The Third and Last Testament (from the Knowledge Concerning God)
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THE THIRD AND LAST TESTAMENT, is a combination of the first and second volumes of a bigger collection named THE KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING GOD. The two first books are the analysis of the books of the Protestant Bible in which we point out the unnumbered contradictions on it. (would be the same for the Roman Catholic Bible but we avoided to use it for nobody be suspicious as explained in the book). The objective of to work with the biblical contradictions is to show how wrong are the conceptions of God the mainstream believers got. Our collection does not denies the Existence of God. Instead, we rationalize the understand and separate facts from myths. One example of our logic for to do it is to take the myth of creation. We understand that, the myth were created probably in a pre-historic time. It was an attempt of to explain what is going on our every day life. So, the author was not really thinking on create a canonized text but its use in the tradition made it be in the biblical canon. Later, in an attempt of rationalize and band together the others first books the dates were added. Is because of it that the projection for the dates of birth of Adam and Eve come after the starting of the Egyptian Civilization. But what is really wrong in the myth is to paint God as a human being with superpowers. It becomes clear for example just after the sin of Adam and Eve.In there He appear to be playing peek-a-boo with His infants. He asks where they are and what was happen. Omniscient as He Is, He knew what was going on, only who didn't knew Him would write such story or read it and don't see its simpletom contents.
About the Author
Valquirio de Magalhães Barbalho was born 4 July 1958 in the little city of Virginopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil. In the peacefulness of that rural city, he woke up prematurely full of resourcefulness that brought him to write, in the midst of others, the fictional piece O Selvagem, ou a Republica dos Moleques (The Savage, or the Tricky Little Kids Republic) in 1977. Written at the end of his adolescence, this first great book only came to be published in 1995 by the company O Escriba/Belo Horizonte-MG-Brazil. After living for first nineteen years in his native city, he dwelled in Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais; where he went and acquired a degree in veterinary medicine. Next, he returned to his native city, where he taught the subjects of biology, geography, and chemistry to high school students. He then migrated to United States with his wife, Maria da Penha, where they have lived since the end of 1993. Not long after establishing residence in Massachusetts, he felt the impulse to take a close look at the various religious literatures distributed in the midst of the Brazilian community in the United States. Piecing together observations acquired from his time in Brazil, he wrote the third and fourth volumes of the collection The Knowledge Concerning God. Simultaneously he wrote hundreds of letters addressed to priests and communities’ newspapers, many of which were published, especially by the Brazilian Times. The author acquired the label of a writer of polemic subjects, which does not fit his preferential diplomatic temper. Next, he took away from this contact with the readers a need to conclude the project The Knowledge Concerning God. Despite many difficulties while writing the first and second volumes from The Knowledge Concerning God, denominated in conjunction with The Third and Last Testament, were completed more than two years after they started due to the careful study of the Old and the New Testaments. At the same time in which he wrote those volumes, he opted to be a stay-at-home father to take care of his daughter, Maria Clara, who was born prematurely. These volumes are not a result of the imagination of the author but a fruit of the methodic observation of the human relationship with the Truth of the Existence of God. There is no estimate for the starting and completion of the fifth volume of the collection because this was conceived in order to contain a history of the happenings related to the publication of the first four volumes and explain any doubts that will come from its contents.