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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... scholar , later to become internationally known in par- ticular for his classic books on the Bible , was telling his classes with all his usual wit and verve that the Bible was not a document concerned with history but a vast collection ...
... scholar , later to become internationally known in par- ticular for his classic books on the Bible , was telling his classes with all his usual wit and verve that the Bible was not a document concerned with history but a vast collection ...
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... scholars , although I hope they will be deeply challenged and learn from it too . While I have the greatest respect for scholarship and will be drawing upon the work of experts in many fields — as well as my own training and experience ...
... scholars , although I hope they will be deeply challenged and learn from it too . While I have the greatest respect for scholarship and will be drawing upon the work of experts in many fields — as well as my own training and experience ...
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... scholars have their libraries and their own hidden sources . Many of them , it seems , can communicate only with one another . Indeed , some of them may like it that way . But the result too often has been , and still is , that ordinary ...
... scholars have their libraries and their own hidden sources . Many of them , it seems , can communicate only with one another . Indeed , some of them may like it that way . But the result too often has been , and still is , that ordinary ...
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... scholars , most notably Orientalists and Egyptologists , has been deliberately ignored by churchly authorities for many decades . Scholars such as Godfrey Higgins ( 1771-1834 ) , author of the monumental tome Anacalypsis , the British ...
... scholars , most notably Orientalists and Egyptologists , has been deliberately ignored by churchly authorities for many decades . Scholars such as Godfrey Higgins ( 1771-1834 ) , author of the monumental tome Anacalypsis , the British ...
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... scholars have convincingly shown , Christianity was turned in the early centuries into a literalist copy of a resplen- dent spiritual forerunner . I will clearly document that there is nothing the Jesus of the Gospels either said or did ...
... scholars have convincingly shown , Christianity was turned in the early centuries into a literalist copy of a resplen- dent spiritual forerunner . I will clearly document that there is nothing the Jesus of the Gospels either said or did ...
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.