In Message 6840 of "Christ Conspiracy" Acharya wrote:

Christianity is an extortion racket

"The people who are finding solace in the pages of the Bible have been crippled by it in the first place. They are not told they are divine incarnations but horrible sinners, pathetic wretches in the eyes of a glorious God. The Judeo-Christian ideology creates the schism between human beings and God in the first place by utterly separating God out of creation. It then promises that it holds the keys to reuniting man with God. It's an extortion racket." - Acharya S

The Messianic Response:

Big words from someone who has written books that are full of errors and unfounded assertions about the Bible, Christianity in general, and belief in Christ!

(Please see refutations of Murdock's drivel at J.P. Holding's analysis of Acharya's latest book, The Christ Conspiracy. Also please see Mike Licona's A Refutation of Acharya S's book, The Christ Conspiracy, and "An answer to your rebuttal titled, "A Rebuttal to Mike Licona's ‘Refutation of The Christ Conspiracy’".)

Let's take apart Murdock's assenine assertions, sentence by sentence:

"The people who are finding solace in the pages of the Bible have been crippled by it in the first place."

How any so-called professional could make such an ignorant statement is beyond human logic! Where are the statistics to back up that comment? As usual, Murdock has once again made another blanket assertion that she did not (and cannot) back up by facts. For those of us who have been believers for years, the solace we have found in the pages of the Bible hasn't crippled us in the least. As a matter of fact, it has set us free and made us better people! (This is something "Acharya" Murdock and her ilk could never understand, since they are totally bound up by their limited, human mindsets and crippled ideology about God.)

Murdock continuously and openly accuses believers in Yeshua of being "mentally ill". Well, that's not suprising coming from someone who denies that God in the person of Yeshua HaMashiach (the Lord Jesus Christ) walked on this earth. ALL her "teachings" concerning God, Yeshua, and the Bible breathe the spirit of the Antichrist! She has never, and can never understand the Bible because she does not have the Holy Spirit residing within (John 3:3-21; John 14:16-17; Galatians 4:6).

1 Corinthians 2: 14 "Now the natural man does not receive the things from the Spirit of God - to him they are nonsense! Moreover, he is unable to grasp them, because they are evaluated through the Spirit."

Those who have been "saved" (come to a saving knowledge of Yeshua HaMashiach/Jesus Christ) have life-changing testimonies that could only have come from within. Yeshua has changed lives for 2,000 years - even though He has been physically in Heaven since His ascension. The written testimony of His Emissaries and the power of His Spirit continue to convince people that He is real, because belief in Him has turned lives around and even changed lives altogether. Millions of people from every nation and racial background - young and old, rich and poor, illiterate or genius - have been transformed by Yeshua HaMashiach. They have a dynamic, living, vital relationship with Him that transforms them into happier, better people who are able to view life from GOD'S viewpoint as opposed to their "carnal" and limited ones. (For those who are interested in discovering who He is and what He has accomplished, we invite you to read everything on our Messianic Judaism page.)

"They are not told they are divine incarnations but horrible sinners, pathetic wretches in the eyes of a glorious God."

This sentence is proof that she does not know a thing about the Bible. Nothing in the Bible tells us we are "divine incarnations"! We are God's creations, made in His image. That does NOT mean we are God or in any way "divine". The Bible tells us that the reason we are born into sin is because of the choice Adam and Eve made in the Garden of Eden. God gave ONE SINGLE command (Genesis 2:16-17) and that was to keep away from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, "for when you eat of it you will surely die". This did not mean man would die physically, but spiritually because God knew that man couldn't handle that kind of knowledge on his own. And yet man couldn't even keep that one commandment - let alone the 613 He gave to the Jews, and later on the Ten Commandments, which most people today feel don't even pertain to them!

Not only did Adam and Eve disobey God's one simple command, but in the process, they gave birth to the first "blame game" because they now KNEW "good and evil" (please see Genesis 3:1-16).

God had every right to be angry and to punish the Adam and Eve for their disobedience. After all, they had just ruined the future of mankind! In His fury, rather than to put Adam and Eve to death, however, He gave them animal skins with which to cover their nakedness (because, along with everything else, they had now been made aware of "shame"). This was a picture of the first "blood covering". (God has always required blood sacrifices to atone for sin. This is because, as He tells us in Leviticus 17:11 - For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one's life. and Deuteronomy 12:23 - But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. Blood is the symbol of life. It nourishes our own bodies and that of our unborn children. Without it, we die and turn to dust.

People seem to overlook the fact that the "serpent" himself, was thrown out of heaven for trying to be "like God". NOBODY is God but GOD Himself! Adam and Eve, rather than to heed their CREATOR, decided to heed the serpent, instead, thus condemning all following generations to have to deal with "the knowledge of good and evil". This is evidenced by everything we see in the world today, including on the pages of Murdock's books and websites which literally teem with lies and hatred.

For more information on the above subject, please see Challenging the Evil Bible website.

"The Judeo-Christian ideology creates the schism between human beings and God in the first place by utterly separating God out of creation. It then promises that it holds the keys to reuniting man with God."

Izzat so? How is God "separated out of creation"? He is our creator! He created everything in the entire universe! After the "fall of man" God did everything in His power to keep revealing Himself to His creation. When everything else failed because of man's constant disobedience, He sent a once-and-for-all SIN SACRIFICE - Yeshua HaMashiach, who was foreshadowed throughout the entire "Old Testament" - who did away with the need for animal sacrifices altogether. This DIVINE Sacrifice died willingly so that we could have eternal life with God, just for "believing" in Him! And Murdock and her ilk want to kick Him in the face for it - simply because they cannot understand God or the things of God....

More than 300 Bible prophecies have already come true and are continuing to unfold before our eyes, and Murdock and her clones are denying it. It's exactly as the Bible foretold in Matthew 7:13 - that most people on this earth will NOT be going to heaven, because they refuse to believe what's in front of their faces.

"It's an extortion racket."

The dictionary definition of "extortion" is:

1: the act or practice of extorting especially money or other property; especially: the offense committed by an official engaging in such practice

2: something extorted; especially: a gross overcharge

Believing in Christ does not fit this category. Therefore, the only extortion going is is the selling of Acharya's books....

If she insists on using this term to define the act of coercing people into believing one's belief, then her entire website and chatroom should be confiscated!

At "Christ Conspiracy" message 6385 Larry Snipes wrote:

I'm a little confused about something. Was there a historical figure known as Jesus and later on the church transformed him into a miracle worker in order to make him appear as a God? Who exactly are the disciples that claimed to have walked with Jesus? I guess the main question I have is, who exactly is responsible for starting the Jesus Christ myth? Thanks for any clarification.

The Messianic Response:

Yes, there truly was a historical figure known as Jesus (actually, His given name was Yeshua, which is Hebrew for "Salvation"). The "church" - especially the Catholic Church and various cults such as the Jehovah's Witnesses and others, along with many "televangelists" such as Kenneth Copeland, etc., have, for the most part distorted who He was and what He did. However, NOBODY "transformed him into a miracle worker in order to make him appear as a God"! Yeshua WAS God Incarnate; the Bible says so. He walked on water, healed the sick, raised people from the dead, was resurrected from His tomb - and afterward He was seen by at least 500 witnesses. He has fulfilled hundreds of Bible prophecies and changed lives in ways that only the people whose lives were changed can truly understand.

Who are the Disciples that claimed to have walked with Jesus? Please read: Yeshua - Real or Fraud? and then make up your own mind.

Who is responsible for starting the Jesus Christ myth? That's an easy one: People such as "Acharya S" - who don't have a clue but yet feel the need to perpetuate their uninformed, megalomaniac opinions! Unbeknownst to these poor, lost souls, they are being used by Satan to help spread lies and confusion in these end times....EXACTLY as the Bible predicted!

At message 6901 she wrote:

Here's the Big Chase: The Bible is stupid, dumb, moronic, idiotic, useless, foolish, trashy, genocidal, a waste of time, disgusting and pathetic. Now, if it wasn't touted as "God's Infallible Word," it would be passible, okay, mediocre, moderately amusing, amateurish and puerile. These would be COMPLIMENTS. As it stands, blecch.

The Messianic Response:

What's a "big chase"???? More importantly, why doesn't D. Murdock - for once - TRY to explain WHY she feels this way using some REAL evidence instead personal opinions? We at The Refiner's Fire challenge her to PROVE that the Bible warrants all those ridiculous adjectives! We CHALLENGE her to take the Bible, page for page, and prove WHY it is stupid, dumb, moronic, and all the other childish adjectives she used, to SHOW how it is a waste of time! We challenge her to put her money where her mouth is, put her PERSONAL OPINIONS aside, and for once do some REAL research about God and the Bible.

Everything that D. Murdock writes about God and the Bible indicates that she (1) has no clue, and (2) absolutely HATES God and anything to do with God, and those who believe in God. What a shame! All that time and energy going into hating and writing hateful things. Perhaps she should get a real job where she could let out her aggressions somehow....

If she wants to find out the TRUE definition of "blecch", all she needs to do is re-read her own anti-Christ books, or the drivel espoused on all of her websites.

In message 6924 Acharya S wrote the following:

Perhaps it would be helpful for us to try to fathom why exactly some people who spin off into religious fanaticism become so hostile and vicious. Such as Fred Phelps or the individuals who assail me, with the most hateful and ugly sentiments, sinister suspicions and unsympathetic calumny imaginable.

I cannot even fathom compounding someone's grief by picketing at their loved one's funeral with signs filled with hateful and abusive language. What kind of human being is this who kicks others when they are down? Wow. I am amazed at how unloving some people are.

I have endured the most horrendous experiences these past few years, with a stream of terrible things happening that I have barely discussed - yet there are those who, even knowing these things, are so hateful and vicious that they continue to kick me. In fact, some of them have CAUSED a great deal of the grief I've experienced and compelled me to discuss things I never wanted to, in order to protect myself. These people have no concern for whom they hurt or the pain they cause others, including children. My trauma was so great that it took me almost a year to recover from the shock enough to even discuss it. My health suffered from it, yet I find myself continuing to be battered.

If this is "religion," I want no part of it. The hatefulness and viciousness with which these "Christians" have attacked exemplifies exactly why I have critiqued religion in the first place. Religious fanaticism makes people lose their humanity. I am constantly being reminded of this fact by its adherents, who seem utterly incapable of empathy.

The Messianic Response:

Anyone got a violin? What in the world does this woman expect when she is constantly slinging obscenities at God, the Bible, and believers in Christ? It appears she can dish it out, but she can't take it. C'est la vie, "Acharya". When you pee in the wind, expect it to come back to haunt you at some point!

Murdock is absolutely right on about there being some major "religious" fruits and nuts who have tried to twist Scriptures to suit their own fanatic and/or weird purposes. But, how is that any different from what she is doing?

God IS real; the entire universe is evidence. He doesn't need anyone like "Acharya S" to confirm or deny Him because facts are facts. Unfortunately, she probably won't realize this until Judgment Day. And then it will be too late to take back all the hateful things she said about Him.

NOTE FROM THE RABBIS @ THE REFINER'S FIRE: For those skeptics who think the Bible is a myth, we suggest you read "84 facts in the book of Acts that are confirmed by historical and archeological research" by Colin Homer. From the book: "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist" by Geisler and Turek, ISBN 1581345615.