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"...the TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE"

The Origins of Christianity and

the Quest for the Historical Jesus

Christ

by Acharya S

Introduction

Around the world over the centuries, much has been

written about religion, its meaning, its relevance and

contribution to humanity. In the West particularly, sizable

tomes have been composed speculating upon the nature

and historical background of the main character of

Western religions, Jesus Christ. Many have tried to dig

into the precious few clues as to Jesus's identity and

come up with a biographical sketch that either bolsters

faith or reveals a more human side of this godman to

which we can all relate. Obviously, considering the time

and energy spent on them, the subjects of Christianity

and its legendary founder are very important to the

Western mind and culture.

The Controversy

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Despite all of this literature continuously being cranked

out and the significance of the issue, in the public at large

there is a serious lack of formal and broad education

regarding religion and mythology, and most individuals

are highly uninformed in this area. Concerning the issue

of Christianity, for example, the majority of people are

taught in most schools and churches that Jesus Christ

was an actual historical figure and that the only

controversy regarding him is that some people accept him

as the Son of God and the Messiah, while others do not.

However, whereas this is the raging debate most evident

in this field today, it is not the most important. Shocking

as it may seem to the general populace, the most

enduring and profound controversy in this subject is

whether or not a person named Jesus Christ ever

really existed .

Although this debate may not be evident from publications

readily found in popular bookstores 1 , when one examines

this issue closely, one will find a tremendous volume of

literature that demonstrates, logically and intelligently,

time and again that Jesus Christ is a mythological

character along the same lines as the Greek, Roman,

Egyptian, Sumerian, Phoenician, Indian or other godmen,

who are all presently accepted as myths rather than

historical figures 2 . Delving deeply into this large body of

work, one uncovers evidence that the Jesus character is

based upon much older myths and heroes from around

the globe. One discovers that this story is not, therefore, a

historical representation of a Jewish rebel carpenter who

had physical incarnation in the Levant 2,000 years ago. In

other words, it has been demonstrated continually for

centuries that this character, Jesus Christ, was invented

and did not depict a real person who was either the "son

of God" or was "evemeristically" made into a superhuman

by enthusiastic followers 3 .

History and Positions of the Debate

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This controversy has existed from the very beginning, and

the writings of the "Church Fathers" themselves reveal

that they were constantly forced by the pagan

intelligentsia to defend what the non-Christians and other

Christians ("heretics") 4 alike saw as a preposterous and

fabricated yarn with absolutely no evidence of it ever

having taken place in history. As Rev. Robert Taylor says,

"And from the apostolic age downwards, in a never

interrupted succession, but never so strongly and

emphatically as in the most primitive times, was the

existence of Christ as a man most strenuously denied." 5

Emperor Julian, who, coming after the reign of the

fanatical and murderous "good Christian" Constantine,

returned rights to pagan worshippers, stated, "If anyone

should wish to know the truth with respect to you

Christians, he will find your impiety to be made up partly

of the Jewish audacity, and partly of the indifference and

confusion of the Gentiles, and that you have put together

not the best, but the worst characteristics of them both." 6

According to these learned dissenters, the New

Testament could rightly be called, "Gospel Fictions." 7

A century ago, mythicist Albert Churchward said, "The

canonical gospels can be shown to be a collection of

sayings from the Egyptian Mythos and Eschatology." 8 In

Forgery in Christianity , Joseph Wheless states, "The

gospels are all priestly forgeries over a century after their

pretended dates." 9 Those who concocted some of the

hundreds of "alternative" gospels and epistles that were

being kicked about during the first several centuries C.E.

have even admitted that they had forged the documents. 10

Forgery during the first centuries of the Church's

existence was admittedly rampant, so common in fact that

a new phrase was coined to describe it: "pious fraud." 11

Such prevarication is confessed to repeatedly in the

Catholic Encyclopedia. 12 Some of the "great" church

fathers, such as Eusebius 13 , were determined by their own

peers to be unbelievable liars who regularly wrote their

own fictions of what "the Lord" said and did during "his"

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alleged sojourn upon the earth. 14

The Proof

The assertion that Jesus Christ is a myth can be proved

not only through the works of dissenters and "pagans"

who knew the truth - and who were viciously refuted or

murdered for their battle against the Christian priests and

"Church Fathers" fooling the masses with their fictions -

but also through the very statements of the Christians

themselves, who continuously disclose that they knew

Jesus Christ was a myth founded upon more ancient

deities located throughout the known ancient world. In

fact, Pope Leo X, privy to the truth because of his high

rank, made this curious declaration, "What profit has not

that fable of Christ brought us!" 15 (Emphasis added.) As

Wheless says, "The proofs of my indictment are

marvellously easy."

The Gnostics

From their own admissions, the early Christians were

incessantly under criticism by scholars of great repute

who were impugned as "heathens" by their Christian

adversaries. This group included many Gnostics, who

strenuously objected to the carnalization of their deity, as

the Christians can be shown to have taken many of the

characteristics of their god and godman from the

Gnostics, meaning "Ones who know," a loose designation

applied to members of a variety of esoteric schools and

brotherhoods. The refutations of the Christians against

the Gnostics reveal that the Christian godman was an

insult to the Gnostics, who held that their god could never

take human form. 16

Biblical Sources

It is very telling that the earliest Christian documents, the

Epistles attributed to "Paul," never discuss a historical

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background of Jesus but deal exclusively with a spiritual

being who was known to all gnostic sects for hundreds to

thousands of years. The few "historical" references to an

actual life of Jesus cited in the Epistles are demonstrably

interpolations and forgeries, as are, according to

Wheless, the Epistles themselves, as they were not

written by "Paul." 17 Aside from the brief reference to

Pontius Pilate at 1 Timothy 6:13, an epistle dated ben

Yehoshua to 144 CE and thus not written by Paul, the

Pauline literature (as pointed out by Edouard Dujardin)

"does not refer to Pilate 18 , or the Romans, or Caiaphas, or

the Sanhedrin, or Herod 19 , or Judas, or the holy women,

or any person in the gospel account of the Passion, and

that it also never makes any allusion to them; lastly, that it

mentions absolutely none of the events of the Passion,

either directly or by way of allusion." 20 Dujardin

additionally relates that other early "Christian" writings

such as Revelation do not mention any historical details

or drama. 21 Mangasarian notes that Paul also never

quotes from Jesus's purported sermons and speeches,

parables and prayers, nor does he mention Jesus's

supernatural birth or any of his alleged wonders and

miracles, all which one would presume would be very

important to his followers, had such exploits and sayings

been known prior to "Paul." 22

Turning to the gospels themselves, which were composed

between 170-180 C.E. 22a , their pretended authors, the

apostles, give sparse histories and genealogies of Jesus

that contradict each other and themselves in numerous

places. The birthdate of Jesus is depicted as having taken

place at different times. His birth and childhood are not

mentioned in "Mark," and although he is claimed in

"Matthew" and "Luke" to have been "born of a virgin," his

lineage is traced to the House of David through Joseph,

such that he may "fulfill prophecy." 23 He is said in the first

three (Synoptic) gospels to have taught for one year

before he died, while in "John" the number is three years.

"Matthew" relates that Jesus delivered "The Sermon on

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