Jehovah Unmasked: The True Identity of the Bible – God Revealed

204 Pages·2006·1.089 MB·English

by  Nathaniel J. Merritt

J E HOVAH
UNMASKED!

The True Identity of the
Bible-God Revealed

By

Nathaniel J. Merritt Met. D.
JEHOVAH UNMASKED!
The True Identity of the Bible-God
Revealed

ISBN 1411651472

Copyright © 2005 Nathaniel J. Merritt
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................I
CHAPTER ONE THE CHRISTIAN CONUNDRUM..............................1
CHAPTER TWO THE NEW TESTAMENT MUTATES
AND EVOLVES..................................................................................................4
CHAPTER THREE THE SPIRITUAL NEW TESTAMENT................19
CHAPTER FOUR THE FABLE OF JEWISH
MONOTHEISM................................................................................................21
CHAPTER FIVE THE FATHER OF LIES...............................................36
CHAPTER SIX WISDOM AND THE SERPENT....................................44
CHAPTER SEVEN THE BLAME GAME.................................................52
CHAPTER EIGHT THE GOD OF THIS WORLD..................................61
CHAPTER NINE THE BIBLE-GOD REVEALS ITSELF.....................64
CHAPTER TEN REINCARNATION IN THE BIBLE...........................85
CHAPTER ELEVEN THE LIGHT AND THE DARKNESS................90
CHAPTER TWELVE ONE FOUNTAIN OR TWO?.............................101
CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE MATRIX IS REAL..................................108
CHAPTER FOURTEEN USING THE KEY............................................114
CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.................................120
CHAPTER SIXTEEN GOD THE MOTHER..........................................126
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN DONALD DUCK AND
JEHOVAH........................................................................................................132
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ADOLPH HITLER AND
JEHOVAH........................................................................................................135
CHAPTER NINETEEN THE GOSPEL OF JOE HOVAH..................140
CHAPTER TWENTY JEHOVAH’SAGENDA.........................................147
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE A BRIEF SUMMARY.................................159
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO COMMON QUESTIONS AND
OBJECTIONS..................................................................................................165
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE WITHIN YOU.....................................186
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR WHERE TO GO FROM HERE............195
INTRODUCTION

This book is not merely an impersonal investigation into
the Bible. Rather, it's an account of my own inward jour-
ney from the darkness of Fundamentalism to the Light of
Gnosis. My experience of spiritual darkness began when I
became involved in the Jehovah's Witnesses sect at the
age of fifteen, and remained involved, off and on, for
over four years. Never has there been a more disturbed,
Orwellian, mentally and spiritually oppressed group of
people on this planet. Their teachings and their practices
destroyed my inner life. The Jehovah's Witnesses disfel-
lowshipped me early in my nineteenth year of life because
belief in their insane god drove me to the brink of insan-
ity. As I write this, I am fifty-three years old. It has been
thirty-four years since the Watchtower Society shunned
me, and I am glad for every moment of freedom from
Watchtower slavery that I have enjoyed.
However, after being shunned by the Witnesses, I be-
came involved in mainstream Christianity via the "Jesus
Movement" that began in the late sixties. It was a time
when many hippies and other young people were turning
off to drugs and "turning on to Jesus." I was among
them. I was "born again" on May 4th of 1973 shortly be-
fore my twentieth birthday. (I was ordained to the minis-
try at Grace Baptist Church on May 4th, 1980 in Inkster,
Michigan. The Evangelical Church Alliance did the hon-
ors) Though the JW's are incredibly negative, at least they
do not teach that unbelievers will suffer roasting for eter-
nity in a hell of fire. However, Catholic, Orthodox, Prot-
estant, Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Pentecostal and
Charismatic Christians do teach such a hideous, evil doc-
trine. After fifteen years as a mainstream Christian, I
abandoned the Bible and Christianity as absurd and in-
sulting to my intellectual and spiritual sensitivities. I em-
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braced Buddhism because of its calm clear rationality.
I have been meditating since the age of twenty, so medi-
tation was not new to me when I became a Buddhist.
However, Buddhism deepened and strengthened my
practice, and for twelve years I remained a devout Bud-
dhist. I even became a Buddhist priest in the Hongaku
Jodo sect of Shin Buddhism on December 3, 2001. Dur-
ing the entire time I was a Buddhist I felt something was
missing, and I felt alienated from my own culture and
from my ancestors. I am a descendent of Saint John
Thwing on my mother's side of the family. (He was born
in 1319 near Yorkshire England, and died in 1379. He
was canonized by Pope Boniface IX in 1401, and is the
patron saint of women in labor) Yet, I knew too much
about the Bible and Christian history to ever become a
mainstream Christian again.
I was also growing disillusioned with Buddhism because
of "Anatman," a doctrine that means we possess no self,
no spirit, no soul, but are merely biological machines
composed of five "skandas" nothing more. Such a view is
contrary to my own spiritual experiences. Ever since I
was a boy I have had encounters with the spirits of my
deceased family members. As a Jehovah's Witness and
mainstream Christian, I had explained these encounters
away as "demonic activity," and as a Buddhist they simply
did not fit. Then I had a profound out of body experience
that convinced me we do have a spirit that survives bodily
death, and I know deep inside that my experiences are
real.
My meditation experience also led me to the deep con-
viction that many levels of divinity exist, as well as many
levels of existence. The conviction also began to grow in
me that the universe is fundamentally flawed, and that a
malevolent intelligence or intelligences lurk behind the
flawed nature of the cosmos. I began to realize I couldn't
find God in nature, but beyond nature, and deep within
my own being. Unknown to myself, I was fast becoming
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a Gnostic. When many of these realizations came to full
bloom within me, it was then that a highly intelligent
Gnostic friend named Robert Brian Hitchcock guided me
further in my understanding. The interpretation of the
Bible you find here then fell into place and poured forth
from my inner self. Before long I realized I am a Gnostic
Christian. I am now at Home, spiritually, though I remain
a pilgrim and stranger in this world. Hebrews 11:13.
I invite the reader to reconsider your own spiritual heri-
tage. That is, if you come from a Christian background
and have become disaffected due to the negative views of
God you have imbibed. There is no reason to jettison
your culture and embrace foreign religions to find spiri-
tual Reality. Gnostic Christianity is the inward, esoteric,
mystical spirituality that so many Westerners are seeking
in Far Eastern religions. You can find spiritual Reality in
the midst of Christianity. You can become yourself a
Christ, for that was and is the original intent and purpose
of Christianity: "The disciple is not above his Teacher:
but everyone when he is perfected shall be as his Teacher." Luke
6:40, American Standard Version of 1901, emphasis mine.
"Jesus said, 'whoever drinks from my mouth will be-
come as I am, and I shall become as he, and everything
hidden will be revealed for him.' "From the Gospel of Tho-
mas. Or, as the apostle Paul prayed, that the people of
God would grow "unto the measure of the stature of the
Fullness (Greek: Pleroma, see Strong's Greek Lexicon
#4138) of Christ…that ye may be filled with all the Full-
ness of God." Ephesians 4:13, 3:19 American Standard Ver-
sion of 1901. Please note: The intelligent layperson
with an interest in Gnosticism, the Bible, church his-
tory, or the Jehovah's Witnesses is the intended au-
dience for this book. Also be aware that the Gnostic material
herein is written for beginners. Jehovah Unmasked is not a dry
tome addressed to scholars. This book gives you the most
important Key to understanding the Bible, which is the
Key of Gnosis, the very Key that Jesus spoke of in Luke
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11:52. What will your reaction be? Stunned acceptance
and illumination, or outright rejection of the truths you
have discovered? The choice is yours. The Key is in your
hands. Proceed. You will never view the Bible in the same
way again.

-Nathaniel J. Merritt Met. D.

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Chapter One
The Christian Conundrum

Does the Bible really say there is only one God? Or does
it say that many gods exist? Did Almighty God really cre-
ate this material world? Or perhaps another, lesser god,
created this material world? These are important ques-
tions, because the God of whom Jesus Christ spoke is a
gentle, loving Heavenly Father. Yet, the universe is over-
flowing with evil, cruelty, agony and death. How can one
reconcile the reality of evil, cruelty, agony and death with
the theory of a loving Heavenly Father? For, as countless
thinkers have pointed out: If God is all-powerful, then
God is not all good. If God is all good, then God is not
all-powerful. Either God wants to eliminate evil but is not
powerful enough, or God is powerful enough to eliminate
evil but does not want to do so.
In other words, an all-good God would not make a uni-
verse brimming with evil, pain, violence, suffering, misery
and death. An all-powerful God might do so, but such a
God would not be all good. Mainstream Christians have
danced around this issue for two thousand years but none
of them have given a satisfactory answer to the Problem
of Evil. Their "answers" have taken the form of mental
gymnastics, verbal contortions, special pleading, misdirec-
tion, "smoke and mirrors." However, there is a very an-
cient and wise solution to this dilemma. The earliest
Christians held this Key, this solution, and immediately
realized and adopted it
because of their unshakable Knowing (Greek: Gnosis,
pronounced KNOW-sis) of an all-good Heavenly Father.
Gnostic is the name whereby the early Christians who
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held this Key were known. The reason? Gnosis means to
Know God as opposed to merely believing in God. The
Catholic Church later rejected this Key of Gnosis.
It is important to understand how and from what source
the New Testament acquired its present form and "au-
thority." Western civilization, consciously and uncon-
sciously, has been deeply affected by the New Testament.
If we can discover the actual historical origins of the New
Testament --rather than unfounded fundamentalist fanta-
sies that require a leap of faith--we will discover why the
history of Christianity is anything but the loving peaceful
history of a people actually obeying and following Jesus.
We will discover why Christian history is an ugly tale of
violence, war, torture, murder, oppression, savagery, igno-
rance, greed, madness, extremism, superstition, fear, in-
justice and collective schizophrenia. We will see the god
of Christianity, Jehovah, exposed for who and what it
really is and where it came from. We will then be in a po-
sition to solve the riddle of the problem of evil. So, we
will now take a few moments to trace the development of
the New Testament "canon," the official list of books, so
that we might begin to trace the origins of the Christian
god.
Until around 367 AD, roughly twice the number of sa-
cred writings were being circulated among Christians than
were finally canonized as the "New Testament!" 367 AD
is when "Saint" Athanasius--the Byzantine Catholic Bishop of
Alexandria--began to review these materials in an attempt
to determine which should be granted official Catholic
approval. Until "Saint" Athanasius, Christians had accepted
only the Hebrew Bible as Scripture. All other books were viewed as
mere "expressions of faith" not as sources of doctrine. The Roman
Empire needed religious unity to ensure political unity.
So, canonization was militarily imposed via a number of
Catholic councils convened for that purpose. With the
power of the Roman Empire behind it through Constan-
tine, the Catholic Church forced those who held the Key
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