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Reply #75 - Jan 9th, 2007 at 11:22pm
 
Last night before going to bed I stated my intent... I said to myself, If Jesus exists, may he come to me and show me his love.  I made some other statements involving having a guide or Jesus himself reveal the truth about him.  I had some very spiritual dreams last night.  I cannot remember the details, I can only remember the mood of the dreams and possibly some themes.  Spirituality, Jesus, are some things that come to mind.  But I cant remember!  The only dream I do remember is one of my friend killing someone and then me getting blamed for it by my friend.  It really sucks because I woke up after the spiritual dreams and remembered what was said and what they were about, but when I woke up after falling back asleep the memories were gone.  Ill just have to keep it up and see where it takes me. 

I must say, I wouldn't mind Jesus being real, having love for me and all this.  It just doesn't seem to fit in with the way I see life and the things I know of creation and the afterlife.  Not to mention what I know about the true motives of large authoritarian organizations such as religion, the government, ect.. And of course, I can't overlook the fact that there were 15 other "saviors of man."  They can't all be the son of god.  Therefore my logical thinking is that none of them are.  And the thought that we need some holy man to come and erase our "original sins" due to "Adam"(another clearly mythical character) is just rediculous.  The ease at which such things as religious texts and stories can be simply made up is too great.  And the fact that these stories are 2000 years old greatly decreases the validity of any "evidence" proving the Bible and Jesus to be real.  The evidence could be created just as easy as the bible was, and by the same people for the soul purpose of making the bible's stories seem true.  Even the "non-Christian sources" could easily be part of the scam, or at least influenced in some way by those in charge.  Whether this is true or not is not the point.  The point is, it is very possible.   At least the ancient cultures admitted that their religious saviors were myth.
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Reply #76 - Jan 9th, 2007 at 11:24pm
 
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I randomly sampled Dude's quotes of violent saying in the NT.

One area sampled was Luke:
“I say unto you, that unto every one that hath shall be given; but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away from him. But these mine enemies, that would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me .” (Luke 19:26-27) 

I read through this passage.  This is not Jesus talking.  This is a tale of a nobleman, and the nobleman was speaking in Jesus' story in this passage! (Luke 19:12).  Yet Dude tries to pass this off as JC being cruel.  Ridiculous.  Understand what you are reading, people - please!

The same is true for Luke 19:26, 27.


Regardless of who said it, it is still a pretty crappy thing to put in the bible.  So much for great morals, eh?
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Reply #77 - Jan 9th, 2007 at 11:41pm
 
I Am Dude wrote on Jan 9th, 2007 at 11:24pm:
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I randomly sampled Dude's quotes of violent saying in the NT.

One area sampled was Luke:
“I say unto you, that unto every one that hath shall be given; but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away from him. But these mine enemies, that would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me .” (Luke 19:26-27)  

I read through this passage.  This is not Jesus talking.  This is a tale of a nobleman, and the nobleman was speaking in Jesus' story in this passage! (Luke 19:12).  Yet Dude tries to pass this off as JC being cruel.  Ridiculous.  Understand what you are reading, people - please!

The same is true for Luke 19:26, 27.


Regardless of who said it, it is still a pretty crappy thing to put in the bible.  So much for great morals, eh?



ALL books are written by man. And if the books were dictated by Gods, the secretaries could make mistakes in their translation/transcription. I know if I was a secretary recieving dictation from a big man writing a big book, I might want to put some of my own personal stories in there, just to leave my own mark... just for kicks.

This is all out of my domain though. Except.... the books part.


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Reply #78 - Jan 9th, 2007 at 11:53pm
 
I Am Dude wrote on Jan 9th, 2007 at 11:22pm:
Last night before going to bed I stated my intent... I said to myself, If Jesus exists, may he come to me and show me his love.  I made some other statements involving having a guide or Jesus himself reveal the truth about him.  I had some very spiritual dreams last night.  I cannot remember the details, I can only remember the mood of the dreams and possibly some themes.  Spirituality, Jesus, are some things that come to mind.  But I cant remember!  The only dream I do remember is one of my friend killing someone and then me getting blamed for it by my friend.  It really sucks because I woke up after the spiritual dreams and remembered what was said and what they were about, but when I woke up after falling back asleep the memories were gone.  Ill just have to keep it up and see where it takes me.  

I must say, I wouldn't mind Jesus being real, having love for me and all this.  It just doesn't seem to fit in with the way I see life and the things I know of creation and the afterlife.  Not to mention what I know about the true motives of large authoritarian organizations such as religion, the government, ect.. And of course, I can't overlook the fact that there were 15 other "saviors of man."  They can't all be the son of god.  Therefore my logical thinking is that none of them are.  And the thought that we need some holy man to come and erase our "original sins" due to "Adam"(another clearly mythical character) is just rediculous.  The ease at which such things as religious texts and stories can be simply made up is too great.  And the fact that these stories are 2000 years old greatly decreases the validity of any "evidence" proving the Bible and Jesus to be real.  The evidence could be created just as easy as the bible was, and by the same people for the soul purpose of making the bible's stories seem true.  Even the "non-Christian sources" could easily be part of the scam, or at least influenced in some way by those in charge.  Whether this is true or not is not the point.  The point is, it is very possible.   At least the ancient cultures admitted that their religious saviors were myth.  


My respect for you increases Dude. On numerous levels. I don't want to isolate the quotes to say where I draw inspiration and joy from you though. I gotta say... at times I've had a 'oh no' feeling about these continuing threads ( i don't have much personal interest in the specific subject matter; only in the voices speaking it) but I really am enjoying both yours and Don's posts tremendously right now.

I will tell you... "I'll have to keep it up and see where it takes me" is a quote that gives me joy. It's a commitment to find your own answer... outside of any book or opinion.

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Reply #79 - Jan 10th, 2007 at 12:19am
 
I can offer some advice if you are having trouble remembering dreams aside from simply having a journal on hand. 

First, I have found it very helpful if I have a firm value for dreams.  In my experience, the memories I recall the best are the ones I have value to.  Still even if I don't add much significance to a memory, I find I can still remember even the most trivial bits of info if I dig into the memory banks;  nothing is lost IMO.  If some detail in a dream is forgoten, I often remember it by seeing an associated image in C1.

Try analyzing your belief about dreams and change it if you feel compelled to.  It could help you in memory recall if there is indeed a belief that censors out a majority of dreams. (Your call)  Bruce has an article about changing a belief on the main section of his site so go check it out.  Wink
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Reply #80 - Jan 10th, 2007 at 12:26am
 
The quote in question above, although a bit different in his translation, comes up a lot in the conversations of a friend of mine. In my understanding, he interprets it to mean that the spiritual gifts that we "store up" during our life on earth are taken with us into the afterlife. Therefore, if we do not store these up for ourselves here, we will not only "not have" them when we cross over but we may lose what we do have.  It's sort of an "opposite" way of interpreting the words than what a person would normally do. He extends it to mean the development of all of your unique qualities as a human being....the development of the person that you are, your talents, your special contributions to the world.

This seems to be quite possible if there is, indeed, a sort of "justice" which occurs after our physical deaths.  It can certainly be true of people right here in this lifetime. Those who search deeply do find "riches" along the way which are worth much more than other kinds of wealth.

The "violent" imagery used can be discouraging, and perhaps the translations don't carry the full meanings very well. I often interpret the words "death" and "life" very differently than they are often written about in a materialistic sense. I think it's okay to feel free to do this. I think in simply searching for multiple interpretations we can find an expanded viewpoint at times which more than makes up for the time spent.

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Reply #81 - Jan 10th, 2007 at 1:53am
 
Straight from Acharya S.'s website Truthbeknown.com
(Don claims she is a kook, yet he fears her wrath! He knows she will school him.)

History and Positions of the Debate
This controversy has existed from the very beginning, and the writings of the "Church Fathers" themselves reveal that they were constantly forced by the pagan intelligentsia to defend what the non-Christians and other Christians ("heretics")4 alike saw as a preposterous and fabricated yarn with absolutely no evidence of it ever having taken place in history. As Rev. Robert Taylor says, "And from the apostolic age downwards, in a never interrupted succession, but never so strongly and emphatically as in the most primitive times, was the existence of Christ as a man most strenuously denied."5 Emperor Julian, who, coming after the reign of the fanatical and murderous "good Christian" Constantine, returned rights to pagan worshippers, stated, "If anyone should wish to know the truth with respect to you Christians, he will find your impiety to be made up partly of the Jewish audacity, and partly of the indifference and confusion of the Gentiles, and that you have put together not the best, but the worst characteristics of them both."6 According to these learned dissenters, the New Testament could rightly be called, "Gospel Fictions."7

A century ago, mythicist Albert Churchward said, "The canonical gospels can be shown to be a collection of sayings from the Egyptian Mythos and Eschatology."8 In Forgery in Christianity, Joseph Wheless states, "The gospels are all priestly forgeries over a century after their pretended dates."9 Those who concocted some of the hundreds of "alternative" gospels and epistles that were being kicked about during the first several centuries C.E. have even admitted that they had forged the documents.10 Forgery during the first centuries of the Church's existence was admittedly rampant, so common in fact that a new phrase was coined to describe it: "pious fraud."11 Such prevarication is confessed to repeatedly in the Catholic Encyclopedia.12 Some of the "great" church fathers, such as Eusebius13, were determined by their own peers to be unbelievable liars who regularly wrote their own fictions of what "the Lord" said and did during "his" alleged sojourn upon the earth.14

The Proof
The assertion that Jesus Christ is a myth can be proved not only through the works of dissenters and "pagans" who knew the truth - and who were viciously refuted or murdered for their battle against the Christian priests and "Church Fathers" fooling the masses with their fictions - but also through the very statements of the Christians themselves, who continuously disclose that they knew Jesus Christ was a myth founded upon more ancient deities located throughout the known ancient world. In fact, Pope Leo X, privy to the truth because of his high rank, made this curious declaration, "What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!"15 (Emphasis added.) As Wheless says, "The proofs of my indictment are marvellously easy."

The Gnostics
From their own admissions, the early Christians were incessantly under criticism by scholars of great repute who were impugned as "heathens" by their Christian adversaries. This group included many Gnostics, who strenuously objected to the carnalization of their deity, as the Christians can be shown to have taken many of the characteristics of their god and godman from the Gnostics, meaning "Ones who know," a loose designation applied to members of a variety of esoteric schools and brotherhoods. The refutations of the Christians against the Gnostics reveal that the Christian godman was an insult to the Gnostics, who held that their god could never take human form.16

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Reply #82 - Jan 10th, 2007 at 1:53am
 
Biblical Sources
It is very telling that the earliest Christian documents, the Epistles attributed to "Paul," never discuss a historical background of Jesus but deal exclusively with a spiritual being who was known to all gnostic sects for hundreds to thousands of years. The few "historical" references to an actual life of Jesus cited in the Epistles are demonstrably interpolations and forgeries, as are, according to Wheless, the Epistles themselves, as they were not written by "Paul."17 Aside from the brief reference to Pontius Pilate at 1 Timothy 6:13, an epistle dated ben Yehoshua to 144 CE and thus not written by Paul, the Pauline literature (as pointed out by Edouard Dujardin) "does not refer to Pilate18, or the Romans, or Caiaphas, or the Sanhedrin, or Herod19, or Judas, or the holy women, or any person in the gospel account of the Passion, and that it also never makes any allusion to them; lastly, that it mentions absolutely none of the events of the Passion, either directly or by way of allusion."20 Dujardin additionally relates that other early "Christian" writings such as Revelation do not mention any historical details or drama.21 Mangasarian notes that Paul also never quotes from Jesus's purported sermons and speeches, parables and prayers, nor does he mention Jesus's supernatural birth or any of his alleged wonders and miracles, all which one would presume would be very important to his followers, had such exploits and sayings been known prior to "Paul."22

Turning to the gospels themselves, which were composed between 170-180 C.E.22a, their pretended authors, the apostles, give sparse histories and genealogies of Jesus that contradict each other and themselves in numerous places. The birthdate of Jesus is depicted as having taken place at different times. His birth and childhood are not mentioned in "Mark," and although he is claimed in "Matthew" and "Luke" to have been "born of a virgin," his lineage is traced to the House of David through Joseph, such that he may "fulfill prophecy."23 He is said in the first three (Synoptic) gospels to have taught for one year before he died, while in "John" the number is three years. "Matthew" relates that Jesus delivered "The Sermon on the Mount"24 before "the multitudes," while "Luke" says it was a private talk given only to the disciples. The accounts of his Passion and Resurrection differ utterly from each other, and no one states how old he was when he died.25 Wheless says, "The so-called 'canonical' books of the New Testament, as of the Old, are a mess of contradictions and confusions of text, to the present estimate of 150,000 and more 'variant readings,' as is well known and admitted."26 In addition, of the dozens of gospels, ones that were once considered canonical or genuine were later rejected as "apocryphal" or spurious, and vice versa. So much for the "infallible Word of God" and "infallible" Church! The confusion exists because the Christian plagiarists over the centuries were attempting to amalgamate and fuse practically every myth, fairytale, legend, doctrine or bit of wisdom they could pilfer from the innumerable different mystery religions and philosophies that existed at the time. In doing so, they forged, interpolated, mutilated, changed, and rewrote these texts for centuries.27

Non-Biblical Sources
Basically, there are no non-biblical references to a historical Jesus by any known historian of the time during and after Jesus's purported advent. Walker says, "No literate person of his own time mentioned him in any known writing." Eminent Hellenistic Jewish historian and philosopher Philo (20 B.C.E.-50 C.E.), alive at the purported time of Jesus, makes no mention of him. Nor do any of the some 40 other historians who wrote during the first one to two centuries of the Common Era. "Enough of the writings of [these] authors...remain to form a library. Yet in this mass of Jewish and Pagan literature, aside from two forged passages in the works of a Jewish author, and two disputed passages in the works of Roman writers, there is to be found no mention of Jesus Christ."28 Their silence is deafening testimony against the historicizers.

In the entire works of the Jewish historian Josephus, which constitute many volumes, there are only two paragraphs that purport to refer to Jesus. Although much has been made of these "references," they have been dismissed by all scholars and even by Christian apologists as forgeries, as have been those referring to John the Baptist and James, "brother" of Jesus. Bishop Warburton labeled the Josephus interpolation regarding Jesus as "a rank forgery, and a very stupid one, too."29 Wheless notes that, "The first mention ever made of this passage, and its text, are in the Church History of that 'very dishonest writer,' Bishop Eusebius, in the fourth century...CE [Catholic Encyclopedia] admits... the above cited passage was not known to Origen and the earlier patristic writers." Wheless, a lawyer, and Taylor, a minister, agree that it was Eusebius himself who forged the passage.

Regarding the letter to Trajan supposedly written by Pliny the Younger, which is one of the pitifully few "references" to Jesus or Christianity held up by Christians as evidence of the existence of Jesus, there is but one word that is applicable--"Christian"--and that has been demonstrated to be spurious, as is also suspected of the entire letter. Concerning the passage in the works of the historian Tacitus, who did not live during the purported time of Jesus but was born two decades after his purported death, this is also considered by competent scholars as an interpolation and forgery.30 Christian defenders also like to hold up the passage in Suetonius that refers to someone named "Chrestus" or "Chresto" as reference to their Savior; however, while some have speculated that there was a Roman man of that name at that time, the name "Chrestus" or "Chrestos," meaning "useful," was frequently held by freed slaves. Others opine that this passage is also an interpolation.

As to these references and their constant regurgitation by Christian apologists, Dr. Alvin Boyd Kuhn says:

"The average Christian minister who has not read outside the pale of accredited Church authorities will impart to any parishioner making the inquiry the information that no event in history iis better attested by witness than the occurences in the Gospel narrative of Christ's life. He will go over the usual citation of the historians who mention Jesus and the letters claiming to have been written about him. When the credulous questioner, putting trust in the intelligence and good faith of his pastor, gets this answer, he goes away assured on the point of the veracity of the Gospel story. The pastor does not qualify his data with the information that the practice of forgery, fictionizing and fable was rampant in the early Church. In the simple interest of truth, then, it is important to examine the body of alleged testimony from secular history and see what credibility and authority it possess.

"First, as to the historians whose works record the existence of Jesus, the list comprises but four. They are Pliny, Tacitus, Suetonius and Josephus. There are short paragraphs in the works of each of these, two in Josephus. The total quantity of this material is given by Harry Elmer Barnes in The Twilight of Christianity as some twenty-four lines. It may total a little more, perhaps twice that amount. This meager testimony constitutes the body or mass of the evidence of 'one of the best attested events in history.' Even if it could be accepted as indisputably authentic and reliable, it would be faltering support for an event that has dominated the thought of half the world for eighteen centuries.

"But what is the standing of this witness? Not even Catholic scholars of importance have dissented from a general agreement of academic investigators that these passages, one and all, must by put down as forgeries and interpolations by partisan Christian scribes who wished zealously to array the authority of these historians behind the historicity of the Gospel life of Jesus. A sum total of forty or fifty lines from secular history supporting the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, and they completely discredited!"30a

Of these "references," Dujardin says, "But even if they are authentic, and were derived from earlier sources, they would not carry us back earlier than the period in which the gospel legend took form, and so could attest only the legend of Jesus, and not his historicity." In any case, these scarce and brief "references" to a man who supposedly shook up the world can hardly be held up as proof of his existence, and it is absurd that the purported historicity of the entire Christian religion is founded upon them.31 As it is said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof"; yet, no proof of any kind for the historicity of Jesus has ever existed or is forthcoming.


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Reply #83 - Jan 10th, 2007 at 1:55am
 
The Characters
It is evident that there was no single historical person upon whom the Christian religion was founded, and that "Jesus Christ" is a compilation of legends, heroes, gods and godmen. There is not adequate room here to go into detail about each god or godman that contributed to the formation of the Jewish Jesus character; suffice it to say that there is plenty of documentation to show that this issue is not a question of "faith" or "belief." The truth is that during the era this character supposedly lived there was an extensive library at Alexandria and an incredibly nimble brotherhood network that stretched from Europe to China, and this information network had access to numerous manuscripts that told the same narrative portrayed in the New Testament with different place names and ethnicity for the characters. In actuality, the legend of Jesus nearly identically parallels the story of Krishna, for example, even in detail, as was presented by noted mythologist and scholar Gerald Massey over 100 years ago, as well as by Rev. Robert Taylor 160 years ago, among others.32 The Krishna tale as told in the Hindu Vedas has been dated to at least as far back as 1400 B.C.E.33 The same can be said of the well-woven Horus mythos, which also is practically identical, in detail, to the Jesus story, but which predates the Christian version by thousands of years.

As concerns the specious claim that the analogies between the Christ myth and those outlined below are "non-existent" because they are not found in "primary sources," let us turn to the words of the early Church fathers, who acknowledged that major important aspects of the Christ character are indeed to be found in the stories of earlier, "Pagan" gods, but who asserted that the reason for these similarities was because the evidently prescient devil "anticipated" Christ and planted "foreshadowing" of his "coming" in the heathens' minds.

In his First Apology, Christian father Justin Martyr (c. 100-165) acknowledged the similarities between the older Pagan gods and religions and those of Christianity, when he attempted to demonstrate, in the face of ridicule, that Christianity was no more ridiculous than the earlier myths:

"ANALOGIES TO THE HISTORY OF CHRIST. And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from what you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter. For you know how many sons your esteemed writers ascribed to Jupiter: Mercury, the interpreting word and teacher of all; Aesculapius, who, though he was a great physician, was struck by a thunderbolt, and so ascended to heaven; and Bacchus too, after he had been torn limb from limb; and Hercules, when he had committed himself to the flames to escape his toils; and the sons of Leda, and Dioscuri; and Perseus, son of Danae; and Bellerophon, who, though sprung from mortals, rose to heaven on the horse Pegasus. For what shall I say of Ariadne, and those who, like her, have been declared to be set among the stars? And what of the emperors who die among yourselves, whom you deem worthy of deification, and in whose behalf you produce some one who swears he has seen the burning Caesar rise to heaven from the funeral pyre?"

In his endless apologizing, Justin reiterates the similarities between his godman and the gods of other cultures:

"As to the objection of our Jesus's being crucified, I say, that suffering was common to all the aforementioned sons of Jove [Jupiter]... As to his being born of a virgin, you have your Perseus to balance that. As to his curing the lame, and the paralytic, and such as were cripples from birth, this is little more than what you say of your Aesculapius."

In making these comparisons between Christianity and its predecessor Paganism, however, Martyr sinisterly spluttered:

"It having reached the Devil’s ears that the prophets had foretold the coming of Christ, the Son of God, he set the heathen Poets to bring forward a great many who should be called the sons of Jove. The Devil laying his scheme in this, to get men to imagine that the true history of Christ was of the same characters the prodigious fables related of the sons of Jove."

In his Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, Martyr again admits the pre-existence of the Christian tale and then uses his standard, irrational and self-serving apology, i.e., "the devil got there first":

"Be well assured, then, Trypho, that I am established in the knowledge of and faith in the Scriptures by those counterfeits which he who is called the devil is said to have performed among the Greeks; just as some were wrought by the Magi in Egypt, and others by the false prophets in Elijah’s days. For when they tell that Bacchus, son of Jupiter, was begotten by [Jupiter’s] intercourse with Semele, and that he was the discoverer of the vine; and when they relate, that being torn in pieces, and having died, he rose again, and ascended to heaven; and when they introduce wine into his mysteries, do I not perceive that [the devil] has imitated the prophecy announced by the patriarch Jacob, and recorded by Moses? And when they tell that Hercules was strong, and travelled over all the world, and was begotten by Jove of Alcmene, and ascended to heaven when he died, do I not perceive that the Scripture which speaks of Christ, "strong as a giant to run his race," has been in like manner imitated? And when he [the devil] brings forward Aesculapius as the raiser of the dead and healer of all diseases, may I not say that in this matter likewise he has imitated the prophecies about Christ?... And when I hear, Trypho, that Perseus was begotten of a virgin, I understand that the deceiving serpent counterfeited also this."

And in his Octavius, Christian writer Minucius Felix (c. 250 CE) denied that Christians worshipped a "criminal and his cross," and retorted that the Pagans did esteem a crucified man:

"Chapter XXIX.-Argument: Nor is It More True that a Man Fastened to a Cross on Account of His Crimes is Worshipped by Christians, for They Believe Not Only that He Was Innocent, But with Reason that He Was God. But, on the Other Hand, the Heathens Invoke the Divine Powers of Kings Raised into Gods by Themselves; They Pray to Images, and Beseech Their Genii.

"These, and such as these infamous things, we are not at liberty even to hear; it is even disgraceful with any more words to defend ourselves from such charges. For you pretend that those things are done by chaste and modest persons, which we should not believe to be done at all, unless you proved that they were true concerning yourselves. For in that you attribute to our religion the worship of a criminal and his cross, you wander far from the neighbourhood of the truth, in thinking either that a criminal deserved, or that an earthly being was able, to be believed God... Crosses, moreover, we neither worship nor wish for. You, indeed, who consecrate gods of wood, adore wooden crosses perhaps as parts of your gods. For your very standards, as well as your banners; and flags of your camp, what else are they but crosses gilded and adorned? Your victorious trophies not only imitate the appearance of a simple cross, but also that of a man affixed to it..."

The Jesus story incorporated elements from the tales of other deities recorded in this widespread area, such as many of the following world saviors and "sons of God," most or all of whom predate the Christian myth, and a number of whom were crucified or executed.33a

Adad of Assyria
Adonis, Apollo, Heracles ("Hercules") and Zeus of Greece
Alcides of Thebes
Attis of Phrygia
Baal of Phoenicia
Bali of Afghanistan
Beddru of Japan
Buddha of India
Crite of Chaldea
Deva Tat of Siam
Hesus of the Druids
Horus, Osiris, and Serapis of Egypt, whose long-haired, bearded appearance was adopted for the Christ character34
Indra of Tibet/India
Jao of Nepal
Krishna of India
Mikado of the Sintoos
Mithra of Persia
Odin of the Scandinavians
Prometheus of Caucasus/Greece
Quetzalcoatl of Mexico
Salivahana of Bermuda
Tammuz of Syria (who was, in a typical mythmaking move, later turned into the disciple Thomas35)
Thor of the Gauls
Universal Monarch of the Sibyls36
Wittoba of the Bilingonese
Xamolxis of Thrace
Zarathustra/Zoroaster of Persia
Zoar of the Bonzes
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Reply #84 - Jan 10th, 2007 at 1:58am
 
The Creation of a Myth
The Christians went on a censorship rampage that led to the virtual illiteracy of the ancient world and ensured that their secret would be hidden from the masses64, but the scholars of other schools/sects never gave up their arguments against the historicizing of a very ancient mythological creature. We have lost the arguments of these learned dissenters because the Christians destroyed any traces of their works. Nonetheless, the Christians preserved the contentions of their detractors through the Christians' own refutations.

For example, early Church Father Tertullian (@ 160-220 C.E.), an "ex-Pagan" and Bishop of Carthage, ironically admits the true origins of the Christ story and of all other such godmen by stating in refutation of his critics, "You say we worship the sun; so do you."65 Interestingly, a previously strident believer and defender of the faith, Tertullian later renounced Christianity66.

The "Son" of God is the "Sun" of God 67
The reason why all these narratives are so similar, with a godman who is crucified and resurrected, who does miracles and has 12 disciples, is that these stories were based on the movements of the sun through the heavens, an astrotheological development that can be found throughout the planet because the sun and the 12 zodiac signs can be observed around the globe. In other words, Jesus Christ and all the others upon whom this character is predicated are personifications of the sun, and the Gospel fable is merely a rehash of a mythological formula (the "Mythos," as mentioned above) revolving around the movements of the sun through the heavens.68

For instance, many of the world's crucified godmen have their traditional birthday on December 25th ("Christmas"69). This is because the ancients recognized that (from an earthcentric perspective) the sun makes an annual descent southward until December 21st or 22nd, the winter solstice, when it stops moving southerly for three days and then starts to move northward again. During this time, the ancients declared that "God's sun" had "died" for three days and was "born again" on December 25th. The ancients realized quite abundantly that they needed the sun to return every day and that they would be in big trouble if the sun continued to move southward and did not stop and reverse its direction. Thus, these many different cultures celebrated the "sun of God's" birthday on December 25th.70 The following are the characteristics of the "sun of God":

The sun "dies" for three days on December 22nd, the winter solstice, when it stops in its movement south, to be born again or resurrected on December 25th, when it resumes its movement north.
In some areas, the calendar originally began in the constellation of Virgo, and the sun would therefore be "born of a Virgin."
The sun is the "Light of the World."
The sun "cometh on clouds, and every eye shall see him."
The sun rising in the morning is the "Savior of mankind."
The sun wears a corona, "crown of thorns" or halo.71
The sun "walks on water."
The sun's "followers," "helpers" or "disciples" are the 12 months and the 12 signs of the zodiac or constellations, through which the sun must pass.
The sun at 12 noon is in the house or temple of the "Most High"; thus, "he" begins "his Father's work" at "age" 12.
The sun enters into each sign of the zodiac at 30°; hence, the "Sun of God" begins his ministry at "age" 30.
The sun is hung on a cross or "crucified," which represents its passing through the equinoxes, the vernal equinox being Easter, at which time it is then resurrected.72
Contrary to popular belief, the ancients were not an ignorant and superstitious lot who actually believed their deities to be literal characters. Indeed, this slanderous propaganda has been part of the conspiracy to make the ancients appear as if they were truly the dark and dumb rabble that was in need of the "light of Jesus."73 The reality is that the ancients were no less advanced in their morals and spiritual practices, and in many cases were far more advanced, than the Christians in their own supposed morality and ideology, which, in its very attempt at historicity, is in actuality a degradation of the ancient Mythos. Indeed, unlike the "superior" Christians, the true intelligentsia amongst the ancients were well aware that their gods were astronomical and atmospheric in nature. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle74 surely knew that Zeus, the sky god father figure who migrated to Greece from India and/or Egypt, was never a real person, despite the fact that the Greeks have designated on Crete both a birth cave and a death cave of Zeus. In addition, all over the world are to be found sites where this god or that allegedly was born, walked, suffered, died, etc., a common and unremarkable occurrence that is not monopolized by, and did not originate with, Christianity.74a

Etymology Tells the Story

Zeus, aka "Zeus Pateras," who we now automatically believe to be a myth and not a historical figure, takes his name from the Indian version, "Dyaus Pitar." Dyaus Pitar in turn is related to the Egyptian "Ptah," and from both Pitar and Ptah comes the word "pater," or "father." "Zeus" equals "Dyaus," which became "Deos," "Deus" and "Dios"--"God." "Zeus Pateras," like Dyaus Pitar, means, "God the Father," a very ancient concept that in no way originated with "Jesus" and Christianity. There is no question of Zeus being a historical character. Dyaus Pitar becomes "Jupiter" in Roman mythology, and likewise is not representative of an actual, historical character. In Egyptian mythology, Ptah, the Father, is the unseen god-force, and the sun was viewed as Ptah's visible proxy who brings everlasting life to the earth; hence, the "son of God" is really the "sun of God." Indeed, according to Hotema, the very name "Christ" comes from the Hindi word "Kris" (as in Krishna), which is a name for the sun.75

Furthermore, since Horus was called "Iusa/Iao/Iesu"76 the "KRST," and Krishna/Christna was called "Jezeus," centuries before any Jewish character similarly named, it would be safe to assume that Jesus Christ is just a repeat of Horus and Krishna, among the rest. According to Rev. Taylor, the title "Christ" in its Hebraic form meaning "Anointed" ("Masiah"77) was held by all kings of Israel, as well as being "so commonly assumed by all sorts of impostors, conjurers, and pretenders to supernatural communications, that the very claim to it is in the gospel itself considered as an indication of imposture..."78 Hotema states that the name "Jesus Christ" was not formally adopted in its present form until after the first Council of Nicea, i.e., in 325 C.E.79

In actuality, even the place names and the appellations of many other characters in the New Testament can be revealed to be Hebraicized renderings of the Egyptian texts.

As an example, in the fable of "Lazarus," the mummy raised from the dead by Jesus, the Christian copyists did not change his name much, "El-Azar-us" being the Egyptian mummy raised from the dead by Horus possibly 1,000 years or more before the Jewish version.80 This story is allegory for the sun reviving its old, dying self, or father, as in "El-Osiris."81 It is not a true story.

Horus's principal enemy--originally Horus's other face or "dark" aspect - was "Set" or "Sata," whence comes "Satan."82 Horus struggles with Set in the exact manner that Jesus battles with Satan, with 40 days in the wilderness, among other similarities.83 This is because this myth represents the triumph of light over dark, or the sun's return to relieve the terror of the night.

"Jerusalem" simply means "City of Peace," and the actual city in Israel was named after the holy city of peace in the Egyptian sacred texts that already existed at the time the city was founded. Likewise, "Bethany," site of the famous multiplying of the loaves, means "House of God," and is allegory for the "multiplication of the many out of the One."84 Any town of that designation was named for the allegorical place in the texts that existed before the town's foundation. The Egyptian predecessor and counterpart is "Bethanu."85

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The Book of Revelation is Egyptian and Zoroastrian
One can find certain allegorical place names such as "Jerusalem" and "Israel" in the Book of Revelation. Massey has stated that Revelation, rather than having been written by any apostle called John during the 1st Century C.E., is a very ancient text that dates to the beginning of this era of history, i.e. possibly as early as 4,000 years ago.86 Massey asserts that Revelation relates the Mithraic legend of Zarathustra/Zoroaster.87 Hotema says of this mysterious book, which has baffled mankind for centuries: "It is expressed in terms of creative phenomena; its hero is not Jesus but the Sun of the Universe, its heroine is the Moon; and all its other characters are Planets, Stars and Constellations; while its stage-setting comprises the Sky, the Earth, the Rivers and the Sea." The common form of this text has been attributed by Churchward to Horus's scribe, Aan, whose name has been passed down to us as "John."88

The word Israel itself, far from being a Jewish appellation, probably comes from the combination of three different reigning deities: Isis, the Earth Mother Goddess revered throughout the ancient world; Ra, the Egyptian sungod; and El, the Semitic deity passed down in form as Saturn.90 El was one of the earliest names for the god of the ancient Hebrews (whence Emmanu-El, Micha-El, Gabri-El, Samu-El, etc., and his worship is reflected in the fact that the Jews still consider Saturday as "God's Day."91

Indeed, that the Christians worship on Sunday betrays the genuine origins of their god and godman. Their "savior" is actually the sun, which is the "Light of the world that every eye can see." The sun has been viewed consistently throughout history as the savior of mankind for reasons that are obvious. Without the sun, the planet would scarcely last one day. So important was the sun to the ancients that they composed a "Sun Book," or "Helio Biblia," which became the "Holy Bible."91a

The "Patriarchs" and "Saints" are the Gods of Other Cultures
When one studies mythmaking, one can readily discern and delineate a pattern that is repeated throughout history. Whenever an invading culture takes over its predecessors, it either vilifies the preceding deities or makes them into lesser gods, "patriarchs" or, in the case of Christianity, "saints." This process is exemplified in the adoption of the Hindu god Brahma as the Hebrew patriarch Abraham.92 Another school of thought proposes that the patriarch Joshua was based on Horus as "Iusa," since the cult of Horus had migrated by this period to the Levant. In this theory, the cult of Joshua, which was situated in exactly the area where the Christ drama allegedly took place, then mutated into the Christian story, with Joshua becoming Jesus.93 As Robertson says, "The Book of Joshua leads us to think that he had several attributes of the Sun-god, and that, like Samson and Moses, he was an ancient deity reduced to human status."

Indeed, the legend of Moses, rather than being that of a historical Hebrew character, is found around the ancient Middle and Far East, with the character having different names and races, depending on the locale: "Manou" is the Indian legislator; "Nemo the lawgiver," who brought down the tablets from the Mountain of God, hails from Babylon; "Mises" is found in Syria and Egypt, where also "Manes the lawgiver" takes the stage; "Minos" is the Cretan reformer; and the Ten Commandments are simply a repetition of the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi and the Hindu Vedas, among others.94 Like Moses, Krishna was placed by his mother in a reed boat and set adrift in a river to be discovered by another woman.95 A century ago, Massey outlined, and Graham recently reiterated, that even the Exodus itself is not a historical event. That the historicity of the Exodus has been questioned is echoed by the lack of any archaeological record, as is reported in Biblical Archaeology Review ("BAR"), September/October 1994.96

Like many biblical characters, Noah is also a myth97, long ago appropriated from the Egyptians, the Sumerians and others, as any sophisticated scholar could demonstrate, and yet we find all sorts of books--some even presumably "channeling" the "ultimate truth" from a mystical, omniscient, omnipresent and eternal being such as Jesus himself - prattling on about a genuine, historical Noah, his extraordinary adventures, and the "Great Flood!"98

Additionally, the "Esther" of the Old Testament Book of Esther is a remake of the Goddess Ishtar, Astarte, Astoreth or Isis, from whom comes "Easter"99 and about whose long and ubiquitous reign little is said in "God's infallible Word."100 Per Harwood (Mythology's Last Gods, 230), "Esther" is best transliterated "Ishtar" and "Mordechai" is "Mardukay." The Virgin Mother/Goddess/Queen of Heaven motif is found around the globe, long before the Christian era, with Isis, for instance, also being called "Mata-Meri" ("Mother Mary"). As Walker says, "Mari" was the "basic name of the Goddess known to the Chaldeans as Marratu, to the Jews as Marah, to the Persians as Mariham, to the Christians as Mary... Semites worshipped an androgynous combination of Goddess and God called Mari-El (Mary-God), corresponding to the Egyptian Meri-Ra, which combined the feminine principle of water with the masculine principle of the sun."

Even the Hebraic name of God, "Yahweh," was taken from the Egyptian "IAO."101

In one of the most notorious of Christian deceptions, in order to convert followers of "Lord Buddha," the Church canonized him as "St. Josaphat," which represented a Christian corruption of the buddhistic title, "Bodhisat."102

The "Disciples" are the Signs of the Zodiac
Moreover, it is no accident that there are 12 patriarchs and 12 disciples, 12 being the number of the astrological signs, or months. Indeed, like the 12 Herculean tasks and the 12 "helpers" of Horus, Jesus's 12 disciples are symbolic for the zodiacal signs and do not depict any literal figures who played out a drama upon the earth circa 30 C.E. The disciples can be shown to have been an earlier deity/folkloric hero/constellation.103 Peter is easily revealed to be a mythological character104, while Judas has been said to represent Scorpio, "the backbiter," the time of year when the sun's rays are weakening and the sun appears to be dying.105 James, "brother of Jesus" and "brother of the Lord," is equivalent to Amset, brother of Osiris and brother of the Lord.106 Massey says "Taht-Matiu was the scribe of the gods, and in Christian art Matthew is depicted as the scribe of the gods, with an angel standing near him, to dictate the gospel."107 Even the apostle Paul is a compilation of several characters: The Old Testament Saul, Apollonius of Tyana and the Greek demigod Orpheus.108

Was Jesus an Essene Master? 109
As regards Jesus being an Essene according to "secret" Dead Sea Scrolls, even before the discovery of the scrolls, over the centuries there has been much speculation to this effect, but Massey skillfully argued that many of Jesus's presumed teachings were either in contradiction to or were non-existent in Essene philosophy.110 The Essenes did not believe in corporeal resurrection, nor did they believe in a carnalized messiah. They did not accept the historicity of Jesus. They were not followers of the Hebrew Bible, or its prophets, or the concept of the original fall that must produce a savior. Massey further points out that the Essenes were teetotalers and ate to live rather than the other way around. Compared to this, the assumed Essene Jesus appears to be a glutton and drunkard. Also, whereas according to Josephus the Essenes abhorred the swearing of oaths, Jesus was fond of "swearing unto" his disciples.111 While many Essenic doctrines are included in the New Testament, the list of disparities between the Dead Sea Scroll Essenes and their alleged great master Jesus goes on.112

Qumran is Not an Essene Community
It should also be noted that there is another debate as to whether or not Qumran, the site traditionally associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls, was an Essene community. In BAR, previously cited, it is reported that archaeological finds indicate Qumran was not an Essene community but was possibly a waystation for travelers and merchants crossing the Dead Sea. In BAR, it has also been hypothesized that the fervent tone and warrior-stance of some of the scrolls unearthed near Qumran belie any Essene origin and indicate a possible attribution to Jewish Zealots instead. In Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, Norman Golb makes a very good case that the Dead Sea Scrolls were not written by any Essene scribes but were a collection of tomes from various libraries that were secreted in caves throughout eastern Israel by Jews fleeing the Roman armies during the First Revolt of 70 A.D. Golb also hypothesizes that Qumran itself was a fortress, not a monastery. In any case, it is impossible to equate the "Teacher of Righteousness" found in any scrolls with Jesus Christ.

Was the New Testament Composed by Therapeuts?
In 1829 Rev. Taylor adeptly made the case that the entire Gospel story was already in existence long before the beginning of the Common Era and was probably composed by the monks at Alexandria called "Therapeuts" in Greek and "Essenes" in Egyptian, both names meaning "healers."113 This theory has stemmed in part from the statement of early church father Eusebius, who, in a rare moment of seeming honesty, "admitted...that the canonical Christian gospels and epistles were the ancient writings of the Essenes or Therapeutae reproduced in the name of Jesus."114 Taylor also opines that "the travelling Egyptian Therapeuts brought the whole story from India to their monasteries in Egypt, where, some time after the commencement of the Roman monarchy, it was transmuted in Christianity."115 In addition, Wheless evinces that one can find much of the fable of "Jesus Christ" in the Book of Enoch116, which predated the supposed advent of the Jewish master by hundreds of years.117 According to Massey, it was the "pagan" Gnostics--who included members of the Essene/Therapeut and Nazarene118 brotherhoods, among others--who actually carried to Rome the esoteric (gnostic) texts containing the Mythos, upon which the numerous gospels, including the canonical four, were based. Wheless says, "Obviously, the Gospels and other New Testament booklets, written in Greek and quoting 300 times the Greek Septuagint, and several Greek Pagan authors, as Aratus, and Cleanthes, were written, not by illiterate Jewish peasants, but by Greek-speaking ex-Pagan Fathers and priests far from the Holy Land of the Jews."119 Mead averred, "We thus conclude that the autographs of our four Gospels were most probably written in Egypt, in the reign of Hadrian."120

Conclusion
As Walker said, "Scholars' efforts to eliminate paganism from the Gospels in order to find a historical Jesus have proved as hopeless as searching for a core in an onion." The "gospel" story of Jesus is not a factual portrayal of a historical "master" who walked the earth 2,000 years ago. It is a myth built upon other myths and godmen, who in turn were personifications of the ubiquitous sungod mythos.

"The Christ of the gospels is in no sense an historical personage or a supreme model of humanity, a hero who strove, and suffered, and failed to save the world by his death. It is impossible to establish the existence of an historical character even as an impostor. For such an one the two witnesses, astronomical mythology and gnosticism, completely prove an alibi. The Christ is a popular lay-figure that never lived, and a lay-figure of Pagan origin; a lay-figure that was once the Ram and afterwards the Fish; a lay-figure that in human form was the portrait and image of a dozen different gods."

Gerald Massey

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Reply #86 - Jan 10th, 2007 at 3:13am
 
I'm tired right now, and when I'm tired, I  tend to trot out my canned answers.  When rested, I try to rethink my "answers" that may seem stale from  overuse.  Sometimes I still regurgitate the canned answers, but other times I may discern one new wrinkle that brings the issue to life again for me. 

Posters have commented on some difficult Gospel sayings.  I hope to offer my explanations later, but for now I just want to offer 2 often overlooked  points about Jesus that are very meaningful to me.

(1) To me, the Gospels are the equivalent of entrusting Einstein's relativity theory to a typical college freshman.  Jesus' teachings are reduced to oversimplified maxims to facilitate memorization.  But much of the profundity is removed in the process.   This oversimplification can best be seen by inquiring into the Jewish background of His teachings.  This inquiry makes one realize that Jesus presumes the need for healthy self-esteem, but distnguishes this from inordinate pride.  He is concerned that people discern the subtle line between these positive and negative qualities.  Similarly, He is concerned to distinguish the virtue of humility from low self-esteem and unhealthy humiliation.  These distinctions emerge from the Jewish background of Jesus' thought, but they get buried in a straightforward reading of our Gospels.  The disciples were not fully up to the task of transmitting Jesus' teaching.

In this respect, it is very interesting to understand why St. Paul quotes the historical Jesus only 3 times in his epistles.  Paul explains that a simple memorization of principles makes you live in your head and can kill your spiritual growth.  What Paul taught was the need for a contemplative or mystical consciousness.   For him, the big question is not: "What was Jesus saying to His audience back then?," but rather, "What is the Christ Spirit saying to you right now as you face your complex problems?"   He stressed a right-brain spirituality, not a left-brained one.  This point generally gets lost in our Christian pulpits.

Also, Jesus makes some statements that make it clear that for Him Hell is not a permanent abode, but an instrument of purgation.  This becomes even more clear when one researches the background of those sayings.  But the early church was angry about its persecution and determined to make converts.  It is clear to me that they succumbed to the temptation of accentuating fear-based religion to a degree that Jesus enver intended.  Again, our Gospels at times create a false impression.   

(2) Christians like to stress Jesus' messianic status and divinity, His teachings and His spiritual example.   But they ignore His personality as distinct from His character.  This neglect make Jesus seem too much like a cardboard figure who is hard to identify with and, for some, harder to love.  Discerning Jesus' personality can be threatening to believers because it makes Him all too human.  Christians affirm the fully humanity of Jesus, but are very reluctant to think through the full implications of this. 

One of my favorite scenes in a Jesus movie comes from the old Spanish movie, "The Milky Way."  Two grim Christian pilgrims are en route to a sacred shrine in France and they stop at an inn for lunch.  They get lost in a grim, joyless, unctious conversation about spirituality that drives their waiter to distraction.  Finally, he intervenes and asks coyly: "Tell me gentlemen, do you think Jesus ever laughed?"  In the next scene, you see a man sprinting through a field of grain, laughing his head off in a most undignified fashion.  The viewer eventually discovers to his dismay that this is Jesus en route to the wedding feast at Cana (see John 2).  He has a funny incident to share with His disciples.

Another scene has Jesus teaching until he experiences a bit of a coughing spasm, laughs, and says, "Where was I?"  I'm sure some found this offensive, but ask yourself this question: Don't you think Jesus got the occasional cold or coughing spasm like the rest of us?   

3 aspects of Jesus' personality stand out in our Gospels.  (a) He loves to use corny puns in His teaching.  This puns are clear in the underlying Aramaic, but get lost in our Greek (and of course English) translations.  (b) He loves to use shock tactics and Semitic hyperbole to make many points.  This pedagogical style is partly a function of an oral culture in which many cannot read and there is no media to spread ideas.  So Jesus feels the need to take drastic mesaures to make His points memorable.  This means that a literalistic approach to many of His sayings leads to misunderstanding.  Jesus may just be going for laughs at times.  Shock tactics and deliberate exaggeration are conducive to more memorable communication, but these ploys also presume a whole new set of implicit rules to detect meaning.  (c) Jesus believed that true spirituality is better caught than taught and was low-key in the way He led His disciples.  Thus, He never explains His parables to outsiders.  Our earliest Gospel (Mark) demonstrates that He didn't just share His identity with His disciples.  He expected them to discern that from their direct experience of His lifestyle and example.  In this respect, John somtimes gives a false impression, but John is a spiritual Gospel whose discourses incorporate genuine sayings of Jesus, but were never delivered as such.  As speeches, they are the author's creations. 

There are roughly 12 sayings of Jesus outside the Bible that have an excellent claim to being genuine.  My favorite illustrates Jssus' sense of humor.  It is found in the Gospel of the Poor, which is usually referred to by its Latin name, the Gospel of the Ebionites.  This Jewish Gospel was written shortly after our canonical Gospels.  It survives only in snippets quoted by church fathers. 
It describes how Jesus decided to accept baptism from John.  Scholars view Jesus' baptism as the most historically secure event in Jesus' life.  The reason for this is obvious.  John's was a baptism of repentance.  By accepting it, Jesus seems to repudiate His own sinlessness.  In truth, He viewed sin more as the condition of alienation from God than a legalistic series of vices.  The New Testament makes clear that, being human, Jesus needed to learn by trial-and- error like rest of us.  He is sinless in the sense that his learning curve never alienated Him from God.  Anyway, here's the quote from the Gospel of the Poor that provides yet another glimpse into Jesus' sense of humor:

"The mother of the Lord and His brothers said to Him, `John the Baptist baptizes for the forgiveness of sins.  Let us go and be baptized by him.'  But He said to them, `In what way have I sinned that I should go and be baptized by him?  Oops!  Unless, perhaps, what I just said is a sin of ignorance!"

The "Oops!" is not in the text but is implied by the tone.  No Christian would dare invent a saying in which Jesus makes light of the doctrine of His sinlessness.  So I'm confident that this saying is an authentic example of His sense of humor. 

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Reply #87 - Jan 10th, 2007 at 3:40am
 
Can you please tell me what the other quotes are that are outside of the Bible? Or, can you tell me where to find them?

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Reply #88 - Jan 10th, 2007 at 5:33am
 
Hi outofbodydude  You say of the empty tomb and where Jesus is buried.but when Jesus came before Pilate before his cruxifixtion,Pilate said to Jesus"Well have you anything to say,why dont you speak,do you not know that i have the power to sentence you to death or realease you."and Jesus answers and says to Pilate "You would not have any power over me ,if it had not been given to you from my father above.

Then when pilate told the crowd to choose between Barrabus and Jesus,one of the romans said to him,"You surely are not going to realease Barrabus,he is an enemy of rome" and Pilate looks across at Jesus and says"I wonder who is the true enemy of Rome.

Pilate had Jesus buried in that tomb because he was afraid deep down and i feel he sensed something in Jesus about being the son of God but would never had let on because the Romans would have lynched him.

And also he told roman soldiers to guard the tomb of Jesus,because he was afraid deep down and these roman soldiers guarded his tomb all night,until his mother mary and mary magdalen and i think it was miriam came to annoint the body of Jesus, and even the roman soldiers were took back because the tomb was empty after they had guarded it all night.and also pilate had it in his head that the people might try and take jesus body from the tomb in the night and say look jesus has risen again but thats because pilate knew deep down that Jesus was the son of God but also didnt want to beleive that this was the son of God and when the tomb was discovered empty the next day,the sanhedrin went in there and his words were"Now it all begins"

Also Pilate let the people decide the fate of Jesus because deep down he did not want to be held personally responsible for the death and cruxifixtion of THE SON OF GOD OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST.

Mary magdalene saw Jesus afterwards and he said to her to go and tell the diciples.Jesus also says to Mary"Do not touch me for i have not yet accsended to the father.

Jesus was the proof that life goes on after death and that we have a spirit.If you beleive in the spirit leaving the body at death and going home to the spirit world ,then you must beleive in our saviour jesus rising again after 3 days.


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Reply #89 - Jan 10th, 2007 at 6:33am
 
Dude, I take it you are actually reading what you are pasting?!  The absorbing and internalising of literature does helps every so slighty!  No scarcasm intended  Smiley Gosh I think I need a week to read through what you and Don have written.

Hi there Lady Earth.  There is the Golden Thread which runs throughout literature; literature which has firmly grasped the significant importance that Christ was born in Earth, walked upon Earth, Died and was Risen in form after three days in Earth and His Blood was spilt into the Earth.

It takes seeking but if your heart is willing you will find it.

At hand I have an account of reincarnations of the Prophets, Sages and Disciples; authors of the Bible and although not quotes per say (these are generally written in forms of poems and entire works are based upon the sayings in the Bible which is indeed a rich esoteric book which needs to be read with spiritual eyes to be fully understood) However this work Im quoting below runs parallel to the Bible.

Anway I hope you find it of interest.  I have posted this before beginning of last year but the board had a crash so I'll just type it out again .. lol and copy it!)  Don your comments are welcome.

Taken from: Atlantis to the Latter Days inspirationally dictated to HC Randall-Stevens (El Eros) by the Masters Oneferu and Adolemy of the Osirian Group.  Published by the Knights Templars of Aquarius, London 1957.

A brief summary of re-incarnation History-

Amos
Ahmose, 1376 BC scribe under Akhnaton
Levi, 1760 BC, Son of Jacob & Leah, half brother to Joseph
Amos, 745 BC Prophet of Judea
Mer,  one of the Three Wise Men
Matthew of Galilee, Apostle
St Francis of Assisi, AD 1181-1226 Founder of the Franciscan Order

Baruch
Imenhotep 3000 BC
Thoth of Atlantis
Amenophis, 1412 BC architect and adviser of Amunhotep III deified as god of science and medicine
Baruch 586 BC
Euclid 300 BC, geometrician
Sir William Herschel 1738-1822 astronomer

Daniel
The Ruling Prince of Lemuria 12,000 BC time of 'Merk and Lady of the Sun'
Amraphel or Hammurabi 2000 BC, contemporary with Abraham
Ahmose I, 1580-1529 BC 1st Pharaoh of 18th Dynasty Egypt
Joseph 1761 BC of the 'coat of many colours'
King David, 1580 - 1540 BC of Israel
Rekhmire, 1501 - 1447 BC vizier under Thutmose III
Moses, 1313 - 1193 BC who led out of Egypt
Ahmose II 569 - 525 BC of Egypt
Daniel 606 - 538 BC Prophet
Joseph 44 BC, father of the Master Jesus
Joseph Barnabas 92 AD of Cyprus who worked with St Paul
Merlin 500 AD of King Arthur's court
Leader at Mesa Verde, Indian  who came from the South AD 1200
Montezuma 1500 AD, Aztec of Mexico
Joseph Smith 1805-1844 AD organiser of the Mormon Church

Isaiah
Seti or Anub-Khper-re 1292 BC, 9th son of Ramses II, killed during the Exodus
Isaiah 765 BC, Major Prophet
Aristotle 384-322 BC
John the Beloved of Galilee
Leonarda da Vinci 1452-1519 AD

James
Huya 1376 BC, Major-domo for Queen Tiyi and Aton Priest
James the Less Apostle

Joshua
Tutu 1376 BC minister of forgien affairs for Akhnaton
Uriah the Hittite 1580 BC husband of Bathsheba before David took her
Joshua who led the Israelites into the Promised Land
St Clement 91-100 AD

Jeremiah
Sinuhe or Setymeramun 1376-1356 BC, court physician time of Akhnaton and Pharoah of Egypt for one month
Khaemweset or Setne-Khaem 1292 BC, 4th son of Ramses II, the wizard Prince
Jeremiah 612-550 BC of Judah, Major Prophet
Luke, the physician of Antioch

Joel
Hittite, Ambassador to Egypt time of Akhnaton and Pharoah of Egypt for one month
Joel 720 BC Minor Prophet
John the Baptist 4 BC of Judah
Thomas the doubter, Apostle
(Elijah entered John the Baptist, John the Baptist went over immediately and re-incarnated as Thomas)

Mark
Tutankhaton (not Tutankamen) 1360 - 1350 BC boy King of the 18th dynasty
Merk, space vistor from Hesperus (Venus) who came from Lemuria 12, 000 years ago
Waif on the Nile at the time of Joseph and Asenath - 15th Dynasty
Hadad, 1565 BC of Syria, contemporary with David and Solomon
Menkheperre-Seneb 1501 BC High Priest of Egypt under Thutmose III
Aaron 1316 BC Brother of Moses
Ezekekiel 606-538 BC of Judah, Major Prophet
Simmias 480 BC student of Phylos contemporary with Socrates and Plato
Zacharias or Zechariah of Judah, father of John the Baptist
Mark 18 AD the Evangelist
St George, martyred 303 AD
Doge Giustiniano Porteciazio AD 829 of Venice
Father Ricardo during the Spanish inquistion
Atahualpa 1532 AD, Inca assasinated by Pizarro
Dr Robert Browne 1550-1633 AD of England, father of congregationalism

Peter
Akhnaton 1370-1361 Pharaoh of Egypt
Socrates 469-399 BC philosopher of Greece
Simon Peter (died 67 AD one of the twelve Apostles
Epictetus 67-125 AD Roman stoic philosopher
William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879 AD Saxon King who established liberation at Boston to advocate emancipation of slaves.

Timothy
Smenkhkare 1361-1360 BC, nine months  Pharaoh of Eqypt
Seti 1321-1300 BC, Pharoah of Egypt whose daughter rescused Moses from the bulrushes and father of Ramses II
Rehoboam 1501 BC son of Solomon
Timothy of Asia minor, favourite disciple of Paul.

Jesus Christ One of a Kind.

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