Foreword
If you think that this is a Christian book you would be disappointed,
it is not. However, if you seek the way, the truth and the life, regardless of
your religion, this book is dedicated to you. This book can be more accurately
considered as a Biblical book. It attempts to present how far Christianity has
departed from the Bible, and how far has the Bible misaligned from the original
Hebrew Scriptures, where it came from.
My original intention of writing a book is to
reinforce my faith in the God that my church says I should believe in, and that
that God is the God that the Bible is talking about. My other purpose is to
learn more about what God is saying in the Bible. To my dismay, the more I read
the Bible the more I see the gap between the teachings of the church and the
teachings in the Bible. It scares me to realize that this gap is so huge that
it spells the difference between Salvation and going to hell.
One strong indication of the gap between the Bible
and Christianity is the teaching on the Sabbath. The God of the Bible says it
is the sign between Him and His people forever. The violation of the Sabbath
brought destruction to Jerusalem in particular and Israel in general. On the
contrary, Christianity teaches about either the Lord’s Day or Seventh day. The
Sabbath that the Bible is talking about is neither of the two. This is one
great issue that god believers deserve to know. Fortunately, there are still
passages in the Bible that show how the true Sabbath can be determined.
Another problem is that the God of the Bible says
those who call on His name shall be saved, and commanded not to take that name
in vain. This is one of the ways by which our English Bibles depart from the
original Hebrew Scriptures that it came from. The name of the God in the
original Hebrew text is in Hebrew. How can the faithful who wants to be saved
call on that name when it is hidden by the English phrase “the Lord” in our
English Bibles? Consequently, the name has been taken by Israel and the world
in vain by throwing it to oblivion.
Another problem is about the name of the Son our
Savior. The Book of the Acts chapter 4, verse 12 says that there is no other
name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. This passage is
referring to the name of our Savior. The whole New Testament calls our Savior
Jesus. Common sense, however, tells us that our Savior was born Hebrew and must
have a Hebrew name. The name Jesus is not a Hebrew name, and there is nothing
Hebrew in it. The clue that suggests strongly that this name is not the
original Hebrew name of our Savior is the fact that the name was Iesus not
Jesus in the 1611 edition of the King James Version.
Be ready to encounter more surprises as you read
this book. The truth may hurt your feelings the way it shattered my heart, but
truth must be known and must prevail. May the Father and heaven through His Son
our Savior give us wisdom to make our life worthy to His sight.
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