Joseph Wheless

Is It God's Word Joseph Wheless

Is It God's Word is Joseph Wheless's passionate argument against the Bible, in which he argues that the book's contradictions, mistakes and errors are grounds to believe that it is not, in fact, the word of God.

This book contains a thorough, blow-by-blow account of the creation of the Bible and the Gospels, offering throughout an alternate interpretation of the Good Book. Identifying the bloody-minded tribalism that regularly occurs upon the pages, Wheless proceeds to eviscerate the Bible as an inconsistent text of myths and stories assembled over the course of centuries of Iron Age conflict.

Using his unique style, combining reason with frequent ventures to irate sarcasm and humor, Wheless mounts a lengthy critique upon the Christian and Hebrew texts. The established history of the time, defined by war and violence, is drawn upon together with previous sources which discredit the prophecy of Jesus Christ as a recycled set of principles and characteristics which had previously surfaced in other religions.

Much of Wheless's uncompromising Biblical criticism was later adopted and parroted by subsequent authors. His vociferous and unstintingly rational criticisms and points were, in the mid-to-late 20th century, echoed by writers seeking to present an iconoclastic view to a public growing more receptive to atheistic arguments. With books such as Is It God's Word and Forgery in Christianity, Joseph Wheless proved himself ahead of his time.

Writing in the American South during the 1920s and 1930s, Joseph Wheless was a Tennessee native whose fervently atheistic views put him at odds with the deeply conservative society around him. A lawyer by trade, he backed up his words with action; spending decades successfully defending a series of atheistic and free thinking groups in civil court from challenges by religious groups and authorities.