Greetings Everyone,
I am relatively new to this forum; I've been reading posts for a couple of months now and I deeply respect the level of research and attention to detail that goes into them. A little background info on me -- over the past couple of months I have read Yada Yahweh and consider myself a member of the ekklesia; about 18 months ago I became a born-again "Christian" but thankfully didn't stop searching for the truth at that point.
I am starting a topic because I have a question. I hope this question doesn't cause anyone to inwardly roll their eyes at my ignorance!
I happened across this website about a week ago:
brotherofyeshua.com/challenge.htmSimply based on the colors and fonts alone, not to mention the use of "Jesus," "Christian," and "Church," I probably should have just closed out of the site without reading a word. But I did read it and I found it to be interesting because the writer mirrors a lot of the anti-Emperor Constantine sentiments that appear in YY (don't mean to insult Yada by comparing the above website to his). The gist of what he is saying appears at the bottom of my post.
What really piqued my interest was seeing "You are my son; today I have begotten you." in Psalms 2:7, Acts 13:33, and Hebrews 1:5 and 5:5 (the website refers the reader to those verses). The writer says that Luke 3:22 originally used that verbiage as well - I found some indication of that but I am no expert.
Here's my question: Is there anything to this guy's theory or is he completely out of his mind? And as a follow-up question, what book(s)/websites/approach do you recommend for someone like me who is interested in the history of scripture?
Thanks a lot for your help.
Here's a quote from the above website:
The historical and spiritual factualness of these words can be proven when one understands the original words that were spoken to the man Jesus at his baptism in the Jordan River -- when the Voice of God stated:
"Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee" -- which means that the historical man Jesus was a man who became the Messiah/Christ when he overcame the Laws and became Anointed by God. That the later Church of Rome which existed as a puppet under the pagan sun worshipping Emperor Constantine, censored and changed the very words of God spoken to mankind, is the primary reason why the Christian world remains shackled to the abyss of spiritual ignorant to this very day. In the above article it is demonstrated that all the pre-Nicene Christian authors who quoted the baptism sequence in their writings, confirmed that prior to the fourth century editing of the scriptures by Pagan Rome, that the Gospels confirmed that Jesus became the Lord's Anointed (Messiah/Christ) by fulfilling and overcoming the Laws. Moreover, in addition to the six (6) pre-Nicene Christian authors who are cited in The Ten Words, this fact is further confirmed in the more ancient surviving biblical texts that modern translators continue to ignore to the spiritual pearl of the Christian world today. That the modern Church continues to reject the very words of God spoken to mankind, in favor of the censored and corrupted words of the fourth century Emperor of Pagan Rome, is the reason why the modern Church which has caused itself to be spiritually flat-lined, only possesses what Paul portrayed as the "elementary" doctrines that the Church Father Origen defined as being “...preached in the Churches …for the simpleminded and for the ears of the common crowd who are led on to live better lives by their belief” (see Origen, Contra Celsum).