The earliest religious texts come from Egypt. They tell the story of Osiris, a god who came to earth to live a human life, who was put to death by the ruler, and who rose from the dead. Later mystery religions embellished upon this theme adding a virgin birth, turning water into wine, healing, and being hailed as a savior.
In these later mystery religions Osiris goes by the names Mithras, Dionysis, Adonis, and Attis to mention a few. The people of this time are familiar with these Pagan myths. The myths are not about actual people but are used to reveal great spiritual truths. The earliest Christians were known as Gnostics and used these myths to gain spiritual knowledge.
In the first century CE a Christian Literalist philosopher living in Rome named Justin was the first to write about the books of the bible as literal history. A generation after Justin another Literalist named Irenaeus set about to discredit his Gnostic rivals. It is Irenaeus that identifies the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as the four pillars of the New Testament. These books are meant to prove the literal content of the accounts of Jesus.
(sources: Wikipedia, The Laughing Jesus)
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In the most ancient of times, when the night sky was not screened from us by reflection of electrically powered light, the stars seemed much brighter than they do today. Northern latitudes spent much of the winter day was in darkness and the wise men and priests were able to see that some unique stars did not set below the horizon and rotated around the ‘pole’ position in the sky.
ReplyDeleteThis group of stars gave birth to the idea of God in a variety of aspects and to his or her home in the heavens.
The stories that the priests told of these aspects of God and ‘the horned one’ were strong and powerful and included allegories about the birth of mankind and the Paradise that we all aspire to. So strong were these stories that they transcended time as they were passed from parent to child and were prosecuted by chains of fervent religious fanatics. They formed the basis for organised religions whose doctrines have been violently evangelised throughout history. So strong have been these movements that today there exist ‘believers’ who continue to forcefully promote their orthodoxy in the name of ‘God’ and ‘Truth’.
The God Secret shows clear and irrefutable evidence of these astronomical irreligious origins. It illustrates links to the popular and enduring myths and exposes much of popular ‘belief’ as questionable at best and gobbledegook at worst.
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