![]() All the people came to him and he sat down and began to teach them. This story reads as follows:Įarly in the morning he came again to the temple. Within “John” can be found ‘The Story of the Woman Taken in Adultery’, in which Jesus allegedly saved an adulterous woman from being stoned to death. ![]() So, the Apostle John did not author the Gospel of “John” and this is by no means the extent of the deception surrounding this ancient work. Eusebius, who was Emperor Constantine’s pet priest and historian, successfully secured victory for the proto-orthodox church, which is why we only have four official gospels of the many that existed. Ehrman argues that the Proto-Orthodox Church, which eventually became the Catholic Church, falsely attributed authorship to their four official gospels to ensure their perceived legitimacy, because at the time there were many competing Christian sects. It was Irenaeus (180 CE) who seems to have birthed the tradition of Johannine authorship, and he is also responsible for (falsely) attributing the authorship of the other canonized gospels, which at the time where amongst a plethora of circulating gospels, most of which contained teachings that Irenaeus’ triumphant (proto-orthodox) sect of Christianity rejected. In the Gospel of “John”, the author clearly and unequivocally attributes the authorship of the gospel to the mysterious “disciple whom Jesus loved” (John 21:20-24), and not to himself. The most damning piece of evidence against the tradition, however, comes from within the gospel itself. In the Book of Acts (4:13), John the Apostle was described as having been ‘uneducated’ – a man who would have been unable to write his own name, let alone this skilfully written gospel. One of the reasons most scholars reject the Christian tradition attributing authorship to John the Apostle can be found in the pages of the New Testament. Debates grounded in pure speculation and supposition exist over the true identity of this alleged author, yet most historians and credible Christian scholars now agree that the Gospel of “John” was not authored by John the Apostle. ![]() The Gospel of “John”, within which we find this tale, is based upon a collection of manuscripts written by an anonymous author toward the end of the first century and later dishonestly attributed to John the Apostle. The Forgery of the Woman Taken in Adultery One such assertion is that Jesus probably did not save a woman from being stoned for adultery. Notwithstanding this concession of confusion, there are some things we can say with a reasonable degree of certainty. Aside from the historical problems which plague the very existence of Jesus – such as the complete absence of contemporary historical sources, religious bias in the available texts, contradictions in the official and apocryphal sources for the historical Jesus, the existence of widespread interpolations (forgeries) within both the historical ( Josephus, Antiquities) and canonical (New Testament) literature – seemingly insolvable questions surrounding what Jesus may have said and done abound. Most Christians believe that from the inception of the Christian religion, Jesus condemned the practice of stoning adulterers, yet based on the best evidence we possess, Jesus said and did nothing to rebuke the stoning of adulterers. It’s possible that very early Christians continued the barbaric Jewish practice of stoning adulterers. They are, as it were, the livery of heaven with which Holy Church clothed its moral nakedness until it attained maturer strength and became adept to commit the most stupendous forgeries for its own self-aggrandizement and for the complete domination of mind and soul of its ignorant and superstitious subjects. These first relate to the infancy of the Church constitute its false certificates of Heavenly birth and of Divine civil status. LYINGLY FOUNDED on forgery upon forgery, as has been made manifest by manifold admissions and proofs, the Church of Christ perpetuated itself and consolidated its vast usurped powers, and amassed amazing wealth, by a series of further and more secular forgeries and frauds unprecedented in human history faintly approximated only by its initial forgeries of the fundamental gospels and epistles of the New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and of the countless other forged religious documents which we have so far reviewed.
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