John Byer

Before beginning this focused discussion into the resurrection, it is necessary to resolve several vitally important issues. First, why would God descend from heaven, incarnate within the physical body of a human being, willingly undergo a bloody earthly crucifixion, and then die in order to forgive the sins committed by man, when it is man who has committed sin by violating the will, ordinances, and commandments of God? Furthermore, why haven’t Christians raised this question with their pastors? Instead, they readily accept and eagerly believe every ministerial pro forma wordy sermon without any measure of dispute. Why are there so many sheep? Only heaven knows … but the answer probably resides in the traditional acceptance of the Holy Bible as the recognized supreme authority on all matters relating to faith and morals. People even place their hand on the Bible in Courts of law when they swear to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Therefore, as a matter of traditional custom, almost every church-going Christian robotically believes the Bible represents the “gospel” truth and contains the inspired word of God.  However, such is not the case (not by a long shot), all thanks to the sneaky skullduggery of Lucius, the Bishop of Cyrene; sadly, his deceitful, very extensive scriptural forgery is visible throughout all the gospels and epistles of the New Testament. Consequently, as a result of his extremely devious and underhanded malfeasance, Christians have not understood the quintessential issues of their faith for the past twenty centuries. This is something that doesn’t seem possible, but the facts loudly speak for themselves. And then, complicating this whole sordid mess, Christians believing and unthinkingly adopting the false scriptural beliefs of Lucius, have responded to the above question about Jesus dying for the sins of Man with an answer that is completely backwards. Why? … because it points in the wrong direction by a full 180 degrees, the polar opposite of where it should be. Isn’t it man who needs to solicit forgiveness from God, and not the other way round?  Thus, if it is Man who needs the forgiveness of God, wouldn’t it be logical for a man to die on the cross, and not the Lord God? As such, there is only one undeniable conclusion: Jesus was a flesh and blood human being --- something clearly reported to be the case in the gospels of John (20:27) and Luke (24:33-43). Similarly, this scriptural evidence is  supported by the prophets Isaiah and Daniel. After receiving messages from God, they both announced that the Messiah (i.e. Jesus) would be a man. Likewise, Jesus Christ identifies himself as the Son of man, not as the Son of God. Unknown to everybody, this latter identification about the Son of God only ended up in the New Testament when Lucius inserted it while he was forging the epistles and gospels. Compounding the identity issue of Christ, Jesus also said that he was sent to earth, and he didn’t come on his own initiative (e.g. see John 5:37). If Jesus was God or the Son of God, then Christ would not be sent anywhere. Instead, he would be doing the sending. Therefore, the deeply held belief of Christians that identifies Christ (as their Lord and God) is not justified by one shred of “inspired” Biblical evidence. In fact, this belief doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense and there is absolutely no evidence of any kind to support such a belief, other than the corrupted scripture of Lucius. Everyone knows that no one can harm or kill God, so God would not and did not descend to Earth in order to sacrifice ‘Himself’ on a cross. The Lord is an everlasting and eternal entity, which means that the resurrection of God would never occur. The reason for this is simple: God cannot die, would not die, and will never die under any circumstance. If God doesn’t die, then there can’t ever be a resurrection back to life. On the other hand, a human being can die and physically resurrect after death (e.g. Jesus on Easter Sunday), but only with direct help and assistance from Almighty God, the Lord of the Universe. This point of logic will be repeated so that it is clearly understood and not passed over: God can’t die, so God would never resurrect and additionally, the ‘Son of God’ never existed. Isaiah 7: 14 has been misinterpreted and misunderstood for many centuries: it states “Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son …;” it doesn’t say God will have a ‘Son,’ it only reports that the Lord would give a sign. And that sign was the pregnancy of the Virgin Mary when the soul of Christ was spiritually introduced into her womb (almost exactly the same way that the spirit/soul of Jesus would be re-incarnated inside his dead physical body about nine [ 9 ] months plus 33.5 years later). Christ’s type of birth doesn’t make Jesus the ‘Son of God’ in the sense that people think about children because God doesn’t have any human DNA since the Lord has no flesh and no image (Exodus 20); God is invisible spiritual ‘Light.’ People who believe Jesus is their Lord and God have a very limited view and perspective about the true nature of God. In fact, it is absolute folly to believe Jesus was God incarnate; this Christian belief only reveals man’s total inability to comprehend the ‘spiritual world’ and full majesty of the Lord God. People need to understand that God is a spiritual being who runs the entire Universe, and as such, would never reduce ‘Himself’ to fit inside a puny man or even a puny Earth. It is fantasy to think otherwise. The Lord will always be a spiritual entity, and never a physical entity cloaked inside the physical body of a human being. The essence of God is immeasurable, unlimited spiritual energy and the Lord has no image that is visible to man: read Exodus 20:1-6. In contrast, the spirit or soul of Jesus was capable of incarnating into the body of a physical man (a fact that means Christ was guilty of Original Sin in a prior lifetime). Jesus is not God or the ‘Son of God.’ He identified himself as the ‘First and the Last’ to John on Patmos Island … meaning his soul was inside the physical body of Adam and it was this humanity that made his bloody crucifixion possible. Therefore, Jesus is not the Lord or the ‘Son of God’ – he was a man, no different than any other human male, except for the elevated status of his soul which is proven by God’s selection of him to be the Messiah. In this regard, people have been hopelessly ensnarled inside a massive web of theological lies forged and embedded into Bible scripture by Lucius causing them to misunderstand the true identity of Jesus. 

Ever since Lucius falsely wrapped a blanket of divinity around the character of Jesus  in the first century, Christians have been fooled and misled by his deception. In his defense, this divine attribute is something Lucius, the ghostwriting Bishop of Cyrene, honestly believed that Jesus possessed … it was a firm conviction based upon his personal observations. However, the Bishop was wrong, because he never really understood the true identity of Jesus or why Jesus was sent to earth by God. In any event, Lucius was the one who misidentified Jesus as the Lord God and the ‘Son of God’ when he forged the scripture inside the New Testament. He created the deceitful lies and fraud which have hoodwinked and deceived people for two millennia about the real identity of Christ. As presented in the arguments above, Jesus confirms his human identity in Bible scripture (i.e. scripture which hasn’t been the subject of forgery and corruption by Lucius). Christ also proclaimed numerous times that he was a Son of man, a Bible term that means “human being” (e.g. see Matthew 26:2).

Hopefully, everyone now understands why Jesus was not God, or the Son of God. It is the detective’s strong hunch that Lucius reached the false conclusion that Jesus was the Lord (or God) after he saw Christ resurrect, and maybe after Jesus saved Lazarus by bringing him back to life. However, in these two instances, Lucius did not know nor comprehend that God was the one who brought Jesus back to physical life, and if Lazarus was really dead, then it was the power of God who Jesus was able to tap in order to save the life of Lazarus. In any event, these assumed powers of Jesus, along with his ability to heal the sick, blind, and lame only by words from his mouth and without the use of any medicines are alluded to very similarly in The Doctrine of Addai, the Apostle. This manuscript was written by Lucius (according to the newly discovered findings of the detective) long before he forged the gospels and epistles of the Bible. Nevertheless, in this book, Lucius reports that these powers are only reserved to God or the Son of God. This is the foundational data and history utilized by the detective to conclude that it was these events which induced Lucius to identify Jesus as the Lord and God, false characterizations of Christ which have universally been made by Christians for almost 2000 years. Lucius also transformed the ‘Son of man’ into the ‘Son of God’ to elevate the status of Jesus in the eyes of the Jews. 

Be this as it may, the Easter Day resurrection of Jesus had purpose, meaning, and deep spiritual enlightenment because Christ, the anointed one of God, was a human being. It was a real, and a deliberately, choreographed event that occurred in 30AD … a unique, one of a kind event which followed exactly the designed blueprint of the Lord and it happened right on God’s schedule. Precisely planned centuries in advance and then carefully watched and meticulously supervised by the Lord God, the resurrection supersedes all other events in recorded history. Nothing else even comes close, since this quintessential event directly affects every single person who has ever existed on the planet … no matter if they are currently alive or dead, young or old, Jewish, Moslem, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, or even pagan because it reveals that all members of the human race have a future beyond the grave. This joyous news about the resurrection of Man (all human beings) was something that provided an immediate spiritual benefit to the Sadducees since they had dismissed this Mosaic belief and even succumbed to the use of idols in order to provide some form of meaning to their empty lives.  As such, it “saved” the Jews, or more correctly, the Sadducees. At long last, the prayers of the Prophets Isaiah and Daniel were finally answered by God. The resurrection of Jesus corroborated the truth of Genesis 1:27 while simultaneously disproving the belief of the Sadducees about the future of man’s soul.  Specifically, it showed the Sadducees that they were endowed with a spiritual body (i.e. a soul) which was immortal and everlasting, thus justifying a divine reason for Man’s physical existence.  From a human perspective, nothing even comes close to this momentous revelation since it brilliantly discloses that life has spiritual purpose and genuine meaning. The resurrection of Christ reaffirmed the Mosaic Code and the original belief of Judaism regarding the nature of Man’s soul. It did so by demonstrating there is spiritual existence after death. It also verified that the spiritual body of every Man (male and female), is truly made in the image of God. This spiritual event has extremely significant ramifications because Jesus was a man living with a constitution of flesh, blood, and bones just like all other human beings. This truthful fact was proven by his horrific bloody scourging, death by crucifixion, and the DNA exam of the blood stains found on the linen cloth that draped his bloodied body in the tomb. Jesus Christ’s physical death proved he was a human being, and not God, as Lucius falsely claimed --- Jesus was only a man. However, many docile, easily persuadable people still believe the godhead of Jesus is true, despite the undeniable and obvious falsity that Lucius forged into the scripture of the Bible. These people do not seem to realize that their belief contradicts and undermines the very essence of Christianity since it makes the resurrection of Christ a meaningless event for Man.

Nonetheless, the fact that Jesus was a human being and resurrected from his tomb has immense significance for the destiny of all humanity. On a theological level, the resurrection was God’s very dramatic and direct message to the Sadducees of Judea,   a message which explicitly countered their false belief that man did not survive after physical death and his ensuing burial in a grave. This false belief was an egregious “SIN” since it violated the ‘Law’ which God had handed down to Moses on Mt. Sinai and the covenant that all Jews had approved by universal acclaim. Disregarding the word of God as it is reported in Genesis 1:27, the Sadducees no longer accepted the Mosaic dogma proclaiming that man possessed everlasting life … believing instead that Man had lost his immortal soul (the image of God) ever since original sin and his fall from grace in the Garden of Eden. The resurrection of Jesus Christ demonstrated that they were wrong and it also rebuked their belief about the nature of man. The Sadducees were vividly shown to be wrong, not only in their understanding of man’s spiritual nature … but also in their interpretation of God’s Law as reported in the Book of Genesis. Christ, the anointed one of God, visibly proved by his sacrificial death, and resurrection, that ‘Man’ is really made in the image of God. 

The proof that Jesus was a man and not God comes directly from the Bible. In Isaiah 53:12, a verse either overlooked or never read by any Christians, it states “he (i.e. the suffering servant) hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors.” This verse is a reference to Jesus, so If Christ is a transgressor (i.e. a sinner) then he could not be God. The Lord God can’t transgress or sin against ‘Himself’, and it is God or most likely the Angel Gabriel who is transmitting God’s message to Isaiah. In either case, the veracity of the message should not be subject to doubt, especially since all other details of Chapter 53 were fulfilled exactly as Isaiah reported them 700 years earlier. Thus, according to Isaiah’s scripture, the suffering servant (the Messiah) would be a sinner, and that revelation reveals Jesus to be a man, not the Lord or God. This is also confirmed by Jesus when he spiritually appeared to John on the Isle of Patmos and identified himself as the first and the last … an admission which confirms the soul within Christ was the same soul that was inside Adam at the time of his incarnation. And, in the Garden of Eden, Adam was a sinner and therefore also a transgressor as God revealed in Isaiah 53:12.  

In a similar vein, the prophet Daniel had a vision where a Son of man approaches God (Chapter 7, verse 13). Sometime later, the vision is confirmed to be accurate and true when the Angel Gabriel delivers God’s message to Daniel. This message from God (Daniel 9:24) reports that the vision would be sealed-up inside a 490 year covenant which had been established with the Jews. The Son of man is defined as a human being (according Bible scripture) and Jesus reported many times that he was a Son of man. He did this so there would be no mistake about his real identity as a human being. And, because Christ was granted extraordinary earthly powers by God, he didn’t want people identifying him as God, the Lord, the son of God, or even as some angel. Then on Calvary, Jesus (i.e. Son of man) spiritually ascended to heaven from the cross when he died on Passover, thus fulfilling God’s word to Daniel. The only person who ever identified Jesus as the Son of God during the first century was Lucius when he corrupted all of the New Testament as explained in the foregoing paragraphs and the book Lucianity. The apostles never identified Jesus as God, Lord, or the Son of God, because they all knew he was the long-awaited Messiah, so they addressed him as Rabbi, Teacher, or Master.

And, as previously reported, Jesus admitted to being a man when he identified himself as the First and the Last, (i.e. Adam, a human being). As such, a mortal man is not capable of transforming his puny soul into the spiritual entity that humans know as God. It is impossible, and thus Jesus was not the Lord, God, or the Son of God, but only a man, albeit a very special man in the eyes of God. This should be fantastic news for every Christian since Jesus demonstrated via his resurrection that Man is a spiritual entity made in the image of God … who is also endowed with an immortal soul which upon physical death will not be confined to a grave or tomb for the rest of eternity. If Jesus was the Lord or God when the resurrection occurred, then none of this truth about the nature of man and his afterlife would be confirmed,

Thus, in conclusion: If Jesus Christ is God or the ‘Son of God’… as Lucius and many Christians profess, and firmly believe, then the resurrection of Jesus is an event that has no meaning because everyone knows that God can do anything and everything. Except, it is preposterous to think or assume that someone could kill God! That will never happen! Therefore, God’s resurrection is fantasy and will never occur. However, if Jesus was a human being as he and the prophets claimed, then his resurrection has enormous meaning since it shows that the destiny of all Mankind is everlasting life. 

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