Ancient Christianity
How old is Christianity?
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How old is
Christianity?
Since when is
the Christian spirituality
recognizable
between other religions?
In other chapters I stated that Christianity is
much
older then the traditional starting point
with the
Jesus movement.
Also I stated that the roots of Christianity
are to be found in ancient Egyptian religion,
more precise in a combination of the Hathors
religion
and the Amen-Mut-Khonsu religion.
There are many reasons to make
these statements plausible.
In this chapter I like to make an estimate
of how far we have to go back in history
and still are finding Christian lines of
traditions.
We noted already that ancient Egyptian texts
are
intensely related with Christian texts.
To mention them will be the subject of another
chapter.
Christian conceptions of eternal truth and
comfort
in the basics of the true believe
are also basic and never doubted truths of the
Egyptian believers.
To mention only a few:
resurrection after death;
the trial and verdict of sins;
the forgiveness of sins by repentance;
the complete trust in the risen Lord;
the Mother and Child unity;
the relation of God with the Sun;
the importance of the female aspect of the
divinity;
the angels;
the four angels at the corners of the earth;
the creation;
the unseen and unknown God;
the mentioning of Amen with every prayer;
the unity of God as creator and saviour.
In another chapter I will look into the fact
that
the religious vestments of the priests
and other clergy were in ancient Egypt and are
in the Catholic,
Orthodox and Eastern churches very very much
the same.
The furniture in the ancient Egyptian temples
and in the
traditional cathedrals of Christianity are the
same.
A dating method I researched for the roots of
Christianity
is to be
found in the architecture of
the ancient Egyptian temple compared with
the architecture of the Christian Gothic
cathedrals.
In the Middle kingdom at the start of the 12th
dynasty
a new
way of temple design was introduced,
that became centuries later in the New Kingdom
the most popular temple design.
Again two thousand years later this way of
building religious buildings still is to be
found
in the Christian Gothic cathedrals and many
other
important big churches.
This brings me to the conclusion that in the
Middle
Kingdom something has been started that until
today
never stopped and that is to be researched in
the
architecture and the religious use of the
temples on the one hand and Christian Gothic
cathedrals
on the other hand.
This brings back the roots of Christianity
towards
the 12th dynasty of ancient Egypt,
which means around 2050 years BC.
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