Chapter I
The Principles and Concepts of the Old Testament, and the Relationship of the Gospels Authors with them
The relying of the Gospel authors and the various churches on the Old Testament, and considering themselves as an extension to it, whether by quoting the texts, or its history, requires us a pause for a comparison between the principles and concepts of the Old Testament and the principles and concepts of the Gospels to find out the truth of this reliance and this extension, and to discover the real sources that were relied upon by the Gospel authors, as well as, it requires us to show the relationship between the Old Testament and the Gospel authors, and their position on the Law in general.
For this, I will review the most important principles and concepts of the Old Testament, and compare them with the principles and concepts of the Gospels, to determine if they agree with each other or not; and if not, we should study and search to discover the sources that have been relied upon by the Gospel authors to write their accounts.
Principle II: The Word of the LORD
The Word of the Lord is one of principles and concepts of the Old Testament, which is a one of the attributes of the LORD the Creator of the heavens and the earth, which means that the Lord speaks the words to show what He wants, whether in the creations or in the commands and orders, etc., and the Old Testament has shown its characteristics and its fields of work.
The first field is creations, we have read that the Lord God has created the heavens and the earth and the creatures by His word, including the following texts:
Psalm 33:6 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
Psalm 33:7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deep in storehouses.
Psalm 33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
Psalm 33:9 For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.
Psalm 33:10 The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.
Psalm 33:11 The counsel of the LORD stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations.
Psalm 147:15 He sends out His command to the earth; His word runs very swiftly.
Psalm 147:16 He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;
Psalm 147:17 He casts out His hail like morsels; Who can stand before His cold?
Psalm 147:18 He sends out His word and melts them; He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Psalm 147:19 He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.
Psalm 147:20 He has not dealt thus with any nation; And as for His judgments, they have not known them. Praise the LORD!
Psalm 148:1 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens; Praise Him in the heights!
Psalm 148:2 Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all His hosts!
Psalm 148:3 Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all you stars of light!
Psalm 148:4 Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens!
Psalm 148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD, For He commanded and they were created.
Psalm 148:6 He also established them forever and ever; He made a decree which shall not pass away.
As we read in these verses that the heavens and the earth and the creatures and the natural phenomena have been created by the Word of the LORD and His command, when He says something; that thing should be done directly, does not fail to perform its functions, and stood fast.
The second field is changing the natural phenomena that were created by His word, which does not change in the normal state, to show His ability and His greatness in control of all creatures, and therefore He must be worshiped alone, and this appears in the miracles, that have been done by the prophets in the Old Testament, as in the following text:
Psalm 107:20 He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.
Psalm 107:21 Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalm 107:22 Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, And declare His works with rejoicing.
The third field is the laws, commandments, decrees and prophecies; which were said to the peoples through the prophets, either directly like Moses, or by the Spirit, or an angel, or inspired through dreams, as it happened with the rest of the prophets, and we have read a lot of them in the Old Testament, especially in the first five books, known as Torah, as well as, we also read a lot of verses say: " the LORD God said ", "the LORD God asked", etc.
Also we find that the word of the Lord in the Old Testament has several characteristics, including that it is absolutely true, stands forever, it shall not return to Him void, but it shall accomplish what He pleases, and it shall prosper in the thing that He has sent it to it.
In the following pages I'll highlight on these characteristics from the Old Testament texts, and compare them with what is written in the New Testament about Jesus' words.
Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever."
Isaiah 55:10 "For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater,
Isaiah 55:11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
In these phrases we read that the word of the Lord shall be when goes forth from His mouth; it shall not return to Him void, but it shall accomplish what He pleases, and it shall prosper in the things for which He sent it, and linked between the word of the LORD and the natural phenomena, such as rain and snow, which they do their functions throughout the ages and times. So if we compare these characteristics with the words of Jesus in the Gospels, we find that his words do not have these characteristics! I will give a few examples:
Matthew 19:27 Then Peter answered and said to Him, "See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?"
Matthew 19:28 So Jesus said to them, "Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Matthew 19:29 "And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.
Mark 10:28 Then Peter began to say to Him, "See, we have left all and followed You."
Mark 10:29 So Jesus answered and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s,
Mark 10:30 "who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time — houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions — and in the age to come, eternal life.
Luke 18:28 Then Peter said, "See, we have left all and followed You."
Luke 18:29 So He said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,
Luke 18:30 "who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life."
These are some of Jesus' words to his disciples in Matthew, Mark and Luke, and none of these promises have happened, for this, the churches have tried to change the true meaning of these words to the metaphorical meaning, and said that these words are not a true promises, i.e., that these words of Jesus do not run very swiftly and do not stand forever and it returns to him void, and it does not accomplish what he pleases, and it does not prosper in the thing for which he sent it.
So, are the words of Jesus like the word of the Lord the Creator of the heavens and the earth?!
Mark 11:20 Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
Mark 11:21 And Peter, remembering, said to Him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away."
Mark 11:22 So Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God.
Mark 11:23 "For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea’, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
Mark 11:24 "Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
In this text we read that Jesus has promised his disciples to give them the ability and the power to move and cast the mountains into the sea, and this promise never been fulfilled, unless if we say that the disciples did not have faith in him!
So, this text shows the difference between the word of the LORD and the words of Jesus.
Luke 17:5 And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith."
Luke 17:6 So the Lord said, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea’, and it would obey you.
In this text Jesus has showed the amount of faith required to fulfill his promises to his disciples, which is a grain of mustard! However, there was no one among the churches over the last twenty centuries, including the disciples themselves, who could say to the mulberry tree (sycamine tree) be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea, and it obey him, and this shows the difference between the word of the Lord and the words of Jesus, unless if the churches said that their faith in Jesus is less than a grain of mustard.
John 14:12 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
John 14:13 "And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:14 "If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
In this text, John wrote that Jesus has said that his disciples will do miracles like his miracles, and even greater than them, and this promise never been fulfilled, especially raising the dead, which shows the difference between the word of the Lord the Creator and the words of Jesus.
John 6:47 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
John 6:48 "I am the bread of life.
John 6:49 "Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
John 6:50 "This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.
John 6:51 "I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world."
John 6:52 The Jews therefore quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?"
John 6:53 Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.
John 6:54 "Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:55 "For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.
John 6:56 "He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
John 6:57 "As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
John 6:58 "This is the bread which came down from heaven — not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever."
John 6:59 These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.
In this text, John wrote that Jesus has said that whoever eats his flesh and drinks his blood will live forever and will not die, not as the children of Israel who ate the manna in the wilderness and died, and this saying did not run very swiftly and did not stand forever and it returns to him void, and it did not accomplish what he pleases, and it did not prosper in the thing for which he sent it. Even though the churches eat his flesh and drink his blood each year dozens of times, over the last twenty centuries, they die as the children of Israel who ate the manna in Sinai and died, and this shows the difference between the Word of the Lord the Creator and the words of Jesus.
From these examples and many others, we realize that the characteristics of the word of the Lord are different from the words of Jesus.
Isaiah 34:16 "Search from the book of the LORD, and read: Not one of these shall fail; Not one shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them.
Isaiah 34:17 He has cast the lot for them, And His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever; From generation to generation they shall dwell in it."
This text asks the people to search for the prophecies from the book of the Lord, and says none of them will be missing or be failing, for His mouth has commanded it. This indicates its importance and it will not return to Him void, but will accomplish what He pleases, not as the words of Jesus which we have read earlier!
1Kings 8:56 "Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses.
This text says that there is not a one word has failed of all the good promises of the LORD, which has been given through His servant Moses, and here I will not talk much about the words of Jesus, but I will give one example to show the difference between the word of the Lord the Creator and the words of Jesus, which is as follows:
Luke 21:18 "But not a hair of your head shall be lost.
In this text, Luke wrote that Jesus has said to his disciples that not a hair of their head will perish or be lost, and everyone knows that all disciples died and perished with them all hair of their heads, so the failure to fulfill his words indicates to the difference between the word of the Lord the Creator and the words of Jesus, hence the difference between the LORD the God the Creator of the heavens and the earth and Jesus who was born of a woman, and this difference appears very clearly in the following text:
Ezekiel 12:25 "For I am the LORD. I speak, and the word which I speak will come to pass; it will no more be postponed; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word and perform it," says the Lord GOD’."
The Lord the God when He speaks, his words shall be fulfilled without delay, for He is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, yet the other gods when they speak their words will not be achieved or fulfilled in the near future or far future, as the case of the children of Israel in the time of their rebellion, they were thinking that the words of the Lord, which had been said to the prophets, will not be achieved or fulfilled at the exact time that set by Him, but about later times, also as the churches say about the second coming of Jesus, even though he said that he will come before the death of all disciples, as in the following texts:
Matthew 16:28 "Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."
Mark 9:1 And He said to them, "Assuredly, I say to you that there are some standing here who will not taste death till they see the kingdom of God present with power."
Luke 9:27 "But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God."
Matthew 10:23 "When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
Despite these words, all disciples died, and he did not come yet, forcing the churches to say that these words for long times later, and not as Matthew, Mark and Luke wrote on the lips of Jesus in the previous texts, which is like the saying of the Jews about the word of the Lord, but the Lord did not accept this view of the Jews about his word, and showed them that none of his words will not be delayed any longer; and whatever he says it will be fulfilled, as in the following text:
Ezekiel 12:26 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 12:27 "Son of man, look, the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off’.
Ezekiel 12:28 "Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: "None of My words will be postponed any more, but the word which I speak will be done," says the Lord GOD’."
And to confirm that the words of the Lord should be fulfilled as He said in the Old Testament, we read dozens of texts that speak on this subject; the following are some of them:
Joshua 21:45 Not a word failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.
1 Samuel 1:23 And Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him. Only let the LORD establish His word." So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
1 Samuel 3:19 So Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.
1 Samuel 3:20 And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of the LORD.
1 Samuel 3:21 Then the LORD appeared again in Shiloh. For the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
Given the great value of these characteristics of the Lord's Word; the prophets warned the children of Israel against violating the Lord's Words, as in the following text:
Joshua 23:14 "Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed.
Joshua 23:15 "Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the LORD your God promised you, so the LORD will bring upon you all harmful things, until He has destroyed you from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
Joshua 23:16 "When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you."
Joshua in this text confirms two things, the first is that all the words of the Lord to the children of Israel had been fulfilled as He said, not one word of them has failed, the second is the warning of violation of the word of the LORD, especially worship other gods with the LORD or beside Him. However, the Gospels authors and the churches did not commit to these two things, because the words of Jesus had not been fulfilled as he said, and did not abide the covenant of the Lord, because they worship three gods and violated dozens of commandments.
Moreover, we note in the Old Testament that there is a correlation between the Oneness of the LORD and the word of the LORD and the Law, as in the following texts:
Deuteronomy 4:35 "To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD Himself is God; there is none other besides Him.
Deuteronomy 4:36 "Out of heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.
Deuteronomy 4:37 "And because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them; and He brought you out of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power,
Deuteronomy 4:38 "driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.
Deuteronomy 4:39 "Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.
Deuteronomy 4:40 "You shall therefore keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time."
In this text we read the words of the Lord Himself declares that the LORD Himself is the only true God; there is no other god besides Him, and the LORD Himself is the God in heaven above and on the earth below; there are no other gods, while the Gospel authors and churches say that there are three gods, and this indicates that they have violated the word of the Lord in the Old Testament.
Deuteronomy 4:12 "And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; you only heard a voice.
Deuteronomy 4:13 "So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.
Deuteronomy 4:14 "And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might observe them in the land which you cross over to possess.
Deuteronomy 4:15 "Take careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,
Deuteronomy 4:16 "lest you act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy 4:17 "the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,
Deuteronomy 4:18 "the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or the likeness of any fish that is in the water beneath the earth.
This text says that when the Lord spoke to the children of Israel in Sinai; they heard the sound of the words, but they saw no form; they only heard a voice, for this, warned them to make for themselves a carved images in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or female, and telling people that it is like the Lord, yet, unfortunately, these words have been rejected by the Gospels authors and the churches, because the Gospel authors said that the Lord resemble a man, as in the following texts:
John 14:8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us."
John 14:9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
John 12:45 "And he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.
And also the churches make statues and images, which the Lord has warned of them.
Exodus 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
Exodus 20:2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Exodus 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before Me.
Exodus 20:4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
Exodus 20:5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
In this text we read that the Lord has spoken clearly that the people should not have other gods before Him, and should not make for themselves carved images in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath, and should not bow down to them or serve them and worship them, while unfortunately the Gospel authors and the churches worship three gods, and make idols and carved images to Jesus and Mary and many others, and bow down to them and serve them!
Deuteronomy 4:1 "Now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I teach you to observe, that you may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers is giving you.
Deuteronomy 4:2 "You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
In this text the Lord asks the people to keep his commandments and statutes and judgments, especially worship Him alone, and not to worship other gods with Him or beside Him, and He told the children of Israel that they should not add to the word which He commanded them, or take from it, while the Gospels authors and the churches added to the commandments of the Lord and took from it, as will be shown later, and this shows the difference between the words of the Lord the Creator and the Gospels.
Deuteronomy 5:31 ‘But as for you, stand here by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to possess’.
Deuteronomy 5:32 "Therefore you shall be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Deuteronomy 5:33 "You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.
In this text the Lord asks the children of Israel to be careful to do as the LORD their God has commanded them; they shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. So why the Gospels authors and Churches do not commit to this saying, and they call to worship three gods, and violate many of the commandments?!
Deuteronomy 27:26 ‘Cursed is the one who does not confirm all the words of this law’. And all the people shall say, ‘Amen’!
In this text the Lord says cursed is the one who does not confirm all the words of this Law, and the most important thing in the Law is that there is no other gods beside the LORD or with Him.
Furthermore that the word of the LORD is not mysterious, as in the following text:
Deuteronomy 30:11 "For this commandment which I command you today is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off.
Deuteronomy 30:12 "It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend into heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it’?
Deuteronomy 30:13 "Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it’?
Deuteronomy 30:14 "But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
Therefore the prophets and the believers' kings of Israel committed all the commandments of the Lord and His words, as in the following texts:
1 Chronicles 21:18 Therefore, the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David that David should go and erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
1 Chronicles 21:19 So David went up at the word of Gad, which he had spoken in the name of the LORD.
1 Chronicles 21:20 Now Ornan turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves, but Ornan continued threshing wheat.
In this text we read that David has committed to the words of the Lord, and bought the threshing floor to erect an altar to the LORD.
2 Chronicles 11:2 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
2 Chronicles 11:3 "Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
2 Chronicles 11:4 ‘Thus says the LORD: "You shall not go up or fight against your brethren! Let every man return to his house, for this thing is from Me."‘" Therefore they obeyed the words of the LORD, and turned back from attacking Jeroboam.
In this text we read that Rehoboam the son of Solomon and the tribes of Judah and Benjamin obeyed the words of the LORD; not to fight against their brethren, and returned back to their homes as the Lord commanded.
But this was not always the case in the history of the children of Israel; we read that the children of Israel were in some periods trying to break the word of the Lord, but they were backing down as a result of hearing the threat to them by the LORD the God through some prophets, as in the following text:
2 Chronicles 12:5 Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah, who were gathered together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, "Thus says the LORD: ‘You have forsaken Me, and therefore I also have left you in the hand of Shishak’."
2 Chronicles 12:6 So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, "The LORD is righteous."
2 Chronicles 12:7 Now when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance. My wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
2 Chronicles 12:8 "Nevertheless they will be his servants, that they may distinguish My service from the service of the kingdoms of the nations."
But, in many times the children of Israel did not obey the word of the Lord and His commandments, and then the penalties and calamities and curses came upon them as the LORD said to them, and eventually, they have been deported as captives to Babylon. There are many texts in the Old Testament talk about this case, but I will mention just one text on this matter, which is as follows:
2Kings 10:10 "Know now that nothing shall fall to the earth of the word of the LORD which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab; for the LORD has done what He spoke by His servant Elijah."
In this text we read that the LORD has done what He spoke by His servant Elijah concerning the house of Ahab, one of non-believers of the kings of the children of Israel, and nothing has fallen to the earth of the word of the LORD, and these characteristics of the words of the Lord arise from being the word of the Lord the Creator of the heavens and the earth, it's not the word of a man, so there's no any possibility for untruth or not to be achieved, which appears clearly in the following text:
Numbers 23:19 "God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
The Lord is not a man, nor a son of man, for this He does not lie nor repent, and does not say words or promises that do not implement, and these facts if we compare them with the attributes of Jesus and his words and promises, as is written in the Gospels, we will find that they did not achieve, also we find that every word in this text denounces and refutes all what is said in the Gospels and the various churches about Jesus, the text says that the LORD is not a man nor a son of man, while the Gospels say that Jesus was a man and a son of man, so how a man and the son of man become a god besides the Lord or with Him?!
John 8:40 "But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.
And the son of man is the title of Jesus, which has been mentioned more than eighty times in the Gospels.
With regard to not lying and repenting, we find opposite of it in what is written in the Gospels about Jesus, as in the following texts:
John 12:32 "And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself."
John 12:33 This He said, signifying by what death He would die.
John 18:11 So Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which My Father has given Me?"
John 18:37 Pilate therefore said to Him, "Are You a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."
These verses show that Jesus has accepted to die on the cross, yet after several hours we hear him saying "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"! As in the following texts:
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" that is, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"
Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"
With regard to the saying "Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?", we have read previously promises of Jesus to the disciples to give them a hundred times for anything they will leave for his name's sake, and the Gospels authors wrote that Peter has left his ship for Jesus' sake! However, Peter did not take a hundred ships, not even one ship, but he lived a hard life and he worked to fend for himself.
And to confirm that the word of the Lord should be fulfilled as the Lord said at the exact time, we should read some texts from the Old Testament:
Genesis 21:1 And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken.
Genesis 21:2 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
This text is part of the story of the LORD's promise to Sarah that she will give birth to Isaac during a year, which is what happened as the Lord said and at the time set by the Lord.
Genesis 28:13 And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: "I am the LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.
Genesis 28:14 "Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Genesis 28:15 "Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you."
In this text we read the LORD's promise to Jacob and his descendants to give them the Holy Land, which is what happened to him as the Lord promised, and has fulfilled his words.
Genesis 46:2 Then God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" And he said, "Here I am."
Genesis 46:3 So He said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.
Genesis 46:4 "I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes."
Here again, the words of the LORD have been fulfilled as He said, and the children of Israel went to Egypt and brought them out of it.
Exodus 16:11 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Exodus 16:12 "I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am the LORD your God’."
In this text we read that the Lord has spoken to Moses that the children of Israel will eat meat and bread, which is already what happened as the LORD said.
2Kings 21:10 And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying,
2Kings 21:11 "Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations (he has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols),
2Kings 21:12 "therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.
In this text we read that the word of the Lord has been fulfilled as He said, because the Lord has warned the children of Israel to do abominations, and if they did, He will bring many calamities and disasters and punishments upon them, and when the children of Israel did these abominations and sins, the Lord has achieved his words upon them, and eventually, they were expelled to Babylon as captives, as it is written in the Old Testament.
Finally, one of the weirdest notes in the Gospels is the lack of any word that was attributed directly to the LORD, except two sentences were attributed to the voice came from heaven, which did not specify if He had spoken it directly or not, and I do not know if it makes sense to attribute them to the Lord, especially since they contradict the most important principle of Old Testament that is the Oneness of the LORD the Creator, those two sentences stated in three places, the first is in the time of the baptism of Jesus, the second is in the story of the Transfiguration, when he went up to a mountain and met with Moses and Elijah, and the third is shortly before his crucifixion, and they will be discussed later, which are as follows:
Mark 1:9 It came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
Mark 1:10 And immediately, coming up from the water, He saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending upon Him like a dove.
Mark 1:11 Then a voice came from heaven, "You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
Mark 9:7 And a cloud came and overshadowed them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!"
John 12:27 "Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour.
John 12:28 "Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it and will glorify it again."
John 12:29 Therefore the people who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to Him."
John 12:30 Jesus answered and said, "This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake.
From all of the above, we conclude that the Gospels is not like the Word of the LORD, and do not related to the Old Testament, and this indicates that the sources of the Gospels are not the same sources of the Old Testament, which requires us to search for those sources.
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