The Gospel According to Laurent Guyénot

The Neo-Nazi Attack on the Bible

The number of furious denigrators of the Old Testament I have encountered sputtering with anger toward Yahweh has increased. These angry ones often invoke the writing of French author Laurent Guyénot as motivation/inspiration for their disconcert.

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The Unz Review published Mr. Guyénot’s column, “The Biblical Lens and the Nietzschean Light.” It contains falsehoods representative of his oeuvre and running the gamut from egregious to laughable.

The shallow foundation of his didactic pronouncements rest largely on vitriolic slogans appointed for belief by the credulous reader’s assent to his personal authority.

Guyénot: Christians worship two gods, Christ and Yahweh, but claim they are one. Certainly, the God of the Old Testament plays a secondary role in Christian consciousness. He remains behind the scenes. But he nevertheless pulls a number of strings.

Hoffman: Outside of the the Arian heresy, which was condemned by the Universal Church at the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D., contemporary advocates of the belief that Jesus is separate and stands apart from Yahweh in a subsidiary role, include the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization.

The Church of the Ages, and the overwhelming body of Christians, worship Yahweh as Jesus, two of the three persons who comprise the Triune God. This is confirmed by the etymology of their names. In Hebrew the name of Jesus is Yehoushua (“Yahweh saves”). The shortened form is Yeshua—“He will save.” In old “Middle English,” Yeshua was abbreviated as Iesu, which became “Jesus” in the English language of the early seventeenth century.

The attempt to separate Jesus from Yahweh is integral to Mr. Guyénot’s fiction. In truth, Jesus and Yahweh are the same: “The Father and I are one” (John 10:30).

Before the Arian heresy, the Catholic Church confronted the heresy of Marcion, who was active in Rome circa 130-140 A.D., during which time he published his Antitheses, an attack on the Old Testament, claiming it was “pseudonumou gnoseos” (“falsely called knowledge”). To derogate the Old Testament Marcion was impelled to surgically remove large parts of the New, and confect a non-Judaic Jesus. Pseudo-Christian Marcion’s detestation of the Old Testament has been a powerful factor in undermining the Gospel and the Christian faith. It serves as a sneak attack on Jesus Himself, who quoted or referenced the Old Testament favorably no less than 180 times. It is exceedingly difficult to reconcile animus toward the Old Testament Torah with the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ. Once his authority as a teacher is undercut, his deity is undermined.

The Nazis faced the dilemma of how to disconnect Christian faith in the Bible on the part of  a plurality of Germans, without launching a frontal assault on Jesus Himself, which in that era would have been a non-starter. The Nazis hit on the idea of suggesting in various ways that the Old Testament was “unworthy” of Jesus. Some Nazi theoreticians went so far as to confect a counterfeit Nordic/“Aryan Christ” as a substitute for the authentic Jesus of the Bible.

Once that conditioning process was in play, the Hitlerists made headway in deprecating the Hebrew Bible altogether, eventually to the point of abhorrence. A theology like that requires either the outright desertion of Jesus, or the more diplomatic tack of excising His Gospel’s inescapable rootedness in the Old Testament. Thus pared down, not much remains other than an anemic, nominal acknowledgement that Jesus was “a good man” who offered the world a saccharine code of conduct: be nice and learn to share.

The Gospel According to Guyénot: Everyone who says he is a Christian is one