Meta tags:

Headings (most frequently used words):

of, 2011, to, the, no, invisible, means, support, monday, may, 23, sunday, april, 10, followers, about, me, blog, archive, debunking, woo, text, thinkers, guide, fliers, offer, patrons, next, psychic, fair, advertising, truth, prophecy,

Text of the page (most frequently used words):
the (561), and (258), that (148), you (118), not (77), for (76), are (68), have (62), jesus (62), will (54), with (52), they (52), this (51), but (49), was (42), god (39), isaiah (39), your (38), who (36), his (34), there (33), has (32), from (31), about (29), one (29), people (27), been (26), can (26), him (26), which (26), may (25), shall (24), what (23), all (23), would (21), psalm (21), some (20), were (20), out (19), other (19), them (19), body (19), lord (19), any (18), because (18), when (18), our (18), does (18), their (18), john (17), make (17), such (17), most (16), many (16), israel (16), magnetic (16), things (15), also (15), more (14), how (14), evidence (14), life (14), testament (14), like (14), prophecy (14), used (14), servant (14), astrology (14), these (13), story (13), believe (13), new (13), old (13), into (13), psychic (13), prophecies (12), bible (12), after (12), had (12), david (12), skeptics (12), crystals (12), guide (11), read (11), time (11), person (11), why (11), context (11), matthew (11), verse (11), being (11), say (11), age (11), gospel (11), did (11), only (11), claims (11), hands (11), tarot (11), take (10), death (10), very (10), see (10), way (10), according (10), man (10), then (10), zechariah (10), earth (10), even (10), hand (10), perth (10), scientific (10), cards (10), reiki (10), reflexology (10), good (9), against (9), use (9), based (9), christians (9), claim (9), should (9), psalms (9), field (9), reading (9), feet (9), thinker (9), sense (8), told (8), first (8), since (8), telling (8), than (8), born (8), gospels (8), land (8), actually (8), book (8), birth (8), son (8), baptist (8), right (8), parables (8), could (8), jeremiah (8), children (8), healing (8), effect (8), share (7), christian (7), before (7), true (7), don (7), much (7), referred (7), though (7), virgin (7), sign (7), her (7), just (7), those (7), pierced (7), said (7), energy (7), cold (7), line (7), text (6), information (6), each (6), its (6), years (6), alleged (6), messiah (6), find (6), comes (6), bethlehem (6), neither (6), luke (6), give (6), messianic (6), another (6), while (6), still (6), through (6), called (6), jerusalem (6), donkey (6), passage (6), modern (6), crucifixion (6), upon (6), himself (6), buy (6), traditional (6), come (6), using (6), now (6), heart (6), january (6), paranormal (6), therapy (6), lines (6), hard (5), thinking (5), word (5), nothing (5), need (5), written (5), number (5), authors (5), important (5), says (5), belief (5), however (5), means (5), words (5), fit (5), fact (5), example (5), certain (5), king (5), never (5), ministry (5), ask (5), little (5), might (5), around (5), galilee (5), events (5), yet (5), mouth (5), alternative (5), broken (5), human (5), colt (5), peace (5), anything (5), close (5), potter (5), days (5), let (5), lot (5), died (5), grave (5), sin (5), remember (5), without (5), power (5), among (5), put (5), off (5), medical (5), treatment (5), sun (5), placebo (5), help (5), following (4), makes (4), scholars (4), statements (4), seen (4), know (4), think (4), really (4), understand (4), gospellers (4), made (4), hebrew (4), coming (4), ephratah (4), either (4), clear (4), ruler (4), seven (4), men (4), two (4), problem (4), taken (4), chapter (4), herod (4), jacob (4), mention (4), given (4), jews (4), cast (4), world (4), ever (4), again (4), asaph (4), utter (4), suffering (4), states (4), crushed (4), bones (4), sacrifice (4), between (4), nations (4), shepherd (4), almost (4), seeing (4), thirty (4), silver (4), money (4), found (4), already (4), metaphor (4), others (4), known (4), signs (4), future (4), righteous (4), bear (4), great (4), whom (4), mean (4), century (4), soul (4), turn (4), took (4), simple (4), http (4), set (4), price (4), every (4), idea (4), health (4), personality (4), she (4), guesses (4), got (4), next (4), something (4), special (4), powers (4), accurate (4), therapies (4), conventional (4), treatments (4), medicine (4), effects (4), palmistry (4), palms (4), support (4), terms (4), piezoelectric (4), training (4), 2011 (3), roz (3), followers (3), yourself (3), full (3), wrong (3), bad (3), science (3), contradictions (3), devil (3), away (3), otherwise (3), own (3), superstition (3), familiar (3), paul (3), where (3), added (3), refers (3), name (3), woman (3), father (3), chronicles (3), place (3), micah (3), genealogies (3), discussed (3), part (3), shepherds (3), sword (3), problems (3), necessarily (3), course (3), correct (3), times (3), different (3), mark (3), entire (3), must (3), therefore (3), verses (3), acts (3), perhaps (3), serious (3), question (3), centuries (3), clearly (3), mother (3), egypt (3), jewish (3), whose (3), meaning (3), messenger (3), speaks (3), bits (3), probably (3), prediction (3), begins (3), sound (3), angry (3), listen (3), open (3), hidden (3), here (3), past (3), popular (3), least (3), sets (3), point (3), under (3), assyrian (3), seems (3), places (3), matt (3), hit (3), knowledge (3), nature (3), trouble (3), anyone (3), dead (3), reference (3), pieces (3), isn (3), original (3), prophet (3), similar (3), house (3), try (3), surrounding (3), interpretation (3), songs (3), once (3), sake (3), apply (3), noah (3), worm (3), poetry (3), garments (3), allegedly (3), doesn (3), etc (3), deliver (3), same (3), several (3), none (3), understanding (3), wishful (3), including (3), decay (3), iniquity (3), back (3), active (3), play (3), over (3), pleasure (3), html (3), jonah (3), gave (3), fulfilled (3), unto (3), sea (3), having (3), thousands (3), offerings (3), chosen (3), moment (3), aura (3), photography (3), physical (3), electrical (3), air (3), objects (3), auras (3), psychics (3), able (3), analysis (3), technique (3), readings (3), done (3), astrologers (3), side (3), effective (3), scientifically (3), lead (3), form (3), type (3), fortune (3), positions (3), system (3), moon (3), influence (3), self (3), affect (3), planet (3), become (3), today (3), personal (3), ancient (3), indicates (3), emotional (3), crystal (3), balance (3), devices (3), deck (3), card (3), pain (3), test (3), improve (3), practitioner (3), reduce (3), stress (3), disease (3), asthma (3), april (2), debunking (2), woo (2), thinkers (2), fliers (2), view (2), pinterest (2), facebook (2), blogthis (2), email (2), posted (2), waste (2), advertising (2), further (2), listed (2), recent (2), debunked (2), explained (2), critically (2), cannot (2), simply (2), accept (2), inspired (2), matter (2), sure (2), feel (2), trying (2), guy (2), stories (2), interest (2), else (2), deserve (2), chance (2), existence (2), wonderful (2), helping (2), degree (2), costs (2), except (2), living (2), making (2), blunders (2), scripture (2), resemble (2), passages (2), websites (2), town (2), married (2), whether (2), note (2), left (2), mentioned (2), continues (2), goes (2), nimrod (2), eight (2), principal (2), young (2), early (2), bethulah (2), author (2), meant (2), writer (2), aware (2), immanuel (2), last (2), later (2), few (2), work (2), awful (2), supposed (2), ideas (2), nor (2), pay (2), rise (2), mere (2), faith (2), looking (2), child (2), judah (2), battle (2), fulfilment (2), slaughter (2), captivity (2), baby (2), flavius (2), josephus (2), historian (2), details (2), appears (2), link (2), real (2), prison (2), disciples (2), reason (2), whole (2), mostly (2), kings (2), personalities (2), surely (2), four (2), emphasis (2), entry (2), desert (2), tell (2), get (2), natural (2), quotation (2), hear (2), teaching (2), exactly (2), quite (2), comment (2), seem (2), passing (2), reasons (2), ways (2), gentiles (2), despite (2), interpreted (2), prophesy (2), sort (2), riding (2), animals (2), floor (2), relation (2), christianity (2), globe (2), ends (2), allow (2), struck (2), sheep (2), scatter (2), authority (2), figure (2), amount (2), common (2), someone (2), experiences (2), christ (2), return (2), priests (2), elders (2), throws (2), temple (2), refuse (2), pointing (2), commanded (2), tells (2), worth (2), noting (2), resemblance (2), prophesied (2), cross (2), suffer (2), generic (2), seed (2), explain (2), messages (2), characteristics (2), often (2), lots (2), dividing (2), forsaken (2), predicting (2), references (2), available (2), delivers (2), enemies (2), experience (2), instead (2), ambiguous (2), likely (2), surrounded (2), well (2), typically (2), day (2), usually (2), general (2), apologists (2), poetic (2), always (2), beyond (2), giving (2), vinegar (2), drink (2), gall (2), mentions (2), mourning (2), during (2), supposedly (2), war (2), relevance (2), sunday (2), nights (2), yes (2), look (2), abandon (2), imagery (2), forsake (2), concerning (2), transgression (2), committed (2), certainly (2), cause (2), large (2), came (2), learn (2), wonder (2), parts (2), showed (2), loved (2), evolved (2), scared (2), religious (2), com (2), articles (2), www (2), fish (2), three (2), firstborn (2), wicked (2), pleased (2), offering (2), offered (2), face (2), spoken (2), coins (2), ones (2), greatly (2), daughter (2), ten (2), offer (2), require (2), love (2), mercy (2), bring (2), burnt (2), fathers (2), die (2), considered (2), small (2), everlasting (2), sworn (2), nevertheless (2), light (2), voice (2), thus (2), weeping (2), within (2), glow (2), provide (2), kirlian (2), high (2), voltage (2), coloured (2), industry (2), images (2), moist (2), vary (2), present (2), testing (2), notion (2), claimed (2), manipulation (2), produce (2), presentation (2), feedback (2), respond (2), negatively (2), particularly (2), want (2), fishing (2), knows (2), forget (2), identify (2), readers (2), healers (2), reinforces (2), gift (2), answer (2), accurately (2), beliefs (2), happy (2), examined (2), harm (2), website (2), isabella (2), medication (2), parents (2), spent (2), best (2), improved (2), anecdotes (2), celestial (2), bodies (2), planets (2), solar (2), believed (2), survived (2), kind (2), horoscopes (2), map (2), zodiac (2), conditions (2), traits (2), major (2), influences (2), practiced (2), works (2), themselves (2), 15th (2), middle (2), ages (2), potential (2), palmist (2), various (2), head (2), wrinkles (2), created (2), womb (2), structure (2), background (2), google (2), imagine (2), eye (2), magical (2), mystical (2), protection (2), pressure (2), force (2), arcana (2), hermit (2), swords (2), enhance (2), encourages (2), lower (2), goals (2), suggest (2), relieve (2), foot (2), blood (2), flow (2), studies (2), fields (2), study (2), run (2), double (2), blind (2), product (2), tests (2), methods (2), centre (2), benefits (2), both (2), receive (2), attunement (2), master (2), concluded (2), condition (2), specific (2), areas (2), throughout (2), organs (2), loss (2), treating (2), brain (2), bronchial (2), invisible (2), awesome, inc, theme, powered, blogger, blog, archive, complete, profile, subscribe, posts, atom, home, comments, dear, earned, tithes, courage, convictions, investigate, newspaper, advertisement, history, regard, intelligent, reasonable, indisputably, gross, cite, instinct, challenged, lure, dramas, humans, started, satan, reaching, everyone, revel, reality, enjoy, finite, learning, growing, discovering, universe, reward, afraid, programmed, survive, fear, wasted, mythology, please, thing, supported, vested, appear, fulfil, doing, prefer, ignore, possible, embellished, invented, wrote, consider, convenient, misquoting, romans, brief, summary, end, document, clan, caleb, grandfather, qualify, list, ephrathah, wasn, recall, rampage, assyrians, firstly, mistranslation, almah, girls, secondly, nowhere, include, nativity, copied, loosely, mistakes, historical, genealogy, epistles, rejected, mythical, tales, circulating, included, timothy, apostle, advises, audience, instruct, teach, strange, doctrines, attention, myths, endless, speculation, rather, furthering, administration, seventh, becomes, ahaz, defeated, rezin, syria, pekah, late, prophetess, gives, maher, shalal, hash, baz, described, premonition, innocents, rachel, joseph, benjamin, wife, crying, sons, boys, carefully, recorded, atrocities, mass, killing, babies, random, intended, preceded, released, babylonian, writes, earliest, writings, letters, indication, hold, shows, explicitly, recognizing, depict, sending, unbiased, outlook, refer, grossly, lived, hundred, contained, wouldn, picked, writers, decided, portrayed, case, embellishing, scriptures, suspect, beginning, agree, circumstances, led, preaching, imprisoned, roaming, free, temptation, spoke, unchanging, omnipotent, stable, deity, saying, won, blame, disasters, wrath, starts, going, remainder, recounts, identity, notes, moralising, features, nation, occasions, stage, subjugated, addition, iniquities, texts, bruised, accepted, literally, disqualify, beloved, noted, rejects, atonement, ezekiel, deuteronomy, proverbs, premise, redemption, triumphal, reads, humorous, slip, offspring, rides, brought, placed, cloaks, sat, hope, tied, together, personage, serves, usher, dominate, plucked, era, thought, flat, impart, imaginative, minds, forsook, nomadic, israelites, leader, anytime, scandal, short, leadership, step, regroup, reorganize, incontrovertibly, beside, basic, sects, cults, operate, merely, account, closely, resembling, judas, remorse, condemnation, tries, storms, hang, afterwards, big, arises, delivered, attempted, resolve, error, speaker, payment, shekels, purchase, despair, wide, gaping, holes, bears, whatsoever, beaten, spat, unidentified, suffers, devotion, eventually, redeemed, judaism, believes, contemporary, ambiguity, tend, associate, vague, descriptions, gain, allowed, moses, abraham, amongst, biblical, euphemism, definitely, prolonged, somehow, tweak, far, fetched, ancients, ultimately, cryptic, calling, red, flag, declare, lowly, mocked, recognized, contains, casting, echoes, advance, numerous, persons, claiming, anyway, depending, translation, translated, lion, shriveled, thorough, examination, suffice, disputable, vestige, begin, couldn, retelling, happened, samuel, saved, saul, relate, depicts, struggling, reassuring, control, remain, faithful, perfectly, suitable, puzzling, speaking, attacking, lions, strong, bulls, bashan, unsurprising, poet, brings, prophetic, books, title, tehillim, reflects, praises, accompanied, finality, expressed, tense, phrases, pass, branch, root, jesse, kingdom, total, hosea, connected, predicted, preceding, explains, troubles, statement, communicate, demonstrable, connection, prevails, items, assumed, licence, roman, soldiers, sponge, soaked, feeding, piercing, seek, destroy, zech, individual, involve, obviously, happen, crucified, mourned, thunder, lightning, torn, curtain, graves, friday, rose, saturday, raised, fond, remarks, famed, 11th, rabbi, rashi, commentaries, confident, sent, tidings, sam, removed, expressing, thankfulness, offence, beats, imaginations, role, easy, accepting, flawed, gradually, realise, seriously, nice, comfortable, scary, horrendous, vindictive, spiteful, errors, presented, suddenly, absurdity, loving, condemning, eternity, torture, crime, better, rid, guilt, needs, wants, concentrate, goodness, fed, superstitious, bronze, nonsense, submission, social, creatures, code, ethical, moral, plenty, atheists, community, reach, puzzled, evaluate, yourselves, wish, wisdom, freedom, above, excellent, godlesshaven, prophecy_pg2, infidels, org, library, jim_lippard, fabulous, shaken, glad, tongue, rejoices, rest, secure, holy, path, fill, joy, presence, eternal, pleasures, provided, swallow, inside, pour, inhabitants, spirit, grace, supplication, mourn, mourns, grieve, bitterly, grieves, meat, thirst, protects, webspace, webring, paul_tobin, pierce, vesture, dogs, compassed, assembly, inclosed, scorned, despised, mock, hurl, insults, shaking, heads, trusts, rescue, delights, bruise, grief, prolong, prosper, beat, cheeks, pulled, beard, hide, mocking, spitting, forebear, weighed, goodly, prised, awake, declares, almighty, strike, scattered, chariots, ephraim, horses, bow, proclaim, rule, extend, river, rejoice, zion, shout, salvation, gentle, foal, rams, thousand, rivers, oil, fruit, act, justly, walk, humbly, weighs, acceptable, delight, desire, ears, sins, righteousness, wickedness, display, splendour, infirmities, carried, sorrows, stricken, smitten, afflicted, taught, crowd, creation, mercies, gather, anger, hid, kindness, redeemer, flood, waters, rebuke, gloom, distress, humbled, zebulun, naphtali, honour, along, jordan, walking, darkness, shadow, dawned, cried, wilderness, prepare, straight, highway, heard, ramah, lamentation, bitter, rahel, refused, comforted, behold, conceive, call, tread, palaces, raise, assyria, entrances, thereof, treads, borders, goings, forth, truth, emits, supernatural, captured, film, insights, mental, 1939, russian, technician, semyon, noticed, touched, source, darkened, room, photographic, paper, capture, phenomenon, ionised, circulates, subjected, low, current, colours, moisture, shown, disappear, vacuums, water, vapour, gained, popularity, devotees, equipment, 21st, allows, computer, image, involved, paying, consult, haven, gender, dress, ethnicity, manner, speech, overall, series, highly, probable, fishes, enables, miss, positively, move, response, reply, painful, reminded, expedition, target, flatter, opportunities, surrendered, advantage, flattering, sometimes, outgoing, alone, malicious, manipulators, graphologists, genuinely, amazed, subconscious, proof, visit, language, questions, reel, holding, believer, comfort, overwhelming, efficacy, collects, news, cases, ripped, financially, incorrect, hurtful, missing, delayed, avoided, favour, lists, denley, month, kew, victoria, diagnosed, epilepsy, prescribed, treat, consulted, iridologist, applied, kinesiologist, osteopath, treated, purely, homeopathic, vaccines, ineffective, harmful, religions, discourage, members, doctors, savings, gone, debt, tested, perfect, consensus, constantly, disregarding, basis, superstitions, tragedy, whatstheharm, net, theory, movements, stars, profoundly, psychological, ourselves, cosmos, millions, western, daily, newspapers, term, describe, position, changed, introduced, date, 11ad, ago, discovery, pluto, emphasize, importance, birthing, process, instantaneous, single, initial, subsequent, closest, object, occasional, comet, asteroid, planetary, distant, wiped, widely, defend, professional, behaviour, significantly, greater, satisfied, customers, horoscope, describes, astrologer, advice, prove, demonstrates, reject, confirms, generalised, practice, fortunes, marks, patterns, cultures, india, china, subject, appeared, detect, witches, spots, indicated, pact, handed, inherited, individuality, names, saturne, vitality, intellectual, capacity, developed, reflect, muscles, habitually, curl, fingers, although, examining, working, wealth, rings, contain, inherit, services, level, required, embryo, lies, thereby, formed, solidification, chemicals, regularly, repeating, internal, arrangement, atoms, molecules, bound, external, plane, faces, pleasing, long, jewellery, properties, electronics, optical, industries, technology, gems, desired, occultists, conduits, energies, useful, sellers, channel, ward, carry, vibrations, resonate, frequencies, chakras, yin, yang, emotions, expression, creativity, meditation, immune, unfortunately, backed, harness, direct, misunderstanding, curious, namely, charge, compressed, discovered, 1880, pierre, jacques, curie, technological, developments, occur, until, 1950s, record, player, needles, variety, measuring, nowadays, conceivable, application, requiring, measurement, recording, dynamic, changes, mechanical, variables, acceleration, protective, sell, neo, pagan, occultist, shops, wearing, feeling, pretty, traced, italy, trick, taking, game, triumphs, consists, pictures, fool, temperance, lovers, hanged, minor, lords, queens, ladies, knights, knaves, pages, servants, sticks, wands, cudgels, batons, cups, decks, cartomancy, meanings, figures, numbers, advocates, connections, cabala, ching, occult, notions, teller, instructions, discover, actualize, compelling, shuffling, putting, table, drawing, unknown, laid, strangers, clairvoyance, balls, paraphernalia, appearance, getting, delivery, follow, secret, ritual, operation, discourages, doubts, protests, reader, pump, cover, revealing, indicate, possibilities, fits, distracted, jargon, five, lesser, arcanum, traditionally, associated, challenge, struggle, affairs, intriguing, conjunction, spread, originally, triad, generally, regarded, indicating, solitude, accomplishment, suggesting, due, priority, romance, props, result, gifts, local, chemist, insoles, sale, neighbour, wears, bracelet, swears, cured, arthritis, internet, mattress, pads, dog, collars, knee, wraps, alleviation, insole, spend, greeks, promote, electromagnetic, alignment, iron, enough, fall, 300, million, year, america, compare, subjects, group, laboratory, assistants

Text of the page (random words):
d on the notion that each body part is represented on the hands and feet and that pressing on specific areas on the hands or feet can have therapeutic effects in other parts of the body similar rationales are used employed by iridologists who imagine that eye markings represent disease throughout the body and auricular acupuncturists who map body organs on the ear most reflexologists claim that their procedures can relieve stress which is probably correct with respect to everyday stress because the technique involves manipulation similar to massage but there is no evidence that reflexology relieves underlying emotional problems or that the pathways from feet to other areas of the body actually exist many proponents claim that foot reflexology can cleanse the body of toxins increase circulation assist in weight loss and improve the health of organs throughout the body others have reported success in treating earaches anaemia bedwetting bronchitis convulsions in an infant haemorrhoids hiccups deafness hair loss emphysema prostate trouble heart disease overactive thyroid gland kidney stones liver trouble rectal prolapse undescended testicles intestinal paralysis cataracts and hydrocephalus a condition in which an excess of fluid surrounding the brain can cause pressure that damages the brain some claim to balance energy and enhance healing elsewhere in the body one practitioner has even claimed to have lengthened a leg that was an inch shorter than the other there is no scientific support for these assertions one study examined the popular claim that reflexology treatment benefits bronchial asthma ten weeks of active or simulated placebo reflexology were compared in a controlled trial of 40 outpatients with asthma objective lung function tests peak flow morning and evening and weekly spirometry at the clinic did not change subjective scores describing symptoms beta2 inhalations and quality of life and also bronchial sensitivity to histamine improved on both regimens but no significant differences were found between groups receiving active or placebo reflexology the researchers concluded that they had found no evidence that reflexology has a specific effect on asthma beyond placebo influence claims that reflexology is effective for diagnosing or treating disease should be ignored such claims could lead to delay of necessary medical care or to unnecessary medical testing of people who are worried about reflexology findings perth skeptics posted by roz at 9 16 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday april 10 2011 advertising the truth of prophecy dear christian before you waste any more of your hard earned tithes on advertising have the courage of your convictions to read the following information if any of it makes any sense to you take time to investigate further each one of the prophecies listed in your recent newspaper advertisement has been debunked or explained by scholars of history and the bible if you regard yourself as an intelligent reasonable critically thinking person you cannot simply accept that the bible is the inspired word of god no matter who told you it is or how sure you feel the bible is full of indisputably wrong statements bad science and gross contradictions some of these can be seen in the prophecies you cite as evidence that the bible is true because i am an ex christian i know that your first instinct when you are challenged is to think that the devil is trying to lure you away from jesus there is a good guy and a bad guy in most dramas and has been since humans first started telling stories otherwise there s no story i don t believe in satan any more than i believe in god my interest in reaching out to you is because you and everyone else deserve a chance to revel in reality and to enjoy our finite existence in learning growing and discovering our wonderful universe as it really is and helping each other because that is what we were born to do and because it is its own reward i understand that you are afraid of death we all are to some degree we are programmed to survive at all costs but there is nothing to fear except living a life wasted on superstition and mythology so please read on the first thing you need to know is that the gospels were written many years after the alleged death of jesus i am not making this up it is supported by evidence the gospellers had a vested interest in making the new testament appear to fulfil the old and in doing so made a number of blunders the new testament authors were very familiar with hebrew scripture you may prefer to ignore it but it is possible that the authors of the new testament simply embellished or invented what they wrote of jesus to resemble old testament passages consider the convenient misquoting of passages like isaiah 28 16 by paul in romans 10 11 where in him is added the following is a brief summary of how and why the old testament prophecies of the coming of jesus the messiah have been debunked you can find much more information at the websites listed at the end of this document from which much of this text comes micah 5 2 but you bethlehem ephratah though you are little among the thousands of judah yet out of you shall come to me that is to be ruler in israel whose goings forth have been from of old from everlasting some scholars believe that bethlehem ephratah refers not to a town but to a clan ephratah was the name of a woman who married caleb who was either the father or grandfather of bethlehem see 1 chronicles 2 50 52 and 1 chronicles 4 4 in this context it is not clear whether bethlehem referred to is a person or place or one of each note matthew left out the word ephratah in his telling of the story if the bethlehem referred to in micah is a person jesus does not qualify to be the ruler mentioned since neither of his alleged genealogies list either bethlehem or ephrathah it s not important though as verse 3 says the person being discussed will be a ruler in israel jesus wasn t and has not been ruler in israel and the text continues and this man shall be the peace when the assyrian shall come into our land and when he shall tread in our palaces then shall we raise against him seven shepherds and eight principal men and they shall waste the land of assyria with the sword and the land of nimrod in the entrances thereof thus shall he deliver us from the assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our borders do you recall any part of the bible in which jesus goes on a rampage against the assyrians and the land of nimrod with seven shepherds eight principal men and a sword neither do i isaiah 7 14 therefore the lord himself shall give you a sign behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name immanuel some say that this verse is a prophecy of jesus being born to a virgin there are problems with this belief however firstly virgin in this verse is a mistranslation of the hebrew word almah which actually means young woman a young woman is not necessarily a virgin and of course in the time of isaiah girls were married at an early age bethulah would have been the correct word to use if the author meant virgin bethulah is used a number of times in isaiah so the writer was aware of the two different words secondly nowhere in the new testament is jesus referred to as immanuel the book of mark the first gospel written does not include the story of the virgin birth neither does the gospel of john the last gospel written the entire nativity must therefore have been added later by matthew and copied by luke and based loosely on a few old testament verses the problem is that in trying to make the prophecies fit and the genealogies work the gospellers some awful mistakes of historical fact and some blunders with the supposed genealogy of jesus you may not be aware that the gospels and acts were written after the epistles there is evidence that early christians rejected mythical tales that may have been circulating of the virgin birth ideas that perhaps matthew and luke included in their gospels for example in 1 timothy 1 3 4 the writer who may or may not be the apostle paul advises that his audience to instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies which give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of god which is by faith but the most serious problem with this alleged messianic prophecy is that it has been taken out of context looking at the entire seventh chapter of isaiah it becomes clear that the child in question is to be born as a sign to ahaz king of judah that he will not be defeated in battle by rezin king of syria and pekah son of the king of israel jesus s birth was some seven centuries late to be such a sign in isaiah 8 3 4 a prophetess gives birth to a son maher shalal hash baz who is clearly described as the fulfilment of the prophecy in isaiah 7 14 jeremiah 31 15 thus said the lord a voice was heard in ramah lamentation and bitter weeping rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children because they were not this is supposed to be a premonition of the slaughter of the innocents by herod when jesus is born in context it refers to rachel the mother of joseph and benjamin and wife of jacob crying for her sons who were taken to captivity in egypt there is no evidence for the story of herod s slaughter of baby boys flavius josephus a jewish historian who carefully recorded the details of herod s atrocities does not mention any mass killing of babies matthew in whose gospel this appears has taken a random old testament verse and given it meaning it was never intended to have isaiah 40 3 5 the voice of him that cried in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the lord make straight in the desert a highway for our god alleged prophecies about jesus life and ministry claim that he would be preceded by a messenger john the baptist but isaiah 10 3 5 speaks not of a messenger for the messiah but of the jews being released from the babylonian captivity and did john the baptist actually clear the way as a messenger for jesus the historian flavius josephus writes about john the baptist but makes no link of his name with that of jesus the earliest of christian writings the letters of paul make no mention of john the baptist the gospels and the book of acts written by the author of luke are the only real indication of a link but the gospel evidence does not hold up the gospel of john shows john the baptist explicitly recognizing jesus as the messiah john 1 25 34 before being cast into prison by herod john 3 23 24 but the gospels of matthew 11 2 3 and luke 7 18 22 depict john the baptist in prison sending his disciples to jesus to ask if he claims to be the messiah if the story in john were true john the baptist would have had no reason to ask this question isaiah 9 1 2 nevertheless there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress in the past he humbled the land of zebulun and the land of naphtali but in the future he will honour galilee of the gentiles by the way of the sea along the jordan the people walking in darkness have seen a great light on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned if you read the book of isaiah with an unbiased outlook you would see that to believe little bits of it might refer to jesus is to take things grossly out of context as a whole it is mostly about the kings and other personalities who lived in isaiah s time around seven hundred years before the alleged birth of jesus if you had never been told that isaiah contained prophecies about the messiah you probably wouldn t have picked it them as prophecies it is because the gospel writers decided that they were prophecies that you have also been told they are isaiah 9 1 2 which we have just read is portrayed by the gospellers as a prediction on jesus ministry in galilee this is surely another case of the gospel authors embellishing events to resemble scriptures they would have been familiar with we can suspect this by looking at the four gospels they all place emphasis on jesus beginning his ministry in galilee but not all of them agree on the circumstances that led him there according to mark 1 14 15 and matthew 4 12 17 jesus begins preaching in galilee after john the baptist is imprisoned according to john jesus begins his ministry while john is still roaming free 3 22 30 according to luke jesus entry into ministry at galilee has nothing to do with john but comes right after his temptation in the desert 4 13 15 and if you believe that god spoke through isaiah to tell the world of the coming of jesus what do you make of this for a small moment have i forsaken you but with great mercies i will gather you in a little anger i hid my face for a moment but with everlasting kindness i will have mercy on you says the lord your redeemer for this is like the flood of noah to me for as i have sworn that the waters of noah should no more go over the earth so i have i sworn that i would not be angry with you or rebuke you isaiah 54 7 9 does that sound like an unchanging omnipotent stable deity to you this is god saying he won t get angry ever again yet some christians still blame natural disasters on the wrath of god psalm 78 2 o my people hear my teaching listen to the words of my mouth i will open my mouth in parables i will utter hidden things things from of old after matthew mentions that jesus taught the crowd with parables matthew 13 34 we read so was fulfilled what was spoken through the prophet i will open my mouth in parables i will utter things hidden since the creation of the world 13 35 was this really a fulfilled prophecy the quotation comes from a psalm of asaph which starts out o my people hear my teaching listen to the words of my mouth i will open my mouth in parables i will utter hidden things things from of old here asaph claims that he is going to utter parables and those parables are exactly what we find in the remainder of this very psalm as asaph recounts story after story about israel s past 78 5 72 asaph s identity is not certain but he may be the man referred to in 1 chronicles 6 39 from the context then it is quite clear that the comment in question psalm 78 2 was not a prophecy of jesus telling parables it is also notes that parables seem to have been a popular way of moralising and passing on stories in bible times isaiah 53 4 5 surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows yet we considered him stricken by god smitten by him and afflicted the suffering servant that features in isaiah 53 is not jesus but the nation of israel there are many reasons why this is so not the least because the servant is referred to as israel on a number of occasions in isaiah but you oh israel my servant isaiah 41 8 but now listen o jacob my servant israel whom i have chosen isaiah 44 1 remember these things o jacob for you are my servant o isr...