The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?Allen & Unwin, 2005 M03 1 - 244 pages A radical, ground-breaking examination of the role of ancient myth in the origins of Christianity, challenging the idea of the Gospels as historical truth - it will change the way many think about religion, faith, history, myth and belief. |
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... Egypt Part I : Ancient Egyptian Religion Part II : Horus and Jesus Are the Same ix xi I 15 27 49 67 76 91 6 Convincing the Sceptics The Bible History or Myth ?: The End of Fundamentalism 115 8 Seeing the Gospels with New Eyes : Sublime ...
... Egypt Part I : Ancient Egyptian Religion Part II : Horus and Jesus Are the Same ix xi I 15 27 49 67 76 91 6 Convincing the Sceptics The Bible History or Myth ?: The End of Fundamentalism 115 8 Seeing the Gospels with New Eyes : Sublime ...
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... Egyptian mythologies , but I had dismissed this as a gross distortion typical of the founder of modern psychiatry's well - known bias against all religion . I had also once read Dr. Anna Bonus Kings- ford's opinion that the " Hebrew ...
... Egyptian mythologies , but I had dismissed this as a gross distortion typical of the founder of modern psychiatry's well - known bias against all religion . I had also once read Dr. Anna Bonus Kings- ford's opinion that the " Hebrew ...
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... Egyptian Bethany about four thousand years ago . The " miracle " described in John's Gospel was never a historic event ... Egypt at least four thousand years B.c.e. But I anticipate . In any event , I can promise the reader this : I have ...
... Egyptian Bethany about four thousand years ago . The " miracle " described in John's Gospel was never a historic event ... Egypt at least four thousand years B.c.e. But I anticipate . In any event , I can promise the reader this : I have ...
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... Egypt . He studied the extensive Egyptian records housed in the British Museum and taught himself to decipher the hiero- glyphics . Although he was a capable lecturer , his speeches and books were not widely circulated . The record ...
... Egypt . He studied the extensive Egyptian records housed in the British Museum and taught himself to decipher the hiero- glyphics . Although he was a capable lecturer , his speeches and books were not widely circulated . The record ...
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... Egyptian material had been lost . Centuries of blissful ignorance went by . Now , since the translation of the books of old Egypt— the Egyptian Book of the Dead , the Pyramid Texts , the Amduat , and the Book of Thoth , for example ...
... Egyptian material had been lost . Centuries of blissful ignorance went by . Now , since the translation of the books of old Egypt— the Egyptian Book of the Dead , the Pyramid Texts , the Amduat , and the Book of Thoth , for example ...
Contents
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Where It All Began | 27 |
How a Spiritual | 49 |
It Was All Written Beforein Egypt | 67 |
Convincing the Sceptics | 91 |
Where It All Began | 157 |
Cosmic Christianity | 177 |
Mythology Religion and Ancient Egypt | 199 |
More Similarities between | 205 |
Two Strange Passages 21 I | 211 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 229 |
Index | 237 |
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Page 128 - Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (It was that Mary which anointed the LORD with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
Page 149 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent...
Page 171 - And, as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven. And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Page 74 - Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.
Page 211 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.