Jehovah Unmasked

JEHOVAH UNMASKED!
The True Identity of the Bible-God Revealed
By Nathaniel J. Merritt
ISBN: 1-4116-5147-2

Removing God’s Mask:
The author, Nathaniel J. Merritt, has been hitchhiking
his way to Enlightenment since he was a teen. Becoming
a Jehovah's Witness at age 15, he ran away from home
at 17, and hitchhiked to San Jose, CA to escape from
his rageaholic father. After some adventures there, he
hitchhiked home to Michigan, where he was shunned by
the Jehovah's Witnesses at 19 for smoking pot and
having sex. This sent him into a downward spiral where
he hit rock bottom. Shortly afterward he was born again
as a Jesus Freak in 1973. Then a fellow Jesus Freak
taught him to meditate, and this opened many new inner
vistas. This spiritual renewal led him to become a
Baptist minister in 1980, and there he remained for 15
years.
Then Merritt began to yearn for something more than
he was getting from Christianity. So he dove into the
deep waters of Zen Buddhism, and even became a
Buddhist priest. Finding Buddhism “not a good cultural
fit” after ten years, he returned to Christianity, but not as
a Fundamentalist. Some say he returned as a heretic and
blasphemer...
This book is the culmination of all his seeking and
study, as well as his many and varied spiritual
experiences. In this book, Merritt draws back the curtain
on an ancient mysterious, spiritual path that the Catholic
church has fought tooth and nail since Christianity
began. Few understand this ancient path, and even fewer
have been initiated into it's secrets. Keeping it light and
easy to read, the author takes the reader down the rabbit
hole of the real Matrix, and turns the world upside down
and inside out. Discover for yourself, in your own Bible,
the lies of God in the Garden of Eden, and the Truth told
by the Serpent.

About the Author

"I am now at Home, spiritually, though I
remain a pilgrim and stranger in this world."
Hebrews 11:13.

Gnostic Christianity is the inward,
mystical spirituality that so many
Westerners are searching for in Far
Eastern religions. You can find spiritual
Reality in the midst of Christianity. You
can become yourself a Christ, for that was
and is the original intent and purpose of
Christianity.

Chapter_12:__One_Fountain_or_Two__(Excerpt)
Chapter 13. The Matrix Is Real
Chapter 14. Using The Key
Chapter 15. The Kingdom Of God
Chapter 16. God The Mother
Chapter_17:__Donald_Duck_and_Jehovah__(Excerpt)
Chapter 18. Adolph Hitler And Jehovah
Chapter 19. The Gospel Of Joe Hovah
Chapter 20. Common Questions And Objections
Chapter 21. A Brief Summary
Chapter 22. Where To Go From Here

Does the Bible really teach there is only one God? Or
does it teach that many gods exist? Did Almighty
God really create this material world? Perhaps
another, lesser god, created this material world?
These are important questions, because the God of
whom Jesus Christ spoke is a gentle, loving Heavenly
Father. Yet, the universe is overflowing with evil,
cruelty, agony and death. How can one reconcile the
reality of evil, cruelty, agony and death with the
theory of a loving Heavenly Father? For, as countless
thinkers have said:

In other words, an all-good God would not make a
universe brimming with evil, pain, violence, suffering,
misery and death. An all-powerful God might do so,
but such a God would not be all-good. Mainstream
Christians have danced around this issue for two
thousand years but none of them have given a
satisfactory answer to the Problem of Evil. Their
“answers” have taken the form of mental gymnastics,
verbal contortions, special pleading, misdirection,
“smoke and mirrors.” However, there is a very
ancient and wise solution to this dilemma. The
earliest Christians held this Key, this solution, and
immediately realized and adopted it because of their
unshakable Knowing (Greek: Gnosis, pronounced
KNOW-sis) of an all-good Heavenly Father. Gnostic
is the name whereby the early Christians who held
this Key were known. The reason? Gnosis means to
Know God as opposed to those who merely believe in
God. The Catholic church later rejected this Key of
Gnosis.
It is important to understand how and from what
source the New Testament acquired its present form
and “authority.” Then we can appreciate how
important the Key of Gnosis is in understanding who
Jehovah really is and therefore solving the problem
of evil. So, we will take a few moments to trace the
development of the New Testament “canon” or
official list of books. When the Catholic church
finally had the power of the Roman Empire behind it
through the Emperor Constantine, those who held
the Key of Gnosis were ruthlessly hunted down.
Persecution and pressure to conform to the Catholic
church or die resulted in their scriptures being seized
and burned. Thereafter, only writings bearing the
approval of the Catholic church would officially
become “scripture” through councils held by the
Catholic church.

The fact that the Catholic church leaders in both its
Roman and Byzantine halves selected by vote which
books would become the New Testament, will come
as a shock to many Protestant, Evangelical, and
Fundamentalist Christians. (For the purposes of this
book, “Fundamentalist” means someone who
believes the Bible is inerrant and infallible in the
original autograph manuscripts. That it is wholly the
work and word of God, the Truth in all it affirms)
Most give no thought as to who said the New
Testament books are the right books. Nor do they
even ask if perhaps some of the right books were left
out of the canon. All mainstream Christians of the
western world, whether Protestant, Evangelical,
Fundamentalist, Pentecostal or Charismatic, share the
same canon of New Testament books selected and
approved by the Catholic church. They use the Catholic
New Testament whether they are Catholic or not. (I
am not referring to the Latin Vulgate, but to the
canon of the New Testament itself, the list of New
Testament books).

Fortunately, many of the ancient writings of the earliest
Christians, the Gnostic Christians, came to light seemingly
by “accident” in 1945 in Nag Hammadi, Egypt. These
Gnostic Christian scriptures form a second, wiser, more
spiritual New Testament than the Catholic New Testament
that all mainstream Christians currently use. The books of
the Gnostic Christian scriptures were originally written in
Greek, then subsequently translated into the Coptic
language, the language of the Christians in Egypt. In this
book I will point out the Greek words underlying the Coptic
translation, to establish continuity with the Koine
(“common”) Greek of the New Testament.
I heartily recommend the Gnostic Christian scriptures to
all those who have finished this book, whose eyes have
thereby been opened, and who seek a purer stream than we
have in the corrupted Catholic New Testament. Yet, I
caution the reader against clinging to them as mainstream
Christians cling to the Bible. Do not make a paper and ink
idol, or paper-Pope, out of the Gnostic Christian scriptures.
Do not let them become a substitute for your own direct
personal experience and Knowing of God as mainstream
Christians do the Bible. These writings do contain the ancient
Gnostic solution to the problem of evil, the problem we
discussed at the opening of this book, as well as many other
spiritual gems.
The solution to the problem of evil which the Scriptures of
the Gnostic (Knowing) Christians explain, and which the
Catholic church violently rejected, is this:
The spiritual realms were formed from the Heavenly Father’s
own Essence, the all-good and loving Father of whom Jesus
spoke. Seven elohim or Archons, distant descendants of the
Absolute God, fashioned this material universe from
eternally pre-existing dead defiled matter. These lesser
elohim were unable, as well as unwilling, to fashion a
universe free of suffering and death. Read the very short
Gospel of the Egyptians in the Gnostic Christian scriptures
to explore this teaching further. The True God, however, has
been active through various Divine beings such as the Logos
(Word), Sophia (Wisdom), Zoë (Life) and Charis (Grace), to
bring us a direct Knowing of the Divine. This activity
culminated in Jesus Christ. We will revisit this topic later in
the book, but for now let us examine the Biblical evidence
for the existence of more than one God.

Remember that Jesus said that Satan is “The Father
of Lies.” (John 8:44) Well, let us look at Genesis in
that light. Let us see who told the Original Lie. If you
read the allegory of the Garden of Eden, the Jehovah
gods tell Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, because “in that day thou
shalt surely die.” Genesis 2:17. On the other hand, the
Serpent promised them “Ye shall not surely die. For
God (the elohim, the gods) doth know that in the day
ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall
be as gods (the elohim), knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:4-5.

Paul in the New Testament asks us a very interesting
question. He asks us “What communion hath light
with darkness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14) Paul’s answer, of
course, is none. Light has no communion with
darkness, nor righteousness with iniquity. With that
fact in mind, a truly striking contrast between
Jehovah and the Heavenly Father can be found by
comparing 1 John 1:5 and Acts 26:18 with a number
of verses describing Jehovah. (Remember, when you
see LORD or GOD in all capitals in the Old
Testament, the Hebrew is actually Jehovah, or more
accurately, Yahweh) 1 John 1:5: “This then is the
message which we have heard of Him, and declare
unto you, that God is LIGHT and in Him there IS
NO DARKNESS AT ALL.” Acts 26:18: “To OPEN
THEIR EYES, and to turn them from DARKNESS
to LIGHT, and from the power of SATAN unto
GOD.” Clearly, darkness is of Satan, and Light is of
the True God. Now contrast those two verses with
all of these verses describing Jehovah/Satan (emphasis
mine):
“Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that He
would dwell in the thick darkness.” 1 Kings 8:12.

On the one hand, we read in the Bible that “God is
Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all,” and on
the other hand we have also read in the Bible that
darkness is part and parcel of God. On the one hand
we read that “It is impossible for God to lie,” and on
the other hand we read of Jehovah deceiving
prophets and lying. On the one hand we read that
“God is love” and “love is not jealous,” and on the
other hand we read that Jehovah is a jealous god. On
the one hand, we read the Sermon on the Mount and its
call to pacifism, gentleness, altruism, and that we
should “be perfect as the Heavenly Father is
perfect,” and on the other hand we read of the
savage, vile, bloodthirsty, and murderous acts of
Jehovah. On the one hand we are told “God is Love”
and we have Love clearly defined for us in 1
Corinthians 13:4-8, and on the other hand we see
Jehovah behaving in a truly Satanic fashion of
undiluted evil. Are we really reading of only one
God? Or is it obvious to you by now we are reading
of at least two deities, one merely a god and one the
Most High God? At this point we must ask
ourselves, can both good and evil spring forth from
the same God, a God who is Love personified? (1
John 4:8, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.)

All of us grew up watching and enjoying the antics of
Donald Duck. We laughed as he slowly but surely lost
control of a situation, and then finally, in an impotent
rage, threw a temper tantrum. Sometimes, it was his
nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie who drove poor
Donald to the brink and beyond. We can all relate to
Donald because often we too are faced with a situation
that is beyond our control no matter what we do. After
all, we are finite beings. However, when Donald Duck
finally came to the end of his rope and threw a
destructive temper tantrum, he displayed three important
traits:

1. He is impotent in the face of great difficulty.
2. He utterly lacks self-control.
3. He can be manipulated by others and by
circumstance.

When Huey, Dewey, and Louie continued to disobey
Donald despite all his warnings, all he could really do in
the end was throw a fit and destroy things in his
impotent rage. In this, Huey, Dewey, and Louie
demonstrated their control over their Uncle Donald.
They could push his buttons until he could no longer
respond to the situation in a rational or constructive
manner, and he was finally overcome by his mindless
rage. Donald had been successfully manipulated and
shown to be impotent. For one is truly impotent when
one can no longer respond to a situation constructively
or maintain composure and self-control, and can only
rage and destroy. As humans, we can relate to this. It
reminds us of our own finiteness, and our own foibles.
However, when we read about this same behavior being
displayed by the supposedly omnipotent and omniscient
god Jehovah in the pages of the Bible, it should give us
instant pause for thoughtful analysis of Jehovah.
Humans push Jehovah, over and over again, beyond his
ability to respond to a situation in a constructive,
rational, or self-controlled manner.
Just as Donald Duck throws impotent destructive
rages because he can no longer respond constructively or
rationally, so does Jehovah. In the pages of the Bible,
humans disobey this supposedly omniscient and
omnicompetent god over and over, until he finally
throws a destructive temper tantrum. He kills everyone
on earth with a flood, sparing only a handful. He sends not
obey him. Jehovah kills all the firstborn sons of the
Egyptians. Jehovah commands the Israelites to slaughter
millions of men, women, the elderly, children, infants,
babies, and even rip unborn babies out of their mother’s
wombs. In his impotent wrath, Jehovah again and again
destroys vast multitudes of the Israelites, his own
“chosen people,” because he can no longer find a way to
respond in a meaningful, constructive, self-controlled
manner to their disobedience, despite his supposedly
omniscient, omnipotent, and omnicompetent nature.
The Final Solution for Jehovah is always impotent
destructive rage and murder
We can laugh at Donald Duck's behavior because we
see our human finiteness and foibles portrayed onscreen.
Yet, when we find such behavior attributed to a
supposedly omniscient, omnipotent, and omnicompetent
Jehovah, we should be horrified and
repulsed. Why? The real God is beyond our flesh in
intelligence, power, and wisdom. That God is not
subject to our human finiteness and foibles, being
superior to our flesh, not inferior as Jehovah is. The
True God is always able to find a meaningful,
constructive way to respond to any situation. The True
God could never be manipulated and controlled by finite
creatures as Jehovah is.
“Huey, Dewey, and Louie” (the human race) would
never be able to exhaust the True God's mental and
emotional resources and push it over the brink into
impotent, murderous rage.
As we have seen over and over, “Jehovah” is none
other than Satan the Devil. Those who worship that god,
“The God of this Age,” and fill their mind with tales of
its impotent rage, begin to display such behavior
themselves. Again I point the reader to the Christian
Right, as well as Christian history, for confirmation of
my claim. It is only logical that we would become like
that which we worship, that which we give the highest
place in our minds and hearts. Those who worship
Jehovah/Satan pose a continuous real threat to the lives
of each other and to those of us who do not worship
their nasty god. Christian and Jewish history (and today's
news.) are overflowing with examples of the savagery of
those who have filled their minds and hearts with the
Jehovah/Satan fiend.
Wherever Gnosticism has arisen, those who worship
the God of this Age have murdered Gnostics nearly to
extinction. Why do you suppose that is so?