John Byer

The history of organized religion reveals that Man has found a way to corrupt every religious faith over time. Due to the ego of Man, he always believes that he knows better than previous generations, and this human condition is aggravated by a willingness to accommodate contemporary societal changes, even though they may not be in complete accord with the dogma of the faith. In the end, all of this leads to the inevitable corruption of the religion, especially if it has also become a business-like enterprise. These results were all predictable after the stage was set in the Garden of Eden. Going back to the dawn of humanity, original sin resulted because man thought that he could violate God’s law with impunity; the ego and arrogance of man clouded his judgment and nothing has changed since the beginning of time.

In Western Culture, the first reportable case of corruption is Judaism. It has not been the religion of Moses for over 3000 years … and over this long span of time, Mosaic Law has been altered and corrupted many times by priests, Rabbis, and even Greek invaders, so maybe it should be called something else. In response, God sent Christ to Earth for one exclusive purpose: prove to the Jews (primarily, the Sadducees) that their interpretation and understanding of Genesis 1:27 and the destiny of man’s soul was incorrect. To do this, Christ died on the cross, and resurrected from the dead, thereby confirming that spiritual life existed after physical death, and the grave was not the final resting place of man. Jesus vividly showed that Man possessed an eternal soul “made in the image of God” and due to his spiritual nature, he enjoyed everlasting life.  However, some followers of Jesus never really understood the purpose of his spiritual mission largely due to the forgery of scripture committed by Lucius, the Bishop of Cyrene, a devoted and ardent disciple of Christ (Lucius’ forgery created the second case of corruption). Thus, Christianity has also been corrupted … all due to the ignorance, arrogance, and hubris of man. Lucius never understood the real identity of Jesus … the assigned mission of Christ … or the purpose of the spiritual resurrection. His ignorance was incorporated into the Bible’s scripture when he wrote about 75% of the New Testament. Thus, present day Christianity doesn’t accurately represent the mission and teaching of Christ since neither God nor Jesus ever intended to start a religion in the name of Christ. And compounding this fact, Christianity today is not the monotheistic religion that it claims to be. Without logical perspective or any conscious thought, Christians direct their solemn prayers to Jesus as their “Lord and Savior,” a willful act in violation of the First Commandment. Due to all these latter issues, Christianity really represents the beliefs and dogma of Lucius, a singular fact which justifies the detective’s rationale in redefining the religion as Lucianity. 

And although, pre-Islamic historical data, facts, and records have been thoroughly scrubbed (so the truth of the Muslim prophet’s background remains a deep, dark secret and mystery forever), it is the detective’s percipient hunch that Mohammad was spurred to establish his religion not only because many idol-worshipers were present in Mecca, but also because of Christianity. The Prophet saw the Christians praying to Jesus as their Lord and God and that probably disturbed him very greatly, since he recognized it as a forbidden act. In the monotheistic faith of Mohammad, there was only room for one God (Allah), so Jesus was never identified as God or the Lord. The Islamic religion only recognizes Christ as a human being, the very same identification Jesus gave himself when he claimed to be the son of man numerous times in the Bible’s gospels. Isaiah and Daniel in the Old Testament also confirm Christ to be a human being when they identify him as a transgressor (i.e. sinner) and the son of man. This is Bible scripture that Christians have overlooked.  

Before the existence of Islam, Mecca, the birthplace and home of Mohammad, was  heavily populated by Jews and Christians; they were living in a region broadly known as Hiraz … a geographical name which has several different spellings. And based on the very limited information available the detective harbors a very strong suspicion that the Islamic Prophet’s first wife (KhadÄ«jah), fifteen years his senior, undoubtedly was a member of the Jewish faith. Mohammad sired several children with KhadÄ«jah and remained a faithful and devoted husband to his wife until her death. Based on their strong relationship, it is extremely probable that before Mohammad’s creation of his new faith, he had also subscribed to Judaism, especially since he was so familiar with Abraham, Moses, and the scripture of the Old Testament. The Muslim prophet even prayed toward Jerusalem most of his life; he did this until 624 AD, five years after his wife Khadijah died and eight years before his death at age 63, when he was allegedly advised during prayer to face Mecca instead of the Jewish city. A person doesn’t pray toward Jerusalem for many untold years, even without a Jewish wife, unless that person is devoted to the God of the Jews and the Hebrew religion. And according to Mohammad, “no human eyes can see” his God (i.e. Allah), so even the prophet subscribed to the same definition of the deity as reported in the Torah (i.e. Jewish Bible) when he described his Islamic God. He identified Allah to exist without a visible image, a description heretofore unique only to the Jewish God (Yahweh) … and not applicable to any other god from any other religion in the known world at the time. In this regard, the prophet adopted language exclusive to the “people of the book.” He modified the Torah’s wording of the First Commandment (Mosaic Law) to fit his specific needs. Mohammad then included it in the Qur’an as a core tenet of his Islamic religion. Once upon a time, it was also a core tenet of Judaism. But, like Christianity, and Judaism before it, Islam has also been thoroughly corrupted. God gave Moses ‘Ten Commandments’, not one, so the Lord would never inspire a belief that institutes rape and decapitation as the modus operandi to promote a religious dogma. Islam, in contrast with all other religions, had an army general as its leader and also its prophet, a very unusual combination. Mohammad successfully spread his self-styled religion by waging conquering battles against Medina, Mecca, and finally all of Arabia, just so he could forcibly install worship to Allah, his newly identified God. Unfortunately, the prophet’s overzealous and radical followers have adopted Mohammad’s wartime conquests as worthy and proper actions for them to emulate. Military conquest and brutal subjugation have now become approved operational procedures in their forceful and deadly methods of conversion, except in doing so, they have failed to march down a truly spiritual and holy path. The Islamic Prophet, like Jesus Christ, would probably repudiate what is occurring in the religion that bears his name.   

Post Script by Detective:
Thus, Abraham, the Patriarch of the Jews, and a man who possessed a special ability to communicate with God, distantly fathered three different religious faiths, all of which have been corrupted over time, and no longer completely represent their original intent ... they are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  The detective has spoken very frankly and directly about the staggering amount of corruption in the New Testament, and within his writings, he has severely lambasted the transgressors, namely -- the Sadducees (Jews) for corrupting the meaning of Genesis 1:27 and Lucius (also a Jew) for corrupting the gospels and epistles of Christ’s apostles. Some people could be offended since they are very sensitive about harsh criticism, especially when the finger of blame is pointed only at the Jews. The historical record of the last twenty centuries provides ample, justifiable reason for their edgy reaction to the author’s criticism. However, a good detective deals with “just the facts” not only because they represent the truth, but also because they are very stubborn things to avoid and circumvent during an honest investigation. Yet, the same facts work in two ways and they reveal to the detective that the misguided and sinful offenders of the past are now dead, and their progeny had absolutely nothing to do with the sins and crimes of their Jewish forefathers. Therefore, no blame can placed upon the children and the twenty centuries of descendants, for the corruption of the Mosaic Code and the execution of Jesus, due to their innocence and total lack of complicity. 

From the foregoing discussion, one would not know that the Detective is extremely appreciative of the Jewish people. Nonetheless, he wonders where the world would be… if the Jews didn’t exist. It was their singular, uncommon connection with God, along with their divinely-inspired Books of scriptural knowledge that gave him a keen understanding of his own innate nature: he learned that the essence of his being is an invisible, immortal soul (Genesis 1:27). The existence of this soul means he has a spiritual reason and purpose for his life … a life which has also been blessed with an everlasting destiny. In consequence, the Detective believes that every God-fearing, God-loving person on this planet owes a big debt of gratitude to the Jews and should get down on their knees and thank God that these Israelites (unlike all other people on this planet), knew how to pray and communicate directly with the Lord. After Abraham, others followed: there was Isaac, Jacob (i.e. Israel), Moses, Elijah, Isaiah, Daniel, and Jesus … all of them had direct or indirect contact with the Lord God, and all of them are identified as Jews. The Hebrews had a unique relationship with the Creator because (as reported by Moses in the Book of Deuteronomy), it was the Lord’s divine judgment that they were a ‘peculiar people’ unto the ‘Lord thy God’ since they stood alone in the world as a holy people. Why? Because the Jews knew how to pray, not only by deferentially kneeling with their palms held high into the air (thus acknowledging that God was housed in Heaven), but also by the manner of their earnest words. However, and far more importantly, they knew the Lord God was the real, and true, entity to whom their prayers should be directed, and not some earthbound object of worship. Unlike the idols of gold and silver with graven images to which many people worshipped and prayed at the time, the Jews invisible God in heaven listened to them and in due course, the Lord appropriately responded to their solicitous prayers. Thus, the Jews earned their status as ‘holy’ because of their devout prayer, where they manifested their faith by focused, sincere, and properly directed prayer to the Lord God in heaven. In turn, those prayers eventually created a clear channel of open communication between a responsive God and the ‘chosen’ people. It was a momentary time in history when no other race or culture matched the spirituality of the Hebrews. As such, the example of the Jews provides an important lesson for everyone, and also a virtue everyone should emulate and follow in his or her daily life. 

In summary, several thousand years ago, the Jews developed an uncanny connection to God; they were able to do this because of their holiness and devout spirituality. Then subsequent to Moses, their knowledge and understanding of God was scripturally broadcast to rest of the world via the Torah (i.e. Mosaic Law). As time passed, the Jews believed that some of the tenets in the Mosaic Code (i.e. Torah) were wrong so they revised the dogma which eventually led to the loss of meaning and purpose for human life. This was sin in its truest sense, since original Judaism became so corrupted that some Jews even resorted to idol worship. Judaism was no longer Judaism as originally proclaimed by Moses since the Sadducee Rabbis had dismissed a fundamental “Law” (Genesis 1:27) which stated that Man, both male and female, was made in the image of God. As a consequence, Isaiah and Daniel earnestly prayed to God. The Lord answered their prayers hundreds of years later to establish the fact that God exists and the Lord really does run the world since “He” fulfilled all verses of prophecy. The Lord also sent Jesus to earth in order to confirm Mosaic Law and show the Sadducees that their belief about Man’s spiritual nature was irrevocably wrong. Due to all this Jewish history, which finally resulted in the dispatch of Jesus as God’s emissary, over one-third of the Earth’s ‘Gentile’ population is now the beneficiary of this special Jewish relationship with the one and only true Lord God of the Universe.  Today, thanks to the Abrahamic and Mosaic Jews of the past, the true God of Mankind is known to all humanity. In short, that is why the Detective is very grateful to the Jewish people.  

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