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I hope you like a challenge for your surely are in for one if you begin to study the link between Egypt, Judaism, and Christianity.
I never dreamed years ago in Seminary that my studies into the origin of Christianity and its Hebrew roots would later prove to me that the Bible that I carried is a book about astrology, astronomy, and the harmony of the Universe which is later personified into events in the lives of Patriarchs and even Jesus. You might say that I was at that time in my life unawakened to the Cosmic Consciousness that lies beneath many of the stories in my Bible let alone the stories concerning the depiction of Jesus in the New Testament. I quickly found over the years of intense study that all roads do not lead to Rome, although many do, but truly all roads lead to Egypt for it is there we find the world's First Monotheism in it's purest state. That's right; I said Egypt and not Jerusalem nor Rome. This might come as a shock to you as it did me but when you become familiar with how the texts of the Bible were written as well as archeology and ancient historical records you find that the Jews are the "children of the Egyptians" in the first place. We will get to that later in this website but for now let us remain on tract. The things said above might seem shocking to you considering what you have been taught by your Christian Church and its traditions which we inherited in this Western Hemisphere. Even the Old School of Egyptology goes out of it's way to make sure that the truth concerning Moses, the Jews, and Israel is hidden because of its ramifications upon three world religions today. To say that such information is earth-shaking is a gross understatement.
When one surveys the development of Egyptology as a discipline during the course of the 19th century, one is struck by the single-mindedness of purpose to which many of the great names of the day adhered. That sole purpose sought to discover in the ancient Egyptian cultural record evidence which would document, and thereby confirm, the events recorded in the Old Testament. These efforts have failed for several reasons. The biggest reason is that most scholars have been trying to fit Egyptian history into the Bible rather than the Bible into Egyptian history. However, archeological finds in the last 150 years have been monumental and such discoveries are of such an astounding nature that one realizes that the above approach of trying to put Egypt into the Bible is utter nonsense. Rather today we know for certain that we need to put the Bible into Egypt history in order to understand correctly the events and identities of the famous men and women of the Jewish Old Testament. Never forget that winners of wars write history as well as change it according to their views and agendas. Along with this comes their "version" of the story given as their legacy to all mankind. This has been done to where the truth concerning the origin of Christianity is almost totally lost today without a good deal of hard work and diligent study. Had it not been for great discoveries in archeology in the last 150 years we would today remain in the darkness of Roman Church tradition which obscures the truth about God and His Revelation to all mankind which was first given to Egypt long before the Jews came from their loins.
This brings me to the purpose of this website and the information and articles that will follow. Having devoted myself to serious study these last 20 years my travels in scholarship have taken many paths and learning and knowledge has become my best friends. Today I as well as many other scholars realize that the roots of Christianity do not lie in Rome or Jerusalem but in Egypt. In fact the purest doctrine of Monotheism is to be found in Egypt when their religion is properly understood. Truly this gives cause to not only rethink Egyptian religion which has sadly been misrepresented to the world by the Old School of Egyptology for hundreds of years but brings a correction to its daughter religions which have stayed from the path of its parent. We are dealing here with Divine Revelation on a magnitude that few since Moses, himself a Pharaoh, has received and the failure of succeeding nations to understand and convey it properly. Sadly humanity has lost much of this knowledge through war and conquest but archeology is brining this history and information to the surface once again. In so doing we have now the ability to trace God's earliest Revelation of Himself on this planet through successive nations and as we do we can follow the changes, alterations, corruptions, as well as those who did not yield to such changes but chose rather to adhere to this original Divine Revelation. What we find upon such study is both disconcerting as well as comforting; disconcerting because we see the aberrations and alterations of such original Divine truth once held by the Egyptians as we trace these doctrines chronologically down through history though successive Gentile sun worshipping nations as well as the rigorous and tenacious fighting by the Egyptian's children, the Jews, to maintain and preserver this "original truth" of its parents.
This is important for us today because until we truly learn the origin of our Christian Faith and it's earliest doctrines and dogmas and what was believed way back then by the earliest believes in God on this planet to whom this Revelation was given and who are called "Holy men of old" and then compare their "religious beliefs" to those we have inherited today which are likewise touted as "Divine, infallible, and inerrant" then we see major changes and alterations have been made to this simple faith of the ancient Godfearers. Without such investigation on our parts we have no way to knowing for certain if what we have been taught and inherited down through history by successive Gentile sun worshipping nations is accurate and and a faithful representation of these original religious beliefs held by those who first received God's Divine Revelation in this world.
Sadly few if any Christians have ever studied the origins of their faith and have been instructed to accept without question their inherited faith as if this is an accurate representation of this prior Divine Revelation. Without such personal and individual study then we are relegated to having "faith" in what has been handed down to us by Rome in this ONE BOOK we call the Christian Bible and which is passed off as being an accurate representation of God's earliest revelation of Himself to "holy men of old." You will quickly come to see that this position of implicit faith in our inherited Christian religious belief system and this ONE BOOK more than a little problematic upon just a few hours of serious reading and study into the true origins of the Christian faith let alone into serious study into the textual integrity with the texts within the Christian Bible.
After Seminary, as well as during my three year course of instruction, I realized beyond any doubt that there are many problems within my Christian Bible and my Christian religious beliefs system and I wanted answers to why things just did not add up so much of the time since supposedly coming from a God who is not the author of confusion. But time restraints required that I wait until after graduation and during the years of my Pastorate in order to investigate such irregularities. As God would have it by Divine Providence I had read a very good Jewish book on the Jewish Jesus before entering my course of study at Southwestern Theological Seminary entitled Understanding The Difficult Words of Jesus by David Bivin and Roy Blizzard. This book agitated me beyond belief because it revealed to me that behind the English words of my New Testament were Hebraic doctrines and meanings that the English and the context of the passage failed to bring out. I quickly realized that I did not have the meaning Jesus intended but yet I read the passage and arrived at an alternate understanding either from my ignorance of Hebrew or my prior conditioning by hearing sermons that allegorized the passages in question. Said bluntly I did not have words of Jesus nor the understanding intended for the hearers who once set before him when he instructed them. Likewise I realized that I had often a completely different meaning and I reasoned that if I had another completely different meaning than what Jesus intended from inherited sermons from the Gentile Church than what the Hebrew behind the Greek and English intended then I had the wrong understanding. It was not Jesus who did not "believe as me" but I who "did not believe as Jesus."
I began to ponder such a scenario. I had just finished taking Systematic Theology in Seminary where I was taught the Baptist viewpoints on such religious doctrines such as sin, repentance, judgment, resurrection, prayer, atonement, life after death, tithing, etc. Then it dawned on me to question if I really had the "mind of Christ" on these religious beliefs. Not knowing what lay ahead of me in my future studies and being "literal" in most of my thinking at that point in my life I asked myself some very difficult questions the last day at Seminary as I set on a bench before the beautiful gardens on the campus:
Looking back on this now these were infantile thoughts. This was the beginning of 15 years of dedicated study that would lead me to discover the truth behind Christianity but I had to eventually travel to Egypt in my studies to get to the bottom of my religious problem; the answer to which would shake my world and would eventually lead me out of the pastorate. Yet at that time I could only think that I had to have the answers to these questions. I knew what the Baptists believed and wanted me to believe but I was haunted by these above questions and the answers could not come quick enough but yet I realized that it might take months and even years to satisfactory get the answers that I needed. I wanted no room to doubt so my determined to approach such investigation and study in a methodical way. Since being a full blown zealous Christian at that time in my life I began my studies in Fourth Century following the Council of Nicea since this is the high water mark of organizational Christianity. I began to work backwards down through history with the desire to sift through as much information as possible to understand the intricacies of what really happened that shaped and gave momentum to Gentile Christianity all the while comparing what I had been taught to believe with what a Jew like Jesus in the first century believed. But there was one problem; I did not know what a Jew like Jesus believed in these areas so I had to undertake a serious and in-depth study of Biblical Judaism which took over 4 years to where I was satisfied that I knew the Jewish faith inside and outside. That was an eye opening experience to say the least as I saw daily in my studies that I had very little in common with a Jewish Jesus and his faith of Judaism. I wondered how my faith and Christian religious beliefs and doctrines which is supposed to be the fulfillment of Judaism could conflict and contradict so often what Jesus the Jew believed. I wondered who was responsible for such a misrepresentation of the historical Jesus the Jew as found in the New Testament and Gentile Church dogma which my ONE BOOK taught as the faith of Jesus when serious investigation into Judaism shows that the Jesus of the New Testament has more in common with sun godmen and cosmic saviors than the Messiah of Judaism and what Judaism teaches. What I was not prepared for which would come within two years of such study is that the very identity of Jesus and his historical existence would be questioned and challenged to its very core by such studies. It was only when my studies arrived at a through investigation of Egyptian religion did I discover the Egyptian Karast (Christ) and Osiris/Horus which is the Egyptian Jesus. It is at this time that I found the identical same stories told of "the Christ" in the New Testament which were previously told thousands and thousands of years earlier about Osiris/Horus and the same "Logia" or sayings of the Lord taken from the mouths of Egyptian rituals put into the mouth of the New Testament Jesus. Now I had a real problem facing me. Now my Jewish Jesus had been shown to be a fraud as well. Behind it all was allegory, symbolism, metaphor, and myths which originally portrayed Divine Truths but which were later "literalized" by Rome thousands of years later. This you will see if you continue to study the Egyptian Jesus (http://jesusastrotheology.netfirms.com).
Picking back up with my early years of studying a "literal Jewish Jesus" and having at that time learned what Jesus the Jew would have believed about these various doctrines I quickly saw that Gentile Christianity had little in common with the faith of Jesus "the Jew". In fact it seemed I had inherited a belief in the "Jesus of faith" given to me by Rome as depicted in Rome's canon of passages called the New Testament instead of the assumed "Jesus of history" whose Bible was the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings [sadly called the Old Testament today....rightly known as the Tanakh]. As I began to isolate these divergent religious doctrines in Gentile Christianity that deviated from Biblical Judaism then I wanted to know "why" my Christian religious doctrines were different and "when" these doctrines were changed and where they found their ultimate origin. That began for me a quest to trace these Gentile religious beliefs back down through history through each successive conquering nation until I arrived eventually at the beginning of recorded time which I found to be Egypt and Sumer. I began as my fixed point Roman Catholicism in the middle ages and began to work backward. It was amazing at what I saw and uncovered as the years rolled along. Along with such discovery of altered religious doctrines by Rome I was introducted into the corruption of New Testament documents themselves as history and archeology records for us the almost constant alteration, change, and continued manipulation of these documents as successive Roman Church Councils as they decided upon and created theology down through history. The further I ventured back into the influence of Gentile religious beliefs upon the Christian Bible I ran into the earlier corruption of the Hebrew Scriptures by the Hellenized Essenes of Alexandria, Egypt in 220 B.C.E. (http://essenechristian faith.netfirms.com). Now we have the corruption of both the Hebrew Scriptures known as the Old Testament as well as the New Testament and these mind you become the Bible of the Christian Church for the last 1600 years. Having done this study now I came to see why the prophecies of the Jewish Messiah are different in the Hebrew Scriptures when compared with the later forged Greek and English texts (http://messianicprophecy.netfirms.com and http://seventyweeksdaniel.netfirms.com and http://jewishmessiah.netfirms.com).
These truths were very hard to swallow for an ordained Christian Pastor of a mega-church in Dallas, Texas. Thus my resignation lay only months ahead. As I continued to trace backwards in time the origins for my inherited Christian beliefs and to find the origin for their deviation from what the Jews believed as recorded in their Hebrew Scriptures I found that all roads began to point to Egypt. Along the way I discovered that Ezra rewrote the Hebrew Scriptures following the Persian captivity and at that time the history of the Jewish black-skinned people was altered to cover up their "Egyptian Roots" and to hide their true parents. This opened a whole can of worms that intrigues and motivates my study even to this day. Important for our study and this website is the marvelous facts I found concerning the Egyptian Religion which are sadly so tragically misrepresented today to all but those who study the New School of Egyptology. In Egypt we find the world's first recorded religion and when properly understood the similarity with Biblical Judaism is overwhelming. But we should expect such once we learn the true origin of the Jewish people which can be shown to have sprung from the intermarriages of Egyptians and Canaanites. This information now becomes startling because not only do we learn the true identity of the Biblical Patriarch who are Pharaohs but reorients the dating of the Exodus to a period where few if any scholars look for evidence. Not finding any this period they dismiss the Exodus as myth but when dated to the period to when it actually occurred the evidence for the Exodus is plentiful.
As if that is not enough I was overwhelmed with what I found concerning Egyptian religion. Properly understood the beauty and simplicity of God's Revelation to earliest mankind is breathtaking as God revealed Himself to these people though the Universe, Nature, and within the physiology of Humanity. Observations in the Heavens, in Nature, and in mankind himself expressed truths that found their expression through allegories and metaphors that took the form of stories and events that were never literal to the Egyptians but yet when personified expressed "literal" truths about the Creator and His Cosmos. These personifications of Divine truth were woven into the Egyptian civilization and when PROPERLY understood reveal the Glory of God and His true message to mankind. It would be these "religious beliefs" that would provide the substrate for Egypt's Ethical Monotheism which was to be imparted to the world. In time the children of the Egyptians emerge through the marriage of Egyptians and Semites and we recognize them today as the Jewish race. These Egyptian children, the Jews, learned the religion of their parents and cleave to it today as well. Alexander the Great will come and destroy and Hellenize Egypt and in his wake the religion of the parent will be destroyed but try as they may the children of the Egyptians have withstood down through history assimilation and repeated attempts to subjugate and destroy their faith by successive Gentile conquerors. Biblical and Rabbinical Judaism is the closest representation of God's original Divine Revelation to mankind that can be found in the world today. Sadly Gentile Christianity refused this Revelation and did all that could to change it and pass off this altered anti-Egyptian religion and anti-Judaism as "orthodoxy" to the unsuspecting Gentiles who lack the knowledge to spot the counterfeit.
Sadly in time such Divine truths of the Kosmos would be perverted and the allegories and metaphors expressing these Divine truths would become "literalized" and debauched by successive Gentile nations and this deviation from truth becomes the cornerstone of world paganism in their deviate solar and nature festivals. Rome, in its combat against Judaism as a world religion in the earliest centuries, assimilates just enough Judaism in order to remake the Egyptian Karast (Christ) into Jesus of the New Testament and then Jesus of the New Testament is transformed into a hybrid representing a Cosmic Godman crossed with just enough Judaism to appear as the fulfillment of the Jewish messiah to those who know no better and have no knowledge of the manipulations and alterations done to the Hebrew Bible by the apostate Essenes of Alexandria, Egypt, in the 3rd century B.C.E. That once was me but no more. Simply said religious doctrines of Egypt expressing Divine truth in the form of allegory and metaphor are literalized by the Greeks and Romans and taught in a literal manner which was never to be understood in such a way nor taught in such a way by those who first gave the world these deeper religious understandings. Of what I am referring are the majority of the New Testament accounts of Jesus in the New Testament which simply are little more than personifications of Stellar and Cosmic events originally understood allegorically that reveal God and His attributes to mankind which have under the influence of the Essenes and later Rome been personified and deified as applied to an assumed historical Jesus. In so doing the simple truths, the original Revelation of God, and the simple Gospel of God originally given and understood by the Egyptians and their Jewish children has been tragically altered and destroyed and the Roman depiction of Jesus the Jew in the New Testament is nothing more than the literalization of these Divine truths understood originally as allegory and myths which again were but stories that revealed the maturation and maturity of the soul. That's right...these Egyptian myths of Osiris, Isis, and Horus were never "literal" but were allegories of the descent of the Divine, the Soul into matter (mankind) and the pattern for its spiritual development in this matter we call flesh. Such revelation of the Divine intent hidden in myth and allegory is totally lost today when read anew in the supposed life of a "literal Jesus" which focus upon "the one" instead of all who have this same "Christ/Sophia within". Said another way the "literalized Jewish Jesus", instead of being a picture for the development and imitation for all mankind for their spiritual development, has been transformed into a man who has become literally God by Nicean theology and along with this comes the loss of the religious beliefs system of the nations (Egypt, Israel) that once carried this Divine truth in Laws and Commandments that ordered the development of this soul. In its place we find a substitute of another religion that stigmatizes all Laws and Commandments which finds expression in the New Testament. But ever more all this was done along with the imposed Roman religious doctrine that failure to believe such things as taught by the Roman church as found in their New Testament results in one's damnation. Our adherence to many of these New Testament beliefs about Jesus are simply wrong and inaccurate and renders the uneducated believer an idolator and blasphemer when compared to the original beliefs of the Jewish nation and the Egyptian parents of these Jews.
If you have followed me up to now you might be bewildered to the claims made above but as they say in Texas: "the proof is in the pudding." I would ask you to search your heart and see if truth matters to you in your relationship with God. If it does then I would ask you to take this challenge and let me prove these things to you beyond any doubt which after twenty years of serious study I am prepared to do. The question is if you are willing to devote time and resources to procure some necessary books to aid in your study because I don't want anyone to stand before God in the judgment and say "pastor Craig said." That simply won't do. You are responsible for your own relationship with God as well as acquiring the truth concerning your faith. In order to return to the faith of Jesus (by that I mean the Jewish revelation of God inherited from Egypt) you must come first to the realization that you don't have it. This is my job to convince you through many infallible proofs that as a Gentile Christian it is impossible to be a follower of the historical Jesus (real or not) until you find out what Jew like him was supposed to believe and where these Jewish beliefs came from. Again the roads will lead to Egypt.
On this ministry's various other websites I have over the years tackled various doctrinal problems facing the traditional Christian and brought truth to bear upon the lies of Christian orthodoxy passed off as truth. Most of this has been done from a "literal" perspective since that is how we are taught to approach our Bibles as Christians. Now we look deeper to the hidden allegorical meanings behind these "simple stories" which were known by the Ancients and which have today been lost to all but a few dedicated students. Now we begin at the beginning of recorded history in order to understand the religion of these Egyptian parents of the Jews who gave us what is later altered to become the traditional historical Jesus. It is only in such study can we ever hope to find the truths that lie behind this "assumed historical Jesus". This will not be a quick or easy study and the concepts that will be revealed with be new and challenging. But as they say "no pain, no gain." So we begin at the beginning to understand the earliest of God's Revelation to mankind. Then after seeing these things for yourself then it is up to you to decide if you have been given the truth and a faithful representation of it by Rome or if you have been led down the road of deception like the billions of other Gentile who came before you who failed to take seriously the study of the origins of their faith. It is to these issues we now turn in this website. May God bless your efforts and the repentance of your life as these truth pierce your heart and reveal to you maybe for the first time in your life that you have received the counterfeit instead of the real. In so doing the idolatry and blasphemy which contaminates every Christian due to Rome's antisemitism and rejection of "the faith once given to the saints" will be exposed and this is the first step in your repentance and returning to the real faith of Jesus: Faith "in" Jesus or "the faith of Jesus"...that is the question! Ironically it is possible to have a faith both "in and of" Jesus but not a Jesus as defined from the Roman view and your studies will show this to you in time.
Let me make you a promise. If you continue in these studies and seek out your "Jewish Roots" you will find that all religious truths lie behind Egyptian religion in one way or the other and in discovering this truth you will find as well the truth behind the first "Jesus", "Messiah", and "Christ" which all had their origin in Egyptian religion and that all of these religious concepts again find their origin in Astronomy and the movement of the orbs in the Heavens where the Ancients first studied God's face. Stay tuned.
Blessings..Craig Lyons M.Div.
Bennoah1@airmail.net