Jesus Historical
Jesus Historical?
Everyone loves a story. They don’t even care if it’s false, as long as it is entertaining. If someone says it’s a true story, they will believe it because it was such a good story.
The SUPER HERO story
The ultimate story for the everyday man is the “idol worship HERO” story.
This story has been told since the dawn of history. It involves a hero that is God like, half man half God. There is an imenent severe problem where everyone will be hurt, and only he can rescue the day. He overcomes the challenge and everyone respects him and he can get the girl of his choice.
Then there is the Ultimate HERO story. It personifies God as the Hero. It involves a human that had a divine birth that was special. It involves a predicted birth and a supernatural conception. As a child of age 13 this individual was exceedingly wise compared to the smartest adults of the time. He escapes a mean ruthless ruler that want to kill him because the sooth sayers have predicted he will be just and overthrow the ruler. He has a divine calling and fights demons. He becomes popular and is hailed as a king. Then the tide turns and he is betrayed and is not popular, and then he is executed. This execution is often on a hilltop. Then our hero is vindicated and taken to heaven where he reins there.
This story has been going on forever and is seen in the characters of Hercules, Apollonius of Tyana, Padma Sambhava, Gautama Buddha, Krishna, just to name a few. There are many variants of this story but the drama is always the same.
The Jesus story fits this God HERO story almost perfectly. Which makes it suspect as to it’s authenticity. Man’s desire to idol worship is so great. Both temples were destroyed because of idol worship. This idol worship includes the desire for everyone to idol worship even the story teller, themselves, by revering them as knowing the answer to life. So verification of the historical events of an idol worship story is so important.
Known Historians:
APOLLONIUS … APPIAN … APPION OF ALEXANDRIA … ARRIAN … AULUS GELLIUS … COLUMELLA … DAMIS … DIO CHRYSOSTOM … DION PRUSEUS … EPICETUS … FAVORINUS … FLORUS LUCIUS … HERMOGONES SILUS ITALICUS … JOSEPHUS … JUSTUS OF TIBERIUS … JUVENAL … LUCANUS … LUCIAN … LYSIAS… MARTIAL … PATERCULUS … PAUSANIAS … PERSUIS … PETRONIUS … PHAEDRUS … PHILO-JUDAEUS … PHLEGON … PLINY THE ELDER … PLINY THE YOUNGER … PLUTARCH … POMPONIUS MELA … PTOLEMY … QUINTILIAN … QUINTIUS CURTIUS … SENECA … STATIUS … SUETONIUS … TACITUS … THEON OF SMYRNA … VALERIUS FLACCUS … AND VALERIUS MAXIMUS.
History——————————————–
FORTY-ONE known and respected Historians of the time period have written NOTHING about Jesus !!! There were also THREE HUNDRED known writers that wrote about life in those times. Not one mentioned Jesus or any of the fantastic stories that allegedly occurred in the New Testament.
1. Being born of a virgin mother;
2. Three Magi following the brightest star forever to see the demigod;
3. The slaying of the innocent babies [Infanticide];
4. Raising the dead, healing the blind and lame;
4. Having the sky turn to blackness when Jesus died;
5. Earthquakes in the region;
6. The zombie saints coming out of their graves going to Jerusalem; and
7. The Resurrection [Risen How?]
At least one of these world headline news events would have at least a small mention by at least one of the foregoing historians and prolific writers. But, NO…NO … they are totally silent!
Nothing about the miracles, nothing about the dead Saints BODIES rising to life from the their graves after the crucifixion and walking around the city and appeared to people, as is depicted in the New Testament.
52 The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life.
53 They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people. Matthew 27:52
Nothing was written about the fantastical story of mass infanticide throughout the region. Herod’s wickedness was documented but he was not stupid enough to do something that would make the whole population riot.
When Herod saw that the wise men had tricked him, he was furious. So he gave an order to kill all the baby boys in Bethlehem and in the surrounding area who were two years old or younger. This was in keeping with the time he learned from the wise men. Matthew 2:16
The quote of Jeremiah 3:14 in Matthew 2:18 is taken out of context to try and get credibility by alledging the event (killing of baby boys) happened and was prophesied.
18 “A voice is heard in Ramah,
weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted,
because they are no more.” Matthew 2:18
The weeping is about the offspring of Rachael being killed in war (grown men in battle). Here is the full text of Jeremiah chapter 3 ==> Jeremiah Chapter 3.
What about the walking on water??? how about the feeding 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fishes???
Nothing about the huge amount … 470 Roman soldiers … that were sent to rescue …. Paul (???)…from the crowds, and the Romans kept good records.
23 Then he called two of his centurions and ordered them, “Get ready a detachment of two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea at nine tonight.
24 Provide horses for Paul so that he may be taken safely to Governor Felix.” Matthew 23:23
It seems these historians didn’t write anything because they had already passed away in the first part of the first century. So the third century (325 B.C.) story writing of the New Testament was completed then. And there would be no witnesses for several centuries to refute the story telling.
Josephus who wrote in 93 C.E. with a vague reference …. however there are two versions. Someone added to the original.
The first version made a reference to “James, the brother of Jesus. with the translator at his own whim adding to his translation a phrase that he thought should have been written. The added phrase was “known as the Christ.” This phrase was added.
The second version is much longer and is known to have been added by someone who altered the original text. It was a statement to bolster Christianity.
Two Yeishus
There were two Yeishus from the areas around Jerusalem that were special and were written about in the Jewish Talmud.
YEISHU BEN PANDIRA
This Yeishu was stoned to death and hung on a tree. His crimes were treason and sorcery. He died on the eve of Passover in Jerusalem. This happened during the reign of Alexander Jannaeus (106 to 79 BCE). This occurred 100 years before the alleged birth of the Christian Jesus-God.
This Yeishu had five disciples whose names were; Mattai, Naqi, Neitzer, Buni, and Todah. The disciple name Mattai is a close name to Matthew and could be where the name Matthew came from.
YEISHU BEN STADA
This Yeishu lived 100 years after the Jesus-God’s alleged birth. He was also stoned and hanged for treason and sorcery on the eve of Passover. But his death occurred in Lydda not Jerusalem. It is said that he brought spells from Egypt in a cut in his flesh. He was called a madman. He was caught by hidden witnesses.
Note:
Neither was crucified on a cross. Both were 100 years apart from the alledged birth date of the Jesus-God.
Rejected Gospels
Rejected Gospels
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- Gospel of Mary
- Gospel of James
- Book of James
- Gospel of Phillip
- Gospel of Thomas
- Book of Enoch
- Book of Jasher
- Judith
- Tobias
- Baruch
- Epistle to Laodeceans
These books are only included in the Catholic Bible Edition
TOBIAS
JUDITH
THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON
BARUCH
MACCABEES
Books Mentioned in the New Testament but not included:
Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians (1 Cor 5:9)
Epistle to the Church at Laodicea (Col 4:16)
Book of Enoch (Jude 1:14)
more to come ….
- The book of Jubilees
- Epistle of Barnabas
- Shepherd of Hermas
- Paul’s Epistle to the Laodiceans
- 1 Clement
- 2 Clement
- Preaching of Peter
- Apocalypse of Peter
- Gospel According to the Egyptians
- Gospel According to the Hebrews
Former New Testament
Former New Testament
In 160 C.E. the Bishop of Melito of Sardis went to Judea to find the legendary Christian Church. What he found was that there was NO DECENDANTS of any of the aledged apostles. (Ludemann,G 1995, 31). He found a small group of Gnostics who called themselves Ebonites (poor men). They had their own sacred texts;
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PISTIS SOPHIA,
Gospel of the Ebonites,
GOSPEL OF THE HEBREWS,
Gospel of the Twelve Apostles,
GOSPEL OF THE NAZIRENES.
These texts varied significantly from the New Testament of today. Irenaeus leaves no doubt that Ebonites were Gnostics (Ludemann 247, note 111). Epiphanius stated the Ebonites were vegitarians, a fact that is universally accepted as being Gnostic.
When the infamous church propagandist Eusebius addressed this fact he stated that everyone in the Judean church had become heretics.
Irenaeus. – also referred to as Saint Irenaeus, was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire. He was an early Church Father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology.
Eusebius of Caesarea. – also known as Eusebius Pamphili, was a Roman historian, exegete, and Christian polemicist of Greek descent. He became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima about 314.
The evidence is that the first century church had always been made up exclusively of different sects of Gnostics. These Gnostics went by a different “New Testament” than the current Catholic decreed version.
The Writings
The Writings
The Writings
The history of Jesus comes to us exclusively from the 4 gospels. This fact alone makes the story suspect. Such a huge super-hero story and no one person wrote about any of the super events!
The 27 books of the NT are attributed to 8 authors that contain over 200 admitted forgeries.
These gospels were allegedly written somewhere around the end of the second century, around 200 years after the supposed birth of the super-hero Jesus (200 yrs is a very very long time). Coincidentally it was the same time period of the establishing of the orthodoxy and supremacy of the Roman Church.
These books were not translations of Jewish apostles written in Hebrew or Aramaic texts as one would expect, but were originally penned by someone in Greekwhose native language was Greek. In over 100 places the very Greek word “Petros” appears as being said by Hebrew speaking Jews in dialogue. The Greek texts are very cultivated and contain many rhetorical devices that would only be used by someone whose native language was Greek.
There were over 100 different versions of the gospels in circulation at the time of canonization by the Roman Church. This fixing of the final text was done by the Church father, the Bishop of Lyons, Irenaeus (died around 200 CE) who chose the gospel books to be only 4 based on “the 4 corners of the world.” This comment clearly show it comes from Masonic tradition – the four books of magic of the Egyptian Ritual.
All the gospels appear to have been written from a common source; from the “Gospel of the Lord” published in Rome written by the Gnostic-Christian Marcion. It resembles Luke but much shorter. There was just one gospel and an “Apostolicon” which contained ten of Paul’s epistles; Galatians, 1st and 2nd Corinthians, Romans, (less 15 & 16 chapters), 1st and 2nd Thessalonians, Ephesians Colossians, Philemon, Philippians. The two chapters of Romans that were added were historicizing where there is no historicizing in the other epistles. The gospel that Paul referred to in these added chapters was termed the Gospel of Paul. Marcion claimed he found it in Antioch and brought it to Rome to be translated to Latin and Greek.
Gospel of the Lord
This text clearly predated the church gospels. Written in the Syro-Chaldee or Samaritan language, was not historical and did not make Jesus a Jew. He was not born in Bethlehem and was not from Nazareth (did not exist at that time). Jesus was not born but “came down in Capernaum” and incarnated a century earlier. Since there was no historicizing and no Judaizing Marcion was called a heretic, and accused of removing text instead of the accusing church adding to his text.
The Gospel of Luke
Written around the time of the other gospels, 180CE, as the Catholic Encyclopedia states, “Luke was not written til nearly 200 years after the event of Jesus’s departure. The proof offered is that the Theophilus to whom Luke addressed it was bishop of Antioch from 169-177 A.D.”
Luke is a compilation of earlier manuscripts, 33 by one count, mainly from the Gospel of the Lord. Phrases were added to sentences to historicize and to Judaize Jesus
An example follows
Marcion:
Saying, the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be put to death, and after three days rise again.
Luke 9:22:
Saying, “The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”
Also the mourning over Jerusalem (Luke 8:29-35) is taken verbatim from the 2nd Esdras (I. 28-33) and the speaking by the “Almighty Lord” is changed to Jesus being the speaker.
The Gospel of Mark
After the total destruction of Jerusalem by Romans in 135 CE the city was closed to the Jewish race occupied by Gentiles. After the bishops of Circumcision, the first to be put in charge was Mark according to Eusebius, 108. This could not be the Mark of the New Testament but could be the Gnostic Mark known as Marcion. Upon comparison, Matthew, Mark, and Luke used Marcion text as one of their sources.
It is clear that the Book of Mark was tampered with since the resurrection, apparition, asscention was added to the end (Mark 16:9-20).
Other texts were added. In Mark 1:16 it says;
“And passing along by the sea of Galilee he saw Simon and Andrew ..”
All commentaries agree the words “by the sea of Galilee were added as they are quite ungrammatically placed for the Greek syntax. It was an attempt to reference a place to historicize.
Mark was clearly not a Palestine Jew or lived in the area as Mark 7:31 shows his ignorance of Palestine geography.
31 Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.
The Gospel of John
The tone of this gospel is anti-Jewish as the author talked about Jews as if they were separate and apart from himself.
And he had no idea of the geography of Palestine.
Gospel of John speaks of Aenon near to Salim in Judea; also Bethany, beyond Jordan; and a “city of Samaria called Sychar; these names were totally unknown to any writer anywhere. Expert Dr. Bretschneider1 points out gross errors through out the book in geography, chronology, history and statistics of Judea that anyone who resided in that country, or had been a Jew by birth would never have made.
John states Bethsaida was in Galilee. No such town ever was. John states Bethsaida was on the east side of the sea of Tiberias when Talilee was on the west side. John was born at Bethsaida so he would certainly know the geography of his birth area.
John depicts events where he is not shown to have appeared at. And John does not record events at which he is supposed to be present.
This is the only gospel that records the raising of Lasarus from the dead, which is an Egyptian myth.
The gospel seems to be a refutation of the Gnostics.
1 treatise on the Gospel of John, entitled Probabilia de evangelii et epistolarum Ioannis Apostoli indole et origine cruditorum,
The Gospel of Matthew
This gospel was originally written in Greek. It did not appear until after the second century. It is a compellation of several manuscripts based mostly from the Oracles of Christ. The main point of the book is that it leads people to believe in the authority of the Roman church. Jesus said to Peter On this rock I will build my church and it will have the keys to heaven. By canonizing this book it guaranteed the success of the Catholic Church since the “word of God” gave authorization to the church.
18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Matt 16:17-19
Epistles - Paul was dead when He Wrote them
Never any historical reference. Nothing of Pilate, Romans, Caiaphas, Sanhdrin, Herod, Judas, the holy women of the Gospels, or any person in the New Testament.
They never quote any of the great sayings by Jesus. They never mention any of his fabulous miracles, or divine splendor. Not a peep about Jesus casting out devils, or feed a mass of people with a few loafs of bread and a couple of fish. Or curing leprosy in an instant. Never came close to any mention contained in the sermons or teachings of Jesus.
The Lords Prayer is clearly written out and was composed by Jesus himself. Yet Paul in his epistles expresses that he does not know how to pray.
Paul was said to have died during the persecution by Nero in 64C.E. Yet the Church dates the epistles as written much later. In the First Epistle of Paul to Timothy it warns against the Marcionist work know as the Antithesis. Marcion was expelled from the church in 144 C.E. Yet the this Epistle refers to the book he wrote that caused his expulsion. The Epistle had to have been written after the book was written, and thus after the death of Paul. Proof of a forgery.
The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, the Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy, and the Epistle of Paul to Titus are called “pastoral” Epistles. Pastoral means that these letters were written by Paul himself. The other epistles, or non-pastoral epistles, were written with his friends such as Sosthenes, Timothy, Silas, etc.
The dates attributed to the writing of the Epistles are based on what is contained in the writing and not on any carbon 14 dates of any document. Carbon dating of alleged authentic written pieces of the gospels and epistles have come back with an approximate date of 325 C.E.
Epistles Don’t Have
Epistles were the earliest Christian documents. They were written allegedly 20 to 70 years after the death of Jesus, according to the Church. Jesus is said to have died between 28 to 36 C.E. The Epistles never mention a Gospel. The Gospels it is said were written after the Epistles.
The Epistles talk of a divine Christ but never mention Jesus as a human.
The Epistles never say anything about the history or the time.
The Epistles never say anything about the sayings of Jesus.
The Epistles never say anything about the parables of Jesus.
The Epistles never say anything about the miracles of Jesus.
The Epistles never say anything about the last supper.
The Epistles never say anything about any historical events happening then regarding the death of Jesus.
The Epistles never say anything about the crucifixion of Jesus.
The Epistles never say anything about the empty tomb of Jesus.
The Epistles never say anything about Jesus rising from the tomb.
The Epistles never say anything about the events Jesus did around Jerusalem.
Encyclopedia Bilblica Quote
” With respect to the connonical Pauline Epistles, … there are none of them by Paul; neither fourteen, nor thirteen, nor nine or eight, nor yet even the four so long “universally” regarded as unassailable. They are all, without distinction, pseudographia (false-writings, forgeries) …”
Con Creates "Gods Word"
Con's Creating "God's Word"
Con Creating “God’s Word”
At the time of the formation of Christianity there were about thirty Gospels, and over 200 other books which were considered. The writings chosen by the Catholics at the Council of Nicea were, according to Christian scholars, alledgedly written 40 to 70 years after the death of Jesus. Secular scholars say much later, around 200 years after the death of Jesus. All eye witnesses would have been dead by the time of any writings.
The first writing of the story surrounding the life of Jesus was the Book of Mark. Mark does not claim to be an eyewitness of the events nor a disciple of Jesus, Mark was allegedly a disciple of Peter.
Matthew copied about 90% of the Book of Mark (600 verses out of 660). If he was an eye witness he would not have copied the whole Book of Mark.
Luke also copied the Book of Mark, about 50% of the Book. Luke does not claim to be eye witnesses nor to be a disciple of Jesus. Luke was allegedly a disciple of Paul.
The Christian “Word of God” is mostly copied,
and then what is written is by people who were not disciples of Jesus,
and then these writings the very earliest possible according to the Christian scholars were written 40 to 70 years after the death of Jesus.
Altered
Many scholars believe that the Gospels were originally independent works written in Greek by unknown authors. And they were repeatedly altered over time.
Christians altered the original text three or four times, or even more, with the intention of thus being able to destroy the arguments of their critics.
Celsus, last half of 2nd century
It is an obvious fact today that there is much diversity among the [Gospel] manuscripts, due either to the carelessness of the scribes, or the perverse audacity of some people in correcting the text, or again to the fact that there are those who add or delete as they please, setting themselves up as correctors.
Christian Theologian Origen, 3rd century
Not long after [Jesus] ascension into heaven several histories of his life and doctrines, full of pious frauds and fabulous wonders, were composed by persons whose intentions perhaps were not bad, but whose writings discovered the greatest superstition and ignorance. Nor was this all; productions appeared which were imposed upon the world by fraudulent men, as the writings of the holy apostles.
Ecclesiastical History, Von Mosheim 1810
It is certain that the New Testament was not written by [Jesus] himself, nor by his apostles, but a long while after them, by some unknown persons, who lest they should not be credited when they wrote of affairs they were little acquainted with, affixed to their works the name of the apostles, or of such as were supposed to have been their companions, asserting that what they had written themselves was written according to these persons to whom they ascribed it.
The Digenesis, Robert Taylor 1873
Although he was dealing with fewer manuscripts [New Testament] than we have today, Philip Shaff in Comparison to the Greek Testament and the English Version concluded that only 400 or the 150,000 variant readings [New Testament] caused doubt about the textual meaning, and only 50 of these were of great significance.
Josh McDowel, Evidence that Demands a Verdict, 1979
What? 50 variants with major doubts as to the material meanings of the verses?
How about the 400 manuscripts that caused doubt as to their meanings?
And didn’t he say 150,000 Variant readings of the New Testament?
And this is offered as evidence to the authenticity of these manuscripts being the “word of God?”
Make 50 Copies
Constantine controlled the copying and distribution of the New Testament Bible. He commissioned the writing of fifty Bibles (331 C.E. overseen by Eusebius of Caesarea). They all were the Catholic's chosen "New Testament" books. There were no Old Testament books copied and included. This was a large undertaking in those days. These copies were master copies from which all other New Testament Bibles were to be copied from.
As late as 450 CE, Theodore of Cyrrhus said that there were at least 200 different gospels circulating in his own diocese. Even the Catholic Encylopedia now admits that the “idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning … has no foundation in history.” The Roman philosopher Celsus, witness to the falsification of Christian writings already in the second century, said the same of the revisionists,
Some of them, as it were in a drunken state producing self-induced visions, remodel their Gospel from its first written form, and reform it so that they may be able to refute the objections brought against it. .... Celsus
The Catholic Encylcopedia concedes that;
“In all the departments forgery and interpolation as well as ignorance had wrought mischief on a grand scale.””
Multiple copying RE Matthew, Mark, Luke
Matthew copied about 90% of the Book of Mark (600 verses out of 660).
Luke copied about 50% of the Book of Mark.