The followers of Jesus of Nazareth
How the persecution began
The Theologian No. 120, updated on 2.10.2023
[This article posted on 10/2/2023 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://theologe.de/nachfolger-von-jesus-wie-die-verfolgung-begann.htm.]
Introduction
Jesus, the carpenter from Nazareth, taught and lived the simple message of love for God and neighbor. In His Sermon on the Mount, He inspired many people who were determined to fundamentally change their lives in this direction. This provoked and still provokes resistance from the priestly caste of all religions, because Jesus, the Christ, taught neither priests nor a religion and its cults, nor a religiously based system of rule, but God, the Free Spirit, in all lifewithout priests, without religiously anointed leaders, without dogmas, without sacraments and rituals.
Painting: Judicial murder of the follower of Jesus Stephen by stoning, Adam Elsheimer, 1603, National Gallery of Scotland
Initially, the representatives of the priestly religion in Jewish garb declared themselves enemies of the Jew Jesus of Nazareth and enforced his execution by the Romans. After they had lost their power following the destruction of their temple by the Romans in the year 70, it was subsequently the imperial idolatrous cults of the ruling Romans with their rulers who were a thorn in the side of the followers of Jesus of Nazareth, although Jesus, the Christ, did not found a competing political movement, but called individuals to repentance and to corresponding communities and taught: "My kingdom is not of this world", it is "within you".
Parallel to this external threat to His followers from the priests and religious and state leaders, the infiltration of early Christian communities by power-oriented intellectuals and those influenced by priests or who were priestly in character, who outwardly pretended to also want to follow Jesus of Nazareth, took place as early as the 1st century. However, their influence soon gave rise to a new caste of gown-wearing priests who, in the first and then especially in the following centuries, developed into a massive opposition to Jesus of Nazareth and His message of the coming kingdom of peace - in other words, new priests, this time in Catholic garb. This religion - like its predecessors in the persecution of the followers of Jesus - is ultimately a variant of the idolatrous system of Baal. You can read about how it followed on from the persecution of the early Christians in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages with escalating cruelty in Der Theologe No. 92 - Urchristentum im Freien Geist - von der Kirche verfolgt.
Here, in The Theologian No. 120, you can read how this came about. So how did the persecution of the followers of Jesus of Nazareth begin, and how did it develop - illustrated with a few examples and summarized reflections - until the eve of the change of power under the emperors Constantine and Theodosius in the 4th century, during which the priestly cult of Catholicism rose to become the only state religion of the empire through its massive privileges, which has lasted into the 21st century, but is now declining ever faster.
Stephen: "Which prophet did your fathers not persecute?" The persecution of the first Christians
John of Patmos: "Come out of her, My people!"
Perpetua - murdered in the arena
Persecution, torture and execution until around the year 300
The Baal system infiltrates the early Christian communities
Early Christianity in the first period after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, the Christ, was a dynamic, spirit-filled movement. Theologian Walter Nigg writes in his book Prophetic Thinkers about early Christianity: "An enthusiasm that broke through all resistance ... had seized its followers. ... A dynamic force filled the people, drove them to extremely bold deeds and made them proclaim the revolutionary principle that one must obey God more than man. This enthusiasm contained the vitality that overcame all sluggishness of heart and all spirit of heaviness." (p. 29 f.)
And in the book The Rehabilitation of the Christ of God we read: "The first Christians lived as Jesus of Nazareth taught: they lived in communities and shared everything with each other. Everyone worked together according to their abilities. Everyone was equal to everyone else; there were no superiors. Women and men were equal and both had responsible tasks in the communities, for example as God's word bearers. There were no priests, bishops or other mediators. The first Christians endeavored to put the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth into practice in their lives, step by step." (S. 422)
After a short time, however, the old cult priesthood of the idol Baal crept into the early Christian communities through appropriately influenced people and gained more and more power. But priests and priests in various guises also fought the followers of Jesus of Nazareth from the outside with all the means at their disposal. Because what God, the Free Spirit, teaches - "God in us!" -makes every priestly caste and their false claims to be able to establish mediating functions to the divine world superfluous.
Stephen: "Which prophet did your fathers not persecute?"
Stephen, a respected minister to the poor, was one of the first to feel the boundless fury of the essentially Baalist priests' guild in Jerusalem at the time. They accused him of blaspheming against the temple and the religious law. (Acts 6, 11 ff.)
His real "offense" was to confess Him, the Christ, the Son of the living God, after the death of Jesus. It was said of him that he was filled with spirit and wisdom, a man with a considerable amount of understanding and experience, which his traditional defense speech before the high
council clearly shows. Stephen remained courageous and steadfast, standing up for the Free Spirit and countering his accusers:
"But the Most High does not dwell in a building made by human hands, as the prophet says: 'Heaven is my throne and the earth the footstool of my feet. What kind of a house could you build for me' - says the Lord - 'or what kind of a place of rest for me? Has not my hand created this whole universe?'" (7, 48 ff.)
Thus God, the Eternal, had already spoken through the prophet of God Isaiah, to whom Stephen refers here and who, like all true prophets of God, comes from the "stream from above", from the divine kingdom, in order to give people on earth orientation and help in mastering their lives. Stephen also worked in this "stream", and he explained frankly and in clear words how the priestly caste has always persecuted and killed the true messengers of God:
"You stiff-necked ones, you who are always resisting the Holy Spirit with heart and ear, your fathers already and now you too. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who prophesied the coming of the Righteous One, whose traitors and murderers you have now become, you who received the law by the command of angels but did not keep it." (7, 51 f.)
When his accusers heard this, they were utterly indignant with him and "gnashed their teeth", as recorded in the Bibles. Stephen, however, bore witness to what he saw in his mind's eye at that moment: Jesus, the Christ, after His return to heaven: "I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!" (7, 56)
The priests then "raised a loud cry, covered their ears, rushed at him together and drove him out of the city", and they stoned Stephen. Present at the murder of Stephen was a man named Saul, who took pleasure in it. Stephen thus joined the ranks of the "chain sacrifice "* of upright men and women who stood up for the doctrine of peace in the kingdom of God. According to this account, what happened to him was a cold-blooded, brutal lynching - because the so-called High Council was not allowed to condemn anyone to death and execute them; only the Roman occupying power and its henchmen would have been allowed to do so.
We do not know how many more messengers of God and righteous men and women suffered this cruel fate of stoning. Jeremiah and the brother of Jesus, James, have been recorded, but many of their names are not even known. An incited crowd of people repeatedly threw stones at the defenseless victims, some of whom were buried in the ground. Each stone causes new injuries and severe pain until the body is destroyed to such an extent that the person finally dies in agony.
With hypocrisy that is difficult to surpass, Stephen and many of his spiritual brothers and sisters, who suffered a similar fate, are being appropriated by the power churches today, even though the words "The Most High does not dwell in a building made by human hands" also apply to them, i.e. not in their cathedrals, cathedrals and magnificent clerical buildings and enclosed in their tabernacles and crypt niches. Church interpretations, according to which Stephen meant the Jewish temple, but certainly not the later Catholic and Protestant buildings to demonstrate their absolute claim to power, prove to be grossly misleading and have serious consequences. They
led to centuries of unprecedented persecution of the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust of the 20th century.
The persecution of the first Christians
Immediately after the murder of Stephen, the Bible's Acts of the Apostles reports: "And on that day a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem" (8:1) - the beginning of a cruel period of persecution for the followers of Jesus of Nazareth at the instigation of the respective priestly caste over many centuries. And in the time of early early Christianity, they were simultaneously infiltrated by people who also still carried the centuries-old ideas of the Baal system within them - some of which can also be explained by the primal knowledge of reincarnation.
In the course of the first centuries, this infiltration also led to the gradual development of a rigid church institution and, in the 4th century, to the establishment of a Roman Catholic state church, which continued the dark consecrations of earlier priestly cults and their behavior of domination and which took cruel action against all deviations from its religious constraints. You can read more about this in the article Bishop instead of Christ - The beginnings of the Catholic Church.
From the end of the 2nd century, true and sincere Christians were therefore increasingly to be found outside the gradually emerging Catholic Church - in the "heretic" and "heretic" movements demonized by the latter. And until the beginning of the 4th century, it is often difficult to distinguish in the surviving reports who of the people calling themselves "Christians" adhered to the gradually establishing new "Catholic" priestly system, which increasingly represented the antithesis of Christ, and who really followed in the footsteps of Jesus of Nazareth as a follower and was therefore persecuted, tortured and murdered. After Catholicism became the state religion in the 4th century, some changed from being partially persecuted to persecutors, and they became completely dependent on and in bondage to the Baal system. The others remained persecuted. They were transferred from the hellish arenas of ancient Rome to the hells of the Middle Ages, where in the centuries to come, the extent of cruelty against dissenters known until then was surpassed many times over.
Jesus of Nazareth had already predicted the persecution of His followers to His opponents, the theologians and scribes of the time: "Therefore the wisdom of God also said: I will send prophets and apostles to them, and they will kill some of them and persecute others." (Luke 11, 49)
The wisdom of God had therefore announced prophets, and it was indeed the prophets who, together with the apostles, initially held the spiritual leadership in the early early Christian communities. "Blasphemy" was repeatedly the accusation against the followers of Jesus of Nazareth, and stoning, as in the case of Stephen, was often the result.
Flavius Josephus, a Jewish-Roman historian, wrote the following account at the end of the 1st century about the execution of James, the physical brother of Jesus of Nazareth and leader of the early Jerusalem church, which probably took place in the year 62.
"Ananus, however, whose appointment as high priest I have just mentioned, was of a fierce and daring disposition and belonged to the sect of the Sadducees. ... He therefore assembled the high
council for judgment and brought before it the brother of Jesus, who is called Christ, named James, as well as some others, whom he accused of breaking the law and ordered to be stoned. But this enraged even the most ardent observers of the law, and they therefore secretly sent deputies to the king with the request that he write to Ananus that he should not allow himself to be accused of a similar offense in the future, just as he had been in the wrong now." (Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities XX, 9, 1)
Behind these sober-sounding words "whom he had stoned to death" lies unspeakable suffering, just as Stephen had already had to endure. The people in bondage to the high priest repeatedly threw stones at James, the physical brother of Jesus of Nazareth, and several other followers of Jesus. The hands of the victims are tied so that they cannot be held in front of their faces for protection. One stone after another flies against their eyes, noses, teeth, ears, foreheads or upper bodies. After a seemingly endless ordeal, they eventually die.
Only a few years later, in 66, there is a violent uprising in Judea against the Roman occupying power, during the course of which Jerusalem and the monumental Temple of Herod were destroyed by the Romans in 70 and the Jewish priests lost their place of activity and power base.
The pagan Roman priestly caste with its imperial cult was now on top and subsequently remained the persecutor of the followers of Jesus, who did not worship God in outer temples, but in their inner temple - God in us. The Baal system of Roman garb also had Christians tortured and killed for religious reasons and to maintain its power.
Let us recall a report by the Roman historian and senator Tacitus on the persecution of Christians by Emperor Nero after the burning of Rome in 60 AD. As Pontifex Maximus, Emperor Nero was also the highest priest in Rome. Tacitus wrote: "No activity of philanthropy, no princely donations, no events to make the gods well disposed of the shameful suspicion that the burning of the city had been ordered [by Nero]. In order to silence this rumor, Nero put forward as culprits and inflicted the most selective punishments on the Christians, who were generally hated for their shameful deeds. The author of this name, Christ, had been executed by the governor Pontius Pilate during the reign of Tiberius. For the moment, this mischievous superstition had been suppressed; but it broke out again, first in Judea, the home of evil, but also in the capital, where all that is vile and shameful flows together from everywhere and gains a following. First, those who openly confessed were arrested, then a huge crowd on their report. They could not be convicted of arson, but of hatred against the human race. The death penalty was played with them; they were sewn into animal skins and mauled by dogs. They were hung on the cross. They were burned, wrapped in easily combustible materials, and left to burn as night torches when darkness fell. Nero gave his gardens over to this display and organized a circus performance. He mingled with the people in charioteer costume or stood on a chariot. Although these were guilty people, those who deserved the harshest punishments, compassion was awakened by all this. For they said to themselves: they would not be sacrificed for the public good, but for the cruelty of a single man." (Annales 15, 44; quoted from Eberhard Arnold, Am Anfang war die Liebe, p. 60 f.)
The "cruelty of a single man" here refers to Nero, Pontifex Maximus and supreme representative of the Baal system in Roman garb.
The Roman writer Tacitus adopted the evil slander against the early Christians in his report when he wrote that "everything abominable and shameful" and "hatred against the human race" was characteristic of them, which is why they supposedly "deserved the harshest punishments". And yet, as his report shows, his conscience at least began to stir.
The first Christians were also accused of intolerable atheism as a downright inhuman "third generation". They were fought against as "evildoers", as "desperate and lost people", as "outlaws", as "enemies of public order", as an "inhuman phenomenon", all lies. (quoted from Arnold, In the beginning was love, p. 30)
John of Patmos: "Come out of her, My people!
The best-known prophet of this time was John of Patmos. Jesus of Nazareth spoke of His disciple John and his brother James as the "sons of thunder", and He predicted the coming attacks with the words: "The cup that I drink, you shall drink". John remained faithful to Jesus, the Christ, when he was crucified. After his life on earth, he also cared for his mother Mary and was one of the pillars of the early church in Jerusalem. Together with Peter, John brought the message of Jesus of Nazareth to Asia Minor, today's Turkey, and to Rome, where he felt the wrath of the "father from below", who was served by the priestly caste and who was a "murderer and liar" "from the beginning" - just as Jesus of Nazareth taught and John himself wrote in his Gospel. During the cruel persecution of Christians under Emperor Nero, John was tortured most cruelly and banished to the island of Patmos for forced labor in a mine.
There, in a powerful vision, Christ revealed to him the Apocalypse about the end times of the material world and the building of the New Jerusalem: "Behold, the tent of God with men! And he will dwell with them; and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, their God. And God will wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there will be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying nor pain, for the former things have passed away." (21, 3-4)
Through John, who was now serving Him as a prophet, Christ constantly warned us to turn our backs on the "whore of Babylon" and to flee from the cult system of priests and priestesses as long as it was still possible on earth: "Come out of her, My people, so that you will not be partakers of her sins and receive any of her plagues" (18:4). The translation is also possible: "Come out of her, My people!"
After his time of exile on Patmos, John returned to the other followers of Jesus and lived according to the commandment to love God and his neighbor: "Because it is the commandment of the Lord, and whoever keeps it does enough." Nothing else is necessary, according to his message, which drew the hatred of the priestly caste with its web of lies.
In later times, the priesthood, which had infiltrated early Christianity, attempted to appropriate the prophet John, and a miraculous death in old age was attributed to him.
According to other traditions, however, John was murdered by the henchmen of the religious Moloch. The torture and persecution continued to reach new cruel heights during this time. Until the beginning of the 4th century, many true followers of Christ were martyred in persecutions of Christians and had to give their lives, even if their names were not explicitly mentioned and have been passed on.
The persecuted Christians were aware that they were part of a huge spiritual battle. They knew about the existence of dark spiritual beings, the demons, about their activity on earth, which stood in hostile opposition to the Creator God and His law of love for God and neighbor and, if you look at it up to our time, still does.
Thus it was the endeavor of the followers of Jesus of Nazareth to stand up for Christ and His teaching of love of God and neighbor and to resist character assassination, infamy and other diabolical influences.
Around the year 150, a philosophical critic of Christians, the philosopher Celsus, with whom the early Christian teacher Origen, in particular, had to deal, reported that even in his time there were still prophets among the Christians who wandered about in cities and streets. Through them, as Celsus described it, God and Christ spoke to the people. For the first early Christian communities, the prophetic spirit was therefore always a real experience, a comforter in temptation and suffering.
An example for many other followers of Jesus of Nazareth is Perpetua, who lived in Carthage in North Africa around the year 200 and wrote notes about her fate in prison.
Perpetua - murdered in the arena
As the young wife of a Roman citizen, Perpetua was under the guardianship of a man, whether husband or father, throughout her life in Carthage. But instead of following the state religion, she decides to follow Jesus. She takes baptism lessons from Christians, among whom wisdom teachers and prophetesses are active and who follow the commandment "First teach, then baptize."
After she and other Christians are arrested for this, she prays to God for clarity as to whether they will be released or murdered. In an introspection, she then sees a ladder that leads step by step into the kingdom of God, but with weapons and instruments of murder threatening those climbing it. And at the foot of the ladder, a dragon is looming and trying to prevent anyone from climbing it.
In her vision, Perpetua steps onto the head of the dragon, like a first step, and climbs from there to the very top. There she is welcomed with joy as a child of God by a good shepherd and other spirit beings. Perpetua now understands that she can expect nothing more from this world.
This calls the tempter to the scene, the adversary, who is also intent on using wavering people for his own purposes. In inner pain, she has to watch as her father, who begs her to submit to the religious authorities of the empire again, is severely beaten by the henchmen of the authorities. Perpetua speaks well of him, but no longer submits to the cruel idolatry of the men of Rome.
Together with other early Christians, she is now condemned to death by animal combat in the arena, and Perpetua realizes in a further introspection that they will not fight with animals, but with the devil, but that victory will be won with Christ.
With her head held high, she enters the arena on 7.3.203. There, she is attacked and seriously injured by a human-trained "fighting cow". As she survives, a young gladiator is ordered to kill her with a sword. She screams as she is first hit in the ribs. The recipient of the order then stabs her in the neck to the delight of the religious leaders and arena visitors on the emperor's birthday, and the gladiator kills the courageous young woman with her strong character in this cruel manner.
The later papal religion, which ultimately did worse than the Roman imperial religion, tried to appropriate Perpetua and her fellow believers, who were murdered with her, for its own purposes afterwards.
Because she was once a "fighting cow" in the arena of Carthage, she is mocked to this day by presenting her to clerical butchers and butchers as the alleged "patron saint" of the papal religion, although the persecuted early Christians did not kill any animals for meat at all, but fulfilled the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" towards animals as well.
Persecution, torture and execution until around the year 300
In Catholicism, which gradually split off from early Christianity from around the middle of the 2nd century, there were also people with religious zeal in these times who are said to have pushed for martyrdom because they believed that they could then go straight to heaven.
But who today can verify their motivation and why? After all, they were all sons and daughters of God, albeit from different backgrounds. And they all became victims of the murderous Baal system, regardless of the guise in which it appeared - the pagan-Roman, the later RomanCatholic or another.
One thing is certain: the soul of a person who has been tortured and killed does not die. It lives on in the worlds beyond after the body has passed away. And pain, fear and hellish torment must first be endured by man and soul and processed by the soul in the afterlife, regardless of the underlying causes of the perpetrators and victims.
At this point, let us turn our attention back to those we are primarily concerned with, to the prophets of God, many of whom are no longer known by name: They were - recognized or unrecognized - among those tortured and killed during the persecutions of the respective ruling priestly caste.
Why were they killed? Because they proclaimed the word of God, which His adversaries wanted to silence. They met their fate with their eyes open, because everyone had to expect denunciation, arrest, torture and death at any time. They did it because they had brought a
mission with them to earth. Their love for God and Christ was so great that they had the strength to endure the worst tortures and torments imaginable.
We know of some of these people that they accepted a mission from God in the earthly body several times and had to endure what is described here several times.
The darkling, the dark power in the Baal system, can see which spiritual being has incarnated in a person. It also knows the mission from God that this being brings with it into the earthly body. It can therefore be assumed that a servant of God was always exposed to all kinds of mental and physical torment in his earthly garment.
Around the year 300, a church leader named Phileas reported how Christians in Alexandria were tortured and murdered under the incipient persecution of Emperor Diocletian. The emperor demanded a uniform religion to stabilize his rule, which he claimed to be "divine", and he therefore had Catholic Christians as well as early Christian "Manichaeans" and so-called "Montanists", among whom the prophetic word of early Christianity was still alive, equally persecuted if they did not submit to the state cult.
Phileas describes what victims had to suffer in Alexandria at that time with the words:
"For some first had their hands tied behind their backs, were hanged on a scourge, and all their limbs were stretched apart by the executioner's tools; afterward, by order of the authorities, they were scourged by the executioners over their whole bodies, not only on their sides, as was customary to do to murderers, but also over their bellies, shins, buttocks, some on all the sensitive members of their bodies with rods of iron. Others were hung with one hand on the vault of a gallery and all their limbs were stretched out, which far exceeded any other punishment. Others were bound back to back and tied to pillars, but in such a way that they could not touch the ground with their feet ... And this cruel torment not only lasted as long as the blood judge interrogated them, but he also let them hang in such torture for whole days at times." (quoted from Eusebius, Church History, Book 8, Chapter 10)
The descendants of the Roman blood judges are the ecclesiastical inquisitors of all subsequent centuries right up to the present day. Significantly, Catholicism, after its early privilege and development into the state religion, even adopted Diocletian's persecution law into its own murderous legislation against the original Christian "heretics" only a few years later, thus continuing the cruel persecution. So the priestly caste had only changed its garb, and men in Catholic garb from then on caused the cruelest horrors against the followers of Jesus for hundreds of years.
The Baal system infiltrates the early Christian churches
The battle of God's adversary and his plots against the first Christians included not only the use of brutal violence but also the infiltration of their communities, which we would like to look at in more detail here.
Already in the churches founded by Paul, a development began that increasingly silenced the Free Spirit of God's Christ and the prophetic word and replaced them with rigid external norms. As more and more people professed Christianity, the churches soon had to deal with larger crowds among whom the high standards of life that had been set for the first early Christians
could no longer be met.
The hallmark of the early Christians had originally been equality between brothers and sisters, who were all prepared to take on responsibility. This included helping each other and renouncing personal possessions, active charity and non-violence - which was demonstrated, for example, by the fact that soldiers, hunters and those who killed animals for a living were not accepted into the communities. However, this seal of approval faded more and more into the background and was eventually watered down. While it was not possible for a soldier to be accepted at the beginning of Christianity, it was the other way around in the later institution of the church: a deserted soldier who no longer wanted to kill was excluded from it.
Even the second generation after the apostles no longer had the strength of the first. Over time, the apostles, prophets and spiritual teachers and their inner authority were increasingly replaced by intellectually accomplished and wealthy personalities. In place of the living, speaking Spirit of God, they began to compose written treatises on Christian doctrine. For various reasons, there was a lack of the original energy of realization that had led to the rapid spread of the Christian faith in the beginning. The consequence of this was that the living prophetic word also declined more and more. In contrast to the teaching of the Christ of God, a so-called episcopate arose, and a new clerical caste developed from the original church elders. This development continued to spread, so that at first imperceptibly, but soon openly, a new guise of the Baal system emerged, this time with a Catholic title.
Jesus of Nazareth had said to His disciples: "You are all brothers and sisters." He never appointed priests or bishops. These functions belong to the Baal system with its hierarchical striving for power.
Let us compare this with the development in institutional Judaism: there, the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD by the Romans put an end to the priests' activities. The priests, who were used to determining religious life, had no replacement for the temple, the center of their religion.
However, the office of bishop in incipient Catholicism, which was suffocating the living original Christianity, increasingly resembled the office of priest in Judaism, which came to an end with the destruction of the temple and which in turn had predecessors in the Baal cult of the Canaanites and the Pharaonic cult of the Egyptians. In this way, the priestly caste had imperceptibly regained power. And to this day they continue to abuse the good name of Christ, the greatest prophet of all time and savior of all souls and animated people. Issue no. 92 takes a closer look at the fate of individual women and men or communities of people who longed for the coming kingdom of God that Jesus of Nazareth had announced to His followers and who came into conflict with the gradually emerging Catholic structures and ways of thinking, the so-called "early Catholicism" from the beginning of the 2nd century.
* People devoted to God who, on behalf of God the Eternal, brought the Eternal Word from the Kingdom of God to their brothers and sisters on earth in humility, modesty and spiritual authority and who taught the way to return to the eternal home, repeatedly made great sacrifices. Here, too, the example of Stephen speaks of "chain sacrifices", as one victim of persecution after
another, like the links of a chain, joined the fate of persecution that was forced upon him by the priestly caste. They all made sacrifice after sacrifice for God, for His teaching of love of God and neighbor and for the return of all His children to the eternal Father's house. So it was with the great prophets of God of the people of Israel, so it was with Jesus, the Christ, whose earthly life and "sacrifice on the cross" was a single sacrifice, and so it was and is in the centuries after Jesus of Nazareth, in which messengers of God, whose names are often not even known, lost their lives in the torture chambers of the Church's Inquisition and on its pyres or were put to death with character assassination to the point of destroying their very existence. As far as the present is concerned, see for example the link below to the book on the persecution of the prophetess of God and the followers of Jesus of Nazareth right up to the present day.
The text can be quoted as follows:
"Der Theologe", publisher Dieter Potzel, issue no. 120, Wertheim 2015, quoted from theologe.de/nachfolger-von-jesus-wie-die-verfolgung-begann.htm, version dated 2.10.2023, copyright © and imprint see here.
The prophets of God: the admonishers against the priests
The Theologian No. 100, updated on 1.7.2022
[This article posted on 7/1/2022 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://theologe.de/propheten-gottes_mahner-gegen-die-priester.htm.]
God, the Eternal, spoke and speaks at all times through His prophets, and all true prophets of God were and are admonishers against the priests. God, the Free Spirit, has never appointed priests. In all religions, the priests themselves have placed themselves between God and His human children. And in the Bibles of the churches, they have rewritten and falsified large parts of the tradition as they see fit.
Jesus of Nazareth said in His Sermon on the Mount that He had come to "fulfill the law and the prophets". In His work, we can therefore recognize what Moses and the true prophets of God before Jesus of Nazareth had already taught people: the teaching of love for God and neighbor and the message that the kingdom of God is "within you", i.e. that every person is a "temple of the Holy Spirit". They also taught that God, the Eternal, is not a punishing God, but that He loves every person and all forms of life in His creation infinitely and always gives every person the opportunity to turn back from wrong ways.
The priests, however, have invented rituals, sacraments and liturgies, they have had houses of worship and altars erected, and they have put on cult garments with which they want to distinguish themselves from the people. They subordinated their cults and cruel teachings, such as instructions to kill dissidents, calls for wars and animal sacrifice regulations, to God, the Eternal, and His prophets. They betrayed the teaching of love of God and neighbor, which
applies to people, animals and the whole of God's creation and for the fulfillment of which no priests or religions are needed.
Despite the forgeries, however, there are still clear references to the divine original teaching in the Bible, as well as God's admonitions against the priests and falsifiers of His message, such as through the prophet of God Jeremiah, who said to them: "How can you say: We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? Yes! But the lying pen of the scribes has made it a lie?" (8, 8)
Read what God, the Eternal, said through His true prophets of God about the priests or the selfappointed "shepherds", religious leaders, and what else can be read in the Bibles. And when in some places the rulers and leaders of the people are mentioned in summary, then the priests are also a significant part of this.
Much of this will seem very familiar if you compare it with the priests and religious leaders who have been operating under the false label of "Christian" for almost 2000 years right up to the present day. In doing so, the priests have taken things to the extreme by misusing the good name of Jesus, the Christ, whose teachings of love for God and neighbor and the unity of all life they have repeatedly reversed for centuries.
The very fact that each of the many denominations of priests and pastors of so-called Christianity teaches differently and are at odds with one another is proof that they have long since betrayed the original teaching, the original doctrine of Jesus of Nazareth.
Through the prophets of God in the Old Covenant and Jesus of Nazareth, God raised His voice against the disastrous work of the priests, and in our time the Christ-God-Spirit speaks powerfully through Gabriele, the prophetess and messenger of God in our time.
The same caste of priests was and is always at work, which at all times fought against the true messengers of God and tried to extinguish the living spirit of God. Behind it all is the system of "Baal", as the adversary of God is called in the Old Testament, and it applies at all times: The prophets - the admonishers against the priests.
The priests as false teachers
● "Hear the word of the Lord ..., for the Lord raises a complaint against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness and no love and no knowledge of God in the land. No, cursing and deceit, murder, theft and adultery are spreading. Bloody deed follows bloody deed. Therefore the land shall wither ... Yet it is not just anyone who is accused, not just anyone who is rebuked, but you, priest, I accuse. In broad daylight you will fall ... My people perish because they lack knowledge, because you have rejected knowledge ... They feed on the sin of my people and are greedy for their wicked sacrifices" (Hosea 4:1 ff.)
● "For the leaders of this people are deceivers, and those who are led are led astray." (Isaiah 9, 15)
● "What good is his babbling, his babbling, his babbling here, his babbling there?" (Isaiah 28:10)
● "The priests do not ask, 'Where is the Lord? And the keepers of the law have not heeded me,
and the shepherds of the people have been unfaithful to me." (Jeremiah 2:8)
● "How can you say, 'We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? Yes! But the lying pen of the scribes has made it a lie? ... They have rejected the word of the Lord, and their own wisdom, what good is it to them?" (Jeremiah 8:8-9)
● "The shepherds have become fools and do not inquire of the Lord. Therefore they can do nothing right, and all their flock is scattered." (Jeremiah 10:21)
● "Say no more, 'Burden of the Lord,' for every man's word will be a burden to him, because you pervert the words of the living God." (Jeremiah 23:36)
● "And now, you priests, this word is for you: '... But you have turned aside from the way and caused many to fall by false teaching'." (Malachi 2, 1.8)
The priests invent cults and idols
● "Heaven is my throne and the earth is the footstool of my feet. What kind of house is this that you could build for me, or what is the place where I should rest? My hand has made all that is here, says the Lord." (Isaiah 66, 1-2)
● "A tree is cut down in the forest, and the sculptor with a carving knife makes it a work of human hands, and he decorates it with silver and gold and fastens it with nails and hammers so that it does not fall over. They are nothing but scarecrows in a field of cucumbers. They cannot speak; they must be carried, for they cannot walk." (Jeremiah 10:3-5)
● "They have turned their backs on me and not their faces, and although I have always taught them, they would not listen or reform. And they have set their abominable idols in the house that is called by my name, to defile it, and have built the high places of Baal." (Jeremiah 32:33-35)
● "But it also happens that the priests steal the gold and silver from the idols and use it for themselves, even giving it to the prostitutes in the house of pleasure. And they adorn the silver, gold and wooden idols with clothes as if they were human beings. But the idols cannot protect themselves from rust and moths. And if you put a purple robe on them, you have to wipe the dust of the temple off their faces, which is thick on them." (Baruch 6, 10-13)
● "The priests keep the temples of the idols with doors, locks and bolts, so that they are not stolen by robbers, just as one who has committed an offense against the king is imprisoned and kept." (Baruch 6, 18)
Cruel animal sacrifices are an abomination to God
● "I hate and despise your feast days and do not like the smell of your assemblies. And though you sacrifice burnt offerings and grain offerings to me, I have no pleasure in them, nor do I
regard your fat thank offerings. Take away from me the sound of your songs, for I will not listen to your harp." (Amos 5:21-23)
● "What shall I do with your many sacrifices?" says the Lord. I have had enough of the rams you burn as sacrifices and the fat of your oxen; the blood of bulls, lambs and goats is abhorrent to me
... Bring me no more senseless offerings, incense offerings that are an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and festival assembly - sacrileges and feasts - I will not endure. Your new moon festivals and feasts are hateful to my soul, they have become a burden to me, I am tired of enduring them. When you spread out your hands, I cover my eyes from you. No matter how much you pray, I do not hear it. Your hands are full of blood." (Isaiah 1:11-15)
● "He who kills an ox is like the one who kills a man." (Isaiah 66, 3)
● "But I did not tell your fathers in the day when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, nor did I command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices, but this is what I commanded them: Obey my word, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people." (Jeremiah 7:21-23)
● "He does not care for the missing, he does not seek the lost, he does not heal the broken, he does not care for the healthy. Instead, he eats the flesh of the fattened sheep and tears off their claws. Woe to my good-for-nothing shepherd who abandons the flock." (Zechariah 11, 15-17)
The desecration of the earth
● "And the priest is like the people, the master like the servant ... The land withers and fades, the earth languishes and fades, the rulers of the people of the earth languish. The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they transgress the law and change the commandments and break the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse devours the earth, and those who dwell on it must pay for it. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth decrease, so that few people remain." (Isaiah 24:2 ff.)
● "Many shepherds have laid waste my vineyard; it lies desolate before me; yes, the whole land is laid waste, but no one will take it to heart." (Jeremiah 12:10)
● "Your crime against the forest of Lebanon weighs you down, and the destruction of the big game weighs you down, because of the blood you have shed among the people, because of the violence you have committed against countries and cities and all their inhabitants. What good is an idol made by a sculptor, a molded image, an oracle of lies?" (Habakkuk 2, 17-18)
Woe to those who go to war
● "Woe to the rebellious sons, says the Lord, who make plans without me and enter into covenants without my Spirit to heap one sin upon another, who go down to Egypt and do not consult my mouth to strengthen themselves with Pharaoh's power and take refuge in the shadow of Egypt. But the strength of Pharaoh shall be a reproach to you, and the protection of the
shadow of Egypt a mockery... For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: 'If you turn back and keep quiet, you will be helped; by keeping quiet and hoping you will be strong. But they do not keep the Holy One of Israel and do not inquire of the Lord ... For Egypt is man and not God, and its horses are flesh and not spirit." (Isaiah 30:1 ff.)
The violent "packs of priests"
● "Their wicked deeds will not allow them to return to their God, for they have a spirit of harlotry in their hearts and do not know the Lord." (Hosea 5:4)
● "And the ranks of the priests are like the robbers who lie in wait for the people; they murder in the way that leads to Shechem, and they do shameful deeds." (Hosea 6:9)
● "Hear this, then, you heads of the house of Jacob and you rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make everything that is straight crooked; who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with injustice - its heads judge for gifts, its priests teach for reward." (Micah 3:9)
● "The priests rule on their own authority, and my people like it that way. But what will you do when this comes to an end?" (Jeremiah 5:31)
● "For from the least of them to the greatest, they all act lawlessly; from the priest to the false prophet, they all practice falsehood. And they healed the infirmities of my people with trivialization, saying 'Peace! Peace!' but where is peace? They were put to shame because they had failed. They were put to shame, but still they were not ashamed, and they did not recognize their shamefulness. Therefore they will fall in their fall, and in the time of trial they will perish, the Lord has spoken." (Jeremiah 6:13)
Priests oppose the prophets of God and righteous men and women and kill them
● About the prophet of God: "For I will make you this day a strong city, a pillar of iron, a wall of iron throughout the land against the kings of Judah, against its great men, against its priests, against the people of the land, so that even if they fight against you, they will not be able to harm you; for I am with you, declares the Lord, to deliver you." (Jeremiah 1:18)
● "Because of the sins of their [false] prophets, because of the transgressions of their priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in their midst, they [the people] wandered blindly through the streets, stained with blood." (Lamentations 4:13-14)
● Stephen to the priests of his time (1st century): "You stubborn ones, you who keep resisting the Holy Spirit with heart and ear, your fathers already and now you too. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who prophesied the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayer and murderer you have now become, you who received the law by the command of angels but did not keep it." (Acts 7, 51-53)
The alliance with the underworld
● "Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule over this people who are in Jerusalem: You have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, we have made a treaty with the underworld: when the flood roars, it will not reach us. For we have taken refuge in lies and hidden ourselves behind deception ...' So hail will smash the false refuge, and waters will wash away the protection, so that your covenant with death will fall away and your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand." (Isaiah 28:15 ff.)
The vicious life of the priests
● "And I will put an end to all her pleasures, her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths and all her holidays ... I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she offers incense and adorns herself with headbands and necklaces and goes after her lovers, but forgets me, says the Lord." (Hosea 2:13-15)
● "They (the priests) themselves go aside with the harlots, with the harlots they celebrate sacrifices. This is how the ignorant people fall." (Hosea 4:14)
● "They like to lie down and sleep. But they are greedy dogs who can never be satisfied. These are the shepherds who have no understanding; each one looks to his own way; they are all out for gain, saying, 'Come, I will bring wine, we will drink our fill, and tomorrow will be like today and even more glorious'" (Isaiah 56, 10-12)
Words of Jesus of Nazareth about the religious leaders, theologians and priests
● "Beware of the scribes! They like to walk around in long robes, they love to be greeted in the streets and squares, and they want ... to have the front seats and the places of honor at every banquet ... and in their hypocrisy they perform long prayers. But the judgment that awaits them will be all the harsher." (Mark 12, 38-40)
● "Then Jesus spoke to the people and to his disciples, saying, 'The scribes and Pharisees are sitting on Moses' seat. They bind heavy and unbearable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger for them. They do all their works that they may be seen of men ... They like to sit at the head of the table ... and like to be greeted in the marketplace and called rabbi by the people. But you shall not be called rabbi [today we would say: not pastor, priest, reverend, excellency, etc.], for one is your master; but you are all brothers. And you shall call no one among you father on earth, for one is your Father, who is in heaven. And you shall not be called teachers, for one is your teacher, Christ. Let the greatest among you be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." (Matthew 23, 1-9)
● "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who shut up the kingdom of heaven from men!
You do not go in, and you do not let those who want to go in.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who devour widows' houses and pray long prayers in pretense! Therefore you will receive all the harsher judgment.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who pass through land and sea to win one to your faith; and when he has become one, you make him a child of hell, twice as bad as you ...
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint, dill and cumin and ignore the most important things in the law: justice, mercy and faithfulness. You must do the one without omitting the other.
You are blind guides: You strain out gnats and swallow camels.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who cleanse the outside of cups and bowls, but inside they are full of robbery and greed ...
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but are full of dead men's bones and filth on the inside. So are you: outwardly you appear pious to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and unrighteousness. You vipers, you brood of vipers! ... I will send you prophets, wise men and scribes, but you will kill some of them, even crucify them, flog others and persecute them from city to city."
(Matthew 23:13 ff.)
"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: 'Come out of her, my people, that you may not share in their sins and receive nothing of their plagues. For her sins reach to the heavens, and God remembers their iniquity' ... And they will mourn and lament the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication with her and have been guilty. (Revelation 18, 4 ff.)
The text can be quoted as follows: "Der Theologe" magazine, editor Dieter Potzel, issue no. 100: Die Propheten Gottes: Die Mahner gegen die Priester, cited from theologe.de/propheten-gottes_mahner-gegen-die-priester.htm, Version from 1.7.2022, copyright © and imprint see here. The first edition of this publication can also be requested free of charge. It largely contains the content of this edition of Theologian.
Slam your Bibles shut! Put the Bible away!
The peace teaching of Jesus of Nazareth in the Bibles is being thrown to the wind 1700 years of the Bible - What good has it done?
[This article updated on 3/28/2024 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://theologe.de/legt-die-bibel-weg.htm.]
The Theologian No. 114, updated on 28.3.2024
Dear readers, countless people are suffering great hardship, and this often leads to great doubts about their previous faith. Where is the "God" that is proclaimed by religions, a thought that is often expressed? Or what does this "God" do to help? Or is there even a God who helps people to solve problems and master their lives? These are the questions some people ask.
In the societies of this world, more and more people are practically fighting for their "bare" existence, for survival in the material world. In addition to famines in many regions and the widening gap between rich and poor in so-called industrialized countries, climate change is progressing on all continents, mainly due to the nuclear radiation unleashed by humans, which is heating the oceans, melting the polar ice caps and increasingly heating the earth like a hotplate and imperceptibly irradiating the people living on this hotplate, while their aggression is also gradually increasing. Countless people are involved in wars and hostilities, others are suffering physically and mentally from serious illnesses, and the unspeakable suffering of animals and nature on this planet is also increasing.
The world's largest religion, which offers people its explanations for the world disaster, are the various churches, which are summarized in encyclopedias under the term "Christianity". However, these institutions betray the message of Jesus in many ways, e.g. through their "permissions" to kill people in very many cases, and even in calls for executions and wars, which has resulted in an unprecedented trail of blood of millions of victims in history and is being repeated today, e.g. in the Ukraine war. As is well known, they base their doctrines on an approximately 1700-year-old book called the Bible, which all church denominations - whether Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, free church or others - claim to contain God's final word for us humans in every detail from the first to the last page, which is said to have been followed by no further words from God. However, if you take a closer look at this book, it also contains many ambiguities and contradictions, which in turn leads to the following conclusion: Every denomination does what it wants with it and interprets it as it sees fit. But even some things that are clear - such as Jesus' call not to use the sword, i.e. not to use armed force, or Jesus' words "You cannot serve God and mammon" - are not adhered to by Bible believers. The award-winning author Karlheinz Deschner once summed it up by saying that he knows of "no organization in the world in antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times, including and especially the 20th century, that has been so long, so continuously and so hideously burdened with crimes as the ... Church, especially the Roman Catholic Church". (in: Die beleidigte Kirche, Freiburg 1986, p. 42 f.)
No matter how violent or absurd the church's doctrines are, their Bible has to be used, which is then subjected to their selfish purposes by the clerical interpretation experts of this book. But enough is enough. "Slam your Bibles shut! Put the Bible away!" The time for this has expired. Jesus, the Christ, taught love of God and neighbor, nothing else, but this has to be learned. But if not even the clear teaching of peace of Jesus of Nazareth in the biblical Gospels is taken seriously and followed by Bible believers, then we can conclude that the Bible mix has caused enough mischief for long enough. Unadulterated help on the path of love for God and neighbor can be found in other ways.
1 - Jesus announces prophets to His followers, not an early Catholic book project
2 - Jeremiah warns against the lies of theologians
3 - Bible commands wars, genocide, animal sacrifices and cult regulations and the Bible believers put it into practice
4 - Adolf Hitler invokes the New Testament, deaconesses are enthusiastic
5 - The peace teachings of Christ and the prophets of God are replaced by the seemingly "lesser evil" of war"
6 - The servants of Mammon
7 - The countless ecclesiastical exceptions to the commandments of the Bible
8 - God, the Eternal, intervened with His prophets and the battle of priest against prophet
9 - Homosexuals - formerly stoned to death, today blessed by the priest - Is God changeable or does it have nothing to do with Him?
10 - Paul - the "God" of theologians and Bible believers
11 - The church and its sect commissioners - Every theologian does what he wants with the Bible
- Bible forger Luther
12 - What two swords are still doing today - Bible rape by the Vatican Church
13 - No two Bibles are alike, but the state pays twice for everything
14 - Ecumenism with reference to the Bible as a betrayal of the so-called "Magisterium" of the Vatican Church
15 - The crimes of the Church - but now enough is enough
16 - The prophets of God knew nothing of a Bible
17 - Another chance for every Bible follower
1 - Jesus announces prophets to His followers, not an early Catholic book project
The kingdom of God had always sent prophets to the people, from Abraham to Moses, Elijah, Isaiah and many more to Christ in the man Jesus of Nazareth and in the time after Him to Gabriele, the prophetess and messenger of God in our time. This is the belief of the followers of Jesus on all continents of this earth.
But according to church teachings, the prophecy of God should have ended with Jesus of
Nazareth. From then on, according to their theologians, God supposedly no longer spoke to people through His instruments, the messengers from the kingdom of God. Instead, in the first centuries after Christ, the so-called Bible was developed in their place, consisting of many different individual books. And priests and church leaders, above all the popes in Rome, were given the task of interpreting the Bible, which was completed in the 4th century, correctly for their time. In other words, the Bible of the churches is said to have replaced the prophecy of God. Or as it says in a doctrinal proclamation of the Vatican Church from 1994 entitled Congregation for the Clergy: every Catholic priest is literally given "the prophetic task" at his ordination. In the opinion of those authorized by the Church, theologians should therefore have taken the place of God's prophets.
But who is supposed to have initiated this drastic measure? What power is behind this order to the priests? Jesus of Nazareth did not teach this. In their own Bibles, theologians could read what Jesus, the Christ, said for the future: "I am sending you prophets" (Luke 11:49; Matthew 23:34) and "I am sending you the Comforter, the Spirit of truth" (John 16:7 ff. ), and there it also says how He taught them in the Sermon on the Mount to be able to distinguish the true from the false prophets in the future, namely by their "fruits", i.e. by their good or bad works, by their actions (Matthew 7, 15 ff.). Jesus of Nazareth said nothing about a future Bible and about popes and theologians who would come to the people in the future instead of God's prophets and who would interpret this supposedly divine book, called the Bible, which was written in the time of early Catholicism.
2 - Jeremiah warns against the lies of the theologians
On the contrary. In His life on earth, Jesus of Nazareth warned with cries of woe against the priestly caste, against the theologians and against their teachings. He also revealed how, even in His time, they tried to appropriate the prophets of God who had come before them for their own purposes, ultimately attempting to replace them, for example by saying: "The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat" (Matthew 23:2). Moses was the greatest known prophet of God at that time. Through him, God, the Eternal One, revealed the Ten Commandments for a peaceful life on this earth, including the clear commandment "Thou shalt not kill". However, over the centuries, scribes and Pharisees, or rather generations of priests at the time, had seized on the revelations of God given by Moses and not only changed them in many places according to their ideas, but in many cases turned them into the complete opposite, especially the commandment "Thou shalt not kill". In order to clear up this deception and keep the word of God alive, the kingdom of God repeatedly sent other prophets to the people, including Isaiah, Hosea, Amos, Daniel, Ezekiel and many others, as well as Jeremiah, who exposed the practices of the priestly caste and their scribes with the words: "How can you say, 'We are wise and have the law of the Lord with us'? Truly, behold: The lying pen of the scribes has made it a lie." (Jeremiah 8:8) The lying pen was therefore already at work in the forerunners of the later Bible book, so that, according to the words of the Israelite prophet Jeremiah, truth became a lie. But what exactly is truth and what is a lie? 600 years after Jeremiah, Jesus, the Christ, also made this clear by countering the falsifications that had been handed down with His powerful words "But I say to you" and by teaching people to love God and their neighbor with the Golden Rule at its heart, which reads: "Whatever you want people to do to you, do it to them", which also means "do it to them first". And further: "This is the law and the prophets" (Matthew 7:12). In other words: The divine law and the word of God through His prophets in all the centuries before
contain nothing else: namely the realization of the love of God and neighbour, which is why He, the Christ of God, also made it clear: "I have not come to abolish the law and the prophets, but to fulfil them" (Matthew 5, 17). However, this refers to God's original law of love for God and neighbor and not the many falsifications of the priests, which have also been found in Bibles for hundreds of years.
3 - The Bible commands wars, genocide, animal sacrifices and cult regulations and the Bible believers put it into practice
But what did the Bible already contain at that time, and what has been added to this book since then? If you take the Bible as a basis, God is said to have ordered wars, genocide, terrible animal sacrifices and external cult regulations (especially in the Book of Leviticus) through Moses, including instructions on which cult priests were supposed to be mediators to God. And the later priestly caste after Jesus of Nazareth also liked to orientate itself on this, putting on the cloak of "Christianity" in order to appropriate Christ for their priestly purposes and adding further falsifications to the tradition.
These include, for example, Paul's alleged biblical words of God that the authorities should punish supposedly wicked people with the sword (Romans, chapter 13), or how slaves (e.g. Titus 2:9) or women (e.g. 1 Corinthians 11:3) are to be treated as their own. Corinthians 11:3) must submit to their masters and husbands; or that everything that can be bought from slaughtered animals on the meat market should be eaten with a clear conscience (1 Corinthians 10:25) and much more, without having a conscience about the suffering of the animals. The scribes' pen of lies was thus passed on to many an early church Bible writer and since then to the many selfappointed clerical interpreters of this book right up to the present day.
So one can ask the question: 1700 years of the Bible, what good has it done? The popes and bishops have invoked it to order one war after another and to justify one totalitarian tyranny after another. The crusaders invoked it to slay Muslims, the inquisitors invoked it to burn dissenters alive, warmongers of all denominations used their Bibles to justify the violence with which the soldiers of their nations massacred their supposedly hostile neighbors, often on all sides of the front. Church reformers invoked it to replace luxurious, warlike popes with luxurious, warlike princes at the head of their churches.
Priests and pastors threatened the faithful with eternal punishment in hell if they did not obey them and threatened the death penalty on earth in advance - always with the proviso that their Bibles would be interpreted correctly. It is true that since the Enlightenment there has always been criticism of the Bible. However, this book is still shrouded in an ecclesiastical "halo of sanctity" in society today, and hardly any politician, business leader, stockbroker or whoever the social "influencers" (as they are often called today) may be, dares to question it.
4 - Adolf Hitler invokes the New Testament, deaconesses are enthusiastic
Even the German dictator Adolf Hitler knew how to use the veneration of Bibles for his own purposes, as the author Ernst Klee writes about in his book Die SA Jesu Christi. In 1933, a Protestant deaconess in a corresponding leadership position gave a lecture to 1,000 other deaconesses on what was described as the "national political education" of these Protestant women. In it, the Lutheran leader used the following story, among others, to promote the
dictator, and I quote from Ernst Klee's book: "Hitler meets a deaconess near the Chorin monastery and she asks him: 'Mr. Reich Chancellor, where do you get the strength for your difficult work? He pulls a New Testament out of his coat pocket and says: 'Here, Sister!" (The SA of Jesus Christ, Frankfurt am Main 1989, p. 42)
5 - The doctrine of peace of Christ and the prophets of God is replaced by the seemingly "lesser evil" of war
Dear readers! One could say: 1700 years of raging in the name of the Bible in the West, without exception, right up to the present day, where the exploitation of the earth to the point of climate collapse is justified with the Bible and its command "subdue the earth" (Genesis 1:28), where arms exports for use all over the world are dressed up as the alleged implementation of "Christian values", although Jesus taught not to draw the sword, and where all ecclesiastical contradictions to Jesus' teaching are intellectually disguised. And where the lie is most obvious, it is often argued that although this is an "evil", it is only a seemingly smaller one that is necessary in order to prevent supposedly greater evils - always with their Bible in their hand luggage. The greater "evil" for the denominational representatives is therefore when someone, for example, fulfills the teaching of peace of Jesus of Nazareth, which can be clearly read in the Bible and which we would like to point out here with just a few words, with a few passages from the Gospel of Matthew in the Bible: "All who take up the sword will perish by the sword." Or: "Make peace with your enemy while you are still on the way with him." And: "Love your enemies." Or: "Remove the plank in your own eye before you worry about the splinter in the other person's eye." And the prerequisite for this is first of all the understanding that this splinter discovered in the eye of your neighbor is usually also an indication of the beam in your own eye, i.e. of your own misconduct, which therefore needs to be rectified. According to the Gospel of John, Jesus of Nazareth reproaches his self-righteous contemporaries who are convinced of their own fundamentally devilish morals: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." And the Sermon on the Mount also clearly states that we should not apply "double standards". And it goes on to say: "By what measure you measure, you will be measured." Jesus of Nazareth also warned His followers against the worldly authorities, literally: "You know that rulers oppress their peoples and the powerful do violence to them. Let it not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you, let him be your servant" (Matthew 20: 25-26). In doing so, He expands on what the prophets of God had already taught and lived before Him.
Here is an example:
On the occasion of an impending war between Israel and Assyria, the prophet of God Isaiah, for example, urgently warns people not to defend themselves with armed force when the Assyrians advance, but to remain faithful to God's commandments, which include "Thou shalt not kill". However, the rulers in the land speculated on military help from Egypt and decided on war to defend their land by force, as it was probably called even then. And I would like to quote a few passages from the book of Isaiah. So God spoke through His prophet: "Woe to those who go to Egypt for help! They rely on the many horses and the many chariots. But they do not reckon with the holy God of Israel. They do not ask the LORD whether he agrees. The Egyptians are men and not God. ... Then the protector falls and the protected with him; both perish. ... The shepherds are blind, they do not see the danger. They know no measure. And they want to be shepherds! They think nothing of watching out, they go about their own
business. Everyone is only concerned about their own profit. ... And then you mock me, open your big mouths and stick your tongues out at me! Do you not know whom you are challenging, you brood of liars?" (from chapters 30 and 56 of the book of Isaiah)
And further:
"Therefore I, the holy God of Israel, say, 'You will not hear what I say to you, and you rely on force and deceit.' This guilt is not without consequences: You are like a high wall that has cracked. It runs deeper and deeper and becomes wider and wider, and suddenly the whole wall collapses. You will be like a clay pot that is shattered so thoroughly that there will be nothing left among its fragments to take embers from the furnace or to draw water from a puddle." The LORD, the holy God of Israel, has said to you: 'If you return to me and stand still, you will be saved. If you wait calmly and trust in me, then you will be strong. Nothing will remain of your proud army but an empty flagpole on a bare hill." (from the 30th chapter of the book of Isaiah) Everyone can see the parallels to the church's support for arms deliveries to Ukraine for the war against Russia and its trust in the USA as the greatest military and war power. Bible followers also say time and again that the Bible always speaks to our times.
6 - The servants of Mammon
And the unbiased reader could discover many more things in this book that are indisputably in line with Christian teaching. For example, the words of Jesus of Nazareth in His Sermon on the Mount: "You cannot serve God and mammon" (Matthew 6:24). However, church history up to the present day shows this: Precisely those who claim to this day that the Bible is God's word do not abide by it at all and obviously serve mammon, which is summarized by the well-known expert on church history Karlheinz Deschner in his series of books on the criminal history of the church as follows: "Interest transactions, trade, usury, St. Peter's penny, indulgences, collections, legacy creep through two millennia, huge armament profits ... showering the high clergy with privileges, with immunity rights, with count's rights, market rights, customs rights, tax advantages." The author speaks of the "economic side of the extermination of pagans, Jews, "heretics", witches and Indians" and of the "economic factor of the cult of miracles, the vitae of saints, books of miracles, places of pilgrimage and other things". In addition, there was a pronounced system of forgery "by means of the fabrication of false diplomas ... fake documents, annals, chronicles" (Kriminalgeschichte des Christentums, vol. 8) - everything to make the Bible religion the greatest bastion of Mammon.
And today? In Germany alone, the Bible religions Catholic and Protestant churches receive around 20 billion euros a year in subsidies and tax exemptions from state budgets, including salaries for their bishops and other church personnel, which flows directly or indirectly to Bible interpreters via state lump-sum payments. Indeed, the entire training apparatus for Protestant and Catholic theology with its Bible training programs installed in the service of the respective denomination is paid for by the state in Germany.
And today's mammon stems from the earlier "blood money", as church representatives refer to "ancient rights" from times when emperors and kings robbed possessions in wars and during expropriations and expulsions and then bequeathed the mammon to their bishops and abbots with their dioceses and monasteries - mostly out of concern for their salvation, which they believed they would achieve through these donations to the church - a not only extremely expensive deception to the detriment of those affected, as their own salvation was pushed into the very
distant future by following the church's calls to violence. But why did so many people allow this to happen to them?
One of these methods still has an effect today. In order to intimidate people, especially those in authority, theologians still read an alleged eternal damnation for dissenters from their biblical beliefs out of their bibles, which is not verifiable in the old biblical texts and is at least controversial - but the priests are the authorized interpreters, and an interpretation of an impending eternal hell for dissenters in this case fulfils the intended financial purpose to a large extent.
Today's state officials, business bosses, stockbrokers and many more, who still seek the church's blessing for their actions when necessary, blow the same horn of Mammon. This is how military alliances, war operations, arms production and exports are justified, and children and adults are allowed to starve to death away from major world politics. For the laws of mammon and armed force are mutually dependent and are among the highest in the financial hierarchy of church and state. The Bible, with its warnings such as the words "You cannot serve God and mammon", is not much more than historical folklore for the interpretation experts in church and state where it agrees with the commandments of God through the word of the prophets of all times, because no one adheres to it, just as no one adheres to the biblically clear teaching of peace by Jesus of Nazareth.
Mammon is obviously the predominant god of many, to which more and more life on planet Earth is now falling victim in our time. People preach about Jesus' beautiful parables of nature, but promote aggression against nature that can no longer be increased: the merciless exploitation and poisoning of the earth to the point of collapse, the emptying and poisoning of the seas, the deforestation of the green lungs of the earth, the forests and much more. And even in the context of the war in Ukraine, many a Mammon worshipper is already eyeing the opportunity to make big bucks there too, because the vast expanses of Russia are particularly rich in mineral resources and untouched resources.
But enough is enough, and one of the logical conclusions and advice to Bible believers would be: you might as well leave the Bible aside, because none or hardly any of them adhere to what is still true in it anyway, so put the Bible away! Because the falsifications in it have so far caused no end of mischief, and those things in it that still correspond to God's commandments are not adhered to. The most recent example is the war in Ukraine. So what is the Bible for?
7 - The countless ecclesiastical exceptions to the commandments of the Bible
What is the point of the Bible, in which God's commandment "Thou shalt not kill" can also be found (e.g. Exodus 20:13), if the church's authorized interpreters fill entire libraries with their exceptions to this commandment?
What is the point of a Bible with the enlightening words "God does not dwell in churches of stone" (e.g. Acts 7, 48 ff.) if the church leaders still do the opposite today and worship their God in stone houses? One cathedral, one cathedral, one stone temple, one village church after another was built, in the past by forced laborers and slaves, among others. And today, millions and millions of euros have to be raised by taxpayers from state budgets for church maintenance and renovations under the heading of "monument protection" - right up to the billions spent on
rebuilding the ruins of Notre Dame in Paris.
The God worshipped in these stone buildings is therefore not the God that individual passages in their Bibles still proclaim, when it says that "the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21) and when prophets warn people that God does not dwell in temples made of stone. (e.g. Isaiah 66, 1 f.)
But as usual with the Bible: a few pages further on, the opposite of this truth is also written, namely the alleged command to build stone temples for the respective god and to cut the throats of thousands of animals as a sacrifice for this god and then burn them (1 Kings 6-8 and others). To each as he pleases, cult and cruelty included.
What is the point of the church's recitation of Jesus' words in the Bible "You shall call no one father on earth", because One is the Father of us all, the Father-Mother God in heaven? (Matthew 23:9) Why? Because the very religion that refers to the Bible calls its leader "Holy Father", and the politicians who pay homage to him make a pilgrimage to Rome. So they do exactly the opposite of what is written in their Bibles, from which a logical consequence would be: then finally put your Bible away, as its contents, even where it still contains the truth, are ultimately only regarded as folkloristic lore. So get rid of a book, is one possible conclusion, which is used above all to justify one's own arrogance and the claim to absoluteness that is claimed for oneself and at the same time to fight the living word of God through His prophets in all the hundreds of years since Jesus of Nazareth, since God, the Eternal, does not adhere to the wording of the 1700-year-old church Bibles through His word of prophecy; and of course certainly does not confirm the forgeries contained in them, which have brought and continue to bring unspeakable suffering and terror among people.
8 - God, the Eternal, intervened with His prophets and the battle of priest against prophet
What is God? Where is God? Those who honestly ask about God have never been left alone by Him. Through His prophets, He has always intervened in world events with the fullness of His love. And Christians all over the world know this: God spoke and continues to speak today through the mouths of prophets, as He has always done from Abraham to Gabriele, before Jesus of Nazareth and after Him.
And it was always the respective priestly caste that pulled their Bibles out of their robes, the tailor-made work of their churches, denominations and scholars. And in doing so, they fought against the living Word of God with all means at their disposal - from ignoring, ridiculing, ridiculing and mocking to expulsion, torture and murder or, in our time, discrimination and character assassination. Followers of Jesus of all generations have been victims of biblical faith and the biblical interpretations of their opponents, who worship their Bibles on their stone altars. But no matter how you twist and turn this book, no matter what you interpret into it or out of it, no matter how much blood you pour over it or how much blood you squeeze out of ittheologians and church officials have always used their Bibles primarily to promote their opinions.
9 - Homosexuals - once stoned to death, now blessed by the priest - Is God changeable or does it have nothing to do with Him?
For centuries, it was also common practice for people to be murdered with reference to the Bible,
and executions demanded by the Bible were carried out time and again in accordance with the biblical requirements of the death penalty, often following cruel torture: For people who disobeyed the priests, for wise women suspected of sorcery or even for homosexuals, about whom it says in the Bibles "If anyone lies with a male as with a woman, they have done what is an abomination, and both shall surely be put to death" (Leviticus 20:13), which was carried out by stoning at the time.
This is now seen differently by the churches in our time. The Protestant Church now blesses homosexual partnerships, and recently Catholic priests have also done so. But what about their Bibles now that the persecution of homosexual people demanded there has ended? So were all the homosexual victims of the past killed in vain or were they just "unlucky" to have lived at the wrong time? So is God changeable? Or was the order to execute them in the Bible not from him at all?
10 - Paul - the "god" of theologians and Bible believers
And what is this supposed to have to do with God when the highly revered and supposedly holy apostle Paul arrogantly refers to dissenters in the Bible as "false brothers" (e.g. Galatians 2:4) and even threatens God's messengers from heaven with merciless persecution? Literally in his biblical letter to the Galatians, which the Church also considers to be the pure word of God to this day: "If we or an angel from heaven preach to you a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have just said, I say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel different from what you received, let him be accursed." (Galatians 1:8)
This means that believers should not listen to an angel from heaven. But they should listen to the priests of the church. To an angel, one of the highest spiritual beings of the kingdom of God, only if the messenger of God repeats what Paul and the priests say. For Paul's words are always God's words for the Church, and this is supposedly only interpreted correctly by the Church's magisterium.
This alleged Paul's word equals God's word also means: "We don't need angels from heaven, because we have Paul and the Bible and the priests." And if Paul's word always equals God's word, as the churches claim, then in reality Paul is their God, and not the Father-Mother God that Jesus of Nazareth taught us.
This cursing by Paul and thus, according to church doctrine, supposedly coming from God, would then also affect someone who does not agree with Paul that every worldly authority is authorized to be "God's servant", even every dictatorial one, by having them strike with the sword accordingly, according to Paul in his so-called Letter to the Romans (chapter 13). In later centuries, the Bible author Paul's cursing of dissenters, including any angels from heaven, became the standard statement of the Bible-believing priestly caste in the condemnation sentences of the church inquisition, with countless torture murders as a consequence. It is therefore understandable if people who want to live according to simple ethical values come to the conclusion: "I don't need the Bible, so get rid of it. Because I can't and don't want to be guided by it. God has also given me common sense and an originally intact conscience, and He has also repeatedly sent His messengers to people who made His will clear where people no longer recognized it clearly" - a will that was always the same: the realization of love for God and neighbour, nothing else.
Paul was not afraid to hand over "fornicators", as he calls them, to "Satan" "for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord", as it says in the Bible (1 Corinthians 5:5). The ecclesiastical inquisitors of later centuries readily based their terrible murders on this teaching handed down by St. Paul and used it to justify the executions of dissenters - also with the epilogue derived from St. Paul that their souls could perhaps be saved in this way.
The dangers that threaten people by claiming that this book with such content is God's word were recognized by the well-known German philosopher Karl Jaspers, among others, who wrote about the churches and their religion: The, quote, "biblically founded claim to absoluteness is still constantly on the verge of igniting the funeral pyres for heretics anew" (Der philosophische Glaube, 9th edition, Munich 1988, p. 73)
11 - The church and its sect commissioners - Every theologian does what he wants with the Bible
- Bible forger Luther
And in the period that followed, it was above all the sect commissioners of the churches who, with their untruths and mockery, dragged the original Christians of our time to the stake of public opinion, as can be read in the book "The Persecution of the Prophetess of God and the Followers of Jesus of Nazareth - The History of the Cruelty of Church and State", with examples from many centuries.
As in earlier times, they again fought against the living Spirit of God, who, as at all times, did not abide by the church's command of silence that no true prophets of God would be recognized and that church members would instead have to abide by the church's Bible book and its interpretation by theologians.
It is true that the Vatican Church and all other denominations, free churches, Pentecostal churches and Bible groups claim that the Bible has been the unchanged Word of God for around 1700 years, and indeed the entire Bible. Nevertheless, each of them has its own God and also its own Bible, whereby no two editions are the same, depending on how the Hebrew or Greek originals are translated and interpreted in our time. Ultimately, each denomination does what it wants with the Bible, tailored to its own interests. Yesterday stoning, today blessing, tomorrow perhaps stoning again, but certainly always: they only adhere to what serves their current purposes in this book.
Even today, they continue to falsify and distort as much as they can, just as Martin Luther did, who is particularly revered for being a Bible believer. For example, the church reformer claimed that it was Jesus himself who instituted the death penalty by reversing Luther's translation of Jesus' words "Whoever takes up the sword will perish by the sword" (Matthew 26:52).
To clarify: Jesus of Nazareth used these words to teach the law of sowing and reaping and He therefore admonished His disciple Peter to put the sword back into its sheath and not to strike. Martin Luther, however, tore the biblical passage out of context and changed one word in it so that it no longer says "Whoever takes up the sword shall perish by the sword", but "Whoever takes up the sword shall perish by the sword", again justifying the death penalty for countless contemporaries, supposedly because, in his opinion, Christ had commanded this. (The secular authorities and the limits of obedience, in: Luther Taschenausgabe, Volume 5, Berlin 1982, p.
112)
A single word changed, and the message of peace of God's Christ is already reversed. And such tricks are still the specialty of all theologians today, who do what they want with their Bibles.
12 - What two swords are still doing today - Bible rape by the Vatican Church
Another drastic example of this kind is the so-called two swords doctrine of the Church. There is a half-sentence in the biblical Gospel of Luke according to which it is enough if the disciples could possibly carry two swords with them on their journeys, probably a simple outward sign so as not to be attacked by robbers out of recklessness, but without using these swords (Luke 22, 36-38). However, the other evangelists in the Bible know nothing of this recommendation, which also raises the question of whether this was really the case. According to church doctrine, it was. And the Roman Catholic Church then constructed an interpretation of this biblical passage that no longer has anything to do with the actual meaning, quoted from the collection of dogmas: "By the statements of the Gospels we are instructed that in this her [the Church's] power are two swords, namely, the spiritual and the temporal ... Both are therefore in the power of the Church, namely the spiritual sword and the temporal sword. However, the former is for the Church, but the latter is to be wielded by the Church. The former (in the hands of) the priest, the latter in the hands of kings and soldiers, but with the consent and toleration of the priest. But it is fitting that one sword should be under the other and that temporal authority should submit to spiritual authority ... For as the truth testifies, spiritual authority must use and judge earthly authority when it has not been good." (From the bull "Unam Sanctam" by Pope Boniface VIII of November 18, 1302, quoted from Heinrich Denzinger/Peter Hünermann, Compendium of the Creeds and Church Doctrinal Decisions, 42nd edition, Freiburg/Basel/Vienna 2009, Doctrinal Proclamation No. 873)
Dear readers, if this is what Jesus of Nazareth is supposed to have meant, why did He not say it? Why did He then say "Whoever takes up the sword will perish by the sword"? Doesn't anyone who uses their common sense have to admit that this totalitarian fantasy of violence under the rule of the Vatican Church is only projected into its Bibles, which could then also be described as a rape of the Bible's content? But then what is the point of Bibles if the religious authorities do not adhere to their supposedly holy book anyway, but do whatever they want with it until the content is completely turned into its opposite; which also applies to the politicians with state authority, who to this day more or less bow to the spiritual sword of the priests claimed here. For they like to wield their temporal sword for this church, just as Pope Leo XIII demanded at the end of the 19th century, for example, when he declared to the German Emperor that Germany must become the sword of the Catholic Church (Pope Leo XIII in 1888 to Emperor Wilhelm II in Rome - see Walter Löhde, Das päpstliche Rom und das deutsche Reich). And to this end, politicians follow the corresponding clerical directives and continue to pile up the religious institutions with privileges, especially financial ones.
13 - No two Bibles are alike, but the state pays twice for everything
And because there are two large churches, especially in Germany, the state has to pay twice for all these privileges. In other words, both the financing of Catholic biblical studies and the
financing of Protestant biblical studies, even if each interpretation variant leads to different results in the interpretation of the Bible. They always serve the respective clerical purpose.
For example, Catholic religious education and Bible teaching at state schools is financed by the state, as is Protestant religious education and Bible teaching at state schools.
And while these Bible lessons may be Catholic or Protestant, they are not Christian, and the billions to be spent annually by the state on them should finally be abolished without replacement.
If you want to live a Christian life, you don't need a church Bible, you can make up your mind: I will learn to put the love of God and neighbour into practice in my life, just as all the prophets of the Old Covenant, just as Jesus of Nazareth and just as all the prophets of the New Covenant taught and teach; and not, as is claimed in church Bible constructs, no two of which are alike and with which everyone ultimately does what they want.
14 - Ecumenism with reference to the Bibles as a betrayal of the so-called "Magisterium" of the Vatican Church
And even where the two major denominations, Catholic and Protestant, want to join forces - they call it ecumenism because their Bibles, for example, say that they should be one - there is an immediate internal contradiction. When, for the first time in hundreds of years, a Catholic bishop at the so-called Ecumenical Church Congress 2021 in Germany in Frankfurt am Main also handed out the wafer, which for them is supposed to be the "body of Christ", to Protestants according to the Catholic rite, this immediately sparked fierce opposition from Catholic spheres. Cardinal Müller, the Vatican Church's highest guardian of the faith under Pope Joseph Ratzinger, condemned his colleague, saying that his actions were a provocation of the Catholic Church's magisterium. Because no one can "arbitrarily and at their own discretion", Cardinal Müller said (die-tagespost.de, 15.4.2021), declare the differences between the Protestant and Catholic creeds to be irrelevant or ignore them. And therefore, according to this magisterium, Protestants are not allowed to receive the Oblate celebrated by Catholics under the claim of infallibility. This contrast between the denominations is also evident, for example, in the fact that Catholic biblical scholars must always take Catholic doctrine as the basis in the event of Bible disagreements between themselves and Protestant biblical scholars. But then you might as well do without the Bible altogether if it is only being misused to construct your own religious opinion into it anyway.
15 - The crimes of the church - but enough is enough
Dear readers!
So what has the Bible achieved? Disagreeing and quarrelling theologians and countless church denominations, all of which refer to this book, but each interprets it differently. So many denominations and theologians, so many interpretations of the Bible. That alone is proof that they have all moved away from the original teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Everyone knows better and exalts themselves above the others, and all of them together exalt themselves above Jesus, the Christ. The church institutions and their branches and descendants have had hundreds of years to prove that a different, a better world is possible with their Bible book. The church expert Karlheinz Deschner sums up the result after intensive study of its history with the words "I know of no organization in the world in antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times,
including and especially the 20th century, that has been so long, so continuously and so hideously tainted with crimes as the church." (The Offended Church, Freiburg 1986, p. 42 f.)
But now it is enough. The time is over. Whichever way you look at it: Viewed as a whole, the Bible and the belief in the Bible show bad fruit again and again for 1700 years and in this they themselves give proof that God, the All-One, did not immortalize this book as His Word. And those who adhere to the book have already fallen into the abyss many times or are falling into the abyss that is opening up more and more and which is ultimately called climate collapse; together with their Bibles.
16 - The prophets of God knew nothing of a Bible
Then it is also said: the book is gone, the book is gone, no longer to be found in the deep abyss. But no one will miss it, because people will no longer look for bad fruits and their confirmation by priests, but for the good fruits that all true prophets of God brought at all times, in word and in deed, as Jesus of Nazareth predicted and which became the model for a new age, about which God, the Eternal, spoke through the word of the prophet Jeremiah: "I will put my law in their hearts and write it in their minds; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God" (Jeremiah 31:33). Jeremiah also said nothing about a coming Bible. But prophets of God have come and continue to come to people, even in the present day.
17 - Another chance for every Bible follower
However, anyone who wants to hold on to their Bible book despite all present and future perspectives and facts could resolve to live according to the truth still contained therein, for example according to the peace teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, which we have also referred to in this study, or according to the Ten Commandments by the prophet of God Moses and the Sermon on the Mount, together the true heart of the Bible book and a clear orientation for every honest seeker of truth. For even those who take one or more steps towards a brighter world with a single Bible word realized in their own lives, which still corresponds to the truth, will consequently be able to distinguish better and better between what is truth and what is a lie, just as Jesus of Nazareth also taught: "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)consequently also free from attachment to the Bible book, in which the "father of lies" also lurks, against whom Jesus of Nazareth warned urgently (John 8:44) and who also dwelled in that book.
But everyone is free to follow the truthful teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as they are also contained in the Bible - unlike the Bible-believing politicians of the CDU, FDP, Greens and SPD and unlike the many US and European Bible-believing politicians who represent the destructive and mass murderous war policy of their country in stark contrast to their Bibles. One could also consider the words of Jesus as they are recorded at the end of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 7:24-27): "Whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them well is like a wise man who built his house on rock. So when the rain fell and the waters came and the winds blew and beat against that house, it did not collapse, for it was founded on rock. And whoever hears these sayings of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. And when the rain fell, and the waters came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, it fell down, and the fall thereof was great." Or, as the prophet of God Isaiah had already announced:
"Nothing will remain of your proud army but an empty flagpole on a bare hill." (30, 17)
The text has also been published in print and can be quoted as follows: Journal "Der Theologe", ed. Dieter Potzel, issue no. 114: Schlagt eure Bibeln zu! Legt die Bibel weg!, Wertheim 2021, quoted from theologe.de/legt-die-bibel-weg.htm, version of 28.3.2024; Copyright © and imprint see here.