The Church Is A False Witness

The 18 Biggest Lies the Church Uses to Deceive Billions

Do Not Fall for Christianity’s Deceptive Tactics

With the Easter holiday in full swing last weekend, all manner of spurious memes and videos depicting bloody crosses, empty tombs, even fluffy bunnies, were hitting social media. From Facebook, to TikTok, Instagram, it was everywhere. You just could not get away from it.

I guess I saw just one too many “AMEN!” or “HE IS RISEN” posts, because the thought occurred to me: How does the Church get away with deceiving this many people into believing their mythology?

The answer is multi-fold and quite complicated actually. For decades of my own life I was caught up in the Church’s delusions thinking that I desperately needed Jesus to save me from my sins or else I was going to hell.

In a nutshell, the Church employs a quintessential “sales pitch” via a kind of “sales funnel” to lure unsuspecting people into their web of deceit.

Mostly, it’s all about pulling people into their clutches using other people we love and trust. It’s like the ultimate MLM scam (multi-level marketing), only there’s no real product, it’s just religious hype they dupe you into believing. The product they do sell is snake oil: “God’s love”, “forgiveness” you didn’t know you needed, “eternal life” in a “heavenly paradise” and the ultimate “get out of hell free card” you actually don’t need.

But nothing is ever free. Even the Church’s Jesus with his “gift” of eternal life comes with a catch, a hidden cost they never tell you about.

So let’s look at their “sales funnel”, if you will, to see how the Church sells its religious snake-oil gospel to billions of people all over the world.

Duped Victims

Before any of the sales funnel happens, you need a customer base of ready victims, people who are often unsuspecting if not all that bright, ready, willing, and able to be duped into believing a lie.

And the bigger the lie the better.

Naturally, NO ONE ever believes they’ve been deceived. Everyone thinks that what they think and perceive is going to be the truth about God, Jesus, the Bible, the Church, whatever. Even the people in the Church have already deluded themselves that what they think and see and believe is real and truthful even though it’s not.

The Church’s laypeople and leadership will even bend and twist the facts just so they can continue to believe the lies. It’s an uncanny exercise in self-delusion and cognotive dissonance on steroids. They really, REALLY want to believe the Church’s lies so badly that they will jettison hard fact and even blatant Scripture, the words of GOD themselves, to maintain the lies the Church’s earliest adherents cobbled together from Pagan myth and forged scriptures.

Hiding the Truth

However, the only way this mass delusion works is if the Church HIDES certain facts of history about itself from public view—even from itself. If the truth of who Jesus really historically was ever got out, billions would flee the Church and its lying dogma in droves.

Actually, this exodus from the Church is already happening thanks to the Information Age disseminating the truths about the Church’s factual history and how it played fast and loose with who Jesus historically was.

Still, billions remain in the dark. It’s these unsuspecting people who now become the Church’s next victims. You’re lured into some church by a family member or friend who’s been just as duped as you’re about to become. It’s how the Church’s targeting works, via personal relationships.

So once they have you targeted as their next victim, it’s time to saddle up along side these poor unsuspecting folks with a first-class lie professionally delivered.

A Grand Presentation

Nothing says grandeur like the beauty and posh of a magnificent church cathedral or campus; the pomp and formal costume dress robes, the ornate lavish services, the lively band or ethereal choir music—all of it is designed to woo the unsuspecting with feel-good emotion and positive vibes; to titillate the senses and give someone the EMOTION that some kind of holy greatness is somehow present within the place.

It’s often nothing short of breathtaking. Let’s be honest—it’s a stunning performance.

And yes, a Roman Catholic cathedral or Protestant megachurch is impressive. Bob Schuler’s Crystal Cathedral and Hour of Power television ministry was super impressive and ran for decades, building a ministry that basically became the blueprint for other even bigger ministries like TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) and hundreds if not thousands of smaller operations.

The Charismatic Huckster

What brings all of this grand lie into focus is the way it is sold via the sales pitch. What’s most impressive is that the charismatic leader is himself totally self-deluded that the lie is real and that it’s true. These pastors really believe what they are spoon-feeding everyone else. But all they are doing is rehashing what they’ve inherited from centuries of previous self-deluded leadership.

But the REAL huckster, the king of all of them, is the original founder of the Roman Catholic brand of Christianity—Paul of Tarsus. (You can read more about who Paul really was from the article below—Christianity’s Counterfeit Jesus.)

Now ensconced for all time within the Roman Catholic Church’s own lying tome they called their “Holy Bible”, the biggest lie history has ever known is now setup as the ostensive “Word of God”. Now you can’t even question it, because to do so would mean you’re somehow questioning God.

But that is yet another lie we’’ll get to in a moment.

The Lying Sales Pitch

As the pastor makes his way to the crystal pulpit, he’s already begun the sales pitch. He sets a relaxed tone with a few smiles and some humor to put his victims at ease before he launches into his dissertation of numerous half-truths, misdirection, misinterpretation, biased contexts, man-made tradition parading as scientific fact, and simple outright lies.

Christianity begins with a handful of really BIG LIES—scriptural quotes cherry-picked from passages taken way out-of-context, usually from Torah (the Jewish or Old Testament Law) with a few other carefully chosen passages from the Hebrew prophets, all the while ignoring other passages that utterly destroy their misguided points—and BOOM! You now have the handful of half-truths and blatant lies with which to begin your lying presentation and sales pitch.

And it all beings with a lie designed to make you feel like you’re a worthless SINNER who isn’t worthy of God’s love.

The Sin Problem—It’s Way Bigger Than You Think! Or is it?

Like any good sales pitch, the first thing the charismatic huckster needs to do is identify your problem, or “pain-points” as they are often called in the business world. Whether these pain-points exist or not, his job is to assure you these issues do exist and to emphasize how really, really bad they are.

He starts out slowly, weaving in a story or two from personal experience or the Bible itself, and then builds the faux problem you didn’t know you had from something that used to be your responsibility into a mammoth insurmountable mountain that no one could possibly get around or undo—which is the point.

Here is how the pitch begins with a handful of small to really BIG lies.

Lie #1—Everyone sins because Adam and Eve sinned. We are now saddled with their “sinful nature”.

Not true. People were created with the capacity to do both good and evil. GOD gives us a choice. There is no such thing as a “sinful nature” unless we also have a “righteous nature” to go along with it. The Church will say that man has no “righteous nature”. That’s a lie, as we’ll see in a moment.

So Christianity ignores man’s inherent “righteous nature” so that it can build the biggest lie possible.

And this is merely the wind-up. The next lie builds on the first …

Lie #2—You inherited the sin of Adam and Eve.

No, you did not.

Ancient Israel had a saying, “The fathers ate sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge,” meaning that because the fathers sinned, their children were saddled with the punishment of their parents.

But in Ezekiel 18, GOD speaks via the Prophet specifically about this very saying. GOD corrects Israel, saying:

“No one inherits the sin of another. The one who sins is the one who will die,”

meaning, each person will pay the price for their own sin. No one else can “inherit” your sin and thus pay the price of it (take on the consequences) for you.

GOD even tells Israel to stop quoting this proverb because it’s not true.

The reason you don’t know about this passage is because it’s a very Jewish thing to know and understand about GOD; and as Pagan (Gentile / non-Jewish) Christians, you are never taught this — on purpose — because this passage with GOD speaking totally DESTROYS the punchline of the Pagan Christian message.

I spent 40 years in the Christian Church never ONCE hearing nor reading this passage! It was never shown to me. Ever. It was not until my so-called Messianic Journey out of Pagan (Gentile) Christianity that I began to learn what my Jewish brothers and sisters already knew.

Again, keep in mind, Ezekiel 18 is GOD speaking. Christianity is willfully ignoring the words of GOD.

Lie #3—God is so holy He cannot look upon sin; God doesn’t even see you because of your sin.

Again, this is a lie. As if an omnipotent GOD cannot see everything that goes on in their Creation? This lie comes from a cherry-picked passage in Habakkuk where the prophet laments about GOD:

“Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;” —Habakkuk 1:13

Again, this is a lament. You cannot take a lament as fact. It’s more like poetry about how someone feels, it’s not meant to be gospel fact. However, Christianity ignornatly pulls this passage way out of context to make an errant point. In the SAME paragraph, the prophet continues his lament:

“Why do You look favorably at those who deal treacherously?”

Oh. So, yea, GOD can and does look at evil and sinners. And from the Prophet Jeremiah, GOD says this point-blank:

“My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from me, nor is their sin concealed from my eyes.” —Jeremiah 16:17

The reason Christianity builds this false version of sin is so that they can attempt to separate us from GOD; so that they can dig their lying hooks into the uneducated who are not trained Bible scholars. And because we’re not trained, we just believe whomever is preaching whatever within the Church without question.

Our guard is down. We don’t really know much about what’s in the Bible or even what the Bible is, let alone who wrote the thing. For many of us, we’ve never heard any of this before. We’re mesmerized by it somehow. We just automatically think a kind, charismatic pastor is going to tell us the truth.

But the fact is, if you don’t know this already, priests and pastors lie. So do many so-called Christian scholars; people with Ph.Ds who should know better. They all lie. They do. I have a whole chapter about this in my book, False Witness.

And with these first few lies about sin come more and more little to really big lies, to incrementally build a false foundation of utter deception.

Lie #4—Even the tiniest of sins separates us from God.

No, it doesn’t. GOD never says this. Only Paul says, “The wages of sin is death.” And again, it’s not exactly true, unless you engage in really egregious sin, like murder, which Paul did do; then GOD uses others to take you out.

Hitler was a prime example. But even then, not every fascist despot gets taken out for their murder of millions. This is the lament of Habakkuk and other prophets who lament to GOD why they allow such evil men to persist in their evil. It’s the quintessential question: Why does GOD allow evil to exist?

All we can hope and say is that GOD will judge these people in GOD’s own way and in their own time. But I digress …

What GOD actually says about sin is that we are to REPENT of our own sin; fix what we have broken; then don’t do it again. That is all repentance is. We’ll get to more on this forgiveness business in a moment.

Then the next lie is a big one too, continuing to build lie upon lies we’ve already heard …

You Can’t Save Yourself

After building sin into this huge mountain of ugliness, you might think that you can apologize to God when you fail. Oh, that’s not nearly good enough. You MUST have perfection! Only someone who is perfect in the eyes of God can be righteous, or so goes the delusion.

The Church begins by reinforcing the previous lies with …

Lie #5—No one is righteous in the eyes of God.

Not true, as we’ll see in a moment.

This lie typically gets spread along with the next lie …

Lie #6—Your righteousness is like filthy rags in the eyes of God.

Again, not true. This lie comes from a deliberate out-of-context quote from the Prophet Isaiah.

“For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;” Isaiah 64:6

The in-context meaning of this passage is that Isaiah is lamenting about the wicked people of Israel who have become so evil that even what they think is righteous is evil.

The fact is, this passage has nothing to do with righteous people making an effort to be righteous, as GOD proclaims in Ezekiel 18.

What Isaiah 64:6 is really alluding to are people who have engaged in the pagan practice of blood sacrifice that got written into the Law. While these people think blood sacrifice is somehow righteous, it’s really not; it is in fact an evil practice. This is what Isaiah is lamenting about when he says “our righteous deeds are like filthy rags”.

We’ll look at the words of GOD and what they actually say about righteousness as we cover the next lie…

Lie #7—You cannot save yourself from sin.

Not true. In fact, ONLY YOU can repent of your own sin.

But the charismatic pastor waxes on and on with this lie eloquently, gathering all the lies together now to make his grand delusional point:

“Because you are unrighteous and sinful in the eyes of God, there is nothing you can do so save yourself from your own sin; even your righteous deeds are like filthy rags in the sight of God; nor can you erase the sin you inherited from all your parents and mankind since the beginning of time!”

Again, this is the biggest LIE of them all so far.

GOD NEVER SAYS THIS. EVER. In fact, GOD says just the opposite. Let’s go back to Ezekiel 18 again:

“Suppose there is a righteous man who does what is just and right … He follows my decrees and faithfully keeps my laws. That man is righteous; he will surely live, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

Note how GOD starts out by saying that there ARE “righteous” people. BOOM! So much for the lie about no one being righteous in the eyes of GOD.

This is GOD effectively saying, we as people have a RIGHTEOUS NATURE as well as a sinful one. It is our choice as to which path we want to follow.

Then GOD says that people who DO what is just and right will surely live! In other words, GOD tasks each one of us to DO what is just and right in order to BE righteous! Righteousness has nothing to do with just “belief” or “faith”.

This “compound lie” about sin being so bad that no one can undo it is wrought by only one man the Church put into their lying Bible—Paul of Tarsus.

The only reason Paul makes sin into such a monstrosity is so that he can sell his fake version of “Jesus” and fake “gospel” to somehow undo the “curse” of sin that was made known by the Law of God. (See the below article for more on how the Catholic Church built a counterfeit version of Jesus with Paul as their central leader.)

Now that this pastor has you riveted to the edge of your pew with worry, he digs in even deeper and tries to destroy the one thing GOD did give us to illustrate what is just and right—the Law.

Lie #8—The Law of God is a curse.

No, it’s not. Actually, the Law was given to us as an EXAMPLE of the Golden Rule; of what to do and not to do against our fellow man. The Law was designed to be a kind or roadmap, an illustration of what is good and what is evil.

The Law itself doesn’t condemn you. Your OWN ACTIONS are what condemn you! The Law was put in place to help us see more clearly. Nothing more.

But we need also to be careful here because what we don’t know or don’t realize is that the Law was meddled with by the ancient Priesthood.

The Law as written, or rewritten by the lying Priesthood, has falsehoods within it that need to be called out. Even people in Jesus’ day realized this; in fact, it is part of what Jesus was teaching that probably got him and his cousin John (the Baptist) in hot water with the first century Priesthood.

But instead of just calling out the falsehoods within the Law, what Paul attempts to do is toss out the ENTIRE LAW, calling it a curse. The Law is actually not a curse, but simply GOD’s instruction about how to follow the Golden Rule.

In Galatians 3, Paul makes a stunning out-of-context quote of Torah (the Law) creating a massive half-truth by obfuscating what GOD really says within the Law. Paul says:

“For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.’ Clearly no one who relies on the law is justified before God, because ‘the righteous will live by faith.’” Galatians 3:10–11

Paul’s last sentence here is a bald-faced lie. GOD never says this anywhere. In fact, Paul’s misquote of Habakkuk 2:4 totally destroys his own point. Paul is trying to say that the righteous will live by “faith alone” outside of the Law; but if we look deeper we see that GOD is saying,

And this is the message: ‘Those who are evil will not survive, but those who are righteous will live because they are faithful to God.’”

“Faithful to GOD” doesn’t mean blowing off the examples of the Law. But this is exactly what Paul is preaching when he tries to say the Law is a “curse”.

If we actually look at what Paul is quoting from Torah in Deuteronomy 27, GOD is enumerating a list of things that evil people do:

“Cursed is anyone who dishonors their father or mother.” “Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor’s boundary stone.” “Cursed is anyone who leads the blind astray on the road.” “Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.” …

This passage from the Law is not intending to say the Law is a curse, it’s saying that you are under your own curse if you DO these evil things!

The Law is not the problem. YOU are if you DO evil things.

Sorting Out Truth From Fiction

Here is also where our Jewish friends make a mistake as well—they have been taught that you must keep all 613 laws of Torah in order to be saved. It’s not true. First, not all of these laws are GOD’s; most of them, in fact, were added by a lying priesthood. Early Christians, in fact, understood this; it’s we in the modern era who do not, because we have been taught Paul’s lying gospel and not really that of the Jewish Jesus and his historical gospel.

Within the Clementine Homilies (an ancient Christian writing) the Apostle Peter is seen discussing this very thing about the Law having false things within it. Peter teaches that we must “judge wisely” about the false things within the Law.

The easiest way to separate GOD’s true laws from the Priesthood’s fictitious ones is to note which Laws are actually timeless, and not tied to anything temporary. A law tied to the Temple, which is now gone, like the blood sacrifices were, is not of GOD because the Temple was a temporary fixture. Without a Temple, the sacrificial laws are impossible to implement. These were never of GOD.

Other laws that are not of GOD would be cultural ones, like not shaving your beard. How is this in any way harmful to your fellow man? It is also for this same reason that it’s NOT a sin to be gay. (See the below article for a deeper explanation of why Jesus taught the Law was riddled with errors.)

I think you get the point. But Christians are never taught any of this history of Christianity because to teach this would show Paul to be the liar that he was.

Paul was and is speaking primarily to Pagans (Gentiles) who don’t know any better culturally, and our swindling lying pastor is cut from the exact same cloth as the liar Paul. In many ways, the pastor doesn’t know what he’s preaching; he doesn’t know the Bible as well as his Jewish brothers and sister do.

But he continues to preach the man-made bogus tradition he inherited from the other liars in the Church.

God Needed Sacrifice

We are now at the place where we can see that Christianity must outright IGNORE the actual words of GOD so that it can move you deeper into its false narrative.

Lie #9 — God needed a sacrifice to forgive sin. It’s in the Law!

Not true. At all.

Now the hypocrisy comes full circle. The Law is a curse and no one should follow it, but because God demanded sacrifices in the Law, God needs a sacrifice to forgive you of your sin.

Huh? We’re not supposed to follow the law of sin and death, but yet still follow it for a sacrifice??

Let’s unravel this whole sacrifice business.

This whole business of sacrifice begins life as a really BIG LIE from the ancient Judaic Priesthood under the reign of King Hezekiah and was then repeated by Ezra, et. al., and on into the Second Temple period within first century Rome.

Make no mistake, blood sacrifice is a monstrous Pagan ritual and it is the reason Israel was tossed into captivity. While this bloody nonsense was re-written into the Law, GOD says they NEVER asked for nor required sacrifices—ever!

“I gave your ancestors no commands about burnt offerings or any other kinds of sacrifices when I brought them out of Egypt. But I did command them to obey me, so that I would be their God and they would be my people.” — GOD, Jeremiah 7:22–23 GNT

Yet, Torah, the Law, is filled with all kinds of bloody animal sacrifices. This is a MAJOR CONTRADICTION within the ostensibly wholly inspired Bible!

A lying priesthood under Hezekiah manufactured all kinds of sacrificial laws, adding other cultural nonsense as well, literally rewriting Torah in order to fool people into thinking that this bloody sacrifice business was needed to cure people of whatever petty sin. They were told via a lying unholy writ that this is what GOD wanted!

A few passages later, GOD cements the issue of the Priesthood lying by saying point blank:

“‘How can you [scribes, priests, elders] say, “We are wise, for we have the law [Torah] of the LORD,” when actually the lying pen of the scribes [elders, priests] has handled it falsely?’” — GOD, Jeremiah 8:8 NIV, [amplification supplied]

… the lying pen of the scribes, meaning the elders of the Temple, REWROTE the Law of God into a FALSEHOOD, with their LYING pens.

But you and I don’t know about any of this because it’s buried deep within the so-called Old Testament that Christianity seldom reads, except to cherry-pick an out-of-context passage here and there, just like Paul constantly does.

Now our lying pastor starts in with something really strange that Paul invented …

Lie #10—God’s Old Covenant was inadequate to save you from sin.

None of this Old Covenant vs. New Covenant stuff is true. But like any good sales pitch with a competing product (that would be the Jewish understanding of GOD’s forgiveness), the Church has to make the Original Covenant GOD gave to all people look like it was inadequate sacrificial junk.

The cornerstone of Paul’s lying gospel could be stated as: “That was then. But now…” Meaning, animal sacrifice was inadequate; what God really needed was a HUMAN sacrifice! More on this in a moment …

First, there is no reason for a truly omnipotent GOD to need to change. The Prophet Samuel says:

“He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; for he is not a human being, that he should change his mind.” 1 Samuel 15:29

This whole New Covenant business is an out-of-context lift from Jeremiah 31:31 where GOD says they will make a “new covenant” (meaning agreement, or testament) with Israel.

First we need to note that this “agreement” (ie. covenant / testament) is specifically with Israel, NOT Pagans (Gentiles). Second, the actual in-context translation of the underlying Hebrew here is not something brand new, but an agreement that is “renewed” or “repaired”.

But Christian scholars deliberately ignore the context and the underlying Hebrew to massage the translation into making it look like GOD is saying they are going to create a brand “new covenant” with Gentiles, which is a dead wrong translation and an out-of-context import of the text.

The Only Solution

With the windup complete, the pitch is fired off at full speed. Now the huckster starts in with the grand solution to a problem that doesn’t really even exist. Not only does our lying pastor spin his solution to the way-over-blow “sin” problem, you now learn that his solution is the ONLY real solution, the only “One Way” you can survive God’s wrath for being created so sinful. Everyone else’s fix is unacceptable to God. You MUST buy their solution—or else you’re going to hell.

Lie #11—There’s now a New Covenant in Christ Jesus!

Actually, as we just learned, there’s not. There is no “new covenant”. Paul is the sole inventor of this lie called the “new covenant”.

Jesus never once taught this in any of the Gospels save that Gospel book written by Paul’s Pagan buddy Luke. (Have a look at the below article so see and understand the differences between the historical versus Pagan versions of Jesus.)

Lie #12—God used the sacrificial blood of Jesus to wash away your sin.

Another lie. No, GOD did not need nor want a human sacrifice for forgive you or anyone else of your sin. As we just read from Jeremiah, GOD did not need nor ever even ask for sacrifices; as such, GOD did not need Jesus to die because GOD never asked for sacrifices to begin with. Ever.

We also just learned how people are righteous in the eyes of GOD by DOING what is just and right. Yes, it’s a 180 degrees opposite of what lying Pagan (Roman Catholic) Christianity teaches. But go back and read the words of GOD again if you need too.

Christianity’s next problem is that everyone knows that human sacrifice is evil. Pagan. So the Church needs to spin this slightly to make the human sacrifice look palatable. They do this by claiming that Jesus was “God in the flesh” (a demigod of sorts) and that Jesus “willingly” came to Earth because he WANTED to die for you because his Father demanded a blood sacrifice to forgive sin—it’s in the Law, you know.

Oooh, the pastor can see he’s still not gelling with the audience. He can see people winching at his solution. So now it’s time to be …

Turning Up The Heat—You’re Going To Hell Without Jesus

With any good sales pitch, you need to downplay your own shortcomings, and in this case, your Paganism. We’re now at the part of the sales pitch where we need to distract you from the lie with a threat.

And nothing cements the threat like one of Christianity’s bigger lies, which is…

Lie #13—You’re going to burn in hell for all eternity if you’re not “saved” by the blood of Jesus.

No one has ever been to hell. Ever. No one has ever been there because it doesn’t exist, except in the mind of the authors of (yes authors, there was more than just some guy named John who wrote) the book of Revelation who imported the concept of hell (the lake of fire, et. al.) from Greco-Roman mythology, namely Hades.

Just so we know, our Jewish brothers and sisters teach that wicked people are simply destroyed; even some Christian denominations teach that the wicked will simply not be resurrected.

But this burning in hell for all eternity nonsense reeks of a vindictive Pagan god without mercy. This is not the character of a GOD who said they “desire mercy, not sacrifice.”

(Even though hell doesn’t exit, GOD simply destroys evil, I wrote the below article for those people who do think it exists with the aim of illustrating the nature of a truly loving GOD. It’s an eye-opening read.)

Now that we’ve scared the hell out of you (pun intended), it’s now time for …

The Massive Guilt Trip

Lie #14—Jesus loved you soooo much that he laid down his own life on the cross to save yours.

Not true. First, again, human sacrifice is a PAGAN rite. No Hebrew anywhere anywhen would condone such a Pagan notion. None of the Jewish Apostles would have taught any of this human sacrifice business.

Even today, the Jews have a big problem with GOD ostensibly commanding Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on mount Moriah. Many rabbis do not accept this passage at face value and complain that it violates the nature of GOD, which it correctly does. But they also refuse to admit that Torah was meddled with by the “lying pen of the scribes”.

So, yes, our Jewish friends have some of the same issues Christianity does with thinking the Bible is without error when it’s chalked full of them.

You make up your own mind about how the story of Abraham and Isaac got edited into Torah. To me, the lying pen of the scribes added the story of Abraham and Isaac to assist in cementing sacrifices into the Law. The story of Cain and Abel as well. (See the below article about who the real Cain and Abel likely were.)

Furthermore, again, in Ezekiel 18, GOD just got done telling us that no one can inherit the sin of another. In other words, Jesus cannot “inherit” and therefore pay the price for your sin or mine by dying for it in our place.

“The one who sins is the one who will die.” —GOD

GOD says that it’s not possible for someone or something else to pay the price for your sins. Some animal cannot inherit your sin and die in your place. You pay the price for your own sin by repenting of your sin, repairing what you broke, and not repeating the sin again.

“That just cheap grace, Keith!”

No, it’s not! Blood sacrifice for the purposes of “substitutionary atonement” is the real “cheap grace”! Substitutionary atonement is the very definition of “cheap grace”, getting something or someone else to pay the bill for you while you do NOTHING but keep sinning by treating others badly. That’s CHEAP!

Repentance TEACHES you humility, honor, and makes you pay the price for your own sin so you don’t keep repeating it. No, not every sin means you have to die. That’s just stupidity. It’s only the Pagan Church who builds sin into this nonsense monstrosity so that they can sell their Pagan human sacrifice snake oil solution.

Now comes the biggest lie of all and the one Christianity MUST get you to buy into, otherwise, everything falls apart. You must trust in …

The Word of God

Because everything this lying pastor has been telling you has been coming from their Bible, he needs to make sure you respect this lying tome.

Lie #15—You can trust the Bible. It’s the Word of God! God inspired the Bible’s authors and the Church to assemble it!

No, you cannot. Trust it, that is. The Bible is nothing more than a product of man-made traditions of the Priesthood and the Roman Catholic Church that Protestants inherited most of.

Most of?

Yes, the Protestant Church ripped out a bunch of books (known as the Apocrypha) that the Catholic Church had originally ensconced within their Bible. They also moved other books to the back of the Bible because many of the early Reformers, like Martin Luther, didn’t like them. The books of Hebrews, James, John 1–3, Jude, and Revelation are at the back of the Bible because Luther called them “less than inspired”.

If the Reformers didn’t trust books the Catholic Church put into the Bible, somehow now you are supposed to?!

But the Church never tells you they removed books, or rearranged the Bible, or corrected a bunch of translations.

“That was 500 years ago, Keith, it’s ancient history. The Bible we have today is now perfect!”

No, it’s not. As late as 1885, most Bibles continued to have the Apocryphal books included. By order the Archbishop of Canterbury, a Protestant church leader in England, the books were finally removed from the Protestant versions of the Bible. 1885 is not ancient history. Diamler patented his four-stroke internal combustion engine in 1885. It’s also the same year Gen. George Patton was born. NOT ancient history.

But there have been other CORRECTIONS to the Bible in the 20th century as well. Modern Bible translators removed the word “new” from “new covenant” in the gospels of Matthew and Mark because the word was not original to the text; some lying Roman Catholic scribes added it way back when.

Also, the name “Lucifer” has also been removed from the Bible because it was an error in not just translation but interpretation as well. Now there is ZERO Biblical support for calling Satan “Lucifer” because it was a MAN-MADE error within the Bible!

But the lying Pastor won’t tell you these things. And if you bring them up, be prepared to be bullied into submission: “You’ll go to hell for not trusting in God’s Word!” or other such nonsense like this.

Here is the crux of the issue: before you put your faith and trust in some book you know next to nothing about, you must first put your faith in the lying Church and lying pastor who just told you it was the inerrant “Word of God”.

The Church claims that the Bible is “inerrant” (without errors); wholly inspired (every word came from GOD); and infallible (you can trust all its advice). But this is a lie. The Bible has been CORRECTED, many times and in many different ways; and it’s still chalked full of lies, forgeries, and errors that GOD never said.

CORRECTING the Bible by dropping books and changing translation, means that it wasn’t wholly inspired, nor infallible, nor without error!

In other words, GOD did not protect the Bible from man’s lying pens nor our traditions of error.

The Close

Now the charismatic huckster in fine clothes, gripping a leather-bound and gilded Bible in one of his outstretched arms silently signals for the lights to be dimmed as his voice quiets and the orchestra or the band’s keyboard strings warm up with soothing, heartfelt mood music you don’t even notice in the background. But it makes you feel warm and holy, like Jesus is somehow calling you.

You’re now prone in his clutches; and with a beaming smile he moves in for the kill. It’s time to close the deal. He begins the “altar call”, summoning new believers in Jesus to take a stand with him! And he begins the altar call with the yet another of the bigger lies. “The Apostle John wrote …”

Lie #16—”For God so love the world, that he gave His only begotten son … it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”

Actually, the Apostle John did not write Christianity’s signature verse of John 3:16. The entire Gospel of John is a complete forgery. So are the Gospels of Matthew and Mark. These books all have utterly unknown authors.

All of them were written decades after the Apostles whose names they bear had died.

In scholastic circles they call these books pseudepigrapha, or books written in the name of someone famed. But at the end of the day, what they really are, are FORGERIES; books pretending to be written by someone who actually walked with Jesus. (See the blow article link.)

Sitting in a church that professes to be holy, you’ve now been lied to, bullied, and guilted into coming forward with scores of others just as duped as you are. The pastor continues …

Lie #17—God’s gift of eternal life is free; all you need do is ask.

This is a half-truth, still a lie. True repentance is not free, you have to DO something to fix what you broke. Jesus doesn’t fix it for you. You are being lied to; brainwashed.

You are being sucked into a cult without realizing it.

While the sales pitch is free, it comes with a whole web of lies and deceit and a lot of strings attached as you move deeper into the clutches of the Church’s mind-numbing Pagan gospel.

And now we get to the whole point of the Church. At the end of the day, the Church is nothing more than a business selling a snake oil gospel that it invented, or plagiarized actually from Persian myth.

It’s time to just follow the money.

The Sting—It’s God’s Money

If you join a church without paying tithe or at least giving something, at some point, you will get a few sermons and perhaps even a letter from the local church or denomination.

The sermons will typically be about Ananias and Sapphira, two New Testament church people who held back some of their own money from the sale of their own land, whom Peter confronted and killed (the Church will say God killed them) because they held out on their gifts and tithes to the Church.

“That was God’s money, Keith!”

No, it’s not GOD’s money. GOD doesn’t need money. Only the lying Church demands you give them money in the name of their blood-thirsty Pagan (version of) God. Apparently the Church’s god, that would be Jesus these days, needs lots of money for some reason.

If you do get a letter, it will be about your Christian responsibility to tithe to the Church so you can help support the “body of Christ” and make sure the church can make it’s mortgage payments. It’s total bullying bullshit. What started out as a “free gift”, now costs you literally TEN PERCENT of your gross income if you’re a good little Christian, and 10% of your net income if you’d prefer to hold out on God and die like Ananias and Sapphira did.

And if you’re a really good Christian and what to store up your treasures in Heaven, you can bequeath 20% of your estate to the same lying Church when you die. (See the below article on how Jesus is stealing your inheritance.)

Obviously, I’m being a bit tongue-in-cheek here, but you get the picture. The Church will begin bullying and guilting you to pay up or else you can choose to worship somewhere else.

A Community of Liars

As we’ve just seen, Christianity is built on a web of deliberate misinterpretations and outright lies to arrive at their (meaning Paul’s) signature Pagan “gospel”.

Believers have to ignore their own scriptures and the words of GOD outright in order to “believe” the lie. By joining the community of dupes, they help each other reinforce the lies and half-truths.

Lie #18—You need to come to church or you could lose your salvation.

Another half-truth; what you could lose is belief in the lying pastor’s bogus gospel and sales pitch.

Eventually, the people you hang around with at church will suck you deeper into their insanity and delusions. They’ll want you to get Baptized, Pray to Jesus, take Communion (eating Jesus body and drinking his blood in an ostensibly holy ceremony that smacks of Pagan rite), get circumcised if you’re not already (because that’s in the Law you’re not supposed to follow now), stop having sex unless you’re married (which, again, GOD never once says is a sin).

You’ll also be told the God hates gay relationships—which is NOT true. (See the following article.)

As a side note, the Church is way too caught up in your sex life. See the below article about why so-called “Biblical Marriage” isn’t really “Biblical” at all.

The Church wants to transform you so that you become “converted”, “sanctified”, “sealed with Christ” or other such nonsense nomenclature they’ve invented, you know, so you don’t get ensnared by Satan’s lies and wiles.

“Satan’s lies and wiles”, by the way, equates to people actually telling you the truth; people like me who are pulling back the veil of half-truths, falsehood, and exposing the outright lies and snake oil of the Church.

The fact is, the truth is, I’m actually the one preaching the same Gospel that the historical Jesus and his real Apostles preached, which is a “baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sin” in accordance with what GOD says via the Prophets Ezekiel and elsewhere within the Bible.

It is the Pagan Church with it’s bogus “New Testament” that is preaching a gospel of Human sacrifice (or demigod sacrifice if that makes you feel better), getting washed in some one’s blood, symbolically eating their flesh in a Pagan communion rite, and getting “washed in the blood” of some Pagan god.

It is a Pagan Church who ignores what Jesus actually said, and instead preaches a false (version of) Jesus tied to a false gospel, under a Pagan spirit, from the mouth of a lying false witness apostle, Paul of Tarsus.

Yes, I’ve slipped into a bit of rant mode. But you get the point.

Conclusion

The Church does not speak for GOD, it speaks only for itself and it’s lying Pagan (Gentile) false gospel it inherited from the Hellenized Paul of Tarsus.

I want each one of us to find GOD; to learn what the real historical Jesus taught; and to go and learn what this means: GOD said…

“I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” —GOD

Keith Michael is a Christian author and lay-scholar who has spent nearly 40 years within various Christian churches; he is the author and contributor of numerous Christian books, including FALSE WITNESS — How the Christian Church Built a Foundation of Lies