INTRODUCTION
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The Christian religion is not the only one that is
based on the Bible, there are others as well, such
as the Jewish religion. The reason, why we have only
discussed Christianity (and omitted Judaism, etc.)
in the thirteenth Chapter is that now-a-days it takes
the first place among all religions founded on the
Bible whilst the Jewish religion and the like are
left in the background hence it may be understood
that our criticism on the Bible will equally hold
good in the case of Judaism, etc., the allied religions
which are of secondary importance compared with Christianity
which is of primary importance.
Our
criticism is only directed against the Bible which
is believed in by the Christians and Jews alike and
upon which their respective religions are founded.
There are many Bhasha and Sanskrit translations of
the Bible by well-known Missionaries. The perusal
of these has given rise to many doubts in our mind.
Some of them we have set forth in this chapter for
the consideration of all (thinking people). Our sole
aim in writing this chapter is to further the cause
of truth and eradicate error, and not to injure the
feelings of others or do them harm or bring false
charges against them
After
going through this chapter all our readers will know
what kind of book (the Bible) is, and what doctrines
it teaches. It (the discussion of Christianity in
this chapter) will also make it easy for all men to
examine the tenets of Christianity and make a comparative
study of it. It will further augment the knowledge
of men concerning religion and herby make it easy
for them to discriminate between right and wrong,
between desirable conduct and undesirable conduct;
and to embrace truth and practice virtue, to reject
error and shun vice. It behoves all men to carefully
study the (sacred) books of all religions before
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they
publish their opinions for or against them. If a person
be illiterate, he could hear them being read because
just as a man by reading becomes a scholar, likewise
by hearing others read he can become what is called
bahustruta (one who has heard much). Though
the latter may not be able to explain anything to
others, yet he can understand it himself. Those who
are jaundiced can neither see their own merits and
demerits nor those of others. The soul of man possesses
the capacity for ascertaining truth. A man can decide
whether what he has heard or read is right or wrong.
No
subject can be mutually discussed if both parties
are not well-acquainted with (the teachings of) each
other's religions. The ignorant are very apt to fall
into an abyss of superstition and error. It is in
order to save them from such a fate that we have firefly
discussed all the prevalent religions. The truth or
error of other subjects (that have been discussed
in this book) can be inferred. All that is true and
(therefore) worthy of acceptance to all is alike in
all religions. Differences arise over doctrines which
are false or even when one party (in a discussion)
is right, while the other wrong, but should both parties
discuss a subject with the sole desire of ascertaining
truth they can succeed in it.
Now
we place our criticism of Christianity in the thirteenth
chapter before all (our readers). They can form their
own opinions about it.
We
hope these few words will suffice to the seekers
of truth.
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Now
we shall discuss the Christian religion in order to
make it clear to all whether this religion is free
from faults and its sacred book called the Bible is
the Word of God or not. We shall first deal with the
Old Testament.
GENESIS
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1. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit
of God moved upon the face of the waters. (1:1, 2.)
C.*
~ What do you call the beginning?>
Christian.
~ The first creation of the world.
C.
~ Is this the first creation? Was the world never
created before?
Ch.
~ We do not know whether it was created before or
not. God alone knows that.
C.
~ When you do not know that, why should you believe
in this book (i.e., the Bible) which cannot enlighten
you on these points and pinning your faith to it,
preach it to others and thereby ensnare them into
this religion which is do full of doubts. Why don't
you embrace the Vedic religion which is free
from all doubts and enlightens one on all points.
When you do not understand the world created by God
- His handiwork, hoe can you then know God?
C.
~ What do you understand by the term heaven?
Ch.
~ The empty space and what is above.
C.
~ How was this empty space created? Besides, it is
all-pervading and very subtle and uniform both above
and below.
*In this chapter as well as
in the next stands for the author. _Tr.
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C.
Did space exist or not before the heaven was created?
If it did not, wherein did God, the cause of the universe,
and the souls live? Nothing can exist without space,
but your Bible says that it was created, hence this
statement can never be true. Is God inharmonious?
Do His knowledge and works lack harmony, or is He
as well as His knowledge and works harmonious?
Ch.
~ Harmonious.
C.
~ Why is it then recorded here that the earth created
by God was misshapen or without form?
Ch.
~ The term without form means uneven, i.e., the earth
was not then even.
C.
~ Who mad it even then? Is it not even now uneven?
God's work can never lack harmony or be ill-shapen
(without form). He being All-knowing, His works are
always free from error or faults but the Bible teaches
that the earth created by God was without form, hence
this books can never be the work of God. First tell
us pray what you think the Spirit of God is.
Ch.
~ He is a Conscious Being.
C.
~ Is he Formless or embodied, All-pervading or localized?
Ch.
~ He is Formless, Conscious and All-pervading but,
He is more particularly present in such places as
the Mount Sinai and fourth heaven.
C.
~ If He be formless who could have then seen Him?
What is All-pervading could not move on the face of
waters? It only (goes to) show, that His body must
have been in some other place or He must have let
a piece of His Spirit move 'on the face of the waters',
but in that case He could never be All-pervading and
All-knowing and consequently could not create, sustain
and support the world, reduce it to its elementary
condition, nor could He award the souls just reward
or punishment for their deeds -good or bad-, because
one who is localized or circumscribed by nature must
have his powers and actions also limited.
Such
being the case He can never be God but He has been
described in the Vedas, as All-pervading, possessed
of Infinite nature, attributes, and powers, Truly
Conscious and All-Blissful, Eternal, Holy, All-wise
and Free by nature, Beginningless and Endless, and
so on. Faith in such a God alone will save you.
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2.
"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light that it was good and God divided
the light from the darkness." (1:3,4)
C.
~ Was the dead inert light able to hear what God said?
If so, why cannot the sun, the lamp and the light
of fire hear us. The light is dead and inert and therefore
cannot hear anyone. Did God only, after he had seen
the light, know that the light was good? It appears
that He did not know it beforehand he could not have
been God. Hence the Bible is not the Word of God,
nor is God mentioned in it an Omniscient Being.
3.
"And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst
of the waters. And God made the firmament, from the
waters which were above the firmament: and it was
so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening
and the morning were the second day." (1:6, 7, 8.)
C.
~ Did the firmament and the waters also hear what
God said? Had there been no akasha* in water,
where would it have existed. The creation of the heaven
is mentioned in the first verse (of Genesis), it was
useless the to create it again. If akasha be
the Heaven it would also be everywhere. It is useless
then to say that the heaven is situated somewhere
above. How could there be the morning and the evening
when the sun had not yet been created? The succeeding
verses also treat of such impossible things.
4.
"And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after
our likeness: so God created man in his own image,
in the image of God created He him; make and female
created He them. And God blessed them. (1:26, 27,
28.)
C.
~ If God made man in his own image, why is not man
then All-holy, All-knowledge and All-bliss, etc.,
like God in nature?
*The word firmament is translated
into Akasha in the Sanskrit and Bhasha versions of the
Bible. Now akdasha is held by Sanskrit philosophers
to be an All-pervading subtle ether-like substance which
fills all things in the universe, hence this objection.
-Tr.
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This
shows that man was not made in the image of God. Now
man was created, and being in the image of God and
after His likeness it follows as a natural consequences
that His nature is also creatable hence he cannot
be eternal. Besides, what did He create the man out
of?
Ch.
- Out of the dust (of the ground).
C.
~ What did he create the dust out of?
Ch.
- Out of his power
C.
~ Is his power beginningless or has it a beginning?
Ch.-
It is beginningless.
C.
~ It is clear that His power being beginningless,
the cause of the (material) world is also beginningless.
Why do you, then, believe that something came out
of nothing?
Ch.
- Nothing but God existed before the beginning of
creation.
C.
~ Where did this world come from ?
Is the power of God a substance or an attribute? If
it be a substance, there was then something besides
God (before the creation of the world). On the other
hand, if it be an attribute, as not substance can
come out of an attribute (the world could not have
been produced out of it), as for instance, fire cannot
proceed from light nor water from fluidity. Had God
been the Material cause of the World, the latter would
have possessed all the attributes, nature, and characteristics
of God but such being not the case, it is certain
that it was not produced out of God but out of the
Material cause, the primordial matter in atomic condition.
If
behoves you therefore to believe that God is the Efficient
Cause of the Universe as is recorded in the Vedas
and other true Shaastras. If, as held by the
Christians, Adam's inward nature be that of the soul
and his outward (appearance) that of man, why is not
God's nature the same, because since Adam was made
in the image of God the latter must necessarily be
like Adam.
5."And
the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man because a living soul. And the Lord God planted
a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man
whom he had formed. And out of the ground the Lord
God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the
sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in
the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge
of good and evil." (2:7 - 9.)
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C.
~ When God planted the garden at Eden and placed Adam
therein did not He know then that he would have to
turn him out of it?
Since
God formed Adam of the dust of the ground, he was
not made in the image of God, otherwise, God also
must have been made of the dust. When God breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life, was that breath
God Himself or something else? If it was something
different, man was not made in the image of God, but
if it was so Adam and God are alike and being alike
God also like man becomes subject to birth and death,
growth and decay, hunger and thirst. how can then
such a being be called God? For this reason this statement
recorded in the Old Testament does not appear to be
right, nor can therefore, this book be the Word of
God.
6.
"And the Lord God cause a deep sleep to fall upon
Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and
closed up the flesh instead thereof: and the rib,
which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman,
and brought her unto the man." (2:21, 22.)
C.
~ When God made man out of dust, why did He not make
his wife out of the same material? If He made his
wife out of a bone, why did He not make him as well
out of the same. Now if woman was named so because
she was taken out of a man,* the word man should also
have been derived from the word Woman as he is born
of woman. They should also love each other.
A
wife should love her husband as a man loves his wife.
Mark ye scholars! How wonderfully shines the beautiful
philosophy of the (Biblical God)! If Woman was made
of one rib taken out of Man, why are not all men short
of one rib? Besides there ought to be only one rib
in the body of a woman as he was made out of one rib.
Could not God have made Woman of the same material
as He had used in the creation of the Universe? It
is clear, therefore, that the teachings of the Bible
on the subject of creation are opposed to the Laws
of Nature.
7.
"Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the
field which the Lord God had made. And He said unto
the woman, Yea hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every
tree of the garden? And the woman said into the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
but the fruit of the tree which is in the
*Vide verses 23 and 24 Chapter
2. "She shall be called Woman because she was taken
out of man. Therefore shall a man cleave into his wife."
-Tr.
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midst
of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of
it, neither shall ye touch it, least ye die. And the
serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not die: for
God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then
surely your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be
as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman
saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was
pleasant to the eyes, and, a tree be desired to make
one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did
eat."
"And
the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that
they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together,
and made themselves aprons. And the Lord God said
unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou
art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast
of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust
shalt thou eat all the days fo thy life: and I will
put enmity between thee and the woman, and between
thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said,
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;
in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children and thy
desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule
over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten
of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou
shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground For thy
sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days
of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring
forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the
field." (3: 1 - 7, 14 - 18.)
C.
~ Had the God of the Christians been an Omniscient
Being, why would He have created this 'Subtle serpent
or Satan? But as he did create him, He alone is responsible
for all the evil deeds done by Satan for had He not
created him evil (by nature) he would not have done
evil deeds. The Christian God does not believe in
the previous existence of the soul, why did He then
create him wicked without any fault on his part? To
tell the truth he was not a serpent but a man, otherwise
how could he have been able to speak the human tongue?
Besides,
it is he who tells lies and directs others to do the
same, that should be called Satan but in this case
he (Satan) spoke the truth and, therefore, did not
mislead the woman (Eve) but told her what was true.
On the other hand God told Adam and Eve a lie when
he said that by eating of the tree of knowledge of
good and evil he would surely die. Since those trees
were such as gave life perpetual and the knowledge
of good and evil to those who ate the fruits thereof,
why did God forbid them
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their
use, but as He did it He stands guilty of having told
a lie and misled them, as the fruit of those trees
bestowed life and knowledge upon men, not death and
ignorance. Moreover why did God create those trees
and forbid their use for men? If He created them for
His own use, was He ignorant and mortal, then, that
He needed them? But if He did for others there could
possibly be no sin (for them) in eating their fruits.
Besides
such trees as give life and knowledge to those who
eat the fruit thereof, are nowhere to be seen nowadays.
Has God destroyed even their seeds? If a man behaves
like this he is called the same since he alone who
cheats others and practices hypocrisy deserves to
be called a cheat and a hypocrite.
Again
since God cursed them all, He stands guilty of having
perpetrated injustice. It is God Who ought to have
been cursed because He told a lie and He beguiled
Adam and Eve. Could it have ever be3n possible for
a woman to conceive and bear children without pain
and 'sorrow'. What a fine philosophy! Could anyone
earn his living without working for it? Were there
no thorns and thistles before?
Since
it is right for man to live on herbs and vegetables
according to the commandment of God, why is it not
wrong to sanction flesh diet which has been done later
on in the Bible? One of the two statements must be
wrong. Since no charge of sinful conduct has been
brought home to Adam, why should the Christians call
all men by virtue of being the descendants of Adam
sinners? Can such a book (as the Bible) and such a
God command any respect in the eyes of wise men?
8.
"And the Lord God said, behold, the man is become
as one of us, to know good and evil: and no2w, lest
he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of
life, and eat and live for ever: So he drove out the
man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden
cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every
way, to keep the way of the tree of life." (3: 22,
24.)
C.
~ Why did God become so jealous of Adam's becoming
His equal iin knowledge, and was it such a bad thing
indeed? Why did He entertain such misgivings at all
since no one can ever become God's equal? This also
shows that he was not God but man. Wherever there
is mention of God in the Bible it is related of Him
as if He was a man. Now mark! How miserable Adam's
progress
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in
knowledge made God! How jealous He was of Adam's eating
the fruit of the tree of life.
When
he first placed Adam and Eve in the garden (of Eden),
he was not aware that he would have to turn them out
of it. It follows, therefore, that the God of the
Christians is not Omniscient. That he had to place
a flaming sword to guard the tree of life clearly
shows that this was also the work of a man not of
God.
9.
"And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain
brought of the fruit of the ground and offering unto
the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings
of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord
had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto
Cain and to his offering he had no respect. And Cain
was very wroth, and his countenance fell. And the
Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth and why is
the countenance fallen." (4: 3,4.)
C.
~ If God was not a flesh eater why did he respect
Abel and accept his offering of sheep and did not
respect Cain and accept his offering? God is really
responsible for this quarrel between the tow brothers
and for the death of Abel. The Christian God here
(in these verses) talks like a man. His planting of
the garden (of Eden), coming into it and going out
of it are quite like the doings of man. This shows
that the Bible is the work of man, not of God.
10.
"And the Lord said unto Cain, where is Abel thy brother?
And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?
And he said, What has thou done? The voice of thy
brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. And
now art thou cursed from the earth." (4:9 - 11.)
C.
~ Could not God known about Abel's death without inquiring
from Cain? Can the voice of blood ever cry unto anyone
from the ground? All these things are like the doings
of the ignorant. This book could not, therefore, have
been made by go or even by a learned man.
11.
"And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah
three hundred years." (5:22)
C.
~ Had not the Christian God been a man how would Enoch
have been able to walk* with Him? It behoves Christians,
*It is greatly to be regretted
that those who translate the Bible into the Indian Vernaculars
were so literal in translating this sentence as to lead
our author to think that Methuselah actually walked
about with God. Hence this criticism. Tr.
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therefore,
to accept the formless Supreme Spirit of the Vedaas
as their God. Their true happiness lies in this alone.
12.
"And daughters were born unto them. That the sons
of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair;
and they took them wives of all which they chose.
There were giants in the earth in those days; and
also after that, when the sons of God came in unto
the daughters of men, and they bore children to them,
the same became mighty men which were of old, men
of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth, and that every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the
earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord
said, I will destroy man whom I have created from
the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the
creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repented
me that I have made them." (6:1-7.)
C.
~ Will the Christians tell us who are the sons of
God and who are his wife, mother-in-law, father-in-law,
brother-in-law and other relations? His sons having
been married to the daughters of men God becomes related
to them and the children born of those marriages are
His grandchildren. Can such things be true of God?
Can they find place in His book? It appears that the
authors of the Bible were savages who had not the
least idea of the true God. He that is not Omniscient
nor knows the future is not God but human being. Did
He before He created the world know that men would
turn wicked?
The
feelings of grief and repentance after dong something
wrong through error of judgment can be attributed
only to the Christian God since He is neither well-versed
in learning nor a yogi with perfect control over his
passions and feelings or He would have overcome His
great grief and sorrow with the aid of mental equilibrium
and wisdom.
Had
even birds and animals become wicked, that He wanted
to destroy them all? Surely He is not an All-knowing
God, else He would not have been so destitute of sense.
It is clear that neither he is God nor is the Bible
the Word of God. Had the Christians believed and were
they even now to believe in the Vedic God Who is free
from all sin, pain, grief and sorrow, etc., and is
the
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embodiment
of al existence, consciousness and bliss, they would
have realized and will even now realize the true aim
of human life.
13.
"The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits,
the breadth if it fifty cubits, and the height of
it thirty cubits and thou shalt come into the ark,
thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives
with tee. And of every living thing of all flesh,
tow of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to
keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and
female. Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after
their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after
his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee,
to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of all
food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee;
and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. Thus
did Noah, according to all that God commanded him,
do did he." (6:15, 18, 19 - 22).
C.
~ Now can any enlightened mane ever believe a being,
who uttered such impossible thins which are opposed
to the dictum of knowledge, to be God? "How" could
any ark of the said dimensions contain (male and female)
elephants, camels and millions of other living things,
and all the different kinds of foods and drinks that
they as well as the whole family of Noah would need?
This book is, therefore, a human work. Whoever wrote
it was not a learned man either.
14.
"And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord: and took
of ever clean, beast, and of every clean fowl, and
offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord
smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in his heart,
I will not again curse the ground any more for man's
sake; for imaginations of man's heart is evil from
his youth; neither will I again smile anymore everything
living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth,
seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer
and winter, and day and night shall not cease." (8:20
- 22.)
C.
~ The mention of the building of an altar and the
offering of burnt offerings on the altar shows that
there things have been borrowed by the Bible from
the Vedas. Hs God even got a nose wherewith he "smell
a sweet savor'? is not the God of the Christians so
like a man in the finiteness of His powers, knowledge
and capacity that sometime He curses, then he repents
of it, again he says he will not curse the ground
any more. He has cursed before, and he will curse
again. First He destroyed all living
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creatures,
now he says, he will never do so again. All these
things are like the doings of children not of God
nor even of an educated man for even he is true to
word and keeps his pledges.
"And
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you;
even as the maroon herb have I given you all things.
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood
thereof, shall ye not eat." (9: 1- 4.)
C.
~ Is not the God of the Christians destitute of mercy,
since he helps some to enjoy at the expense of the
lives of others? Are not the parents, who cause one
of their children to be killed in order to feed the
other, considered most sinful? The same is true on
this case since all living creatures are like children
to God. The Christian God (in their case) is more
like a butcher. It is this that has made men so hare-hearted
and cruel towards other sentient creatures. Why is
not the Christian God sinful since he is destitute
of tenderness of feelings.
16.
"And the whole earth was of one language, and of one
speech,. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city
and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and
let us make us a name,, lest we be scattered abroad
upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came
down to see the city and the tower, which the children
of men built. And Lord said, Behold, the people is
one, and they have all one language; and this they
begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from
them, which they have imagined to do. God to, let
is go down, and there confound their language, that
they may not understand one another's speech. So the
Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face
of all the earth: and they left off to build the city."
(11:1, 4 - 8.)
C.
~ all men must indeed have been very happy when the
whole world had one language, but what shall we say
of this jealous God of the Christians who confounded
their speech and destroyed the happiness of all. He
did as most criminal thing. It is not worse than anything
that Satan has ever done. Did not he even beat Satan
in this? Thais also shows that the God of the Christians
lived on the top of some mountain as Sinai and was
not wishful of their welfare. Let alone God, even
an enlightened man would not do such a thing. How
can then such a book be the Word of God?
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17.
"He said unto Serai his wife, behold now, I know that
thou art a fair woman to look upon: Therefore it shall
come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that
they shall say, This is his wife; and they will kill
me, but they save thee alive. Say, thy sake; and my
soul shall live because of thee." (12: 11 - 13.)
C.
~ Now reader mark! This Abraham, who is looked upon
as a great prophet both by the Christians and the
Mohammedans alike, tells lies and does such other
wicked deeds. How can such people find the way to
true happiness and knowledge whose prophets were men
of such a low character?
18.
"And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant
therefore thou, and thy seed, after thee in their
generations. This is my covenant, which ye shall keep,
between me and you and they seed after thee; Every
man child among you shall be circumcise. And ye ahall
circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall
be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. And
he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among
you, every man child in you generations, he that is
born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger,
which is not of thy seed. He that is born in thy house,
and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be
circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh
for an everlasting covenant. And he uncircumcised,
that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath
broken my covenant." (17:9 - 14.)
C.
~ Now look and at the most unnatural command of God.
Had He approved of circumcision, He would not have
made the foreskin at all in the beginning of creation.
It serves to protect the (delicate structure) beneath
just as the eyelids protect the eye-ball. This structure
is so extremely delicate that the bite of an ant,
or the most insignificant hurt will cause great deal
of pain if there were no foreskin. It also serves,
to prevent the soiling of clothes after micturition.
These are few of its uses. Hence it is wrong to circumcise
it. Why don�t' the Christians obey this commandment
now? This was an everlasting and not a temporary covenant.
Besides, Christ's testimony as to the truth of the
Law in the words "one jot or one title shall in no
wise pass from the law" will turn out to be false.
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The
Christians should seriously think about this matter,
and give this question their whole attention.
19.
"And he left off talking with him, and God went up
from Abraham." (27: 22.)
C.
~ This shows that this God was either a man or a bird
that went up and down. He seems to be more like a
juggler.
20.
"And the Lord, appeared unto him in the plains of
Mamre and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the
day. And he lift up his eyes and looked and , lo,
three men stood by him; and when he saw them, he ran
to meet them form the tent door, and bowed himself
towards the ground. And said, My Lord, if now I have
found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee,
from thy servant . let a little water I pray you,
be fetched, and washed your feet, and rest yourselves
under the tree. And I will fetch a morsel of bread,
and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass
on; for therefore are ye come to your servant. And
they said, so do, as thou hast said., Make ready quickly
there measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes
upon the hearth. And Abraham ran unto the herd, and
fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a
young man and hasted to dress it. And he took butter
and mild, and he calf which he had dressed, and set
it before them; and he stood by them under the tree,
and they did eat." (18:2 - 8.)
C.
~ Now why should they, whose God eats calf's flesh,
spare cows, calves and other animals? He that has
no compassion (on dumb animals) an enjoys flesh eating
cannot be God. He an only be a man who feels no scruples
in injuring other sentient creatures for his gratification.
We are not told who the other two men (besides God)
were. It appears that there was a party of savages
whose leader is is styled God in the Bible. It is
such things ( as flesh-eating, etc.) that prevent
wise men from accepting this book as the word of God
and its God as the true God.
21.
"And the Lord said unto Abraham, wherefore did Sarah
laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which
am old? Is anything too hard for the Lord?" (18:13,
14.)
C.
~ Now look at this God of the Christians! How like
women and children He is (so easily) vexed and how
He taunt Sarah.
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22.
"Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven. And
he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and
all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which
grew upon the ground." (19:24, 25.)
C.
~ Now look at this Biblical God! He is so destitute
of mercy that he did not take any pity even on the
children and the like. Were they all so wicked that
He overthrew cities and buried them all underneath.
Such a thing is opposed to justice, mercy and reason.
Why should not they, whose God is guilty of such things,
do likewise?
23.
"Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will
lied with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
And they made their father drink wine that night:
and the first born went in, and lay with her father;
let us make him drink wine this night also; and go
thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed
of our father. Thus were both daughters of Lot with
child by their father." (19:32 - 34, 36.0
C.
~ The vices of the Christians and others who are addicted
to drink - the wicked drink that has degraded men
and women so much that even a father and his daughters
have not escaped from being guilty of misconducting
themselves with each other - know no bounds. Good
people, therefore, should not even think of drinking
wine.
24.
"And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the
Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived.'
(21: 1, 2,.)
C.
~ Now let the reader judge what kind of thing this
was. God visited Sarah and the result of this visit
was that she conceived. Could there be anyone else
besides God and Sarah who was the cause of her conception?
It seems that Sarah conceived through the grace of
God!!!
25.
"And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took
bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Haggar,
putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent
her away�.and she departed �.and she cast the child
under one of the shrubs�� and she sat over against
him, and lift up her voice, and wept. And God heard
the voice of the lad." 21: 14- 17.)
C.
~ Now (gentle reader!) Look at the crooked doings
of this Christian God! First he unjustly sided with
Sarah (vide 21:12)
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and
had Haggar driven out of the house. Then it is Haggar
that lifted up her voice and wept whilst it was the
lad's voice that God heard. How wonderful! Is not
it? Can such a being ever be God! Can such a thing
ever be found in the word of God? Excepting a few
(ordinary) truths that could have been written by
a man of ordinary intelligence, the whole book abounds
n absurdities.
26.
"And it came to pass after these things, that God
did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Take now thy
son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest,, and
get into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for
a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I
will tell thee of��.and bound Isaac his son, and laid
him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched
forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of the
heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: lay not thine
hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto
him; for now I know that thou fearest God." (22:1,
2.)
C.
~ Now it is quite clear that the Biblical God possesses
finite knowledge and that He is not Omniscient. Abraham
too was simpleton, else he would not have acted in
the way he did. Had the Biblical God been an Omniscient
Being, He would have been able to find out all about
the firmness of Abraham's faith through His Omniscience.
It is certain then that the God of the Christians
is not an All-knowing God.
27.
"In the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead�..
but that thou mayest bury the dead." (23:6.)
C.
~ The burial of the dead is highly injurious to the
(health of the inhabitants of the ) world, because
decomposition of dead bodies sets in the pollutes
the air which in its turn gives rise to disease.
Christian.
- It is not good to cremate those whom we love, while
the burial of the dead is like laying them down to
sleep; hence this mode of the disposal of the dead
is good.
C.
~ If you love your dead, why don't you keep them in
the house? Why do you even bury them? The soul you
love leaves the body after death, what is the good
of loving the dead decomposing body? But since you
love it, why do you bury it under the ground? It pleases
no one to be addressed "Let us bury your
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under
the ground." Besides, how can it be and act of love
on your part to throw earth, bricks, stones, lime,
etc. on his eyes, mouth chest and other parts of the
body? If the dead body be place in a coffin before
it is buried, foul smell issues forth from the ground.
Ti then pollutes the air which int run gives rise
to terrible diseases. Again, a piece measuring at
least 3 yards long, and 2 yards broad is required
for burying one dead body. At this rate one can imagine
how much ground is required for the burial of hundreds
of thousands of dead bodies and rendered useless.
That ground can neither be tilled, nor used for gardening,
nor can it be fit for human habitation. Hence burial
is the worst of all methods in vogue for the disposal
of the dead.
A
little better than this is to throw the dead body
into (flowing) water, because crocodiles and other
creatures living in water soon tear it into pieces
and at it up, but still the bones and other matter
that will remain behind will decompose and pollute
the water and air and thereby injure the (health of
the inhabitants of the0 world. A little less injurious
method (of disposing of the dead) is to leave the
body in a jungle. Carnivorous animals and birds will
devour it but sill the extent to which the marrow
of bones and other refuse behind, will pollute the
air, the same will be the measure of its being injurious
to public health. The cremation is the best of all
(methods for the disposal of the dead) because the
fire breaks up the dead body into its component elements
which are carried away by air.
Ch.
- Even cremation gives rise to foul smell.
C.
~ Yes a little, if cremation be not conducted properly,
but nothing compared with what takes place in other
methods, such as the burial. But if cremation be conducted
in accordance with what has been prescribed in the
Vedas, not pollution of the air results. The Vedic
method of cremation is, in brief, as follows:-
Let
a Vedi, 7' 6'' feet long, 5' 3" broad and 4' 6" deep,
be dug in the ground. The walls should slope in such
a manner that breadth of the Vedi at the bottom is
one-half of that at the top, and let sufficient quantity
of wood of such trees, as Butea Fondoea as well as
sandal wood (at least 40lbs.) be piled in the Vedi
and the dead body placed on it. Let the same kind
of wood be put on its top till it is one foot short
of the mouth of Vedi. Let sufficient amount of camphor,
agar, tagar be also scattered here and there in the
pile of wood. Not, let fire be st to the pile and
oblations of clarified butter, whole amount of which
should weigh as much as
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the
weight of the dead body, and to which musk, at the
rate of I grain, and saffron, at the rate of 8 grains,
per pound of ghee, has been added, be poured over
it. This mode of cremation causes no foul smell. Even
this is called Antyeshthi, Narmedha, Purushmedha
Yajna. however poor the deceased be, in no case
should less than 40 lbs. of ghee be used in cremating
the body, whether that quantity of ghee be obtained
by begging or as a gift from his caste-people or from
the Government, if need be, but the body should always
be cremated only in the above-described manner.
But
if the Ghee and other materials (mentioned above)
could not be procured in any way, mere cremation with
wood alone is far better than burial. Millions of
dead bodies can be cremated on a piece of ground having
an area of 201/4 sq. yards or even in one Vedi, nor
is the soil polluted as in burial. The sight of graves
is also the cause of fear to the timid. Hence, burial
and other methods of disposal of the dead are altogether
reprehensible.
28.
"Blessed be the Lord God of my Master Abraham, who
hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and
his truth; I being in the way, the Lord led me to
the house of my master's brethren." (24: 27.)
C.
~ Was He God of Abraham alone? God acted in the same
way as a fore-runner or guide walks in front of his
master in order to show him the way. Why does He not
do the same now-a-days? Why does He not now talk with
men in the same way as He did in the past? Such things
can never be true of God or of His Word. They can
only be true of savages.
29.
"And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by
their names, according to their generations: the first-born
of Ishmael, Nebajoth: and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam.
And Mishma, and Dumah,a nd Massa, Hadar, and Tema,
Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah." (25: 13, 15.)
C.
~ This Ishmael was Abraham's son born of Haggar, his
handmaid.
"I
will make them savory meat for thy father, such as he
loveth: and thou shall bring it to thy father, that
he may eat and that he may bless thee before his death.
And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Essau,
which were with her in the
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house,
and put them upon Jacob, her younger son: and she
put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands,
and upon he smooth of his neck: and Jacob said unto
his father, I am Esau, thy first-born; I have done
according as thou badest me, arise, I pray thee, sit
and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me."
27:9, 10, 15, 17, 19.)
C.
~ Now, look at this man, first he gets the blessing
(of his father) fraudulently and, then, poses as a
great saint and a prophet. Is it not very strange?
Such having been the teachers of the Christian religion,
there is nothing to wonder at if it is so full of
absurdities.
31.
"And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took
the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set
it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of
it. And he called the name of that place Beth-el:
and this stone , which I have set for a pillar, shall
be God's house." (28:18, 19, 22.)
C.
~ Now mark! Did not they act like savages in worshipping
stones and causing others to do the same. Now this
place is called Holy Bathel by the Mohammedans. Is
that stone alone the house of God and does He reside
in that stone alone? Bravo Christians! You are indeed
great idolators!
32
"And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her,
and opened her womb. And she conceived, and bore a
son; and God hath taken away my reproach." (30. 24,
30.)
C.
~ Well done! O Christian God! You are indeed a great
surgeon! What were the instruments or medicines with
which you opened women's wombs, or was all this done
blindly?
33.
"And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night
and said unto him. Take heed that thou speak not to
Jacob either good or bad. Because thou sore longest
after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou
stolen my gods?" (31:24, 30.)
C.
~ This is one instance out of a thousand that are
recorded in the Bible, in which God is said to have
come to people in dreams and conversed with them,
visited them in wakeful state, eaten and drank come
and gone, but one cannot say whether He exists now
or not, as he visits no one either in dreams or in
the wakeful condition. It also appears that these
savages regarded stones as their gods and worshipped
them, but even the Christian God believes stones to
be gods else how could He have used the words stealing
of gods.
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34.
"And as Jacob went on his way the angels of God met
him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, this is God's
host: and he called the name of that place Mahanain."
(32:1, 2.)
C.~
Now there can be no doubt that the Christian God is
a man as He also deeps an army (host). He must, therefore,
also have war implements (arms and ammunition), and
be in the habit of attacking others and fighting with
them; otherwise it would be of no use to keep an army.
35.
" And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man
with him until the breaking of the day. And when he
saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched
the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's
thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And
he said, Let me go for the day breaketh. And he said,
I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And
he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
And he said thy name shall be called no more Jacob,
but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God
and with men and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him,
and said, Tell me, I pray thee thy name. And he said,
wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?
And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name
of the place Paniel: for I have see God face to face
and my life is preserved. And as he passed over Paniel,
the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
Therefore, children of Israel eat not of the sinew
which shrank which is upon the hollow of the thing,
unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's
thigh in the sinew that shrank." (32:24 -32.)
C.
~ It is only because the Christian God is a regular
wrestler that He blessed Sarah and Rachel with sons!!
Can such a Being ever be God? Again, look at His behavior!
The fellow, Jacob asked Him His name and He won't
tell it. No doubt (the Christian) God put the hollow
of Jacob's thigh out of joint and prevailed upon him
but had He been a doctor He would also have got his
thigh right, By devotion to such a God, other devotees,
like Jacob must also be limping. Now Jacob saw God
face to face and wrestled with Him, it could only
be true of one who possessed a physical body. Away
with this childish prattle.
36.
"And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight
of the Lord; and the Lord slew him. And Judah said unto
Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her,
and raise up seed to thy
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brother.
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and
it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's
wife, that be spilled it on the ground, lest that
he should give seed to his brother, and the ting which
he did displeased the Lord: wherefore, he slew him
also." (37:7 - 10.)
C.
Now, it must be clear to al that these are the doings
of man, not of God. Onan entered into Niyoga* with
Er's wife why did God slay him? Why did not He guide
his understanding?
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37. "And it came to pass in those days, when Moses
was grown that he went out unto his brethren, and
looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian
smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked
this way and that way, and when he saw that there
was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the
sand. And when he went out the second day, behold,
two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said
to him that did the wrong, wherefore smitest thou
thy fellow? And he said, who made thee a prince and
a judge over us? Intendest thou to kill me, as thou
killedest the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said,
Surely this thing is known." (1: 11 - 14.)
C.
~ Now mark, reader. This Moses - chief prophet of
the Bible, the founder of its religion - was a slave
to such passions as anger, was a homicide who wanted
to escape his punishment like an ordinary thief. As
he concealed his crime, he must have been in the habit
of telling lies. Even such a man (as Moses) met God,
became a great prophet and founded the Jewish religion
- a religion the reflected the character of its founder.
Hence all the chief prophets of the Christians from
Moses downwards were all uncivilized�and devoid of
culture.
38.
"�..kill the Passover. And ye shall take a bunch of
hyssop, and dip it into the blood that is in the bason,
and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the
blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go
out at the door of his house until the morning. For
the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians: and
when
*This also conclusively proves
that Niyoga waa in vogue in all countries in ancient
time.
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He
seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two-posts,
the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer
the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite
you." )12:21 - 23.)
C.
~ This looks more kike making a charm. Can such a
God ever be All-knowing who could not know the houses
of the children of Israel but by seeing blood prints
)on their lintels and side-posts). This is more like
a man with a poor understanding. It shows that these
things were written by some savage.
39.
"And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote
all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the
first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto
the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon;
and all the first-born of cattle. And Pharaoh rose
up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all
the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt;
for there was not a house where there was not one
dead." (12:29, 30.)
C.
~ Bravo! What a fine thing did this God of the Christians
do! How like a burglar, at midnight He mercilessly
killed children., infants and the aged and even cattle
that were all innocent! He had not had the least pity
on them. 'There was a great cry in Egypt' and yet
the heart of this Christian God would not melt. Let
alone God, even an ordinary man would not do such
a thing and yet there is nothing strange in it as
it has been said "A flesh-eater knows no pity." When
the God of the Christian is a flesh-eater, what can
He have to do with pity and compassion?
40.
"The Lord shalt fight for you�.speak unto the children
of Israel; that they go forward. But lift thou up
thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea ,
and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go
on dry ground through the midst of the sea." (14:14
- 16.)
C.
~ Well Sir! In ancient times God used to follow the
children of Israel as does a shepherd his flock of
sheep. We wonder where has He hidden himself now?
Had he been in evidence now, He would have helped
the Christians to make rail-roads throughout the sea
which would have been a great boon to the world. They
would also have been saved the trouble of constructing
boats and ships. But what is to be done. None knows
where this Christian God had hidden himself. The Biblical
God had done many an impossible thing in his dealings
with Moss. But it appears that like
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God
like devotee and His Book is but too true in this
case. May such a God and such a book remain far form
us. In this alone lies our good.
41."�.for
I the Lord thy God, am a jealous God visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation of them that hate me;��"
(20:5.)
C.
~ Now what kind of justice is this to consider it
good to visit the sins of fathers upon children unto
the fourth generation. Does not a good father even
have wicked children or vice versa? If this be true
how could (the Christian) God be justified in inflicting
punishment on children onto the fourth generation
for the sins of their fathers? It is unjust to inflict
punishment on the innocent.
42.
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days
shalt thou labor�but the seventh day is the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God�the Lord blessed the Sabbath day."
20:9 -11.)
C.
~ Is Sunday alone the holy day? Are the other six
days (of the week) unholy? Had God worked so hared
for six days that he got tired and went to sleep on
the seventh? If he blessed Sunday, what did He do
unto the other six days? He must have cursed them.
Leave alone God, even a enlightened man would not
do such a thing. What good did He see in the Sabbath
day and what wrong had the other six days done that
He blessed and hallowed the one and without any cause
pronounced the others unholy?
43.
"Thou shalt bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shall not cover thy neighbor's house, thu shalt
not covet thy neighbors wife, nor his man-servant,
nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor
anything that is thy neighbor's." (20:16, 17.)
C.
~ Bravo! No wonder that the Christians covet the wealth
and possessions of the foreigners as assiduously as
a thirst man thirsts for water or a hungry man hungers
after food. The Christian God would be as selfish
and partial as is the author of this (so-called) commandment.
If a Christian were to say that the word neighbor
here includes all men, it cannot be true because none
will be left out whose wife and servants one could
covet. Hence these are the inventions of selfish men
and not the commandments of God.
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44.
"Now therefore dill every male among the little ones,
and kill every woman that hath known man by lying
with him. But all the women children that have not
known a man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves."
(31:17, 18.)
C.
~ Well done (Christians)! How good is your prophet
Moses as well as your God, who could ot keep aloof
form taking even the lives of women children, the
aged and the cattle. It also conclusively proves that
Moses was voluptuous, since had he not been sensual,
he would not have spared virgin girls for himself
as well as for his followers, nor would he have issued
such cruel order ( as encouraged sensualism).
45.
"He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely
put to death. And if a man lie not in wait, but God
deliver him into his had; then I will appoint thee
a place wither he shall flee." (21:12, 13.)
C.
~ If this act of God be just, why was not the same
punishment meted out to Moses who slew a man, buried
him and then ran away? He stands guilty of partiality
to Moses or else why did He not let Moses be judged
by the ruler of the country.
46.
"�.and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the
Lord. And Moses took half of the blood and put it
in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the
altar, and Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it
on the people, and said, Behold the blood fo the covenant
which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these
words." 24:5, 6, 8, 12.)
C.
~ Now reader, judge for yourself whether the authors
of all these acts were savages or not. How like a
savages. How like a savage and a barbarian to think
that the God Almighty accepts burnt offerings of oxen
and sanctions the sprinkling of blood on the altar.
Such being their God, why should not His votaries
fill their stomachs with the meat of oxen and cows
and thereby cause a great loss to the world.
The
evil influence that the Christians try to bring the
same sort of false charge against the Vedas, but there
is absolutely not mention of animal sacrifice and
the like practices in them. Further this conclusively
proves that the God of the Christians was a hill-man
who lived on a mountain. He could neither make nor
procure paper, ink and pen and therefore was compelled
to write on tablets of
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stones
which He gave t o Moses, He might have passed for
God before those savages.
47.
"And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for there
shall no man see me, and live. And the Lord said,
Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand
upon a rock: and it shall come tp pass, while my glory
passeth by, that I will put these in a cliff of rock,
and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see
my back parts but my face shall not be seen." (33:20
- 23.)
C.
~ Now reader! Is there any doubt left in your mind
as to the God of the Christian having a body like
that of a man? (Mark) How He played tricks with Moses
and posed as God!
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48. "And the Lord called unto Moses, and spake
unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation,
saying. Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them. If any man of you bring an offering unto
the Lord, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle,
even of the herd and of the flock." (1:1,2.)
C.
~ Now does not the God of the Christians, Who accepts
the offerings of oxen and cows, etc., and enjoins
upon His votaries to bring such offerings to Him,
thirst for the blood and hunger after the flesh of
such animals? Such a being can never be considered
as God or even as a man of a tender-hearted nature,
on the other hand, he looks more like a flesh-eating
trickster.
49.
"And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord: and
the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood,
and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar
that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into
pieces. And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put
fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon
the fire! And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay
the parts, he head and the fat, in order upon the
wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water:
and the priest shall burn on the altar, to be a burnt
sacrifice, and offering made by fire, of a sweet savor
unto the Lord." (1:5 - 9.)
C.
~ A little consideration will show that the place,
where a bullock is killed by His votaries before the
Lord (who sanctions
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that
act) his blood is sprinkled on all sides of the altar
and the flesh of the animals offered as a burnt offering
on the altar when the Lord smells a sweet savor, is
not better than a slaughter-house. These things serve
to show that the Bible can never be the Word of God
nor can its God be any better than a savage trickster.
50.
~ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying. If the priest
that is anointed do sin according to the sin of the
people; then let him bring for his sin, which he hath
sinned, a young bullock without blemish unto the Lord
for a sin offering. And he shall bring the bullock
unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation
before the Lord; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's
head, and kill the bullock before the Lord." (4:1,
3, 4.)
C.
~ Now look at his atonement for sins! A man commits
a sin and in order to atone for its kills useful animals
and the (Christian) God sanctions such an act. Well
done, Christians! Even such a Being s this you hold
to be God and hope to be saved through His Grace.
51.
"When a ruler hath sinned�.he shall bring his offering
a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:�..they
kill the burnt offering before the Lord: it is sin
offering." (4:22 - 24.)
C.
~ Bravo, ye Christians! Such being the case why should
the Christian rulers, judges and commanders (of the
army) and the like officials fear sin. It is strange
that these people should sin for their gratification
and by way of atonement for their sins take the lives
of cows, calves and other (useful) animals. This is
why Christians have no scruples, in taking the life
of any bird or animal. Come ye Christian, renounce
this barbarous religion and embrace the Vedic faith
- the religion of light, culture and righteousness.
That alone will give you true happiness.
52.
"And if he be not able to bring a lamb, en he shall
bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two
turtledoves, or tow your pigeons, unto the Lord; and
wring off his head from his neck�..but shall not divide
it asunder�.shall make an atonement for him for his
sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.
But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves or tow
your pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his
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offering
the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin
offering*: he shall put no oil upon it." (5:7, 8,
10, 11, 13,)
C.
~ Neither the rich nor the poor among the Christians
can have any fear in the commission of sins, because
their God has made the atonement for sins so easy.
Now this is one of the oddest things in the Christian
Bible that it teaches that one can escape the consequences
of one's sins without any great effort merely by committing
other sins. A Christian commits a sin and in order
to ward off its consequences kills other (animals),
enjoys their flesh and gets his sins forgiven.
When
the head of a pigeon is wrung off from its neck, it
is sure to writhe for some time, do not the Christians
even then feel any pity for the poor creature. But
(we forget) why should they have any such feelings
when their God teaches them to ill (other creatures
to offer them as an atonement for their sins)? Besides,
when all sins can thus be expiated, why have they
set up this big fraud of forgiveness of sins through
faith in Christ?
53.
"Even the priest shall have to himself the skin of
the burnt offering which he hath offered. And all
the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and ll
that is dressed in the frying pan and in the pan,
shall be the priest's that offereth it." (7:8, 9.)
C.
~ We were under the impression that the trickery of
the priests of the temple of the goddess Bhairava
- the Indian Bacchus and other temples were mighty
wonderful indeed, but we find that the trickery of
the Christian God and his priests is a thousand-fold
greater. The Christians must have greatly enjoyed
themselves and ((perhaps ever enjoy now) when hey
got money by selling the
*A thousand thanks to this God
who has made a covenant of accepting calves, sheep,
lambs and pigeons and even flour. Very strange that
he accepted pigeons whose head had been wrung off from
their necks. The mention of such things in the Bible
compels one to infer that among those savages there
was one cleverer than the rest, he took to living on
a mountain and declared himself God. Those ignorant
savages accepted him as such. Through his cunning devices,
he managed to get animals, birds and flour and other
articles for his food on the mountain and enjoyed himself.
He has touts called angels to work for him. Let the
good reader compare this God of the Bible who eats calves,
sheep, lambs, pigeons and fine flour with, God, of the
such, Who is Omnipresent, Omniscient, Unborn, Formless,
Omnipotent and Just and possessed of other good attributes.
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skin
of the animals offered as sacrifice and had their
flesh to eat. Now will a father kill one of his two
children and offer his flesh to the other, to eat?
Is such a thing ever possible? How could then God
unto Whom all living creatures - men, animals, birds,
etc., - are like children, do such a thing? It is
clear then that the Bible can never be the Word of
God, nor can the God of the Bible be the true God,
nor can its followers know that truth and righteousness
are. This book is simply full of absurdities too numerous
to mention.
NUMBERS
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54. "And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing
in the way and his sword drawn in his hand; and the
ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the
field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into
the way. And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass,
and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee,
that thou has smitten me these three times?" (22:23,
28.)
C.
~ In olden times even an ass could see the angels
of God, but now-a-days, even bishop, clergymen and
other men - good or bad - cannot see God or His messengers.
Do God and His messengers exist now-a-days? If the
do, what has become of them that they are not visible?
Are
they sleeping a very heavy sleep or are they ill,
or have they gone away to some other world or busied
themselves with some thing else, or are they now offended
with the Christians or have died? One does not know
what has happened to them, but one can very well infer
that they do not exist now nor are visible, never
existed before nor were ever visible. The author (or
authors) of the Bible has spun all these yarns.
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SAMUEL
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55. "And it came to pass that night, that the word
of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying, God and tell
my servant David, Thus saith the Lord,, Shalt thou
build me an house for me to dwell in? Whereas I have
not dwelt in? Whereas I have not dwelt in any house
since the time that I brought up the children of Israel
out of Egypt even to this day, but have walked in
a tent and in a tabernacle." (6:4 - 6.)
C.
~ There is no doubt now that the Christian God is
embodied like a man. He complains that He worked very
hared, walked hither and thither in tents and tabernacles
but never had a house to dwell in. Now if David would
make him a house, he would
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rest
in it. Are not the Christians ashamed of believing
in such a God and in such a book as the Word of God?
But they are to be pitied,. Poor Christians! They
were caught in the trap (of the Christian religion).
They should now make a great effort to get out of
it?
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KINGS
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56. "And in the fifth month, on the seventh day
of the month which is the nineteenth year of king
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came Nebuzar-adan captain
of the guard, a servant of the kind of Babylon unto
Jerusalem: And he burnt the house of the Lord, and
the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem,
and every great men's house burnt he with fire. And
all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain
of the guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem and
round about." (25:8 - 10.)
C.
~ The God of the Christians is indeed to be pitied.
He had a house built for him by David to dwell in.
he must have been living comfortably in it but Nebuzar-adan
burnt it to ashes. God and his army of angels could
not do anything against him. This God used to fight
and win great battles before, but now He let Nebuxar-adan
completely destroy His house.
One
wonders why He sat quietly (and did nothing to defend
His house) and where His angels ran away. At such
a critical moment no one was of any use (to him).
Besides what became of the Omnipotence of God? Did
it take wings and fly away? If what is stated here
is true, all that has been said before in the Bible
about the victories of God will have no meaning. Did
His bravery and valor consist in killing Egyptian
children only? By such a behavior the Christian God
brought disgrace and dishonor on Himself. The book
is simply full of thousands of such silly stories.
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CHRONICLES
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57. "So the lord sent pestilence upon Israel and
there fell of Israel seventy thousand men." (21:14.)
C.
~ Look at the strange doings of this Christian God!
On the house of Israel that He blessed so often and
for whose welfare He has been exerting Himself day
and night He sends pestilence in a fit of rage and
destroys 70,000 men. Some poet has said, "He
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that
is pleased in one moment and displeased in the next,
in other words, whose pleasure and displeasure are
momentary, is to be feared even when pleased." This
is but too true of the Christian God.
THE
BOOK OF JOB
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58. "Again there was a day when the sons of God
came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan
came also among them to present himself before the
Lord. And the Lord said unto Satan, From whence comest
thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and said, From
going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up
and down in it. And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast
thou considered my servant job, that there is none
like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man,
one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? And still
he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst
me against him, to destroy him without cause. And
Satan answered the Lord and said, Skin for skin, yea,
all that a man hath will he give for his lif. But
put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his
flesh and he will curse thee to thy face. And the
Lord said unto Satan, behold, he is in thine hand;
but save his life. So went forth from the presence
of the Lord, an smote Job with sore boils from the
sole of his feet unto his crown." (2:1 - 7.)
C.
~ Now behold! How great is the might of the God of
the Christians! Satan smites His devotee in His very
presence and yet He neither punishes him, nor protects
His votaries, nor can any one of His (so any) angels
face him. One Satan has stricken them with fear. It
also seems that the Christian God is not Omniscient,
otherwise why should He have tested Job through Satan?
ECCLESIASTES
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59. "�.yes, my heart had great experience of wisdom
and knowledge and I gave my heart to know wisdom,
and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this
also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is
much grief and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth
sorrow."
C.
~ Now mark reader! Wisdom and knowledge, that are
synonymous terms, are believed by them to be two different
things. Who but an ignorant man will say that increase
in knowledge is the cause of grief and sorrow? Leave
alone the idea that God is the author of the Bible,
even an enlightened man could not have written it.
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So
far we have firefly discussed the Old Testament. Next
we shall write a little about the New Testament that
comprises Gospels according to St. Mathew, etc., and
is held in great reverence by the Christians who call
it the Bible. We should not examine it and see what
kind of book it is.
GOSPEL
OF ST. MATHEW
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60. "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was this wise:
When as his mother Mary espoused to Joseph, before
they came together, she was found with child of the
Holy Ghost�..behold the angel of the lord appeared
unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David,
fear not to take unto the Mary thy wife: for that
which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost." (1:18:20)
C.
~ No educated man can ever believe in such things
as are oppose to all kinds of evidence (such as direct
Cognition. Inference, etc.) and to the laws of nature.
Only people in a state of barbarism can believe them.
It does not become educated and civilized men to do
so. Breathes there a man who could violate the laws
of God? Should anyone succeed in subverting His law,
no one will ever obey His commandments, nor would
God Himself break His own laws as He is Omniscient
and infallible.
If
this story of the birth of the Christ were held to
be true, an unmarried girl that happens to conceive
could say that she was with child of the Holy Ghost.
She could also falsely say that the angel of the Lord
told her in a dream "that which is conceived in her
is of the Holy Ghost"! This story is as possible as
that recorded in the Puraanas about Kunti being conceived
of the Sun. only those who have 'more money than brains'
can believe in such things and fall an easy prey to
superstition. It must have happened like this that
Mary co-habited with someone and thereby became enceinte.
She or someone else gave out (such an impossible thing)
that she had conceived of the Holy Ghost.
61.
"Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness
to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted
forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered.
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou
be the Son of God, command that these stones be made
bread." (4: 1 - 3.)
C.
~ This conclusively proves that the Christian God
was not Omniscient, otherwise, why should He have
had Jesus tempted of
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the
devil? He would have known all about him by his Omniscience.
Will a Christian live of he be kept without food for
40 days and 40 nights? It also proves that Jesus was
neither the son of God nor did he possess any miraculous
power or why would he not have turned stones into
bread. Why would he have himself suffered from the
pangs of hunger? The truth is that what God ahs created
as stones no one could ever turn into bread, or could
God Himself subvert His laws ordained by Himself since
He is Omniscient and, all His works are free from
error.
62.
"And he saith unto them, follow me, and I will make
you fishers of men. And they straightway left their
nets, and followed him."
C.
~ It seems that it was in consequences of this sin
alone, viz., breaking the fifth Commandment which
says: "Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days
may be long upon the land�.", that he did not live
long, since he neither served his father and mother,
nor let others do it. It also shows that Jesus founded
his religion in order to entrap others.
He
wanted to accomplish his object by ensnaring others
into his net like a fisherman. Is there any wonder
then if Christian missionaries follow their Master
in ensnaring other men into their religion? Just as
a man who catches a large number of big fish, makes
a name for himself as a good fisherman and also makes
a good living by it, in like manner, a missionary
who ensnares a large number of converts into the net
of Christianity gets a good salary and makes a name
for himself.
These
people (missionaries) ensnare such simple men into
their nets as are ignorant of the teachings of the
Vedas and Shastras and separate them from their parents
and other members of the family. It, therefore, behoves
all enlightened Aryas to escape their net of superstition
and error and exert themselves to save their ignorant
brethren from the same.
63.
"And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their
synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom,
and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of
disease among the people. and his fame went throughout
all Syria; and they brought unto him all sick people
that were taken with diverse diseases and torments,
and those which were possessed with devils, and those
which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy: and
he healed them." (4:23, 24.)
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C.
~ We would have believed all this about Jesus that
is written in the Bible, had the claims of the (popes
and magicians), who in our day pretend to drive out
devils and cure disease through charms and incantations,
blessings or a pinch of ash, been true. All these
things are meant, for ensnaring poor, ignorant, guileless
people into superstition. If the Christians believe
that Jesus really worked miracles, why do not they
believe all that is claimed by the popes of the goddess
(in India) to be true, because their claims are very
much like those of Jesus.
64.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit; for there is the
kingdom of heaven. For verily I say unto you, Till
heaven and earth pass, one jot or one title shall
in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least
commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be
called the least in the kingdom of heaven." (5:3,
18, 19)
C.
~ If the heaven is one, there can be only one king
there. If all those who are 'poor in spirit' will
go to heaven, who will be the king among them? Very
likely there will be a great row over this matter
and all order will be set at nought. If by the term
poor in spirit are meant all those who are penniless,
it could never be right, but if this term means free
from conceit then, too it could not be true as poor
in spirit and free from conceit, can never be synonymous.
He
that is poor in spirit can never be contended. To
say that the law will hold good only so long as heaven
and earth last can only be true of man-made laws,
since they are not eternal. But this cannot be spoken
of the eternal laws of the Omniscient God. "Whosoever
shall break one of these commandments shall be called
the least in the Kingdom of Heaven" has been said
merely to tempt men and inspire them with fear.
65.
"Give us this day our daily bread. Lay not up for
yourselves in treasures upon earth." (6:11, 19.)
C.
~ This shows that in the age when Jesus Christ lived,
people were mere savages in a state of poverty, and
Christ was also poor like the rest of them, therefore,
it is that he prays to God for his daily breads and
teaches others to do the same. Why do the Christians
lay up treasures when their Bible teaches to the contrary.
They should act on their Master's advice and give
away all that they possess in charity and become poor.
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66.
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven." (7:21.)
C.
~ Now if all the great Bishops, Missionaries and other
Christians, hold what Christ has said (in this verse)
to be true, they should never all Christ Lord (or
God). Should they refuse to do so, they will be sinners.
67.
"Many will say to me in that day. And then will I
profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me,
ye that work iniquity." (7:22, 23.)
C.
~ Mark reader! How Christ in order to convince the
savages pretended to be the Judge who will sit on
the seat of justice on the day of judgment. This was
meant simply to tempt simple guileless men.
68.
"And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him,
saying Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying,
I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy
was cleansed." (8:2, 3.)
C.
~ All these things are meant to ensnare ignorant men.
If the Christians hold all these things, that are
opposed to the dictum of knowledge and the laws of
nature, to be true, why do they say that the stories
about Shukracharya, Dhanvantri, Kashyap in
the Puraanaas are false? For instance, it is
recorded in the Mahabhaarat and the Puraanaas
that the whole dead army of daityas fiends was made
alive. Kach the son of Vrilhaspat was cut into pieces
that were eaten by fish and yet Shukracharya
brought him back to life.
Again,
the same sage killed Kach and gave it to be eaten
and then made him alive in the stomach and brought
him out as such. Shukracharya himself died
and Kach brought him to life. The sage Kashyapa
brought a tree and a man back to life that had been
burnt to ashes
Dhanvantri
made hundreds of thousands of dead persons alive,
cured millions of lepers, granted sight to hundreds
and thousands of blind men and gave hearing to millions
of deaf men. If these stories be false, why is not
the story of Christ's having performed miracles also
false? Why should a man not be called obstinate and
unjust who calls whatever another person says, to
be wrong and declares himself to be right, however
wrong he may be? In like manner, all that the Christians
say about the
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miracles
of Christ is based on wrong-headed ness and injustice.
It is a mere childish prattle.
69.
"There met him two possessed with devils, coming out
of the tombs. And, behold, they cried out, saying,
What have we to do with thee, Jesus, htou Son of God
are thou come hither to torment us before the time?
And there was a good way off from them as herd of
many swine feeding. So the devils besought him. Saying,
If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the
herd of swine. And he said unto them, Go and when
they were come out, they went into the herd of swine:
and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently
down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the
waters." (8:28, 33.)
C.
~ A little consideration will show that all these
things are false. Dead persons can never come out
of their graves, nor can they go to any one speak
to him. Only the most ignorant savages can believe
in such things. Christ was the cause of the death
of that herd of swine, and he therefore stands guilty
of the sin of having inflicted (pecuniary) loss on
the owner of the swine.
The
Christians hold that Christ could forgive sins and
purify the impure, why could not he cleanse the devils
of their impurities? Why did he not recompense the
owner for the loss he had sustained? Do the cultured
Christians, such as the Europeans, also believe in
these yarns? If they do, they are indeed immersed
in superstition.
70.
"And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the
palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith
said unto the sick of the palsy: Son, be of good cheer;
thy sins be forgiven thee. For I am not come to call
the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (9:2, 13.)
C.
~ Now this thing is as impossible as others that have
been mentioned before. As regards the forgiveness
of sins it is only a bait thrown to the simpletons
to ensnare them. Just as alcohol, Indian hemp, or
opium taken by one person cannot intoxicate another,
likewise, a sin committed by one cannot affect another.
On
the other hand, it is he alone who suffers sins. Verily
this is Divine Justice! God would indeed be unjust
if good or bad deeds done by one man should affect
another, or if the judge should take on himself the
consequences of the crimes of the criminal. Remember
righteousness alone is the cause of felicity (happiness),
not Christ or any other saint or prophet. The righteous
do not at all stand in need of Christ, etc., nor do
the sinners as their sins can never be forgiven.
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71."And
when he had called unto him his twelve disciples,
he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast
them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all
manner of disease. For it is not ye that speak, but
the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. Think
not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came
not to send peace, but a sword. For I come to set
a man at variance against his father, and the daughter
against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against
her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they
of his own household." (10, 20, 34 - 36)
C.
~ These are the very disciples one of whom betrayed
Christ for 30 rupees, all others also forsook him
and fled. All such things as one's being possessed
of devils or casting them out, curing of disease without
proper medicine and diet are impossible as they are
opposed to the dictum of knowledge and contrary to
the laws of nature.
Only
the ignorant people can believe in them. If it be
the spirit of God that speaks in man not the human
soul what does the latter do? It must be God then
Who enjoys or suffers the consequences of virtuous
or sinful acts done by man. This is altogether wrong.
Christ came to set men against each other and cause
them to fight and he succeeded.
The
same strife is raging among men to this day. How wicked
it is to sow discord among men as it inflicts great
suffering on them, but it seems that the Christians
regard it as the highest doctrine, since when Christ
thought it good to run men against each other, why
should not they - his followers? Yes it becomes Christ
alone to turn the members of one's own household into
his foes; no good man will ever do such a thing.
72.
"And Jesus saith unto them. How many loaves have ye?
And they said, seven, and a few little fishes. And
he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave
thanks, and broke them, and gave to his disciples,
and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all
eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken
meat that was left seven baskets full. And they that
did eat were four thousand men beside women and children."
(15:34 - 39.)
C.
~ Are these things any better than the tricks of a
wonder-worker or of a juggler of today? Where did
all these loaves come from (to feed the multitude)?
Had Christ possessed such miraculous powers, why would
he have hankered after the fruit of a
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fig
tree when he was hungry? Why did he not turn stones,
earth and water into loaves and delicious sweets?
These things look more like children's play. Many
a Vairaagee and other mendicants defraud guileless,
ignorant men of their money by such tricks (as these).
73.
"And then he shall reward everyman according to his
works." (16:27)
C.
~ When all men shall be rewarded according to their
works, it is useless for the Christians to preach
the doctrine of the forgiveness of sins. If the latter
be true, the former must be false. If the Christians
say that those that deserve to be forgiven shall be
forgiven, while those that do not deserve it shall
not be forgiven, it cannot be right, since justice
and mercy consist only in awarding punishment and
for all works.
74.
"O ye faithless and perverse generation, how long
shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you?
Bring him hither to me. For verily I say unto you,
If ye have faith as a grain of mustard see, ye shall
say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place:
and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible
unto you." (17:17, 20)
C.
~ The Christians go about preaching: "Come, embrace
our religion, get your sins forgiven and be saved."
All this is untrue, since had Christ possessed the
power of having sins remitted, instilling faith in
others and purifying them, why would he have not freed
his disciples from sin, made them faithful and pure.
When he could not make those who went about him pure,
faithful and sinless, how could he now, that no one
knows where he is, purify anyone?
Now
disciples of Christ were destitute of as much as faith
as a grain of mustard seed and it is they that wrote
the Bible, how could then such a book be held as an
authority. Those who seek happiness should not believe
in the works of the faithless, impure (at heart) and
the unrighteous. It also proves that if the word of
Christ be held to be true, not Christian possesses
as much faith as a grain of mustard. If a Christian
should say that he possessed it more or less, let
him then be asked to remove a mountain from one place
to another. Even if he succeeded in doing it, he could
not be said to possess perfect faith but only about
as much as a grain of mustard. On the contrary, if
he did not succeed, he was then destitute even of
an atom of faith or
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righteousness.
If anyone were to say that all this is allegorical
and the word mountain stands for pride and other evil
qualities of the mind, it cannot be right, as raising
the dead, curing the blind, and lepers and those possessed
of devils could also be allegorical. Christ raising
of the dead, etc., may mean curing the lazy of their
laziness, curing the blind, dispelling the ignorance
of the mentally blind, the licentious of licentiousness
and the superstitions of those who were superstitious.
Even
this interpretation would not hold water, since had
this been the case, why would he have not been able
to cure his disciples of their faithfulness, ignorance,
etc.? Hence Christ betrays his ignorance by saying
such impossible things. Had Christ possessed even
a little knowledge, why would he have talked such
nonsense like a savage.
However
as it has been said, "In a country where no trees
are seen to grow, even the castor oil plant is considered
to be the biggest and the best tree" in like manner
in a country where none but the most ignorant lived,
Christ was rightly considered a great man but Christ
can be of no count among the learned and wise men
of the present day.
75.
"Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and
become as little children, ye shall not enter into
the kingdom of heaven." (18:3.)
C.
~ If the conversion of a man by the offering of his
will be the cause of his entering into heaven and
his not doing so the cause of his going to hell, it
is clear then that no one can take upon himself the
sins or virtues of another,. And the use of the expression
"except ye�..become as little children." Etc., shows
that most of the teachings of Christ were opposed
to the dictum of knowledge and contrary to the laws
of nature, and he also wished that the people should
accept them like children without questioning their
validity, in other words, accept them with their eyes
closed.
Plenty
of Christians have blind faith like children, otherwise
why should they believe in such things as are opposed
to reason and science. It is also clear that had not
Christ himself been destitute of knowledge and understanding
like children, he would not have taught other to become
as children, since a man always wants to make others
like himself.
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76.
"Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly
enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say
unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the
eye of needle, than for a rich man to enter into the
kingdom of God." (19:23, 24.)
C.
~ It appears from this that Christ was a poor man.
The rich very likely did not respect him, hence he
taught the above; but this teaching is not true, because
there are good and bad people among the rich as well
as among the poor. A man may be rich or poor, but
he always reaps the fruits of his deeds - good or
bad - as the case may be.
It
is also clear that Christ believed that the kingdom
of God was in some particular locality and not everywhere.
Such being the case, He cannot be god, since God's
kingdom must be everywhere and it is foolish to speak
of it as one shall or shall not enter into it. Again,
will all the Christians that are rich go to hell and
those that are poor enter into heaven?
A
little reflection would have made it clear to Jesus
Christ that the poor do not possess so many means
(to do good) as the rich. If the rich, after due deliberation,
spend their wealth in furthering the cause of righteousness,
they could attain the highest state, whilst the poor
without any means for their improvement would remain
in wretched plight.
77.
"And Jesus said unto them: Verily, I say unto you,
That ye which have followed me in the regeneration
when the Son of man shall sit on the throne of his
glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging
the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone that hath
forsaken houses, or mother, or wife, or children,
or lands, for my name's sake shall receive and hundredfold,
and shall inherit everlasting life. But many that
are first shall be last; and the last shall be first."
(19:28. 29.)
C.
~ Now, behold! The cat is out of the bag. The real
motive of Jesus is saying this to his followers was
that they should not get out of his net even after
he was dead. Even that rascal who betrayed his Master
and helped him to be crucified for a paltry sum 30
Rupees would sit on a throne by him. It is said that
they (his 12 disciples) will sit on judgment on the
twelve tribes of Israel, but it seems they will judge
people of tribes other than those of Israel, since
all the sins of the children of Israel will be forgiven.
It seems that this is the reason that the Christians
are so very
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partial
to their co-religionists. It is very often seen that
if a white-man kills a dark man the judge and the
jurors being white-men sometimes give the verdict
of not guilty against the accuse and let him go unpunished.
Very likely the same kind of justice is done in the
heaven of Christ. Besides, there is one great objection
against all being judged on one special day, called
the day of judgment, one man for instance died in
the beginning of the world while another on the eve
of the judgment day.
One
is kept waiting all this time from the beginning to
the end of Creation for the hour when he is judged,
while the other is judged at once,, he has not had
to wait at all. How very unjust it is! Again, he who
goes to hell or heaven will have to stay there forever.
Now this is very unjust, since the powers and actions
(of the soul) are finite.
Besides,
the good and bad deeds of two souls can never be equal,
consequently the result, i.e., the pleasure or pain
being unequal there ought to be millions of heavens
or hells, so that each soul may enjoy or suffer the
just amount of pleasure or pain. But there is no mention
of such an arrangement in the (holy) book of the Christians,
hence it can never be the Word of God, nor can Jesus
be the Son of God.
It
is most absurd to say that anyone can have a hundred
fathers and mothers. One can have only one father
and one mother. Yet the Bible says, "Everyone that
hath forsaken�an hundredfold." It seems what the Qoran
says about everyone of the faithful getting houri
in heaven must have been borrowed from this verse
in the Bible.
78.
"Now in the morning as he returned into the city he
hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he
came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves
only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee
henceforward for ever, And presently the fig tree
withered away." (21:18, 19)
C.
~ Now the missionaries always tell us that Christ
was very calm, kind-hearted and free from anger and
other such passions but these verses show that he
was hot-tempered and ignorant of the laws that govern
the phenomena of seasons and that he altogether behaved
like a savage. Now a tree is not an intelligent being
(that it could be held responsible foe bearing fruit).
He cursed the (fig) tree for no cause; and if it be
really true that the tree did wither away, it could
not be due to his curse. We should not wonder if it
had withered away by the use of some poison.
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79.
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall
the sun be darkened, and the moon shall nor give her
light, and the stars shall fall, the heavens shall
be shaken." (24:29.)
C.
~ Well done Jesus! With aid of which science did you
know about the falling of the stars from heaven? Had
Christ read a little (of science), he would have certainly
known that all these stars are spheres like our earth,
and, therefore, could not fall. All this shows that
he was the son of a carpenter, must have years worked
as a carpenter sawing, peeling or cutting wood or
joining together different pieces of wood. When it
entered his head that he could also pass for a prophet
in that savage country, he began to preach.
He
uttered a few good thoughts but many bad ones. The
natives of that country (i.e., his countrymen) were
mostly savages and consequently believed in him. Had
Europe been as enlightened and civilized then as it
is at the present day, he could not have all passed
for a prophet. It is one of the shortcomings of the
Europeans that though they are not enlightened do
some extent , yet through expediency or contumacy
they do not renounce this hollow religion and instead
incline towards and embrace the absolutely true religion
of the Vedas.
80.
"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall
not pass away, but of that day and hour knoweth no
man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only."
(24:35.)
C.
~ This also betrays the ignorance and foolishness
of Christ. Where will Akasha (heaven) go after it
had moved? Akasha (matter) being very subtle is not
visible to the eye, who can see it move? Besides,
it does not do for a good man to praise himself with
his own lips.
81.
"Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,
depart form me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared
for the devil and his angels. For I was an hungered,
and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave
me no drink." (25:41.)
C.
~ How very unjust to send his own followers to heaven
while others to everlasting fire! Where it is said
that there will be no Akasha (space) wherein will
the heaven and everlasting fire or hell exist? Had
not good made the devil and his angels He would not
have been obliged to make all these preparations for
hell. We
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wonder
what kind of God he is Who could not even inspire
the Devil with fear since he was one of His angels
and yet revolted against him, but why could not he
get hold of Him in the beginning and put him in a
prison or kill him. What should he think of the power
of God when the devil was kept without food for 40
days. It was Christ, even the son of God, who could
not do anything. It follows, therefore, that neither
Christ was the son of God, nor could the Biblical
God be the true God.
82.
"Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went
unto the chief priests. And said unto them, What will
ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they
convenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver."
(26: 14, 15.)
C.
~ Behold! All the Godhead and miraculous powers of
Christ stand exposed! When he could not purify even
the heart of his chief disciple who was in his constant
company how could he purify others now that he is
dead.
Oh!
How many people, who put their faith and trust in
him, are taken in since how could he who could not
do any good to those who constantly associated with
him while he was alive, benefit anyone after his death?
83.
"And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed
it an broke it, and gave it to the disciples, and
said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the
cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying,
Drink ye all of it. For this is my blood of the new
testament." (26:26 - 28.)
C.
~ Can a cultured man ever do such a thing? Only an
ignorant savage would do it. No enlightened man would
ever call the food of his disciples his flesh nor
their drink his blood. This is called Lord's Supper
by the Christians of the present day. They eat and
drink imagining all the time that their bread was
the flesh of Christ and their drink his blood. Is
not it an awful thing? How could those, who could
not even keep aloof from the idea that their food
and drink were the flesh and blood of their savior,
abstain from the flesh and blood of others?
84.
"And he took with him Peter and two sons of Zebedee,
and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith
he unto
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them,
My soul is exceedingly by sorrowful, even unto death:
tarry ye here, and watch with me. And he went a little
further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying,
O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass
from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt."
(26:37 - 39.)
C.
~ Now had he been the son of God and not an ordinary
man and cognizant of the three periods of time or
even a learned man, he would not have acted in the
way he did. This clearly shows that all this fraud
that Christ was the son of God, had knowledge of the
future and could procure remission of sins was set
up by Christ or his disciples. It is certain therefore
that he was only an ordinary man, simple and honest
but ignorant. He was neither a learned man nor a Yogi,
nor one possessed of miraculous powers.
85,
"And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve,
came and with him a great multitude with swords and
staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
not he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying,
Whosoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him
fast, and forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail
Master; and kissed him�Then came they and laid hands
on Jesus, and took him. Tlhen all the disciples forsook
him, and fled�At the last came two false witnesses.
And said, this fellow said, I am able to destroy the
temple of God, and to build it in three days. And
the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerst
thou nothing what is it which these witness against
thee? But Jesus held his pace. And the high priest
answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living
God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ,
and Son of God. Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said:
nevertheless I say unto you, hereafter shall ye see
the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power,
and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the high
priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy;
what further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now
ye have heard his blasphemy. What think ye? They answered
and said, He is guilty of death, Then did they spit
in his face, and buffeted him: and others smote him
with the palms of their hands. Saying, Prophesy unto
us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? Now Peter
sat without in the palace; and a damsel came unto
him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.
But he denied before them all,
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saying,
I know not what thou sayest. And when he was gone
out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said
unto them that were there, This fellow was also was
with Jesus of Nazareth. And again he denied with an
oath I do not know the man.' (26: 47, - 50, 56, 60
- 72, 74.)
C.
~ Now what can you think of Christ who had even the
power or influence to instill firm faith into the
minds of his disciples who ought to have laid down
their lives rather than betrayed their master through
greed, or denied him, or told an untruth or sworn
falsely. Nor did Christ possess any miraculous power.
It is written in Genesis (19:11) that all the people
of Sodom attacked the house of Lot to kill his guests
who were two angels of God. They (two angels) smote
them with blindness.
Through
this is an impossible story but anyhow it shows that
Christ did not possess even so much power as the two
angels did, yet the Christians now-a-days make no
end of fuss over the powers of Christ. He ought to
have preferred suicide with a weapon or by stopping
his respiration with the help of Yoga or in some other
manner to death with such ignominy. But how could
he have this sense when he was so destitute of knowledge.
86.
"Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my father,
and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions
of angels?" (26:53.)
C.
~ He boasts and brags of the greatness of his father
and himself and yet cannot do anything. When the high
priest said to him, "Answerest thou nothing which
is it which these witness against thee?" But Jesus
held his peace. It was not right on his part to do
so, he ought to have spoken out the truth. It was
not good of him, to have boasted of this greatness
nor was it right on the part of those who put him
to death on a false charge. What they accused him
of was not his offence but they too were savages,
what could they know of justice? It would have been
good for both parties had not Christ pretended to
be the Son of God and they (the Jews) so ill-treated
him, but where from could they get the requisite sense,
righteousness and justice to know these things and
feel and act the truth?
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87.
"And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor
asked him, saying, Art thou the King of Jews? And Jesus
said unto him, Thou sayest. And when he was accused
of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many
things they witness against thee? And he answered to
never a word: in so much that the governor marveled
greatly. Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then
with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto
him, Let him be called. When he had scourged Jesus,
he delivered him to be crucified. Then the soldiers
of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and
gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers. And they
stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And when
they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe. And
when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it
upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they
bowed the knee before him, saying, Hail King of Jews!
And they spit upon him and took the reed, and smote
him on the head."
"And
after that they had mocked him, they took the robe
off from him, and led him away to crucify him. And
when they were come unto a place called Golgotha,
that is to say, a place of a skull. They gave him
vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had
tasted thereof, he would not drink. And they crucified
him. And set up over his head his accusation written�Then
were there two thieves crucified with him, one on
the right hand, and another on the left. And they
that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads. And
saying, Thou that destroyest the temple and buildest
it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the son
of God come down from the cross. Likewise also the
Chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders
said. He saved others; himself he cannot save. If
he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from
the cross and we will believe him. He trusted in God;
let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for
he said, I am the Son of God. The thieves also, which
were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
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,
I AM A 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
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straightway
one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it
with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to
drink, Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud
voice, yielded up the ghost." (26:11-14, 22, 26 -
31, 33- 35, 37 - 48, 50.)
C.
~ Those wicked people treated Jesus very badly indeed.
But Jesus was also to be blame, since he pretended
to be the son of God. Now God has no son, nor is He
the father of anyone, because if this be the case,
He would also be the father-in-law, brother-in-law,
etc., of some one. Besides, when the governor asked
him, "Art thou the King of the Jews, etc., he ought
to have told him what he knew to be the truth. Had
the miracles supposed to have been worked by him been
true, he would have then come down form the cross
and thereby converted them all.
Again
had he been the Son of God, He too would have saved
him. Had he been a seer, he would have refused to
take the drink of vinegar and gall that was offered
without tasting it. He would have known its composition
before-hand. Had he possessed any miraculous power,
he would not have cried so much before he yielded
up the ghost. This shows that a man may be ever so
clever the truth will be out. It is also clear that
Jesus was a little better than other men of his time
who were all savages. He did not possess any miraculous
power nor was he the Son of God, nor was he an enlightened
man else he would not have suffered from mental anguish
at the time of his death.
88.
"And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the
angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came,
and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon
it. He is not here: for he is risen as he said. Come,
see the place where the Lord lay. And as the went
to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying,
AH hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and
worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not
afraid, go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee,
and there shall they see me. Then the eleven disciples
went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus
had appointed them. And when they saw him, the worshipped
him but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto
them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven
and in earth. I am with you always, even up to the
end of the world." (28:2, 6, 9, 10, 16 - 18, 20.)
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C.
~ Even these things being opposes to the dictum of
knowledge and the laws of nature are not worthy of
being believed in. Have not the Christians made God
like a Tahsildar or a Collector when they believe
that he had peons or messengers called angels who
descended from heaven and were sent on an errands
hither and thither. Did Christ rise from the dead
with the same body that had been buried. The Bible
say that women held his feet and worshipped him. Was
it the same body which had been buried? Now that body
had been buried for three days, we should like to
know why did it not decompose? To say with his won
lips that "all power is given unto me in heaven and
earth" was a mere hoax (on the part of Christ). It
is impossible that he could have met his disciples
and talked with them, because if these things be true,
why cannot anyone rise from the dead now-a days and
go to heaven with the same body.
We
have so far briefly discussed the Gospel according
to St. Matthew, next we shall discuss the Gospel according
to St. Mark.
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89. "Is not this the carpenter." (6:19)
C.
~ Joseph was really a carpenter, and, therefore, Jesus
(being his son) was also a carpenter, and for years
together he worked as such then he began to aspire
to be a prophet. By and by he pretended to be the
son of God and those savages (around him believed
him to be such. No wonder then that he was so clever
in dividing people, and in causing discord and dissensions
among them.
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GOSPEL OF ST. LUKE
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90. "And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou
me good? None is good, save one that is God." (18:19.)
C.
~ Whence have he Christians got this Trinity - the
Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost when Christ himself
declares that none is good, save one that is God.
91.
"he sent him to Herod. And when Herod saw Jesus, he
was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him
of a long season, because he had heard many things
of him: and he hoped to have seen some miracle done
by him. Then he questioned with him in many words;
but he answered him nothing
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C.
~ Now this is not to be found in the Gospel of St.
Mathew, hence the witnesses (St. Mathew, St. Luke,
etc.). disagree on this point, but all the witnesses
ought to say the same thing (before their evidence
can be trusted). Had Jesus been possessed of intelligence
and miraculous power, hw would have answered Herod
(when he questioned him) and also shown him some miracles.
This sows that Jesus was neither an enlightened man,
nor was he possessed of any miraculous power.
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GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN
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92. "In the beginning was the Word, and Word ea
with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the
beginning with God. All things were made by Him: and
without him was not anything made that was made. In
him was life: and the life was the light of men."
1:1 - 4.)
C.
~ The word could not have existed in the beginning
without the speaker: and therefore to say that the
Word was with God, is useless. The Word can never
be God. Since the Word was with God in the beginning,
neither of the two can be said to have existed prior
to the other. The world could ot have been made by
the help of the Word unless the material cause (of
the universe) also existed.
The
maker could create the universe even without the Word
by keeping quiet. What was life and where was it?
This verse (In him was life, etc.,) would make the
souls eternal (beginningless), and if they be eternal
the statement of Genesis which says "The Lord God
breathed the breadth of life into the nostrils of
man" would be wrong. Is life the light of men alone
and not of the animals and other living creatures?
93.
"And supper being ended, the devil having now put
into he heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray
him." 8:.)
C.
~ Now this cannot be true, since if the Christians
were asked, "(You hold) that the devil tempts himself,
men can also be tempted by themselves; what has the
devil to do with this (business) then? But if God
be the tempter of the devil, the Christian God then
is the greatest devil and He stands guilty of the
having tempted all men through him. Can God even do
such things? Truth to tell, we should not wonder if
those, wrote this book
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(The
Bible) and called Christ the Son of God, were devils,
but neither this (book) can be the Word of God, nor
its God the true God, nor Christ the Son of God.
94.
"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God,
believe also in me. In my father's house are many
mansions: If it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you. And I go and prepare
a place for you, I will come again, and Jesus saith
unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no
man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Ye had known
me, ye house have known my Father also." (14:4, 6,
7.)
C.
Now reader mark the words of Christ! Are they a bit
better than what the popes say to their dupes? Had
he not set up this fraud, who would have been caught
into his net? Has Christ got the monopoly of his Father?
If He be under his control, he will no longer remain
independent and consequently could never be God.
To
say that no man cometh unto the Father but by me can
never be true as God does not stand in need of any
mediator? Had no one attained God before Christ? All
this boasting about his Father's mansions and about
his going to prepare a place for his followers and
speaking with his own lips about his being the way,
the truth and the life were nothing, but a hoax and
hence can never be true.
95.
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth
on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do because I go unto my
father." (14:12.)
C.
~ Now if the Christians believe in Christ, why cannot
they raise the dead and work other miracles? But if
even with their faith in Christ they cannot work any
miracles it is certain that Christ too had wrought
no miracles, since he himself says: "He that believeth
on me�..shall he do also." Has one lost his mental
vision that he should believe in the miracles of Christ
when not a single Christian can work a miracle?
96.
"The only true God." (17:3.)
C.
~ When He is the only true God, it i absurd for the
Christians, to talk about three Gods. (The Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost).
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BOOK OF REVELATION
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Now reader mark! What wonderful thing St. John tells
us.
97.
"And they had on their heads, crowns of gold�And there
were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne
which are the seven Spirits of God. And before the
throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal��and
round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes
before and behind." (4:4 - 6.)
C.
~ Now, is not the Christian heaven like a city and
their God like a lamp of fire. Wearing of crowns of
gold and other jewelry as well as the existence of
such beasts as had 'eyes before and behind' is impossible.
Besides, these beasts are said to have been lions,
etc., now who can believe such things?
98.
"And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the
throne a book written within and n the backside, sealed
with seven seals�Who is worthy to open the book, and
loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, nor
in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open
the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much
because no man was found worthy to open and read the
book neither to look thereon." (5:1 - 4)
C.
~ What a fine picture of the Christian heaven! There
are thrones, and throngs of men and a book sealed
with many seals whom no man in heaven or on earth
could open or look on; then, there was John who began
to weep because 'no man was found worthy to open and
to read the book'. Upon this an elder tells him that
Christ is able to open it. As the proverb runs 'men's
songs are sung in praise of one whose marriage it
is,' all these mighty things are told of Christ, in
order to magnify him. But they have no legs to stand
on.
99.
"And I beheld, and , lo, in the midst of the throne
and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders,
stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns
and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God
sent forth into all the earth." (5:6.)
C.
~ Now, look at the imaginary character of St. John's
dream! In that heaven there are only Christians, four
beasts and Christ, but none else. It is very strange
that while on earth Christ had
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only
two eyes and no trace of horns, but in the heaven
he got seven eyes and seven horns, which are really
the seven spirits of God! What a pity, the Christians
have accepted such nonsense ( as revelation). They
ought to have used a little sense anyhow.
100.
"And when he had taken the book, the four beast and
four and twenty elders ell down before the Lamb, having
everyone of them harps, and golden vials full of odors,
which are the prayers of saints." (5:8.)
C.
~ We wonder when Christ was not in heaven whom did
these four beasts and twenty-four elders, etc., worship
by burning incense and lighting lamps and offering
food (eatable) performing arti.*Now the Protestant
Christians condemn idol-worship, whilst their heaven
is the veritable home of idolatry.
101.
"And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals,
and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one
of the four beasts saying come and see. And I saw,
and behold a white hors; and he that sat on him had
a bow: and a crown was given unto him; and he went
forth conquering, and to conquer. And when he had
opened the second seal, I heard the second, beast
say, come and see. And there went out another horse
that was red; and power was given to him that sat
thereon to take peace from the earth�.and when he
had opened the third seal,�..and to a black horse,�and
when he had opened the fourth seal, �and behold a
pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death.."(6:1
- 5, 7 - 8.)
C.
~ Now, are not these tales more absurd than those
of the Puraanaa (Hinduism)? How could horses and riders
be contained in the seals of a book? Those who have
accepted even the delirious mutterings of John as
truth are the very embodiment of ignorance.
102.
"And they cried wit a loud voice, saying, How long,
O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge
our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And white
robes were given unto everyone of them; and it was said
unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season,
until their fellow servants also and their
*It is the name of a ceremony
performed by Indian idolators in adoration with a lamp.
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brethren,
that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled."
(6:10, 11.)
C.
~ Christians, being handed over to a Judge who is
absent from the station and is in on tour, will no
doubt cry aloud for justice, but he that accepts the
Vedic faith shall not have to wait at all for Justice.
Will the Christians tell us if the court of God is
closed now-a-days and no justice is being done. Are
the judges sitting idle not?
The
Christian God can also be easily led, since on their
request, He begins to avenge them on their enemies.
They are of a very vindictive nature because even
after death they avenge themselves on their enemies.
It seems they have not the least forbearance and where
there is not forbearance, misery and sorrow know no
bounds.
103.
"And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even
as a fig tree casteth he untimely figs, when she is
shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as
a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain
and island were moved out of their places." (6:13,
14.)
C.
~ It is because, St. John the Divine was an ignorant
man that he talked such nonsense. The stars are planets
and spheres, how can they all fall on our earth, and
why will the solar attraction let them shift hither
and thither out of their orbits? Did he think that
the heaven was like a mat (that it could be rolled).*It
is formless thing hence it can neither be rolled nor
gathered together. This shows that John and the like
were all savages what could they know about these
things?
104
"And I heard the number of them which were sealed:
and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four
thousand of all tribes of the children of Israel.
Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand."
(7:4, 5.)
C.
~ Is the Biblical God the Lord of tribes of Israel
alone or is He the Lord of the whole Universe? Had
He not been only their Lord He would not have sided
with those savages alone. He always helped them only
, did not even take the name of any other
*It is that the word akaasha has been
rendered by the translators of the bible into A'kaa'sha,
which is formless substance.
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tribe
or nation. Hence He is not God. His sealing men of
the tribes of Israel, betrays the finitude of his
knowledge and power. Or it (may be) was all John's
false conception.
105.
"Therefore are they before the throne of God, and
serve him day and night in his temple." (7:15.)
C.
~ Is not this the crudest form of Idolatry. Does not
it show that the Biblical God is localized and embodied
like a man? It seems that the Christian God does not
at all sleep during the night because had it not bee
so, He would not have been worshipped during the night,
or if He did sleep His sleep must have been very much
disturbed during the night but if he worked day and
night He must be very miserable and afflicted with
diverse diseases.
106.
"And another angel came and stood at the altar, having
a golden censer: and there was a given unto him much
incense. And the smoke of the incense, which came
with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before
God out of the altar, and cast it into the earth:
and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightenings,
and earthquake." (8:3 - 5.)
C.
~ Now even in (the Christian heaven) there is an altar,
incense is burnt, lamps lighted, eatables offered,
and trumpets sounded before the altar. Is their heaven
in any way less ostentatious than a temple of Vairagees?
If anything, there is more pomp and show there.
107.
"And the third part of trees was burnt up, and all
maroon grass was burnt up." (8:7.)
C.
~ Well don, ye Christian seer! This God, his angels,
the sound of trumpets and final dissolution of the
world - all this looks more like children's play.
108.
"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall
from heaven into the earth: and to him was given the
key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless
pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the
smoke of a great furnace: and the sun and the air were
darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there
came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto
them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth
have
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power.
And it was commanded them''�only those men which have
not the seal of God in their foreheads�..they should
be tormented five months." (9:1 - 5.)
C.
~ Did the stars, as soon as they heard the sound of
the trumpet, fall on these very angels and into the
very heaven since they have not fallen on the earth?
Had God kept that pit and reared those locusts for
the day of dissolution? Those locusts must be able
to see, to read the seals, in order to find out whether
those men were to be hurt or not.
All
this is meant to deceive the poor simpletons and frighten
them into accepting the Christian religion, in other
words, they are led to think that if they did not
embrace Christianity they will be tormented by locusts.
Such things can flourish in an unenlightened country
but not in Aryavarta (India). Can it be anything like
dissolution?
109."�Were
two hundred thousand thousand:" (9:16.)
C.
~ Now where does such a vast number of horses graze
and stay in heaven? What a large amount of dung there
would be and what an amount of foul gas it must give
rise to? We Aryas say good-bye to such a heaven,
such a God and such a religion. It will be a very
good thing if the Christians will also, through the
grace of the Almighty God, be freed from the shackles
(of the Christian religion).
110.
"�And he set his right foot upon the sea, and his
left foot on the earth." (10:1 - 3.)
C.
~Now are not these tales of the Biblical angels even
more fanciful than those of the Puraanaas and story-tellers?
111.
"And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and
the angle stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple
of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein."
(11:1.)
C.
~ Let alone the earthly temples, even in the heaven
of the Christians, temples of God are built and measured.
Their teachings are as absurd as their heaven. Take
for instance the Lord's supper. Iin it the Christians
eat bread and drink wine imagining them to be Christ's
flesh and blood. Again, to keep images of the Cross
in the Church is nothing short of Idol-worship.
112.
"And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there
was seen in his temple the ark of his testament."
(11:19.)
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C.
~ The temple (of God) in (the Christian) heaven perhaps
remains generally closed. It is but occasionally opened.
Can there even be a temple of God? The All-pervading
Supreme Spirit as described in the Vedas can have
no temple, but the God of the Christian, who is embodied
can have a temple be it on this earth or in heaven.
Just as the trumpets are sounded and tintinabulatory
noise made in the temples here, the same is true of
the Christian heaven. It must be only very occasionally
that the Christians see the ark of testament. No one
knows what the object of keeping it there is. The
fact is that all these things are done to tempt men.
113.
"And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman
clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet
, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. And she
being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained
to deliver. And there appeared another wonder in heave;
and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads
and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And
his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven,
and did cast them to the earth." (12:1 - 4.)
C.
~ Oh! What big yarns (St. John has spun)! The poor
woman cries even in the Christian heaven but no one
takes pity on he or does anything to relieve her pain.
What a long tail that dragon must have had that cast
one-third of the stars of the heaven on the earth?
Not this earth is very small compared with the stars
that are very big spheres. Our earth could not support
even one of them. We can, therefore, rightly infer
that one-third of the stars of the heaven must have
fallen on the house of the writer of this book and
that dragon also, that had such a long tail that it
drew one-third of the stars of the heaven and did
cast them to the earth, must have lived in the house
of the same.
114.
"And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels
fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and
his angels." (12:7.)
C.
~ Whoever goes to the Christian heaven must greatly
suffer on account of wars going on here. Let us bid
farewell to such a heaven. This earth is as good as
the Christian heaven? The place where wars are constantly
raging and peace is conspicuous by its absence, suits
the Christians nicely.
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115.
"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent,
called that Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the
whole world." (12:9.)
C.
~ Did not Satan, when he was in heaven, deceive men?
Why did not (God) imprison him for life or put him
to death? Why was he cast down on the earth? If the
devil deceives the whole world, who is his tempter?
If he has tempted himself then men can also be tempted
by themselves, without his help. But if God be his
tempter, such a being can never God. It seems that
even the Christian God feared the Devil, since if
God be more powerful than he why didn't He punish
him as soon as he sinned.
The
power of the Christian God in this world is not even
a thousandth part of the power of the Devil hence,
it is very likely that the Christian God was quite
helpless to prevent him from making mischief. He is
not like the present-day Christian rulers who punish
criminals such as dacoits and burglars as soon as
possible. Who is then so foolish as to renounce the
Vedic religion and accept, instead, the false religion
of the Christians?
116.
"Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea
for the devil is come down unto you." 12:12.)
C.
~ Is the Christian God the Lord and the Protector
of that place (heaven) alone? Is not he the Lord and
Protector of the earth and men and other living creatures
thereon as well: If he be the King of the Earth also
why has he not been able to kill the Devil? That Devil
goes and deceives everyone and yet He dos not prevent
him form doing so. The fact seems to be that there
is one good God and another (more) powerful and wicked
God.
117.
"�.And power was given into him to continue forty
and two moths. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy
against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle
and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto
him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them:
and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues,
and nations." (13:5, 6, 7.)
C.
~ Is not He, that sends the Devil and a beast, etc.,
to tempt the inhabitants of the earth and gives him
power to make war with the saints, more like the ringleader
of a party of robbers? Such a thing can never be one
by God or His devotees.
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118.
"And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount
Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand
having his Father's name written on their foreheads."
(14:1.)
C.
~ Now, reader mark! God lives on the mount Son and
so does Jesus Christ, His son, with his Father. How
were 4,000 men counted? Are there only 144,000 inhabitants
of the heavens: what about millions of the Christians
who had not God's seal on their foreheads? Have they
all gone to hell? The Christians ought to go to the
mount Sion and see if Christ's Father and His army
are there? If they be there, what is written in the
Bible regarding them is true, otherwise it is all
false.<> If they came there from some other
place, one should like to know why they came. If it
be said that they all came down form heaven, were
they birds that flew up and down? If God does go up
and down, He is more like a magistrate who has very
often to go on tour. He cannot, in that case, be one,
two or (at the most) three. His number ought to be
innumerable, since there ought to be at least one
God for one such planet as our earth; one, two or
three Gods would not suffice to administer justice
to the inmates of the innumerable (solar systems)
or be able to be present in all places at the same
time.
119.
"Yea, said the Spirit, that they may rest from their
labors; and their works do follow them." (14:13.)
C.
~ Now, reader mark! The Christian God does say that
the works of men will follow them; in other words,
they shall reap the fruits of their deeds, but they
(the Christians) say that Christ will take on himself
the sins of all the therefore they shall be forgiven.
Now the wise can decide whether what God say is right
or what the Christians tell us. Both can never be
right (when their statements are contradictory). One
of them ought to be wrong, be it the Christians or
their God? We don't care which.
120.
"�And cast it into the great winepress of the wrath
of God. And the winepress was trodden without the
city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto
the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and
six hundred furlongs.' (24:19, 20.)
C.
~ Now, are not their yarns even bigger than those
of the Puraanaas? The Christian God must suffer terribly
when he is in a fit of anger. Is his wrath water or
some other fluid that winepresses
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are
full of it. It is impossible for blood to flow, for
"the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs,"
as it coagulates at once on coming in contact with
air. How can it, then, flow. Hence such things are
false.
121.
"And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple
of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened."
(15:5.)
C.
~ If the Christian God was an All-knowing , what was
the business of the witnesses there, since He would
have known everything by his Omniscience. It makes
it positively clear that the Christian God is not
Omniscient. Can such a being as man who is possessed
of finite knowledge do the works of God? No, never,
never. Many impossible things are told of angels in
this book. No one can believe them to be true the
book is so full of such absurdities that it is useless
to dwell any longer on the subject.
122.
"�God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even
as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according
to her works." (18:5, 6.)
C.
~ Now, clearly the Christian God is unjust, for justice
consists in awarding reward or punishment in accordance
with the nature or extent on one's deeds, virtues
or sins; it is unjust to inflict punishment or bestow
happiness out of proportion to one's deeds. Why should
not they who worship an unjust God, be themselves
unjust?
123.
"For the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife
hath made herself ready." (19:7.)
C.
~ Now, behold! Even in marriages are celebrated in
the Christian heaven, since God Himself celebrated
the marriage of Christ there. Will the Christians
please tell us who are His father-in-law, mother-in-law,
brother-in-law, etc How many children were born of
that marriage, since the loss of the reproductive
element causes loss of strength and energy which,
in its turn, causes decay of mental faculties, and
shortness of life. Hence Christ must have died by
this time. Anything that is the result of combination
of different substances must disintegrate into its
component parts. The Christians having put their faith
in Christ, have deluded themselves, and who knows
how long they will continue to do so.
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124.
"�Serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan and bound
him a thousand years. And cast him into the bottomless
pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that
he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand
years should be fulfilled�." (20:2, 3.)
C.
~ It was with the utmost difficulty that the Devil
was caught and kept imprisoned for 1,000 years. Will
he not again deceive the people when he is set free
again! Such a wicked individual ought to have been
imprisoned for life or put to death. But the fact
is that this is a mere delusion of the Christians.
There is not such thing as the Devil.
They
simply devised this method to frighten people, and
thereby ensnare them in their net. Just as a scoundrel
said to some simple people: "Come with me, and I shall
show you the God Narayana," He had previously placed
a man in some lonely spot in a bush, in such a position
that he appeared to have four arms. He told them that
when the asked them to open or to close their eyes
they should do so. Whosoever disobeyed him will lose
his eyesight.
Then
he proceeded with them towards the place. When he
came to the spot where that four-armed man could be
seen he ordered them to look in front, and in the
next moment told them to shut their eyes. When the
four-armed man had hid himself in the bush, he asked
them to open their eyes again and said, behold! You
have all seen Narayana. The same is true of the quackery
of the religionists. Hence one should do his best
not to fall in there trap.
125.
"From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away;
and there was found no place for them. And I saw the
dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books
were opened; and another book was opened, which is
the book of life: and the dead were judged which were
out of those things written in the books, according
to their works." (20:11, 12.)
C.
~ Now, don't all these things look childish! How can
the heaven and the earth fly away? Form whose face
did they fly away? What did God and his throne rest
on? God must be sitting or standing when the dead
were made to stand before Him. Does God conduct His
business in the same way as is done in a Court of
Law or in a shop where books or other documents are
required to settle disputes or accounts. Were entries
made into the
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books
concerning the works of souls by God or His agents?
Through belief in such (absurd) things the Christians
have called a being God who is not God, and refused
to acknowledge the true God, as God.
128.
"And there shall in no wise enter into it anything
that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination
or maketh a lie�." (21:27)
C.
~ If this be the cause, why dot he Christians say
that even sinners can go to heaven by turning Christians.
This not true. But if this be true, St. John, the
Divine, shall never be able to enter heaven since
he has told such lies in this book and even Christ
count not have gone to heaven, since how can one burdened
with the sins of innumerable sinners enter heaven
where even a single sinner is not allowed to get in?
129.
"And there shall be not more curse: but the throne
of God and the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants
shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and
his name shall be in their foreheads. And the shall
be no night there; and they need no candle, neither
light of the sun; of the Lord God giveth them light:
and they shall reign for ever and ever." (12:3 - 5.)
C.
~ What a fine picture, this, of the Christian heaven?
Will God and the Lamb be always sitting on their respective
thrones? Will the servants be always looking at his
face? Now will you, pray, tell us, if your God has
a face white like that of a European or black like
that of Negro or of some other color like that of
a Native of some other country? Even your heaven is
like a prison, since all its inmates are not equal,
there is inequality in rank, and one is bound to live
in that place, consequently they must also suffer
(from various sorts of inconveniences). Besides, he
that has a face can never be an Omniscient God the
Lord of all.
139
"And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with
me, to give every man according as his work shall
be." (22:12.)
C.
~ If it be true that every man shall be rewarded according
to his works, sins can never be remitted, but if they
are remitted this statement of the Bible is false.
If it be said that remission of
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sins
is also recorded in the Bible the two statements are
self-contradictory. You should therefore cease to
believe in it. How much shall we write? The Christian
Bible contains hundreds of thousands of things that
are condemnable. We have only shown here a few absurdities;
they will suffice to convince the wise of the untruth
of it. Except a few things, all other are false. Truth
adulterated with untruth can never remain pure and
hence the works that contain it can never be acceptable.
Besides in the acceptance of the Vedas the whole truth
is accepted.
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