The Spirit of Truth
(1998)
What is the 'Spirit of Truth' or who is it?
Who is this 'Paraclete' character John refers to in his Gospel who is to come? It isn't the return of Jesus because John tells us Jesus says "another paraclete" will come to help his disciples which means Jesus is the first paraclete. In the Mystery of Jesus chapter I show that the New Testament Jesus is himself a spiritual being so we have a spiritual being, Jesus Christ, carrying the Spirit of Truth.
Several prophets after Jesus have claimed they were the prophesized Paraclete. The founder of Manichanism, Mani, claimed he was the Paraclete and so did Muhammad. But the Paraclete is identified in the New Testament as a Spirit and not a man, a Spirit that is capable of being with believers 'forever'.
This means both Mani and Muhammad were taking liberties with Christian texts and prophesies in order to make these prophesies 'fit' themselves. Neither one was a spiritual being, only men with great ambitions. Certainly, neither one told the truth which should have raised some doubts in their followers. But blind faith is blind faith, and even today Muslims are still very much convinced of Muhammad's role as Paraclete. It would seem telling the truth is not really an issue for Muhammad or his followers.
You cannot tell lies or believe lies, or be stupid and claim to serve God
For us, telling the truth is absolutely essential for anyone claiming to be a voice of God. Nothing else will do in our age of science and historical discovery. If a prophet cannot tell the truth, he is either a fraud or ignorant of important facts about his religious ideas. I give Muhammad the benefit of doubt and let it go at his illiteracy and lack of knowledge of history of his own peoples and the ancient peoples of the Near East.
But the fact still remains. The Abrahamic religions are still devoid of truthful writers, even the prophets who should have known better but obviously didn't. They all passed along a set of religious myths that each took as real history. This of course has made all the Abrahamic foundational texts with their reliance on ancient Hebrew writers highly vulnerable to real history, especially when historical discovery has uncovered the truth which topples all Abrahamic claims for spiritual authority.
How can one believe a prophet who tells us Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, and even Jesus Christ of Gospels were real people when historians cannot find any archeological evidence to support their existences as human beings and not literary creations.
As a prophet myself I will make the claim that I am being guided by the Spirit of Truth that John called the Paraclete. It is a Spirit and I am a mortal man so that Spirit will go on when I am gone, perhaps re-appearing someday in the future when once again God sends in a prophet to 'make straight the Path of God in the bewilderness.'
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