THE SOUL AND A LITTLE INK
By Reginald S. Lewis
Millionsof myths and falsities and lies have been mass-marketed, bartered, and sold--and the sleepers around the world are gullible consumers. But to the Muslim and Christian scholars and the independent thinkers, the dense mysteries thickly veiled are not too difficult to unravel. Take Sunday. The writer James Baldwin put it best when he said, " Sunday is the most segregated day in America." It is fixed according to an intercalated Roman Pagan, Julian and Gregorian Calendar Month. Various pagan religions played major roles in establishing time-keeping systems that began over 5,000 years ago. After countless modifications and changes by rulers and religious councils--even Roman Emperor Constantine got into the act by decreeing that the calendar should be cut, refined, and reordered. Saturday would no longer end the week--but an additional day--"SUN-DAY," became the 7th day of an otherwise six-day week. This innovation infuriated the roman pagans who set aside "Saturn's day" for rest and worship. The decree also nullified the day in which the Jews observed the long-held sacred covenant of the Sabbath--Saturday. But who dared to challenge the ruling of a ruthless Emperor?
In his time, it was widely believed that there were only seven Planets, including the sun and the moon. The Imperial majesty himself was believed to be the living, breathing embodiment of the pagan sun god Apollo. So call it self-serving or a super ego that he named a day--SUNDAY--after himself. It was a singular artificial insertion of a day that has greatly impacted the world. We are peering through a window of an invented 24 hours, a day Allah (God) did not include in the natural order of his creation. Yet some of the most important historical events and births and deaths and crimes of speakable magnitude were recorded on a day in the Gregorian calendar, which is nothing more than illimitable sequences of intangible dreams disconnected from our collective reality. No, No, No, we are not living in a new Millennium. We are not really the number of years we claim to be. The dates of our births are inaccurate--way, way off--if you study the accurate Jewish and Chinese and Islamic calendars. Only Allah knows the hour.
"Neither the Sun may reach the Moon
nor night will precede the day:
Each in Special orbit is swimming
around according to its law."
(Holy Quran: 36:40)
So too are the laws millions of Americans abide by--are not in its purist form--but a wild prevarication from the Supreme law almighty God sent down to Moses.(Peace be upon Him.)
The Judeo-Christian laws are merely a combination of the old and new testament--a concept just as flawed and confusing as the "Blind-Faith" belief in a three-in-one god.
Did Isa Ibn Maryan (Jesus) (Peace Be Upon Him) claim to be the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit? There is only a single verse in the entire Bible that attempts to establish a "Triune Being" in Jesus (PBUH),it is John 5:7. But there is absolute irrefutable proof that this verse was a fabrication inserted by the Pauline church in the year 400 C.E.
According to Christian scholars, John the son of Zabedee, and a trusted Disciple of Isa, was beheaded by King Agrippa in 44 C.E., long before the fourth Gospel was written. Who started all these lies? The culprit is Paul, (Saul) of Tarsus, a Jew, and the son of a Pharisee. (Act 23;6) He has been widely believed to be " Christianity's number two man". This is false. Paul is the Christian Religion's Number One Man!
Prophet Isa never said," I am a Christian. I teach Christianity?" And let's get one thing straight: The Holy Prophet's name wasn't "Jesus." In the early Hebrew and Chaldaean languages no longer available--the word " Christ" only meant " Messiah".
"Jesus" is but the phonetic English pronunciation (Geez-us), of a latinized version from the Hebrew translation of "Yeshua". Which is why it written and pronounced Jesus in English, but spoken in the Latino community as "Hey-Suz".
So how did Paul-Saul, a man who never saw or met or touched or ate with one of Allah's greatest Messengers--destroy the law of Moses(Musa), precipitate the destruction of nearly all of the ancient authentic manuscripts and the gospels, persecute the first loyal followers of Jesus (PBUH),establish himself as a trusted Disciple, and the lone architect of the doctrine of the Trinity and the "Original Sin?"
There was (And still exists today), a vile hatred and jealousy of the Jews because of their notable gifts and talents, their well-documented rebelliousness, and the Centuries old indictment for their alleged complicity in Jesus' murder and untimely demise--but more so because Almighty God chose from their lineage a long list of Prophets to spread his message.
Perhaps Paul was angered by his exclusion from Jewish nobility. After all, hadn't Jesus the son of Mary(PBUH) warned his followers that the Pharisees were "Hypocrites" and the "Children of Hell?" (Matthew 23;15) Paul said, "And unto the Jews I became as a Jew that I might gain the Jews; to them that are as under the law(Gentiles), as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law." (1 Corinthians 9;20) Long after Isa's departure from the Earth, Paul wormed his way into the entourage of Jesus' disciples by befriending Barnabas, who made him his student under his wing of divine wisdom. Barnabas' ancestors were of the Prominent tribe of Levi, and he was known as the "Son of Consolation". He was a man of great intellect and wealth, which he gave to the church. He eventually became one of the most ordained Apostles. And he was a brilliant writer.
The Holy Prophet himself commanded him to write down his teachings and sermons and his sayings. The "Gospel of Barnabas" originally contained two hundred and twenty-two chapters, totaling four hundred and twenty pages.(Copies and fragments of translations are still around today.) Barnabas' eyewitness accounts of Isa as a living, breathing human being who had human needs and ate food and shed tears and felt pain and vicissitudes of emotions, is irrefutable. There was no crucifixion, he swore. But the Prophet was taken up to heaven by a host of Angels, one named "Israfil." His credible account impeached Paul's teachings as blatant heresies and a forgery--which made him an arch rival Paul plotted to destroy.
But the Glorious Quran confirms Barnabas' eyewitness testimony:
" That they said (in boast),
'We killed Messiah Isa (Jesus) the Son of Mary,
the Messenger of God',
but they killed him not,
nor crucified him,
but so it was made to appear to them."
(Sura An-Nisaa,4;157)
Paul was claiming to be receiving " Visions" from Isa (PBUH) himself. " Whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell." (2.Corinthians 12;2) He hears "Unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter," He Avers.
Say What? Who can hear " Unspeakable words?" C'mon, He never saw or spoke to Jesus in visions or in the flesh. This is the unfailing duty of the arch Angel Gabriel. He is the "Holy Spirit" people feel, the essence roiling through the Holy Prophets, the "Holy Ghost," they saw, "The Inspiration," the one who brings down "Revelation" to the Messengers by Allah's command. The creator of the heavens and the earth has never sent down one Prophet to anoint another Prophet. Paul's salvific credentials were forged. He was no Prophet of Allah. He even tells us in his own words. Listen:
"For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jew's religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it." (Galatians 1;13)
But Jesus said, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the Prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." (Matthew 5:17,red Letter study edition) (Emphasis Mine)
Yet Paul says " A man is not justified by the works of the law."(Galatians 2;16) He proclaimed that the law of Moses is worthless and "That which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away."(Hebrews 8;13) He has the audacity to claim that "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law". (Galatians 3;13)
But Jesus (PBUH) said, "For verily I say unto you, till heaven and Earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." (Matthew 5;18)
He even dissed one of God's greatest Prophets. "For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath reason to boast, but not before God."(Roman 4;2)
Then He began to cast aspersions on Isa's Helpers:
"I am the least of the Apostles.But I laboured more abundantly
than they all." (1 Cor 15;9-10) "I saw that they walked not
uprightly according to the truth of the gospel." (Galatians 2;14) But whose Gospel? His own?
He said all things were lawful unto him, for him, and he shall not follow anyone. Whose law--his own? If most Christians live by the Biblical example--if they truly love Jesus the son of Mary--then why do they listen to Paul and disobey Jesus?
"How be it in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." (Mark 7;7)
The ancient Greek term for "Begotten" is Gennao,(Ghen-nah-o),and it was found in Matthew 1;2.It comes from "Monogenes," which conveys the meaning of the word "Unique" and not "Begotten." But this meaning was translated from the long lost Aramaic language Isa (PBUH) spoke in his time, which made it's way into the First Hebrew Writings.
The Greek word "Pias" and "Paida", translated into English, merely means "Servant" or "Child" or "Manservant".
In the Judaic terminology commonly used by the Jewish people of old, "Sons" and "Daughters" was how Yahweh (God) described them.
The examples are numerous: "Israel is my son, even my first born", Elohiym,(God)said to Moses.(Exod 4;22) "He hath helped his servant Israel."(Luke 1;54) To King David in (Luke 1;69), and "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven ..." ( Matthew 5;48)
But over one hundred thousand Prophets were sent since Allah created man on Earth--Why do the Gentiles Call Jesus "His Only Begotten Son?" The Masculine Pronoun " He"(As in "He Gave") obliterates the notion that he was " Begotten" if we believe that Jesus was God, himself. No,no,no, "And the word was made flesh." (John 1:14)
"The similitude of Isa (Jesus)
before Allah is as that of Adam,
He created him from dust, then said to him: "Be,"
and he was".( Quran, 3,59)
Did Jesus (PBUH) not need to be fed, bathed, sheltered, taught as an infant?(Luke 2;52) Why would Almighty God Allah allow himself to be seized,by the Pagan Romans, cursed, spit on, slapped, defiled, and imprisoned?
Plato taught that each person has in him/her a " Trinity" of "reason," "Spirit," and "Desire"--so we can assume the three-in-one deities came from the Philosophic schools of Greece and from the men who trained there. The Greek and the Roman cultures borrowed heavily from Ancient Babylon, Egypt, and Persia, where similar trinities flourished.
This was very popular among the Gentiles. The Ephesians viewed Julius Caesar as "A god made manifest and a common savior of all Human Life." To the Greeks and Romans he was "The unconquerable god".
Even Augustus Caesar was called a god and the "Divine Savior of the world". In Britain they address their nobles as Your Worship," "Your Grace," and " Milord." (There's a " House of Lords," too.)
Paul claimed Jesus emptied himself of the godhead and became the "LOgos" (or second person), who was God Himself. The self-emptying--or Kenosis, enabled the Supreme Deity to take on a physical fleshy form of the body of Christ (Messiah). If this is true, then who was minding the store?
Arius, the Presbyter of Alexandria, argued that Jesus was a creature who created all creatures. His Chief rival was ATHANSIUS, who preached co-eternity, co-substantiality with the Divine.
The feuding factions wielded enormous power in a burgeoning Christian movement, representing a potential threat to the Roman Empire, so the Emperor stepped in to mediate the dispute.
Two thousand and forty eight Bishops bowed down before his Imperial Majesty Constantine at the Council of Nicea (325 C.E.)
Part of the creed says:
"Whoever wishes to be saved must, above all, keep the Catholic faith. For unless a person keeps the faith whole and entire he will undoubtedly be lost forever."
This is what the Catholic faith teaches: We worship one God in the Trinity and the Trinity in unity. We distinguish among the persons, but we do not divide the substance ... still the Father and the son and the Holy spirit have one Divinity, equal glory, and co-eternal Majesty."
The Trinity was reaffirmed at the Council of Constantinople (381 C.E.), and the Council of Trent (A.D. 1545-1563).
Volume XIV,p.295 of the New Catholic Encyclopedia ( By Official Approval), states "that one should not speak of Trinitarianism in the New Testament with serious qualification." In other words, does 1+1+1=1?
On page 306,the same Catholic Encyclopedia admits that " This Doctrine was unknown to the Hebrew Prophets and the Apostles."
The Holy Prophet Jesus (PBUH) even told them: "I can of mine own self do nothing."
The Headline of the 6/25/84 edition of the Daily News, a British
Newspaper, read: SHOCK SURVEY OF ANGLICAN BISHOPS:
"More than half of England's Anglican Bishops say that Christians are not obliged to believe that Jesus Christ was God, according to a survey published today".
Of course this was widely known among many of the Bishops who'd attended the Nicea Council--but who can deny they were under great political pressure to sign the Creed. Once they were safely home, three of the attendees--Eusebius, Maris, and Theognis, lamented to Constantine in writing that: "We committed an impious act , O Prince," Eusebius of Nicomedia wrote, "by subscribing to a blasphemy from fear of you."
Apuleius, another attendee wrote: " I pass over in silence?those sublime and Platonic doctrines understood by very few of the pious, and absolutely unknown to every one of the profane."
"The soul is nothing worse for a little ink," some in attendance wrote. But the damage was already done. Setting the stage for bloody inquisitions lasting hundreds of years.
END OF PART ONE
Reginald S. Lewis
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Copyright 2000 by Reginald S. Lewis. All rights reserved.
[This article originally appeared in the July/August 2000 issue of THE THOUGHT.]