Isaiah and Jeremiah were saying the right things, but they didn't have the slightest ability to do what Christ did. They could not systematically develop the subject of morality.

The E word has to be used here. All realities evolve including knowledge. Moral truth had to evolve, starting with primitive concepts and then being refined by Christ's teaching.

Therefore, the onslaught of attempts to prove things with the Old Testament are not valid. If it wasn't said by Christ, it isn't the authoritative truth on the subject.

Sometimes there are minor historical points to be made through the Old Testament. But not the way fundamentalists go about it trying to absolutize everything. It's like arguing steam engines with General Motors. Old realities get replaced by more adequate ones.

So what are the provers really trying to do? They are dominators. They are trying to take over the religion by imposing corruption onto other persons.

Domination is the most basic corruption, being psychologically conditioned in subconscious minds. Dominators try to impose corruption by absolutizing the extremely inadequate realities of the Old Testament.

Consider creationism. It's no one's business to start with how God created material life. Humans weren't involved, so it's none of their business. Scientists study the material consequences, but they don't study God.

The purpose of creationism is to create a litmus test for acceptability as a corrupter of religion. Corrupters structure their power by placing demands on other persons. If you accept their corruption, then you are controlled by them. To work, it has to be corruption that is imposed, not truth.

Christ taught how to develop knowledge. It's a continuous process of improving realities in the mind. Corrupters impose absolutes, which is not a process of increasing knowledge.

Corrupters pretend that there are points of reality (hardly knowledge) that are so important to know that they have to be imposed, and they supposedly were revealed through the Bible. Why does anyone need to know what corrupters claim is truth, such as creationism? Nothing is ever done with it beyond building up the power base of corrupted persons.

The Ten Commandments are an example of rudimentary concepts which are too crude for advanced knowledge. People are supposed to be determining what stealing and lying are, not whether they are wrong. It's like ten steps for building an automobile. Build the frame, add the body, insert the motor. Do you suppose engineers learn that? Proving things with the Old Testament is like proving that an automobile doesn't run because the motor was built before the frame.

Christ was crucified for breaking the Ten Commandments, because there wasn't enough knowledge (or truth) with the slogans.

Provers can find anything they want in the Old Testament, and they give it interpretations in conflict with other truth. Supposedly, it cannot be in error. But it can.

There were about a dozen authors who added to Isaiah and Jeremiah. It demonstrates how altered the Old Testament is. Major errors could not get accepted, but trivial corruptions could, and provers use trivia to make their arguments.

The overriding point is that truth has to be consistent with all objective reality, most of which is observable at the present time.

Example—Lying Scribes