Who was the Real Author of the Old Testament?
The reason we started with Paul is that the Pauline Epistles were actually taken from Persian manuscripts, and Zoroaster was a Persian member of the court of King Cyrus known as Aronamar. While most readers might believe that the Old Testament dates back to the time of Moses, this is not the case. The Old Testament was written after the Babylonian exilic period by Ezra at the insistence of first King Cyrus and some twenty years later King Artaxerxes.

If you ask a conservative Christian scholar who wrote the Bible, they will be quick to tell you that Moses wrote the first five books, the Book of Joshua was written by Joshua, Isaiah was written by Isaiah and so forth all the way up through the New Testament with Matthew having written the Gospel of Matthew and Luke the Gospel of Luke. However, we know that this is not true. In fact it is a very good possibility that none of these people credited with having written the Bible ever existed that is of course with the exception of Ezra. So, we have religious leaders telling us that Moses wrote the Torah, and Ezra telling us that he wrote the Torah. What we will show you is that, not only did Moses not write the Torah, but almost all of these manuscripts were adopted from other cultures.

It is commonly believed that the Book of Isaiah was written between 701 and 681 BCE. If that is true then how can you explain the following: "That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid."--Isaiah 44:28. "Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;"--Isaiah 45:1. Cyrus the Great ruled the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire from 549-530 BCE. How could Isaiah have known about Cyrus the Great c 150 years before his reign in Persia? Of course according to Christian conservative scholars this would be just another Jesus miracle since we know that Isaiah was a prophet, but we know that this is quite simply Bible fraud. To cover up this inconsistency modern day scholars believe there was more than just one Isaiah or at least people writing under the name Isaiah. However, it is far more likely that the whole of Isaiah was written by Ezra during the sixth century BCE rather than by an Isaiah in the seventh century BCE.

"Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up."--2Chronicles 36:23. It was the Persian King Cyrus, a follower of Ahura Mazda, who charged the Jews to build the Temple in Jerusalem, not Moses or some follower of Yahweh.

Before we continue it is important to know that Ezra was an exiled Jew whose family had remained in Babylon after the restoration. He wrote the Old Testament some 100 years after most of the Jews had left Babylon. So, he did not have a vast array of other Jews with whom to consult. While most Judeo/Christian leaders try to minimize the influence of Ezra it is quite clear from the following quotes that Ezra was responsible for writing the major portion of the Old Testament up through the time in which he lived.

"For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments."--Ezra 7:10

"Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel. Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time. I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee. Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;"--Ezra 7:11-14. In other words it was the King of Persia Artaxerxes who was responsible for Ezra writing the Old Testament according to the laws of his, Ezra's God. This is divine inspiration only if you believe that the pagan King Artaxerxes is God.

"But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us."--Ezra 4:3 "And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,"--Ezra 7:21 "And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not. And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment."--Ezra 7:25

The following which precedes the Babylonian exile demonstrates the state of Israel's lack of biblical adherence to the Law of Moses during the pre-exilic period: "And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it."--2Kings 22:8.

"And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes."--2Kings 22:11.

"Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us."--2Kings 22:13. It seems that the Jews of the pre-exilic era had no idea about the so-called ancient writings of Moses.

"Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD."--Lamentations 2:9. While I'm quite certain that Jeremiah is talking about the fall of Jerusalem, I am not as certain as to exactly what law he is talking about. According to Ezra there was no house of the Lord in Judah and there was no law of God. All of this takes place immediately before the Babylonian exile.

This stands in stark contrast to what the priests have told you. According to their tradition Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. "So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day."--Deuteronomy 34:5, 6. How could Moses have written the first five books of the Bible when the final books were written after his death?

"Moses was only a combination of two names, Moab and Sesostris; Mo meaning the man, and ab meaning the father, or Moab the father man ; and the other, Sesostris, a king of a people, known in ancient times as Sethites. This seems to have been the derivation of the name Moses."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Frederich Heinrich Wilhelm Cesenius, A German Orientalist.

Ezra grew up in Babylon and if he were religious his god would have been Ahura Mazda. Babylon is today located in Iraq, but in those days it was a part of Babylonia which was the successor to Assyria. This was during the reign of Cyrus the Great of Persia and his court adviser Aronomar who according to his testimony was none other than Zoroaster.

"The Hebrew language is nothing more than the ancient Chaldean tongue....The proof of this may be had by a comparison of Chaldean and Hebrew alphabets;"--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Frederich Heinrich Wilhelm Cesenius, A German Orientalist.

"The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?"--Jeremiah 5:31. The Prophet Jeremiah, the immediate predecessor to the Babylonian exile, refers to the prophets as phonies and says that the priests preach this nonsense, because it is not seen as threatening to the establishment.

"Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears."--Jeremiah 26:11. Here Jeremiah is condemned by the priests for warning the Jews that the city of Jerusalem will fall to the Babylonians which actually happened.

"And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart."--Jeremiah 7:31. Here Jeremiah refers to the priests demanding the sacrifice of the first born.

"To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats."--Isaiah 1:11. This is the Jewish religion that Christians consider to be civilized. The animals mentioned in the Bible represent the thoughts raised in the left hemisphere of the brain by your animal nature, and do not mean real farm animals.

In other words, Moses, Jesus Christ, and the Jewish and Christian religions are all a product of the Persian god Ahura Mazda, and Zoroaster. Of course, today Christians treat the religious people of these ancient lands as infidels. So, this is why we start with the Apostle Paul who was instrumental in unveiling some of the true meanings of these biblical tales.

Ezra borrowed his writings from the Armenians, the Babylonians and the Chaldeans: "...the Jews were the lowest heathens of my time on earth. They worshipped everything they felt like worshipping."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', Testimony of Vespasian. "The Jews were at that time engaged in all kinds of spiritual forgeries"--Ibid, Testimony of Procurator Felix.

"...the real Jewish records before the time of Ezra the scribe, are all plagiarized from sacred Armenian writings. The whole of the Pentateuch really belongs to the time of an Armenian king."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Rabba Joseph or Joseph the Blind.

"...what they called their Old Testament belonged to myself and people. It is Armenian and not Jewish; and its historical characters are all nothing more than altered names and accounts of Armenian kings and heroes...."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Haico, the Great Armenian King. Armenia and Azerbaijan are just north of Iran which of course is just east of Iraq. Ancient Chaldea included the ancient Iraqi Empires as well as the adjacent Hittite Empire to the north.

"Almost the whole of the books that make up what is called the Bible, or the ancient Jewish history, is taken from the writings of the elder Zoroaster,..."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Jacob Joseph Von Gorres.

"[T]he history of the Jews, as recorded by Ezra, consisted of the mixed traditions of the Chaldeans and Armenians, which the Jews became acquainted with at the time of their captivity...the father of the Jews, Abraham or Abrahm, was a Chaldean and not a Jew."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Gabinius, the Roman Governor of Syria of which Judea was a part, c 55 BCE.

"...there was no learned Jew of my time who did not know that our religion, as founded upon the Old Testament, antedated my time by only about four hundred and thirty-two years; and to disguise that fact we resorted to all kinds of chronological forgeries."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Rabbi Akiba, late first early second century rabbi.

"The legends and traditions of the Jewish people extend no farther than Ezra the Scribe."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Jonathan Ben Uzziel, one of the writers of the Targums, and a contemporary of Jesus Christ. "The marginal notes upon all the ancient manuscripts went positively to show that the whole of Jewish history was stolen bodily from Chaldean history during the Babylonian captivity; and this is proven by the nativity of their great ancestor Abraham."--Ibid.

"...the most, if not all, of the Jewish legends are borrowed allegorical recitals taken from the Persian and Egyptian mythologies."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Rufus Quintius Curtius was a Roman historian who knew Apollonius, and saw Flavius Josephus at Rome during the reign of Trajan.

"Brahm, Ibraham, and the precepts of Hermes Trismegistus were used in my day to lay the foundation of what is now termed Christianity."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Marcellinus, Bishop of Rome c 296 CE.

"The Hebrew book, called the 'Book of Daniel' contains the account of the actual earthly experiences of Zoroaster at the court of Nebuchadnezzar."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Zoroaster.

"And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees."--Genesis 11:28. "Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot."--Genesis 11:27. As you can see most of these early biblical narratives took place in the Chaldees, and not in Israel. So, is it a stretch to believe that all of the Bible up until Ezra came from manuscripts originally written by the Chaldeans?

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