steve howard's version of the new testament
BARBARALBA BIBLE

THE NEW NEW TESTAMENT

The Letter From PETER

 

chapter 01

Peter tells us Jesus is the answer.

“What was the question.”

“Who the fuck is going to end the power of religion and give it back to life. The here and now.”

vs. 5: revealed at the end of time. EQ.

This doesn’t work. Time and space are not two separate things. And for the revealing of things, space-time is a very good thing to have.

But that is physics and we’ll get to that when we have left the hotel of belief.

On the other fin, we have to look at the possibility that the writers, since they were basing the story on astrology, were aware that the time of tyranny might just come to an end at the end of the fish house. The dark ages. Yes, houses and signs are just words and symbols to describe large cosmic events. How cosmic events affect us is still mostly unknown. But that we are in the cosmos and that we are of the cosmos is clear. And that the Jesus Christ, the sun, was going to leave one house and move into the next about 2000 years after the story of Jesus, that was known. And we can already see that something about moving out of the one house into the next is real. And the times are no longer ending but beginning.

vs. 7: ...Then you will receive praise and glory and honour on the Day when Jesus Christ is revealed. EQ.

The biggest trouble with religion is that, even when it says it is abandoning the rules of the creeds of the religion before it, it is a creed very similar. Jesus Christ has become an icon. Christians follow a creed and ignore the idea of Jesus Christ.

“What was the idea of Jesus Christ.”

“That we are here now and here is heaven. The heavens. This is not a dress rehearsal for a different heaven. We are given religions so that we will follow rules instead of being like Jesus. The idea of Jesus was not to follow Jesus. It is not to wonder about a man nailed to a cross. He did not request the forming of a religion or the building of churches or the making of new rules to replace the old rules that he fought against. He was a man, a bastard son, who rejected the authority of priests and lawyers. It is madness to make a creed based on his teaching.”

“Do we know any of his teaching.”

“Even if he is just a character in a story based on astrological speculation, his character tries to teach us to take the heaven that is at hand.”

vs. 12: ... These are things which even the angels would like to understand. EQ.

Well, the angel is you, and understanding is a life long process. Stay a student. Wake up a little every day.

Work less for the man. Buy less shit. Sing and play more.

vs. 14: Be obedient to God, and do not allow your lives to be shaped by those desires you had when you were still ignorant. EQ.

Do not be obedient to priests and lawyers. And follow nothing by your common sense. Billions of years of instinct to come to common sense. Don’t waist it by doing what you are told by liars in clown suits with their ancient creeds.

Television watchers and shit hoarders. Awaken. You cannot buy heaven, you have to participate in the here and now to be in it.

Let’s back up to Moses again. Assume the story was based on a real character. He was often talking to the Lord. No one could see the Lord and Moses couldn’t either. The Lord was God and God was the Lord. The story played out in the head of Moses. It is the same condition that lands many people in hospitals. One part of your brain seems to be telling another part of your brain what to do. Super ego. Moses was simply, like many dictators are, mad.

And it is a madness with which we all must deal. There are always discussions in our heads.

“No there isn’t.”

“Yes there is. The brain is a small universe. And there is much in it.”

vs. 19: it was the costly sacrifice of Christ, who was a lamb without defect or flaw. EQ.

That misses the point, Pete. Jesus Christ was just a man. And he was not without defect of flaw. He was brutally honest. And he made a very public stand against the perpetrators of the lie. He was not a lamb. He may have been gentle like a bunny but he was very much an angry wolf. And the significance of the man nailed to a cross is blown way out of proportion. What matters is what he said and did, not how he died. Getting nailed to a cross during Roman occupation was no great trick.


chapter 02

Anyone can be Christ.

Vs. 1: Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language. EQ.

This isn’t bad advice. It is mentally crippling to be small minded and myopic and that is what lying, hypocrisy, jealousy and insult is all about. This doesn’t mean not to get pissed off on occasion. Stand up for your rights.

“It does so.”

“Well, it shouldn’t.”

This religious stuff is trying to teach stupid people how to be civilized. Obedient. It could be seen as a steppingstone. Learn the ideas, reject them and move on. Don’t let a set of rules tell you how to be.

Vs. 4: Come to the Lord, the living stone rejected by man as worthless but chosen by God as valuable. EQ.

Let us read into this a little. The Lord we will say is the Lord of common sense.

“How about common sense is the Goddess of instinct.”

“Even better.”

And Jesus was rejected because he fought the system and the system slaughters anyone who rejects it. So, driven by fear, and manipulated by bullshit creeds, the idea of Jesus was rejected.

And as for the living stone. Though it is hardly what Peter meant, we are living stone. We have jumped up out of the earth. It was a long slow process, the step from inert to self-sustaining reproducing creatures, from our point of view. From the point of view of a universe, it was relatively quick.

vs. 9: But you are the chosen race, the King’s priests, the holy nation, God’s own people... EQ.

Bull Shit. There is no such thing as a chosen race and Christians were converts, not a race. And the same with Jews. Life on earth was 4 billion years in the making before anyone was called a Jew. A random definition in the middle of any time.

Vs. 11: I appeal to you, my friends, as strangers and refugees in this world! Do not give into bodily passions, which are always at war against the soul. EQ.

Body and soul are not two different things. Like space-time. The body is the manifestation of matter. Matter is energy. The soul is something that is life. It happens, if it can be defined as real, where there is a body. It is simply nonsense to reject the nature of what we are. Passion is a beautiful thing. Sex can be a grand event. Any kind of touch. It makes it clear that we are here and now. That is a good thing. So don’t let any one tell you the body is not good.

vs. 13: For the sake of the Lord submit to every human authority; to the Emperor, who is the supreme authority, 14. and to the governors, who have been appointed by him to punish the evildoers and to praise those who do good. EQ.

There are still people who believe there is a God that appoints the leaders to be leaders.

Vs. 17: Respect everyone, love your fellow-believers, honour God, and respect the Emperor. EQ.

These verses are written because religion is the marketing of authority. It is a lie. The Emperor is not holy. Often the Emperor is a prick. A murdering tyrant. So wake up. We have been royally fucked over and pretending that the Emperor, or whatever title the pricks give themselves, is nice and looking out for our best interest is myopic ignorance.

“Airplanes, if there really were any, do not bring down steel frame buildings in free fall simulating a perfectly well planned and executed demolition. You have been lied to. Understand it and do something about it.”

Vs. 22: He committed no sin, and no one ever heard a lie come from his lips. EQ.

Jesus was sinless in as much as there is no such thing. But that isn’t the idea Peter, and other writers and preachers want to sell. The idea they want to sell is that he was not a normal man. Or woman. They don’t want anyone to get the idea that anyone can be Christ.

“Why.”

“For the holy leaders would be seen for what they are. A pack of bullshit artists.”

“You wouldn’t be lying to us about this.”

“I am not licensed to lie.”


chapter 03

Peter need not write. He’s too Jewish for a Christian.

“What’s the difference.”

“Fuck. Don’t ask me.”

Vs. 1: … It will not be necessary for you to say a word, 2. because they will see how pure and reverent your conduct it. EQ.

After Peter tells wives to keep their mouth shut, like Paul does, the opposite of Jesus, he reminds them not to do anything with their hair or wear jewellery or wear fancy dresses. Submit to your husbands.

vs. 6: Sarah was like that; she obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are now her daughters if you do good and are not afraid of anything. EQ.

Children. Wake up. Sarah was whored out by Ab to a king for goats, sheep and silver. And latter she was whored out again and had the Lord’s kid. She was what all women were and are under monotheistic patriarchy, slaves to men.

Ab was a pimp.

vs. 7: … they are the weaker sex. EQ.

Gideon says ‘vessel’ instead of ‘sex’. Why any woman would accept Judaism, Christianity or Islam is a mystery. It is holy woman and children hatred. All three basically the same. The holy trinity of tyranny.

Brutal propaganda. Religion was our first mass media. And mass media has not improved much over the years of tyranny. The biggest news channels are owned by the biggest lying pricks. Kill your television. Do not submit to your husbands. If your husband is not content to be your equal, leave him. If he beats you and won’t let you go, kill him.

“You can’t say that.”

“I can if I’m sick and tired of the planet killing Men’s Club. Fucking cock worshippers.”

There is a vagina as well. And the rest of life.

Ignorance is suicidal.


peter chapters 04 - 05