Part Four: The Truth Revealed - What Jesus Really Taught

by Glyn Thomas

Does the church teach Jesus message accurately? If not, how can we find what Jesus originally taught? Tough questions, to which careful research provides revealing answers.
Many know of terrible excesses committed by the Church using quasi military forces to carry out numerous purges over many centuries. Estimates of those professing to be Christian, tortured to death, burned at the stake or literally torn to pieces range from 30,000 to 300,000 under the Spanish Inquisition alone. Empowered by adoption as the state religion of the Roman Empire, religious dogma was enshrined in law - so disputing dogma attracted legal penalty. The law gave the Church full control over individual lives, dissent threatened this and triggered decisive action. Strenuous efforts were made to stamp out views deemed heretical - anyone believing such ideas and any texts containing such ideas were ruthlessly destroyed.
The destruction of early Christian texts was indiscriminate - the earliest New Testament we have, the Codex Vaticanus dates from c325, some fragments of individual books have survived dating back as far as 150. The oldest surviving manuscripts have sections with controversial verses removed to obliterate original beliefs. We do know that there was a thriving range of commentary and dozens of gospels used by the early churches - but, we only have their titles and some phrases quoted in the writings of early church fathers. Why were heretical ideas stamped out with such fanatical zeal - what inconvenient truths were being hidden?
The Church continued inventing dogma until some insiders rebelled, triggering the Reformation. The pathway to Truth lies in understanding the heresies and finding which link back to Jesus teaching as shown by the few ancient texts recovered in the past century. For information & maps on this truthpublications.co.uk

336 pages, Paperback

Published August 3, 2022

About the author

My motivation is to resolve historical enigmas and find out what really happened in our past.

Before going to high school, my main interests were cosmology and ancient civilizations. My career, in senior finance roles, involved long hours and numerous corporate transactions working with lawyers and accountants. I never had time to read for pleasure. However, the focus on factual and numerical accuracy combined with verification of supporting evidence has lent itself to my writing in retirement.

My research has benefitted from scanning across many disciplines – including astronomy, atomic physics, vulcanology, terraforming, geology, biology, climatology, archaeology and its more recent cousin, astro-archaeology. Human knowledge in these fields has been transformed during my working life. I have also applied some of these disciplines to understanding the Bible, when its books were likely written, why key edits were made and identifying deliberate translation errors. Also, why almost all original texts were hunted down and destroyed after being declared heretical in support of newly invented dogma changing original Christian beliefs. Many authoritatively documented changes will astonish conventional Christians.

Conventional accounts of history are overwhelmingly derived from written records, other disciplines which could shed light on paradoxes and enigmas are shunned. It seems to me that much of tenured academia is trapped in narrow chimneys of thinking and rarely looks to other disciplines for verification.

My interests may be summarised as: understanding the evolution of our universe, the evolution of our planet leading to the emergence of humanity and possible civilised cultures pre-dating the conventionally accepted earliest Egyptian and Sumerian. I am fascinated by how humanity evolved its definition of a divine creator. To my surprise, we now have proof (to sixth sigma standard) that an incredible intelligence was responsible for the design of our universe, but nothing in the Bible comes near equivalent verification whilst much is clearly anachronistic or factually incorrect.

My findings astonished me and led me to write. Initially I just got books printed and gave them to friends that were interested but many readers persuaded me to publish.