MATTHEW UNWITTINGLY PROVES THE FICTION OF THE NEW
TESTAMENT
Hugh
Fogelman
The unknown
author of Matthew unwittingly made it obvious that the NEW testament is a work
of fiction a ―deception of history, a façade ― thereby proving that
the NT is indeed NOT “Godly” inspired.
Let us
review just one example related in the “gospel” of Matthew to see if these events
actually happened ―
an event of this magnitude would have
been the greatest event in the history of the world. Unfortunately for the
veracity of Christianity, not a single word is written of this event by anyone
else in the history of the world; not by any other New Testament author or any
historian of that time (within 100 years). In other words, the story told in
Matthew stands alone ― totally unsupported in Christianity, history or
logic ― in all of recorded history.
The
Events:
The
unknown author of Matthew, and only him ― not the authors
of Mark, Luke, John, James, Peter or even Paul ― tells us of a profound
event occurred after Jesus gave up the ghost and rose to heaven. Let's read about it from (Matthew 27.45-53)
from the King James Version of the New Testament>
Now
from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stood there, when
they heard that, said, This man calleth
for Elias. And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge,
and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. The
rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. Jesus, when he had cried again with a
loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
And,
behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom;
and the earth
did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the
saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection,
and went
into the holy city, and appeared unto many
The
Perspective:
Flavius
Josephus 1 was a renowned
Jewish historian who wrote during the second half of the first century CE. He produced
two major works-History of the Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews. Flavius
Josephus had not one single word to say about this most extraordinary
occurrence; the dead clawing their way out of the graves and going to town. As
a matter of fact, not a single contemporary historian/writer on this planet ever
wrote about these events. As for
Josephus, the early church fathers were so embarrassed that no one wrote about
Jesus, they later forged parts of Josephus writing in an attempt to insert at
least a brief mention of Jesus. However, even this was silent on
the dead (zombies) going to town.
Yes,
these early church forgers conveniently left out all of Matthew’s unverifiable big
events such as:
·
The
three “wise men;”
·
All
those miracles Jesus supposedly performed;
·
The
“trial;”
·
The
“crucifixion,”
·
The
so-called resurrection; and
·
The
zombies going to town.
If
anyone would have recorded these events it would have been Josephus, even if
nothing more that a passing mention. But, he did not write a single word, a jot
or tittle, because these events never happened.
Fifty
days after the alleged zombie event, Peter was giving a speech recorded
in Acts 2, but said not a single word about the saints rising from the dead,
from their graves, going to the city and appearing to many. Ask yourself why
this conspicuous absence of these world shaking events’ because they never
happened. The gospel of Matthew lied!
Paul, who spoke at great length (1
Corinthians 15) to convince his Gentile listeners that Jesus' resurrection had
occurred, had not a single word to say about the dead rising and walking into
the city. Surely his audience would have
qreadily accepted the resurrection story of Jesus if
the saints rose from their graves, walked to the city and “appearing to many.” Again, the silence of Paul screams – it never happened!
Christianity
agrees that the gospel of Mark (another unknown author) was written
before any other work in the NEW testament. Ask
yourself ―did Mark simply forget to include the
greatest supernatural events in the history of mankind when he wrote his
gospel? You know the answer. It never
happened!
About
twenty percent of the gospels are repetitive. So it is not as if NEW testament writers did not like to repeat what others had
written. Repetition of the most mundane
events occurs everywhere. Ask yourself,
why Mark, Luke, John, James, Peter or Paul did not write a single word about
the dead zombies rising from their graves, marching through
Continue
asking yourself questions and THINK!.
·
Why
does Matthew think that no one should know the names of the saints which rose
from their graves?
·
Why
does Matthew not tell us with whom the zombies met (“appeared unto many”)? or
·
What
did the zombies say ― assuming they said anything?
·
Where
did the zombies go after entering the city?
·
Did
the bodies of the saints return to their graves after a polite visit? or
·
Did
the zombies remain for years among the residents of
·
Did
the zombies die again?
·
Were
the families ― husbands, wives and children ― of the dead who “came
out of the graves” (zombies) overjoyed at having their loved ones return home?
Conclusion:
If you
honestly have thought this through the answer will not surprise you now. It never happened. The so-called NEW testament is a sham, a
hoax, a work of fiction ― a myth!
It was simply a collection of writings, edited and reedited by the early
church fathers from 325 CE until 397 when the NEW testament was canonized as the “official”
religion of the literate, ignorant, subservient and poor gentiles in
Unfortunately,
almost 1,700 years later, so many innocent people are still totally dependent
on their clergy to tell them what to believe – being too lazy to do the
requisite study to find out the truth. It is so sad to know that people place
their eternal lives in the “blind faith” trust of this “document of deception,” the so-called NEW testament.
Footnote
1. Flavius Josephus was born 37 C.E., at
Antiquities of the
Jews;
a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from the beginnings of Biblical
history to the outbreak of the war in 66 C.E., in twenty books. It was completed
93-94 C.E.
War of the Jews (The History Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem), written in 74-75 C.E.
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