Ancient Christianity
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What really
happened?
First of all there is the truth of the
forgiving saviour,
the eternal life, the compassion and love for
others,
the resurrection from death,
the forgiveness of sin.
These truths have inspired people for thousands
of years,
today and yesterday.
Today there are researchers who are concluding
that every truth of faith is not true,
because the historical facts most probably are
different
from what we learned on Sunday school.
In this webpage I try to explain what really
happened.
First of all there is the ancient
religion of Egypt.
This religion was very much alive and
dominating
daily life from about 5000 BC until 562 AD.
This religion was ancient when Greeks and
Romans
started their religions, evenso when the Hebrew
nations
got their religion.
The ancient Egyptian religion survived all the
religions
of Antiquity, except for the Hebrew, the John
the Baptist churches
and the
Christian religions.
The believe in resurrection after death in the
body,
the forgiveness of sin, and many many other
Christian truths
were a natural and unchangable part of the
Egyptian religion.
The Our Father prayer comes straight forward
from an equal Egyptian prayer.
The invisible and almighty God who is Amen.
The possibility for everybody to pray to God.
It was all there in that time.
In the time of Jesus there are least four
important things happening.
1. The deep religious feeling of
the Jewish people
for the presence of the Messiah.
Apparently there was a tradition of the Messiah
being reborn every generation with the name
Menachem.
See my webpage on the Menachem
2. the John the Baptist movement.
We know for sure, that a prophet went out into
the desert,
baptizing the people to repent for their sins.
This movement was preceding the Jesus movement
and did not end with the Jesus group.
It is known that the John the Baptist church
was well organized and still openly existed
around 800 AD.
Even today there are surviving John the Baptist
churches.
A big part of the New Testament scriptures are
taken from the John the Baptist church.
Very probable this John the Baptist church even
today
is in existence, having a secret existence.
The beautiful Magnificat prayer is originally
from the John the Baptist church.
I will make a webpage on this
subject.
3. the Healer.
Textual analysis makes it very sure that
the healing miracles were done by one person.
The miracles all happened.
They were all for the glory of the eternal god.
Since this type of miracles was absolutely
known
and practised in ancient Egypt,
this healing person came from Egypt,
which in that time was not ancient, but
completely in existence.
Jesus and his family were very much connected
to Egypt.
The New Testament decribes how they did hide
away in Egypt.
God is calling his child out of Egypt.
Egypt also had a Christian tradition,
in the very learned city of Alexandria
as well as in the presence of a special temple.
In Egypt were the first monasteries.
In Egypt the bible was translated into ancient
Greek,
the so-called Septuagint.
Also the Hebrew tradition is closely related to
Egypt.
The John the Baptist church had its
headquarters in Alexandria.
My opinion is, that the very special person
Jesus
somehow is related to these healing miracles.
4. the Word.
There are a lot of long speeches and parables
in the New Testament, which clearly belong
together.
This is confirmed by the Gospel of Thomas,
also being a collection of wise sayings.
Many of the letters of Paul do belong to the
oldest writings
from before the New Testament and these letters
were respected by
many of the churches and movements of the Jesus
period.
In my opinion Paul would be very amazed to hear
that the New Testament writers incorporated his
personality
in their purposes as being an apostle of Jesus.
Most probably he never was an apostle of Jesus.
Contemporary people saw Paul as a renewer of
the faith,
and not as the sturdy conservative preacher he
was made into
in the New Tespament.
The same with Stephanos, the first martyr.
Studying the ancient Greek text my conclusion
is,
that the accusation of so-called blasphemy
was absolutely understandable, because
Stephanos brought
another message then we are made to believe
by centuries of preaching.
Stephanos gave his last speech before being
killed
about the God of eternal Glory honored by the
people of that time.
Ho theos he doxes, the God of the Glory.
All these speeches were really spoken.
All these wise parables were really known and
are significant for the believers of all time.
All of these movements and several more had
their own writings,
their own respected books and papyri in as many
languages.
We know that the Ethiopian church was in
existance,
because of the important visitor from Ethiopia
coming
to Jerusalem.
There was an Arabic historic center of believe,
where Paul lived for years in exile.
Somehow the time period from 50 BC to 70 AD
has been so inspiring and so complex,
that these very significant happenings were
never forgotten.
It gave some power groups
the writers of the New Testament the
opportunity
to aim for power and supremacy
by erasing all the others.
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