5.1.
The New Testament misquotes and misinterprets the Old Testament.
At times it manufactures verses to suit its purposes.
5.2. According to Matthew 2:15, when the little boy Jesus,
along with Joseph and Mary, fled to Egypt to escape from
Herod, this “fulfilled what the Lord had said through
the prophet: ‘Out of Egypt I called my son.’”
But Matthew only quoted the second half of the verse in
Hosea. What the prophet really said was this: “When
Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called
My son.” The verse has to do with Israel, not Jesus,
and it is recounting a historical event, not giving a prophecy.
And you claim that Matthew was inspired. Hardly!
5.3. Matthew 2:23 says that when Jesus moved to the town
of Nazareth, this “fulfilled what was said through
the prophets: ‘He will be called a Nazarene.’”
There’s only one problem. The prophets never said
this! Matthew actually made it up.
5.4.
Matthew 27:9–10 is totally confused. First Matthew
quotes part of a prophecy from Zechariah, then he says it
comes from Jeremiah, and then he takes the whole thing totally
out of context. What a mess!
5.5.
Hebrews 10:5 is one of the worst examples of New Testament
Scripture-twisting. The writer quotes from Psalm 40, where
the psalmist says, “You have opened my ears,”
but he applies it to Jesus and changes the words to read,
“A body you have prepared for me.” Could you
imagine anything more dishonest?
5.6.
The New Testament is full of historical inaccuracies.
5.7.
None of the important historical writers of the period—Roman
or Jewish—make mention of Jesus. It’s questionable
whether he even existed.
5.8.
Modern scholars are in complete agreement that the Gospels
portray a mythical Jesus. There is very little that we can
really know about his life.
5.9. Jesus was not born of a virgin. In fact, we have traditions
that actually tell us who Jesus’ real father was—and
it wasn’t Joseph! Anyway, the idea of a god being
born to a virgin is just one of several pagan myths that
made its way into the New Testament.
5.10. The genealogies of Jesus given by Matthew and Luke
are hopelessly contradictory.
5.11.
The Messiah is David’s son. If Jesus were really born
of a virgin, then Joseph was not his father and he is really
not a descendant of David, even according to Matthew’s
genealogy. And if you claim that Luke’s genealogy
is that of Mary, Jesus still doesn’t qualify, since
the genealogy in Luke goes through David’s son Nathan,
whereas the Messianic promises must go through David’s
son Solomon. Therefore, Jesus cannot be the Messiah.
5.12.
Jesus cannot be the Messiah because he is a descendant of
King Jehoiachin. God cursed both this king and his offspring,
saying that none of his descendants would ever sit on the
throne of David.
5.13.
Jesus did work some miracles, but they were not by God’s
power. We have traditions that tell us he learned magical
arts in Egypt.
5.14.
Jesus didn’t fulfill any of the Messianic prophecies.
We know that the New Covenant writers actually reconstructed
the life of Jesus so as to harmonize it with certain predictions
made by the prophets.
5.15.
When Jesus failed to fulfill the prophecies, his followers
invented the myth of his substitutionary death, his resurrection,
and finally, his second coming, which, of course, they completely
expected in his lifetime.
5.16.
Do you want irrefutable proof that the authors of the New
Testament didn’t know what they were talking about?
Well, look at Matthew 23:35, where Jesus states that the
last martyr spoken of in the Hebrew Scriptures was Zechariah
son of Berechiah. Actually, that was the name of the biblical
prophet (see Zech. 1:1); the last martyr was Zechariah son
of Jehoiada (see 2 Chron. 24:20–22). So, either Jesus,
your alleged Messiah, didn’t know his Bible, or else
Matthew (or the final editor of his book) didn’t know
the Tanakh. Either way, this is a glaring error that cannot
be ignored.
5.17.
The New Testament is self-contradictory (especially the
Gospels)!
5.18.
Matthew claims that when Jesus died on the cross, “the
tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who
had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs,
and after Jesus’ resurrection they went into the holy
city and appeared to many people” (Matt. 27:52–53).
This is obviously complete nonsense, without any hint of
historical support. If such an incredible event ever took
place—something like “the night of the living
dead” in ancient Jerusalem—someone would have
recorded it.
5.19.
The teachings of Jesus are impossible, dangerous, and un-Jewish
(“Hate your mother and father,” “Let the
dead bury their own dead,” “Give to whoever
asks you,” etc.). There’s no way he should be
followed.
5.20. The New Covenant is anti-Semitic. It is filled with
negative references to the Jewish people, and it blames
them for the death of Jesus.
5.21. The Jesus of the New Testament is hardly Jewish. In
fact, he even refers to the Torah as “your Law”—precisely
because it was not his own.
5.22. Jesus was a false prophet. He claimed that his apostles
would live to see his return, a prediction he missed by
two thousand years. He also predicted that not one stone
in Jerusalem would be left standing when the Romans destroyed
it. Well, have you ever heard of the Wailing Wall?
5.23. Jesus was a cruel and undisciplined man. He violated
the Torah by cursing—and hence, destroying—a
perfectly good fig tree for not bearing figs even though
the New Testament writers tell us that it was not the time
for figs. So much for your wonderful Messiah! He even called
a Gentile woman a dog when she approached him for help.
5.24. Actually, Jesus also taught that salvation came through
obeying the Law. Just read Matthew 5:17–20; 7:21;
19:16–30; 25:31–46. This whole “gospel
of grace” message is the invention of Paul and the
other writers.
5.25. The teachings of the New Testament may have started
out Jewish, but before long, they became totally pagan.
This was done intentionally, since the Jews rejected Jesus
as Messiah and only the pagans would listen to the message.
5.26. Jesus was really all right. He was a good Jew and
a fine rabbi. It was Paul who messed everything up and founded
Christianity.
5.27. If you study world religions, you will see that the
teachings of Jesus borrow extensively from Hinduism and
Buddhism.
5.28. Jesus abolished the Law.
5.29. Paul abolished the Law.
5.30. The Torah is forever, every jot and title, and only
traditional Jews keep it. In fact, even the so-called new
covenant of Jeremiah 31 says that God will put the Torah
in our hearts. Therefore, since Jesus abolished the Torah,
he cannot be the Messiah.
5.31. Anyone who changes the Law—no matter what signs
or wonders he performs—is a false prophet. That applies
to Jesus!
5.32. Observance of the Sabbath has been the hallmark of
the Jewish people, separating us from other nations and
identifying us with the covenant of God. Since Christianity
changed the Sabbath, Christianity is obviously not for the
Jewish people.
5.33. According to Mark 7:19, Jesus abolished the dietary
laws.
5.34. If the death of Jesus really inaugurated the new covenant
spoken of by Jeremiah the prophet, then why hasn’t
it been fulfilled?
