What Do Christians Believe: Some Odd Things! Questioning Belief
Abstract
Is it true that Christians savaged Pagan scholarship, by closing schools and libraries, murdering or banning Pagan teachers and refusing to reprint Pagan books, or even destroying them? Was Jesus the Messiah? Are Christians Hypocrities? Do Christians ask these questions? More important, do they answer them honestly? Questioning Belief
If Christians have a personal relationship with God, as they always boast nowadays, then why do they submit to the tyranny of priests and preachers? Read This.
Is it true that studies of the Dead Sea Scrolls indicate that
the Sermon on the Mount is an Essene service. Yes! Read This.
I read on Christian websites that “similarities” and “points of contact” between the Dead Sea Scrolls and Christianity mean VERY, VERY LITTLE. Is this true? Absolutely not! Read This.
Is it true that Christians savaged Pagan scholarship, by closing schools and libraries, murdering or banning Pagan teachers and refusing to reprint Pagan books, or even destroying them? Yes! Read This.
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Dr John G Jackson, in Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth writes: According to the Chaldean historian Berosus, there was a religious festival celebrated annually in ancient Babylon, known as the Sacaea. The duration of the fete was five days, and for that length of time servants and masters exchanged places in society, the servants giving orders and the masters obeying them. The king temporarily abdicated the throne, and a mock-king called Zoganes reigned in his place. But after the five days were over, the mock-king was dethroned and scourged, and then either hanged or crucified. An eminent Egyptologist has noted that:
The victims of these human sacrifices were generally crucified, or else killed and then “hung on a tree”, until the evening. In this regard it is interesting to notice that in Acts the writer mistakenly speaks of Jesus as having been slain and then hanged on a tree, as though this were a common phrase coming readily to his mind; and the word “hanged” is frequently used in Greek to denote curcifixion.
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