Fourteen (1819)prose as Christ proclaiming that he was the literal son of God.^63 Or, why his teaching that
we should desire to live with each other upon our earth after the same manner that
advanced beings live on their planet (i.e., in peace with each other), was changed into the
religiously-flavored prayer inclusive of, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”^64
An entire book could be written concerning the things that Jesus (Yeshua) truly
taught the people and how they became convoluted and transposed by the religious views
and beliefs of those who availed themselves of secondhand accounts of what he taught,
“canonizing” them as “holy” writ. There is nothing “holy” about these “scriptures.” Both
the Old and New Testaments of the Bible were exactly what the people wanted to believe,
or rather, what their religious leaders wanted the people to believe.
The Story of the Brother of Jared
In the course of his ministry among the Jews and then among the ancient inhabitants of
the Western Hemisphere, Christ “redeemed [the people] from the fall” by teaching them exactly
what he was going to teach the fourteen-year-old Joseph Smith, Jr. almost 1800 years later. The
only other time that any reference is made to “redeemed from the fall” is in its mention in the
Book of Mormon in the book of Ether, where the story of the brother of Jared is told, which
presents a perfect segue into relating what Joseph Smith, Jr. was about to experience.
Before we compare Joseph’s experience with that of the brother of Jared in the Book of
Mormon, we need to understand why the story was given the way that it was. In the Old
Testament books attributed to Moses (Genesis through Deuteronomy), a false and self-serving
history was invented and told by the Jews. The legendary and epoch nature of these fables
has held the people spellbound and in bondage for millennia. Until more modern times, any
thought of challenging the Bible’s authenticity could have resulted in severe penalties or
even death. The advanced human editors needed a way to present what really happened
during these times in such a way as to keep the real truth hidden, while also lending a story
wherein one could extrapolate the essential elements of both without directly challenging
traditional accounts in the Bible. What now follows is the story of Jared and his brother
found in the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon—it is the real history!
Nothing in the Bible up to the time described as the “Tower of Babel”^65 (where the
languages of the earth were confounded) is real truth. There is, however, much truth that
the human races upon the earth did eventually develop their own languages over time,
according to their location and culture; however, this did not occur in one day, as some
erroneously believe. It is also true that the human race spread into all parts of the earth.
Thus, the story presented in the Book of Mormon begins with Jared coming to the Western
Hemisphere with his brother and their families, along with some others and their families,
“from the great tower, at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people, and swore in his
wrath that they should be scattered upon all the face of the earth.”^66
Because Jared and his brother were actual people who existed upon the earth, their
ancestry, unlike all other Jewish ancestry (including some genealogies used in other parts of
the Book of Mormon), does not go back to Adam. “Adam” never actually existed, but was
used as a religious metaphor to represent the first human beings upon the earth.^67
All one needs to do, then, is to consider the story of Jared and his brother and
compare the similarities of this story with some of the Jewish mythology presented in the
Old Testament. Like Noah and his ark, Jared and his brother were commanded to “gather
together thy flocks, both male and female, of every kind; and also of the seed of the earth of every