The Book of John makes an artistic entrance. The gospel commences with a piece which since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was discovered it was copied from a scroll about the ‘Law’.
The Christian theologists of the early church around the fourth century tampered with the original scroll removing the word ‘Law’ and replacing it with the word ‘Word’. Other small alternations were made to create a flowing rhythm to market god and to make the gospel sound mystic and appealing. My understanding is the original works were from the Essenes. In the works uncovered the names John and Jesus have not been recorded – at all. The interesting point is the Essenes were destroyed some 40 years after the supposed time of Jesus and John and yet they did not document them.
Gospel of John: before the world was created, the Word already existed, he was with God, and he was the same as God. From the very beginning the Word was with God. Through him God made all things, not one thing in all creation was made without him. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out. God sent his messenger, a man named John, who came to tell people about the light, so that all should hear the message and believe. He himself was not the light; he came to tell about the light. He came to his own country, but his own people did not receive him. Some, however, did receive him and believed in him, so he gave them the right to become God’s children. They did not become God’s children by natural means, that is, by being born as the children of a human father, God himself was their Father.
The Word became a human being and, full of grace and truth, lived among us. We saw his glory, the glory which he received as the Father’s only Son. John spoke about him. He cried out, This is the one I was talking about when I said, He comes after me, but he is greater than I am because he existed before I was born.
God gave the Law through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God. The only son, who is the same as God and is at the Father’s side.
I will reiterate: In the works of the Essenes, before Christianity, this similar text was written except ‘Word’ was ‘Law’. This was uncovered when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. This would indicate Christianity borrowed their source of information from the Essenes and then altered them with Christian interpretations. This Christian statement indicates Word as an entity, and God being that entity. Life was brought from Word (Law) and yet Human kind does not become God’s children by ‘natural’ means. Although we can speculate about mystical or heavenly means – this strongly indicates an interference that is not a part of our natural earth. And if ‘No one has ever seen God’ then who did Moses (and the others) see in the Old Testament? Equally if Jesus is God than if no one saw him then how did the crucifixion and resurrection happen and be witnessed?
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