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ARE MAJOR TEACHINGS CONCERNING JESUS IN THE NT A COMPILATION OF PAGAN MYTHS HANDED DOWN BY ROME?

Simply said...I found it to be so. Let me see if I can prove it to you in seven pages. This explains why I have unwaveringly the last several years of my life been devoted to the Historical Yeshua/Jesus of Biblical Judaism and have turned away from the Christ of Faith given to me by the Gentile Anti-Semitic Christian Church.

After you read this article you will no longer wonder why our articles consistently warn of the errors and pit-falls in Christianity today which robs its people of a pure worship of God.

ASSIMILATION ABOUNDS AMONG THE PAGES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT

It is evident that there was no single historical person upon whom the Christian religion was founded, and that the "Jesus Christ" as revealed in the Catholic Church altered New Testament 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 FACTUAL documentation to show that this issue is not a question of "faith" or "belief." The truth is that during the era Yeshua 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 years ago, as well as by Rev. Robert Taylor years ago, among others. The Krishna tale as told in the Hindu Vedas has been dated to at least as far back as 1000 B.C.E. 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.

The Jesus story, as found in the New Testament, 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.

• 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 character
• 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 Thomas)
• Thor of the Gauls
• Universal Monarch of the Sibyls
• Wittoba of the Bilingonese
• Xamolxis of Thrace
• Zarathustra/Zoroaster of Persia
• Zoar of the Bonzes

PATTERNS FOR THE CHRIST OF FAITH….AS SEEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.....

BUDDHA

Buddha…500 years before Yeshua/Jesus

Although most people think of Buddha as being one person who lived around 500 B.C.E., the character commonly portrayed as Buddha can also be demonstrated to be a compilation of godmen, legends and sayings of various holy men both preceding and succeeding the period attributed to the Buddha.

The Buddha character has the following in common with the Christ figure:

• Buddha was born of the virgin Maya, who was considered the "Queen of Heaven."
• He was of royal descent.
• He crushed a serpent's head.
• He performed miracles and wonders, healed the sick, fed men from a "small basket of cakes," and walked on water.
• He abolished idolatry, was a "sower of the word," and preached "the establishment of a kingdom of righteousness."
• He taught chastity, temperance, tolerance, compassion, love, and the equality of all.
• He was transfigured on a mount.
• Sakya Buddha was crucified in a sin-atonement, suffered for three days in hell, and was resurrected.
• He ascended to Nirvana or "heaven."
• Buddha was considered the "Good Shepherd", the "Carpenter", the "Infinite and Everlasting."
• He was called the "Savior of the World" and the "Light of the World."

HORUS OF EGYPT

The stories of Jesus and Horus are very similar, with Horus even contributing the name of Jesus Christ. Horus and his once-and-future Father, Osiris, are frequently interchangeable in the mythos ("I and my Father are one"). The legends of Horus go back thousands of years, and he shares the following in common with Jesus:

• Horus was born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25th in a cave/manger, with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men.
• He was a child teacher in the Temple and was baptized when he was years old.
• He had disciples.
• He performed miracles and raised one man, El-Azar-us, from the dead.
• He walked on water.
• Horus was transfigured on the Mount.
• He was crucified, buried in a tomb and resurrected.
• He was also the "Way, the Truth, the Light, the Messiah, God's Anointed Son, the Son of Man, the Good Shepherd, the Lamb of God, the Word" etc.
• He was "the Fisher," and was associated with the Lamb, Lion and Fish ("Ichthys").
• Horus's personal epithet was "Iusa," the "ever-becoming son" of "Ptah," the "Father."
• Horus was called "the KRST," or "Anointed One," long before the Christians duplicated the story.

In fact, in the catacombs at Rome are pictures of the baby Horus being held by the virgin mother Isis - the original "Madonna and Child" - and the Vatican itself is built upon the papacy of Mithra, who shares many qualities with Jesus and who existed as a deity long before the Jesus character was formalized. The Christian hierarchy is nearly identical to the Mithraic version it replaced. Virtually all of the elements of the Catholic ritual, from miter to wafer to water to altar to doxology, are directly taken from earlier pagan mystery religions.

MITHRA, SUNGOD OF PERSIA

The story of Mithra precedes the Christian fable by at least 400 years. According to Wheless, the cult of Mithra was, shortly before the Christian era, "the most popular and widely spread 'Pagan' religion of the times." Mithra has the following in common with the Christ character:

• Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25th.
• He was considered a great traveling teacher and master.
• He had companions or disciples.
• He performed miracles.
• He was buried in a tomb.
• After three days he rose again.
• His resurrection was celebrated every year.
• Mithra was called "the Good Shepherd."
• He was considered "the Way, the Truth and the Light, the Redeemer, the Savior, the Messiah."
• He was identified with both the Lion and the Lamb.
• His sacred day was Sunday, "the Lord's Day," hundreds of years before the appearance of Christ.
• Mithra had his principal festival on what was later to become Easter, at which time he was resurrected.
• His religion had a Eucharist or "Lord's Supper."

KRISHNA OF INDIA

The similarities between the Christian character and the Indian messiah are many. Indeed, Massey finds over similarities between the Hindu and Christian saviors, and Graves, who includes the various noncanonical gospels in his analysis, lists over likenesses. It should be noted that a common earlier English spelling of Krishna was "Christna," which reveals its relation to '"Christ." It should also be noted that, like the Jewish godman, many people have believed in a historical, carnalized Krishna.

• Krishna was born of the Virgin Devaki ("Divine One").
• His father was a carpenter.
• His birth was attended by angels, wise men and shepherds, and he was presented with gold, frankincense and myrrh.
• He was persecuted by a tyrant who ordered the slaughter of thousands of infants.
• He was of royal descent.
• He was baptized in the River Ganges.
• He worked miracles and wonders.
• He raised the dead and healed lepers, the deaf and the blind.
• Krishna used parables to teach the people about charity and love.
• "He lived poor and he loved the poor."
• He was transfigured in front of his disciples.
• In some traditions he died on a tree or was crucified between two thieves.
• He rose from the dead and ascended to heaven.
• Krishna is called the "Shepherd God" and "Lord of lords," and was considered "the Redeemer, Firstborn, Sin Bearer, Liberator, Universal Word."
• He is the second person of the Trinity, and proclaimed himself the "Resurrection" and the "way to the Father."
• He was considered the "Beginning, the Middle and the End," ("Alpha and Omega"), as well as being omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent.
• His disciples bestowed upon him the title "Jezeus," meaning "pure essence."
• Krishna is to return to do battle with the "Prince of Evil," who will desolate the earth.

PROMETHEUS OF GREECE

The Greek god Prometheus has been claimed to have come from Egypt, but his drama took place in the Caucasus mountains. Prometheus shares a number of striking similarities with the Christ character.

• Prometheus descended from heaven as God incarnate as man, to save mankind.
• He was crucified, suffered and rose from the dead.
• He was called the Logos or Word.

Five centuries before the Christian era, esteemed Greek poet Aeschylus wrote Prometheus Bound, which was presented in the theater in Athens and which included the following stanza:

"Lo, streaming from the fatal tree,

His all-atoning blood!

Is this the Infinite? 'Tis he -

Prometheus, and a God!

Well might the sun in darkness hide,

And veil his glories in,

When God, the great Prometheus, died,

For man, the creature's sin."

In the Prometheus story are clear and exact precedents for some of the most important elements of the Christian doctrine, e.g., being placed on a "fatal tree" in a blood-atonement for man's sins. Besides such obvious correlations, the sun hiding in darkness parallels the Christian fable of the darkness descending when Jesus was crucified. This remarkable occurrence is not recorded in history but is only explainable within the Mythos and as part of a recurring play.

THE CREATION OF THE "JESUS MYTH" BY THE GENTILE CHURCH

The Catholic 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 masses, but the scholars of other schools/sects never gave up their arguments against the historicizing of a very ancient mythological creature. They even went so far in the 4th century as to destroy the world renown library at Alexandria, Egypt, because within it was the evidence that the "Divine Roman faith called Christianity" was anything but that; it was the same Astral and Nature worship of primitive man only recently "personified" in the latest of the Roman gods...Jesus. We have lost the arguments of these learned dissenters because the Christians destroyed any traces of their works. Nonetheless, besides the gifts of archeology today which have recovered much information once thought lost to mankind forever, the Christians preserved the contentions of their detractors through the Christians' own refutations. It is amazing to read the early Church Fathers for often their "works" incriminate themselves and their honesty as to their untenable theological positions are recorded for the reader to examine for himself; but few do. I have.

TESTIMONY OF EARLY CHURCH FATHERS TO THE TRUTH OF THE "CHRISTIAN MYTH"

For example, early Church Father Tertullian (400 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." Interestingly, a previously strident believer and defender of the faith, Tertullian later renounced Christianity.

This is but one testimony among hundreds as to the pagan origin for many of the beliefs the early Gentile church maintained and applied to Jesus.

Please understand that in my studies I never set out to find what I did. I never intended to learn that my faith was false in many areas, but the faithfulness of God is seen in all that I have done. Diligently seeking God I found Him as He revealed the hidden truths to me. These I share with you hoping and praying your worship of our loving Father be in Spirit and in Truth. It is time for the Church to meet the Historical Jesus, and this can only be done by exposing the Christ of Faith for what he really is; namely, a mixture of legends of the Gentile’s godmen with a Jewish Zaddik named Yeshua…the real Historical Jesus. Shalom.