Gospel of Matthew, Hebrew and Aramaic Matthew reconciled to present  current evidence for the least altered Gospel of the Hebrews

Scripture references and comments by Richard Epler

Author of One Disciple to Another - the Original Jesus

and

Romans Proves Paul Lied -

Have We Inherited Lies From Our Fathers?

Evidence is the original Aramaic or Hebrew Matthew dates before 40 CE 

I've considered myself a devoted fan of Jesus all my life.  However, later in life I had to face some hard lessons about truth, justice, and mercy - combined with the realization that what we have in our "Bible" is not the inerrant words of God - but rather a very flawed book that has little basis in history or reality because the messages therein are often contradictory or lacking any evidence they happened or were believed when purported to have been the focus of the Jewish faith. 

The breadth of contradictions is what has given birth to so many divisioins in the Christian world view (40,000 sects?), as well as the Jewish and Islamic faiths.  Review of the teachings Jesus gave disciples as imperatives - listing each from each book in the entire New Testament - showed too many instances of contradictions of fact to be considered "True" in each account.  Rather, it exposed the lack of truth, wisdom and harmony the other books had towards Matthew - the only account tracing back to before 40 CE, and originally in Aramaic or Hebrew - not Greek.  Further study into Matthew exposed several instances of textual alterations sewn in the text to make it appear to fit better with the rest of the "New Testament".  Some of these problems will be noted as discovered through the text, and correction (s) are suggested - as I claim no special authority or knowledge but to believe if God did give us teachings to live by that they would be easy to understand - observe - and do - as told in the Sinai Covenant narrative.  If Jesus is to be considered a true prophet of God - he had to teach according to those originally given Standards that mankind would be blessed to observe and live according to them. 

Matthew chapter one may be an addition, added in after Luke, since the genealogy of Luke was flawed - the Matthew account was also altered - as Joseph was the father of Jesus likelihood due to accounts about the Ebionite beliefs.  Early church fathers considered Ebionites to be heretics for not having beliefs about the virgin birth of Jesus.  This is direct evidence that the virgin birth account in Matthew may well not be original to their gospel account (added?).

My primary focus of Matthew is the Teachings of Jesus and being a disciple who faithfully keeps the Instructions of God, rather than proofs based on genealogies or the mishandling of the Hebrew Scripture by Paul and his disciples, followed by alterations made by those of Rome or the Gnostics (hidden knowledge).  This first account is largely without comments and references.  Should you desire more references, following this account is the account with many more comments and scriptural references to support it. 

Many prophecies are noted and discussed throughout the later text, and are evidence of alterations in the Hebrew and the Greek Matthew - as noted from quotes to the Hebrew Scriptures and the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible.   Every disciple should pay close attention to the Teachings of Jesus and their alignment to the Words/Teachings of Elohim in Torah, Prophets and Psalms. 

I offer my current viewpoints for consideration and invite everyone to participate through careful observation of the alignment of the teachings of Jesus to the Teachings of God in the Torah, Prophets and Psalms (Hebrew accounts translated into English.) 

I believe Jesus was a deeply basic person who had deep beliefs to simply live by the words of God in the Covenant.  As such, Jesus agreed with other prophets sayings that God did not command sacrifices or various convocations, rites, or rituals invented and sewn into the texts of the Hebrew Scripture.  Difficulties exist due to alterations of the Hebrew Scriptures, which some of their scholars have said it may take 300 years to correct.  Since we have this record of the teachings of Jesus, if he was ‘that prophet' of Deuteronomy 18:15, they might also aid in corrections for both the Old Testament and the New Testament.  (see: The Origin of Judaism, by Jonatan Adler, and the chapter titled "Conclusions".  "The Valediction of Moses" by Idan Dershowitz, a proto-Deuteronomy account from the times near Ezekiel, shows we have massive alterations in the "Torah" and "Deuteronomy", and we would do well to heed to advise of God to get back to the ancient record.  Further information regarding altered scripture can be found on the opening page of the website.  Perhaps the greatest issue regarding the validity of Judaism and by extension, Christianity, is the work of Russell Gmirkin regarding evidences the Torah was unknown until 140 BC - and what came before was much different.  Also be aware of "Yahwism in the Achaemenid Empire" shows our account of the Torah is both greatly altered, and was all but unknown to Judah or Israel before 140 BCE.   Note Jesus taught clarity to the Instructions of God, not as the Rabbi of his days were teaching people.  Study of the writings of N. O. I. and Michael Hoffman will show the deeper evils of Orthodox Judaism when comparing contemorary beliefs to what their beliefs were in Jesus' day.

 

 

Hebrew Gospel of Matthew

 

This account (HGOM) has many reasons to indicate it is pre-Greek, but is not without alteration.  It also exposes some of the six Syriac revisions prior to 150 CE of the NT and two revisions of the OT translations from Hebrew texts.  Some Jewish Rabbi claim the Christian Greek Old Testament was none of their doing, as the original LXX was only of the five books of Moses (Torah) and was destroyed in the fire of the library of Alexandrea.  Given massive deceit of the Rabbe, I no longer take their word for anything.  They also claim the Greek was  poorly translated and therefore not worthy of study.   It is extremely important to note the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (DSSB) account as the Scripture of Jesus' day as available.  The DSSB will also help identify alterations of Matthew and other books in our Bibles, which will prove false doctrine comes from false scripture.  Due to the "revisions" of Matthew completed prior to 150 AD, the ancient Aramaic of 160 AD is suspect in a few matters, but proves useful where Shem Tob cut the texts short.  Since Jews had no need to paganize or deify Jesus into "Co-Creator" of the Universe, and as can be seen in the account - his apostles/disciples never testified Jesus to be anyone but "that prophet" foretold by Moses.  Per the HGOM account Jesus said he had to fulfill scripture, that it was he who must suffer, die and resurrect to fulfill all that was written of him, and to whom all authority would be given that could be given to any man. [Names given in the text of Matthew: son of the virgin, Son of David, That Prophet, Son of man - and Moses deferred to his words that "whosoever will not hear whatsoever he hath to say" would be cut off from the brethren. (if Jesus is 'that prophet' foretold by God in Deuteronomy 18:15] 

This may well be "this gospel" Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24, that would be testified to the nations of him, and then the end would come.  Take heed to where we have believed false prophets, false scribes, false apostles, or whoever dared to alter the words of God.  Why did those before us not know these things?  It's time to demand we are given the truth, as best as can be known, not lies and half-truths. We have more evidence for the truth today than any generation since Jesus was on earth, so open your mind to see if these things make sense.

Let's rediscover the unaltered words of God and Yeshua that we might know His word is true, unchanging and fully reliable to accomplish what He gave it to do in the lives of those whose love for Him is genuine.

We should all thank the LORD God for preserving the text via Shem Tob, and it's translation by George Howard, as well as the work of Andrew Roth in translation of the Aramaic Matthew, that we might know the truth that will set us free from prison houses of religious confusions, to freedom as found in love for God that can only be known through a love that is faithful to Him and  doing His will - as exampled and taught by  Yeshua, "that prophet", Son of David, son of man - perhaps the one those of Quamran community were waiting for - the "Teacher of Righteousness".

 

Rather than Apologetics or other sophistry, recall Elohim said nothing He told us was too hard to understand or too hard to do, and that His Teachings are near to our hearts and mouths - they should be naturally observed if we just use our God given common sense in conjunction with His given words of life, that we simply observe them to do them.  Open your mind and heart to see the alignment of the best accounting of the teachings of Jesus to the ancient account of the Covenant Standards, before they were altered by Judaism, perhaps near the time of Ezekiel - per Idan Dershowitz, author of 'THE VALEDICTION OF MOSES' (PROTO DEUTERONOMY 3 PAGES).

Chapter 1

 Has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus, and the first Christians had no belief that Jesus was born of a virgin.