Tässä wikisivu miehestä. Ja tällä tavalla tuossa vuonna 1926 julkaistussa kirjassa kuvaillaan Raamatun alkuperän käsittelytyyliä:Esimerkiksi Joseph Wheless kirjoittaa Raamatun alkuperää käsittelevässä kirjassaan: ”Hyväntahtoinen lukija ei varmaankaan kestäisi apokalyptistä näkyä ystävällisestä, katuvasta sielusta kurjien syntisten joukossa (jotka on tuomittu joko perisynnin tai jonkin tekemänsä kuolemansynnin vuoksi) ja sitä, että näitä syntisiä ’piinataan tulella ja rikillä pyhien enkelien nähden ja Karitsan nähden’, jotka kaikki katselevat itsetyytyväisinä, kun ’heidän piinansa savu nousee aina ja ikuisesti, eikä heillä ole Kaikkivaltiaan Jumalan vihan kiivaudesta lepoa päivällä eikä yöllä’ (Ilm. XIV, 10, 11). Tällainen on kaiken rakkauden Jumalan henkeytetty ilmestys.” – Is It God’s Word? (Vartiotorni 1. helmikuuta 1985 sivu 4-5)
Vt-lehden lainaus on kirjan sivuilta 396-397 ja tässä on koko teksti kyseisen väliotsikon alta:AN EXPOSITION OF THE FABLES AND MYTHOLOGY OF THE BIBLE AND OF THE IMPOSTURES OF THEOLOGY - BY JOSEPH WHELESS
Mikä ihme ajaa irrottamaan harhaanjohtavan lyhyen lainauksen oman mielipiteen tueksi kirjasta, jonka tarkoitusperät ovat täysin vastakkaiset omalle mielipiteelle? Tuo kun ei ole poikkeuksellista, tämä aiemmin esillä ollut esimerkki liittyy kolminaisuuteen:A DAMNED PLACE IS HELL
All these wonders and this good and godly company our repentant thief must have missed. His departure from life was under the new dispensation of love and mercy, after the fires of brimstone had been kindled by Christ himself in Sheol, and, in providence, it had become the Christian hell. If, according to the hypothesis which we are examining, having missed heaven, the repentant thief's soul was doomed to the Christian hell, what a hell of a doom awaited it! We know so much about it already from the hell-reeking pages of the gospels of love, and from the blood- curdling Inferno of the "man who has been in hell" on a personally conducted tour with a good old pagan guide, there resident, and also by the glimpse of Dives "in anguish in this flame" -- that we turn away with a shudder of soul from the spectacle, and will not look for even a thief in such a damned place or "place of the damned," if that sounds less profane, as it is more scriptural and theological. And surely the gentle reader would not endure the apocalyptic vision revealing the genial repentant soul among poor sinners (either of original or of mortal sin), who are there "tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb," who all look on complacent while "the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night" from the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God (Rev. xiv, 10, 11). This is the inspired revelation of the God of all love.
What a horrid caricature of the Christian Yahveh's mercy is that of the abominable Koran of the infidel, with its crude brutal bullying fate of the unbeliever: "Verily, those who disbelieve our signs, we will surely cast to be broiled in hell fire; so often as their skins shall be well burned, we will give them other skins in exchange, that they may taste the sharper torment; for Allah is mighty and wise" (Sutra iv)! Oh, the holy mercies of the Christian faith, wherein no such fiendish skin-grafting is practiced for our greater torment! Turning away in holy horror and godly fear from such a hell, we would fervently utter in spirit the prayer: "God have mercy on the souls in hell"; but are checked by the remembrance that this our prayer would not do them any good, for it is revealed that "the wrath of God abideth on the damned" – and "the torments of the damned shall last for ever and ever." without even any such graft of new skin as the brutish Mohammedan god provides. Besides, equally inspired revelation warns us that the souls of the Christian damned in the Christian hell, "are never released, notwithstanding the mass for dead souls" (probably meaning souls of the dead) -- no, "the soul that sinneth it shall surely die." Why then torment dead souls? This brings us up with a sudden jerk in purgatory, whither we have been steering our course for some pages back. Let us look around for our crucified thief here.
Katsotaan sitten lainatun kirjan tarjontaa pakanallisen alkuperän valossa:Historioitsija Arthur Weigall huomauttaa: ”Jeesus Kristus ei koskaan maininnut sellaista ilmiötä, eikä sanaa ’kolminaisuus’ esiinny missään kohdassa Uudessa testamentissa. Kirkko vain omaksui tämän ajatuksen 300 vuotta Herramme kuoleman jälkeen.” – The Paganism in Our Christianity. (ti-FI s. 6)
Ja kirja The Paganism in Our Christianity (Pakanuus kristillisyydessämme) selittää: ”[Kolminaisuuden] alkuperä on tyystin pakanallinen.” ( ti-FI sivu 11)
The Twelve Disciples derived From Zodiac (p. 25)
The 27 books of the New Testament Canon is invalid (p. 37)
The name Mary is of pagan origin (p. 41)
The virgin birth is of pagan origin (p. 44, 47, 60)
The early life of Jesus is totally unknown (p. 49)
Jesus born in a stable and wrapped in swaddling clothing is of pagan origin (p. 52)
Miracles of Jesus are of pagan origin (p. 58)
Jesus' 40 day temptation in wilderness is of pagan origin (p. 61)
Earthquake at cross is false (p.62)
Jesus Crucifixion was a Jewish human sacrifice of pagan origin (p.69, 76)
Jesus Side Pierced is of pagan origin (p.83, 84)
Jesus never actually died, two angels were only men (p.93, 94)
Ascension is of pagan origin (p. 100)
Jesus suffering to save us is of pagan origin (p. 106)
Jesus decent into Hades is of pagan origin (p. 113)
Jesus "hung on a tree" is of pagan origin (p. 118)
Jesus the "Rock of salvation" is of pagan origin (p. 129)
Jesus the "slain Lamb of God" is of pagan origin (p. 131, 132)
"Washed in the Blood of the lamb" is of pagan origin (p. 132)
Baptism and the Lord's Supper are both of pagan origin (p. 134, p. 146, 147)
Phrase "Soldiers of Christ" is of pagan origin (p. 135)
Jesus as "the Shepherd" is of pagan origin (p. 136)
Lords Supper is of pagan origin (p. 146, 147)
The idea of "blood atonement for sins" is of pagan origin (p. 152, 158)
Jesus "Begotten of God" is of pagan origin (p. 169)
Incarnate Logos of John 1:1 is of pagan origin, The "pre-existent angel" is a 4th century concept (p. 172, 173-175)
The Trinity is of pagan origin (p. 182)
The "Lord's Day" (Sunday) is of Pagan Origin (p. 209, 210-211)
Jewish Sabbath and the Sunday Lord's Day both of pagan origin (p. 136, p. 209, 210-211)
Miksi Vt-lyyrikko on lainannut tuollaista auktoriteetikseen ja nähnyt vaivan etsiä oliko kolminaisuuskin siellä? Yksi syy lienee se, että lyyrikko tietää, etteivät todistajat vaivaudu tarkistamaan asioita, joita sitten sokeasti toistelevat vertaisilleen tietämättömille.