Today's Message: "Why The Bible Cannot Be The Word Of God"

yes yes yes yes oh we're getting into it today y'all okay song i wrote entitled objection overrule i've been accused of so many things and i know that i've done wrong i had nowhere to turn to no place to go i couldn't even sing a song but his love reached deep into my heart and he took my guilt away but my enemy refused to see the change this is what he had to say objection but love said objection my enemy is saying objection but love said objection overrule [Music] i know i don't deserve to have this joy i feel inside when i think about the things that i have done i want to run somewhere and hide but that's when god's love shines down on me and with the truth he makes me clean but my enemy don't like the change in me and every day [Music] [Music] now the peace of mind that i now have i can hardly understand i want to run and jump and sing and shout and lord to take my stand i got a right to hold my head up high as i live life every day my enemy just can't help herself the only thing she can say my enemies [Music] i've been accused of all so many things and i know that i've done wrong i had nowhere to turn and no place to go i couldn't even sing a song but his love reached deep into my heart and he took that guilt away [Music] listen i know i don't deserve to have this joy i feel inside when i think about the things that i have done i want to run somewhere and hide but that's when his love shines down on me and with the truth he makes me clean but my enemy don't like the change in me and every day he's free yeah yeah but love said objection every day check it out now the peace of mind that i now have i can hardly understand i want to run and jump and sing and shout and boldly take my stand i got a right to hold my head up high as i live life every day my enemy just can't help herself the only thing she can say oh yeah yeah but love said objection every day my enemies [Music] [Music] [Music] listen my enemies [Music] objectionable [Music] listen i am [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i've been sanctified [Applause] yeah objection overrule man wow what can i tell you brothers and sisters and um hey man you know it's just a wonderful thing uh that song again i do on the right uh to that music i wrote it performed by yours truly and the choir in my previous congregation okay and i think i posted that on facebook uh this week the picture there of the recording that we made so glad i can be myself and it's just good to to be with you today okay so let's do now what we always do and let's sing one more time one more time god allowed us to come together one more time all right text 10 people let him know brother ray is on the air join in come on everybody one more time one more time god allowed us to come together one more time one more time one more time god allowed us to come together yeah god allowed us to come together one more one more time [Music] just one more time god allowed us to come together one more time one more time [Music] one more time god allowed us to come together to praise god's name just to praise his name god allowed us yet to come together to praise his name to praise his name to praise his name god allowed us to sing our songs to sing our song god allowed us to come together to sing our song to sing our song to sing our song god allowed us to come together come aloud us yeah now come on let's put those hands together [Music] [Applause] to clap our hands to clap our hands god allowed us yet to come together god allowed us yeah everybody say one more time one more time god allowed us to come together one more time one more time one more time god allowed us [Music] just to praise his name oh yes it did [Music] one more time one more time brothers and sisters god allowed us to come together one more time and i trust that you don't take that for granted i personally do not take it for granted you know i mean man i've been it as old folk uses have been at death's door several times in my life and each time okay uh death did not have the victory over me so that's why i sing that song you know every day when i awaken i say thank you to the most high to the almighty for allowing me to see a new day in my life you know and i see it as a happy new day you know we used to say this way in the biblical text this is the day that the lord hath made so i will rejoice and be glad in it in other words i choose to rejoice and be glad in it okay i could complain sure i could find fault i could find all the things that's going wrong or i can choose to rejoice and be glad okay and that's the choice you have to make man you know yeah you gotta do the same well brothers and sisters let's take a moment now and do the oath to the ancestors okay and honor their life their deeds their legacy and their contributions okay let's do that today [Music] yes join the brothers and i as we lift our voices together and say oh ancestors rather than a thousand midnights african ancestors it is to you that we your children give you respect and honor all ancestors we call upon you and welcome you into this place african ancestors let your presence fill this place all ancestors who have been purposely excluded from the history books so that the world would not know of your greatness our african ancestors who gave civilization to the world our african ancestors who gave the arts to the world our african ancestors who gave music to the world our african ancestors of the world our african ancestors who gave mathematics to the world our african ancestors who gave medicine to the world our african ancestors who gave literature to the world our african ancestors who gave philosophy to the world our african ancestors who create god consciousness into the world our ancestors we thank you for devoting your life to making confusion for us your children grandchildren and great-grandchildren now stand with us strengthen us guide us teach us and protect us from the despair of our immunity rises up our african ancestors and let our enemies be scattered wisdom and the boldness to deal with our references and those who hinder the liberation and empowerment of our people rise up our african ancestors and live in us and we will not fail to honor you we will not fail to respect you we will not fail to hear you and we will not betray you i'm and now brothers and sisters we want to take the time to honor just a few of the great africans who have gone ahead of us yes we call forth their great african names and honor them queen sobek neveru queen aho check queen amos nefertari queen king ships nefertiti queen t and queen nefertari the second we say to men kevin the great african warrior zulu yes we say to all of the kings queens priests and warriors of nubia ethiopia kenya the congo tanzania thunder central [Applause] to the more than 300 million who have since lost all right brother brady i see you there brother we should have today to harriet tubman frederick douglass mary mcfarland turner bishop richard allen bishop charles harrison howard thurman the honorable marcus messiah hey [Applause] transition to their life deeds legacy and contributions hey again we say hey again we say yes oh join in with us now as we sing this praise allah [Music] the english words are god is great and he's worthy to be brave i say hallelujah god is great and he's worthy to be brave i say huh so my prayer is god make us one we all should be one and then the unbelievers will come and say you are with us god make us one we all should be one and then the unbelievers will come and say you are willing oh god make us one we all should be one and then the unbelievers will come and say you are with us [Music] [Music] oh brothers and sisters i am so thankful today for the privilege and opportunity to come to you at this time once again with the truth yeah okay however brothers and sisters before we get started into today's uh program i want to take a moment before even acknowledging um the brothers and sisters in the african village i want to take a moment to honor okay the life the deeds the legacy and contributions of our late great warrior sister dr eva mohammed who made her transition on this past week a very different she's ministered at the african village for us and um you know we shared some good conversations she and i and uh i wish i could tell you some of the things that she told me but i can't i can but i'm not suffice it to say that the life these legacy and contributions of this awesome sister will forever live on in our memory okay death can be defined as the memory that's left in the hearts and minds of your loved ones and the african proverb says as long as you call their name they will continue to live so today we say dr eva muhammad dr eva mohammed dr eva mohammed ashay ashay ashayo we thank you sister for your life your deeds your legacy and your contributions a great loss to us but she did her job her purpose on planet earth was fulfilled and i thank the most high for sharing her with us so may allah be pleased with her life yes oh my goodness brothers and sisters to all of you who are with us today thank you for being with us to the many of you who are here in the chat room thank you for being with me today brothers and sisters i cannot put in words how much it means to me okay for you to faithfully and loyally be with me every week okay many times before i even log on i see y'all in the chat room waiting for me to go live and y'all have no idea what that means to me i thank you from i mean asante sana thank you in african languages thank you very much for supporting brother ray for loving me and for being a part of my assignment thank you so very much for that okay yeah thank you very much to the brothers and sisters in all of the african villages okay i honor you today our elders and all of the african villages i'm not naming them individually now i want to save some time here okay but to all of the brothers and sisters of the african villages to our friends and supporters thank you also for simply being who you are for supporting us each week with your donations my phone started dinging at six something this morning okay of the donations that those of you who had you know support us had made i said wow look at this man you know one of the ways that you know that the most high has given you an assignment is when there are three things three characteristics present number one you have a message from the most high to give to the people number two people want to hear the message that the most high has given you and brothers and sisters you guys showed me that every week by your presence thank you so much for that okay and the third characteristic that you know you've been given an assignment by the most high is your assignment will bear fruit okay many people say they've been called or they went into the ministry but they don't have a message and not only that but they don't have a following okay which denotes that people don't really want to hear what you have to say all right i'm you know hey let's keep it real and thirdly where's the fruit from your assignment if those three things are not present then you weren't truly given an assignment you took it upon yourself to get involved in yourself and just go out and try to do something excuse me i feel a sneeze coming up oh okay i got this breeze blowing in here and uh hey but that's that's what that's what it really is about so let's get ready to get into the message for today okay brothers and sisters um i have a very serious message i want to share with you guys today i want to take my time and teach it to you okay but um let's get started by reading what it says here in the circle okay what does it say and of course if you see that on your screen in the lower right hand corner of uh the depiction there or where the circle is there should be a little um perforated box if you click that it should enlarge it to your screen and fill up your whole screen so you should be able to see what i'm saying much better okay so i encourage you to do that at this time notice what it says and i start all of my teachings off with this the space inside this circle i usually have people do this with their hands and say the space inside this circle represents my realm of knowledge all that i think i know about whatever i think i know is depicted right here within this circle i must keep in mind that there is more to know than what is within the circumference of my awareness now why do i start my teachings off like that why because as a teacher my job is to provide you with information excuse me that you do not already know the problem with that is there's this thing in our minds or in our brains at the back of our brains called the reticular activating system and on your reticular activating system is pretty much recorded what you think you know so your reticular activating system is like a massive divinely installed thumb drive in your brain the problem however is when you hear stuff that's not already in your reticular activating system you have a problem with it you may think it's not true because you don't know about it so if i say something today brothers and sisters and i'm sure that i will okay that you're not aware of it doesn't mean i'm wrong it simply means you don't know what i'm talking about so that's why i asked you to do this okay be willing to expand your circumference of awareness by learning now if you have a problem with what i say don't discard it don't throw it away don't reject it don't resist it make note of it and do the research that's why i say when i teach don't take my word for what i'm saying do your own research even though i try to present the evidence to you do your own research and try to invalidate what i say if you wish okay i encourage you to try to do that yeah okay why do i do what i do and i say this every week so everyone is clear okay as to what brother ray hagans is supposed to be doing and i do this because and i have to do this because if i don't i will be bombarded with what many of you think i should do or say you got me so i have to let y'all know that i'm clear on what my assignment is so whenever i teach the aim of my teaching the objective of my teaching is to begin the process of undoing and reversing ideas and concepts that have been programmed into the minds of our people by religious statements and church doctrines that have caused us to adopt a belief system that has resulted in our loss of contact with what is real what is factual what is historical and what is spiritual okay i give you that information every week so you can be clear as to what brother ray's assignment is all right having said that let's get let's get into the the okay we're on fire okay can't leave this part out right especially with today's message especially with today's message remember this when you have told so many lies on top of each other over the centuries that telling the truth about one of your early foundational lies would unravel all the lies that have been defensively piled on top of it thus exposing you for what you truly are and you have no choice but to continue to lie you don't want to be exposed as the controller or the programmer or the brainwasher reverend you don't want to be exposed is that not do you okay so in order to maintain the control that you have over your people when your ability to maintain your control over another person's realities based on the lies about what you are and who they are guess what you can never tell the truth got me i remember when i came face to face with that challenge okay when my eyes came open what am i going to do now am i going to keep preaching the program and profiting from it or am i going to be a truth speaker and tell the truth no matter what it costs well i chose to be a truth speaker okay so let's get into the message for today why is the bible not the word of god why is the bible not the word of god very important question or statement let me explain this to you because somebody put in the chat room i saw there in the chat room what book should we read it's really deep when african people have been so bound to a book that didn't even come from us that we become so bound to that book that we can't think outside of that book so today i want to help you free your african mind from that bondage all right yes let's continue some people may be offended by the title of my message today simply because of an almost inborn respect and allegiance that have been instilled within them for the bible i can relate to that because i was there this outlook on the bible and the indoctrination about the bible has existed in many people from as early as three or four years old believe it or not okay now before i go any further notice what i have here on the screen and i want everybody to understand this please understand this is not a bible bashing class today okay i'm not gonna i'm not here to try to discredit the bible or bash the bible or disrespect the bible because i know so many people hold the bible to be the most important book on earth they hold it in such highest theme so out of respect to what i know a lot of people feel about the bible out of respect to them okay i'm not bible bashing today however i want to teach you some stuff today about the bible and i hope that you will be able to handle it so important many christian education programs drill our children with psyop which is a military acronym which means psychological operations psy our programming is being used on our children at a very early age and one of those programs is called the pledge of allegiance to the bible the words of the pledge are these i pledge allegiance to the bible god's holy word i will make it a lamp unto my feet and i light him to my path and hide his words in my heart that i might not sin against god now brothers and sisters follow me very carefully as i say this because as i was reading that just now or reciting that just now my mind went back to the many days that i had my young people my students in my school my christian school reciting this pledge every day standing with their hand over their heart i'm the principal and i got these black children saying i pledge allegiance to the bible god's holy word i will make it a lamp until my feet and the light into my path and hide his words in my heart that i might not sin against god yes i had my children in my school saying those words oh how i wish i could go back and reach every last one of those children to let them know how wrong i was and having their young innocent minds pledge their allegiance to something they don't know anything about millions of our children are indoctrinated programmed into this belief system without even understanding a little bit if any of the teachings of the bible children three four years old can't even read the bible don't even know what the word allegiance means but yet we're making our children give their loyalty and love to something they don't even know anything about and then when they become big children or adults their program is not to be questioned doubted or challenged so the lie is self-perpetuating then there's the person who begins to examine like yours truly my goodness there's the person who begins to examine what he or she has been made to believe what she he has been made to believe what they have been made to believe and they begin to challenge and ask questions about they what what they've been taught i was there i had to go through that process it was painful yes now to the establishment and when i say the establishment i mean the programmers the advocates and the loyal believers of the indoctrination being challenged to the establishment the challenger then becomes a troublemaker who is confused and or has gotten too much learning the challenger may even become labeled as one who should be avoided that reminds me of a very dear friend of mine a pastor in saint louis his name is pastor willie kilpatrick he's the pastor of prince of peace baptist church there before pastor kilpatrick became the pastor of prince of peace baptist church i had him to come preach for me at the african village he ministered so very well that day we enjoyed him in fact if i remember correctly i believe his subject that day was your treasure is in your jar and he broke that thing down real good we have this treasure in earthen vessels right well when word got out that pastor kilpatrick well he wasn't pastor kilpatrick then minister kilpatrick had preached at the african village then i believe it was the new ephesus missionary baptist church pastors in saint louis called him into a meeting and told him straight up willie if you want a church in this city you better stay away from ray higgins all right cuz that stuff he's teaching his bad doctrine so don't go over there don't have nothing to do with it and when he brought that back to me i told him straight up i said brother listen man you lit you have to deal with these people here you need these people in this city okay i don't need them i have a congregation that takes good care of me so i don't need these people i don't need these preachers i told him straight up as a willie man listen go do what you have to do okay i'll be here brother if you ever need me just pick up the phone look hey i'm there but he was warned to avoid me because i'm a troublemaker i make people think and the church does not want that okay so without having even considered what i'm going to say what i'm going to say in this message some people will conclude that i'm anti-biblical or even anti-christian but nothing could be farther from the truth family i am not anti-biblical nor am i anti-christian or am i anti-christ however i am anti-biblical not anti but anti ante i am anti-christian i am antichrist again not anti but anti okay now understand what does that mean what does the prefix anti mean well anti means before or prior to so when you say you are anti-christian or anti-biblical or antichrist what you're saying is you are before the bible okay you focus your attention on that which is before christianity that which is before a so-called jesus christ you're anti-christian understand that okay so hence we have words like anti-chamber meaning the previous chamber or the empty room the room you get to before you come into the main room that's called the anteroom right or the antedate or the anti-meridian or antediluvian the deluvian meaning before the flood you follow what i'm saying okay so understand how this goes brothers and sisters as somebody again asks the question so what book shall we read well i have to give you this question what did we read before we were given a bible you see the traditional understanding about many biblical stories and the respect that accompanies these biblical stories okay these events and doctrines in the bible have made it almost impossible to discuss certain concerns of accuracy and verifiable information when it comes to the bible now why is that because the information in the bible is not accurate it is not verifiable okay there's no substantial empirical evidence to support the claims of what's spoken of in the bible that's why i said the bible cannot be the word of god due to the fact that many people are not able to engage in a serious challenge of the biblical text millions of bible believers are convinced that what they believe is the whole truth and nothing but the truth okay and that's because these people did not have the opportunity to engage in a serious challenge of the biblical text so therefore they they take they take the bible as it is look lion and sinker in fact it's totally unacceptable to bible believers to even discuss challenging the biblical texts bible believers are quick to say how dare you try to challenge the word of god i get that all the time when i tell people think just think for a moment for a moment just think and then i've had people say oh no uh-uh i have to believe that by faith i said does that make sense this is not don't have to make sense i've actually had people say to me it doesn't have to make sense it's god's word all i got to do is believe it it's god's word whether i believe it or not that's the kind of stuff i hear from people so they say how dare you try to challenge the word of god well brothers and sisters let's look at that faith that phrase the word of god all right first of all what makes you think that the bible is the word of god what makes you think that what about the med uniter okay the medu netter would be what's inscribed in stone in the nile valley right is the sacred writings of the priests and scribes of the nile valley who documented their spirituality in stone yeah okay but of course because it's in africa we've been taught that it is ungodly because it's in africa we've been taught that is witchcraft it's voodoo see that could the invader okay those who came into our motherland saw our spirituality okay copied it stole it plagiarized it and then represented it back to us under their ethnicity and told us that our story was wrong but their story or their bible is right well what about the quran all right what about the quran the book the holy book of muslims what about the vedas the holy books of the hindus what about the triputaka the holy book of buddhism what about the zen avesta the holy book of zoroastrianism then what about the book of mormons their bible aren't any of these other sacred writings considered holy only the bible that doesn't make any sense at all especially when it was almost the last piece of literature to be produced on the planet it's a journey come late publication the most unpopular characteristic about challenging the biblical text is that the challenger hear this well the challenger has the right and the freedom to discard certain biblical texts and may set him or herself in conflict with express statements of the bible yes it's okay to do that you see some of y'all have been taught this concept about the bible and you hold the bible in a categorical perspective that you're not even allowed to think anything other than what it says brothers and sisters you have to free your african mind for the bible believer biblical statements are not to be questioned follow what i'm saying okay oh my goodness man growing up how much i heard you don't you don't question the bible you don't challenge that you don't no you believe what the bible says because the bible says he that cometh to god most must first believe that he is it's not about knowing it's about believing therefore bible believers find this discipline as unchristian to challenge the bible and even subversive to christianity okay but we're going to challenge it today i'm going to show you all some stuff during my tenure as a pastor as an educator as a lecturer and a theologi i have found that most people easily believe what they cannot prove hear that well most people easily believe what they can not prove and they strongly disbelieve what they cannot disprove now let me let that sink in for a moment think about that read that again what i have in yellow most people easily believe what they cannot prove now if you have a problem understanding that just think about the belief system that you've been given to believe in you can't prove one thing in the belief system that you've been given you can't prove one thing okay and then people strongly disbelieve what they cannot disprove so when i present information or facts or undeniable evidence to people okay they can't disprove what i'm saying but yet they disprove what i'm saying you understand what i'm saying i found this to be especially true when it comes to the religious indoctrination that has been programmed since childhood into the minds of millions of my people we easily believe what we can't even prove okay my favorite two words brothers and sisters are prove it when i'm when i'm dealing with people you know and they want to present their biblical beliefs and concepts and ideas to me i don't i don't you know i don't we ain't got to go into no argument it's not an argument i have one simple challenge one simple request prove it my teacher the late great warrior scholar dr yosef bin yakunan used to say these words you have belief i have proof i remember the first time i heard him say that i wanted to jump up and scream because that's all i had was belief he had proof see when you cannot prove what you believe and yet you're committed to it you become the principal agent in your own perpetual and continued enslavement because you believe what you cannot even prove but you believe it as though it's fact so my favorite phrase is prove it okay when people tell me uh certain biblical ideas and concepts they demonic the bible prophesied the virgin birth of jesus i say prove it and know what they do they turn isaiah 7 14 trying to prove it and then i showed them in isaiah 7 15 and 16 that that is not about some virgin born child 750 years later it's not a prophecy it's a prediction about king ahaz son being born and his son would be a sign to him that he would not die in battle because they were going to war prove it prove it they can't get past those two words you got like i said you have to go into no long discord when they bring something to you it's real simple prove it well let me show it to you right here in the bible brothers and sisters understand something and hear this very well you do not prove something by referring to the thing being challenged as proof did that make sense in other words if the bible is what's being challenged you don't go to the bible to prove that it's true that's the bible is what's being challenged here so going and quoting a bible verse is meaningless it also needs to be understood that challenging the biblical text does not make you guilty of betrayal or disloyal to the truth of god on the contrary it shows that you are eagerly and sincerely trying to find out more about god and the truth and placing less credence on what you were raised or trained to believe in other words brothers and sisters challenging the biblical texts is simply a process of analytical verification of doctrinal and philosophical perspectives that's all it is you're just verifying what you've been told that's all you're doing man okay you know how we were told don't question god don't question god well when you challenge the biblical text you're not questioning god you would you're challenging what you were told about god you were you're challenging what you were told that god said because after all brothers and sisters that's what religion is all about religion is about making you believe that god said a certain thing about a certain thing that's what religion is all about those of us and notice i have here teachers who are responsible for cultivating the understanding of others and by the way that's the job of a teacher okay a teacher's job is not to brainwash you that's not the job of a teacher a teacher's job is to cultivate the understanding of others that's my job as a teacher and so therefore i'm obligated to collect all available information on a given subject and to organize that information into a system of thought that's practical and applicable okay i have to do that if i'm going to meet the need of those who are wearing the concrete shoes of religious and doctrinal thought okay if i'm gonna do that i have to i have to do the research on whatever it is i'm teaching and get all available information on it not slanted information but all the available information and get all the puzzle pieces available about that particular topic and then teach it okay i have to do that so that i don't regurgitate ignorance because that's what most religious leaders are doing today they are merely regurgitating the ignorance that they were programmed to believe and there and they're regurgitating it with power they're regurgitating it with a melody with a tune with music behind them okay with excitement and everybody singing and clapping your hand and oh lord now and the whole church going up and all that kind of stuff and ain't learning nothing not learning a thing we also need to understand that our mere intellectual acceptance of a set of doctrines is insufficient to produce spiritual results let me let that sink in a mere intellectual acceptance of a set of doctrines is insufficient to produce spiritual results yet so many so-called orthodox people have nothing but an emotional loyalty to what they intellectually believe to be the truth all right now let me just let you meditate on that for a minute just what i have in yellow kind of go back over that a couple of times in your mind that's why i'm putting this on the screen for you today so that you can rehash that think on that for a moment a mere intellectual acceptance of a set of doctrines is insufficient to produce spiritual results yet many so-called orthodox people have nothing but an emotional loyalty to what they intellectually believe to be the truth they don't know whether it's the truth or not they believe that it's the truth because they've been taught this information we need to remind ourselves brothers and sisters that you may know what you know about what you know but that does not mean that you know all there is to know about what you know did you get that there are people brothers and sisters who literally believe notice i said believe they don't know they believe in something called the verbal plenary inspiration of the scriptures in other words they they believe that the entire bible okay that's what verbal plenary means verbal means the very words in the bible plenary means the whole thing understand so people believe in what is called the verbal plenary inspiration of the scriptures they believe that the entire bible from genesis to revelation word for word was given by god to his prophets apostles and servants the biblical references for this doctrine are two verses of the bible second peter 1 21 all right it says holy men of god spake as they were moved by the holy spirit of god and the second timothy 3 16 where it says all scripture is given by inspiration of god therefore the person who calls himself or herself a christian is taught to believe in the uniqueness okay meaning no other book is like it taught to believe in the infallibility okay meaning that it can't fail taught to believe in the inerrancy meaning that there are no errors or contradictions in the bible taught to believe in the genuineness meaning that it is genuine right they're taught to believe in the credibility of the bible they're they're taught to believe that it can be counted on that it can be trusted it's trustworthy that what it says can be dependent upon and many people believe in the authenticity of the bible they believe that the bible is an authentic book when in reality the bible is a collection of previous stories from other holy books about god men and what have you and miracles that were performed so that's why i say the bible cannot be the word of god so let's take a closer look and see the truth here okay now what i want to do right now is start by examining the authorship of the bible let's start there most people have traditionally been taught that the bible was written by approximately 40 different men over a period of approximately 1600 years any first year bible student can bear witness to what i just said that's what we're taught in bible 101 okay that the bible was written by approximately 40 different men over a period of approximately 1600 years and then they taught us that none of them contradict not one author contradicts another so there are no contradictions in the bible not true not true not true not true now i don't have time to show you the contradictions today and again if i did you may think i'm trying to bible bash and that's not my intent today so i'm not going in that direction okay i'll show you the contradictions maybe in a different lecture uh just a few of them there's so many in the bible okay uh so the question you would need to ask is how many contradictions do you need before you understand that this book is not infallible that is not inerrant okay so again we were taught that the bible was written by approximately 40 different men over a period of approximately 1600 years but the truth is that the bible as we know it today just came into existence in 1611 a.d a guy by the name of james stewart s-t-u-a-r-t also known as king james the first of england commissioned 47 of his scholars in the year 1600. so you see how that was twisted around we were told approximately 40 different men over a period of 1600 years that's not what happened in the year 1600 king james commissioned 47 of his scholars to write the king james version of the bible which was completed 11 years later in the year 1611 and that's why we have what is called the 1611 version of the bible they revised the bishops bible which came into existence in 1568 under the reign of queen elizabeth the mother of king james all right the bishops bible was used chiefly by the catholic clergy and was not available to the common people and why because it was in latin and the catholic priest did not believe that the common people should be able to hold the word of god for themselves so therefore the people had to listen to the priest tell them what the mind and will of god is you understand how this goes so we've been taught that the mind of god is on pages between genesis and revelation now brothers and sisters who dare to think that they can put the mind of the most high in a book to the point to whereas you now know how god thinks what god wants what god says how god feels about this or that where you get off with that who told you that come on people stop it let's look closely at the ancient words met you netter the committed terms translated into english means the words of the gods now again what is the medunetta okay what is the nectar well the greeks called the medunetta hieroglyphics okay now hieroglyphics is a compound word hydro which means sacred and glyphs which means carvings so the europeans went into africa and saw the sacred carvings in the temple walls and the walls and temples of the tombs of pyramid uh the pyramids of egypt let me say that again on the walls of the temples tombs and pyramids of egypt the europeans saw the medunetta or the words of the gods or the sacred carvings so it is on this basis that i personally hold to the view of what the bible says about how the scripture was given in first peter it says in time in ancient times holy men of god spake or wrote as they were moved by the spirit of god i agree with that but they didn't write the bible okay in ancient times holy scribes inscribed in stone the concepts and principles of spirituality that africans live by it's called my art it's so important to understand this so on that basis i do agree with the fact that in ancient times long before there was a european long before they came out of the caves of the caucasus mountains in ancient times holy scribes chiseled in stone the principles of right living the principles of truth justice righteousness harmony balance reciprocity all that was inscribed in stone and then the europeans came in and saw it copied it and then represented back to us under another ethnicity okay but the inspired texts literally came from ancient comedic scribes and priests and sumerian and babylonian writings of carving and that's so important to understand so important to understand when it comes to the bible brothers and sisters there are three important categorical perspectives that must be understood okay you may want to refer to this as the three kinds of literary witness in the bible okay and it's important to understand this those three kinds of categories of literary witness is one the word or words of god two the word or words of a prophet of god and three the word or words of a third-person writer now this is so important to understand brothers and sisters let's examine these carefully first the word or words of god an example of this can be found in the book of deuteronomy since we're talking about the bible let's go to the bible and find an example of what could be considered as the word or words of god words that would have actually come from the mouth if god had a mouth okay of god to the ear of the prophet in deuteronomy the 18th chapter verse 17 through 20 it says these words and the lord now the word lord in this verse is the hebrew word okay some people pronounce it jehovah but there was no j so there could be no it couldn't be jehovah it's eova right with the y sound and the yova meaning the most high god okay and and the strong's reference number 3068 if you want to look it up and the lord said unto me now based on what we're reading here is supposedly notice how i'm saying this i'm not saying it is god speaking but this is written to make us think that it is actually god speaking here so moses supposedly says and the lord said unto me and god supposedly says to moses they have well spoken that which they have spoken i will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren like unto thee or like unto you and i will put my words in his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that i shall command him now supposedly this is god speaking and it shall come to pass that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name i will require it of him but the prophet which shall presume to speak a word of my name which i have not commanded him to speak or that shall speak in the name of other gods that prophet shall surely die okay now notice here this is supposed to be not the words of a prophet or not the words of a third-party writer but these are actually supposed to be the words as stated by god to the prophet got me that would be the first category categorical perspective of the biblical text these would be what could could actually be considered to be the word or words of god the second categorical perspective would be the words of a prophet of god now let's turn in the bible to see an example of that in this case it's not god speaking but it is god's prophet who's speaking okay so now can you take the words of a prophet of god and say that it's the word of god or these are god's words are these god's words or is this are these this prophet's words such as in isaiah 6 1-5 the bible says in the year that king uzziah died i the prophet isaiah saw also the lord again yoga i saw yova sitting upon a throne high and lifted up in his train children's temple above it stood the seraphims each one had six wings with twain he covered his face and between he covered his feet in between he did fly and one cried unto another and said holy holy holy is the lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory so evidently this is not god speaking here okay these are the words of god's prophet speaking and the post of the doors moved at the voice of him that cried and the voice was filled and the root house was filled with smoke then said i woe is me for i am undone is god saying i am undone no the prophet is saying i am undone because i am a man of unclean lips and i dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips for mine eyes have seen the king the lord of hosts okay not the words of god the words of a prophet of god okay so we cannot say these are god's words no just like if i give my testimony okay about my experience you can't say those are the words those are god's words you can say those are the words of doc those are dr hagin's words you see and you must understand what in the bible are are to be considered the words of a prophet not the words of god the third categorical perspective that we must respect are the words of a third-person writer okay or a person who would classify themselves as a historian let's say now as an example of this let's look at the book of mark the first chapter verses 21-28 it says these words now mind you these are not the words this is not god speaking here nor is it the word of a prophet of god speaking but it's just the words of a third person writer and it goes on to say and they went into capernaum and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught and they were astonished at his doctrine for he taught them as one that had authority and not as described now can you guys see what i'm saying here this is strictly not god speaking okay and it's not the prophet of god speaking but somebody else is giving an account of what transpired and there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit and he cried out saying let us alone what have we to do with thee thou jesus of nazareth i thought come to destroy us i know that you thou art the holy one of god and jesus rebuked him saying hold our peace and come out of him okay so these are the words of somebody who would consider themselves a historian not god's words not the words of a prophet of god but the words of historian now here's the issue approximately 87 of the bible is a literary witnessing of this third category type words of a historian words of a third person writer okay they're not the words of god or of his prophet but the words of a historian unlike other religions judeo-christianity does not separate these three categories in their literature okay in other religions you have like in like in judaism you have what's called the torah which they call the word of god okay then you have uh the talmud okay which would be the words of god's prophets okay or commentary from god's messengers the hadith such an islam okay instead of the quran would be the words of exhortation the quran would be and it's kept separate from the quran okay such as the the kabbalah is kept separate from the torah but when it comes to christianity there's no separation of the three categories all three categorical perspectives are lumped into one publication and believers are made to believe that the entire collection is the inspired word of god and nothing can be more misleading than that this is why i say that the bible cannot be god's word because the majority of the biblical literature are words of a third person writer not inspired but given by hearsay okay as i'm going to show you here in a minute what about interpolations when it comes to the bible see because of something called interpolations the bible cannot be the word of god so what is it to interpolate what is what is an interpolation to interpolate means to polish to dress up follow it as well to alter something to enlarge something or to corrupt it such as a book or a manuscript etc how do you corrupt it or enlarge it by putting in new words as i'm going to show you today with this interpolation in the book of mark okay by putting in new subject matter that was not in the original writings so that's why the bible cannot be the word of god because it's full of interpolations now as an example of this situation let's use what is now an established fact by bible students i'm not even gonna say scholars even bible students know what i'm about to share with you that the last 11 verses in the last chapter of the book of mark mark 16 verses 9 through 20 are interpolations follow what i'm saying family these verses are an interpolation and i'm going to prove it to you like i said you have belief i have proof these 11 verses do not appear in any of the very earliest manuscripts of the new testament but appear for the first time in the gospel of mark several centuries after the supposed events took place which means they're forgery it was added into the bible for the purpose of altering or enlarging or corrupting or changing the story okay now i'm glad that we still have earlier copies of mark available to us because if the early accomplice had disappeared we would be helpless to do art but accept these last 11 verses as a genuine and authentic part of mark's original composition which they are not now let me show you what i'm talking about okay i got my bible here right and what i did is i was gonna read this to you but what i decided to do so that you could see it for yourself is i took a picture of these verses took pictures of these verses and loaded them up here so you can see what they're saying but most of all to see the note in the literature all right now so to give you the backdrop of what's happening here the first thing you need to understand is that mark is the first book i'll take that back that's not true jude is the first book of the new testament even though it's not a chronological order jude was the first book written in the new testament okay mark is the first gospel written not matthew okay so the proper order would be math mark then matthew and luke and then the book of john was written centuries later that's why the book of john is not classified as a synoptic gospel in other words what john says is not synonymous with what mark matthew and luke says okay but to give you the backdrop here mark is the the 16th chapter is the last chapter of the book of mark now i told you mark is the first gospel written okay and in the 16th chapter of mark we read about these two women mary magdalene and the other mary who came to the tomb where jesus was supposedly buried but when they got there they saw that the tomb the stone had been rolled away and when they looked inside and you can read the 16th chapter for yourself and see everything i'm saying when you looked inside they saw a man dressed in white and they wanted to know where where's jesus and the man said he's not here okay but go and tell the brethren that he is risen okay so notice what the eighth verse says trembling and bewildered the women went out and fled from the tomb now notice this part they said nothing to anyone why because they were free all right now the end the end the gospel of mark ends at the end of the eighth verse the last thing written in the gospel of mark is that these women went out of the tomb they fled from the tomb and they didn't tell anybody anything because they were freed now we have to deal with the interpolation now we have to deal with was what was added into the bible okay follow this we have to deal what was added into the bible to alter the story the bible even tells you that okay and those of you who are watching if you have a bible at home i encourage you to get your bible if you got a good study bible and turn to mark the 16th chapter the eighth verse okay and you should see between verse 8 and verse 9 this note that you see right there what does it say a very damning statement the most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have mark 16 9-20 now brothers and sisters i had to take a picture of that and show you okay uh it's actually here uh in my bible that note that i just let me see if i can put it there okay uh you see the note there if you can if i if you can make it out ah it says it plain as day right there in the bible if you have a good study bible it will say it in yours too now what is that saying brothers and sisters this is a very important point here what does this mean bible believers this means that the majority of the practices that you carry on in your pentecostal practices did not come from god it was added into the bible and you begin to engage in these interpolated practices and you think you're carrying out what god said again brothers and sisters look at that note carefully the most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have mark 16 9 through 20. now when we begin to read verses 9 through 20 it's going to blow your mind because you're going to see what was added into the bible with this interpolation let's let's do the research okay this is where i say family prove what you're saying i'm proving to you okay here's your proof that mark 16 9-20 is an interpolation it was added into the bible okay your bible should tell you that if it doesn't say that that means you have a devotional reading bible but if you have what's called a good study bible somewhere on that page either in the footnote or between those two verses or in the margin it will have a note there that the most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have mark 16 9-20 if anybody can see that or can bear witness or you have that in your bible please put it there in the chat room so you know that i'm not making this up that you see it through okay now here's the problem notice what the beginning of the ninth verse says now family dog garnet i need y'all to remember this remember this what i'm about to tell you everything that we are about to read now everything that we are about to read now is an interpolation it was added to alter or change the message of the bible that's why i say the bible cannot be the word of god okay notice what the very first thing the ninth verse says now again remember family everything in verses 9 through 20 is a forgery i repeat a forgery of course i said an interpolation and a for an interpolation is a forgery okay because it was added to change what was originally said so it's a forger a forgery everything we're going to read in verses 9 through now why do i keep emphasizing that you'll see as we start reading it okay because it starts off with the resurrection yes the first mention of a resurrection of jesus christ was added into the bible with an interpolation it goes on to say when jesus rose early on the first day of the week he appeared first to mary magdalene out of whom he had driven seven demons right she went and told those who had been with him and who were mourning and weeping we got a problem here because right there you see a contradiction let's go back what does the eighth verse say trembling and bewildered the women went out and fled from the tomb they said nothing to anyone because they were afraid they said nothing this is what you call an irreconcilable contradiction because the very next verse says that she went out and told those who have been with him who were mourning and weeping and when they heard that jesus was alive and that she had seen him they did not believe it now remember everything we're reading now is an interpolation or forgery it wasn't in the original manuscripts oh my goodness does this change the color of the paint or what afterwards next verse afterwards jesus appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking in the country these returned and reported to the rest but they did not believe them either 14th verse says later jesus appeared to the eleven as they were eating he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen again brothers and sisters everything i'm reading right now everything i'm reading is an interpolation okay verses 9 through 20 is a forgery so that means everything we're reading right now is alive it's a forgery now here's where it gets real deep okay he said unto them and again i repeat what we're reading is an interpolation okay it was added into the bible sometime later on to change the message to alter the message he said unto them go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation you've heard that before in the king james version it says it this way go ye therefore into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature okay baptizing them in the name of the fathers and illegals whoever is baptized will be saved but whoever does not whoever believes and baptized will be saved but whoever does not believe will be condemned right remember everything we're reading is an interpolation i know that what we're reading now is going to upset some of y'all because you've been living by this notice what it goes on to say in fact in some of your bibles what we're reading now is in red letters okay and they did that to make you think that these are actually the words of jesus child i got a red letter initiated the bible i don't know what dr hagen talking about this is a red letter edition of the bible i got here i know jesus said this because the letters are read in my bible god bless america come on people think understand the agenda here understand what the programmers did they interpolated these verses he said unto them go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation in other words that was never said 16th verse whosoever believes and is baptized will be saved but whosoever does not believe will be condemned that was never said this is interpolation 17th verse oh my goodness how many times many of you have quoted this and these signs shall follow those that believe in my name they will cast out demons right because of this passage right here an interpolation of forgery you got folk in church casting out demons because they got they've been under the influence of roman catholicism they they watched the movie the exorcist and now they're into this whole program of casting out demons and battling demons and fighting evil spirits all because of this interpolation in my name they will drive out demons and you hear people bragging about the fact that they did what this interpretation says they will speak with new tongues because of this right verse right here people think all that kind of stuff they think that that stuff is authentic because of this interpolation come on people free your african mind damn it free your african mind they will pick up snakes because of this forgery do you not know that there are people who actually do this stuff in their churches don't take my word for it youtube snake handling church just youtube it and you will actually see the pastor okay uh where he handles a rat a rattlesnake because of this verse right here come on they will they will pick up snakes with their hands well this pastor picked up the snake believing that this is true the snake bit him in the neck okay and you can see the blood leaping out because the snake must have bit them in the jugular vein okay or carnate carnated artery or the artery there and and the blood is actually squirting out of the man's neck and he dies he actually died because of this verse right here he believed he would be okay that's what we get for believing a forgery that's what you get for believing in superstition when you believe in things you don't understand then you suffer because superstition ain't the way as stevie wonder clearly told us they will pick up snakes with their hands it goes on to say and when they drink deadly poison it will not hurt them at all so people actually drinking poison thinking it's not gonna affect them because of this verse right here which is a forgery and then it goes on to say and they will place their hands on sick people and they will get well so because of this verse right here you have what's called healing services and prayer lines and preachers are calling folk up so they can lay hands on it because the bible says in this verse you shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover it's a forgery and if you don't like what i'm saying doggone it go to the hospital and put it to the test go ahead go on up and empty the empty out the hospitals right now i dare you to if you if you think this is true and you believe this because it says this sign will follow the believers if you're a believer you can lay hands on the sick and they will not they might not they might get well they will get well okay this is clearly a determining affirmation when you lay your hands on sick people if you are a believer according to this verse that sick person will get well i don't care if they have cancer if they have aids if they have rheumatoid arthritis they have diabetes high blood pressure whatever they suffering from a broke leg when you lay your hands on them they will get well okay try it and see go ahead just try it now i hear somebody saying well doc i know when i prayed i laid hands on some people and they were healed oh my goodness because you had an experience does not invalidate what i'm saying here about this being an interpolation okay this is a forgery understand that yeah you might have prayed for somebody and they might have gotten better but did they get better because you prayed for them or they did they simply get better because god purpose for them to get better okay that's almost like saying you know um you landed at you landed at atlanta airport because you prayed that god was gonna give because you prayed that god would give you a safe trip okay no you landed at atlanta airport because you had skilled pilots flying the plane okay not because you prayed because trust me there are probably many people on that plane who did not pray for a safe trip and they got there safely okay so it didn't happen because you prayed and you got to stop bragging and being and being proud and and and puffed up with pride church folk because you prayed for somebody and they got better now you want to brag about it it's not something to brag about child let me tell you what happened when i prayed for for deacon washington all right look like he couldn't get well the lord told me to go pray for him and i prayed for him and he got up he got about that bit after i prayed for him and is that something to be bragged about he might have gotten up after you prayed after you prayed he might have gotten better might have improved but was it because you prayed no he improved simply because god willed to heal that brother that's all is to it it's real simple okay let's look some more at this passage 19th verse and the lord jesus had spoken to them after the lord jesus spoke to them he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of god now how would the writer know that how would the writer know where jesus supposedly sat and where is the right hand of an invisible being what does that mean we've been taught in theology that it means that he was seated in the place of power because the right hand symbolizes the place of power so that's what that's supposed to mean 20th verse and the disciples went out and preached everywhere and the lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied and again brothers and sisters everything that i just read is an interpolation again it tells you right there the most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have mark 16 9-20 and what we read came from verses 9-20 now let's deal with this okay because we find several things here and i get i got to get ready to close this oh my goodness i'm almost out of time this interpolated passage tells us about the resurrection several appearances of christ the great commission go on to the whole world and preach the gospel right the basis of the doctrine of baptismal regeneration this is where the baptist church this is why the baptist church is the baptist church because they believe that you get baptized in water washing away your sins okay so that's why in the baptist church you can't be a member of the baptist church until they know that you've been baptized and your sins have been washed away okay um the miraculous signs that would follow the believer the believer would be empowered to cast out demons to speak with other languages drink poison not be harmed lay hands on the sick and heal them etc and also in this interpolation we read about the ascension of christ to sit on the right hand of god okay so none of that we would have known in our theology if it wasn't for this forgery in the biblical text understand so this is why i say and brothers and sisters listen i didn't even scratch the surface i just i just gave you a tidbit of why the bible cannot be the word of god okay i can give you a whole lot more a whole lot more i may do 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we come together ain't nothing we can't do because you're easy to love okay i got two minutes before my time is up so let's sing a quick clip of this and call it a day thank you for being with me i admire all of you thank you for your donations all right come on everybody the african and me love the african and you when we come together ain't nothing we can't do the african and me love the african and you when we come together there's nothing you can't do you're easy you're easy [Music] truth justice is when we come together ain't nothing we can't do you're easy yeah yeah yeah you're easy oh family i gotta get out of here i gotta finish before two hours to play this back out everybody stay strong peace yes

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