JEHOVAH 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 All rights reserved. Cover art by: Pamela Marin-Kingsley Email the author at [email protected] No part of this publication can be reproduced, reprinted or transmit- ted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any other storage and retrieval system, without express written permission of the Publisher. Permissions may be obtained via email request to the Publisher at: Published by Moon Temple Press, Indio CA 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- i JEHOVAH UNMASKED! 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 ii INTRODUCTION 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 iii JEHOVAH UNMASKED! 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. iv 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