{"product_id":"jehovah-unmasked-9781411651470","title":"Jehovah Unmasked!","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEWLY REVISED  REWRITTEN  AND EXPANDED with TWO ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS. This NEW EDITION contains a plethora of fresh material woven into the text in response to reviewers  readers  critics  friends and foes alike! JEHOVAH UNMASKED is now more hard-hitting  controversial  and informative than ever! ACHARYA S  best-selling author of THE CHRIST CONSPIRACY and SUNS OF GOD highly recommends JEHOVAH UNMASKED: \"Rev. Merritt illustrates a powerful personal journey that many people can relate to but may not yet have made themselves. Like our individualized personalities  our conclusions to cosmic conundrums may be different. Nevertheless  JEHOVAH UNMASKED represents another nail in the biblical coffin that contains a mummified and rotten god belonging to the violent barbarians and troglodytes of the Stone Age.\" Acharya S  Archaeologist  Historian  Mythologist  Linguist  Member of The American School of Classical Studies at Athens Greece. From LIVING TRADITIONS magazine  5-13-2007: Jehovah Unmasked is a controversial and confronting book; it will shock many Christians who are used to accepting their faith without question. The author is someone who has been seeking for a long time. After a lifetime of searching  with his youth in the \"Jehovahs Witnesses\"  fifteen years as a Baptist minister and time as a Buddhist  he returned to the Bible once and for all to really see what was \"going on\". What he discovered was a revelation  a Gnostic Revelation. The view Merritt presents  will  at first  seem alien to most Christians and may even infuriate many readers and yet it was a view held by many early Christians. While modern \"fundamentalist and evangelical\" authors like to portray Gnosticism as a Christian heresy  the evidence now available is quite the reverse. The early Christian faith including a diversity of opinions and Gnosticism was a normal segment of that continuum; it was only with the ascendancy of the \"Catholic Church\" as a power structure that Gnosticism (and other alternatives) were suppressed. Merritt offers us an excellent introduction to Christian origins and shows  quite conclusively I think  that the development of the Bible was manipulated and controlled by the various Church councils. It did not evolve under the inspiration of the \"Holy Spirit\" but was developed  censored and edited to fit the political agenda of a developing power structure. But there was more than power in the mix here. Merritt explores Gnosticism and comes to the conclusion that the being known as Jehovah rather than being the father of Jesus and the God of mankind is actually a violent demi-god  in the terms of Gnosticism  the Demiurge. Matter like spirit is eternal and Jehovah is one of many demi gods (Aeons) who on the lower rung of spiritual hierarchy  he manipulated mans creation and hence was the \"creator of mans body\"  but it was the forces of light which breathed life into man. This conflict between the lord of matter and the true Lord of Spirit is central to the Gnostic vision. As outlined in various Gnostic scriptures Jehovah became too big for his boots and tried to claim the whole of creation for himself  hence his rather insane ravings in the Old Testament and  sadly  the evolution of Judaism and Christianity. Like many dualist Gnostics Merritt sees Jehovah as Samael or Satan  the Lord of this World and hence Jehovah and the Elohim (the Aeons) are in direct opposition to the Kingdom of Light from which Jesus emanated. The Elohim or Aeons do not offer man liberation  indeed as we read the Old Testament we find a harrowing account of the violence inflicted on and encouraged by Jehovah. Merritt does not just expound his views without sources; he offers his vast Biblical knowledge to show from BIBLICAL sources- the evidence for his thesis. He proves from the Bible itself that Jehovah is not the true God of Light and indeed is a rather violent if not insane demi-god. He also explores reincarnation in the Bible  the nature of Gnosticism and his vision of real spirituality. This is a challenging read which offers an impeccably researched and extremely well documented alternative view to mainstream Christianity. It is an important read for those who see the violence the worlds fundamentalists have caused and wonder if this was really what Jesus intended and if there is another way to understand the Christian message.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924752531509,"sku":"ByrdShop_1411651472","price":346.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781411651470.jpg?v=1794140320","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/jehovah-unmasked-9781411651470","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}