Roman Origins of Christianity 1. Who Stood to Benefit from the New Religion? In order to fully understand who wrote the Christian scriptures it is important to first comprehend, who benefitted by their publication. The article clearly establishes that it was the Romans and not the Jews who were the beneficiaries of the new religion. It was their way of subverting the Jewish Messianic Movement. This is why it is a basic tenet of Christianity that followers believe in one and only one true Jewish Messiah that being the best kind of Jewish Messiah for the Romans, a dead one. The Romans had become all too aware that no sooner had they nailed one messianic aspirant to the cross than another soon appeared. 2. Jesus Not Mentioned in Secular Texts If you are a practicing Christian you are deceived into believing that somehow Jesus Christ created Christianity and that a handful of his quasi illiterate followers miraculously wrote the gospels. However, closer scrutiny shows without a doubt that there is no secular mention of an individual by the name of Jesus Christ prior to the end of the first century or some 65 to 70 years after the crucifixion. This would be after the original gospel propaganda had already been created by the Romans. Of course, we have no way of knowing what it is that these original documents had to say as they were long ago committed to the flames by the Christian conspirators. 3. The Use of Language Indicates a Roman Origin, Not Jewish Another method of discerning the true origin of the scriptures is the use of language and in most cases the choices made reflect a Roman origin. Again you will have to read the article to find what these are. Yet another clue that the authors were not Jewish is the constant reference to the Jews and their customs in an alien fashion, not something a Jew would write. However, one of the most glaring references are Jesus' purported views on marriage. Jesus is portrayed as not only being in favor of monogamy, but also being opposed to divorce. The Jews were polygamists as were the Nazoreans. It was the Romans who were monogamists. Jesus is also portrayed as having been single, yet he is referred to as rabbi, which is out of sort with Jewish custom. A rabbi was for all intent and purposes a married man. It was Roman priests who were single and celibate. 4. Did the Nazoreans Write the Scriptures? Could the Nazoreans have written the scriptures. Not likely, as shown in the article, Christianity is not consistent with Nazorean beliefs and practices and since the gospels were written some 40 years after the death of Jesus then beliefs set forth in the gospels are those of the authors and not those of Jesus. As the article also shows, the Nazoreans were a major part of the Jewish Messianic Movement. While Christianity, at first glance, may seem far closer to the Nazorean belief system than to Pharisaic Judiaism, on closer inspection those similarities are deceiving. While Christianity teaches redemption or salvation after death, the Nazoreans taught that salvation had to be gained during life. This is an enormous difference. 5. Yahweh and Jehovah Not Mentioned by Jesus While the Christian Church teaches that their religion is an off shoot of Judaism, it must be noted that, even in the Christian gospels, Jesus makes no mention of Yahweh or Jehovah. This should seem quite strange to a Christian, but not so if you understand that the Nazorean name for God is Manda de Hayye. (Mandæan (mndaya) is a Babylonian-Aramaic word in dialectic form, meaning: Gnostics, gnostikoí, "those who are good at knowing". The Hebrew for knowledge md‘ Madda is of the same root and is the noun from which the adjective Mandaya is derived. It is the name adopted by the sect itself, being employed in their sacred books, and is characteristic of their worship of the mnds dhya gnôsis tês doês or "knowledge of life".--Catholic Encyclopedia 6. The Pisonian Conspiracy There also exist references to the 'Pisonian Conspiracy' in the works of the Roman historian Tacitus. It was the desire of members of the powerful Piso family and their followers to assassinate the Roman Emperor Nero and to fabricate a new Jewish like religion for the citizens of the Empire to compete with the ever expanding popularity of the religious beliefs of the Messianic Jewish Movement. 7. The Safed Scroll We also have the evidence from the 'Safed Scroll' which relates that members of the Essene sect planned to have one of their members, Yeshai (Jesus) beth Halachmee crucified, as an expiator of all sins, in order to convert the Romans to the Mosaic faith. This is similar to the Roman sacrifice of Decius Mundus to the gods of the enemies of the Roman Empire. Accounts of this event can be found in the gospel pesher that Christian scholar Barbara Thiering uncovered. 8. Evidence From the Tathbit The 'Tathbit Dala'il Nubuwwat Sayyidina Mahammad' clearly reveals that the Romans colluded with a group of disgruntled Nazoreans in an attempt to gain access to the Nazorean scriptures, but were rebuffed. The Romans then killed the Nazoreans who would not reveal the scriptures, but still were unable to obtain them. The disgruntled Nazoreans then tried to recreate the words of the Master which in all likelihood we know today as the Gospel of Thomas. However, they were not satisfied with the product of their memories and decided to write individual stories about the Master much like the Old Testament. However, it was Apollonius, Damis and Leucis, most likely a Nazorean scribe, who actually wrote the original scriptures. The Nazoreans, much like their bretheren the Essenes, were healers. Hence, Luke is often portrayed as a physician. 9. Evidence From Christian Apochrypha "In order, therefore that the like may also happen to those among us as to these Seventy, give the books of my preachings to our brethren, with the like mystery of initiation, that they may indoctrinate those who wish to take part in teaching; for if it be not so done, our word of truth will be rent into many opinions. And this I know, not as being a prophet, but as already seeing the beginning of this very evil. For some from among the Gentiles have rejected my legal preaching, attaching themselves to certain lawless and trifling preaching of the man who is my enemy...." "And these things some have attempted while I am still alive, to transform my words by certain various interpretations.... But if, while I am still alive, they dare thus to misinterpret me, how much more will those who shall come after me dare to do so!"—Recognitions of Clement "As the Savior was sitting in the temple in the three hundredth (year) of the covenant and the agreement of the tenth pillar, and having been satisfied with the number of the living, incorruptible Majesty, he said to me .... I have told you that these (people) are blind and deaf. Now then, listen to the things which they are telling you in a mystery, and guard them. Do not tell them to the sons of this age. For they shall blaspheme you in these ages since they are ignorant of you, but they will praise you in knowledge. For many will accept your teaching in the beginning. And they will turn from them again by the will of the Father of their error, because they have done what he wanted."—Apocalypse Of Peter Also disturbing is the following: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed."–Galatians 1:8. It strongly suggests that there were earlier gospels than those found in the New Testament and as the Church has claimed, the canonical gospels are the most accurate because they were the first written. 10. Joseph Atwill's 'Caesar's Messiah' The smoking gun, however, are the parallels set forth by Joseph Atwill in 'Caesar's Messiah' which clearly show that the ministry of Jesus as depicted in the gospels is actually the military campaign of the Roman Emperor Titus. He also clearly shows that the Roman authors used numerous horticultural analogies to highlight their activities, i.e. the pruning of Eleazar. Similar analogies can be found spoken by Rabbi Elisha ben Abuiah. We find the following in the Testament of Judah "Then he will illumine the scepter of my kingdom, and from your root will arise the shoot, and through it will arise the rod of righteousness for the nations, to judge and to save all that call on the Lord."–Testament of Judah 24.1-6 alluding to Joel 2.28-29 and Isaiah 11.1-5. The oldest and most striking reference to the views of Elisha is found in the following baraita (Hag. 14b; Yer. ii. 1): "Four [sages] entered paradise—Ben 'Azzai, Ben Zoma, Aher, and Akiba. Ben 'Azzai looked and died; Ben Zoma went mad; Aher destroyed the plants; Akiba alone came out unhurt."... It means that Elisha, like Paul, in a moment of ecstasy beheld the interior of heaven—in the former's case, however, with the effect that he destroyed the plants of the heavenly garden."–Jewish Encyclopedia. To the Nazoreans the reality that we live in is heaven. This is a clear refutation of the netzer analogies made in the Testament of Judah. It clearly refers to the destruction of the shoot, but isn't Chrisitianity that shoot? The answer is an emphatic NO. It was Paul, a conflation of Rabbi Abuiah (Silas) and Apollonius of Tyana (Apollos), who destroyed the original scriptures and replaced them with the Roman version. Paul is a second century fabrication, most likely, by the heretic Marcion. It is quite possible that Apollonius, actually knew Jesus, who survived the crucifixion, or at least he knew Ananias, who according to Josephus was the son of Sadduc, who was Jesus. Jesus was known as Melchizedek to the Essene, or the Archangel Michael incarnate as Zadok. To conceal this fact and to enhance the miraculous nature of the scriptures Marcion thus synthesized the character Paul who has his miraculous conversion in Damascus with the aid of Ananias. 11. Paul Is Not an Historical Figure There exists no secular first century reference to a person by the name of Paul. However, parallels to the historical accounts of his life found in 'Acts of the Apostles' can be found in the biographical material on Josephus and Apollonius of Tyana. The Greek name Apollonius is often shortened to Apollos which translates to Paulis in Latin and which then becomes just Paul in English. The Nazoreans refer to Paulis as a Roman agent. While Jesus was known among the Nazorean sect as the 'Son of God,' Apollonius was the 'Sun of God.' Even the name Saul is the equivalent of Sol means sun, and Paul is the English version of Apollo, the Greco-Roman sun god. 12. The most damning evidence, however comes from the crucifixion accounts in the gospels themselves. Here we find that it was actualy Simon, father of Alexander and Rufus, who was actually crucified and not Jesus. No Jew in his right mind would have written this. It could only come from the Romans who were gloating over the fact that they had subverted the religious beliefs of the Pythagorean Essene in their 'Teacher of Righteousness' Yeshu (Jesus) and supplanted him with their own savior figure Simon of Cyrene, a.k.a. Simon Magus, a.k.a. Paul, a.k.a. Apollonius. Alexander and Rufus refer to Tiberius Alexander who was responsible for the arrest and crucifixion of Simon (Peter) and James in 47 CE, and Terentius Rufus who was responsible for the arrest and crucifixion of Simon ben Giora after the fall of Jerusalem who the Romans pawned off to an unsophisticated audience as the Apostle Peter. From the gospel of Matthew, we are further informed that the author is actually the person who was crucified. "...They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots."—Matthew 27:35 Table of Contents / Timeline