steve howard's update of the new testament
BARBARALBA BIBLE

THE NEW NEW TESTAMENT

The Gospel According to MATTHEW

 
chapter 07

Don’t judge others, maybe others won’t judge you. If your brother has a little trouble, before flipping out on him, deal with your own trouble or inadequacies. Don’t be sharing holy things with dogs or throw pearls at pigs.

Ask and you get. Look for and find. Cross the street and get to the other side. Knock on a door and it gonna open.

At least in most cases, thus making the effort of action quite a rewarding practice. What all these analogies are trying to do is get people to begin to think. To visualize their world. Simple thought was and is a faculty that had been beaten out of them, us with restraining religions and a plethora of absurd laws. And swords and other devices of torture and torment.

Think about: some son of yours wants bread; you don’t give him a rock, or a bunch of laws. Or a snake if he wants a fish. Or an elephant when he wanted a chicken.

“This is way over my head.”

Do onto others as you would have them do unto you.

Someone wrote in that this is what Moses meant. It ain’t. Moses said do unto others what I tell you to do. Moses told his soldiers to murder millions of men, women and children. And burn everything down to the ground. So don’t think for a minute that he was a great prophet. He was a vile murdering tyrant.

Keep the straight and narrow path. The wide one is an endless over lit boulevard of fast food chains and Hollywood fantasy. Boring. And sterile heaps of toxic waste. Stay away from well-trodden paths.

And watch out for lying prophets that look like sheep but under their fine disguise are wolves. But I don’t like this misuse of wolves. Not even poisonous snakes compare. There is nothing so deceiving and backstabbing as an ape waving a flag of holy righteousness. No animal comes close to such a creature. So let us say, watch out for sheepish looking clowns of authority. Tear down the Vatican.

“What are you saying. The Catholic Church will have you murdered.”

“Fuck the Catholic Church. Fuck the holy lies of our insane forefathers.”

“You shouldn’t say that.”

“The fish made me say it.”

You don’t get grapes from a thorn bush. No fig from a thistle. Ain’t no fruit on a dead tree and the analogy leads up to, if you ain’t no good we throw you into the fire.

And don’t think because you make a show of casting out devils in my name that you get a free ticket to heaven. I simply won’t let you in. Sucker.

If a tree don’t give good fruit, cut it down and burn it.

Build on a rock, not shifting sand.

The people were really impressed with Jesus. Even if it was rhetoric for retards. Ain’t nobody come and told so much information so elegantly like he was right and they should listen up.

“Retards ain’t politically correct.”

“Well, fucking morons, then.”


chapter 08

I hate to suggest this but I can’t help observe the obvious possibility of theater.

The writer tells us Jesus heals a leper than sends him to a priest.

Vs. 4: and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them. EQ.

This must be meant as an insult. Blasphemy. The man didn’t have leprosy. It was a provocation.

The priests were well aware that no one has the power of God because there isn’t one. Jesus was just trying to piss them off with their own tricks.

Anyhow, as the theater continues, a roman centurion gets Jesus to heal a servant. He is so humble he doesn’t want Jesus to bother coming by. He isn’t worthy to have such a man in his humble house full of servants and slaves. A word of clean bill of health is all he requires.

Jesus says how impressed he is with the Roman’s faith. Israel hadn’t a man with so much faith.

Vs. 10: … I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. EQ.

Another jab at the priests. An attack on the laws of Moses. He even lays weeping and gnashing of teeth to the future of the Jewish ruling class. This isn’t unusual when going about discrediting one religion to establish the next mind virus. Ah, religion. This wouldn’t have been the intention of a teacher that proclaims heaven is at hand. It would, however, be the intention of the men who wrote the book.

After a hoard of healing and casting out devils, they go to Peter’s mother-in-law and she jumps up out of bed when Jesus comes and touches her. She had a fever.

“Hey. You want something to eat, boys.”

Not important, but we know now that Peter was married.

Now, there may be those who wonder why all this healing. It makes the story a little too unlikely. The answer is simple. They had to stage it.

Vs. 17: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by E-saias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses. EQ.

So Jesus crossed the lake. In a boat. Jesus slept. And they woke him up.

“Jesus. There is a storm. We’re gonna all die.”

“True. But not today. You with so little faith.”

So Jesus went up and told the waves to settle down. Now he might have got lucky and they did. Not likely though. Likely the storm wasn’t so bad and the boat didn’t sink and they made it across the lake. There is many a sailor who can tell you of such a boat trip. Many chapels have been built by captains of fishing boats who feared they could die in a storm.

“Oh, holy Jesus Christ. Lord god almighty. If you get me through this storm I promise I’ll build you a chapel.”

Jesus and his followers walked on down a road by the burial caves. And two mad men yelled out at him.

“Look, that’s him, Herod’s bastard son. Time for the show.”

“Hey Jesus, you son of God you. Are you come to punish us.”

“I’m gonna set you free of your devils.”

“Jesus. Send us to the pigs.”

The devils said that. Jesus went along with the proposal and sent the devils into the pigs and the pigs ran off over a cliff and drowned themselves.

Which sucks for the pigs and the pig herders.

So no surprise when the pig herders run into town and all the people of the town come back to tell Jesus where to go. Anywhere but here.

Which is understandable, for Christ’s sake. Tell the devils to go to hell and leave the fucking pigs be.


chapter 09

Jesus jumped back on a boat and went back to his hometown. Capernaum. A paralyzed man was brought to him.

“Your sins are forgiven.”

Some scribes pick up on this.

“Blasphemy. We call blasphemy on Jesus, the bastard child of Herod. He is not licensed to forgive sins. Only we can do that.”

“You sorry ass buggers. You who claim to own God. You think I can’t forgive sins. The son of a man. And a woman. Well, guess again suckers. The rules have been changed. By me and John. Your days of unquestioned authority are numbered. And the number is a small one. Get up man. God be in you. Take your bed and get out of my house.”

So the paralyzed, maybe from too much brandy the night before, man got up and went home.

Vs. 8: But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men. EQ.

Okay, for any believers we haven’t scared off yet with our continual blasphemy, the miracle was not that Jesus healed a man. That was a staged event. The miracle was that he performed such blasphemy before the scribes who were following him around looking for him to do just that. He was insulting the authority that took their authority from a lie they called the laws of Moses.

Then Jesus went to eat with Matthew and asked if he’d like to come on his campaign to wage a fight against old crusty dictatorship slave soldier laws.

“Count me in, Jesus. I’m sick of being a tax collector for the vile aristocracy tyrants.”

Some priests of the laws of Moses saw Jesus hanging out with tax collectors. Publicans and sinners. By the way, a publican is a Jewish tax collector that collects for the Roman Empire. The lowest of low life. Except for gentiles.

“Jesus. Why do you hang with such people.”

“Who are you to judge, you venomous snakes of holy lies. Do you truly believe that you are above any of the other creatures of the planet. Oh, you will be a weeping and wailing when your lie is exposed. You will be standing there naked in your clown suits with everyone knowing you have been raping, murdering and robbing the planet for thousands of years. Crawl into you holes and shut your stinking gobs.”

Vs. 14: Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? EQ.

“Well, how about because we don’t fucking want to.”

“What. But. Huh.”

“Yes. As simple as that. Your fasting is a public ritual to demonstrate your dedication to a set of laws. Screw your laws. Fast if you want to. Just keep out of my face with your tired rituals. I’ve got little time left and intend to enjoy every day that I can.”

A Jewish officer came to Jesus. Down on his knees and begged Jesus come make his dead daughter not dead.

“All right. I got time for one more before the next coffee break.”

On the way, a woman touched him. She had been bleeding 12 years. Sometimes happens to women after menopause.

She had the faith and the bleeding stopped and Jesus told her it was her faith that healed her.

Faith. Oh, let us wait to rave on that word.

Let’s get to the dead girl before she rots.

Jesus tells the truth, and no one wants to believe it. They prefer to believe crazy stories from neurotic lunatics. But again, it is a staged event. For, my dear reader, if she had been dead, she would be dead after Jesus went for a visit.

“Get out, go blow you horns out in the field, she ain’t dead yet. In fact, she’s just trying to sleep.”

Jesus went and held hands with her and she got up.

“Jesus, I am so tired, my family is driving me crazy with their holy ranting about the laws of Moses and your constant blasphemy. I wish you would spend more time at home.”

“I got things to do, my love. But when the show is over we’ll go somewhere where they don’t know us.”

“Promise.”

“You know I never promise.”

Jesus had sex with the young woman and went out to do a few more tricks.

“What. Jesus didn’t have sex with her.”

“He certainly did. They already had three children at the time.”

“Where was that written.”

“Where was it written that dinosaurs laid eggs. Or that they existed.”

Now when we read that Jesus made the blind to see and that they went around telling everyone that he did so, that is theater. What he was also doing was getting people to look. Something one would assume was not any different than seeing, but it is. Look to see that you are here. Still not a common event.

So he visits a dumb man and tells him to speak.

This is an old trick from as far back as the Torah. When a Lord made Sarah pregnant by raping her, Abraham did not speak until he was told it was time to stop with his not speaking.

Sometimes people refuse to speak to demonstrate their disgust for those who never listen to what they say. But someone like Jesus can get people to speak on account they know he will listen and understand.

Vs. 34: But the Pharisees said, he casteth out devils through the prince of the devils. EQ.

The Pharisees were frightened of the influence Jesus had on the people. They knew he was a danger to their bloody holy establishment of tyrannical dictatorship.

But Jesus was on a roll. He knew he had to do what he could to bring an end to the suicidal theater established by the mad ruling class. Even if they took his words and put them into the next religion. Someone would come after him and continue to question the tyranny of authority. It was in the nature of angel in man.

“We need some more help.”

He had five main men still and everyone, even the Mormons, knows you need a dozen. It’s astrological.


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