Moses or Jesus or Mohammed: Was Anyone Right?

Dear fellow human being and earth traveler—welcome to Bible study 666, an evaluation and critique of the world’s three great religions" in which you will learn more about what the three books really say than the combined knowledge of all the world’s preachers and what they say that it says.

There is a scripture that says, And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (Jn 8:32). The scripture stops short of saying exactly what truth it is that you will know or what you will be free from once you know this truth, and the same claim is made for the following pages of this book, but you will still have to pay taxes and other bills and suffer from physical and emotional ailments such as those that are common to all mankind—even the religious ones.

This presentation is not for the faint of heart but it is very important and factual, and so, whether you are a Christian, Israelite (Jew), Moslem, atheist, agnostic, or just a bicurious bystander, please don’t seek to kill the messenger if you don’t like the message.

A wise old man (Will Rogers) once said, I’m not worried about what my congressman doesn’t know. What worries me is what he knows for sure that just ain’t so.

So what about you? What do you know for sure about your own Bible that just ain’t so?

The three Bibles make many claims and others also make many claims for them. Some say that their book is a divine oracle from God (Allah), being his handbook for mankind. They say that the fantastic miracles reported within their pages actually happened and that since God/Allah was a divine being, he was able to offset the laws of nature in order to perform them and that because of his divinity, his miracles cannot be subjected to scientific scrutiny.

Well, forget all that. This book does not deal in the fruitless arguments of science vs. religion or physical vs. supernatural. Instead it deals with each book against itself and also against the other two books because each of them claim to be a message from the one/only true God.

It does not allow any faith-based wiggle room for philosophical arguments for it pits scripture against scripture, spelling out hundreds of contradictions in math, science, astronomy, astrology, history, geography, chronology, medicine, horticulture, miracles, parables, etc.

There are deliberate lies (as you will see) and hypocrisies. Many Old Testament scriptures are claimed to be prophecies about Jesus (none are and many are not even prophecies). These alleged prophecies are always misquoted and misapplied and in some cases do not even exist in the Old Testament in the spite of claims by the New Testament writers. Here is one example: He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water (Jn 7:38). Jesus was mistaken. There is no such scripture anywhere in the Old Testament, even though he said that the scriptures (Jn 10:35) cannot be broken.

The prophet Mohammed claimed that Jesus was not God’s son but had only been appointed by him as a great prophet. Thus, if it can be shown that Jesus was not the son of God/Allah or even a prophet, it will go a long way toward proving that Mohammed was not speaking for Allah either.

It would be redundant here to list a lot of other examples, which will be found in the pages of this critique, nor is this the place to list the mistakes and failed prophecies of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Paul, James, Philip, Jude, yes, and even Jesus, but you will soon know them a lot better and will understand how to conduct your own Bible studies rather than just being spoon-fed what your preacher tells you in order to keep you feeding the collection box.

Jesus said, On this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it (Mt 16:18). This is one of his prophecies that failed to come true. Or is there some church on earth today that can lay claim to being Jesus’s true church? There are so many different denominations worldwide in existence today (with more on the way), each with its own argumentative, contradictive doctrines that it stands to reason that they all have to be wrong. Not one of them could be the church that Jesus said would withstand the gates of hell, for there isn’t any hell, and Jesus should have known it, and none of them preach anything that resembles what Jesus preached. Furthermore, since Jesus preached many things that were not true, how could there ever have been a true church raised up by him? There were no churches in his lifetime.

Whether or not you believe in God, there is an Old Testament scripture from God/Allah (whom Jesus called his father) that says, Come now and let us reason together (Is 1:18). If God/Allah is willing to reason with you, then don’t let your preacher (or Mohammed) use the old ploy that to question anything in your book shows a lack of faith, in order to avoid any hard questions that they can’t answer. Your preacher doesn’t want anyone to make waves. He just wants your money so he won’t have to get a real job.

Throughout recorded history, the churches (especially the Catholics) have burned or banned books such as the one you now hold in your hands (even more than Adolf Hitler ever burned), hoping to suppress learning and advancements against superstitions and pagan beliefs, but in the end truth and knowledge will prevail. One last example concerning knowledge as opposed to superstition: Lord have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely (Mt 17:15). And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour (Mt 17:18). It is now known (through advancements in medicine) that Jesus was wrong: An epileptic has a medical problem, not a demon-possession problem. Jesus did not heal the epileptic. It only appeared that way because the fit had run its course until the next time. In the above case, Jesus acknowledged his belief in demons, but if he was truly the son of God, why didn’t he know that epilepsy is not caused by demons?

You will need to obtain a Bible (both Old and New Testaments) and, if you speak English, an English translation of the Quran (Koran). You should look up every scripture provided in these pages to confirm (or deny if you can) the accusations spelled out herein. All quotes from the Old and New Testaments are from the New King James Bible but are substantially the same in all other versions. And so, if you’ve got the guts, then read on.

Long ago and far away or, if you will, over in Saudi Arabia about AD 613, a man named Mohammed began to have dreams and experience visions that he attributed to a supernatural being whom he identified as Allah, the Arabic name for the one called God by those in western lands. He said that his Allah was the same God worshipped by the Jews (Israelites) and the Christians.

Mohammed said that his Allah had told him that the Christians and the Jews (Israelites) had corrupted their religion and writing that he had given them and that he was commissioning Mohammed to write the Quran to set all these people straight. He then claimed that the Quran was a divine oracle from Allah in all its particulars, saying that Allah himself had said that he protects the Quran from any defects.

Mohammed called the Quran the book but said also that God/Allah had also given the book to the Israelites, which he interchangeably calls Jews. The Jews were only one tribe of the tribes of Israel, and God/Allah did not give them the book. He gave the book to his priests, the Levites, who were also another separate tribe of Israel. Mohammed then went on to say that Allah had also given the book to the Christians.

And so, as you read the Quran, it may not always be clear (from Western eyes), when Mohammed speaks of the book, just which book he is referring to. Of course, it shouldn’t make any difference and it should not be necessary to make any distinctions if all three books are on the same page as it were, and if they all came from the same God/Allah. You will see on the following pages that no God could have supplied all three books to the three different religions that Mohammed alludes to in the Quran. Even if one allows Mohammed to say that it is the polluted, controversial stuff that causes the differences, there are disagreements that just cannot be reconciled. As an example: For I am the Lord, I do not change (Mal 3:6). Whatever message we abrogate or cause to be forgotten, we bring one better than it or one like it (Quran 1:106).

And so you have one Allah who says he doesn’t change and another Allah who makes changes. And so at least one of these Allah’s is wrong or forgetful.

Thus, in the sixth century, were born the Quran and the Moslem religion, the third of what some people call the world’s three great religions.

By bringing the Quran (or book) to life, Mohammed was writing solo, as was Moses who went up into the mountains alone and then returned to his people with Allah’s message, which he then filled out over the years, as was Jesus who went out into the desert alone for forty days before bringing Allah’s message to his people.

The apostle Paul was alone when he had a heat stroke out in the desert and imagined a visit from Jesus. Joseph Smith was alone when an angel appeared and helped him start his own church (the Mormons). Ellen G. White was alone when taking dictation from an angel while others of her church predicted the return of Jesus Christ (twice). Both predictions failed.

And so, the world’s three great religions were started on the say-so of just three men who quite frankly were not so adept at keeping their stories straight, even within their own religions.

In the following pages, we will critique the three great religions by quoting from their very own scriptures. As we do, keep asking yourself: can the God/Allah of the Old Testament be the same as the God/Allah of the New Testament, and can he be the same Allah as Mohammed claimed for his Allah?

Mohammed, Moses, and Jesus all claimed to worship the one and only God. If he does not fit the parameters of all three of them, then Houston, we have a problem.

We will begin our critique with Jesus before critiquing Mohammed because the latter claimed that his Allah told him to acknowledge that Jesus was a great prophet (profit?) to the Christians, and so if we can show that Jesus was not a prophet, it will also show that Allah was not speaking to Mohammed either. Here is Mohammed’s endorsement of Jesus:

(3:253): And we gave clear arguments to Jesus, son of Mary, and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit.

(3:45): When the angels said: O Mary surely Allah gives thee good news with a word from him (of one) whose name is Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, worthy of regard in this world and the hereafter, and of those who are drawn nigh (to Allah). And he will speak to the people when in the cradle and when of old age, and he will be one of the good ones.

It seems that, for the sake of clarity, when the messenger told Mary that she would have a son, who was Jesus, son of Mary, if he was speaking directly to her he should have said Your Son instead of saying Son of Mary.

(3:48): And he will teach him ‘The Book’ and the wisdom and Torah and the gospel.

(3:49): And make him a messenger to the children of Israel (saying): I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I determine for you out of the dust—the form of a bird, then I breathe on it and it becomes a bird with Allah’s permission.

It seems that Mohammed must have had copies of the Old and New Testaments and at least one of the several rejected gospels, which had been rejected as being so far out that they were even more unbelievable than the infamous book of Revelation. In that book where Jesus made birds of clay (not birds of prey) that jumped up and flew away, he also petulantly said to one of his playmates: May breath never enter you again, at which time the little fellow immediately died. To believe Mohammed’s Allah, you must believe that he teamed up with Jesus to make birds out of dirt that came alive.

And so, one final thing before beginning our critique of Jesus is to show that if he was not a prophet, exactly what punishment a false prophet could expect, from the very mouth of the Old Testament God/Allah (whom he claimed was his father).

Punishment for false prophets: (Today’s prophets beware)

(Dt 18:20): But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other Gods, that prophet shall die. And if you say in your heart, how shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?—When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; You shall not be afraid of him.

JESUS CHRIST IN HIS OWN WORDS

Who and what was Jesus? Did he ever make prophecies that did not and cannot ever come true? Yes, he did as we shall soon show. Did he ever sin? Yes, he did as we will soon show. Did he ever make mistakes? Yes, he did as we will now show.

(Mt 23:34): Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from City to City, that on you may come all the righteous blood of righteous Abel to the blood of [Zechariah, son of Berechia], whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Zechariah was not the son of Berechia as Jesus claimed. He was the son of Jehoida the priest, as the scripture says:

(2 Chr 24:20) Then the spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoida the priest, who stood above the people.

(2 Chr 24:21) So they conspired against him, and at the command of the King they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the Lord.

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(Mk 2:25) Have you never read what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those with him: how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the showbread, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and also gave some to those who were with him?

The answer to Jesus’s questions is no! We have never read that because it is not true. In the first place, when David went into the temple and obtained the showbread, the high priest was Ahimelech, not Abiathar, as Jesus claimed, and in the second place, David did not give any of the showbread to those who were with him because David was alone at that time. He had fled alone but allowed the high priest to believe there were others with him. While David may have fooled the high priest, it is surprising that Jesus was also taken in. the whole story can be found in (1 Sm 21:1–6) and (1 Sm 22:1–2), as we now show:

(1 Sm 21:1) Now David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech was afraid when he met David and said to him, why are you alone, and no one is with you? So David said to Ahimelech the priest, the King has ordered me on some business, and said to me, do not let anyone know anything about the business on which I send you, or what I have commanded you. And I have directed my young men to such and such a place."

If the God of the Old Testament was indeed the father of Jesus as he had claimed then why did he allow Jesus to make such a boo-boo?

(Jn 7:38) He who believes in me, as the scripture has said: Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.

Jesus erred again. There is no such scripture or anything remotely akin to it in Old Testament scriptures no matter how sincerely he believed it. There is, however, such a scripture from the teachings of the god Mithras, a god who was worshipped hundreds of years before Jesus was born.

And so Jesus (Mistakenly?) quoted from Mithraic teachings, from a god who preceded him by several centuries, a god who was born on December 25, was crucified for the sins of the world, and had a last supper with his twelve disciples before returning to heaven from whence he will someday return to save a world in turmoil and set up a benevolent government on planet Earth.

Mithras was, in some aspects, a pastoral god and shepherds announced his birth just as they did for Jesus, and allegedly in the same cave or manger or grotto where Jesus was born. Wise men (or star gazers) followed his (Mithras’s) star to where he was born. Thus, the Old Testament God, who hated star gazers and pagan astrologers, used them to announce the birth of the Jewish (Israelite) Messiah to his own people.

(Mt 19:17) Jesus said: Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is God. Jesus made a mistake. He was good as he later on admitted, saying: I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep (Jn 10:11). He also said: "And he who sent me is with me. The father has not left me alone, for I always do those things that please him. (Jn 8:29).

(Lk 13:18) Then he said what is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and put in his garden; and it grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.

(Mk 4:3) "It is like a mustard seed, which when it is sown on the ground is smaller than all the seeds on earth; but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade.

Jesus made a mistake. There is no mustard seed of any variety that grows large enough for birds to nest in its branches. Furthermore, there are dozens of seed types that are smaller than a mustard seed. The type that grew in Jesus’s neck of the woods grew to about nine inches tall (according to Unger’s Bible Dictionary. Since Jesus created the earth (Jn 1:1), it is surprising that he didn’t remember that wonderful day when he made the mustard seeds and all those other little-bitty seeds.

(Mt 26:26) "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said: ‘Take, eat; this is my body.’

By giving the bread to his disciples and saying Take, eat; this is my body, Jesus made a mistake and also committed a (unintentional?) sin. The bread that he gave to his disciples was leavened to the core. And yet he and his disciples were eating the Passover meal wherein that day was the beginning of seven days of unleavened bread in which no leaven was allowed in Jewish (Israelite) homes for the whole week.

Just where Jesus got that bread, no one knows, but as grown men, his disciples knew better and were just as guilty for eating it, for the scripture says,

(Ex 12:19) For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or native of the land.

Remember—Jesus said that he always did those things that pleased his father (Jn 8:29). Jesus also said:

(Mt 5:17) Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.

Did Jesus and his disciples eat leavened bread during the Passover meal?

(Mt 26:17) Now on the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?

(Lk 22:15) With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

And yet, even though the Passover meal was supposed to be with unleavened bread, the scripture (Mt 26:26) where we find Jesus passing around the bread, the word bread is translated into English from the Greek word artos, meaning bread (as raised) or a loaf. See Strong’s Concordance #140. Whereas the Greek word azumos means unleavened or uncorrupted. See Strong’s Concordance #106. Azumos is the bread that Jesus and the gang should have been eating.

How do we know that they sinned? Did Jesus commit any more sins than the illegal bread thing? What is sin? Is there some place in the Bible that defines just what sin really is, somewhere that says Sin is followed by an exact definition? Yes, there is, for the scripture says,

(1 Jn 3:4) "Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, for sin is the transgression of the law.

Now that you know what sin is (according to the Bible), are you up for a biblical fairy tale? Here goes:

It was at least an hour after dark when the little band of twelve men (Judas had already left them) finished their last glass of wine and morsel of illegal bread and arose from supper, stepped out of the upper room, and walked down the stairs and out the door to begin navigating the dark, almost deserted streets of Jerusalem that would take them out of the city to a place called Gethsemane (meaning olive press). But John called it a garden instead of a place of business that made olive oil, and so by combining a garden with a place of business, they now call it the Garden of Gethsemane—a place that never existed no matter how colorful the name may sound. For the vast majority of the city’s residents and visitors, including Jesus and each member of his little gang, it was a sin to be out at this late hour of the night, and they each knew it, for one of the laws of their religion which Jesus said he had come to earth to fulfill down to the last jot and tittle was his (Father’s?) law concerning Passover night, which says, And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning (Ex 12:22). This was one of those thus saith the Lord forever, meaning that the directive had not expired, for the scripture says, And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever (Ex 12:24). As each of them walked past the corner lamppost their faces were singly illuminated, and lo and behold, there stood Jesus (the savior of the whole world) caught up in a sin so glaring and so egregious that his daddy had said, But that man who is clean and ceases to keep the Passover, that same person shall be cut off from his people (Nu 9:13), and saying also, According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it (Nu 9:12).

On this night of nights, Jesus and the boys caused many other pious Jews (Israelites) to break the command to stay indoors until morning (but the scriptures are silent as to whether any of them were ever cut off from his people). And so Jesus caused Annas (the high priest) and his staff and those who stoked the fires in his courtyard, and his gatekeeper, and the detachment of troops who arrested him (Jn 8:12), and Caiaphas, the other high priest (hint—the Israelites never ever had two high priests at the same time, or who alternated between the years) and Caiaphas’s staff and gatekeeper (Mt 26:57) to sin. Not only that, but it was early morning when the vast crowds met to scream for Jesus to be crucified (those who had earlier shouted) Hosanna to the son of David (Mt 21:9), and then trashed the streets of Jerusalem with branches from palm trees (Jn 12:13), even though palm trees do not have branches, and so if any of the bloodthirsty crowd who assembled early in the morning left their homes before sunrise, they also sinned. As for the simultaneous high priests, the scripture says,

(Lk 3:1) Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being Governor of Judea, Herod being Tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip Tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachinitis, and Lysanias Tetrarch of Abilene.

(Lk 3:2) While Annas and Caiaphas were High Priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

This is impossible! Annas and Caiaphas were never high priests at the same time and never alternated the office between themselves. The high priest, Annas, held the office from AD 6 to AD 15. Annas had been deposed for three years before the high priest, Caiaphas assumed the reins in AD 18 and served until AD 36.

The above fairy tale has been shortened for the sake of brevity, but there are still several questions about the night that Jesus (if he ever existed) ate the Passover meal, violated the laws of a High Sabbath, causing other people to do the same, was arrested, tried, found guilty, and executed on a day that God/Allah had forbidden the Israelites to do anything at all except to prepare food, saying,

(Ex 12:16) On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you no manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat—that only may be prepared by you.

(Ex 12:15) Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

Did you get that? When Jesus handed the sop, which was full of leaven to Judas, he sinned against Judas before Judas sinned against him. It’s no wonder that Judas doubted that Jesus was the son of God, for God tempts no man, as the scripture says,

(Jn 1:13) For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he himself tempt anyone.

But did Jesus make it through the rest of that long ago high holy day without committing any more sins? No, he didn’t, and here is a real lulu:

(Mt 26:26) And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said: Take, eat; this is my body.

(Mt 26:27) Then he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying: For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

(Jn 6:53) Most assuredly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Just where in blue hades or the Old Testament can you find such a cannibalistic pagan ritual of the Israelites eating the body of their god and drinking his blood? Did the OT God make any condemnations against such a thing? Yes, he did, for he said,

(Lv 17:10) And whatever man of the house of Israel, or the strangers who will dwell among you, who eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

(Lv 3:17) This shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: You shall eat neither fat or blood.

There are several other places in the Old Testament that condemns drinking any blood, but as for eating any god’s body, lots of gods had bodies, but not the OT God, who said,

(Dt 12:29) When the Lord your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land, take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not enquire after their Gods, saying, how did these nations serve their Gods? I also will do likewise.

(Dt 12:32) Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.

By introducing the cannibalistic ritual into what had heretofore been a simple annual observation of the night when the death angel had passed over the male children of Israel, Jesus committed even more sins than have already been mentioned and this after he had claimed that he had come to fulfill the last letter of his papa’s law.

Back in the old days when they used to have human sacrifices (especially of little children), the priest who did the awful deed was required to eat a portion of the little victim. Thus, the priest (or channa of Baal) is where we get the word cannibal.

The Old Testament God strictly forbade cannibalism and human sacrifice, saying,

(Dt 12:31) You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way; for every abomination to the Lord which he hates they have done to their Gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their Gods.

And so, Jesus said if you don’t drink his blood (the blood of his sacrifice), you have no life in you, but his father said that any person who drinks blood will be cut off from his people. How’s that for a heavenly standoff?

By saying that drinking his blood (at Passover) was required for the remission of sins, Jesus changed his father’s Passover laws forever, for up until that time only the Hebrew males were required to observe it. It was voluntary for the females, as the scripture says,

(Ex 23:17) Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.

(Ex 23:18) You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice [oops, sorry Jesus] with leavened bread. [Sorry again.]

From that day forward all women who wanted remission for their sins had to attend what used to be boys’ night and become a female cannibal by drinking Jesus’s blood and eating his body.

But what about Jesus’s cousin and all others who were under a Nazarite vow? Some of them, like Samson and John the Baptist (if you believe all that stuff) were in it for their whole life?

By substituting wine for his blood and saying that you had to drink the stuff for remission of sins, Jesus made it impossible for a Nazarite who had taken a vow not to drink wine from having his sins forgiven, as the scripture says:

(Nu 6:2) "When either a man or woman consecrates an offering to take the vow of a Nazarite, to separate himself to