Pondering Lies

Someone once said that when you repeat a lie long enough, then the people come to believe the lie is the truth. This seems to hold some validity. Of course, not everyone will believe a lie, no matter how many times it is told.

We, here in America, have come to believe some really bid lies that are still espoused and represented as truth to this day. Maybe you still believe them yourself because you have not been exposed to the real truth. Let us then ponder on some of these lies.

Number one, Columbus found/discovered America. This is so easily revealed in historical records as false, yet millions of Americans are still taught this lie and we even celebrate Columbus Day in regard to this. Columbus never discovered America, nor set foot upon the land. All he discovered was the Caribbean Islands. It was one of Columbus’ Spanish crew-mates, Ponce de Leon, who discovered the coast of Florida when he sailed north from the Caribbean Islands. That was 20 years later, in 1513. Cortez, another Spaniard, found Mexico six years after in 1519. Another year and Narvaez, also Spaniard, discovered the Gulf coast from Florida to Texas. It would be a Frenchman, Verrazano, who would discover the entire eastern coastline from Florida north to Canada in 1524.

We should be celebrating Ponce de Leon Day or Verrazano Day, not Columbus Day. They were the ones who found the U.S. coastlines, along with Narvaez. It was more Spaniards who discovered the interior from Florida to Texas and up into what is now New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arizona. These were Cabeza de Vaca 1535-36, de Soto 1539-42, and Coronado 1540-42.

Then there is the name America. This comes from another explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian. Vespucci is known to have discovered the northern coast of South America. He purported in his explorations to have discovered places from the south eastern U.S. down to South America, yet scholars doubt he discovered this much territory. A German theoretical geographer labeled a landmass in the Southern New World as America. It is the Latinized version of Vespucci’s first name.

Lie number two, the “Indians” (Native Americans) were all savages. It is well known that not all of the Native Americans were savages. In fact, most were quite friendly to the settlers at first. Some even had some form of organized society being developed. The Incas and Mayans specifically, were well-organized societies. The ‘invading’ Spanish, French, and English were often more savage in the numbers they killed. True, they used guns instead of hatchets and spears, but dead is dead.

Lie number three, the Bible has always had only 66 books. This is not true. There was always 80 books in the Bible from 390 C.E. (Common Era) until 1782 C.E. It was Robert Aitken who first removed the Apocrypha from the Bible in his first English Language Bible printed in America in 1782. It was a King James Version. The original King James Version did not officially have the Apocrypha removed until 1885. Another American influence.

Yet another lie from the English/American theology, the name of the Heavenly Father is ‘The LORD’ and His Son’s Name is Jesus. The first is so easy to prove wrong by going to the original Hebrew and learning it is יָהְוָה (YaHVaH). The second is proven totally wrong when you learn that neither Greek nor Hebrew have a J in their alphabet. Even other languages show no J until after 1000 C.E. The encyclopedia says the J was developed in the European (including English) languages circa 16^th / 17^th centuries by the scribes adding tails to the I.

How many more lies are there? Very many actually. One you may have been taught in ‘Sunday’ school is that Noah took only two of every animal into the Ark. When you read Genesis, you will learn that Noah took 7 pairs of clean animals (7×2=14) and two pairs of unclean animals (2×2=4). When you consider Noah and everyone had to be on the Ark, self-supported, for one year, logic kicks in to tell you there had to be enough clean animals for food and reproduction. Two wouldn’t have been enough.

The list of lies perpetrated by and in American society goes on and on. It would take me several pages to list and explain them all. Lies such as: Easter and Christmas are celebrations to honor YaHVaH and His Son, when they are actually paganistic in origin and in present-day activities (Christmas trees, Easter egg hunts, mistletoe, etc.);the first woman’s name is Eve, when it is Chavvah; that our country was founded on Christian principles, when in fact some of the founders were Deists who believed in an uninvolved Heavenly Father in human lives; and, there is true freedom of religion in the U.S., when the U.S. Government is constantly questioning and harassing different faith groups at various times.

I encourage everyone to research for themselves whether something is the truth. Or has an oft-repeated lie become the truth for you? May YaHVaH always Bless you all.

First published 1-2008, © 2008, 2018 Min. Dr. Donald H. Garrett and Odon Obdadyah Ministries, Inc.

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