Was There Really a Moses?
According to experts, in the field, the Moses birth narrative was lifted from the Sumerian King Sargon of Akkad. "In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;"--Isaiah 20:1. Tablets with fragments of a Sargon Birth Legend were found in the Library of Ashurbanipal. "And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink."--Exodus 2:3. This is the cuneiform inscription known as The Legend of Sargon, he was born the illegitimate son of a changeling. His mother could not reveal her pregnancy or keep the child, and so she placed him in a basket which she then let go on the Euphrates River. She had sealed the basket with tar,... As you can see this is the same story. So, how could Moses have written the Torah when it is all too likely that he never existed? "No archaeological evidence has been found to support the exodus story, and this, plus problems with the biblical texts, has led most modern scholars to omit it from their histories of Israel."--Meyers, 2005, pp 5, 6. The Egyptians, who had no reason not to mention the Israeli bondage, never make mention of it in any of their writings, and their manuscripts were written in stone. "The Book of Genesis and Book of Exodus describe a period of Hebrew servitude in ancient Egypt, during decades of sojourn in Egypt, the escape of well over a million Israelites from the Delta, and the three-month journey through the wilderness to Sinai."--James Weinstein, 'Exodus and the Archaeological Reality'. "The historical evidence does not support this account."--Moore, Megan Bishop, Kelle, Brad E., 'Biblical History and Israel's Past.'

"Upon my advent into spirit life, I became very anxious to seek out Moses, but with the very worst of results. I found that the ancient Chaldeans, under the name of Seth, and the Moabites, under the name of Mo, were the people from whom we Jews had been receiving our traditions and worshipping the hero of them, under the name of a prophet who never existed."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Rabbi Akiba.

"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. Ezra claims that he has prepared himself to write the law of God, but as you can see it is more likely that he copied what he found in Babylon changing some of the names to correspond with Jewish and not Chaldean characters. This takes us back to the New Testament. The New Testament is arranged in a manner to give the impression that the gospels are an historical account of the life and death of Jesus Christ. They are then followed by Acts, the Epistles of Paul, and other epistles which are intended to lend credence to the gospels stories. Arranging it this way gives the reader the impression that these scriptures were written in this order, but they were not. The Epistles of Paul were written at least twenty years before the gospels which were written somewhere between 70 CE and possibly as late as 165 CE. In his epistles the Apostle Paul mentions Jesus Christ numerous times, but it is highly likely that Paul only mentioned Christ, and that Jesus was added at a later date. In other words when Paul first wrote his epistles he was talking about the Christ in himself, and not some religious super hero. After the gospels were written the fledgling Catholic Church realized that they needed a real live Jesus on whom to base their story. So, they searched the history books and came up with Yeshai beth Halachmee who was the son of Judas of Gamla, and the twin brother of Judas of Galiliee. They then went through the trouble of obscuring that fact, and placed the story of Jesus during the early 30s, but Jesus beth Halachmee actually dated somewhat further back than that. When they say that Jesus was born during the census that is accurate, but it was not the census of Quirinius, but that of Augustus c 28 BCE.

A careful reading of the epistles of Paul, which were written some twenty years before the gospels, reveal that Paul or Apollonius of Tyana was the person actually crucified. Now, Paul is often equated with Simon the Magician, and according to Barbara Thiering the person at the center of the crucifixion story was Simon not Jesus. It is likely that Yeshai beth Halachmee fled Palestine c 6 CE for England, and there exist numerous reports of his having lived in the Glastonbury region of England. Did Paul come to Palestine claiming to be Jesus Christ? I think not. Jesus Christ is only remembered because of his ministry and execution, and therefore no one would have known or cared who he was. It is far more likely that Apollonius was the person who was believed to be the Christ, but the early Church fathers, and Romans did not much care for him so they invented Jesus Christ during the second century. All you have to do to verify this is to read the scriptures. I covered this extensively in my earlier book.

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