6.6.html.

Demons: In Persian Zoroastrianism, the Daevas are Demons, this is not yet evident in the Gathas: Zoroaster stated that the Daevas are Wrong Gods or False Gods, that are to be rejected, but they are not yet Demons. ~Hellenschmidt, Clarice; Kellens, Jean, 1993, Daiva, Encyclopaedia Iranica, 6, Costa Mesa: Mazda, pp. 599–602.

Scholars believe that key concepts of Zoroastrian eschatology and Demonology influenced the Abrahamic religions. ~Zoroastrianism, JewishEncyclopedia.com. jewishencyclopedia.com. 2012. Black & Rowley 1987, p. 607b. Duchesne-Guillemin 1988, p. 815.

How many Demons are there? As long as there are credulous believers there will always be religious con artists. In 1467, Alfonso de Spina asserted that the number of Demons was 133,316,666, which he base on the sentiment that one third of the Angels turned into Demons seems to be due to an exegesis [Interpretation] based on the Book of Revelation 12:3–9.

Johann Weyer, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, 1583, after undergoing a complicated system of hierarchies and mis-calculations, estimated a lesser number of Demons, 4,439,622, which are divided into 666 legions, each legion composed by 6,666 Demons, all of them are ruled by 66 Hellish dukes, princes, kings, etc.

Albertus Magnus says of Demonology, A daemonibus docetur, de daemonibus docet, et ad daemones ducit, ... Is taught by the Demons, it teaches about the Demons, and it leads to the Demons.  ~Catholic Encyclopedia, Article: Demonology.

Without Demons, in various religious beliefs, there would be no need for Gods. In Christianity:

✗  Demons possess the great power of the Angels. ~cf. Romans 8:38; I Corinthians 15:24, which is greater than that of humans but far less than their Creator.

✗  Demons have the power to carry out the following activities:

✗  Demons In dwell [Survive] humans and animals. ~Mark 5:1–16.

✗  Demons physically afflict people. ~Mark 9:17-22.

✗  Demons terrorize humans. ~I Samuel 16:14–15; 18:10; 19:9; Acts 19:13–16; II Corinthians 12:7.

✗  Demons initiate false worship. ~I Corinthians 10:20–21.

✗  Demons promote false doctrines. ~I Timothy 4:1.

✗  Demons perform false signs and wonders. ~II Thessalonians 2:9, Revelation 16:13–14.

✗  Demons deceive prophets. ~I Kings 22:19–23.

✗  Demons encourage idolatry. ~Deuteronomy 32:17, Psalms 106:37.

✗  Demons engineer and orchestrate death. ~Judges 9:23, 56–57. cf. John Mac Arthur, pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, Richard Mayhue, ThD, Grace Theological Seminary, Why We Should Not Fear Satan and Demons, January 31, 2017, https://www.crossway.org/articles/why-we-should-not-fear-satan-and-demons/

Of course, if one is possessed by Evil Spirits, Demons, one must be Exorcised, which gained great acceptance early on in Christianity. Bishop Augustine, makes use of this 4th century Apostolic practice of Exorcising to prove the existence of Original Sin [Inheritable Sin, Vicarious Sin]. ~cf. Psalm 91:10.

The Hebrew, and Christian Messiah, Lord of Lords is supposed to be God Incarnate, i.e.,  incapable of  sinning, yet in Matthew 4:5 and Luke 4:5-9, Jesus is tempted by Satan in the desert, which is sinning in his heart as Jesus supposedly took upon all the sins of the world during his crucifixion; so how can it be said that, Jesus was the perfect man without sin? Jesus is not the Messiah.

Prophecies to Identify a Messiah, which Jesus Does Not Fulfill. ~cf. Matthew 1:23 says that Jesus, the alleged Messiah, would be called Immanuel, which means God with us.

Yet no one, not even Jesus' parents, called Jesus Immanuel at any point in the Bible. According to Scripture, Mary was a descendant of David and the mother of Jesus. ~cf. Luke 3:23-38.

The Messiah must be a physical descendant of David [Not a Spiritual]. ~Romans 1:3, Acts 2:30.

How can Jesus meet this requirement since his genealogies in Matthew 1 and Luke 3 show he descended from David through Joseph, who was not his natural father because of the Virgin Birth, Born of the Holy Spirit. Hence, the is prophecy could not have been fulfilled.  cf. Jesus' Genealogical Contradictions of Luke 3:23-38, Matthew 1:1-18, I John 5:7, Mark 3:28:29.

Amazing! Christians don't even know the birth of their make believe Savior, Jesus. Pope Julius I, who reigned from 337-352 C.E., in the 4th century, commanded a committee of his Catholic Bishops to establish the date of the nativity of Jesus, and December 25, the day of Sol Invictus, the Invincible Sun, was decided upon.

Not coincidentally, that this is also the day when the Pagan world celebrated the birth of their Sun Gods, which facilitated in the fusing of Paganism and Christianity: Egyptian God, Osiris, Greek God, Apollo and Bacchus, Chaldean God, Adonis, Persian Sun God, Mithra;  when the Zodiacal sign of Virgo, the Sun is Born of a virgin purportedly rose on the horizon. ~cf. Jeremiah 10:2-4.

Mithras is often represented as carrying a lamb on his shoulders, just as Jesus is. Midnight services were found in both religions. The virgin mother... Was easily merged with the Virgin Mother Mary. Petra, the sacred rock of Mithraism, became Peter, the foundation of the Christian Church. ~Gerald Berry, Religions of the World.

Regardless of the numerous Christian attempts to make Mithraism the plagiarist of Christianity, the historical  fact will always remain that Mithraism was here first, hence Christianity copied Mithraism.

"A literary debate [...] broke out in December 1643, and was to continue intermittently [...], until 1656. Despite a few desperate efforts upon both sides to find some Scriptural indication of the True date of Christ's birth, a common ground was established almost at once; that as there was indeed no objective evidence of when Christ was born, the feast of the Nativity was wholly a creation of later authorities and supported by tradition and not the Bible." ~Ronald Hutton, The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain, 1996.

There is no evidence that 1st century disciples of Jesus observed any birthday celebrations or holidays.  cf. Amos 5:21-24, NIV.

Even if Jesus' followers had known the exact date of his birth, they would not have celebrated it. The only birthday observances mentioned in the Bible are those of two rulers who refused to worship Jehovah. ~cf. Genesis 40:20; Mark 6:21.

"It is admitted by the most learned and candid writers of all parties that the day of our Lord's birth cannot be determined, and that within the Christian Church no such festival as Christmas was ever heard of till the 3rd century, and that not till the 4th century was far advanced did it gain much observance. How, then, did the Romish Church fix on December the 25th as Christmas Day? Why, thus: Long before the 4th century, and long before the Christian era itself, a festival was celebrated among the heathen, at that precise time of the year, in honor of the birth of the son of the Babylonian Queen of Heaven, and it may fairly be presumed that, in order to conciliate the heathen, and to swell the number of the nominal