Hope I don't waste your time, but would like to rant here. The New Testement is also filled with parables, as Jesus often spoke in Parables. In my faith I believe in the subjective faith, that is, prayer and talking to God on a personal level rather than following the theology of a denomination. The Soren Kierkegaard existential truth, which advocates a life of faith in Christ which will bring about Good works; this faith is far closer to the "Child Like" faith of "The Way." In this way, faith, following and then the word is read. Rather than its opposite, that the New and Old Testement must be followed and faith is 2nd or 3rd in command. When we subjugate ourselves to read before faith, we can plummet into the anti-Christian theological aspects of Christendom. If one is born without ever knowing the word, but yet has faith in God and does the works of Jesus, he is with God and God will judge him as such. He may not know God, as John 14:6 points out, but he still incurs a righteous Judgement from God. And Jesus's story about the Good Samaritan, who was not Jewish, but helped the fickle man on the side of the road, whilst others passed by him, those others being priests and Jews, illustrates that the Samaritan was see as righteous in the eyes of God and would be judged as such.

Fortunately, in this globalized world most people can obtain the New Testament, which is an instruction book to follow "The Way."

Nearly all modern Jews today reject Jesus. They are a defection from God and are thusly apostates to Jesus and his teachings which came from God. And it makes sense that they did, whether one wants to believe in God or not, because they are full of love and faith, rather than the teachings and oral traditions of man which the Talmud preaches and in which the Torah is only the 1st of the covenant. Some, however, messianic Jews, who follow many of the traditions and culture of Judaism believe Jesus to be the Jewish Messiah, these Jews, of whom are closer to the Jews who followed Jesus in his time of pilgrimage.

Interestingly, paralleling todays age of decadence and fall from grace, the culture of creditor jubilees and debts owed at interest; Jesus went to look for apostles that could help his cause, he chose a money-changer, a Tax-collector, and a fervent right wing radical, and Nationalistic Jew, like the Zionist we see today, these men then gave up their occupations and sins to follow "The Way" and help the needy and to FORGIVE DEBTS, that means debts in heart and in money and interest, for usury is considered a sin in Christian thought and "The Way", but that we must not rebel, only serve in faith and forgive all debts. Romanism changed debts to trespasses! And what do we live under now but a caricature of Roman Law, which forgives not debts.

The Old Testement is the Jewish Bible. Jesus often used parables from Psalms and was well versed in Judaism. So he understood their dualisms, qualms and hypocrisy in tradition and trivialness in oral law.

The Jews today who do not follow what Jesus preached are anti-Christ. It's that simple. Is that Anti-Judaic, no because the Jews today are not really Jews. "The Way", is Judaism. Fortunately many Jews did follow Jesus and turned the other cheek, the pagan Romans than created an institution around Jesus to inhibit the conservative revolutionary brotherhood of "The Way", and its good works and faith in God rather than believing a fallible man, such as Caesar to be God.

Many Protestants say that the Deuterocanonical books are apocrypha; that they are not Scripture. One of the reasons given is that there were no prophets in any of these books. The church rejected the Book of Enoch as did Judaism, and yet it is considered one of the oldest books ever written, which was quoted by Jude and read widely during Jesus' time. Why reject this text when in it it Enoch says it was written for a remote generation still to come! Well for two thousand years it was lost and when Israel was founded it had been found in a cave! And is now read widely today. It is canon in the Ethiopian church and Armenian church.

What do we find in it? Considering it was written between 300 - 100 BC and also considering that it was rewritten down on a scroll and is thus likely far older than the current copies we have, considering it talks about tablets, rather than scrolls, we read the EXACT prophecy to the year of when Jesus, the Son of Man will be born, 70 generations. It is uncanny, and at the thousand year close of Enoch's Weeks (which is how they determined time) the chosen people should scattered and their temple burnt with fire. Again, Enoch prophesied the 70AD event to almost the very year! The next Weeks consist of the apostate generation and the church age and finally the return of Christ and the false Christ and the destruction of the world, but in plenty of detail.

I believe the Roman Catholic church and Judaism banned this book, because it prophesies Jesus and historical events to the very years and two, because it talks about the Nephilim and Fallen watchers from the sky, that beget Giants. The old testament talks about the Nephilim in various places but never details them further. Nevertheless, like this book, other books as well talk about Jesus such as: The Wisdom of Solomon! Probably written by an Alexandrian Orthodox Jew.

Nonetheless, Wisdom 2:12-20 is one of the clearest passages that point to a person who would call himself Son of God, who would be put to death by jealous people. Let us look at Wisdom 2:12-20 12: