One of the literary threads I hope to investigate in the future is the tie between vampirism and the ancient tradition of linking death and marriage together; many religions deal with death as an intimate reunion or marriage with a
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Bible archaeologists discover tablet that refutes Jesus’ resurrection
Did Jesus Christ really resurrect from the grave after three days? Probably not, it turns out. In 2008 archaeologists found a stone tablet that tells of a Jewish rebel hero who died and came back to life after three days.
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The Existence of Jesus Christ, Harry Potter and other ‘Historical’ Saviors
Recently in an online discussion of the historical Jesus and my book Jesus Potter Harry Christ, Hans Andréa from Harry Potter for Seekers responded to a question about Jesus’ existence with an insightful commentary. Since I agree with Hans’ conclusions
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Does JK Rowling’s “Deathly Hallows” Reveal Jesus as Literary Figure?
The Deathly Hallows Part 2 movie (Harry Potter Eight) is coming out soon. There’s been talk that Harry Potter is a Christ Figure. They’ve got it backwards: Jesus Christ is a Harry Potter Figure. Harry Potter Refutes Historical Jesus? John
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Christ Myth: From Faith to History (15)
From Faith to History “Before God and before Christ Jesus who is to be judge of the living and the dead, I charge you, in the name of his appearing and of his kingdom: proclaim the message and, welcome or
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Christ Myth: Promise of Flesh (14)
“Many were led astray by reading the allegorical contents of the scriptures literally in the method of the Pharisees and Sadducees” Eusebius, Ecclestical History I believed in Santa Claus until I was nearly thirteen years old. Like my friends, I’d
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St. Paul and the ‘Stupid Galatians’ (13)
Finally we get to the crucial question: if Jesus was mythological, how and why did people ever start to imagine that he was a historical person? The answer is accidentally preserved in the biblical “Acts of the Apostles” and in
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Was Christianity a Pagan Mystery cult? (12)
A lot of the articles I’ve provided so far have been background information, which is indispensable for first becoming aware of the possibility of the mythological Jesus, and then developing the ability to recognize him within the available evidence. I
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Christ Myth: Snakes and Ladders (11)
In the last article we discovered how many creations myths include the icon of a serpent which divided the polarities – an idea inspired by the constellation Draco spinning over the north pole. In this article, I want to focus
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Where does evil come from? (10)
In the last section we examined how the basic biographical details of Jesus Christ can be traced to an ancient story about the sun. For many Christians, however, the biography of Jesus is not the important part anyway – it
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Christ Myth: Jesus Zodiac (9)
Before King Herod tried to find and kill the infant Christ, who was smuggled safely into Egypt, a Pharaoh tried to kill the infant Moses, who also survived. Both returned to triumph over their adversaries. Before either of them came
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Jesus Christ, the Lion King (8)
In this article I will provide a basic overview of sun-mythology, including the battle between light and dark, the birth, death and resurrection of a savior, and the triumph over darkness. Next I will give some contemporary examples to show
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