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The Two Jesus’ and the adoption by Christian of Pagan Symbols & Rituals!
Christianity has shown that it knows nothing about its early religion or its supposed saviour. Everything about Christianity is adopted, from its name, to its saviour. Mark 4:11 tells us Jesus wanted his teaching to go no further than the disciples, and kept secret from the masses. What sort of messiah wants his message kept secret from the people? Mark also tells us that Pontius Pilate wants to let Jesus go, as on festivals/holidays, it is customary for one prisoner to be freed to go. Yet, the Jews wanted Barabbas let free instead, not Jesus. Jews say crucify Jesus. Mark 15:14. In John 18:28-30 we hear why they want Jesus dead, They say Jesus is a Malefactor/Evildoer/Magician, and they want him executed.
However, let’s go back to the story of Barabbas. Probably why the above stories are seen by scholars as mythical. Pilate supposedly gives the Jewish masses two Jesus’ to choose from, one to go free as a traditional amnesty during the holiday season. Jesus the Nazarene or Jesus Barabbas. Matthew 27:16-17. Well, we know the end of the story, the Jewish crowd decided on Jesus Barabbas aka Jesus son of the Father, and executed Jesus the Nazarene. Those Christians that know their Bible, of which very few on Disqus do, will know the story of the two kid goats, one is sacrificed during the sin offering, and the other is let freed. Leviticus 16:5,15-16
Christian art and Icons, as well as adoptions.
The Cross, a mid-six-century adoption by Christianity like its name, came after several other symbols, such as the anchor (Judaism), Dove (Aphrodite, Mesopotamian, Judaism, and Paganism); XP (Roman XP over one another denoted a Roman Centurion BCE and after), other symbols included:
- Ichthys or Ichthus or Ikhthys, the Fish. The Fish symbol was an early Christian symbol, which was adopted from the fertility (female genitalia) symbol for Mother Earth/Yoni or Great Mother goddess (Greek and Paganism). However, to combat Pagan accusations on the theft of their symbol the Christians came up with ΙΧΘΥΣ Ichthys—Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter, i.e. Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour. Remember, Jesus was supposedly a Jew, not a Greek.
- Alpha and Omega (Greek alphabet).
- Staurogram (Coptic and Greek).
- Chi Rho (ancient Greek, also found on Egyptian coinage of Ptolemy III).
- IH monogram (Greek alphabet).
- IX monogram (Greek alphabet).
All taken from Roman or Greek sources, then came the cross. The oldest Greek biblical manuscripts still use the word Stauros, meaning the stake/up-right Pale or wood xylon/tree. What about the adoption of Isis and Horus/Madonna and Child, or Moschophoros the calf bearer/Jesus the Lamb bearer or the Egyptian Trinity, or Mithras and the Great American symbol, Liberty Enlightening the World? (That’s my Christmas box gone.) We know from church sources that Christianity adopted many Pagan festivals and votives.
As Christianity adopted many (80%) Pagan practices, this is what the eminent theologian and scholar, Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-90) had to say on Pagan religious rites being adopted by Christianity, wrote:
The example set by St. Gregory in an age of Persecution was impetuously followed when a time of peace succeeded. In the course of the fourth century two movements or developments spread over the face of Christendom, with a rapidity characteristic of the Church; the one ascetic, the other ritual or ceremonial. We are told in various ways by Eusebius,7 that Constantine, to recommend the new religion to the heathen, transferred into it the outward ornaments which they had been accustomed to their own. It is not necessary to go into a subject which the diligence of Protestant writers has made familiar to most of us. The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holy days and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage. Turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison; 8 are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church….[John Henry (Cardinal) Newman, (1906 edition), Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, p. 373, Longmans & Co, London—New York and Bombay]
7 V. Const. iii. 1, iv. 23, &c.
8 According to Dr E. D. Clarke, Travels, vol. I. p. 352 Or
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002029716769;view=1up;seq=404 Retrieved 15/07/2016
Kyrie Eleison “Lord have mercy upon us” “And my your God have mercy on me for conveying the truth, and for him to inspire his adherents to give me my just deserts; respect for the research time to educate the indoctrinated.” What do you say?
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Jero Jones
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