Fireburndoctor Gets the 3rd degree

By Reap Paden

They came to me. I opened and email that was titled 'guest for radio show', it was from a woman representing fireburndoctor.com. The woman wanted to come on my live radio show and talk about their amazing service.

The Burn Eradication Project that saves lives and stops the terrible pain, suffering and disfigurement from burns, using a state-of-the-art process that bypasses the deleterious effects of burns at a phenomenal rate, for FREE, from a distance, with no risk, drastically reducing the need for expensive medical procedures.
CALL OR TEXT IMMEDIATELY within the first 30 minutes of exposure, on your way to the hospital.

Call or text to medical Doctor Joseph Watson the precise TIME of the burn and the victim's:

    NAME at birth
    DATE of birth
    PLACE of birth

OR text a picture, ANY photograph of the PERSON (can be taken on site with a cell phone), to:

1-XXX-XXX-XXXX (number removed to protect the innocent and/or gullible)

Ok, I was skeptical to say the least but contrary to the claims of other people I am not closed-minded so I figured what the hell? I replied and accepted their offer to come on the show. We set a date and discussed who would be coming on for the interview.

I looked into the fireburndoctors before the day of the show.There were many testimonials from people claiming they had been helped by the service. They even had video that wa supposed to prove how wel the service worked. The first video showed some idiot ranting and moaning about his burn then showed him the next day (after the fireburndoctors had been called) the guy then was talking about how the burn didn't hurt any more and he felt much better. Not a real solid piece of evidence in my opinion, if this was the best they could do there was gonna be a problem. I thought about what it felt like to get burned and unless it was a really severe burn, yea it felt better the next day. I really didn't see the need in calling some service to provide something that was going to happen on its own.

Then as I scrolled down the page I saw  Chris Flemming. The caption below the video read-

Chris Fleming burned himself at work and immediately called fireBurnDoctor screaming with pain (expressed in his liberal use of the "F-word").

Here, Chris is listening for the first time to his own voice recorded messages to fireburndoctor. In minutes, his pain was GONE and he went back to work.... Truly Amazing!!!

My first thought was- Chris Flemming has a job? Then I watched the video. It was a recording of Chris crying like a baby because he had burned his hand. Then a follow-up recording of Chris telling how amazing it was that his hand was no longer red. This was followed by some video of what I assume to be Chris Flemming murmuring something and a guy named Joe Lowe, Fire Chief saying the fireburndoctors works.

As soon as I saw Chris Flemming was involved I knew there were going to be serious problems with the  claims from fireburndoctors. Chris Flemming is known for being not only a little wimp but a liar. He is the same moron from the 'Dangers of the Paranormal' website I wrote about previously. In the video there Chris talks about almost falling into a bed of nails and escaping certain doom only by way of a ghost who stopped his fall just in time. WHOA! THAT WAS CLOSE!  Chris certainly is one lucky fella to be saved from deadly accidents by paranormal invervention of some kind on more than one occasion. Yes Chris is either lucky or he is full of shit. Considering my life on the planet and the things I've seen and done, and considering countless other people whom I have talked with through the years. It is pretty safe to say Chris likes to make up stories or let's just call him a damn liar.

Chris Flemming if you ever read this do yourself a favor get a real job, preferably one where you don't speak to others. Every time I see/hear you it's an example of how to lose respect and dignity as quickly as possible. Very sad.

I also noticed the fireburndoctors had been on several radio shows including Darkness radio with Dave Schrader who was also part of the ' Dangers of the Paranormal' site if I remembered correctly, along with the man I obsess with Chip Coffey (By the way, go to http://chipcoffey.info to see the latest info on Chip).

Dave seems like a nice enough guy but not real bright. Dave doesn't seem to understand that having an open mind doesn't mean accepting every stupid or amazing claim that come along or giving that claim consideration for the rest of your life. It's okay to listen to someone and then decide if you believe them or not. If you always say "It could be possible no one really knows" that's fine but it makes you look unable to figure out what is more likely true and then keep learning from that point. If you always give everyone equal consideration you are going to be liked by everyone but are you really going to be respected for what you believe in? No, you aren't cause the fact is no one believes in everything, if they act like they do it's just that, an act. The terms two-faced, wishy-washy, fence-sitter, and yes-man come to mind.

So now we know there is a group of people associated with the fireburndoctor.com who are obviously not known for telling the truth and/or acting like responsible mature adults with good reasoning skills and the best interest of others in mind.

The day of the radio show we contacted Alison Mcdermott, who had contacted me. She said that she had a medical background. We also called a man who had called fireburndoctors to help his wife, he said he had been a medic in Vietnam.

I allowed Alison to tell us what fireburndoctor was all about and how they could heal burns.She said the the burn could be not only helped but there would be little or no tissue loss during the process. I then asked her if the process repaired damaged cells. She replied by telling me the brain causes damage through negative thoughts. I in turn replied telling her that was all well and good but when you get burned there is cell damage, the damage is not caused by negative thought. The damage is caused by the cells coming in contact with a heat source hot enough to damage or destroy them. What happens to the destroyed cells? I wondered again out loud.

Alison could not answer that question for me and it became a sticking point because it was very important for us to know exactly what we were being expected to believe if we were to discuss the fireburndoctor service.

After a while I knew we would not get a straight answer from Alison. We then turned to the man whose wife had been healed. He told a great story but couldn't give any solid details about the healing process. The rest of the time he provided very little information that was of any worth. He did start to defend some of the weaker positions Alison took on the process and it became obvious the man who was providing testimony was actually here to try and back Alison up in case she got in over her head. The problem at this point was they were both in way over their heads in fact they both seemed to have barbells tied to their necks.

My co-hosts and I asked reasonable questions and were met with answers like "bio-feedback" and "it just works"

I asked Alison if this magical process would work on other injuries. Alison told me yes it would but they were not helping people with other types of injuries because they needed testimonials from burn victims in order to provide validity to what they could do. Until then they were not going to help anyone else, not even children who were suffering.  If they really had the ability to do the things they claim then how could anyone be so selfish as to deny help to children who are suffering everyday from horrible injury? Alison was looking like a very cold, very uncaring woman at this point. Her reasoning was warped to say the least.

At one point it was suggested I burn myself and see how the service worked on my burn. Alison got a bit nervous and mentioned you had to have a certain state of mind. I mentioned Chris and his habit of being full of shit to Alison. She didn't seem to welcome the insight.

I knew by now Alison and her friend were full of it and my attempt to keep an open mind had resulted in keeping me from accepting more flawed data just like it was supposed to do.

I thanked Alison and her little helper for coming on the show and then went through the points she could not support one more time in order to help keep people from becoming fireburndoctor victims and getting burned a second time.

If you would like to hear the exchange you can find it here- http://www.reapsowradio.com/archives/tag/fireburndoctor I seriously doubt it will be found on the fireburndoctor website for reasons that we may never know...

Another bit of information I'd like to share with you involving my good friend, Chip Coffey, the whining, crying, liar who can't accept the fact he is full of shit and does not have any special abilities except he is able to act like a twit so well it boggles the mind. Chippy sent me a 'cease and desist' email. Seems he doesn't like the http://chipcoffey.info site. Just thought I would publicly say that I really couldn't care any less than I do now about what makes Chip sad. There is also an interesting effect called "The Streisand Effect" If anyone knows Chip maybe you could tell him to look it up. As a result of this effect I have been asked to do an interview about Chip Coffey and his BS. I'll be doing that this evening. Also as an effect of his actions trying to squash  freedom of expression there is a new website and the people responsible for it (who shall remain nameless) have uploaded the new site to numerous servers and it will continue to pop up for as long as Chippy wants to act like a careless idiot. The numerous instances of these webpages also make it all the more likely that when searching good old chip coffey's name one of the more honest sites will show up as a result. Isn't the internet great? The site is parody and anything mentioned about his abilities is true, he doesn't have any. Any legal action will need to include Chip proving in a court of law that he can indeed do things that are outside the bounds of nature. No one has ever done that before but Chip is so great I'm sure he can pull it off, I'd love to see that. He's more likely to just get burned, maybe he knows someone to call for that.

Issue 74 – Paranormal Entertainment Industry is Killing the Truth…

By Kirby Robinson

… and giving birth to a generation of fake demonologists.

"If everyone in the paranormal would just be honest and admit that they want their own show and get paid to do what they do, we'd all be better off." Meagan Murphy,

Playboy model [of thongs and lingerie], paranormal investigator

Yea the entire genre of paranormal enthusiasts are really quite mislead aren't they? The new statu quo is to call oneself a ‘demonologist’ every ‘team’ has one right? Someone who steps up and says its them who can battle these horrid creatures and help you get un-haunted, pffftt...Amazing and alarming the rise of stupidity since para-TV hit huh? All you need is a blog and too much time on your hands and a false following of idiots who believe your every word and voilà, you’re a demonologist, at least in the world of the internet warrior. What comes to my mind is The ScrewTape letters where the old demon Screwtape apprentice’s the young demonic nephew wormwood. Ironically mirrors today’s demonologist, a comedy of errors. Then we have our diehard skeptics who scoff and laugh at anything spiritual as a means to explain or comprehend supernatural phenomena and to them I give a quote and bid you adieu.

“Choosing not to believe in the Devil won’t protect you from him.”–Father Lucas

Recent Blog Comment

5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: 6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. 8Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

Matthew Chapter 8

The Paranormal Entertainment Industry is killing off the truth about demons and demonology. They now claim that they are the ones that you should contact if you're having demonic issues. In just a few short years, thanks to para-fake-reality TV show, Paranormal State, those within the field claim to know as much, if not more, than the church! They've even created new ways to cast out demons. If you believe what they're advocating, you don't have to be a servant of God to cast out demons. In their confused way of thinking, all you need is a Facebook page, a library card, and/or credit card [so you can buy certain fake "demonology" books], and a six-pack [or case] of your favorite beer. Then, hang out on the web and act as if you’re a master demonologist.

A word to the wise and if I'm addressing the fake demonologist crowd and their deluded followers, I'm keeping it simple.

- There is and was only ONE [1] Master Exorcist: Jesus Christ. Everyone that came after Him has only incremental amounts of his abilities that we as humans can't understand.

- Only a true Christian can cast out demons. That might anger people, but it's the truth. If you can't look Jesus in the eye and say it like you mean it, stay away from the field of demonology.

- That He was the only Son of GOD, born a human, died on the cross to pay the price for our sins, He is the only way into heaven. Again, if you don't believe that, just shut up about being a "demonologist." Stop using people, and watch The Exorcist for the umpteenth time.

Because Christ taught us that there are only a very small and limited number of things to use to cast out demons:

- His name

- His word

- Prayer

- Fasting

That’s it-- nothing more. If you're showing up with anything other than the above, you’re a fake and are lying to everyone--including yourself.

Finally, unless you're doing this because God chose you to do this work, and to glorify His name, then you’re a idiot. Being a demonologist is a calling from God. It's not about getting your own TV show, a book deal, a movie deal, or to have others glorify your name and have your pick of your female [or male] followers. If those are your reasons, you're working for darkness not light.

On a recent Coast to Coast AM, fake "demonologist" Jeffrey Seelman babbled incoherently about exorcisms. Here is a link to a website: http://www.starclear.com/exorcisms.html that promotes his services. [$200 for his 12-week class]. Note there is no mention on his page of God or Jesus Christ. I ask you where does Christ mention in the Bible about using psychic protection? Mr. Seelman doesn't inform you that a demon will only laugh at the idea of such a notion. The only thing demons respect in spiritual warfare is the authority of Jesus Christ.

Our next person on the list [it's a long one and grows everyday], is a man by the name of G.P. Haggart. For some time I've had a steady stream of emails concerning this person. Next week we'll go in-depth concerning this person. But the big thing that knocks me off my feet is that G.P. is actually thinking of creating a boot camp for demonologists! Can we say reality show time? Each week we follow a new team of recruits as they prepare to go out onto the battlefield. People, this is the last thing we need! How crazy are things starting to get? We'll find out next week as more will be exposed…

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An Essay on Mountains

By The Dalai Lama

In Tibet, mountains are often considered the adobes of deities. For example, Amnye Machen, a mountain in northeastern Tibet, is regarded as the home of Machen Pomra, one of the most important deities of Amdo, my home province. Because all the people of Amdo consider Machen Pomra their special friend, many of team go round the foot of the mountain on pilgrimage.

Tibetans generally have shown little interest in scaling the peaks that surround them, perhaps out of deference to the presiding deities. However, I think there is a more practical reason. Most Tibetans have to climb far too many mountain passes to have any wish to climb higher than they must. When the people of Lhasa sometimes climbed for pleasure, they chose hills of a reasonable size, and on reaching the top would burn incense; say prayers and relax with a picnic.

Travelers in Tibet traditionally add a stone to the Cairns at the tops of hills or passes with a shout of "Lha-gyal-Io- Victory to the gods". Later, 'Mani stones', stones carved with prayers and other scriptures may be added along with prayer flags. One practical outcoI1le of this traditional sense for the environment is a deep-seated concern to protect it.

Only hermits, wild animals, and, in the summer, nomads and their herds actually live high amongst them, but in the simplicity and quiet of our mountains, there is more peace of mind than in most cities of the world. Since the practice of Buddhism involves seeing phenomena as empty of inherent existence, it is helpful for a mediator to be able to look into the vast, empty space seen from a mountain - top.

In these stores of natural treasure, our doctors found many of the precious herbs and plants from which they compounded their medicines, while nomads found rich pasture for their animals, so crucial to the Tibetan economy. But of even wider-ranging impact, the Land of Snow's mountains arc; the source of many of Asia's great rivers. The recent massive floods on the Indian sub-continent and in China can be attributed, in part, to the massive deforestation and environmental destruction that has followed China's violent occupation of Tibet.

For over 1,000 years we Tibetans have adhered to spiritual and environmental values in order to maintain the delicate balance of life across the high plateau on which we live. Inspired by the Buddha's message of non-violence and compassion and protected by our mountains, we have sought to respect every form of life, while our neighbors lived undisturbed.

These days when we talk about preservation of the environment, whether we mean the wildlife, forests, oceans, rivers or mountains, ultimately the decision to act must come from our hearts. So, the key point, I think, is for all of us to develop a genuine sense of universal responsibility, not only toward s this beautiful blue planet that is our home, but also towards the innumerable sentient beings with' whom we share it.                              

An article from July 16, 1992 Newsweek.

Elvis & Michael: The Hidden Connection

By Kirby Robinson

From the book Paranormal Teachings: The Best of Shedding Some Light


For a change of pace, we are sharing a blog we posted concerning the connection between Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.


In June 2009, the world was greatly saddened by the deaths of three icons of American and pop culture:  Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and, of course, Michael Jackson. Michael’s passing is sad just as the passing of anyone is, whether they’re famous or not. Yet for the joy and happiness that he brought to millions of this world now and for years to come, he paid a price just as Elvis paid a price for his fame and fortune.

I’m surprised that many have not focused on the strong Elvis/Michael connection. Their life paths mirrored each others. It is more than just by chance that there is a spiritual connection between the two. Let us take a look at their similarities.

~ 1 They were both born into poor working class families.
~ 2 They both had a parent that pushed them.
~ 3 They both started out young.
~ 4 They both could sing and dance
~ 5 They both were called King for their generation. Elvis was the King of Rock, and Roll Michael was the King of Pop.
~ 6 They both became known by one name: Elvis. Michael.
~ 7 They both had a story book wedding.
~ 8 Michael married Elvis’s daughter, Lisa.
~ 9 They both looked for something spiritual within their lives.
~ 10 They both had fears about their deaths.
~ 11 They both had heart conditions.
~ 12 They both were surrounded by yes men more interested in what they could get out of Elvis/Michael than in a desire to help the person.
~ 13 Their respective homes, Graceland and Neverland, were both symbols of heaven and a better world.
~ 14 Their deaths left people wondering what happened. In addition, both have estates that will make more money from their deaths than they made while they were alive.

These are physical similarities but there is a stream of similarities that show Elvis and Michael were spiritual brothers.

Many do not know that Elvis was a twin. His brother (Jesse Garon) was stillborn. Throughout his life, Elvis was always haunted by his missing brother.

Let’s take a look at the numerology of both Elvis and Michael respectively. Elvis was born 1/8/1935 which makes him a 9. 9 people are often driven to find a spiritual path and tend to have issues when it comes to spiritual matters. In many ways they are like Job they are blessed but then they can be tested as well. Being a 9 means his life cycle runs every 9 years. Elvis’s death came on 8/16/1977 which was ruled by the number 3 which is the number of justice, and a good day for a 9 to die on. It can be interpreted that in death they will find what they did not find in life, as they were looking for that missing thing or person. Now, Elvis’s mother, Gladys, was born 4/25/1912 which makes her a 6. This number tends to focus on growth, ambition and success in life. Vernon, his dad, was born on 4/10/1916 which is a 4, influencing him focus on foundations. Those born under the number 4 tend to be fixed and not risk takers. 4 and 6 are good matches. 6 tends to be closer to 9 than 4 does which means that Elvis was closer to his mom.

Michael was born on 8/29/1958 which makes him a 6. This number is focused on growth and is commonly referred to as a reversed 9, and Elvis was a 9. Michael was at the lowest point within his current cycle in the months of June, July and August of this year. Now was NOT the time for him to start anything new and his health was bad for being at this low point. Elvis died while in a transient phase of his cycle. By the way, if you take Michael’s parents: his mom, Katherine, was born 5/4/36 which makes her a 9. His dad, Joe, was born on 7/26/29 which makes him a 9 as well. So, within a chart of Michael/Elvis you have running though it currents of 9 and 6.

Here is one more interesting point of numerology. If Elvis’s twin brother had lived, 1958 would have been a transient year for him. In this case the spirit moved from the spiritual realm to the physical one.

Another point I would like to make is that Elvis had a concern over the civil rights issue of the 1960s. Two songs come to mind: “In the Ghetto” and “If I Can Dream.” Those songs are about social injustices. Michael had concerns over civil rights but because many around him never wanted him to speak out he did it through music just like Elvis did.

When it came to sex appeal the path was interesting for both musicians. With Elvis, the Colonel and his people, The Memphis Mafia, used every angle to play on Elvis and his sex appeal with women. With Michael, they did everything to bury his sex appeal. When it came to film, Michael was desperate to have a film career but for reasons known only to his family and management, none of them seemingly wanted him in front of the camera. Conversely, Elvis was forced into making movies, most of them bad.

They both ended up having sleeping issues. Elvis slept during the day time, and Michael could not fall asleep. It is odd that the two kings never came face to face. But then one king would have gotten upstaged. They can’t turn Neverland into Graceland West. There are laws about burying people on private property. Michael was buried at Forest Lawn.

Both Elvis and Michael were more than social and cultural icons -- they were brothers bound by spirit and soul. May they find on the other side what they never found here.

Paranormal Teachings: The Best of Shedding Some Light

Saturday Guest Blog – May 26, 2012

By Kirby Robinson

It's a holiday weekend so I'd hate to waste a good blog I decided to post a pair of videos concerning false teachers within the church today and how their teachings are becoming even more sinister. The Protestant Church has been overrun by the feel good, little gods, prosperity gospel teachings for the past 40 years.

This has come about because many men/woman of God just felt that these teachings would fade away. Sadly they didn't. Now they are the movers and shakers. One of the biggest driving forces behind this movement has been TBN [Trinity Broadcasting Network] lead by Paul/Jan Crouch and family.

So watch these two videos and by the end of them you'll be shaking your head and wondering how did this happen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQe_EUnc7kc

If you had the guts to sit through the whole video, you'll notice that Benny Hinn speaks about wanting to kill people who disagree with his thinking. [Benny is a very big fixture on TBN, and some say when Paul dies he'll step in and take charge].

In this video Paul Crouch talks about how GOD can kill people who are against TBN.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/christianity/video-tbn-co-founder-paul-crouch-suggests-god-will-kill-people-tbn#

From time to time, I'll post even more videos that expose these false teachings.

Spiritual Warfare with Satan & His Demonic Hoard

By Rev. Mark Hunnemann

If we are in spiritual warfare with Satan and his demonic hoard, then what should our attitude be toward them? The books of Jude and 2 Peter make it clear that disrespect is unacceptable (would someone please inform Zak of this).So, does it then follow that we must treat demons the same way we are to treat our human enemies—that is, to love them? Hardly not But if we can’t love or disrespect them, WHAT is the proper biblical attitude?

What is the purpose of war? Someone has defined war as capital punishment on an international scale. Biblically, it is all about the extension of God’s kingdom, and the minimization of the kingdom of darkness; they are two sides to the same coin. Common sense dictates that if one kingdom is extended, then it does so at the expense of the other. “Your kingdom come…” places kingdom expansion right at the heart of Christian living, and certainly of paramount importance in spiritual warfare. What is the objective of our spiritual warfare? Kingdom expansion! It is simply impossible to exaggerate the importance the New Testament places on the spread of the Kingdom of God/heaven (the terms are theological equivalents).

Holy hatred….that is what I’m convinced is the proper biblical attitude we are to have to the demonic and Satan. “That is pretty strong language there…not sure I buy it.” Okay, I understand your reticence to say you hate anything. Love is such a driving force in the message of Jesus. However, the bible does say, “Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” (Rom. 12:9) That is not what we refer to as a hapax legomena either…only place where words are found. Get your bible concordance and look up the word “hate”, and you will see what I am talking about. It is not only okay to hate evil; we are commanded to! So, what about the Evil One? He is the epitome of all the evil we are to hate. The fact that they (Satan and demons) are personal beings does not diminish our call to hate them. It is clear that God does….but His hatred is holy. I may lose some readers over this, but I have personal reasons for wrestling with this issue (see below)

Like jealousy and anger, which God displays both, hate is not intrinsically sinful. If you were to visit a prison, many inmates are there because they committed crimes of passion; hate, anger, or jealousy got out of control—which they so easily do in sinful humans. Hence, we automatically assume these emotions are always wrong. But the bible says otherwise. I ask you: did not the Son become the focal point of the Father’s unmitigated fury and holy hatred of sin?. Touching His human nature, God the Son was hated by His Father…how else can you explain the horrible cry of dereliction, “My God, My God  why have you forsaken Me?” (the divine nature could not be separated)..trying hard to avoid heresy at this point

Back to the warfare we mentioned earlier. Demons cannot be killed or annihilated as is sometimes implied, if not outright stated, by some folks. They are spiritual creatures who will live forever in hell. Any demonologist who speaks of vanquishing or destroying demons is biblically ignorant. There is biblical and anecdotal evidence that they can suffer though….sometimes horribly. Prayer and the reading of the bible causes pain to these unholy beings. Let me ask: do you REALLY believe you are in mortal combat with the demonic?  We must be careful to keep first things first—loving God is to be our driving passion. Flowing from that love, comes our hate for Satan and all demons.. It must never become an end in itself

As I was preparing for the cleansing, all of these thoughts were running through my head. I knew that this pure evil hated me and had tried to kill my daughter a few days earlier. I am a broken man whom the Lord has called and anointed to help those suffering from demonic oppression.. My prayer team does the bulk of the work, and I am unworthy ….The zeal of the Lord infuses me as I peek into the attic…”Get out! In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, get out..NOW!. I hate you with a holy hatred, and if you linger I will ask the Father to sling you into the abyss…You have no legal right…the blood Jesus trumps all claims you…” I will stop there. What I do is attack our enemy in the name of Jesus. They hate my dear Jesus…our dear Jesus. That is why we hate Satan and his demons. Do you? Or are you a spiritual pacifist? May the Love of God consume us. Amen

The Bible as a Reliable Source for the Workings of the Supernatural - Part 2

By Lisa Grace

Continued from Part 1

In my last article in the comments section some readers mentioned they feel there are other earlier writings and questioned the authority of the modern Bible, as we know it. Even older than the Bible (Circa 1500’s) are the original works, which would be better described as the Holy Scriptures. The Bible (which simply means book) has some modern additions not found in the older Holy Scriptures, like the words Old and New Testament, punctuation, chapters and verses. Those are recent developments and not necessarily good ones either.

This is actually a faulty man-made way of dividing the four sections and often leads to the interpretation of being two different contracts with man.

The following (in italics) is a quote from the website: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Tanakh.html Quote:

Torah: The Books of Genesis (Bereshit), Exodus (Shemot), Leviticus (Vayikrah), Numbers (Bamidbar) and Deuteronomy (Devarim).

Nevi'im (Prophets): The Books of Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, II Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habukkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi. (The last twelve are sometimes grouped together as "Trei Asar" ["Twelve"].)

Ketuvim (Writings): The Books of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel (although not all that is included in the Christian Canon), Ezra and Nehemiah, I Chronicles, and II Chronicles.

Then, of course, we have the Good News portion which some call the New Testament.

Before the written word, there was a strict oral tradition of memorization. Most Rabbis (which means teachers) would memorize the whole thing.

The New Testament, which is referred to in the Scriptures themselves as the “Good News”, is mainly repeated parts of the older Torah, Nevi’im, or Ketuvim.

Here is a quote (in italics) from Roger Nicole’s article at:

http://www.bible-researcher.com/nicole.html

If clear allusions are taken into consideration, the figures are much higher: C. H. Toy lists 613 such instances, Wilhelm Dittmar goes as high as 1640, while Eugen Huehn indicates 4105 passages reminiscent of Old Testament Scripture. It can therefore be asserted, without exaggeration, that more than 10 per cent of the New Testament text is made up of citations or direct allusions to the Old Testament. The recorded words of Jesus disclose a similar percentage. Certain books like Revelation, Hebrews, Romans are well nigh saturated with Old Testament forms of language, allusions and quotations. Perusal of Nestle’s edition of the Greek New Testament, in which the Old Testament material is printed in bold face type, will reveal at a glance the extent of this practice. These facts appear even more impressive when one remembers that in New Testament times the Old Testament was not as today duplicated by the million but could be obtained only in expensive handwritten copies.

The oral traditions of memorizing before there was printed word, takes the reader/listener back to the times of Adam and Eve. Obviously, Adam started verbally passing on the account of creation and so it spread through different cultures through out the world. This is why so many cultures have flood based stories and creation stories similar to the Holy Scripture accounts.

The Holy Scriptures are the earliest verifiable form (found in abundance) even more so than the Iliad by Homer, which no one questions the validity of. The Holy Scriptures from the Dead Sea scrolls on has thousands of copies to back up its authority.

This is why you can be assured of its authority as the inspired (God breathed) last word on dealing with the supernatural world since you can trace its beginnings to the creation of man.