What are your Easter celebration plans for Sunday, April 24th? Will you go to a church service? Will you paint and decorate Easter eggs? Aren’t you curious about where Easter comes from, or how we went from the resurrection of
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Who was the Historical Jesus? Did Jesus really exist? An Introduction to Christ Myth Theory
Much of the material on this website concerns my continuing research into Christian traditions and the historical Jesus Christ: who was Jesus, really? Is there any evidence for his existence? What started the Christian movement? Although the debate continues, and
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Defining Jesus: Voting on Christ’s divine and human nature in the Ecumenical Church Councils
Although Christianity had finally been given state approval, Constantine soon saw that as a movement Christianity was deeply divided among itself in virtual all areas. In order to stifle disagreements and unify the empire under one, simplified religion, Emperor Constantine
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Mary’s Vulva: Jesus Christ, Vesica Pisces and the Christian Fish Symbol
Many of the stories in the biblical gospel stories have mathematical significance, like the name of Jesus, and use numbers to convey sacred geometrics. Jesus often says things like, “Let those who have ears, hear!” or “Let those who have
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St. Paul’s Mysteries abolish the Law: Was Paul’s Jesus a Pagan God?
The Jewish mystery cult, a greater spiritual synthesis than even the mighty and popular Sarapis, was immediately popular. It was fueled by both the desires and needs of the Jewish people in the diaspora, and the lust for a greater
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In the name of God: Jesus, Christianity and ritual incantation of magical words with secret power
Another trend that is necessary to understand in the formation of Christianity is the widespread use of magic – most exceptionally divination. “I see no race of men,” wrote Cicero, “however polished and educated, however brutal and barbarous, which does
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The Egyptian Face of Jesus: How the politically created cult of Sarapis reveals Jesus Christ as constructed religious synthesis
If Jesus Christ wasn’t a historical person, where did he come from? Who created him? How does one go about ‘creating’ a god anyway; and who would worship a fiction? To begin with, keep in mind that every figure from
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Jesus and Mithras Revisited: Shared Symbolism between Mithraism and the Higher Christian Mysteries
Part of the problem in comparing Christianity to other mysteries is that it retains a very ancient text, while corresponding texts for other traditions were lost (often purposefully destroyed by Christians). And the gospels chosen for the Bible were chosen
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The Jesus Mysteries: Is Christianity a Jewish-Pagan Mystery Cult?
“Jesus said to the 12 apostles: “You have been given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those, the ones outside, everything is given in parables, so that seeing, they may see and not perceive, and hearing, they
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Making Jesus in our own image: professor of religion Scot McKnight on the historical Jesus
Who is the historical Jesus? What can historical research tell us about him? Scot McKnight is a professor of religion at North Park University in Chicago who has been intimately involved in “Historical Jesus Research” for the past several decades.
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Jesus Potter, Harry Christ
“We begin with children by telling them stories (mythoi). They are for the most part false, through there are truths to be found in them. – Plato (Republic) Is Harry Potter a Christ Figure? Comparisons between Jesus Christ and Harry
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