THE UNDERGROUND BIBLE

Chapter 1
How To Use This Book

1. Explanation and how to use the Bible and this book

a. No space for Biblical evidence, or lengthy quotes of verses to prove the text contained in
this book is taught by the Bible. It is your job to make sure the truth is being spoken by
anyone representing themselves as a knowledgeable speaker of Biblical scriptures and
concepts by investigating the Bible yourself. This book wasn’t written to prove anything.
It was written to help the average person realize they can understand what is in the Bible.
Therefore, very few Biblical references are contained in this book. The references that are
in this book were included to help the reader see that the information being
communicated originated in the Bible.* (*See paragraph 5 below)
b. Keep it simple!!! The great scientist Albert Einstein told us simplicity was his key to
understanding the most complex things of the world.
c. Four simple rules about the Bible and this book
1) Just read the Bible and this book by allowing your brain to absorb the text
2) Don’t try analyzing it
3) Don’t be resistant to it because of prior ideas you have learned
4) Don’t allow your religious beliefs to interfere with what you read, whether you
are a Christian, or are not,: or believe in another religion

2. Memorizing is not necessary

a. ‘The Holy Spirit of God gives us all remembrance and understanding’. Learning the
Bible is not subject to anyone’s intelligence level, nor is it a product of our own abilities.
In fact, anyone interested in the Bible is making the single most intelligent decision
during his or her lifetime.
b. This book is intended for novices, intermediate, advanced, and masters of the Bible.
It is intended for people who have never opened the Bible, who are just beginning, and
who have been exposed to the Bible’s teachings for years, and still do not have a firm
grip on it’s contents; and for people who have been exposed to slanted views of the
Biblical texts, which unfortunately are the result of too many Christian movements in the
world: who have tailored their Biblical teachings toward their own slanted views to fulfill
their own greedy purposes.
c. No apology for non-capitalized words. I decided not to capitalize some words
ordinarily capitalized, and vice-versa: such as, satan: whom I think does not deserve to be
honored by any means…. While on the other hand, I purposely decided to use small
letters instead of capital letters to make my point.

3. A holy book
a. No Joke
Don’t mistake this simplification of the Bible as a joke or something demeaning to the
Bible, because it is the only truthful book on earth, which entitles it to be labeled the
Holiest Book on earth.

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b. No Spirituality Please
Holy doesn’t mean Spiritual or Supreme, but means Complete or 100%. Holy is a word
derived from the simple English word “Whole or Wholly”. Therefore, the Bible is the
only book on earth ever written by men that addresses every problem that ever plagued
the human race, or ever will. It contains the solutions for every problem that troubles
Mankind. These solutions are easily discovered in the Bible. Therefore, the Bible is 100%
truth and not a book of rules designed to enslave Mankind; neither is it a book that has to
be approached tenderly like a woman, nor spiritually like some priest. The Bible is just
paper and ink. Its words and historical accounts are not like any other book. The big
difference between the Bible and other written works is that it can foretell the future.
There are thousands of prophecies, which are foretold future events that have actually
taken place after the information was foretold and written. The Bible claims to have been
authored by God Himself, who used men as prophets to record all the data contained in it,
exactly as the information was given to them. If this is true then you’ve made the right
decision by reading it, which would only result in you being able to communicate with
your Creator; but if it is false, then it cannot do anything for you, nor can it harm you.
c. Faith vs. knowledge
Faith is simply acting on the concepts God teaches us in the Bible. The more concepts
you apply to your life, the more faith you have to your credit. Faith is also called belief,
but this is an error. Although, faith and belief cannot be separated because they are two
sides of the same coin, and they are dependent upon each other, faith is not the same as
belief. Belief is a decision to believe the ideas in the Bible are directly from God the
Father. While Faith is the performance of those ideas, which are a person’s acts based on
Biblical principles, doctrines, or laws. Knowledge is gathering and retaining information,
whether it is written in the Bible, or elsewhere, or whether it is an experience. A person
may gather much information from the Bible and retain it, and seem to be holy or
ordained by God; but until that person applies those Biblical concepts to his or her life,
and teaches other people to do likewise, the person is not working for God, nor is he or
she ordained by God, or sent by God, or an Apostle, or a prophet, or a priest, or minister,
or any other title, no matter how high-up he or she might be in their religious
organization. Knowledge gives a person access to the information, while faith gives a
person access to the power of God, which is what Jesus used to perform miracles.
d. Justification vs. rationalization
Justification simply means that only the ideas written in the Bible approve or disapprove
of your ideas and acts. This is the same as saying: only God can approve or disapprove of
a person doing something right or wrong. Rationalization means something other than
God’s written Word (the Bible) approves or disapproves of a person’s ideas and acts:
something like a person’s own brain, or another person, or any written document other
than the Bible, approving or disapproving of a person doing something right or wrong.
The Bible should be the final word on every decision a person makes during life. The
only exceptions are using the Jerusalem Bible*, the Mormon Bible, and any addition to
any Bible, such as: the amendments the Mormon’s added to their Bible, and
commentaries explaining Biblical passages. (* See Chapter 42, 1a, 2a; and Chapter 45, 2a)

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4. Read any chapter of the Bible but don’t read partial chapters
a. Each book in the Bible stands alone and is not dependent upon a previous book like
ordinary books. Ordinary books, such as novels, must be read as a continuous writing
because each new chapter depends on the previous information given to the reader in the
prior chapter. Each separate book in the Bible was an independent writing or letter. The
authors did not have contact with one another as they wrote their information. The reason
why each named segment of the Bible, such as: Genesis, Matthew, Romans, etc., are
called books is they are totally independent of each other’s writings. The independence of
each book of the Bible does not contradict the narrative thread, since each book of the
Bible contains the necessary information to expose the narrative thread reserved for the
prophets. Thereby, God insuring that His message would get to the human race no matter
who tampered with the message or tried to stop it.
b. Independent letters: Every separate book in the Bible was originally written as an
independent writing or letter by its author. Therefore, each chapter of any particular book
must be read like all other books: which means understanding a Biblical book, such as
Genesis, Matthew, or Acts, depends upon reading that book as a complete work. Every
new chapter in one particular book of the Bible will depend on reading the previous
chapters first, as a continuous writing. When people jump around within the books,
without ever grasping the meaning of that book’s text, then they can easily be led astray
by false teachers, ignorant teachers, or their own brain.
c. Personal letters: Think of each independent book in the Bible as a personal letter written
to you. You wouldn’t begin reading your letter somewhere other than at the beginning;
and you would never read a letter by only reading one or two sentences from various
parts of the letter. Neither would you read a few scattered sentences of a letter and never
read the whole thing. Many Bible teachers use the faulty technique of stringing singular
sentences together, known as verses from many different books in the Bible to teach their
own principles from the Bible. Their students suffer terribly because they never gain an
understanding of what is actually being revealed in the Bible: which causes such students
to remain at a Kindergarten level of understanding concerning God and the Christ. Paul
the Apostle deals with this subject*. Many of the books in the Bible were actual letters
written to specific individuals or groups. Stringing independent verses together from
various books of the Bible is not wrong, but the teacher that uses this technique must be a
Biblical expert. Reading parts of a chapter will often cause the reader to form the wrong
ideas concerning the information written by the original author of that book.
(*Hebrews, chapter 5, verses 12 to 14)
d. Most chapters stand-alone and may be read independently form the surrounding
chapters of the same book, but be careful. Many chapters in the same book depend upon
the text, information, and conditions given in previous chapters, and must be connected to
following chapters to gain a complete knowledge of the author’s information.
Segregating incomplete chapters and verses leads to accepting false doctrine and theories.
You will recognize these type chapters by your own understanding of them. If you read a
chapter and don’t understand it, go to the previous or following chapters, read them
connected to the original chapter you didn’t quite understand. If this doesn’t work then go
back or forward two chapters, etc., until you comprehend the author’s intended meaning
from the original chapter.

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5. No space for Biblical evidence
a. There is no room in this book for Biblical references to prove anything. I didn’t want
this book to be one more complicated book added to the millions in existence which have
bogged down the human race in a mire of words; like a race horse trying to run through
deep thick mud.
b. The idea behind this book is to reduce all the knowledge in the Bible to its simplest
form and give the reader a good foundational understanding of the entire Bible, upon
which he or she can build additional information.
c. Biblical evidence is not going to convince anyone to believe what the Bible tells us. Each
person must read it and decide whether it is for himself or herself, whether it is true or not
true, helpful or a waste of time, comforting or annoying. Jesus is the only Savior, the rest
of us are merely messengers, and whether a person believes the messenger or the
message is entirely their own decision.

6. Read the Bible from page one to the last page

a. There is no rule compelling you to read the Bible in a particular way. Start in the
middle. Flip around wherever your heart leads you. When you notice something
interesting read it. You should enjoy reading the Bible. It is very soothing to one’s soul.
If something gets difficult or strange, move to another place.
b. You can read the Bible from page one of the Old Testament through to the last page of
the New Testament; but prepare yourself for some very boring passages, which are worse
than waiting for your turn at a government office with fifty people ahead of you. If you
decide to read from the beginning, then simply skip over the boring stuff and search
forwards until you discover the next place you find stimulating. You’ll know what is
boring when you fall asleep at the same point no matter how often you try reading the
passage. You may skip over chapters, passages, or entire books. You won’t miss much by
using this technique. It was many years before I ever attempted reading the book of
Revelation a second time. The first time was not stimulating enough to last me a long
time. My first attempt at reading Revelation left me thinking the author had been on crack
cocaine or something stronger. It took me many years before information I gathered in
other easier readings of the Bible, allowed me to finally understand the information
revealed by the Revelation of the angel Jesus Christ.

7. Read the Bible by books

a. A fun way to read the Bible is by selecting a book and reading it. There are 66 separate
books of which the Bible is composed. If you find a book boring, skip it, and search for
another book and try reading again and again, until you find a book that intrigues you.
b. There is no particular format you should follow. If God is real, and the Bible authentic,
then God can lead you to where He wants you to go in the Bible, so He can reach your
brain. If God is real, and the Bible true, then God knows more about you than you know
about yourself. A little trust will go a long way with God, but if what you read slaps you
in the face, because God also knows all about each of our sins, then for your sake….
Don’t put the Bible down or close it!! If this happens to you, then God is trying to
communicate to you; which is a great privilege. This is how God answers a person’s
prayers. It means there is still hope for you, and God has not cast you away.

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8. Read the Bible by Chapters
a. Read whole chapters. If you decide not to read the Bible from the beginning to the end,
nor by reading a book at a time, then read whole chapters; but be sure to read them in
succession. This means do not skip back and forth within a single book. This type of
reading will only lead to confusion. The main idea of reading the Bible is to gain a sense
of what the authors are trying to tell you. Unfortunately, previous religious information
that you have gathered since birth will tend to influence what you are reading. Try putting
all previous knowledge aside when you read, and allow the words to be established
without prejudice.

9. Read the Bible by Verse

a. Be Aware! This technique is only helpful to the Biblical Scholar, of which there are very
few in existence. This means: whether a person understands isolated verses or not, will
depend upon their total understanding of the entire Bible. Understanding the entire Bible
can take from ten to twenty years of strenuous studying to accomplish. If Jesus was the
greatest teacher of the Bible ever born, and it took the Apostles living with Jesus day and
night, 16 hours per day, seven days a week, for 3 ½ years, before they understood what
He taught them: then it is not possible for us to understand it in less time. Think of the
learning curve necessary to obtain a full understanding of the Bible as a mathematical
formula, so you can understand what is necessary to achieve such a lofty goal. If a person
spends 16 hours, one day a week, for 3 ½ years, with Jesus teaching them, it would take a
minimum of 7 x 3 ½ years, longer than the Apostles to gain the same knowledge as the
Apostles. That calculates to 24 ½ years. If a student studies with Jesus for 4 hours once a
week, it’ll take him 98 years to achieve the same goal; which is based upon the Apostles
having had a 16-hour workday. Therefore, 4 hours is ¼ of the 16 hours, which means it
would take the person 28 times longer than a person who studies 16 hours once a week.
All this is based upon the student being taught by Jesus Himself. Therefore, it will take
much longer than the above estimates if you have an ignorant teacher, or one with less
knowledge than Jesus or the Apostles.
b. Just reading verses is not the best way to study the Bible. This method has led many
people astray. Isolating verses can easily be used to convince people an idea, a subject, or
a theory, is correct, when it is not correct. Bible studies in most churches are based upon
the reading of isolated verses. It is too easy to change the context of their original
meanings by isolating them from their context. For example: Someone writes a letter to
another person. The letter is read by the person who received it, torn up, and discarded.
Later, a stranger comes across three small pieces of the torn letter and reads them. The
first piece says: “I hate you”. The second piece says: “$5,000”. The third piece says:
“going to kill you”. The stranger, reading the three pieces of the unknown letter,
concludes that the writer of the original letter hates the person named in the letter, and is
going to pay someone $5,000 to kill them. This is the wrong conclusion based upon the
three separated sentences, which were separated from the rest of the text in the letter.
Here is what the letter said: “I hate your new gown. Do you remember Cynthia? This is
going to kill you; she paid $5,000 for her new gown.” Therefore, without the original
context that surrounds each verse wrong conclusions can be assumed. Verses are
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 will lose the original intended meaning the author intended to convey to you. Remember,
Jesus said, there are false prophets, Apostles, and teachers out there and they will always
be with us. It is too easy for false teachers to change the meanings of verses, to prove lies
about God and Jesus. You cannot depend on easily spotting a false teacher. Most of them
don’t even know they are false teachers, because they believe what they’re teaching is
true, because they were also deceived.

10. Read the Bible by Words

a. This is a good procedure. Studying particular words will greatly benefit the student or
average reader, because each idea will help your understanding other ideas. All you need
to do this type of studying is a Concordance or a Lexicon: which are books published like
a dictionary. They are available at most Christian bookstores and libraries. It contains
every word written in the Bible and provides a list of verses where those words are used
in the Bible. It also gives the student a reference number to trace the word back to its
Aramaic, Greek, or Hebrew root.

11. Read the Bible by Ideas

a. One can also search the Bible by following ideas or whole phrases, which enable the
student to connect understanding to the original usage meant by the author. Remember,
the Bible was composed thousands of years ago, and the language used was understood
in its time. It is totally different than the same languages in use today*.
(*See chapter 43, Bible Languages)
12. Read the Bible by Subjects
a. You can also read the Bible by following a particular subject, such as: war, famine,
marriage, idols, etc. There are books labeled Bible Dictionaries. These types of reference
books segment their information according to subject matter. They contain many good
references from the Bible concerning the topics or subjects. Studying Biblical subjects
will enlighten any student about the premises, rules, and statutes, governing the ancient
Biblical world of thousands of years ago.

13. Italicized Words in this Book and the Bible

a. Some words in some Bibles are italicized or capitalized. There are instructions at the
beginning of a Bible, which explain the use of these inserted words. Although the Bible
has a warning, in both the Old and New Testaments, against adding or subtracting one
word from the original text of the Bible, translators of Biblical texts have made changes.
They have justified themselves by rationalizing their changes were to help people
understand the Bible. The reality is that their changes to the Bible text more often inhibit
people’s understanding than adds to it. These changes are helpful to the novice Bible
reader, but a serious student needs an excellent translation for studying the Bible.

14. Old English Words

a. The Old King James Version of the Bible is the best English translation; but the
ordinary person doesn’t easily grasp the old Shakespearian English; which is over 500
years old. There are dictionaries that translate old English, but ordinary dictionaries are
useless. Although, other versions of the Bible, including the New King James Version,
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 student of scripture to understand the more difficult words and the meaning of passages
not easily understood. The problem with modern translations is the miscomprehension of
the original Biblical information, which has led to the replacing of key words and phrases
that should have never been changed. These type changes, although they seem harmless
and seem to say the same thing as the original text, have actually destroyed the thin
narrative thread that binds many important facts together. This is why there are two
warnings in the Bible: not to change one word: not to add or subtract one word. This is
why there are many foreign words still in the Bible, such as: Hebrew or Aramaic words.
The problem with translating these words is that it would take too many words to explain
one of the foreign words. So, the translators left these foreign words as foreign words.
b. The Original King James Version of the Bible is the best translation done in any
language. King James of England, in the year 1611, insured his Bible’s accuracy by
commissioning many worthy men, who labored on separate translations of the original
texts and on existing translations. These various translations were compared so King
James could determine the truth originally written about Christ in the original ancient
texts.
c. The New King James Version of the Bible is not as good as the original. It has too
many changes that water down the true meanings intended by the authors. The average
person will not realize how destructive these changes can be to true understanding, but
overall they make it easier to read for the novice.

15. A WARNING
a. Men’s Commentaries are opinionated books, which were not written by God or God’s
prophets, but were written by religious men. They are slanted views of the Bible’s
scriptures, depicting their personal beliefs, or their allegiance to a particular sect of
Christianity. I have read too many of these works and have never found one that gave the
reader answers to their questions, or an understanding of God’s Word. Ask yourself two
simple questions:
1) If the various 1,200 plus Christian sects and churches in existence had it
right; why are their over 1,200 variations of the truth?
2) Can there be so many variations of the truth?
b. Contain your studies to the Bible. I contained my studying strictly to the Bible for over
twenty years before I attempted reading someone else’s ideas or commentaries about the
Bible and what it was teaching us. The original reason for setting a course to study the
Bible was my earliest attempt to get answers from Christian Scholars and Teachers was
fruitless, which was the result of visiting the churches of many different sects to ask their
leaders. My conclusion was they had no answers, so I set a course to find answers myself.
Therefore, I by-passed other men’s commentaries because I didn’t want prejudices or
other people’s slants about Biblical passages to pervert my understanding of the Bible.
The Bible is not a difficult book with which to struggle; but there are passages and even
whole books within the Bible that will elude you for many years. The absence of those
works will not alter your growth in understanding, and when you are ready, they too will
open-up to you. Remember, God is the only One who allows people to find the truth in
the Bible, and the Holy Spirit is the only guide through it. God and the Holy Spirit will
determine when you are ready to understand the more difficult passages. If you struggle
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 religion you were born, or from what background you originated, or your past history, or
your parents, or whether you were an atheist, or attended church, or were deeply involved
in some satanic cult or other religion. Just remember your only goal must be the truth,
and you must have a pure heart, which is a non-prejudiced mind, and a complete Bible.
These are the only tools one needs to reach the goal.

16. Read this book any way you please:

a. Front to back or back to front. Jump around or search out particular subjects, it won’t
matter as long as you read it all eventually. The use of some scriptures and their Biblical
references numbers were inevitable to make clear statements. In some of the quotes from
the Bible you will find some words replaced with the more modern use of the language
for your understanding. Parentheses surrounding explanatory names, phrases, or words,
are included immediately after some words, phrases, and statements, to give the reader a
better understanding of the originally intended meanings, and to also give the reader a
better understanding of some things left out of sentences and paragraphs in the Bible,
which were intentionally left out by the authors to reduce redundancy. Enjoy the
information and use it to help you wade through this foreign language that has side-
tracked Mankind for thousands of years: for the time of revelation has come!
b. The chapters of this book are labeled and numbered. Each paragraph is encoded with
numbers and letters to make it easier for the reader to locate topics. The contents contain
the location of many subjects discussed in this book to help the reader locate a beginning
point for him or her to begin their reading. The reader can also add his or her own notes
to the contents to help locate something not originally listed in the contents. There is also
an index to locate words, and embedded references within the chapters to help the reader
locate additional information about a topic. A good habit would be to highlight passages
and statements in this book to help you locate them again more easily, and to make notes
about Bible reference numbers you check out in the Bible.
c. Asterisks are placed immediately after words, phrases, or ideas that indicate more
information about that subject can be found elsewhere in this book. Wherever one or
more asterisks are used, you can find the reference in parenthesis, also containing the
same number of asterisks, at the end of that paragraph.
d. Parenthesis and quotation marks are inserted throughout this book. Parenthesis
surround names, phrases, words, and Bible reference numbers like (John 6:13-15). John
refers to the gospel of John in the New Testament. While the number 6 is referring to
chapter number 6 in John’s gospel, and the 13-15 tells you the verse numbers, which are
verses 13, 14, and 15. The colon merely separates the chapter and verse numbers. Single
quotation marks, such as ‘anything’, are used to isolate the word or phrase from the rest
of the sentence, so the reader notices the word as the main part of the idea being
communicated by the sentence. Double quotation marks are used to denote Bible
quotations or paraphrases of Biblical statements, which are also italicized. If a reference
is in parenthesis and does not have a Biblical book’s name, like Genesis, Matthew, or
Titus, the reference refers to this book’s chapters and paragraphs

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