Ancient Christianity
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Preface to
Ancient Christianity.
When I started my research on
the Ancient Roots of
Christianity,
I had no idea how complex this
subject is.
So many sources, so many
factors to reckon with.
So much is distorted
information,
so many books were distroyed
on purpose.
Power groups have rewritten
history,
because it brings them the
power they are striving for.
Erasing history to prevent the
return
of values and ancient ways of
thinking
is very profitable for some
power groups.
Christianity is a religion
where torture and killing
has been seen as normal for a
long time.
When church history is
speaking about the killing
of the Albigenses or the
Cathars or the so-called Witches, or the Eastern churches
no moral verdict is part of
these lessons,
although a word of sorrow
would be the minimum.
Even worse: the one million
people who have been
tortured and burned and
hanged, because they stayed in the ancient religion
of Western Europe during the
1400's and early 1500's.
Not a word of regret.
Even today the comment in many
books and websites is,
that mainly elderly women were
being burned,
as if it makes the crime less
horrible.
As a young boy I bought the
scientific book about the Gospel of Thomas.
This was perhaps the very
first publication and translation in Dutch.
The commentator kept on
repeating:
"these were all heretics
with heretic views".
Ancient Christianity has the
word "Ancient" in it.
The period of time called
"Ancient" stretches over
a very long period of
thousands of years.
In these webpages I make an
estimate based
upon research that Ancient
Christianity somewhere before
the Middle Kingdom started in
ancient Egypt,
which means around 2050 BC.
Since then I also came to the
conclusion that
the erasure of Ancient
Christianity has been succesfull.
The end of the mainstream of
Ancient Christianity
is to be dated somewhere in
the 1500's.
So we are dealing with 4000 years
of Ancient Christian history.
Long before there was a Jesus
and New-Testament movement
there was a worldwide
Christian religion in existence,
and perhaps this original Christian religion
is still out there.
Writing about the real history
of Christianity
does not mean, that I take a distance from
Christianity.
I value Christianity very
much.
I am educated in the Christian
tradition with
three studies in Christian
theology
of three very different
branches of Christianity.
At Christmas Eve I go to mass,
like many other believers.
But at the same time I am very
much aware
of the choices that have been made
by small fanatic power groups
with the purpose to overrule
all other Christians.
Small groups of believers have
destroyed
other groups of believers to
make their point of view
the official dogma of the
churches.
I am also aware that most
certainly
I would have made other
choices
and would have formulated
other points of believe, when these Ancient Christians
were still there to explain
their beliefs.
For example: the Goddess
aspect of the one Invisible God
is of enormous importance for
me personally.
When the knowledge of ancient
times had been available,
including the testimonies of
ancient believers,
the ancient books, the ancient
voices,
we could have made our own choices.
The choices that have been
made by power groups,
were forced upon everybody
with the penalty of death
for those who refused to be manipulated
and who stayed in their
Christian way
of believing as they saw it.
When more people will become
aware
of the real nature and values
of the belief
in the Saviour, risen from
death,
bringing repentent souls into eternal life,
born from Mother and Father,
maybe Christianity will be
a more true inspiration for new generations.
In this website I offer some
of my research results,
so you can share with me the
amazing knowledge
of a Christian religion
emerging from almost forgotten sources.
I am searching for ancient
knowledge to bring back ancient choices of believe
Many modern authors and
researchers are
bringing out books, so there
is some guidance out there.
Many times I have to retrace
my path of research,
because the labyrinth ended unexpectedly.
Many authors are writing their
books because they
want to do away with
Christianity.
They want to prove that
Christianity has been built
only upon lies and untrue
stories.
This is not my
point of view.
In these texts about Ancient
Christianity
I distinguish between Ancient
Christianity
which existed from 2050BC (and
maybe earlier)
until about 1550AD and maybe
until now
and Modern Christianity.
Modern Christianity needs no
definition except perhaps
the statement that Modern
Christianity came into existence
by the work of a small group
of believers
who wrote the New Testament
between 310 and 350AD
and used state power to
emphasize their point of view.
Naming other groups
"heretics" has an element
of propaganda, which I will
not follow.
I also want to stay away from developments
in which Modern Christianity
is used for racial arguments.
To be more precise:
the miracle performing Jesus
was very probably from Southern Egyptian origin,
and very probably in the same
family line
as the Pygmee people from the
South of Africa.
Racial arguments should
absolutely not be part of any reasoning.
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Updated October 16,
2007
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