RE: The Trinity and Mary
May 16, 2017 at 4:29 am
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2017 at 4:32 am by Fake Messiah.)
Well of course if it was original, but remember makers of Jesus myth were like Hollywood producers today instead of inventing something new, just re-hash the old and familiar. Even early Christians were aware of this, like Justin Martyr, a second-century apologist who wrote:
And when they tell that Hercules was strong, and travelled over all the world, and was begotten by Jove of Alcmene, and ascended to heaven when he died, do I not perceive that the Scripture which speaks of Christ, “strong as a giant to run his race,” has been in like manner imitated? And when he [the devil] brings forward Aesculapius as the raiser of the dead and healer of all diseases, may I not say that in this matter likewise he has imitated the prophecies about Christ? And when I hear that Perseus was begotten of a virgin, I understand that the deceiving serpent counterfeited also this.
Where is the story of Jesus being as strong as a giant to run his course all over the world? This is obviously one of the many accounts of Jesus that apparently played into the origin and development of Jesus myth, but which was eliminated in tha final draft of Council of Nicaea.
You must understand that bits and pieces of Jesus myth were created and when Constantine proclaimed Christianity they took some bits and pieces of it and took other stuff from Roman religion so that people of Rome can swallow it easier. Like the whole crap about the Trinity was taken from Roman Capitoline Triad of Jupiter (father), Juno (wife), and Minerva (daughter), who took it from the Greeks Olympic triad of Zeus (king of the gods), Athena (goddess of war and intelect) and Apollo (god of the sun, culture and music); who took it from Hellenistic Egypt triad of Isis, Alexandrian Serapis and Harpocrates; and so on.
And when they tell that Hercules was strong, and travelled over all the world, and was begotten by Jove of Alcmene, and ascended to heaven when he died, do I not perceive that the Scripture which speaks of Christ, “strong as a giant to run his race,” has been in like manner imitated? And when he [the devil] brings forward Aesculapius as the raiser of the dead and healer of all diseases, may I not say that in this matter likewise he has imitated the prophecies about Christ? And when I hear that Perseus was begotten of a virgin, I understand that the deceiving serpent counterfeited also this.
Where is the story of Jesus being as strong as a giant to run his course all over the world? This is obviously one of the many accounts of Jesus that apparently played into the origin and development of Jesus myth, but which was eliminated in tha final draft of Council of Nicaea.
You must understand that bits and pieces of Jesus myth were created and when Constantine proclaimed Christianity they took some bits and pieces of it and took other stuff from Roman religion so that people of Rome can swallow it easier. Like the whole crap about the Trinity was taken from Roman Capitoline Triad of Jupiter (father), Juno (wife), and Minerva (daughter), who took it from the Greeks Olympic triad of Zeus (king of the gods), Athena (goddess of war and intelect) and Apollo (god of the sun, culture and music); who took it from Hellenistic Egypt triad of Isis, Alexandrian Serapis and Harpocrates; and so on.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
