Keith, thank you for writing this series, it's quite informative. I purchase False Witness... on Amazon and have learned a great deal from it, as well as confirming much of what I've long suspected. It seemed to me, early on, that the NT was presenting two different Jesus', so Paul apparently used some of what Jesus actually taught- to make his version palatable to the Romans, at least, I also wondered why God would have his only son put to death.

I appreciate that you offer it for free but thought I should at least pay the $2.99 to help. in a small way, to support your research and your time and effort to share truth in an easy to understand fashion.

I do, however, have one quibble with your explanation of the Golden Rule, which I have done my best to live by since I first read the KJV at age 12 and several other translations beginning in my ten years and in the years since. You state that abortion is a violation of the Golden Rule because no one would wish an abortion on themselves, which I agree with, so no one should wish it upon anyone not yet born. Yet, there are instances where not allowing an abortion is the opposite of following the Golden Rule:

Would I want to be born a child of rape or incest? No.

Would I want to be carried to term by a young woman/teenage girl who didn't want me or simply couldn't care for me, making me a 'hated child' ? No.

Would I want to be a hated child, the bastard child, by both mother and her family, because I 'ruined' the mother's life?

Again, no, so why would I ever wish such suffering on another person? To do so directly contradicts the Golden Rule of treating others the way I would want to be treated and I refuse to wish that on another person, born or not. As you make clear, the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, is rarely a black and white issue- there are shades of gray that must be considered in such a complex issue as abortion. You state that the church and state should work to abolish abortion but you are referring to Paul's pagan church, even though we've seen a long history of the evils that have been committed when Paul's church and government work hand-in-hand; it inevitably leads to a theocracy, a theocracy led by Paul's pagan church and Paul's 'version' of Jesus.

I thoroughly enjoyed this series of 'stories', as Medium calls them, and hope you've opened the eyes of some self-professed 'Christians'. Or at least led some to question what their church taught them.

In one of my courses about the NT in the Religious studies program at university. I asked the professor about Mithra. He, in turn, asked me what I knew about Mithra and was clearly angered that I'd brought up the subject, especially when my response was "I know very little except that he was God made flesh, born of a virgin, and put to death, his body put into a cave and that he rose from the dead three days later, and you are the professor and that's why I asked".

I wish I had read your book before taking hose classes but you hadn't yet written or published them, being that I'm 61 years old now and university seems like a lifetime ago. Actually, it seems like an entirely different life.

And I highly recommend your books to any honest seeker of truth, of God, and of what the man Jesus truly taught.