A Mad Man, A Prince of Demons and a Dysfunctional Family!

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A Mad Man, A Prince of Demons and a Dysfunctional Family!

The early Gentile followers of Jesus did not envisage that the man they invented from the Jews was later going to bit them in the arse! For they had no concept that posterity and knowledge would see their invention would have as many sceptics of his story as adherents. Throughout the scriptures, Jesus is controversial and contradictory and come from a dysfunctional family, who think him [Jesus] mad at the best of times. Mark 3:20-22 Jesus is not only seen as insane but possessed by the Prince of Demons. Including, he would also divide his family and other families, and it would not be peaceful, but by a show of arms. Matthew 10:34-39.

The authors and their choice of the Jesus story from the start have given them only headaches. The only good thing that the Gentile fable of Jesus has bought the church has been very profitable. According to Pope Leo X (1513-1521).  

The anonymous Greek authors of the Gospels stories of Jesus did not have PR skills. It became a nightmare for Christian apologists from ancient to modern times in controlling the backlash of criticism.

As a polemicist, the authors of the scriptures gave me my chosen field, and now in retirement, probably the best hobby one can have where brain activity is involved.

Like the great civilizations of the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, the early Gentile Christians wanted a God to call their own. However, their chosen saviour at the time was seen as a Sorcerer come, Magician. Many early church fathers acknowledged that the early Jewish and Pagan stories were of Jesus the Magician, which became stories precisely similar to the Talmud stories were the stock-in-trade Jewish objections to Christian dogmatic tradition.[G R S Mead (1968), Did Jesus Live 100 BC?, P.129, University Books, New Hyde Park, New York]

Origin of Jesus, the Magician

The Evidence

The origin of Jesus being a Magician are not from conspiracy theorists but reputable sources such as:

Celsus, from the work Contra Celsum of Origen Adamantius (185-254). And yet he [Celsus] desires to throw discredit on them, as being done by help of magic and not by divine power; for he asserts “that he (Jesus), having been brought up as an illegitimate child, and having served for hire in Egypt, and then coming to the knowledge of certain miraculous powers, returned from thence to his own country, and by means of those powers proclaimed himself a god.” [Contra Celsum, Book 1, ch. 38 The highlighted [ ] bkt are mine. Also see Contra Celsum, BK.1, Ch. 28]

Talmud Sanhedrin 43a and Sanhedrin 107b He is going forth to be stoned because he has practised sorcery. Also, there are various other Jewish sources.

NB. To be a Sanhedrin, one would have to be a master of Magic and Sorcery.

The Jesus Bowl, dated between the late second century BCE and the first century CE—found in the sea off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, in 2008. Its inscription DIA CHRSTOU O GOISTAIS!  Translated from Greek, it reads: “by Chrestos the magician.”  From the NT—Jesus replied, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me.” Matthew 26:23. The spelling on the bowl of Chrestos and not Christos is also correct up to the 5th century CE. Although, the term Cherstos, also found in an 11th-century manuscript.

The Gospels. 29 Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man?

30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. [John 18:29-30 KJV]  

(Roman law Code Codex Justinianus IX. 18. 5, is based on the law for Malefactors/Evildoers.  Those seen as Magicians and Rome demanded the death penalty for Malefactors.

NB. Of the two times Malefactor is used in the NT., Paul also has the stigma of 2 Timothy 2:9)

Justin Martyr wrote: But lest any one should meet us with the question, What should prevent that He whom we call Christ, being a man born of men, performed what we call His mighty works by magical art, and by this appeared to be the Son of God?—The First Apology, ch. XXX. Also, see Justin Martyr, defending Jesus from accusations that he was a Magician.  Writes in his Dialogue with Trypho (c. 160 CE) that the Jewish witnesses to Jesus’ miracles considered him to be a sorcerer: ‘For they dared to call Him a Magician (μάγος) and a deceiver (πλάνος) of the people.‘ [Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 69. 7.]

Tertullian—Church-Father explains that the Jews called Jesus a “conjurer”Let them say that He is of the common order of men; or will they call Him a magician? [Tertullian Apology for the Christians, Ch.21 and Ch.23.]

 The Dysfunctional Jesus family

As I said, Jesus came from a dysfunctional family, “not even his brothers believed in him.” John 7:5.  

From the Synoptic gospels (Matthew 27:55-56; Mark 15:40-41; Luke 23:49) that Mary and the siblings of Jesus did NOT attend the crucifixion. Nor did anyone else, as all the witnesses, anywhere watched from afar (the other side of the valley.) We also know that Jesus and Mary did not get on as he referred to his mother as the “Woman.”  

The Gospel of John 19:25-27, is the only gospel to claim Mary, the mother of Jesus, as a witness to the crucifixion.

Yet, after his crucifixion, which none of them went to, they certainly jumped on the wagon when money and position were concerned with the Jerusalem Church, claiming themselves to be the brothers of Jesus Holy Bloodline. Although, we can postulate that it was still a dysfunctional family!

 

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Jero Jones

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