The Source of the Saying "I said you are gods?" and the Source of the Saying of the Jews that the God is their father

Chapter III

Section V

The Texts of the Old Testament, which were quoted during the Debates and the Arguments and the Dialogues in the Gospels

In this section we will examine some texts in the Gospels that contain debates and dialogues and arguments, in which the Gospels authors have cited texts from the Old Testament; to find out if these texts consistent with the Gospels and not contradicting with them, nor with the principles and the concepts and the texts of the Old Testament, and if the Gospels authors did not distort and manipulate them to serve what they believe, as we have seen in the previous sections how they have used the texts of the Old Testament to write their narratives to bestow a state of holiness and credibility and reliability on what they have written, away from the revelation and the Holy Spirit, or even the historical events; for this they have distorted and manipulated the texts of the Old Testament, whether by changing the meaning of them, or by adding some paragraphs, or by deleting others, or by writing some paragraphs that were not written in the Old Testament, or by writing some names and numbers that are inconsistent with what is written in the Old Testament, etc.

2 - The Source of the Saying "I said you are gods?"

John 10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

John 10:32 Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"

John 10:33 The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

John 10:34 Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, "You are gods’?"

John 10:35 "If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

John 10:36 "do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming’, because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

In this text John writes a story about an attempt of the Jews to stone Jesus, and asking them why they want to stone him, and reminds them that he had done many good works and miracles to them, and the Jews answered him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself God", then Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, "You are gods’?", "If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken).

This answer might considered as a logical answer as John has written, however, we have several notes on it, including the followings.

The first note is on his saying "your law", this word is wrong, because the quotation is from the Psalms not from the Law, and the Psalms not called on the Law, which means divine songs, while the Law called on the first five books in the Old Testament!

The second note is if we agree that the Psalms called the Law, this word is not the proper word in this case, because John here wants to show that Jesus is a god and the son of God, for this he should use the word my law, not your law, because if it's what he says is true, and Jesus is the son of God and one of three Persons, who are one and have the same nature and essence, will be supposed that he is the one who has inspired the Law to Moses, so when Jesus says to them your law, it seems that it was an attempt to prove his saying that he is a god and the son of God from the Old Testament, because there are some paragraphs in the Old Testament have mentioned that some people were called gods and sons of God, and not because he is a true god or a real son of God!

The third note is if what did John say is true, and was acceptable by Jesus and the Holy Spirit and the various churches, this means that he has proved the existence of several other gods, not only two or three gods! Because he says that the judges of the Jews are gods, and there are hundreds of judges!

The fourth note is did the Jews accept John’s understanding and interpretation of the text, particularly it describes their judges as gods like Jesus himself?!

The answer is clear and famous, which is that the Jews have not accepted this understanding and interpretation, and have remained insist that anyone says that he is a god or the son of the God should be stoned to death as a punishment of his blasphemy.

Now let’s read the Psalm to find out the truth of what was talking about, and if the understanding of Jesus and John was true or not, which is as follows:

Psalm 82:1 (A Psalm of Asaph.) God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods.

Psalm 82:2 How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked? Selah

Psalm 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Psalm 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy; Free them from the hand of the wicked.

Psalm 82:5 They do not know, nor do they understand; They walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are unstable.

Psalm 82:6 I said, "You are gods, And all of you are children of the Most High.

Psalm 82:7 But you shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes."

Psalm 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; For You shall inherit all nations.

Hebrew version

Psalm 82:1 A Psalm of Asaph. {N}

God standeth in the congregation of God; in the midst of the judges He judgeth:

Psalm 82:2 'How long will ye judge unjustly, and respect the persons of the wicked? Selah

Psalm 82:3 Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

Psalm 82:4 Rescue the poor and needy; deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

Psalm 82:5 They know not, neither do they understand; they go about in darkness; {N} all the foundations of the earth are moved.

Psalm 82:6 I said: Ye are godlike beings, and all of you sons of the Most High.

Psalm 82:7 Nevertheless ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.'

Psalm 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; for Thou shalt possess all the nations.{P}

Septuagint version

Psalm 82 A Psalm for Asaph.

Psalm 82:1 God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst of them will judge gods.

Psalm 82:2 How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause.

Psalm 82:3 Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy.

Psalm 82:4 Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.

Psalm 82:5 They know not, nor understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.

Psalm 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you children of the Most High.

Psalm 82:7 But ye die as men, and fall as one of the princes.

Psalm 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

The Psalm begins by saying that the LORD judges among the judges of the Jews, and says to them; how long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?

Then asked them to defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy, and deliver the poor and needy; free them from the hand of the wicked, and there are several texts in the Old Testament talked concerning the judges of Jews and how they judge unjustly, including the following text:

Isaiah 1:23 Your princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Everyone loves bribes, And follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

So, the Psalm was rebuking and scolding the judges of Jews, not praising them, after all this reprimand them, the Psalm mentions other attributes of those judges, saying, they do not know, nor do they understand; they walk about in darkness, and because of them all the foundations of the earth are unstable, which was established on justice and wise and knowledge.

So, does the Psalm refer to the true gods, or wants rebuking the judges of Jews?

Is it true that those gods, who do not know and do not understand and walk about in darkness, are true gods?!

Then says "I said, "You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High", which John has quoted it and wrote it on the lips of Jesus to prove his saying that he is the son of God is not a blasphemy, because this paragraph written in their Law! This quote will be true and reliable if the paragraph came in the context of praise, not blame and reprimand as we see!

He says to them; I said, "You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High, and you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?!

I said, you are gods and you do not defend the poor and fatherless, and do not do justice to the afflicted and needy?!

I said, you are gods, and you do not deliver the poor and needy, do not free them from the hand of the wicked?!

I said, you are gods, and you do not know, nor understand?!

I said, you are gods and you walk about in darkness?!

I said, you are gods, and you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes?!

I said, "You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High.

Arise, O God, judge the earth; for You shall inherit all nations. Amen!

From this careful reading of this Psalm, we find that John has failed to prove what he believes in Jesus; as a god and the son of God by quoting from the Psalm, and it was better for him to know the LORD the Creator, as well as Jesus as was described in the laws of faith of churches before writing this story, because the Old Testament has mentioned dozens of texts concerning the Lord the Creator; which show His Oneness and that there is no gods beside Him or with Him, and all gods other than Him are untruths and falsities and myths and do not harm or benefit, therefore, how will describe the judges of Jews as gods, unless this description is a kind of scolding and humiliation, which appeared to us by reading the Psalm.

As for knowing John to Jesus, if really he believes in him as say the laws of the faith of the churches, if he had heard about them, he should know that they do not consider Jesus like the judges of Jews!

This indicates that the Gospels authors have relied upon the Old Testament texts to write their Gospels, as is their way or method or approach of writing, to say that what they believe in is compatible with it, regardless of the true meaning of the texts, or where it is written; to bestow a state of holiness and credibility and reliability on what they have written, which means that our law "do not accept the lying and false" applies to the story of John.

3 - The Source of the Saying of the Jews that the God is their father

John 8:37 "I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.

John 8:38 "I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father."

John 8:39 They answered and said to Him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

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.

John 8:41 "You do the deeds of your father." Then they said to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father — God."

John 8:42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.

This dialogue or debate between Jesus and the Jews is unlike the previous text.

Here John writes on the lips of Jews that they have said that the God is their father, while in the previous text wrote that they had tried to stone Jesus because he said that he is a god and the son of God!

And when John wrote this; he did not care if it is compatible with previous text or incompatible, but the important thing to him is that he tries to prove that the Old Testament speaks of a number of gods and not one God, the LORD the Creator of the heavens and the earth, and this text contains some issues that have invalidated the laws of faith of the churches, such as Jesus' saying about himself that he is a man, and came from God, not from himself, and his fear of death and murder, although our main aim in this book is the search for the sources of the Gospels, which the writers had relied upon to write them, and as we have seen they have relied upon the Old Testament texts by quoting them and reformulating them in their narratives to bestow a state of holiness and credibility and reliability on the Gospels, and as for this text we find that John has quoted this saying from the book of Isaiah, as in the following text:

Isaiah 63:15 Look down from heaven, And see from Your habitation, holy and glorious. Where are Your zeal and Your strength, The yearning of Your heart and Your mercies toward me? Are they restrained?

Isaiah 63:16 Doubtless You are our Father, Though Abraham was ignorant of us, And Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; Our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.

Isaiah 63:17 O LORD, why have You made us stray from Your ways, And hardened our heart from Your fear? Return for Your servants’ sake, The tribes of Your inheritance.

As we notice that the Jews, after they have said that the God is their father; returned and confessed that they are His servants, and the Jews usually use these expressions, i.e., the sons of God and God is our father, as a matter of obedience and love, not in terms of the nature and essence, as John and the rest of the authors of the New Testament and the various churches use it.

And there is another text in the Book of Isaiah speaks of the God as a father of the Jews, which is as follows:

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.

Isaiah 64:7 And there is no one who calls on Your name, Who stirs himself up to take hold of You; For You have hidden Your face from us, And have consumed us because of our iniquities.

Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand.

So this text was an attempt by John to say that what he says about Jesus; that he is a god and the son of God is as what the Jews say concerning themselves. However, even if the Jews said that there are gods with the LORD or beside Him, or that He has true sons, it is not an argument against the Lord, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, because every atom and every creature in the universe indicate to His Oneness and His greatness, as well as the LORD has shown in the Old Testament in dozens of texts that He is the only true God, and anything worshiped with Him or beside Him is not true gods, as is shown in the first chapter. Moreover, that the Jews have remained long periods of their history live in infidelity and disobedience and worship other gods with the LORD the only true God, and as a result of these things they have been punished of all kinds of calamities, which have ended into captivity to Assyria and to Babylon.

Therefore that John's attempt to simplify the issue of the Oneness of the LORD is contrary to the nature of the universe, as well as contrary to the Old Testament principles; even if the Jews said that the Lord is their father!

The Source of the Saying of Jesus "everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me"

Chapter III

Section V

The Texts of the Old Testament, which were quoted during the Debates and the Arguments and the Dialogues in the Gospels

In this section we will examine some texts in the Gospels that contain debates and dialogues and arguments, in which the Gospels authors have cited texts from the Old Testament; to find out if these texts consistent with the Gospels and not contradicting with them, nor with the principles and the concepts and the texts of the Old Testament, and if the Gospels authors did not distort and manipulate them to serve what they believe, as we have seen in the previous sections how they have used the texts of the Old Testament to write their narratives to bestow a state of holiness and credibility and reliability on what they have written, away from the revelation and the Holy Spirit, or even the historical events; for this they have distorted and manipulated the texts of the Old Testament, whether by changing the meaning of them, or by adding some paragraphs, or by deleting others, or by writing some paragraphs that were not written in the Old Testament, or by writing some names and numbers that are inconsistent with what is written in the Old Testament, etc.

4 - The Source of the Saying of Jesus "everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me"

John 6:41 The Jews then complained about Him, because He said, "I am the bread which came down from heaven."

John 6:42 And they said, "Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that He says, ‘I have come down from heaven’?"

John 6:43 Jesus therefore answered and said to them, "Do not murmur among yourselves.

John 6:44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 6:45 "It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God’. Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.

John 6:46 "Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father.

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."

In this text we read dialogue between Jesus and the Jews, which has contained the words that were attributed to the Old Testament, and in which John has tried to prove that anyone who eats the flesh of Jesus will not die and will live forever, and the churches, as we know, still eat the flesh of Jesus and drink his blood by eating pieces of the bread with a little wine during hundreds of years, and each year many times; however, they die as the children of Israel died whom ate the manna in Sinai.

Thus, the death of the disciples and those who came after them raises doubts about the whole story. However, what matters in this dialogue is the saying of Jesus "It is written in the prophets, and they shall all be taught by God, therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me", and strikingly here is that the Gospels authors did not mention that some people have heard the words of the father of Jesus more than three times.

The first time is at his baptism when was heard a voice from heaven, saying this my son, whom I love, and the one who heard this, if he had really heard, is John the Baptist, because Jesus in that time had not begun his preaching yet, although John the Baptist has remained separate from Jesus, and did not come to him as he said in this text, even that John the Baptist at the end of his life before his death a few days was not sure of the attributes of Jesus, for this he has sent two disciples to ask him if he is the Messiah or not, as in the following texts:

Matthew 11:2 And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples

Matthew 11:3 and said to Him, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?"

Luke 7:18 Then the disciples of John reported to him concerning all these things.

Luke 7:19 And John, calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?"

Luke 7:20 When the men had come to Him, they said, "John the Baptist has sent us to You, saying, ‘Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another’?"

The second time that was heard the voice of the father of Jesus is in the story of the Transfiguration, when Jesus met with Moses and Elijah on a high mount, and there were with him Peter, James and John only, and heard one sentence as in the following texts:

Matthew 17:5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"

Mark 9:5 Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" —

Mark 9:6 because he did not know what to say, for they were greatly afraid.

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!"

Mark 9:8 Suddenly, when they had looked around, they saw no one anymore, but only Jesus with themselves.

Luke 9:35 And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!"

Nevertheless, all of them have disowned him, and deserted him and fled, and Peter had cursed him, and all the disciples didn't believe that he rose from the dead! As in the following texts:

Matthew 26:31 Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, And the sheep of the flock will be scattered’.

Matthew 26:34 Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you that this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times."

Matthew 26:56 "But all this was done that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.

Matthew 26:74 Then he began to curse and swear, saying, "I do not know the Man!" Immediately a rooster crowed.

Mark 16:11 And when they heard that He was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.

Luke 24:10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them, who told these things to the apostles.

Luke 24:11 And their words seemed to them like idle tales, and they did not believe them.

The third time that was heard the voice of the father of Jesus written in the Gospel of John only, which is as follows:

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.

And all these people whom were there and heard the voice also have forsaken Jesus and fled and did not come to him!

But if the churches said that the text meant to do the commandments of the Lord in the Old Testament, as well known to us that churches did not keep them, as is shown earlier.

And if the churches said it means hearing Jesus' words and his teachings directly, as one of the three Persons who are one and have the same essence and nature, this will put them in a bigger problem than that tried to get out of it, because Jesus had remained three years preaching and teaching, and had heard his words hundreds of people while whom came to him no more than a few dozen, so that some of his disciples after they heard  these words itself; had turned back and no longer came after him, and said this is a hard saying; who can understand it, as in the following text:

John 6:60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying; who can understand it?"

John 6:61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, "Does this offend you?

John 6:62 "What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?

John 6:63 "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

John 6:64 "But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him.

John 6:65 And He said, "Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father."

John 6:66 From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more.

However, the churches may say that the meaning is to do the commandments and the teachings of Jesus and not hearing the sound only, and this also is not the case with the disciples nor the churches, because they did not keep a lot of commandments and teachings of Jesus as shown in the book "Jesus the Son of Joseph the Carpenter ... Confusing Questions", including the following commandments:

Luke 14:25 Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them,

Luke 14:26 "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

Luke 14:27 "And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. 

Luke 14:28 "For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it —

Luke 14:29 "lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,

Luke 14:30 "saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish’.

Luke 14:31 "Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Luke 14:32 "Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.

Luke 14:33 "So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.

Luke 14:34 "Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?

Luke 14:35 "It is neither fit for the land nor for the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"

Could anyone say that the disciples and the churches have committed to these commandments, despite the fact that the disciples did not bear their crosses and come after him, but they ran away and left him alone and disowned him, and did not believe that he rose from the dead?

The text that quoted by John on the lips of Jesus is written in the book of Isaiah, which is as follows:

Isaiah 54:1 "Sing, O barren, You who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, You who have not labored with child! For more are the children of the desolate Than the children of the married woman," says the LORD.

Isaiah 54:2 "Enlarge the place of your tent, And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, And strengthen your stakes.

Isaiah 54:3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left, And your descendants will inherit the nations, And make the desolate cities inhabited.

Isaiah 54:4 "Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you will forget the shame of your youth, And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.

Isaiah 54:5 For your Maker is your husband, The LORD of hosts is His name; And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; He is called the God of the whole earth.

Isaiah 54:6 For the LORD has called you Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, Like a youthful wife when you were refused," Says your God.

Isaiah 54:7 "For a mere moment I have forsaken you, But with great mercies I will gather you.

Isaiah 54:8 With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you," Says the LORD, your Redeemer.

Isaiah 54:9 "For this is like the waters of Noah to Me; For as I have sworn That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, So have I sworn That I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

Isaiah 54:10 For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed," Says the LORD, who has mercy on you.

Isaiah 54:11 "O you afflicted one, Tossed with tempest, and not comforted, Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems, And lay your foundations with sapphires.

Isaiah 54:12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies, Your gates of crystal, And all your walls of precious stones.

Isaiah 54:13 All your children shall be taught by the LORD, And great shall be the peace of your children.

Isaiah 54:14 In righteousness you shall be established; You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; And from terror, for it shall not come near you.

Isaiah 54:15 Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.

Isaiah 54:16 "Behold, I have created the blacksmith Who blows the coals in the fire, Who brings forth an instrument for his work; And I have created the spoiler to destroy.

Isaiah 54:17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me," Says the LORD.

This chapter contains the paragraph which has been quoted by John, and who can say that it was talking about Jerusalem in Jesus' time, or even about the disciples?

From all of the above, we note that John had used the text of the Old Testament to serve what he believes, regardless of whether what he has written contrary to what is written in the other Gospels, or even with his Gospel, as is the way or the method or the approach of writing the Gospels, to bestow a state of holiness and credibility and reliability on his Gospel, for this I can say that the law "do not accept the lying and false" applies to the text of John.

The Devil's Quotes from the Old Testament and the Sources of the Events of the Story of the Temptation of Jesus

Chapter III

Section V

The Texts of the Old Testament, which were quoted during the Debates and the Arguments and the Dialogues in the Gospels

In this section we will examine some texts in the Gospels that contain debates and dialogues and arguments, in which the Gospels authors have cited texts from the Old Testament; to find out if these texts consistent with the Gospels and not contradicting with them, nor with the principles and the concepts and the texts of the Old Testament, and if the Gospels authors did not distort and manipulate them to serve what they believe, as we have seen in the previous sections how they have used the texts of the Old Testament to write their narratives to bestow a state of holiness and credibility and reliability on what they have written, away from the revelation and the Holy Spirit, or even the historical events; for this they have distorted and manipulated the texts of the Old Testament, whether by changing the meaning of them, or by adding some paragraphs, or by deleting others, or by writing some paragraphs that were not written in the Old Testament, or by writing some names and numbers that are inconsistent with what is written in the Old Testament, etc.

5 - The Devil's Quotes from the Old Testament

Matthew 4:1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

Matthew 4:2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry.

Matthew 4:3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, "If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."

Matthew 4:4 But He answered and said, "It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God’."

Matthew 4:5 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple,

Matthew 4:6 and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you’, and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone’."

Matthew 4:7 Jesus said to him, "It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God’."

Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.

Matthew 4:9 And he said to Him, "All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me."

Matthew 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, "Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve’."

Matthew 4:11 Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.

Luke 4:1 Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Luke 4:2 being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.

Luke 4:3 And the devil said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."

Luke 4:4 But Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God’."

Luke 4:5 Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Luke 4:6 And the devil said to Him, "All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.

Luke 4:7 "Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours."

Luke 4:8 And Jesus answered and said to him, "Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve’."

Luke 4:9 Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here.

Luke 4:10 "For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you’,

Luke 4:11 "and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone’."

Luke 4:12 And Jesus answered and said to him, "It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God’."

Luke 4:13 Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.

One of the most surprising and striking things is what is written in the Gospels about the devil, that he has quoted texts from the Old Testament during his dialogue with Jesus at the Temptation, which was written by Matthew and Luke in their Gospels.

The first note on these texts is the difference in the sequence of events between the two narratives, Matthew says "the devil took him up into the holy city", while Luke says "the devil, taking him up on a high mountain", then Matthew says "the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain", while Luke says "Then he brought him to Jerusalem", and these things do not indicate that they wrote it by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, or through seeing or hearing from reliable sources; otherwise they should write the same events because they talk about the same story.

The second note is on the Mount of Temptation, and I am wondering how anyone could see all the kingdoms of the world from it, while it is below Sea Level! Even if anyone sat on the peak of Mount Everest he will not be able to see all the kingdoms of the world, or even if he ascended to the moon will not see all the kingdoms of the world, because in this case he will see half of the earth not whole! But what matters here is the reality and the credibility of these texts, which were quoted by the devil, and if they were compatible with the attributes of Jesus as is written in the laws of faith of the churches, or not.

Matthew 4:3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, "If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread."

Matthew 4:4 But He answered and said, "It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God’."

Luke 4:3 And the devil said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."

Luke 4:4 But Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God’."

This quote written in the Book of Deuteronomy, which is as follows:

Deuteronomy 8:2 "And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 8:3 "So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 8:4 "Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.

Deuteronomy 8:5 "You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.

This text talks about the period of living of the children of Israel in the wilderness, and how that the LORD took care of them in all their affairs for forty years without having to make any effort in order to obtain food or drink, but was required of them to keep the commandments and do them, for this it says "that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD", because the Lord created all things and has the ability to do anything, therefore, if anyone worships Him alone and keeps His commandments; will be saved in his life. This is the ability of the Lord the Creator of the heavens and the earth. So, could we compare this great ability with the ability of Jesus, who refuses to command the stones to become bread, and cited text from the Old Testament?!

Therefore, if what was written about Jesus in the laws of the faith of the churches is true; he should make stones bread to convince the devil that he is the son of God, rather than forcing the devil to continue the temptation!

Then when Jesus succeeded to avoid making the stones become bread to convince the devil that he is the son of God by citing the biblical text, we find that Satan did not give up to attempt him again to know the truth of the saying of Jesus that he is the son of God, as Matthew and Luke wrote that Satan took Jesus up into the holy city and tried to make sure of the saying of Jesus, but this time we read that Satan has cited text from the Old Testament, as in the following texts:

Matthew 4:5 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple,

Matthew 4:6 and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you’, and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone’."

Luke 4:9 Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here.

Luke 4:10 "For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you’,

Luke 4:11 "and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone’."

And the quote was mentioned in the Psalm 91, which is as follows:

Psalm 91:9 Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place,

Psalm 91:10 No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;

Psalm 91:11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways.

Psalm 91:12 In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

Psalm 91:13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

Psalm 91:14 "Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name.

Psalm 91:15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.

Psalm 91:16 With long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation."

This is the text, which the devil cited it to encourage Jesus to prove if his saying that he is the son of God is true or not.

The first thing that draws attention is that Matthew and Luke had omitted the paragraph "in all your ways"!

Hebrew version

Psalm 91:11 For He will give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

Psalm 91:12 They shall bear thee upon their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Septuagint version

Psalm 91:11 For he shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

Psalm 91:12 They shall bear thee up on their hands, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

This way of deleting from, or adding to, some sentences in the texts of the Old Testament indicates that the Gospels authors have not received any revelation or inspiration from the Holy Spirit, but they had written through a specific approach or method to serve what they believe in, and this shows that they have the ability to distort and twist the texts of the Old Testament and reformulating in their narratives, which appears through the differences between these stories.

The second thing is that the Psalm talks about a man who has made the LORD his refuge, even the Most High, his dwelling place, for this no evil shall befall him, nor shall any plague come near his dwelling; For He shall give His angels charge over him, to keep him in all his ways. And all who read the Gospels know that this case does not apply to Jesus throughout his life on the earth, because he lived afraid of the Jews, for he was thinking that they are seeking to kill him, until they crucified him eventually, and before that they had beaten him, and whipped him, and slapped him, and spat on him, and mocked him, despite all this pain we did not find the angels have saved him in all his ways, particularly in Calvary Road when they led him to crucify him!

As for the saying "You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot", the Gospels did not mention that Jesus was treading upon the lion nor the cobra, or he was trampling the lions nor the serpents by his foot.

As for the saying "Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name, he shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him". All this certainly does not apply to Jesus, because the LORD did not save him from crucifixion, although Jesus remained throughout the night prays and calls and requests to be saved from it, but the Lord did not save him, forcing him to cry out on the cross 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?"

As for the saying "With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation". This is clear evidence that the Psalm was not talking about Jesus, because the LORD did not show him His salvation, and died in the prime of youth.

This of course regarding of what Matthew and Luke stated that the devil has quoted the text to encourage Jesus to prove that he is the son of God, if he is really the son of God, so what is the reaction of Jesus on this quote?

Matthew 4:7 Jesus said to him, "It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God’."

Luke 4:12 And Jesus answered and said to him, "It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God’."

This is the response of Jesus to Satan, rather than throwing himself from the pinnacle of the temple to prove that he is the son of God, or tells him that this text was not talking about him; we find that Matthew and Luke have written that Jesus cited the text from the Old Testament to respond to the devil! This text written in the book of Deuteronomy, which is as follows:

Deuteronomy 6:13 "You shall fear the LORD your God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name.

Deuteronomy 6:14 "You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you

Deuteronomy 6:15 ‘(for the LORD your God is a jealous God among you), lest the anger of the LORD your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 6:16 "You shall not tempt the LORD your God as you tempted Him in Massah.

Deuteronomy 6:17 "You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, His testimonies, and His statutes which He has commanded you.

Deuteronomy 6:18 "And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land of which the LORD swore to your fathers,

This is the text that has been cited by Jesus as is written in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke,  and we read that we should take oaths in the LORD name, while Matthew had written words on the lips of Jesus that violates this commandment, as in following text:

Matthew 5:33 "Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord’.

Matthew 5:34 "But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne;

Matthew 5:35 "nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

Matthew 5:36 "Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.

Matthew 5:37 "But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’, and your ‘No’, ‘No’. For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.

In this text Jesus has forbidden all swearing at all, and considered it from the evil one! While the Lord in the Old Testament says that man must swear by his name only, and this proves that the Gospels authors had used the Old Testament texts to serve what they believe in, as is their method of writing the Gospels, regardless if they wrote texts that contradict what they have written elsewhere, and this text once again confirms the warning of the LORD from worship other gods with Him or beside Him, while the Gospels authors had written their books based on worship three gods instead of the LORD the Creator of the heavens and the earth.

As we also read that Jesus has refused to throw himself from the pinnacle of the temple down, and cited the previous text, and this shows that Jesus does not have any divine attributes that have been developed for him by the churches councils in the laws of faith of the churches, because if what had been written is true; he would not have refused to do this thing, especially that this action is not a big thing comparing with those attributes.

And then Matthew and Luke wrote that the devil asked Jesus to worship him! Jesus answered him by quoting the text of the Old Testament, as in the following texts:

Matthew 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, "Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve’."

Luke 4:8 And Jesus answered and said to him, "Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve’."

This saying is the first and greatest principle in the Old Testament, as shown in the first chapter, but what is surprising and striking is that the Gospels authors and the various churches have not committed to this text, which confirms that the Gospels have not been written by the revelation or the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and what was quoted from the Old Testament texts and reformulated in their accounts is an attempt to bestow a state of holiness and credibility and reliability on what they have written in their Gospels, as is their method and approach of writing, as is shown in this book, regardless of the true meaning of the texts of the Old Testament and the historical events as they did in this story, which indicates that the law "do not accept the lying and false" applies to the story of the Temptation of Jesus.

(Note: the following post is in Section VI in the book, but because it's related with previous post I liked to post them together)

7 - The Sources of the Events of the Story of the Temptation of Jesus

In the previous section I had talked about the quotes from the Old Testament in the story of the temptation of Jesus as it is written in the Gospels, and I showed that these quotes are wrong, and here I will examine the events of the story to determine whether they were real events, or they are also quoted from the Old Testament.

The first thing we notice that John did not mention this story in his Gospel!

The second note is that Mark did not write the details of the events of the temptation of Jesus, as in the following text:

Mark 1:12 Immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness.

Mark 1:13 And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to Him.

The third note is that Matthew and Luke did not agree with each other on the events of the story, because Matthew wrote that the devil took Jesus up into the holy city and then took him up on an exceedingly high mountain, while Luke wrote that the devil took Jesus up on a high mountain first, and then brought him to Jerusalem!

The fourth note is that Matthew and Luke have agreed to write a scientific error, which is the saying that the devil took Jesus up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, this saying is wrong, because there is no mountain on the earth could a man see all the kingdoms of the world from its summit, even if this mountain existed; we could not see all the kingdoms from its peak, because the earth is spherical so it will obscured half of the land which opposite to it, and this is why the churches have judged to prison dozens of scientists who said that the earth is spherical, because it considered that they were skeptical about the origin of this story, and tried to hide this fact, despite these provisions, the truth emerged, and it was proved that the earth is spherical, and at the same time, showed that this story is not true.

Thus what are the sources of the story of Jesus' temptation, which have been relied upon by the Gospels authors?

The story included the following events:

1 - The temptation of Jesus as one of three Persons who are one and have the same nature and essence.

2 - The devil tempted Jesus.

3 - Jesus fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry.

4 - The devil took Jesus up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world.

Including of course the texts, which had been quoted from the Old Testament, which were discussed in the previous section, in the following I will review the texts that might be quoted by Matthew and Luke to write this story that contained all these errors, which proves that it did not happen and was not true.

As for the first event, I think that the Gospels authors had quoted it from the following texts:

Numbers 14:22 "because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice,

Exodus 17:2 Therefore the people contended with Moses, and said, "Give us water, that we may drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you contend with me? Why do you tempt the LORD?"

Deuteronomy 6:16 "You shall not tempt the LORD your God as you tempted Him in Massah.

Although these texts do not talk about Self Temptation, yet it is a state of uncertainty and non-faith that happened to the children of Israel concerning the ability and greatness of the Lord, so they did not believe in what Moses said to them that the Lord will turn bitter water to become fresh water or on the ability of the LORD to feed them meat in Sinai!

As for the second event, I think they have quoted it from the story of Job who was tempted by Satan which is written in the Book of Job, including the following text: 

Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.

Job 1:2 And seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

Job 1:3 Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

Job 1:4 And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Job 1:5 So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did regularly.

Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.

Job 1:7 And the LORD said to Satan, "From where do you come?" So Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it."

Job 1:8 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?"

Job 1:9 So Satan answered the LORD and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing?

Job 1:10 "Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

Job 1:11 "But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!"

Job 1:12 And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person." So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

But this story talks about the temptation of Job by the devil directly by the order of the Lord, which is similar to the Gospel's story, but with a great difference which is that the devil has tempted Job who was an ordinary human being, even if he was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil, while the story of the temptation of Jesus was with one who is supposed to be a god and the son of God, and one of the three Persons who are one and have the same nature and essence, which means that the devil had tempted the LORD Himself, as say the Gospels and churches!

As for the third event which is that Jesus had fasted forty days and forty nights, I do think it was quoted from the story of Moses when he went up into Mount Sinai to receive the commandments, as in the following text:

Deuteronomy 9:9 "When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

Deuteronomy 9:10 "Then the LORD delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

As we notice that Moses stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights neither eating nor drinking, which is similar to what has been written by Matthew and Luke about Jesus, but writing the Old Testament about Moses that he was hungry is an acceptable thing and a reasonable thing, while writing about Jesus who is supposed to be a god and the son of God and the one of the three Hypostases, as say the churches, does not make sense!

As for the fourth event which is that the devil took Jesus up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, I think it was quoted from the Book of Deuteronomy, as in the following text:

Deuteronomy 34:1 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is across from Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan,

In this text we read that Moses after he went up to Mount Nebo; and the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan, and this is true and real! Because all of those who live in that land know that anyone who goes up to Mount Nebo, and looks around will see all the land mentioned in the text, not as the mountain that Matthew and Luke pointed out where the devil took Jesus up to its summit, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, because if this mountain was higher ten times more than Mount Everest; he will not be able to see all the kingdoms of the earth, and even if he ascended to the moon, simply because he will only be able to see half of the earth, as is well known in these days!

From all of the above, we see how the Gospels authors try to compose this story according to the Old Testament texts without paying any attention to the reality and credibility of what they wrote, whether if they contradict with each other in terms of the historical events, or writing scientific errors, or if they wrote stories which contradict the attributes of the LORD the Creator of the heavens and the earth, as shown in the first chapter, which indicates that they have not written through the revelation or the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, or even they have written through seeing the events or hearing it through trusted sources, but through their method and approach of writing, which is the quoting from the texts of the Old Testament and reformulating them in their narratives to make similarity with the Old Testament to bestow a state of holiness and credibility and reliability on what they have written, and this means that our law "do not accept the lying and false" applies to this story.

The Source of the Saying that the Temple is the House of Jesus and his father

Chapter III

Section V

The Texts of the Old Testament, which were quoted during the Debates and the Arguments and the Dialogues in the Gospels

In this section we will examine some texts in the Gospels that contain debates and dialogues and arguments, in which the Gospels authors have cited texts from the Old Testament; to find out if these texts consistent with the Gospels and not contradicting with them, nor with the principles and the concepts and the texts of the Old Testament, and if the Gospels authors did not distort and manipulate them to serve what they believe, as we have seen in the previous sections how they have used the texts of the Old Testament to write their narratives to bestow a state of holiness and credibility and reliability on what they have written, away from the revelation and the Holy Spirit, or even the historical events; for this they have distorted and manipulated the texts of the Old Testament, whether by changing the meaning of them, or by adding some paragraphs, or by deleting others, or by writing some paragraphs that were not written in the Old Testament, or by writing some names and numbers that are inconsistent with what is written in the Old Testament, etc.

6 - The Source of the Saying that the Temple is the House of Jesus and his father

Matthew 21:10 And when He had come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, "Who is this?"

Matthew 21:11 So the multitudes said, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee."

Matthew 21:12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

Matthew 21:13 And He said to them, "It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’, but you have made it a ‘den of thieves’." 

Mark 11:15 So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves.

Mark 11:16 And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple.

Mark 11:17 Then He taught, saying to them, "Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves’."

Luke 19:45 Then He went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, 

Luke 19:46 saying to them, "It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer’, but you have made it a ‘den of thieves’."

John 2:13 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

John 2:14 And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the moneychangers doing business.

John 2:15 When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.

John 2:16 And He said to those who sold doves, "Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!"

John 2:17 Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up."

These texts are an another dialogue between Jesus and the Jews, which is an another attempt of the Gospels authors to say that Jesus is the son of God, yet it contains many things that show that this saying is not true, including the following:

The first is the saying of the multitudes, "This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee", and those multitudes were his disciples and his followers, and the difference is very large between the God and the prophet, even there is no comparability between the prophet and the God.

The second is the way of writing and quoting the texts of the Old Testament; we find that Matthew and Luke have written the words on the lips of Jesus directly, while Mark wrote it in the context of the teaching of Jesus to them, i.e., he did not tell them directly, but through teaching them what is written in the Old Testament, while John has written another story and said it happened at the beginning of Jesus' preaching, and has written the words on the lips of Jesus with changing the words, and he declared that the house is his father's house, and then cited another text from the Old Testament and put it in the context of the words of the disciples!

Now let's read the Old Testament texts to see if they apply to Jesus and confirms what he has said, or at least alludes or implies that Jesus is the son of God or not, which are as follows:

Isaiah 56:1 Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, For My salvation is about to come, And My righteousness to be revealed.

Isaiah 56:2 Blessed is the man who does this, And the son of man who lays hold on it; Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And keeps his hand from doing any evil."

Isaiah 56:3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has joined himself to the LORD Speak, saying, "The LORD has utterly separated me from His people"; Nor let the eunuch say, "Here I am, a dry tree."

Isaiah 56:4 For thus says the LORD: "To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant,

Isaiah 56:5 Even to them I will give in My house And within My walls a place and a name Better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name That shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 56:6 "Also the sons of the foreigner Who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants — Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And holds fast My covenant —

Isaiah 56:7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations."

In this text we read two times about keeping the Sabbath and holding fast the covenant of the LORD, which have not been committed to by the Gospels authors and various churches, which means that they have broken this text, and the last paragraph is the paragraph that has been quoted by Matthew, Mark and Luke, and we note that Mark quoted it exactly as it is written in the Old Testament, while Matthew has deleted the paragraph "for all nations", and Luke has deleted the paragraphs "shall be called" and "for all nations".

As for the saying "den of thieves", although what they were doing could not call it the work of thieves, but after searching in the Old Testament I have found a text describes the temple as a den of thieves, and this is one of many evidences that proves that the Gospels had been written mostly from the Old Testament texts away from the historical events, and away from the Holy Spirit, as is their method of writing as is shown in this book, to bestow a state of holiness and credibility and reliability on them by creating the similarity between them and the Old Testament! And the text that describes the temple as a den of thieves is as follows:

Jeremiah 7:9 "Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know,

Jeremiah 7:10 "and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’?

Jeremiah 7:11 "Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it," says the LORD.

In this text we read that the LORD has mentioned that the children of Israel have walked after other gods whom they do not know, and this saying applies to the three gods that are worshiped by the Gospels authors and the various churches, because the LORD did not ask to worship them in the Old Testament, and were not worshiped by any one of the Prophets of Israel, or called to worship them.

As for John, he had cited another text, which is as follows:

Psalm 69:5 O God, You know my foolishness; And my sins are not hidden from You.

Psalm 69:6 Let not those who wait for You, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed because of me; Let not those who seek You be confounded because of me, O God of Israel.

Psalm 69:7 Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; Shame has covered my face.

Psalm 69:8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, And an alien to my mother’s children;

Psalm 69:9 Because zeal for Your house has eaten me up, And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

These paragraphs are part of the Psalm, which was discussed in detail previously, and showed that it was not talking about Jesus, and the saying of the speaker in the Psalm that the LORD knows his foolishness; and his sins are not hidden from Him confirms that this text was not talking about Jesus, because he according to the Gospels and the laws of the faith of the churches is the Second Person of the three Hypostases, who are one and have the same nature and essence, and he who was without any sin, hence, I do not think that anyone of the writers or the churches or anyone else could believe, or even merely thinking, that Jesus is foolish, as the speaker describes himself!

From all of the above, appears to us that the Gospels authors failed to write the story in a manner consistent and coherent with the attributes that supposed to be for Jesus according to the laws of faith of the churches, which also confirms that they have used the texts of the Old Testament as a method and approach to write the Gospels away from the revelation and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and even away from the historical events, just to bestow a state of holiness and credibility and reliability on their Gospels, which means that our law "do not accept the lying and false" applies to these texts.