steve howard's retelling of the new testament
BARBARALBA BIBLE

THE NEW NEW TESTAMENT

THE ACTS of the Apostles

 

chapter 22

Paul needs a serious shit kickin’

vs. 1: “My fellow-Israelites, listen to me as I make my defence before you!” EQ.

Well, the screaming mob hushed up and listened to Paul as he mocked them and the world.

He explained how he arrested men and women randomly and had them killed if they liked Jesus. How he approved of the priest’s open murder of Stephen because he taught the gospel of Jesus.

This didn’t help his defense. But Paul didn’t care. He was an asshole shit disturber, lying, murdering prick. Amok.

A real Moses.

Then he went on to explain how Jesus came in a bright light on the desert road. His friends saw the light but not Jesus. They didn’t hear anything either. And they didn’t fall down and go temporarily blind. They hadn’t been half as drunk.

“In the first telling there was no mention of friends. In the next telling they also fell down.”

“Just a normal process of enhancement.”

Vs. 14: He said, ‘The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see his righteous Servant, and to hear him speaking with his own voice. EQ.

“Well ain’t Paul the greatest of all. Of all the people on the planet, Jesus Christ picked Paul the murdering mad man to set down the Law of Christianity.”

“Paul the Super Jew. You gotta love him if he is the only one that Jesus blessed.”

Oddly, the crowd didn’t buy his story.

Vs. 22: … “Away with him! Kill him! Kill him! He’s not fit to live.” EQ.

“They had a point.”

Well, the Romans whipped him again. For fun.

Then Paul told them he was Roman by birth. Romans weren’t supposed to be whipped without a trial.

“Bullshit.”

vs. 28: The commander said, “I became one by paying a large sum of money.”
“But I am one by birth,” Paul answered. EQ

Everyone jumped back. A Roman by birth was a real special thing. Because the Roman Empire ruled the grand illusion. So they took his chains off.

“There are still a few animals left out in the yard.” EQ Jim Morrison.


chapter 23

vs. 1: ... “My fellow-Israelites! My conscience is perfectly clear about the way in which I have lived before God to this very day.” EQ

Jesus laughed.

vs. 2: The High Priest Ananias ordered those who were standing close to Paul to strike him on the mouth. 3. Paul said to him, “God will certainly strike you - you whitewashed wall!” EQ.

Paul gets two bonus points from your narrotor. Maybe three.

“Why.”

“I like that he calls the big cheese a whitewashed wall. Shows style.”

“Well, you be careful. You aren’t supposed to like that guy.”

“Paul the Super Jew. How is one to avoid loving the guy. He is like George Bush. Such an obvious idiot asshole lying bastard just daring the world to contradict his bald face lies.”

“And that’s a good thing.”

“Yes, it is backward thrust. Great things will come out the other side.”

“How many thousand years does it take.”

“About now is the time. Idiocy has revealed itself to be nothing more than what it is. A big bad joke. The age of awakening is now.”

Now Paul makes a point after a mere 22 chapters.

Vs. 6: “Fellow-Israelites! I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees. I am on trial here because of the hope I have that the dead will rise to life!” EQ.

Well, no, that was not why he was on trial. But whatever. It is a hint at reincarnation. In Gideon the word ‘resurrection’ is used. Many have come to believe that the world must first come to an end then all will be raised up and put on trial before God. Friends of Jesus are invited to go to heaven. The rest get to burn in hell forever. This concept is mad, of course. And your narrator will not make it his job to convince you that reincarnation and evolution is one thing.

“Not now, you mean.”

vs. 7: As soon as he said this, the Pharisees and Sadducees started to quarrel, and the group was divided. 8. (For the Sadducees say that people will not rise from death and that there are no angels or spirits; but the Pharisees believe in all three.) EQ.

So they had some grand arguments. Apes using foundationless assumptions to conclude an answer about something they don’t want question. Mostly they wanted their quiet luxury of decadence with no one poking at their palace walls.

It is actually a mute point because either way, ignorant slavery sucks whatever life is. But just as a reminder: angels are what we are, they are not separate units. Spirit is also what we are. There are not spirits outside of living bodies. Again, physics, though we have understood but little of it, is real. Angel and spirit are ways to describe the how of what we are. It is the same with Jesus and Moses. They are characters of how people are. We are reading an old fairy tale. Unfortunately very few fairy tales have survived from the time the Moses, Jesus and Paul story was written so what we have is too much focus on one story. It is a very narrow view. And to believe it to be historically true is simply to ignore the world of the real.

And belief is stupid. We need to know. Observe your environment and understand what is going on so that you may better your chances of survival. Holy Spirit is instinct. Instinct for comprehension. It is part of what you are. No one can give it too you. Many try to rob you of it.

The angel is in everything. Our evolution. 13.7 billion years with a direction has momentum. Light speed momentum. We have been at it a long time. We have been blinded by the stories that claim the answer is known. Provided by God. We haven’t even started asking any sensible questions. And even if there was a God, it wouldn’t write a book full of contradictions and ‘and’ at the beginning of 90% of the sentences.

People rise from the dead every day.

Death is a partial memory wipe. Clean the tubes. Allows for evolution through mutation. It is the way it is.

There was no question that Paul was a shit disturber and the Jews, supposedly, wanted him dead.

Vs. 14: Then they went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have taken a solemn vow together not to eat a thing until we have killed Paul.” EQ.

“Oh, no. Paul the Super Jew is again in so much danger. How, pray tell, shall he beat this wrap.”

“Have no fear. Paul the Super Jew will come through every hardship and danger. He is Paul the Super Jew.”

And it came to pass that a little birdie told a little boy to tell the officer that 40 hungry for blood Jews were waiting to murder Paul.

“Oh, no. We can’t have that. A hero of the world who is the only person to know the will of Jesus Christ.”

“Until the pope.”

“The pope is also the devil.”

So plans were made to ship Mr. Shit Disturber to Felix. Governor of some place.

Vs. 23: then the commander called two of his officers and said, “Get two hundred soldiers ready to go to Caesarea, together with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, and be ready to leave by nine o’clock tonight. 24. Provide some horses for Paul to ride and get him safely through to the governor Felix.” EQ.

“Sounds reasonable.”

With a letter telling Felix the story.

Greetings from Claudius Lysias to His Excellency:
As is so often the case when we have a Jew saying he isn’t a Jew, pissing off all the Jews, we find it necessary to make a grand show of saving this one man while thousand have their flesh eaten in the gutters or on crosses. In fact, we will spare no expense to save this one little bitch because he is propagating blind obedience and we should be able to make a grand religion out of this story. Something to keep the slaves happy to be slaves and we can leave them to their slaving and even let the slaves feed themselves. And police themselves. We can all live in grand decadence for at least the next 2,000 years before we have to let them have television.

“That ain’t what he wrote.”

“Just a narrator’s liberty.”

“You take quite a few.”

“You haven’t seen nothing yet, Babe.”

Well, it came to pass that they marched Paul to Caesarea. In fine style.


chapter 24

If I’m not careful, I’m going to start liking Paul.

vs. 5: We found this man to be a dangerous nuisance; he starts riots among the Jews all over the world and is a leader of the party of the Nazarenes. EQ

Now there are a couple stories on the Nazarenes. One is that they were beginning to understand what we now call reincarnation. As other cultures did then. And before then. The Way. Some think that Jesus the Nazarene was all about teaching people about rising from the dead. Thus his demonstration of rising from the dead and the story in one of the gospels about his brother-in-law rising from the dead. These were example to show the idea. Neither one of the two were really dead. It is what is called theater. Theater is to teach by demonstration.

Now remember resurrection is not the end of the world before the big judge. This is the lie the church has sold us. To have more power over the gods who have been sold mortality.

Reincarnation is a matter of course. The way life is. We are getting close, 2,000 years later, to understanding that it is the only way for life to be. There is nothing new under the sun, as they say. So what other choice does life have but to reincarnate over and over.

The other story about Nazarene is found in the Torah. That’s the bit where you can’t shave or trim your hair or beard and can’t consume any grape products. Wine and vinegar. Shaving the head would signify the end of the vow.

“And you can’t touch a dead person or a bleeding woman.”

vs. 14: But I also believe in everything written in the Laws of Moses and the books of the prophets. EQ

I am forced by the laws of quantum thinking to allow that he had no choice but to say this. Protocol. Freedom of speech is a very limited and very new thing for our overlord war rule system. The power of the synagogue was such that it was not easy to say, ‘you are full of shit’ even if it was and still is the case. Especially when one is forever in the synagogue preaching.

“Are you defending Paul.”

“I’m trying not too. But one must be fair, especially when the bugger is always on trial.”

“Things are going to change. I can feel it.” Beck.

vs 15: ... “that all people, both the good and the bad, will rise from death. EQ.

The bastard Paul has made no mention of this up till last chapter. And now it is his one defense.

“He wanted to really piss you off first, make sure you stay awake.”

“Isn’t that the way.”

vs. 21: “I am being tried by you today for believing that the dead will rise to life.” 22. Then Felix, who was well informed about the Way, brought the hearing to a close. EQ.

These people did not yet know of dinosaurs or the age and size of the universe.

Instinct and Evolution were not ideas yet formed enough to be concepts.

The Way. May have been an attempt to understand exactly what we now understand as the way of life. Every living thing has instinct. Every living thing has gone through evolution. And most everything is still evolving.

And I am very certain that Jesus knew when he said he would be back, that he would be back. Not because he was the one true Son of God. Because, like Paul reminds us, ‘both the good and the bad, will rise from death.’ And as we evolve beyond dualist thinking, we will simply drop good and bad.

This understanding changes everything. Not only are we poisoning the planet for our children, and all the other creatures. Our children were our ancestors. Our descendents will be us. This may sound religious to many. It will, however, one day not in the distant future, be an understood fact.

“Do I know you from another life.”

“Well, unless you are from another solar system, we have bumped into one another a few times.”

Maybe a few million.

Over countless generations. Back to the ocean. Over 4 billion years sharing one planet. Sharing the same DNA and RNA. The same air. The same water.

Organisms trading and combining information, mostly biological. Chemical.

Until now. When we start to see it. And add a new kind of language. A new level of life form. The language of words. In our beginning were the words. Not the beginning of life, the beginning of the gods. And I pray to the fish that you do not believe it.

See it.

Sacrifice your TV and embrace your god. It is worth the shock. Hollywood is killing us. The universe awaits us.

Almost all of the universe is for us hell. Cold as hell, hot as hell. No air. Too much or not enough gravity. We cannot exist in hell. Only in paradise can we exist. Heaven is still a very small place.

We, the gods, can change that. We can create paradise environments throughout the universe.

And the only thing stopping us is our religious belief that we must do as we are told. Religion and tyranny is holding us back.

Just say no to belief.


acts chapters 25 - 27