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To this list of references some more can be added many available for downloads on the net:
1. Is it God's word- Joseph Weless
2. Vatican Assassins Eric Jon Phelps
3. Jesus Interrupted- Bart.D. Ehrman
4. Letters from the Earth- Mark Twain
5.The Vatican Billions- Avro Manhattan
6. Vatican Design: Exposed! John Daniel
7. The Priest, the Wonan, and the Confessional- Charles Chinquy
8. The jesuits, their moral maxims, their plots against Kings, nations and churches - John Wylie.
9. The secret history of the Jesuits- Edmond Paris
10.Behind the dictators- L.H.Lehmann.
11. Secret Instructions of the Jesuits- W.C. Brownlee
12. The Atheists Bible- Joan Konner
13. The Christ Conspiracy- Acharya.S
14. 75 Bible Questions (your instructors pray you will not ask) Gary North.
15. Forged- Bart D Ehrman
16. The story of religious controversy- Joseph Mccabe.
17. The Assassination of Pope John Paul 1 and how Paul VI the Impostor came to the papal throne- P. Venkat.
18. Good Works and Heroic Virtues Mother and Charles Keating, Jr.
19. .Victims of Vatican
20.. American Holocaust by David Stannard
21. Jesus Christ- A Myth, Bible - Not the Words of God Christianity - A Political Expansionism- Vishnu Vardhan.
Ranjit
December 25, 2013
A little elaboration is in order. Herod referred to in Mathew is Herod the Great who died in 3 or 4 BC. When Luke says “It was the fifteenth year of the rule of Emperor Tiberius; Pontius Pilate was the Governor of Judea, Herod was the ruler of Galilee and his brother Philip was…” (3.1-3) he refers to Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, who succeeded his father as ruler of Galilee. Luke refers here not to the birth of Jesus but his baptism at the age of 30. John's Gospel informs us that Jesus was not fifty years old when he died. That would put his birth around 16 or 15 BC. When was Jesus born if at all?
Virendra Parekh
December 25, 2013
Reproducing what Vishnu Varadan wrote in his book:
..."1. IMMACULATE BIRTH OF JESUS
Christianity claims that Jesus was born to a virgin called
Mary who had conceived him to the Holy Ghost. This was not proved by the Bible. The galore of unreconciliable contradictions in the gospels reveal that the immaculate birth of Jesus is a big lie. A few Gospel contradictions are presented in Annexure A on page 40 Apart from that, the following facts will also reveal that Christianity's claim is nothing but a concocted story.
• The Hebrew word "Almah" means a young woman according to Isaiah (7:14), but it was deliberately translated as "Virgin" by Mathew (1:22) to project Mary as the virgin mother of Jesus.
• There is no evidence to prove that Mary was
conceived by the Holy Ghost.
• Since Mary was already married to Joseph, if at all Jesus was born to her, he was born to a couple according to the flesh and blood. The devout Christians cannot accept it due to the fear that Jesus also cannot escape from the original sin if he were born like us.
• When Philip III and Philip IV asked the Popes to define the immaculate conception of Jesus, the Popes
Paul V, George V and Alexander VII, replied that the doctrine was not definable as it is not in the scripture. (Problems in Paradise P-93)
• Franciscans and Dominicans attacked each other bitterly over the Immaculate Conception and St.Thomas Aquinas denied the doctrine. (ibid p-93) Moreover if Jesus were to be the son of Virgin, then the prophesy7 of Old Testament that he will come as a decedent of David (Acts 13:22) becomes false.
We have to look at the issue from another point of view which is the date of birth of Jesus. According to Luke, the Angel announced Jesus• Christ's birth to the shepherds of Bethlehem when hey were feeding their flocks at night in open fields. (Luke 2:68) Since the climate of Judea from December to February used to be just too cold to take care of flocks in the open fields (Song of Solomon 2:11: Zl Era10:9,13), the announcement of the birth of Jesus on 25th December by the Angel was not true. Moreover only in the year 354 C.E., Bishop Liberous of Rome ordered the people to celebrate the birth day of Jesus on December 25th.
From 354 C.E., some western churches including those of Rome commemorated the birth of Jesus on December 25th which was already the central festival of Mithraism being the birth day of one of the Pagan Gods-Mitra (Sun God) which was attracting lakhs of people. Therefore pagans' festival on Mitra's birth day was hijacked and appropriated by the Christian fraternity as the birth day of Jesus. (Idhi Christavam This is Christianity P 10& 11) However it may be noted that the Eastern orthodox church celebrates January 7th as Christmas.
Above all, the western Biblical and Christological researchers have proved that the birth of Jesus itself is a big lie. Irrefutable facts with cogent and clinching evidences discussed and recorded by the western scholars of very high reputation proved existence of Jesus as next to nothing. These important findings have been well compiled and discussed by Late Sitaram Goel in the first chapter of his masterly work "Jesus Christ: An Artifice for Aggression." Readers are requested to read it to know the facts by themselves. For the immediate attention of the readers, a few of the said significant findings regarding the myth of historical Jesus are mentioned in Annexure B on page 42.
The last nail in the coffin of controversial birth and existence of Jesus has been hammered by the Dead Sea scrolls. In the year 1947, one of the most significant archeological finds of the 20th century took place at a place not far from Jericho in the Qumran region of Palestine on the western shore of Dead sea (now in Israel). Several jars containing bundles of parchment8 with writings upon them were found. They were mainly Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts.
s Parchment: the skin of a sheep, goat, or other animal prepared for writing.
7
The Dead sea scrolls tell us that everything claimed for Christianity was borrowed from an extremist Jewish sect (Qumranians) and repackaged and propagated as the teachings of Jesus Christ as though the only son of God. The idea of the Davidic Messiah as the son of God was already there in the Dead Sea Scrolls! The Gospels simply borrowed it and attributed it to their Jesus Christ. Qumranians the members of extremist Jewish sect also expected that their coming messiah would perform miracles like healing the sick and resurrecting the dead. (Christianity's Collapsing Empire and Its Designs in India P-17) Therefore Jesus of Gospels was a synthetic9 personality assembled in this fashion from Qumran texts.
CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS
Jesus was said to have been crucified on cross by the Jews, but the traditional capital punishment which was prevalent in the Jewish community was stoning a person and then hanging him with a rope to the branch of a
•. tree. Moreover at that time Cross was not the symbol of
Christians. It was a Pagan religious symbol found as a mystic cross in the Hieroglyphics a sacred character used in picture writing (Pictorial language) of Egyptian civilization. Christians copied the said cross and started using it for Jesus several centuries after his death. Just look at the fallacy10 behind Christian symbol, the Cross.
• There was a Venus temple in Jerusalem where the
Holy Cross Church is situated. Helena the mother of
King . Constantine had a dream in which she saw Jesus being crucified on cross at that place. Constantine did not think for a while, how Jesus could have been crucified at a place where a Pagan temple was existing even prior to the birth of Jesus. He demolished Venus temple and constructed the Holy Cross Church under the pretext of his mother's ream. (Idhi Christavam P 28
& 29) Then it was considered as the religious symbol .of Christians. Only in 692 A.D. the council of Constantinople declared that Cross is real. (Not symbolic) Jesus Christ:• An Artifice for Aggression P-18) Thus cross became the important religious symbol of Christians many centuries after the death of Jesus. Some of the contradictions between gospels about the crucifixions are presented in annexure A. It is also pertinent to note that according to Quran Jesus did not die on the cross. (4:157)
RESURRECTION OF JESUS:
Christians claim that Jesus who died on the Cross had resurrected11 after three days and then after few more days finally ascended to heaven, but it has no historical support. Research scholars proved that Paul was the first person who had conceived the theory of resurrection. His lengthy letters (Epistles) addressed to the apostles12 and •others have narrated the story of resurrection. The first Corinthian13 Letter said to have
11 Resurrection: A rising from the dead . Esp. that of Christ
12 Apostle: One sent to preach the gospeL Esp. one of Christ's first twelve followers.
13 Corinthian: Over brilliant in literacy style.
been written by Paul in 49 C.E. Says, “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain" (I Corinthians 15:12-15) This clinching evidence reveals that Paul was the first person who gave life to the story of resurrection and there were not many in those days who pelieved it. Now Biblical scholars have proved that the epistles were fabricated and forged ones. (The, Falsified Paul: Early Christianity In The Twilight 2003)
Paul sent a number of frenzied letters to Jewish community outside Jerusalem. These letters were considered very important and incorporated in the New Testament by the Church. It is in these letters that we find the first formulation of belief which became a full fledged but completely closed Christian theology in due course of time. Christian doctrine was formalized at the 4th century council of Nicaea. Alas! Jesus was raised from mortal prophet to immortal God by a. vote of the collected Bishops. 2 Bishops from Libya voted against deification (exalting14 Jesus to the rank o£ a God). They were soon murdered by their colleagues. (Expressions of Christianity P 50) Thus, Christianity founded by St.Paul became politicalised even in the initial stage of its
evolution in the 4th century C.E.
Some • Christians give different' meaning to the
resurrection of Jesus.1 According to them, resurrection did not mean that Jesus raised with his body, but it means he resurrected (raised) in the form of Atma. If this is accepted, Christianity of 2000 years built on the dogma
14 Exaltation: Elevation in rank or dignity.
of original sin will crumble like a mansion built with a pack of cards.
There are inexplicable glaring contradictions on thetopic of resurrection of Jesus between Gospel writers and the accounts of so called eye witnesses, quoted in support of the doctrine. Readers are requested to refer Annexure 'C' on page 45 to know some of the contradictions, which have wiped out the false theory of resurrection and ascendance of Jesus to heaven.
Thus immaculate birth, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus reveal more problems.
BIBLE
Bible the so called authorized James version is a book of
66 books (39 books of the Old Testament and 27 books of the New Testament) composed over a period of 1500 years. Swami Devananda Saraswati a Hindu monk of Canadian birth said, "The New Testament books as we know them today are composite works edited and rewritten a number of times after the Fourth Century Council of Nicaea.... Some years after the Council, Emperor Constantine sanctioned and financed a new edition of the Bible. As there were no original documents to work from (they had been destroyed by Emperor Dioclet-Ian), the Bishops were free to edit, revise, and rewrite the Bible according to their own tenets." (Expressions of Christianity with a focus on India P 50) Covering this fact under a carpet of lies, the Christian fraternity claims the New Testament as the teachings/ messages of Jesus. Since the very existence of Jesus has been disproved, it is a waste of time to discuss any distinction between the Old and New Testament.
However the following commandments in the New Testament attributed to Jesus Christ of gospels reveal that they cannot be the word of God.
• "Think not I am come to send peace on earth: I come not to send peace, but a Sword." (Mathew 10:34)
• "He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." (Luke 22:36)
• "I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." (Matt.10:35-36) .
Such messages of the Bible had motivated and moved the Christian fraternity to indulge in most infamous crusades15 and inquisitions16. To say a few, crores of native (Red) Indians were exterminated in the North and South Americas during the 15th and 16th centuries and 6 million Jews were burnt in gas chambers during the Second World War. The Church was holding on to the belief that the earth is flat. When the scientists like Copernicus, Galileo and Bruno have discovered the fact that the earth is spherical and the Sun is at the centre of our Universe (Helio-Centric Theory), instead of gracefully accepting the fact, those scientists were persecuted by the Church and Bruno was burnt alive at a stake on 17th February 1600 C.E. This single incident serves as the tip of the iceberg to prove that the Bible is
1s Crusade: Religious war.
16 Inquisitions: A tribunal in the Roman Catholic Church for discovery, repression and punishment of Heresy, unbelief etc.
Ranjit
December 25, 2013
Read the book by Dr.Robert M Price, Biblical scholar and ex-pastor on this subject titled "The Christ Myth Theory". It is an eye opener for sure. Not every one will agree with this assertion but Price lays it out in a very methodical manner. Bart Ehrman also makes interesting assertions but stops short of calling Jesus a myth. Also listen to Prices' interview titled "The Case Against The Case for Christ" available on Youtube. These facts have been known for around 300 years.
I am glad to see this topic being brought up. Missionaries have always belittled other faiths so it is time they are investigated too. However if you are a bible thumping believer then it will be difficult for you to see the contradictions as viewed by non believers. Dr. Price also hosts a podcast called The Bible Geek where people ask questions on the bible and he answers them on this podcast. Those with theological questions can ask him questions on this podcast. The answers will differ from the stock replies from preachers. After all the bible is just another book authored by very creative authors to suit a particular purpose.
I hope more Indians learn about these facts so that they can counteract the gross misinformation spit out by missionaries. That Christianity has plenty of holes in it's thelogy.
K. Swamy
December 26, 2013
It is worth noting that the other founding figures of the Old Testament, from Adam to Moses are all legendary figures whose historical reality is doubtful at best. Moses may have been a fictional figure based on Pharaoh Akhenaten, according to some Jewish historians and he was imparted with various mythological attributes and features (the horns of Amon on his head, miraculous powers....He was said to have been found in a cradle floating in the river, like the king Sargon of Akkad many centuries earlier or Drona in the Mahabharata). All in all, the Bible is a collection of popular stories and symbolic tales.
Anon
What an eye-opener! But the fact is majority of hindus regard Jesus to be a true historical figure, a true messiah etc., due to false propaganda or education system or whatever you may call it.
Therefore, this kind of information need to reach a vast majority to enlighten them about falsities in Christianity.
In this regard I would suggest you strongly to publish in www.speakingtree.com, which a lot of people follow an Times of India brings out a Monday edition of speaking tree. A lot of people will come to know of this if published in www.speakingtree.com.
Sharat
I think there is not an iota of doubt that Jesus never existed. In spite of this the CHURCH has been propagating the lies of the Jesus and Christianity. Moreover I think even the educated christians know this fact but can't take on the CHURCH. Christians like Steve Jobs, Richard Gere, Julia Roberts have shown keen interest in Hinduism / Bhudism and there are thousands which throng the Indian Religious cities like Haridwar, Banaras, Pushkar etc. to experience true spiritualism.
There is a historian by the name of Sh. P.N. Oak who I think is the most well researched historian to my knowledge who have proved that Jesus was not a historical person. He has also written on the similar lies surrounded around the origins of religion of Islam. Lot of his theories/findings have been re-validated by many other researchers. One can read his books online on the link given below:
http://archive.org/stream/EnglishBooksOfP.n.Oak/SomeBlundersOfIndianHistoricalResearch_djvu.txt.
There are more of such researchers/ historians/archeologists like Stephan Knapps, Michael Cremo, Bibhu Dev Misra, Graham Hancock etc who have given a well researched study showing the truths of Hindu beliefs and teachings of VEDAS & PURANS, their antiquity and prevalence all across the globe. One can read their findings online on their blogs/websites by their names. A must read for every HINDU.
Yogesh Sharma