What are the origins and the trajectory of the Judeo and Christian religions?

It took a lot of effort and I

was forced to examine by shaking my already founded beliefs of my faith and to challenge it against
the truth of the Scriptures. What I came to realize was nothing short of a Spiritual earthquake. I felt
like the earth was swallowing my whole being by realizing that everything I had learned so far was
wrong. I thought that the foundations of my faith were quicksands and I wasn’t standing on the rock of
the Scriptures anymore. I remembered immediately the verse in John 8:44.

44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from
the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie,
he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44 KJV)

It is necessary to clarify that this passage is talking to Jews, but I’m not implying that Jews are devils
since most of the people and the writers of the New Covenant were Jews. Rather any unbeliever that
hates Jesus is a child of Satan. This is a general application text not a condemnation of Jews. The
adversary has always been a liar, and the father of lies, deception, corruption, and the father of
pagan traditions. The verse above brought my attention to Jeremiah’s prophetic passages where the
truth was right before my eyes. These passages read as follows:

19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall
come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. 20 Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are
no gods? 21 Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine
hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD. (Jeremiah 16:19-21 KJV)

I have come to realize that the fathers of the Christian faith inherited false doctrines which became
traditions of lies. I came also to know the truth that the faith, which I had my foundations built on,
was based on pagan gods titles. Bear with me for a moment please! I’m taking you somewhere. It
always puzzled me when Jesus said in Matthew…

21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that
doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord,
have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done
many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye
that work iniquity. (Matthew 7:21-23 KJV)

According to Hebrew history, there was a time when the Name Yahweh was called and pronounced by
His people. It was called in prayers, in greetings, and in blessings. But, all this started to change
around the third century B.C.E. The Jews began teaching that the true Name of our Creator was too
sacred to be pronounced. This teaching became a traditional practice, uninspired by our Creator
Almighty, but one inspired gradually from pagan influence when Israel and Judah profaned Yahweh’s
name among the nations in their dispersions as Ezekiel 36:22 and the Encyclopedia Britannica State:
22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith (Yahweh) the Lord GOD; I do not this for your
sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the
heathen, whither ye went. (Ezekiel 36:22 KJV)

“Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, his name being revealed to Moses as four Hebrew
CONSONANTS (YHWH) CALLED THE TETRAGRAMMATON. AFTER THE EXILE
(6TH CENTURY BC), and especially from the 3rd century BC on, Jews ceased to use
the name Yahweh for two reasons. As Judaism became a universal religion through its
proselytizing in the Greco-Roman world, the more common noun elohim, meaning
"god," tended to replace Yahweh to demonstrate the universal sovereignty of Israel's
God over all others. At the same time, the divine name was increasingly regarded as
too sacred to be uttered; it was thus replaced vocally in the synagogue ritual by the
Hebrew word Adonai ("My Lord"), which was translated as Kyrios ("Lord") in the
Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament.” Encyclopedia Britannica

The Encyclopedia Judaica also recounts the time the practice of uttering and pronouncing the Name
of Yahweh for that of Adonai “my Lord”, which began in 586 B.C.E. This name was still regularly
pronounced with its proper vowels wherever Yahweh's Name was written in the Holy Scriptures. But,
as time continued on, the guardians (the Masoretes) to the original writings began to make changes.
 Vowel points were added to Yahweh’s Name where they were not part of the text in the first place, so,
the reader was guided to read and pronounce the titles Adonai and Elohim instead of Yahweh’s Name.
In many places, these alternate names replaced totally the Name of Yahweh. Let’s continue studying
some of the many Jewish sources according to The Encyclopedia Judaica that verifies these facts and
very well sums it up.

“YHWH. The personal name of the God of Israel is written in the Hebrew Bible with
the four consonants yhwh and is referred to as the "Tetragrammaton". At least until
the destructions of the First Temple in 586 b.c.e., this name was regularly
pronounced with its proper vowels, as is clear from the *Lachish Letters, written
shortly before that date. But at least by the third century b.c.e., the pronunciation of
the name yhwh was avoided, and Adonai, "the Lord", was substituted for it, as
evidenced by the use of the Greek word Kyrios, "Lord", for yhwh in the Septuagint,
the translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that was begun by Greek-speaking Jews in
that century. Where the combined form *Adonai yhwh occurs in the Bible, this was
read as *Adonai *Elohim, "Lord God". In the early Middle Ages, when the
consonantal text of the Bible was supplied with vowels points to faciliate its correct
traditional reading, the vowel points for 'Adonai with one variation - a sheva with the
first yod of YHWH instead of the hataf-patah under the aleph of ‘Adonai’ were used for
YHWH, thus producing the form Yehowah.

When Christian scholars of Europe first began to study Hebrew, they did not
understand what this really meant, and they introduced the hybrid name "Jehovah". In
order to avoid pronouncing even the sacred name *Adonai for YHWH, the custom
was later introduced of saying simply in Hebrew ha-Shem (or Aramaic Shemc, "the
Name") even in such an expression as "Blessed be he that cometh in the name of
YHWH" (Ps. 118:26). THE PROHIBITION OF USE OF THE NAMES OF GOD. The
prohibition applies both to the pronunciation of the name of God and its committal
to writing, apart from its use in sacred writings.
The prohibition against the pronunciation of the name of God applies only to the
Tetragrammaton, which could be pronounced by the high priest only once a year on
the Day of Atonement in the Holy of Holies (cf. Mishnah Yoma 6:2), and in the Temple
by the priests when they recited the Priestly Blessings (Sot. 7:6; see also Ch. Albeck
(ed.), Seder Nashim (1954), 387). As the Talmud expresses it: "Not as I am written
am I pronounced. I am written yod he vav he, and I am pronounced alef dalet" (nun
yod, i.e., Adonai; Kid. 71a).” Encyclopedia Judaica, Volume 7, pages 680-682,
Our Savior said. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom
of heaven… why? We have a problem here since most that are doing works in the Savior’s
Name are not doing them in His or His Father’s true Name. Notice the words “Lord” and
“name” … Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? LORD IS A TITLE NOT A
PROPER NAME! Would you not agree that living a lifestyle void of obedience to our
Heavenly Father and His eternal Word will get us nowhere but to eternal condemnation?
After all He will say to them… I never knew you depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him
unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the
floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was
founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them
not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the
rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it
fell: and great was the fall of it. (Matthew 7:24-27 KJV)