Download or read book An Invention Called Jesus written by Nicolas Bourgeois and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have produced admirable works on the Christian texts, replete with erudition and intelligence. Considering that a job well-done should not be redone, I have drawn on these without compunction. Thus the documentation used in this book is mainly taken from the Bible and other ancient texts, as well as from renowned Christian scholars teaching in Catholic and Protestant universities. Unfortunately, when these scholars approach the problem of the authenticity of the stories about Jesus, those cannot be recognized: rigorous reasoning disappears in favour of weak and baffling arguments.To those who may be surprised by this, I offer an explanation: many scholars, often Catholic priests, are believers, and the research as well as the training of researchers are frequently overseen by religious institutions. Without being overly suspicious, I think there may well be a conflict of interests: there are probably things that a researcher would have no interest in voicing, at least if they are mindful of their own faith and / or their employer and / or their career. For my part, after examining the material compiled by the best historical Jesus scholars, I think I can say that everything happens as if Jesus had not existed.Check out the website: inventionjesus.com

Download or read book How Jesus Christ Was Invented written by Steven GREEN and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS AN EXPOSE ON HOW JESUS CHRIST WAS INVENTED. THE FOCUS IS ON HOW THE NAMES OF SPECIFIC PERSONS WERE USED TO INVENT THE DETAIL OF THE VARIOUS STORIES. FOR EXAMPLE THE T IN CHRIST IS A CROSS, THE WORD RISE IS PRESENT IN THE NAME ALSO, ALTHOUGH IT IS SPELLED PHONETICALLY AS - RIS. WHEN WE ADD THEM TOGETHER WE GET "RISE and CRUCIFIED ON A CROSS. THE STORY ABOUT CHRIST DOES INCLUDE HOW HE ROSE (RISE) FROM THE DEAD AFTER BEING CRUCIFIED. THIS IS AN ABREVIATED INTERPRETATION. THERE IS A LOT MORE TO THESE STORIES THAN I CAN PRESENT IN A QUICK SUMMARY. NONE OF THE STORIES ABOUT CHRIST ARE TRUE. HE WAS NOT INVENTED FROM WHOLE CLOTH AS THEY SAY. HIS LIFE WAS BASED TO SOME EXTENT ON AN EGYPTIAN PHAROAH WHO CALLED HIMSELF THE SON OF GOD (RAH), SENT TO EARTH TO RULE IN HIS PLACE. THE NAMES JESUS, CHRIST, LAZARUS, GABRIEL AND MANY MORE WERE USED TO INVENT THIS WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF MYTHOLOGICAL FABLES THAT WE COLLECTIVELY CALL THE NEW TESTAMENT. AS YOUR DEBATING IN YOUR OWN MIND IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A CHANCE ON READING THIS SERIES OF REVELATIONS CONSIDER THIS : GOD DOES NOT LIE, BUT PEOPLE DO. SO, TAKE A PEEK AT WHAT IS INSIDE THIS FABULOUS EXPOSE ON HOW JESUS CHRIST WAS INVENTED. AS LONG AS YOU LIVE YOU WILL NEVER FORGET HAVING READ THIS BOOK. I GUARANTEE IT.

Download or read book The Mythmaker written by Hyam Maccoby and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents new arguments which support the view that Paul, not Jesus, was the founder of Christianity. He argues that Jesus and also his immediate disciples James and Peter were life-long adherents of Pharisaic Judaism. Paul, however, was not, as he claimed, a native-born Jew of Pharisee upbringing, but came in fact from a Gentile background. He maintains that it was Paul alone who created a new religion by his vision of Jesus as a Divine Saviour who died to save humanity. This concept, which went far beyond the messianic claims of Jesus, was an amalgamation of ideas derived from Hellenistic religion, especially from Gnosticism and the mystery cults. Paul played a devious and adventurous political game with Jesus' followers of the so-called Jerusalem Church, who eventually disowned him. The conclusions of this historical and psychological study will come as a shock to many readers, but it is nevertheless a book which cannot be ignored by anyone concerned with the foundations of our culture and society. -- Book jacket.

Download or read book The Universal Christ written by Richard Rohr and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s most influential spiritual thinkers, a long-awaited book exploring what it means that Jesus was called “Christ,” and how this forgotten truth can restore hope and meaning to our lives. “Anyone who strives to put their faith into action will find encouragement and inspiration in the pages of this book.”—Melinda Gates In his decades as a globally recognized teacher, Richard Rohr has helped millions realize what is at stake in matters of faith and spirituality. Yet Rohr has never written on the most perennially talked about topic in Christianity: Jesus. Most know who Jesus was, but who was Christ? Is the word simply Jesus’s last name? Too often, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious debate, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center. Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God’s constant, unfolding work in the world. “God loves things by becoming them,” he writes, and Jesus’s life was meant to declare that humanity has never been separate from God—except by its own negative choice. When we recover this fundamental truth, faith becomes less about proving Jesus was God, and more about learning to recognize the Creator’s presence all around us, and in everyone we meet. Thought-provoking, practical, and full of deep hope and vision, The Universal Christ is a landmark book from one of our most beloved spiritual writers, and an invitation to contemplate how God liberates and loves all that is.

Download or read book Creating Christ written by James S. Valliant and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhaustively annotated and illustrated, this explosive work of history unearths clues that finally demonstrate the truth about one of the world’s great religions: that it was born out of the conflict between the Romans and messianic Jews who fought a bitter war with each other during the 1st Century. The Romans employed a tactic they routinely used to conquer and absorb other nations: they grafted their imperial rule onto the religion of the conquered. After 30 years of research, authors James S. Valliant and C.W. Fahy present irrefutable archeological and textual evidence that proves Christianity was created by Roman Caesars in this book that breaks new ground in Christian scholarship and is destined to change the way the world looks at ancient religions forever. Inherited from a long-past era of tyranny, war and deliberate religious fraud, could Christianity have been created for an entirely different purpose than we have been lead to believe? Praised by scholars like Dead Sea Scrolls translator Robert Eisenman (James the Brother of Jesus), this exhaustive synthesis of historical detective work integrates all of the ancient sources about the earliest Christians and reveals new archeological evidence for the first time. And, despite the fable presented in current bestsellers like Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Jesus, the evidence presented in Creating Christ is irrefutable: Christianity was invented by Roman Emperors. I have rarely encountered a book so original, exciting, accessible and informed on subjects that are of obvious importance to the world and to which I have myself devoted such a large part of my scholarly career studying. In this book they have rendered a startling new understanding of Christianity with a controversial theory of its Roman provenance that is accessible to the layman in a very powerful way. In the process, they present new and comprehensive archeological and iconographic evidence, as well as utilizing the widest and most cutting edge work of other recent scholars, including myself. This is a work of outstanding and original scholarship. Its arguments are a brilliant, profound and thorough integration of the relevant evidence. When they are done, the conclusion is inescapable and obviously profound. Robert Eisenman, Author of James the Brother of Jesus and The New Testament Code "A fascinating and provocative investigative history of ideas, boldly exploring a problem that previous scholarship has not clearly or credibly addressed: how (and why!) the Flavian dynasty wove Christianity into the very fabric of Western civilization." -Mark Riebling, author of Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler

Download or read book Caesar s messiah the Roman conspiracy to invent Jesus written by Joseph Atwill and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Caesar's Messiah," a real life "Da Vinci Code," presents the dramatic and controversial discovery that the conventional views of Christian origins may be wrong. Author Joseph Atwill makes the case that the Christian Gospels were actually written under the direction of first-century Roman emperors. The purpose of these texts was to establish a peaceful Jewish sect to counterbalance the militaristic Jewish forces that had just been defeated by the Roman Emperor Titus in 70 A.D. Atwill uncovered the secret key to this story in the writings of Josephus, the famed first-century Roman historian. Reading Josephus's chronicle, "The War of the Jews," the author found detail after detail that closely paralleled events recounted in the Gospels. Atwill skillfully demonstrates that the emperors used the Gospels to spark a new religious movement that would aid them in maintaining power and order. What's more, by including hidden literary clues, they took the story of the Emperor Titus's glorious military victory, as recounted by Josephus, and embedded that story in the Gospels - a sly and satirical way of glorifying the emperors through the ages.

Download or read book The Myth of Nazareth written by René Salm and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive and critical reevaluation of all artifacts pertaining to the archaeology of Nazareth shows that the site was not inhabited at the time Jesus Of Nazareth and his family should have been living there.

Download or read book The Messiah s Inventions written by Gordon Ziegler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noah’s ark was an invention of God (elohiym—the plural (three) form of one God—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit). God the Son later became the incarnate Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, the Anointed One, the very Christ. The original Son of God was undoubtedly the divine agent that communed with Noah, inspiring him with the great invention of God to preserve life through the perils of a world-wide Deluge. Noah was the master builder and preacher of righteousness. God could have translated the people and animals to heaven or some other world before that horrific water holocaust of the entire earth, and relocated them back to earth when the Flood was over. But God chose not to do this. God chose a cooperative effort of God and man at great cost to preserve life on earth during that fearful water holocaust. But the ark, as well designed and built as it was, was in itself not sufficient to preserve life. It required the mighty power of God and the heavenly angels to guide and preserve the ark and its inhabitants during that fearful ordeal. “For this they [last day scoffers—evolutionists] willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.” 2 Peter 3:5-7 and context (KJV). In the imminent future we face the fearful peril of one third of the population of the earth being incinerated in a nuclear holocaust (Revelation 9:14-21); also the peril of the corona of the sun going out in darkness, like what happened briefly July 19-23, 2013 (Google dark sun), and the earth’s population freezing to death, or the sun continuing its nova sequence, scorching the earth with great heat, and then going out in darkness. What we desperately need now are new inventions of God, the cooperation of God, men, and angels to preserve life in fire, make the sun unnecessary, flood the entire earth with light and clean energy (Revelation 21:23). God has already inspired one man, said of Lucifer himself to be the Everlasting Father incarnate, the Messiah, the Anointed One, the very Christ, with designs of God of inventions to preserve and restore earth to Edenic condition in this doom of fire. The inventions are already roughly designed and the master builder found and educated. All that is needed now are believing people donating money for these costly heavenly inventions. God will not do this all by Himself. He will work with us as we give our all, be it little or much. This book will tell all about the inventions of God for now, to preserve life through fire and to make the sun unnecessary. What is most needed now is belief in God’s Messiahs. So in this book there will not only be science and technology, but theology, history, and prophetic evidences in favor of Messiah A and Messiah B—Jesus of Nazareth and Gordon L. Ziegler of Lacey, Washington U.S.A. Any and all may now make tax deductable donations to Benevolent Enterprises to actualize the divine inventions to preserve life from a holocaust of fire, restore the earth and its people, and make the sun unnecessary with heavenly light and heat.

Download or read book The Jefferson Bible written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting numerous sections from various Bibles as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's composition excluded sections of the New Testament containing supernatural aspects as well as perceived misinterpretations he believed had been added by the Four Evangelists. In 1895, the Smithsonian Institution under the leadership of librarian Cyrus Adler purchased the original Jefferson Bible from Jefferson's great-granddaughter Carolina Randolph for $400. A conservation effort commencing in 2009, in partnership with the museum's Political History department, allowed for a public unveiling in an exhibit open from November 11, 2011, through May 28, 2012, at the National Museum of American History.

Download or read book The Gospel According to Mark written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest of the four Gospels, the book portrays Jesus as an enigmatic figure, struggling with enemies, his inner and external demons, and with his devoted but disconcerted disciples. Unlike other gospels, his parables are obscure, to be explained secretly to his followers. With an introduction by Nick Cave

Download or read book A Man Called Jesus written by Rick Herrick and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered about Nazareth as a place to live in the first century? How about Jesus the miracle worker: how did he do the great deeds reported of him in the New Testament? A Man Called Jesus answers these questions and more. It recreates Jesus as a Jew in contrast to the first Christian of the early church. It’s a novel that makes one central assumption about the historical Jesus. He was a man all about love. In doing so it creates a Jesus that is relevant for all times and all places.

Download or read book How Jesus Christ Was Invented written by Steven GREEN and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS IS AN EXPOSE ON HOW JESUS CHRIST WAS INVENTED. THE FOCUS IS ON HOW THE NAMES OF SPECIFIC PERSONS WERE USED TO INVENT THE DETAIL OF THE VARIOUS STORIES. FOR EXAMPLE THE T IN CHRIST IS A CROSS, THE WORD RISE IS PRESENT IN THE NAME ALSO, ALTHOUGH IT IS SPELLED PHONETICALLY AS - RIS. WHEN WE ADD THEM TOGETHER WE GET "RISE and CRUCIFIED ON A CROSS. THE STORY ABOUT CHRIST DOES INCLUDE HOW HE ROSE (RISE) FROM THE DEAD AFTER BEING CRUCIFIED. THIS IS AN ABREVIATED INTERPRETATION. THERE IS A LOT MORE TO THESE STORIES THAN I CAN PRESENT IN A QUICK SUMMARY. NONE OF THE STORIES ABOUT CHRIST ARE TRUE. HE WAS NOT INVENTED FROM WHOLE CLOTH AS THEY SAY. HIS LIFE WAS BASED TO SOME EXTENT ON AN EGYPTIAN PHAROAH WHO CALLED HIMSELF THE SON OF GOD (RAH), SENT TO EARTH TO RULE IN HIS PLACE. THE NAMES JESUS, CHRIST, LAZARUS, GABRIEL AND MANY MORE WERE USED TO INVENT THIS WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF MYTHOLOGICAL FABLES THAT WE COLLECTIVELY CALL THE NEW TESTAMENT. AS YOU"RE DEBATING IN YOUR OWN MIND IF YOU WANT TO TAKE A CHANCE ON READING THIS SERIES OF REVALATIONS CONSIDER THIS : GOD DOES NOT LIE, BUT PEOPLE DO. SO, TAKE A PEEK AT WHAT IS INSIDE THIS FABULOUS EXPOSE ON HOW JESUS CHRIST WAS INVENTED. AS LONG AS YOU LIVE YOU WILL NEVER FORGET HAVING READ THIS BOOK. I GUARANTEE IT. WHEN YOU KNOW HOW JESUS WAS INVENTED YOU WILL STILL ADMIRE HIM, BUT YOU WONT BELIEVE IN THE SUPERNATURAL, SUCH AS GETTING UP AFTER BEING DEAD FOR THREE DAYS. THIS EXPOSE' GOES WAY BEYOND WHETHER HE EXISTED. IT MAKES YOU CONFRONT YOUR REASONS FOR WHY YOU BELIEVE. IT MAKES YOU ASK WHO BENEFITTED FROM THE DECEIT. THIS BOOK IS NOT ANTI GOD, IT IS NOT ANY ANYTHING EXCEPT- IT IS ANTI-LYING.

Download or read book How Jesus Became God written by Bart D. Ehrman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church. The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. How Jesus Became God tells the story of an idea that shaped Christianity, and of the evolution of a belief that looked very different in the fourth century than it did in the first. A master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, Ehrman reveals how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God Almighty, Creator of all things. But how did he move from being a Jewish prophet to being God? In a book that took eight years to research and write, Ehrman sketches Jesus’s transformation from a human prophet to the Son of God exalted to divine status at his resurrection. Only when some of Jesus’s followers had visions of him after his death—alive again—did anyone come to think that he, the prophet from Galilee, had become God. And what they meant by that was not at all what people mean today. Written for secular historians of religion and believers alike, How Jesus Became God will engage anyone interested in the historical developments that led to the affirmation at the heart of Christianity: Jesus was, and is, God.

Download or read book Who Do You Say I Am written by William L. Merrifield and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Do You Say I Am seeks to bridge the gap between the reader who reads for empowerment and the reader who reads for knowledge. Both groups will receive what they seek, and even spiritual insight into the earthly life of Jesus, whose short ministry spawned a worldwide, life-changing movement that grows stronger with each soul saved. Readers are invited to travel back in time with the author and take a look at this itinerant teacher and preacher that history calls Jesus and millions call Savior. This book takes the reader through Old Testament messianic promises, Jewish history, and the gospel accounts, finally arriving in the fullness of God's time at a place in history where a man who lived in a precisely defined period of time, during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius Caesar began a life-changing ministry. Read of Jesus's promised coming, and his birth. Visualize the every day trials of a Jewish lad on the road to manhood. Follow as the book looks at both earthly life and heavenly intervention, in seeking to know this man called Jesus. Dr. William Merrifield is a Southern Baptist deacon, minister, and a retired army chaplain. He holds a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, and a Doctorate of Ministry from Westminster Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Bill has been in the ministry for thirty-seven years. Bill and his wife, Jo Ann, currently reside in Columbia, South Carolina.

Download or read book The Color of Christ written by Edward J. Blum and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions--from witch hunts to web pages, Harlem to Hollywood, slave cabins to South Park, Mormon revelations to Indian reservations--to show how Americans remade the Son of God visually time and again into a sacred symbol of their greatest aspirations, deepest terrors, and mightiest strivings for racial power and justice. The Color of Christ uncovers how, in a country founded by Puritans who destroyed depictions of Jesus, Americans came to believe in the whiteness of Christ. Some envisioned a white Christ who would sanctify the exploitation of Native Americans and African Americans and bless imperial expansion. Many others gazed at a messiah, not necessarily white, who was willing and able to confront white supremacy. The color of Christ still symbolizes America's most combustible divisions, revealing the power and malleability of race and religion from colonial times to the presidency of Barack Obama.

Download or read book My Invention Testimony written by Linda C. and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title My Invention Testimony came from the journal I kept as I worked on my invention called "Food Separators." As I was being introduced to the world of inventions, I persevered through a lot of frustrations and hostile ordeals during my learning experiences. I've heard in several sermons from various pastors, including my own, that when one commits themselves to carry out an assignment for God, one would most likely experience an aloofness of family and friends. What a true statement! I did lose a closeness with my family, biological and Christian alike. I became like a plague to them because I no longer did the things I use to do. I wanted, as well as needed, to spend as much time with the Lord as possible. My desire to spend more time with Him brought about undesirable situations with people of whom I used to have a closeness to. Not only did I have personal attacks, but in terms of business, it has been a long and tough journey with my endeavors to get prototypes of my invention, as well as making decisions to manufacture, license, or self-distribute. The decision that I make would determine my success or failure. I had a lot of decisions to make before I could even get my invention on the market. I so often found myself praying and asking God for His direction and guidance. After about six months into the invention process, I heard the Holy Spirit speak to me and say, "Here is your book. Continue to write and place glory on my name." I couldn't believe what I heard, but after hearing the Lord speak, I looked at my journal and realized, Wow, this is a book. I was a little hesitant because I had no inclination of writing a book. The thought never crossed my mind. Besides, I was so caught up in venturing out and searching for information on how to make the right decisions concerning my invention that I didn't have time for anything else. As I stated before, I had no thoughts of writing a book, but I was obedient to God. This book is an actual testimony of almost everything that I've gone through to get this far with my invention. I say almost, because I'm not finished with publicizing my invention, and it is not yet fully on the market. I've done two illustrations with self-made prototypes, and they were a big hit. Everyone liked them, but I still have a long way to go. I thank God for His vision and for allowing me to partner with Him in sharing the experience of this venture.

Download or read book The Man Called Jesus written by John P. Kingsland and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: