The Gospel according to St. JOHN      

92. Word was the Beginning - In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him: and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life: and the life was the light of men. (I. 1 – 4.)

C. - The word could not have existed in the beginning without the speaker: and therefore to say that the Word was with God is useless. The Word can never be God. Since the Word was with God in the beginning, neither of the two can be said to have existed prior to the other. The world could not have been made by the help of the Word unless the material cause (of the universe) also existed. The maker could create the universe even without the Word by keeping quite. What was life and where was it? This verse (In him was life, etc.,) would make the souls eternal (beginningless), and if they be eternal the statement of Genesis which says, “The Lord God breathed the breath of life into the nostrils of man” would be wrong. Is life the light of men alone and not of the animals and other living creatures?

93. Devil - And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him (XIII.)

C. - Now this cannot be true, since if the Christians were asked, “(You hold) that the devil tempts all men. Who tempts the devil? If you say that the devil tempts himself, men can also be tempted by themselves; what has the devil to do with this (business) then? But if God be the tempter of the devil, the Christian God then is the greatest devil and He stands guilty of having tempted all men through him. Can God even do such things? Truth to tell, we should not wonder if those who wrote this book (The Bible) and called Christ the Son of God, were devils, but neither this (book) can be the Word of God, nor its God the true God, nor Christ the Son of God.

95. Miracles - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do because I go unto my father. (XIV. 12.)

C. - Now if the Christians believe in Christ, why cannot they raise the dead and work other miracles. But if even with their faith in Christ they cannot work any miracles, it is certain that Christ too had wrought no miracles, since he himself says: “He that believenth on me…. Shall he do also.”? Has one lost his mental vision that he should believe in the miracles of Christ when not a single Christian could work a miracle?

The Revelation of St John, The Divine

97. Believe! - And they had on their heads; crowns of god…And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne which are the seven Spirits of God. And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal….and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. (IV. 4 – 6.)

C. - Now, is not the Christian heaven like a city and their God like a lamp of fire. Wearing of crowns of gold and other jewelry as well as the existence of such beasts as had ‘eyes before and behind’ is impossible. Besides, these beasts are said to have been lions, etc., now who can believe such things?

98. Picture of heaven -   And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backsides, sealed with seven seals… Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much because no man was found worthy to open and read the book neither to look thereon. (V. 1 – 4.)

C. - What a fine picture of the Christian heaven! There are thrones, and throngs of men and a book sealed with many seals whom no man in heaven or on earth could open or look on; then there was John who began to weep because ‘no man was found worthy to open and to read the book’. Upon this an elder tells him that Christ is able to open it. As the proverb runs ‘men’s songs are sung in praise of one whose marriage it is,’ all these mighty things are told of Christ, in order to magnify him. But they have no legs to stand on.

99. Heaven! -   And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. (V. 6.)

C. - Now, look at the imaginary character of St. John’s dream! In that heaven there are only Christians, four beasts and Christ, but none else. It is very strange that while on earth Christ had only two eyes and no trace of horns, but in heaven he got seven eyes and seven horns, which are really the seven spirits of God! What a pity, the Christians have accepted such nonsense (as revelation). They ought to have used a little sense anyhow.

100. Heaven - And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having everyone of them harps, and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of saints. (V. 8.)

C. - We wonder when Christ was not in heaven whom did these four beasts and twenty-four elders, etc., worship by burning incense and lighting lamps and offering food (eatable) performing aarti.  Now the Protestant Christians condemn idol-worship, whilst their heaven is the veritable home of idolatry.

101. Absurd  - And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying come and see. And I saw, and behold a white horse; and he that sat on him had a bow: and a crown was given unto him; and he went forth conquering and to conquer. And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second, beast say, come and see. And there went out another horse that was red; and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth…. And when he had opened the third seal, and to a black horse, and when he had opened the forth seal, and behold a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death…. (VI. 1-5, 7-8.)

C. - Now, are not these tales more absurd than those of the Puranas? How could horse and riders be contained in the seals of a book? Those who have accepted even the delirious mutterings of John as truth are the very embodiment of ignorance.

103. Stars - And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. (VI. 13, 14.)

C. - It is because, St. John the Divine was an ignorant man that he talked such nonsense. The stars are planets and spheres, how can they all fall on our earth, and why will the solar attraction let them shift hither and thither out of their orbits? Did he think that the heaven was like a mat (that it could be rolled)? It is a formless thing hence it can neither be rolled nor gathered together. This shows that John and the like were all savages what could they know about these things?

104. Lord of Israel - And I heard the number of them, which were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. (VII. 4, 5.)

C. - Is the Biblical God the Lord of tribes of Israel alone or is He the Lord of the whole Universe? Had He not been only their Lord He would not have sided with those savages alone? He always helped them only, did not even take the name of any other tribe or nation. Hence He is no God. His sealing men of the tribes of Israel, betrays the finitude of his knowledge and power. Or it (may be) was all John’s false conception.

105. Idolatry - Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple. (VII. 15.)

C. - Is not this the crudest form of Idolatry. Does not it show that the Biblical God is localized and embodied like a man? It seems that the Christian God does not at all sleep during the night because had it not been so, He would not have been worshipped during the night, or if He did sleep His sleep must have been very much disturbed during the night but if he worked day and night He must be very miserable and afflicted with diverse diseases.

106. Temple - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer: and there was given unto him much incense. And the smoke of the incense, which with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices and thundering, and lightning’s, and an earthquake. (VIII. 3, 4, 5.)

C. - Now even in (the Christian heaven) there is an altar, incense is burnt, lamps lighted, eatables offered, and trumpets sounded before the altar. Is their heaven in any way less ostentatious than a temple of Vairagees? If anything, there is more pomp and show there.

107. And the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up (VIII. 7.)

C. - Well done, ye Christian seer! This God, His angles, the sound of trumpets and the final dissolution of the world-all this looks more like children’s play.

109. …Were two hundred thousand thousand: (IX. 16.)

C. - Now were does such a vast number of horses graze and stay in heaven? What a large amount of dung there would be and what an amount of foul gas it must give rise to? We Aryas say good-bye to such a heaven, such a God and such a religion. It will be a very good thing if the Christians will also, through the grace of the Almighty God, be freed from the shackles (of the Christian religion).

111. And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angle stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. (XI. 1.)

C. - Let alone the earthly temples, even in the heaven of the Christians, temples of God are built and measured. Their teachings are as absurd as their heaven. Take for instance the Lord’s Supper. In it the Christians eat bread and drink wine imagining them to be Christ’s flesh and blood. Again, to keep images of the Cross-in the Church is nothing short of Idol worship.

112. And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: (XI. 19.)

C. - The temple (of God) in (the Christian) heaven perhaps remain generally closed. It is but occasionally opened. Can there even be a temple of God? The All-pervading Supreme Spirit as described in the Vedas can have no temple, but the God of the Christian, Who is embodied, can have a temple be it on this earth or in heaven. Just as trumets are sounded and tintinabulatory noise made in the temples here, the same is true of the Christian heaven. It must be only very occasionally that the Christians see the ark of festament. No one knows what the object of keeping it there is. The fact is that all these things are done to tempt men.
115. Satan - And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called that Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. (XII. 9.)

C. - Did not Satan, when he was in heaven, deceive men? Why did not (God) imprison him for life or put him to death? Why was he cast down on the earth? If the devil deceives the whole world, who is his tempter? If he has tempted himself then men can also be tempted by themselves, without his help. But if God be his tempter, such a being can never be God. It seems that even the Christian God feared the Devil, since if God be more powerful than he why didn’t He punish him as soon as he sinned. The power of the Christian God in this world is not even a thousandth part of the power of the Devil hence; it is very likely that the Christian God was quite helpless to prevent him from making mischief. He is not like the present-day Christian rulers who punish criminals such as dacoits and burglars as soon as possible. Who is then so foolish as to renounce the Vedic religion and accept, instead, the false religion of the Christians?

116. Who to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea for the devils come down unto you? (XII. 12.)

C. - Is the Christian God and Lord and Protector of that place (heaven) alone? Is not he the Lord and Protector of the earth and men and other living creatures thereon as well: If he be the King of the earth also why has he not been able to kill the Devil? That Devil goes and deceives everyone and yet He does not prevent him from doing so. the fact seems to be that there is one good God and another (more) powerful and wicked God.

118. Mount Sion - And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand having his Father’s name written on their foreheads. (XIV. 1.)

C. - Now, reader mark! God lives on the mount Sion and so does Jesus Christ, His son, with his Father. How were 4,000 men counted? Are there only 144,000 inhabitants of the heaven? What about millions of the Christians who had not God’s seal on their foreheads? Have they all gone to hell? The Christians ought to go the mount Sion and see if Christ’s Father and His army are these? If they be there, what is written in the Bible regarding them is true, otherwise it is all-false. If they came there from some other place, one should like to know why they came. If it be said that they all came down from heaven, were they birds that flew up and down? If God does go up and down. He is more like a magistrate who has very often to go on tour. He cannot, in that case, be one, two or (at the most) three. His number ought to be innumerable, since there ought to be at least one God for one such planet as our earth: one, two or three Gods would not suffice to administer justice to the inmates of the innumerable (solar systems) or be able to be present in all places at the same time.

119. Karma, no! - Yea, said the Spirit that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them. (XIV. 13.)

C. - Now, reader mark! The Christian God does say that the works of men will follow them; in other words, they shall reap the fruits of their deeds, but they (the Christians) say that Christ will take on himself the sins of all and therefore they shall be forgiven. Now the wise can decide whether what God says is right or what the Christians tell us. Both can never be right (when their statements are contradictory). One of them ought to be wrong, be it the Christians or their God? We don’t care which.

121. Omniscience - And after that I looked, and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened: (XV. 5.)

C. - If the Christian God was an All-knowing God, what was the business of the witnesses there, since He would have known everything by his Omniscience? It makes it positively clear that the Christian God is not Omniscient. Can such a being as man who is possessed of finite knowledge do the works of God? No, never, never. Many impossible things are told of angles in this book. No one can believe them to be true. The book is so full of such absurdities that it is useless to dwell any longer on the subject.

123. Second Marriages - For the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. (XIX. 7.)

C. - Now behold! Even marriages are celebrated in the Christian heaven, since God Himself celebrated the marriage of Christ there. Will the Christians please tell us who are His father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, etc. how many children were born of that marriage, since the loss of reproductive element causes loss of strength and energy, which, in its turn, causes decay of mental faculties? And shortness of life. Hence Christ must have died by this time. Anything that is the result of combination of different substances must disintegrate into its component parts. The Christians having put their faith in Christ have deluded them-selves, and who knows how long they will continue to do so.

125. From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged which were out of those things written in the books, according to their works. (XX.11, 12.)

C. - Now, don’t all these things look childish! How can the heaven and the earth fly away? From whose face did they fly away? What did God and his throne rest on? God must be sitting or standing when the dead were made to stand before Him. Does God conduct His business in the same way as is done in a Court of Law or in a shop where books or other documents are required to settle disputes or accounts? Were entries made into the books concerning the works of souls by God or His agents? Through belief in such (absured) things the Christians have called a being God who is no God, and refused to acknowledge the true God, as God.

130. Absurdities - And, Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. (XXII. 12.)

C. - If it be true that every man shall be rewarded according to his works, sins can never be remitted, but if they are remitted this statement of the Bible is false. If it be said that remission of sins is also recorded in the Bible the two statements are self-contradictory. You should therefore cease to believe in it. How much shall we write? The Christian Bible contains hundreds of thousands of things that are condemnable. We have only shown here a few absurdities; they will suffice to convince the wise of the untruth of it. Except a few things, all others are false. Truth adulterated with untruth can never remain pure and hence the works that contain it can never be acceptable. Besides in the acceptance of the Vedas the whole truth is accepted”.