Jesus, Jihad and Jizyah!

 

By: Shahid Bin Waheed شاهد بن وحيد

 

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

الحمدلله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على اشرف الانبياء وسيدالمرسلين نبينا محمد صل ا لله عليه وعلى آله واصحابه وازواجه اجمعين - امابعد

All the praises and thanks be to Allaah, Sustainer of the Universe, and blessing and salutation to be the most distinguish of the Messengers and foremost among the Prophets, our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allaah be on him and on his wives, children and Companions.

 

Everything about Biblical Jesus is a myth, while the realities about Jesus have been successfully hidden by the masses especially the believers of Jesus (myth). The very first highly questionable thing about Jesus is, his alleged miracle birth without a father. There is no historical record available to learn about the life of Jesus except some cock and bull stories doctored by the Christian missionaries to deceive masses. It leaves us to examine the only source available to us, which is the Christian Bible i.e. New Testament.

 

Were the Gospels Inspired?

Upon close examination of New Testament, we learned that the God did not inspire the gospels. Christian Bible {New Testament} never claims itself to be the word of inspiration. 2 Timothy 3:16 is the only verse in the entire NT on which Christians’ so-called claim of inspiration is based upon,

 

KJV- 2 Timothy 3

 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

 

2 Timothy 3:16 is the reference to Old Testament, because New Testament was not yet fabricated in the way it is known today. A 2nd century writer named Justin Martyr has further elaborated this idea, his further clarification is that this inspiration is attributed not to the actual Hebrew text, but only to the accuracy of its translation into Greek. {See Helmut Koester, “What Is- And Is Not-Inspired”, Bible Review, vol. xi, no. 5, October 1995, p. 18}

 

Christian scholars and Christian missionaries often pepper their writings with the term of ‘inspiration’; for example P.W. Comfort states that, “certain individuals…were inspired by God to write Gospels accounts to substantiate the oral tradition.” {See P.W. Comfort, Early Manuscripts & Modern Translations of the New Testament, Baker Books, 1990, p. 3} And again, the scribes copying the New Testament at a later stage “may have considered themselves to have been inspired by the Spirit in making certain adjustment to the exemplar”. {See P.W. Comfort, Early Manuscripts & Modern Translations of the New Testament, Baker Books, 1990, p. 5} But the anonymous authors of the four gospels might very well have disagreed with P. W. Comfort. The earliest gospel, Mark, was scavenged as source by the later ghost authors of Matthew and Luke, who altered, omitted, and abbreviated many of Mark’s stories. Such treatment would never have taken place had they thought that God inspired Mark, or that his words were the unqualified truth. {See Helmut Koester, “What Is- And Is Not-Inspired”, Bible Review, vol. xi, no. 5, October 1995, pp. 18, 48}

 

Having observed that these claims of inspiration in the New Testament have no legitimacy, let us now examine, how Christians until now have handled these fabricated gospels and consider whether this treatment is congruent with what a sacred text deserves?

 

According to P.W. Comfort, the gospels were first known in Christian circles orally before finding their way to the written page. {See P.W. Comfort, Early Manuscripts & Modern Translations of the New Testament, Baker Books, 1990, p. 3} Not a single book from the New Testament has survived in the original author’s handwriting, the closest thing being a fragment dated c. 100-115 and containing six verses of John 18. {See P.W. Comfort, Early Manuscripts & Modern Translations of the New Testament, Baker Books, 1990, p. 3-4}

 

A note about date: The date c. 100-115 is a pure guesswork, because the manuscript does not contain any Christian date, as the calendar system had yet to be invented. Thus, these dates based on guesswork may well be off with a marginal difference of decades to centuries.

 

Non-professionals who rarely checked for errors afterwards made copies of various books from the NT extensively throughout the first several centuries, generally. There was a little incentive to check them anyway: almost all Christians during the first century expected the impending return of Christ, and likely never realized that they were preserving a text for the distant future. {See P.W. Comfort, Early Manuscripts & Modern Translations of the New Testament, Baker Books, 1990, p. 6} After some time, the text in circulation no longer bore strict resemblance to the work, which had been original authored, so that any scribe duplicating a parchment with great fidelity was not necessarily creating an accurate reproduction of the original. {See P.W. Comfort, Early Manuscripts & Modern Translations of the New Testament, Baker Books, 1990, p. 7} Additionally, “the early Christians did not necessarily treat the NT text as a ‘sacred’ text”{See P.W. Comfort, Early Manuscripts & Modern Translations of the New Testament, Baker Books, 1990, p. 6} one whose every letter was fixed and holy. They may have felt themselves inspired, on occasion, to make alterations to the parchment that lay before them. {See P.W. Comfort, Early Manuscripts & Modern Translations of the New Testament, Baker Books, 1990, p. 6}

 

The above facts undeniably prove that the anonymous authors of gospels were not inspired. Christian Trojan horse 2 Timothy 3:16 is a reference to Old Testament, thus, cannot be accepted as an evidence of New Testament being the inspired word of God.

 

Birth Narrative of Jesus

Biblical account about the conception of Jesus leading to his birth is absolutely sexually explicit and graphic from total human point of view. Thus, after reading that no sane person will even give it a thought to be inspired by the God, let alone believing in that. Let us examine Biblical verses on this subject that we find in the gospel according to Luke:

Luke {KJV}

1:28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.


Luke 1:28: New American Standard Bible (NASB)

And coming in, he said to her,


New King James Version (NKJV)
28And having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!"[1]
Footnotes

1:28 NU-Text omits blessed are you among women.

 

American Standard Version (ASV)

28 And he came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee.

 

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

28 And the messenger having come in unto her, said, `Hail, favoured one, the Lord [is] with thee; blessed [art] thou among women;'

 

Darby Translation (DARBY)

And the angel came in to her, and said, Hail, [thou] favoured one! the Lord [is] with thee: [blessed art *thou* amongst women].

 

Wycliffe New Testament (WYC)

28 And the angel entered to her, and said, Hail, full of grace; the Lord is with thee; blessed be thou among women.

 

To further cement our claim that the above statements about Mary’s sexual encounter with an alleged “angel” was not an inspiration by God.  It was rather documented from human point of view suggesting explicitly that Mary had sex, as in all quotations cited above from the different Bibles (versions) it is explicitly and exclusively stated with an absolute human touch that “the so-called angel and/or messenger(i) entered her, means penetrated in Mary’s vagina (ii) had orgasm inside her (iii) and/or had ejaculation. For further proof let us examine other verses in the Bible used for identical implication, as we read in,

 

Deuteronomy 22 {KJV}

22:13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

 

Deuteronomy 25 {KJV}

25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

 

Genesis 38 {KJV}

38:8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

 

Similar verses are found in the Bible at many places. In the above verses we notice that verb *go is used in injunctions and/or clarification etc. When a phrase/sentence begins with verbs like go & come followed by in, in unto, entered in, entered unto, entered unto her, came into her etcetera that is explicitly means a sex act with penetration and ejaculation/orgasm.

 

The above accounts from the very Bible conclusively prove that the alleged miracle birth of Jesus is merely a myth. Nevertheless, we have not solved the mystery; in fact, our dilemma has just begun because we find nothing about Jesus’ alleged childhood and/or youth, until he appears on the scene as an adult perhaps in his late twenties or early thirties. Christian scholars have different opinions based on pure guesswork and not facts. But at this point the plot thickens since we have many more Jesus’ during this time, therefore, the task to pin point the Jesus of Christianity becomes literally impossible as we explore further.

 

How Many Jesus’?

In the Gospel according to Matthew we read ►1: 21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.◄ Matthew fabricated this myth by borrowing the Isaiah 7:14, which reads 7: 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.This is how the “Immanuel” of Isaiah 7:14 became the “Jesus” of Matthew 1:21. Most of the NT is the fabrication from OT using the reverse engineering process. But what Matthew has conveniently interpreted as Jesus is originally “Joshua” (meaning: YHWH {Yahweh} is salvation). However, according to the Encyclopedia Americana {1959} we find that Josephus, a Jewish historian has referred to nineteen (19) different individuals by the name Jesus.

 

Jesus is not the one who brought the Injeel (انجيل) that was revealed to Isa عليه السلام. Let us read the Matthew 1:21 with previous and latter verses where the context and complete thought is found.

 

1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
1:22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

 

NOTICE: Matthew 1:22-23 is a direct explicit reference to Isaiah 7:14. Whereas Matthew 1:20 explicitly states that that Jesus was fathered by Holy Ghost. Contrary to that we find a contradicting story in Luke 1:28 we have cited earlier in this treatise.

 

Another dilemma Christians have is that there are more than one Christ (Anointed) in the Bible, as we read:

 

In 1 Kings 1 (1:39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon.) King Solomon is the Christ. In the same chapter some one else is also a Christ as we read: (1:45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.)

 

In 1 Kings 5 we read (5:1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.)

 

Also see: 1 Sam 10:1; 12:3, 5; 15:17; 16:6, 13; 2:10, 35; 24:6 & 10. Isa 45:1, Nu 3:3 and dozens of other places in the Bible.

 

Now my questions to Christians:

 

1.     1.    According to the Bible and history Jesus is a very common name, so how the alleged Immanuel became Jesus? Where is the evidence of name change from Immanuel to Jesus?

2.     2.    "Christ (Anointed)" is used for dozens of many others in the Bible, so why you claim that “Christ” is unique?

 

Not Seed of David!

How Jesus can be son of David, when Davidic dynasty ceased to exist centuries before Jesus?

According the biblical books of Ezra and Nehemiah, those who returned from Babylonia were led by two men named Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabelą. Both of these men were from the royal house of David. They were descendants of King Jehoiachin. Zerubbabel is also mentioned in the biblical books of the prophets Haggai˛ and Zechariahł, who prophesied in this period˛.  But Sheshbazzar and Zerubbabel cease to be mentioned after the fifth chapter of Ezra. There is no report of the disappearance of these men, no explanation of what happened to the royal family. Rather, as with the ark, the monarchy simply ceases to be mentioned. Neither the biblical nor the archeological sources indicate what happened to the family of messiah, the descendants of David.

 

ą. Ezra 1:8, 11; 2:2; 3:8; 4:2, 3; 5:2, 14, 16; Neh 7:7; 12:1, 47.

˛. Haggai 1:1, 12, 14; 2:2, 4, 21, 23; Zech 4:6, 7,9, 10.

 

Question to Jews:

 

According to Old Testament as quoted above, David’s descendants ceased to exist, then why are you waiting for an imaginary messiah from the house of David, who will NEVER come?

 

Question to Christians:

 

You love to claim that Jesus is the son of David. How Jesus can be son of David, when Davidic dynasty ceased to exist centuries before Jesus?

 

Another fact that need to be considered.

 How the Messiah Can be From Nazareth?

The following statement is found in the Gospel according to Matthew:

KJV/Matthew: 2:23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets; He shall be called a Nazarene.

 

The above statement is absolutely false, since we can’t find this statement in any of the books of the prophets. Jews also deny the validity of such prediction. According to the Jews it is simply a false claim. On the contrary they had a firm belief that no prophet would ever come from Galilee, not to say of Nazareth, as is expressly stated in the Gospel according to John:

 

KJV/John: 7:52 They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.

 

Therefore, the Christian Bible itself testifies against Jesus, proving his falsehood. John 7:52 is the nail in the head of Christianity (an outbreak of falsehood).

 

The evidence presented above from the Old Testament proves that the myth of coming of Davidic messiah is rather a local Jewish legend. Historically, Jews have always been causing mischief on earth resulting in the punishment of God according to the Bible, which is full of curses and abominations. Thus, Jews have always folklores and/or legends for a savior or some one who will bail them out at the time of trouble, contrary to what their own Scripture says, which Jews don’t bother to read and learn.

 

At this point we have conclusively established using Judeo-Christian sources that Jesus is a myth and there have been about nineteen Jesus during that time. We will assume at this point that Jesus of Christianity was a Jew and was raised like any other Jewish boy of that time, though we find no evidence in the Bible, supporting this notion, beside a fraudulent and/or forged genealogy of Jesus. Thus, this would mean that Jesus was well aware of Jewish Laws and Customs, beside that gospel according to Matthew {5:17-19} also confirms this,

 

17

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

18

I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

19

Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven."

 

But we know for fact, that Jesus never lived by the Jewish law and never uphold the law, he rather abused and/or break every law. New Testament is full of such accounts, but discussing that is outside the scope of this treatise, thus, we will leave that for some other time.

 

Romans were the occupiers and the rulers of the holy land during that the time all these nineteen Jesusexisted and Jesus’ upbringing as a Jewish boy that is further confirmed in Matthew 5:17-19 quoted above, Jesus refers, of course, to the commandments of Jewish law, namely the Laws of Moses. Several of these Laws of Moses advocate Holy War, the killing of unbelievers and apostates. So Jesus was well versed of what Jewish law commands Jews to live by, and even according to the gospel he explicitly said he had not come to cancel this law.

 

Therefore, the irony of Jesus being claimed by the Christians as so-called Jew, Jewish Messiah, seed of David, Son of God and/or God incarnate; is that:

 

  1. Jesus never uttered a single word against Jews living under Roman occupation.
  2. Jesus never uttered words against Roman occupiers and/or occupation.
  3. Jesus never talked about freedom of Jews.
  4. Jesus rejected Judah’s pleas for struggle against Roman occupation and liberating the Jews.

 

That would lead us to ask the most logical question to the Christians that why their so-called Son of God and/or God incarnate {100% God and 100% human} would abandon his allegedly “chosen people” (the Jews) and let them live under the bondage of Romans. Jesus not only remained mute rather participating, to be exact leading the Jews as an alleged so-called Jewish Messiah; in the holy war against Romans to liberate alleged God’s chosen people (the Jews). Jesus adding insult to injury advised contrary to that telling the Jews to pay Jizyah to the Roman, as we read in the New Testament,

 

Jesus commanded to pay Jizya جزية to Caesar, as we read in the New Testament,

 

Matthew 22:17 Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?

Matthew 22:21  They say unto him, Caesar‘s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar‘s; and unto God the things that are God’s.

Mark 12:16 And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar‘s.

Mark 12:17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar‘s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled at him.

Luke 20:22 Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?

Luke 20:24 Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar‘s.

Luke 20:25 And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar‘s, and unto God the things which be God’s.

 

It is inevitable to mention few facts that will certainly differentiate between a true Prophet of Islaam and a the false prophet Jesus, who always avoided Jerusalem, because Jerusalem has always been a focal point of all Israelites prophets, but Jesus avoided Jerusalem as any other city because it was a city of Pharisees (who have repeatedly debunked Jesus), disputers, scribes, unbelievers, and shallow believers. Socialism preached by Jesus does not address villagers, but inhabitants of large cities. Contrary to that Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم goes to the cave of Hira but each time retunes to the godless city of Makkah to carry out his mission.

 

Jesus never preached and Christianity has never reached the full conscientiousness of one true God. In fact, Christianity has only a vivid concept of the divine and not a clear idea of God. The mission of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was to make the gospels’ image of God clearer and closer to the human mind and thought that Jesus failed to accomplish. In the gospels’ God is so-called father; in the Glorious Qur’aan, God is master. In the gospels God is vaguely loved; in the Glorious Qur’aan, God is loved clearly and respected.

 

Jesus taught that the Christian God is the lord of the individual world (people and souls) only, while Lucifer holds the reins of the material world. That is why the Christian belief in God preconditions inward freedom, while Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم taught that the Islaamic belief in Allaah implies a demand for the outward freedom as well. The two essential dogmas of Islaam الله اكبر (Allaahu Akbar God is the Greatest) and the aqeedah لااله اللّله (la ilaha illallah There is no deity but Allaah) are at the same time two most revolutionary devices in Islaam. While Jesus preached and practiced turning the family against each other, not letting people say farewell to their families and preventing people from burying their dead father; Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم taught (notice the six commands in a single verse),

 

Surah An-Nahl 90

إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالْإِحْسَانِ وَإِيتَاءِ ذِي الْقُرْبَى وَيَنْهَى عَنِ الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنْكَرِ وَالْبَغْيِ يَعِظُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ

Verily, Allâh enjoins Al-‘Adl (i.e. justice and worshipping none but Allâh Alone - Islâmic Monotheism) and Al-Ihsân (i.e. to be patient in performing your duties to Allâh, totally for Allâh’s sake and in accordance with the Sunnah (legal ways) of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in a perfect manner), and giving (help) to kith and kin {1} (i.e. all that Allâh has ordered you to give them e.g., wealth, visiting, looking after them, or any other kind of help), and forbids Al-Fahshâ (i.e. all evil deeds, e.g. illegal sexual acts, disobedience of parents, polytheism, to tell lies, to give false witness, to kill a life without right), and Al-Munkar (i.e. all that is prohibited by Islâmic law: polytheism of every kind, disbelief and every kind of evil deeds), and Al-Baghy (i.e. all kinds of oppression). He admonishes you, that you may take heed.

{1} (V.16: 90) Degree of kinship: First of all, your parents, then your offspring, then your brothers and sisters, then your paternal uncles and aunts (from your father’s side), then your maternal uncles and aunts (from your mother’s side), and then other relatives.

           

In the gospels we find the frequent rhetoric based on certain words like blessed, holy, angel, eternal, life, heaven, Pharisee, sin, love, repentance, forgiveness, mystery, body (as the bearer of sin), soul, purification, salvation and so on. In the Glorious Qur’aan, the same terms are based on an image of the world, the foreground of which is now occupied by entirely definite and realistic terms such as:  reason, justice, health, weapons, battle position, strength, buying, contract, pledge, writing, cleanliness, force, struggle, trade, fruit, decisiveness, caution, punishment, profit, revenge, hunt, medicine, and so on.

 

We can draw similar conclusions by comparing Mosque and Church. A Mosque is a place for people, while a church is “God’s temple.” In the Mosque, an atmosphere of rationality prevails; in a church it is an atmosphere of mystery and mysticism. A Mosque is always the focus of activity, close to the market and at the heart of the settlement, while the church seems too elevated for a similar position. The architecture of the church tends to stress ceremonious silence, darkness, height, and a hint of the “other world.” Contrary to that in a Mosque, people are supposed to discus certain very earthly issues after the prayers.

 

The facts presented above proves without a shadow of a doubt that “Jesus” of the New Testament, if he ever existed was anything but:

 

  • A Jew, or
  • A Jewish Messiah, or
  • A Prophet, or
  • Result of a miracle birth, or
  • A decent human being let alone a so-called god incarnate, or

 

Contrary to that New Testament tells us that:

 

 Jesus was an apostate, if he was a Jew

Jesus was a coward and insensitive to human suffering

Jesus was a draft dodger, since Old Testament drafts all adult Jewish male to fight the holy war and kill the infidels.

Jesus was not freedom lover and never wanted Jews to be liberated from Roman bondage

Jesus was not a result of miracle birth.

Jesus was not a Jewish Messiah

Jesus taught to pay Jizyah rather being free

Jesus taught and condoned it is OK to live under occupation

Jesus avoided the Jihad like any draft dodger and/or coward

 

In conclusion, how can a sane person believe, Jesus to be Son of God and/or God incarnate? The facts from the Christian Bible explicitly tells us that Jesus (a myth) was not even close to be a righteous man, let alone anything that is claimed about Jesus in Christians’ cock-a-mamie story about their so-called god Jesus. Will you, in your right mind follow such a man as your class president and/or a team leader, let alone worshipping him as God?

 

Saturday, February 12, 2005

 

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