Was Jesus Christ a Composite?

by Gary DeVaney

This link as researched by Jordan Maxwell

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

For an educational treat, click on the above 2 hour movie link. The first 1/3rd of the movie more than explains this page.

Warning!!! The 2nd 2/3rds of the above movie may break your heart.

Also, this video by Acharya S. shows a truly educated mind on the subject. Some clearly stated perspectives tracing the Apostle Paul being mythical are quite interesting.

http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/members/acharya.htm

She has other "Who was Jesus" and "Son of God" videos at:

http://truthbeknown.com/

Scroll down and click on their screens.

The God-Awful Truth About Christianity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ji2Y8DddaU

Hindu

Hinduism consists of a Trimurti (trinity):  

Brahma: The Creator.

Vishnu: The Sustainer.

Shiva: The Destroyer.

Christianity consists of another Trinity:

The Father

The Son

The Holy Ghost.

5,000 years ago Vishnu appeared in the form of a man before Devaki who conceived Krishna by Virgin Birth.

Hindus worship the God, Vishnu. Krishna “The Savior” is the eighth (8th) Avatar of the God, Vishnu. The Higher Being takes on a mortal body, out of compassion, to help suffering humanity to attain perfection.

Krishna was born of a Virgin.

Krishna was crucified, his arms extended on a cross. *

What? Not an arrow in his foot?

Krishna descended into Hell.

Krishna arose from the dead.

Krishna ascended into Heaven.

Krishna’s 7 Classes of Miracles

1.     Granting visions.

2.     Visual perception over long distance.

3.     The multiplication of small quantities of food.

4.     Appearing in many places in less than a fleshy body.

5.     The healing of the sick and a laying on of hands.

6.     The raising of the dead back to life.

7.     The destruction of demons and the exorcism of the possessed.

Krishna’s childhood parallels Jesus even with the current King’s early massacre of infants.

Krishna was able to perform miracles even as a child. A snake crawled into his cradle and he killed it with his bare hands which is a parallel myth to the young Hercules.

Krishna released people from sin, drove out evil spirits, raised the dead, gave sight to the blind, hearing for the deaf, made the lame walk, healed lepers.

Krishna, The Son of God, didn’t want to start a new religion merely to cleanse an old one.

Krishna allowed an arrow to strike him in the foot and ascended to Heaven.

*What? Not the cross? I’m not prejudiced. I’ll question anything that appears inconsistent. GWD

The ninth (9th) appearance of Vishnu on Earth was in the form of Gautama Buddha; Prince Siddhartha, Sakyamuni (About 560-491 BC).

Actually, the Prince abandoned his wife and family (was a dead-beat dad at least time-wise) and he bummed around for a few years, then became The Buddha and shared His enlightenment.

Both Buddha, of the Orient, and Jesus, of the Jews, divested themselves of Earthly and personal ties. Krishna, of India, had also lived in poverty, had been devoted to the poor, was devoid of personal ties and advocated chastity.

About 500 BC, Buddha consisted of another Trinity:

Buddha

Dharma 

Sangha.

Buddhists formalized their doctrine at The Council of Pataliputra which took place in 241 BC, about 250 years after Buddha’s death.

Christians formalized Jesus’ doctrine at The Council of Nicea in 325 AD which took place about 300 years after Jesus’ death.

The books that made up “The Canon” (Bible) were also voted on at the time and there, Jesus was voted to be Divine.

Buddha Paraphrased

Buddha: The knowledge of the truth is the supreme blessing.

Jesus is "God's word" and God's blessing.

Buddha: Speak no harsh words to your neighbor and he will respond in like terms.

Buddha: If they offend me, I make no reply.

Buddha: If they hit me, I would not react then either.

Jesus: If they strike you, turn the other cheek.

Buddha: If they kill me, death is no evil. Some even desire it.

Buddha: All those who believe in me will come to great joy.

Buddha: A treasure of love for one’s neighbor, no thief can steal.

Buddha was tempted by Mara, the Lord of sensory pleasures.

Jesus was tempted by Satan.

Buddha spoke in parables.

Jesus spoke in parables.

Buddha was regarded both divine and human.

Jesus is both God and man.

Buddha had 12 disciples. His first 2 disciples were brothers.

Jesus had 12 disciples. His first 2 disciples were brothers.

Buddha walked on water and had an unsure disciple walk towards him on water.

Jesus walked on water and had an unsure disciple (Peter) walk towards him on water.

Buddha was considered to be The Son of God.

Jesus was considered to be The Son of God.

Some considered Jesus to be a Buddha in the making.

Kinda makes you mad, huh?

Buddha was born of the Virgin Maya and Jesus was born of The Virgin Mary, both without carnal intercourse.

Buddha was baptized.

Jesus was baptized.

Buddha died, His coffin was opened by supernatural powers and He ascended to Heaven.

Jesus' tomb was opened and He eventually ascended to Heaven.

Buddha was to return to Earth to restore order.

Jesus was to soon have a second coming.

Rome captured a city who worshipped Sol-Invictus, a Sun God, whose birthday was on December 25th. On that date the Winter-Soltis lasts 3 days and then the primitive religious people worshipped that the Sun seemed to come back to life for the spring crop season.

Who borrowed December 25th? Who supposedly came back to life in 3 days? Jesus!

Pastor Arnold Murray insists that Jesus was conceived on December 25th.

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) died at 33 years of age. He was considered to be The Son of God.

How can history have the exact dates of Alexander's birth and death over 500 years earlier when, outside the Bible, history, first of all, makes no mention of Jesus nor of Jesus' exact dates of birth and death? 

Didn’t Jesus, son of God, also die at age 33? Exactly what year was Jesus born? What year did Jesus die?

The Bible claims that King Herod, a true historical character, heard that Jesus was born in Bethlehem so to become King of the Jews.

Herod killed all of Bethlehem's male babies 2 years old and younger so that couldn't happen.

History claims that King Herod died in 4 BC. Scholars claim that Jesus was born between 4 - 6BC.

How could Jesus Christ be born 4 - 6 years before Himself?

If Jesus was born on December 25th, why does the New Year calendar start January 1st?  

Hercules was crucified on a mount. His last words were: It is finished.

Myth declares He, and his mother, ascended to Heaven.

Hercules was considered to be The Son of God.

Jesus was crucified on a mount. His last words were: It is finished.

Jesus was voted by Constantine's clergy to be "The Son of God".

All religions consider themselves to be THE TRUTH while declaring that all others are not.

More human beings have been slaughtered in the name of God than in any other cause.

If the concept of God is the cause, can the abandonment of God be a solution?

It’s not having a superior mind that matters so much as having the ability to use that mind.

The lowest form of thought is a mind-set belief; while, the highest form of thought is to question.

The highest flattery any literary effort could possibly receive is for people to question it.

Long before Moses, a Pharaoh, Amen-Ra, of the Egyptians, changed religion to the worshipping of one God called Horus whose adversary was Set.

Any current Pharaoh was considered to be the reincarnation of God.

Behold! Horus and Set is another comparison to Jesus and Satan. What a coincidence!

Horus baptized. He and Jesus both were called “The Lamb” and had 12 followers.

Lamaism, a form of Buddhism, has had 14 men called the Dalai Lama “God’s Lamb”.

Here are some men, all before Jesus, who, by coincidence, are claimed to be of virgin birth, to be The Son of God, who were all teaching by age 12.

A King killed all male infants trying to get each of them.

Each began his ministry at 30 and was killed on the cross at age 33, all BC (Before Christ).

Thulis of Egypt 1700                      

Krishna of India 1200

Crite of Caldea 1200                     

Atys 1170            

Thammuz of Syria 1160                

Prometheus 847        

Hesus of the Druids 834                

Indra of Tibet 725      

Bali 725                                         

Iao of Napal 622      

Sakia 600                                     

Alcesios 600            

Mirthra of Persia 600                   

Quexalcote of Mexico 587

Wattoba 552                                 

Quirinus of Rome 506

Didn’t a King also kill all the male babies when Moses and Jesus were born?

Although, I view all religion as myth, I feel more like I do now than I did before. GWD

Saviors Borrowed?

Has the Gospel borrowed historical accounts describing Jesus from previous Eastern scriptures which existed centuries before the Bible?

Krishna was depicted as if crucified.

The Persian remembered only the atoning sufferings on the cross of Mithras the Mediator.

Aztecs prayed for the return of their crucified savior, Quexalcoatl, and were rewarded with the murderous acts of Cortez.

Caucasians chanted praises to their slain Divine Intercessor, Prometheus, for voluntarily offering himself upon the cross for the sins of a fallen race. Yet the Christian disciple hugs to his bosom the bloody cross of the murdered Jesus, confident that only one god ever died for the sins of man.

To retain their following, Christianity is based on unchangeable dogmas which disciples must accept to the exclusion of all knowledge adverse to their own creed. Whenever they are able they actually destroy contrary evidence for fear of rivalry. Then they magnify their own religion to a unique position above all others.

The earlier Christian saints, having determined like Paul, to know only Jesus Christ and him crucified, made stern efforts to obliterate from the page of history facts damaging to their case.

A report on the Hindu religion, made out by a deputation from the British Parliament, sent to India to examine their sacred books and monuments, was left in the hands of a Christian bishop at Calcutta, with instructions to forward it to England. On its arrival in London, it was so horribly mutilated as to be scarcely recognizable. The account of the crucifixion was gone. The inference is patent.

The disciples of the Christian faith have burnt books, blotted out passages and bowdlerized testaments which suggested the opposite of their belief. Not only that, they have demolished monuments showing crucifixions of previous atoning gods so that they are now unknown. Hence, the disbelief of Christians when other cases are mentioned.

Kersey Graves, in a well known book written over a century ago, gives examples of sixteen crucified gods or saviors. Most are very ancient and arguable, depending upon the interpretation of pictures or sculptures since no original written sources now exist, often victims of Christians determined to preserve the memory of only one crucified god.

For the same reasons the dates of their occurrence are doubtful and because chronology before the time of Alexander the Great (330 BC) is far from certain, and the dating of icons, especially from distant or isolated cultures is uncertain.

Even mainstream studies of the ancient Near East are involved in controversy over dates, Peter James for example claiming in a well argued case that several centuries have been mistakenly inserted into near Eastern chronologies.

It is certain these crucifixions occurred before the time of Christ, but their exact date cannot be fixed.

These crucifixions are not vouchsafed as actual occurrences. The objective is not to prove them real events but simply that the belief in the crucifixion of gods was prevalent long before the crucifixion of Christ.

To establish this point then six will prove it as well as sixteen. Indeed, one case is sufficient. The reader is left to decide.

Tammuz of Mesopotamia 1160 B.C.

Tammuz was a god of Assyria, Babylonia and Sumeria where he was known as Dumuzi.

He is commemorated in the name of the month of June, Du'uzu, the fourth month of a year which begins at the spring equinox.

The fullest history extant of this savior is probably that of Ctesias (400 BC), author of Persika.

The poet has perpetuated his memory in rhyme.

Trust, ye saints, your Lord restored,
Trust ye in your risen Lord;
For the pains which Tammuz endured our salvation have procured.

Tammuz was crucified as an atonement offering: Trust ye in God, for out of his loins salvation has come unto us. Julius Firmicus speaks of this God rising from the dead for the salvation of the world.

This savior, which long preceded the advent of Christ, filled the same role in sacred history.

Wittoba is represented in his story with nail-holes in his hands and the soles of his feet.

Nails, hammers and pincers are constantly seen represented on his crucifixes and are objects of adoration among his followers, just as the iron crown of Lombardy has within it a nail claimed to be of his true original cross, and is much admired and venerated for that reason.

The worship of this crucified God prevails chiefly in the Travancore and other southern states of India in the region of Madura.

Iao of Nepal 622 B.C.

Iao was crucified on a tree in Nepal. The name of this incarnate god and oriental savior occurs frequently in the Holy Bibles and sacred books of other countries. Some suppose that Iao is the root of the name of the Jewish God, Yehouah (Jehovah), often abbreviated to Yeho.

Hesus of the Celtic Druids 834 B.C.

The Celtic Druids depict their god Hesus as having been crucified with a lamb on one side and an elephant on the other, and that this occurred long before the Christian era.

The elephant, being the largest animal known, was chosen to represent the magnitude of the sins of the world, while the lamb, from its proverbial innocent nature, was chosen to represent the innocence of the victim, the god offered as a propitiatory sacrifice.

We have the Lamb of God taking away the sins of the world. The Lamb of God could therefore have been borrowed from the Druids.

This legend was found in Gaul long before Jesus Christ was known to history.

Quezalcoatl of Mexico 587 B.C.

Historical authority of the crucifixion of this Mexican god is explicit, unequivocal and ineffaceable.

The evidence is tangible, and indelibly engraved upon metal plates.

One of these plates represents him as having been crucified on a mountain.

Another represents him as having been crucified in the heavens, as St Justin tells us Christ was.

Sometimes he is represented as having been nailed to a cross, sometimes with two thieves hanging with him, and sometimes as hanging with a cross in his hand.

Quirinius of Rome 506 B.C.

The crucifixion of this Roman savior is remarkable for the parallel features to that of the Judean savior, not only in the circumstances of his crucifixion, but also in much of his antecedent life.

He is represented, like Christ:

As having been conceived and brought forth by a virgin.

His life was sought by the reigning king, Amulius.

He was of royal blood, his mother being of kingly descent.

He was put to death by wicked hands or crucified.

At his mortal exit the whole earth is said to have been enveloped in darkness, as in the case of Christ, Krishna, and Prometheus.

And finally he is resurrected, and ascends back to heaven.

Prometheus 547 B.C.

The crucifixion of Prometheus of Caucasus, described by Seneca, Hesiod, and other writers, states that he was nailed to an upright beam of timber, to which were affixed extended arms of wood, and that this cross was situated near the Caspian Straits. The modern story of this crucified God, which has him bound to a rock for thirty years, while vultures preyed upon his vitals, is a Christian fraud.

The poet, in portraying his propitiatory offering, says:

Lo! streaming from the fatal tree
His all atoning blood,
Is this the Infinite?–Yes, 'tis he,
Prometheus, and a god!

Well might the sun in darkness hide,
And veil his glories in, when God, the great Prometheus, died
For man the creature's sin.

It is doubtful whether there is to be found in the whole range of Greek letters deeper pathos than that of the divine woe of the beneficent demigod Prometheus, crucified on his Scythian crags for his love to mortals.

When he dies:

That the whole frame of nature became convulsed.

The earth shook, the rocks were rent, the graves were opened, and in a storm, which seemed to threaten the dissolution of the universe, the solemn scene forever closed, and Our Lord and saviour Prometheus gave up the ghost.

The cause for which he suffered was his love for the human race. The whole story of Prometheus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection was acted in pantomime in Athens five hundred years before Christ, which proves its great antiquity.

Minutius Felix, one of the most popular Christian writers of the second century addresses the people of Rome:

Your victorious trophies not only represent a simple cross, but a cross with a man on it, and this man St. Jerome calls a god.

These coincidences are more proof that the tradition of the crucifixion of gods has been very long prevalent among the heathen.

Thulis of Egypt 1700 B.C.

Thulis of Egypt, whence comes Ultima Thule, died the death of the cross about thirty-five hundred years ago.

Ultima Thule was the island which marked the ultimate bounds of the extensive empire of this legitimate descendant of the gods.

This Egyptian saviour appears also to have been known as Zulis.

His history is curiously illustrated in the sculptures, made seventeen hundred years BC of a small, retired chamber lying nearly over the western adytum of the temple.

Twenty-eight lotus plants near his grave indicate the number of years he lived on the earth.

After suffering a violent death, he was buried, but rose again, ascended into heaven, and there became the judge of the dead, or of souls in a future state.

He came down from heaven to benefit mankind, and that he was said to be full of grace and truth.