Free Judgement Day by Michael Spears Page A

there was no room at the
inn, then returned to Nazareth via Jerusalem. According to Matthew,
Joseph and Mary lived in a house in Bethlehem, fled to Egypt to
escape King Herod, then returned to Israel and settled in Nazareth.
The other thing I noticed was that in the book of John there were
no stories about the casting out of demons. This I took to be a
sign that the Gospel of John was the most reliable, since everyone
knows that mental illness is caused by a chemical imbalance in the
brain, not by “demons . ” So I studied the book of
John next.
    The book of
John is interesting because a large number of miracles are
unwitnessed, like the fig tree withering overnight, or when Jesus
puts mud in a blind man’s eyes and tells him to wash in a pool some
distance away, or when the man comes to him who has a sick child at
home and Jesus tells him “go, your child will be healed.” Other
miracles can be easily explained away by a sceptical mind, for
example, the witness to the resurrection in John is Mary Magdalene,
a prostitute and the rumoured girlfriend of Jesus, or the
resurrection of Lazarus, a personal friend of Jesus who could quite
easily have just been hiding in a tomb waiting for Jesus to pretend
to resurrect him, or walking on water under the cover of darkness.
It was two thousand years ago, David Copperfield once made the
Statue of Liberty disappear, surely someone as smart as Jesus could
fool a few ancient peasants.
    While studying
the Gospels, I also noticed that all of the prophecies quoted in
the Gospels aren’t actual prophecies about Jesus. There are cases
of history being written to fulfil prophecy, like being born in
Bethlehem, and even history being written to fulfil a mistranslated
prophecy, the virgin birth was based on a mistranslated prophecy at
the time which actually read “the young woman will conceive a
child,” rather than “the virgin will conceive a child.” There are
many cases of single lines being taken totally out of context, like
“not one of his bones will be broken,” quoted when Jesus’ legs
aren’t broken after being crucified, this passage actually comes
from a psalm about having divine protection, Jesus may not have had
any broken bones but he did get crucified. Just for the record,
I’ve never broken any bones. There are also cases of
self-fulfilling prophecies, like when Jesus tells his disciples to
fetch him a donkey because there’s a prophecy about it. I learned
that there are actually zero prophecies about Jesus in the Old
Testament, with the possible exception of a few prophecies
portraying Jesus as an antichrist, or a false god.
    I learned that
Jesus was not the Messiah, Jesus was not the One, but then I became
confused. “If Jesus isn’t the Messiah, what am I supposed to do?” I
thought perhaps I would have to convert to Judaism, but I looked at
all of the rules and the laws and I thought, “there is no way I can
do all of this stuff, and there is no way I can get the whole world
to do all of this stuff.” I didn’t know what to do, what to think,
who God was, what laws I should follow, how to judge the world.
“Why would God choose a Messiah that can’t even keep the law?” I
didn’t understand, it didn’t make any sense to me, “why would God
choose me?”
    Back at the
house, Pat had moved out some time ago, he moved in with this
hippie chick Skye. I liked Skye, when Pat was at work we used to
hang out a bit at the house. After Pat moved out this guy Jason
moved in, Jason was one of Tony’s friends, he was alright but he
liked to throw his weight around a bit, he was kind of like an
adult bully. Tim or Davo would come around occasionally, but with
the exception of church, I didn’t have much of a social life in
those days. All of my time was occupied with work, sleep, or my
theories. That was the way I liked it, I really felt like I was
accomplishing something. I read about Isaac Newton, and how he said
that women just get in the way of work. I