In Part 2 of this 3-part series, I dropped a couple of really big bombshells of revelation. We looked at Paul’s Mithraic version of Jesus and also how sacrifice, human or animal, was never the ordinance (law) of GOD. In this final installment, we’ll dive deeper into why GOD never required sacrifice, and what the TRUE mechanism of forgiveness for a truly holy GOD really is …

Inherited Sin

In near lockstep with our Jewish brothers and sisters, Christianity teaches that sin entered our world through a “Fall of Man” when Eve disobeyed GOD in the garden of Eden and partook of the knowledge of GOD, suddenly knowing both good and evil. It was her sin, it is said, that then caused Adam to sin, which then caused all of mankind to fall from the grace of GOD. As a result, GOD sent Adam and Eve out of the garden for all time. All their children, it is said, inherited their “sinful nature” and because of this inherited sin, we are all separated from GOD.

Well, that’s the “official” story that came out of the Pagan Roman Catholic Church anyway.

Well before the Christian era, Judaism itself even manufactured its own errant traditions surrounding this whole idea of inherited sin, concocting the proverb saying that,

“The fathers have eaten sour grapes [sinned] and their children’s teeth are set on edge [paid the price for their father’s sin].”

This bogus tradition was even written into the Commandments themselves by the “lying pen of the scribes”. According to the scribes GOD said about the worshipping other gods,

“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.” —Exodus 20:4–6

But is this really what GOD said? We just learned about the “lying pen of the scribes” in previous articles.

Now enter the Prophet Ezekiel. GOD, speaking through the Prophet, corrects the record about all of this “inherited sin” business once and for all:

The word of the LORD came to me: “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel:

“‘The parents eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

“As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel. For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child — both alike belong to me. The one who sins is the one who will die.” (Ezekiel 18:1–4 NIV)

Boom!

Some of us may not immediately see the bombshell GOD just dropped here.

GOD, in one fell pronouncement, utterly destroys the entire notion and concept of “inherited sin”.

In other words, we did NOT inherit the sin of Adam and Eve.

No one did.

Not you. Not me.

Yes, this tosses a huge wrench into the works of the entire Christian message and utterly destroys, in every way imaginable, the errant foundations of what sin is; errant foundations that were put in place by not just Israel, but the Christian Church as well.

But GOD is more than clear here: the children are NOT punished for the sins of their parents or ancestors. No one “inherits” the sin of their parents. Period. Each one will die (be punished) for their own sin.

I want to make a distinction here as well. It is likely that this Jewish proverb was originally created as a lament about how children inherit the culture of their parents. If you have evil parents, the likelihood of their children being evil is fairly high as well. This is likely where this whole idea of “children inheriting the sins of their fathers” came from.

But then somewhere along the way, this “inheriting the sins of the fathers” via culture got extended to mean that the children would be punished for their father’s sins as well. This is what GOD is correcting.

There is such a thing as raising evil children because the parents are evil — or the parents pass down an evil culture. This is EXACTLY what happened with Israel when an evil priesthood edited the Law of GOD with their lying pens and added all manner of pagan bloody sacrificial laws to the books. (Jeremiah 8:8)

Christianity has likewise inherited a boatload of evil culture as well because of the lying pens of the Roman Catholic Church and it’s Pagan Bible! Today we even declare that this man-made Bible is “God’s Word” when almost nothing could be further from the truth. The Bible has ensconced within it a bogus lying murderous charlatan who calls himself an “apostle”. And it has been his, Paul’s, bogus Mithraic lying version of Jesus that we have based our entire faith in GOD around.

It’s time for a massive correction.

Call it a Second Reformation or the Next Reformation if you like.

The Next Reformation of the Christian Church—Is Already Here

Understanding the Major Changes the Next Reformation of the Christian Church Will Bring

medium.com

The children do not inherit, nor do they pay the price for, their parent’s sin.

Let’s dig deeper …

Substitutionary Atonement

In case you don’t know, “Substitutionary Atonement” is an aspect or area of Christianity known to scholars as “Soteriology”[1], it is basically the study of how God forgives us.

Embedded within Christian soteriology is the idea, notion, or doctrine that someone else can (or must) pay the penalty or price for your sins, because you cannot. You’re just too sinful and even your righteous deeds are like “filthy rags” to God. In fact, the Church teaches, you’re so sinful, God cannot even look at you. Which is pure nonsense, but that is what the Church teaches. Thankfully, all of this hyper-inflated idea of sin is yet another bogus man-made Christian tradition that has no support whatsoever with GOD.

Like the fallacy of “Inherited Sin”, GOD has already spoken regarding the whole idea of so-called Substitutionary Atonement; and GOD says it’s NOT possible.

No one pays the price for the sin of another.

Each will die for their own sin.

Period.

Evidently Paul was being lax in his Hebraic studies under Gamaliel because long before Paul, and long before Jesus, James, John and the rest of the Apostles would be born, GOD was laying down the law about this heinous belief.

Let’s return to Ezekiel 18 once again, because this chapter from the Ezekiel is paramount to our understanding of the true Character of GOD.

The word of the Lord came to me: “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel:

“‘The parents eat sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

“As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel. For everyone belongs to me, the parent as well as the child — both alike belong to me. The one who sins is the one who will die.

Now GOD begins an explanation of what sin really is. Take note that these are examples, they are not intended to be some exhaustive list, like the Ten Commandments,

“Suppose there is a righteous man who does what is just and right.
He does not eat at the mountain shrines
or look to the idols of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor’s wife
or have sexual relations with a woman during her period.
He does not oppress anyone,
but returns what he took in pledge for a loan.
He does not commit robbery
but gives his food to the hungry
and provides clothing for the naked.
He does not lend to them at interest
or take a profit from them.
He withholds his hand from doing wrong
and judges fairly between two parties.
He follows my decrees and faithfully keeps my laws. That man is righteous; he will surely live, declares the Sovereign LORD.

Note that GOD declares that the person who does these things IS RIGHTEOUS. No sacrifice required.

What is being illustrated here is literally the Golden Rule: Treating others the way you would want to be treated.

In Matthew 22:36, a wise Pharisee asks Jesus which is the greatest commandment? Jesus answers by quoting two laws from Torah, Love GOD and Love your Neighbor as you would love yourself. Then Jesus says something powerful —

“For all the Law and the Prophets completely depend on these two commandments.”

Another way to say this is that all the Law and teachings of the Prophets EXTENDS from these two commandments. And in the brief listing of examples above, GOD is illustrating how someone can actually BE righteous, and that is to treat others the way they would want to be treated.

“But Keith, no one is righteous in the eyes of God without Jesus!”

1. That is not true. Stop listening to Paul.

GOD is in-charge here. Not Paul.

The Pagan Church has saddled us with a bogus Christian tradition. GOD says if you DO what is righteous, “that man is righteous”.

These are the words of GOD. I didn’t make them up.

Now GOD continues with the opposite example of what is evil,

“Suppose he has a violent son, who sheds blood [murders] or does any of these other things [listed below] (though the father has done none of them):
He eats at the mountain shrines.
He defiles his neighbor’s wife.
He oppresses the poor and needy.
He commits robbery.
He does not return what he took in pledge.
He looks to the idols.
He does detestable things.
He lends at interest and takes a profit.
Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he is to be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.

We can clearly see where GOD is going with all of this. This unrighteous son is committing all kinds of sin — by treating others in a way that he himself would not want to be treated.

And this is the very definition of sin.

Again, this is not some exhaustive list of sins, these are examples that GOD is using to get a point across.

Now GOD continues with even more examples of the son of the violent son:

“But suppose this [violent] son has a son who sees all the sins his father commits, and though he sees them, he does not do such things:
He does not eat at the mountain shrines
or look to the idols of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.
He does not oppress anyone
or require a pledge for a loan.
He does not commit robbery
but gives his food to the hungry
and provides clothing for the naked.
He withholds his hand from mistreating the poor
and takes no interest or profit from them.
He keeps my laws and follows my decrees.
He will not die for his father’s sin; he will surely live. But his father will die for his own sin, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was wrong among his people.

This opens and closes the door on the whole concept of Inherited Sin; GOD says it doesn’t exist.

“Yet you ask, ‘Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live. The one who sins is the one who will die. The child will not share the guilt of the parent, nor will the parent share the guilt of the child. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.”

Because of Paul, Christianity has built this huge misnomer tradition that attempts to say that “no one is righteous in the eyes of GOD”. But here we clearly see GOD stating that people ARE (or can BE) righteous:

“The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.”

I know this 180-degrees of what we learn sitting in church, but again, these are the words of GOD, written hundreds of years before Paul would even be born.

So, what is the implication here? I’ll spell it out for us:

You don’t need a bloody human sacrifice to be righteous in the eyes of GOD.

You just need to REPENT and DO what is just and right.

“But Keith, that’s heresy! All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God!”

Yea. Fine. I never said people don’t sin.

Everyone sins. We all do. But sinning and falling short of the glory of GOD just once does NOT damn you to hell for all eternity, like what the Church errantly preaches.

And therein lies the Church’s most egregious error and logical fallacy.

What I am showing us is that Christianity via Paul is WRONG by elevating and amplifying sin to an impossible level that GOD never ever said and never ever intended.

Committing a sin doesn’t forever destroy our relationship with GOD. GOD doesn’t hold us to some impossible unattainable standard of pure righteousness, that is: if you commit even one tiny little sin, it severs our relationship with God damns us to hell forever.

That is the bogus man-made tradition created by the Pauline Church; it is not the true standard of GOD.

“But, Keith, once we sin, it’s over! We need Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross to restore us to righteousness!”

1. We don’t. GOD just got done telling us they never commanded sacrifices in the first place. (See Part 2 of this series.)

None of us needs a sacrifice. Not according to GOD.

Let’s read further here in Ezekiel,

“But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die. None of the offenses they have committed will be remembered against them. Because of the righteous things they have done, they will live. Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?”

You have likely never read these words of GOD before ever in your life. Or if you have read them, they were shown to you in some context of Jesus’ atoning sacrifice — which doesn’t exist here within these passages. Christianity didn’t exist when Ezekiel wrote down the words of GOD here.

Christian soteriology has been overlayed on top of what GOD has already said here. Christianity effectively adds its own man-made traditions to what GOD has already said.

Adding to the words of GOD with your own pagan traditions, THAT is what is truly and apostasy!

But as we have read previously, GOD gave no commands concerning sacrifice; it is not necessary. Again, these words were written centuries before Paul would even be born.

“Oh, but God knew Jesus was coming and he knew that the sacrifice of Jesus would be included here.”

1. That is a bogus Christian construct that attempts to bend, twist and squeeze itself into what GOD has already said. There is no sacrifice required for GOD to forgive. Not animal. Not Human (meaning Jesus). As we have seen reflected in the Prophets, GOD never commanded sacrifice to begin with.

Ever.

GOD is capable of forgiving without a bloody pagan sacrifice.

Here’s the question: do you need a sacrifice of blood in order to forgive your child if they tell you a lie?

No, you don’t.

Then how is it that you are more forgiving than the God you purport to serve? How is it you can forgive without blood, but you feel God can’t?

You see how ridiculous this is? How utterly horrifying it is to accuse God of NOT being able to forgive unless another part of God’s creation, DIES while bleeding all over something?

It makes no logical sense.

Let’s continue with the words of GOD:

“But if a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.”

This is where things with GOD get interesting. You can act all righteous on the one hand and commit unrighteous acts on the other; GOD is not going to remember your “good deeds” or righteous acts if you continue to keep treating others badly.

And this is likely what Paul’s problem ultimately became.

This is why GOD punished Paul so egregiously and refused to remove the demon that he had saddled Paul with. Even with all of Paul’s ostensibly righteous acts, there was still deep sin in Paul’s life; something we will likely never know the true depth of; and it was NOT mere boasting. But it was bad enough that GOD shackled Paul with an “angel of Satan”, a demonic spirit, for which GOD refused to remove.

Think I’m being too harsh with Paul? Let’s see what GOD says about what is just and right,

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’

Hear, you Israelites: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin, they will die for it; because of the sin they have committed they will die.

But if a wicked person turns away from the wickedness they have committed and does what is just and right, they will save their life. Because they consider all the offenses they have committed and turn away from them, that person will surely live; they will not die.

Yet the Israelites say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are my ways unjust, people of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?

Israel wanted to have it both ways. And this is exactly what Christianity practices as well. “I don’t need to worry about doing right. Jesus covers my sin!”

No, he doesn’t.

NO ONE else can cover YOUR sin.

No ONE can pay the price for YOUR evil.

No one would want to.

Not even Jesus.

“That’s just cheap grace, Keith! There’s no cost!”

1. Wrong! It’s the most expensivekind of grace there is!

The true “cheap grace” is what Paul and Christianity offers, where you get someone else to pay the bill for your misdeeds and your sin. If someone else is paying your way, YOU never learn how to be righteous, YOU never learn how to pay your own way if someone else is always footing the bill, so to speak.

This is Christianity’s GREATEST LIE, that someone else can pay the price for your sin!

REPENTANCE is not cheap grace! Because within repentance you pay the price for you own sin! You LEARN what not to do; repentance teaches you THROUGH ACTIONS how to BE righteous! It changes you; makes you a better person through PRACTICE. Repentance manifests within you giving you a new heart and a new mind guarded by a new spirit living within you.

Just as one cannot inherit the sin of another, NO ONE can pay the price for the sin of another. And here is where GOD opens and shuts the door on this whole business of Inherited Sin and Substitutionary Atonement,

“Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, people of Israel? For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD.

Repent and live!”

I absolutely love this last paragraph of Ezekiel 18 because when combined with the examples outlined within the entire chapter, GOD illustrates the whole “plan of salvation”, and it does not include a bloody Mithraic Human sacrifice of Paul’s Jesus, or any sacrifice for that matter.

Period.

GOD doesn’t need sacrifice to forgive.

Now that is a POWERFUL and COMPASSIONATE GOD!

Christianity is all about being filled with the heart and spirit of GOD. And here we see GOD telling us exactly how that is achieved:

“Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed and get a new heart and a new spirit. … Repent and live!”

THIS is the TRUE Gospel of the TRUE Jewish Jesus, James, Peter, John and the rest!

Make no mistake, there were indeed parts of the Law Jesus ignored because they were not original to GOD’s Law. Salvation as taught by Jesus and the Apostles was not complicated. It was not mysterious. It was compassionate. Nothing needed to die. It was logical. It was based on what we read here in Ezekiel 18.

It was simple.

Easy to understand.

And it was through consistent ACTION that resulted in creating good and righteous people of Godly character with new hearts and new spirits of righteousness.

I know you may be struggling with the traditions you’ve learned in the Church with what is being plainly revealed to you now from within the pages of the Scriptures here.

You really want to see Jesus as a human sacrifice that cleanses you from your sins. You’ve fallen in love with the Church’s version of Jesus. You may even think Jesus talks to you about how his sacrifice has saved you.

You have some soul searching to do. And you need to be mindful of what it is that is really speaking to you in your thoughts and prayers. Is it some pagan spirit that demands a bloody human sacrifice? Or is it a truly loving and powerful Holy Spirit of GOD who is capable of forgiveness with your simple repentance?

“But — Keith! Jesus was prophesied to come! The virgin shall be with child and he will die for the sins of the world!”

No, he wasn’t.

I’m sorry to have to correct the record again here, but these are “Christianized” misinterpretations and misappropriations, deliberate mistranslations of the ancient underlying Hebrew of Isaiah 53; translations I cover in my book, FALSE WITNESS (see below). Only Paul’s bogus pagan Mithraic Jesus was born of a virgin, not the true historical Jewish Messiah.

Check out the below articles to get the facts of Why There Are No Prophecies of Jesus in The Old Testament.

Why There Are No Prophecies of Jesus In The Old Testament, Part I

Examples of How Evangelicals Twist the Ancient Scriptures

keith-michael.medium.com

Conclusion

I believe by this point I have peeled away enough of the layers upon layers of the framework of LIES that we can now see that there is indeed a charlatan apostle within the pages of the Roman Catholic Bible.

The true founder of so-called mainstream modern Christianity that we know today, is not the historical Jesus, not the Jewish Messiah. No, the true founder of what we call mainstream Christianity today — is Paul. In fact, we should rename the faith “Paulianity”, or just Paul’s version of Mithraism.

With Paul’s ungodly influence, the entire New Testament has become riddled with Paul’s Pagan Jesus, Paul’s Pagan gospel via the anti-Semitic Church and Paul’s demonic spirit. It is an influence that now must be sifted out so that a much more accurate portrayal of GOD can been seen.

Mainstream modern Christianity’s adoration of the Pagan Paul must come to an end if we are to see GOD much more clearly than we have been led to see via the Roman Catholic Church’s Pagan Pauline Bible.

We must return to an understanding of what Jesus and the Apostles actually taught: a Gospel of Repentance for the forgiveness of sin.

This is the TRUE Gospel of the historical Jesus the Messiah!