In His Name: Volume Iv

By E Christopher Reyes

The way to maintain a Christianized falsehood is to stigmatize the real truth to such an extent that it would be heresy to even listen to it. For one who is seeking historical truth . . . A record held sacred is for the most part fundamentally vitiated [vitiated (Random House): 1. spoiled; marred. 2. perverted; corrupted. 3. rendered invalid] (Tacitus, 1, 2, 13; p. 2556).
What does Christianity teach man? Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful (D. James Kennedy, Why I Believe, World Publishing, 1980).

This book is about the Christian leadership, which planned from the very beginning to deceive mankind, force feed mankind with their intellectual arrogance, convolutions, superstitions, and boldly admit to it; fabricating lies so preposterous and so deliberately outlandish that even the saints, who also obliged Christian subjects with their theological tunnel vision, had to write of them.

The series of books entitled In His Name will virtually challenge everything you have been taught about Christianity. Just because something is old or of antiquity does not necessarily mean that it is the Truth! (1 Timothy).

Christian apologists proclaim that Christianity is not only a Revelation of Divine Truth; it is also the Inspiration to a more virtuous life (excerpt from The History of the Orthodox Church by Rev. Constantine Callinikos).
Time itself will someday expose the fallacies of their faith, a faith that not only deceives its followers but a faith that will also condemn them and condemn all constructive sacred learning.

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave . . . When first we practice to deceive! (Sir Walter Scott).
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Why do Christian churches refuse to let their congregations read of the beginnings of their faith? Why does the Christian Church refuse to allow their membership to read of the original authors? Why does the Church equate suffering with virtue? This book will challenge your beliefs.
It is meant to get one to think rationally, sensibly, realistically. However, one must know that most churches do not want you to think rationally; they would rather you not think at all. At one time, the Catholic Church even issued guidelines as to which books a university could, with permission, disseminate to its students, and even the works of Aristotle [the Prince of Philosophers] and the Holy Bible itself were actually forbidden.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: May 16, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490736204

E Christopher Reyes

Surviving Polio at age 3 1/2, then cancer, followed by back surgery, Ed Reyes is a survivor. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California and a graduate of Citrus College, Azusa, California, and California Polytechnic University, Pomona, majoring in Management, Behavioral Science, and Criminal Justice.

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Contents

*Introduction

~Alexander The Great [Greek Influences In The Bible]

*Who Wrote The Gospels? Writers And Thinkers Who Influenced The Gospels

~Ammonius Saccas [Saccus]

~Apelles

~Appolonius Of Tyana

~Arius

~Athanasius [Saint]

~Attis [Godman]

~Augustine [Saint]

~Axionicus

~Barbelo, Barbeloites

~Bardesanes

~Barnabas

~Basilides [Basileivdh]

~Bogomils

~Carpocrates

~Cathars

~The Catholic Church

~Celsus [Aulus Cornelius Celsus, 5 B.C.e.-50 C.E.]

~Cerdo

~Cerinthus

~Clement Of Alexandria

~Bishop Clement Of Rome

*Conclusion

Dedicated to Danette; may she follow the Truth.

After Jesus as God we shall come back to the God of Jesus.

~Henri-Frédéric Amiel.

Shape

I am the punishment of God!

~Genghis Khan the barbarian in a statement to his Christian adversaries.

*Introduction

This book deals with the Truth… The painful Truth; the Truth as written down by many of our Christian Fathers, and the earliest of Christians; a truth, which will most likely challenge nearly everything you’ve been taught since childhood about Christianity. The way to maintain a Christianized falsehood is to stigmatize the real truth to such an extent that it would be heresy to even listen to it. For one who is seeking historical truth… A record held sacred is for the most part fundamentally vitiated. ~[Vitiated [Random House]: 1. spoiled; marred. 2. perverted; corrupted. 3. rendered invalid.]. Tacitus, 1, 2, 13. p. 25-56.

What does Christianity teach man? Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful. ~D. James Kennedy, Why I Believe, World Publishing, 1980.

This book is about the Christian leadership, which planned from the very beginning to deceive mankind, force feed mankind with their intellectual arrogance, convolutions, superstitions, and boldly admit to it; fabricating lies so preposterous, and so deliberately outlandish that even the Saints, who also obliged Christian subjects with their theological tunnel vision, and had to write of them.

"In my ignorance I was much disturbed over these things and, though I was retreating from the Truth, I appeared to myself to be going toward it, because I did not yet know that evil was nothing but a privation of good [that, indeed, it has no being]; and how should I have seen this when the sight of my eyes went no farther than physical objects, and the sight of my mind reached no farther than to fantasms [fantasies]?" ~See Saint Augustine, On Lying, Against Lying; To Consentius, Against Lying Translated by the Rev. H. Browne. Cf. Acts 11:26, 26:28, and 1 Peter 4:16.

Jesus said, Peter said, Mark, and Matthew say; The great church historians, Bishop Eusebius, Socrates and Theodoretus, who were succeeded by even more creative chroniclers, wove together their adorned versions of histories, rewriting historical facts, both ecclesiastical, and political events, and as compilers of creative folklore, designed their fantastic tales towards the instruction of the ignorant and untutored masses rather than for the perpetuation of any historical truth as they willfully, and excitedly write what the masses want to hear.

How else would mankind have so many sayings of Jesus, and his apostles thousands of years after their passing? The disciples would not have asked Him why He taught in parables, because they knew quite well; the parable is a concrete way of teaching, eminently suitable for simple folk, who formed the bulk of our Lord’s audiences, and easily comprehended by them; they liked parables precisely as children like stories and are best reconciled to moral lessons when they are in story form. ~Joseph Warschauer, The Historical Life of Christ, p. 88.

Yet, even with all these fantastic Christian tales proliferating, there remained those who were not so gullible, Present me with a reasonable faith based on reliable evidence, and I will joyfully embrace it. Until that time I have no choice but to remain an Agnostic. ~Medicus, Do we Believe? Controversy, p. 214.

For those who dare challenge religious leaders or seek out the truth, theirs is a fierce path of social denial; persecution, harassment, scorn, ridicule, aggravation, and trepidations, for the custodians of the truth are generally rewarded only by denying it to the masses. Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. ~Lord Acton, 1834-1902.

Incredibly, there are still a few Christians willing to admit the truth regarding their faith, If the truth is that ugly, which it is, then we do have to be careful about the way that we tell the truth. But to somehow say that telling the truth should be avoided because people may respond badly to the truth seems bizarre to me. ~Chuck Skoro, Deacon, St. Paul’s Catholic Church.

The series of books, entitled, In His Name, will virtually challenge everything you have been taught about Christianity. Just because something is old or of antiquity does not necessarily mean that, it is the Truth! ~1 Timothy 4:1.

Christian Apologists proclaim that, Christianity is not only a Revelation of Divine Truth; it is also the Inspiration to a more virtuous life. ~Excerpt from the The History of the Orthodox Church by Rev. Constantine Callinikos.

Divine Revelation, Inspired by God, Revealed, a whole cornucopia of adulterated Christian lies, There are no indications in the New Testament… Of a definite new Canon bequeathed by the Apostles to the Church, or of a strong self-witness to Divine Inspiration. ~Admits the Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. iii, p. 274.

But, one of the Fathers of the Church, of Holy Scripture, Augustine notes, The authority of these books has come down to us from the Apostles through the succession of Bishops and the extension of the Church, from a position of lofty supremacy, claims the submission of every faithful and pious mind. If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture it is not allowable to say, ‘The author of this book is mistaken,’ but either the manuscript is faulty or the translator is wrong, or you have not understood. In the innumerable books that have been written latterly we may sometimes find the same truth as in Scripture, but there is not the same authority. Scripture has a Sacredness peculiar to itself… In consequence of the distinctive peculiarity of the Sacred writings we are bound to receive as true whatever the canon shows to have been said by even one prophet or Apostle or Evangelist. Otherwise no a single page will be left for the guidance of human fallibility, if contempt for the wholesome authority of canonical books either puts an end to that authority or involves it in hopeless confusion. ~The History of the Doctrine of Inspiration From the Ancient Church Through the Reformation by M. James Sawyer

Time itself will some day expose the fallacies of their faith, a faith which not only deceives its followers, but a faith which will also condemns them and condemns all constructive sacred learning.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave… When first we practice to deceive!

~Sir Walter Scott.

Why do Christian Churches refuse to let their congregations read of the beginnings of their faith? Why does the Christian Church refuse to allow their membership to read of the original authors? Why does the Church equate suffering with virtue? This book will challenge your beliefs.

It is meant to get one to think rationally, sensibly, realistically. However, one must know that most churches do not want you to think rationally; they would rather you not think at all. At one time, the Catholic Church even issued guidelines as to which books a university could, with permission, disseminate to its students, and even the works of Aristotle [the Prince of Philosophers], and the Holy Bible itself, were actually forbidden.

~Alexander the Great

[Greek Influences in the Bible]

What have the Greeks to do with Scripture? Truth is abandoned early in the development of Christianity, and by the 13th century, it was almost a sin, Pope Gregory knew the worth of Aristotle, but he must keep intact the Faith. He must compel speculation to remain upon her own domain. Accordingly, in 1228, Pope Gregory IX addresses a brief to the Faculty of Theology, rebuking the audacity of those professors who dare to introduce into matters of Faith the opinions of philosophers, especially of naturalists, and who, abandoning the safe doctrines of the Fathers of the Church, endeavor to explain revealed Truths by the false and worldly science of those authors. He deplores the evils that have already resulted, and forebodes worse, from this bold manner of treating Sacred sciences. He exhorts them no longer to obscure the purity of theology with those opinions, no longer to infect and corrupt the ‘Word’ of God. ~Raynaud, Ad. Annalles Baronii, tom. i. § xxx.-xxxi. pp. 615, 616. Lucae, 1747.

In 1261, Pope Urban IV, valued the philosophical logic of Aristotle, but he valued still more the souls of the Catholic youths of Paris who may be led astray from the teachings of the Mother Church by so-called false doctrines imposed upon them in the name of the great philosopher Aristotle, knowing that great stories, make great Gospels, "We are gluttons for false facts; our craving for fraud rejects all Truth but the look of it. We bring to the most improbable past an ‘Immense assumption of veracities and sanctities, of the general soundness of the legend,’ notes Henry James, ‘We accept the ‘Extraneous, preposterous stuffing’ of its empty reliquary [repository or receptacle for relics] shell. Glorying in fraud helps to exorcise the ancient terror that a past not perfectly transmitted will revenge itself on us. We need fakes to shield us from too sharp a knowledge. The false past coexists alongside the Truth that exposes it, to cushion the erosion of sustaining myth." ~Nicolas Barker, Textual Forgery.

In order to appeal to the ignorant masses, great tales are created by the Christian priest craft, "Very large number of Apocryphal writings of distinctly Christian origin, which were produced from the 2nd century onward, to satisfy an unhealthy craving for the occult and marvelous or to embellish the stories of the saints." ~N.I.E., vol. i, 746.

Sorry Christians! There is no proof whatsoever, "Though a few of the Apocryphal Gospels are of comparatively early origin, there is no evidence that any Gospels purporting to be what our Four Gospels are, existed in the 1st century, or that any other than fragmentary literature of this character existed even in the 2nd century." ~Ed. note to Apocrypha of the New Testament, Ante Nicene Fathers, vol. VIII, p. 349.

Often denied, it’s all abut the money. Everyone makes a big deal of fakery [and a lot of money] in the Holy relics business, to which the Church says, Supposing the relic to be spurious, no dishonor is done to God by the continuance of an error handed down in perfect good faith for many centuries! ~Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 12, pg. 387.

Let the poor ignorant masses have their sacred relics, Neither has the Church ever pronounced that any particular relic, not even that commonly venerated as the wood of the Cross, is authentic, but she approves of honor being paid to those relics, which, with reasonable probability, are believed to be genuine, and which are invested with due Ecclesiastical sanctions. ~Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 12, 737.

For Pope Urban to act otherwise would probably be a betrayal of his trust as Guardian of the Faith and morals of Christendom, and Stephen Tempier, the Bishop of Paris, in 1268, vehemently sounds the alarm to Protect the Faith, bringing together the Church and University authorities to combat this potential threat of encroachment of rationalism. In response to rational thinking we have, "All that we have written against this error is not from the evidences of Faith, but from the sayings and reasonings of philosophers themselves. Still, should some author, inflated with pride through false science, desire to refute what we have advanced, let him not speak in corners, nor before boys incapable of pronouncing upon such arduous questions; but if he dares, let him refute our writing. He will then find, not only in me who am least of all, but in many others as well, those who are sustainers of the [Catholic] Truth, and by whom his errors will be refuted and his ignorance reclaimed." ~Saint Thomas Aquinas, cf. Summa Theol., part. ii. tr. xiii. q. 77, m. 3, Opp., tom. xviii.

Because philosophers used logic, regardless of its consequences, or logic, to explain things, the Church was dead set against all rational thinking, yet, later on in history, Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274 will use the same Aristotelian [Greek] logic to explain Christianity, ". . . This apparently irreconcilable conflict [the conflict between science and religion] led to many unjust punishments visited upon leading thinkers by the religious zealots, who happened to wield the then existing power. Socrates was condemned to die for the denial of the Gods… In comparatively modern times, Bruno [one of their own, a Catholic monk] was burned at the stake; Descartes, as we have seen, made many concessions to the Church in his philosophy; Spinoza [Jewish philosopher] was excommunicated by his own people. Leibniz, on the other hand, making the most extraordinary claims for religion, was extolled and showered with honors." ~Henry Alphern, An Outline History of Philosophy, Forum House, 1969, pp. 11,153. cf. John 15:6, Psalms 140:10.

That the pride of the zealously devout is the most dangerous form of pride. ~John Dewey.

Did God give us the capacity of reason, if not to use? Ancient authors warned us, Do not pass by my epitaph, traveler. But having stopped, listen and learn, then go your way. There is no boat in Hades, no ferryman Charon, no caretaker Aiakos, no dog Cerberus. All we who are dead below have become bones and ashes, but nothing else. I have spoken to you honestly, go on, traveler, lest even while dead I seem loquacious to you. ~Author unknown: From an ancient Roman tombstone.

A new generation of theologists appears to preach a new faith, a generation enhanced with the stories of many cultures, a generation prepared to lie and deceive for the profit of the new faith, "The first Council of Nicaea will encompass the greatest story-tellers ever to converge upon one occasion to create a religion, a religion, which will satisfy the needs of all mankind; a Universal religion, which encompasses all existing religions. If you read Scriptures, carefully, you will discover, to your dismay, that, most of the works early Christian writers are not included in your Bible, as there are hundreds of significant religious texts, scrolls, manuscripts, and letters that now exist that were excluded from the later Orthodox authorized version [texts which were carefully screened, selected, and edited [more than 300 years after Christ’s death], and of the Accepted Church Canon, "We have at this day certain most authentic Ecclesiastical writers of the times, as Clemens Romanus, Barnabas, Hermas, Ignatius, and Polycarp, who wrote in the order wherein I have named them, and after all the writers of the New Testament [Greeks who wrote the New Testament to people who knew neither the Jewish customs nor the Hebrew language]. But in Hermas you will not find one passage or any mention of the New Testament, nor in all the rest is any one of the Evangelists named." ~Dr. Dodwell, Dissertations upon Irenaeus. Note: Justin Martyr, one of the most eminent of the early Fathers, wrote around the middle of the 2nd century and makes more than three hundred quotations from the Books of the Old Testament, and nearly one hundred from the Apocryphal books; but none are from the accepted and approved Gospels.

And, suddenly, in the 2nd century amazing and inspired books swiftly began to appear, "In reality, the four Gospels selected for inclusion in the New Testament do not make any appearance in the literary and archaeological record until the last quarter of the 2nd century, between 170 and 180 C.E., and even then they are not much mentioned for a couple of decades. In this regard, Church Fathers and archbishop of Constantinople John Chrysostom [347-407] stated that the names traditionally attached to the Canonical Gospels were first designated at the end of the 2nd century."~The Suns of God, Acharya S.

John Chrysostom, the Golden Mouthed, in his work ‘On the Priesthood,’ has a curious eulogistic oration on the clerical habit of telling lies, Great is the force of deceit! Provided it is not excited by a treacherous intention.’ ~Saint John Chrysostom, Commentary on I Corinthians ix, 19; Diegesis, p. 309.

The oldest Testament texts have oral traditions dating back in time as far as 1000 B.C.E., and the earliest, Book of Daniel, is believed to have written somewhere around 165 B.C.E. Christian story-tellers will join existing myths, legends, and local folklore, and integrate them into one cohesive united Universal faith for the downtrodden masses into one belief, for one nation, for one Emperor, ergo, the Egyptian God, Horus, who had twelve disciples whom he traveled about with, performing miracles such as healing the sick and walking on water, and of Attis, of Phyrigia, who is also born of a Virgin, Nana, on December 25th, crucified, placed in a tomb and after three days, was Resurrected.

"They [the Gospels] appeared anonymously. The titles placed above them in our Bibles owe their origin to a later Ecclesiastical tradition, which deserves no confidence whatever." ~Rev. Dr. Hooykaas, Bible for Learners, Vol. III, p. 24. Note; Old-Testament names for God: El Shaddai, Adonai, Elohim, Jehovah, Sabaoth.

Many Christians would be astounded to hear, Whipped, insulted, crowned with thorns, and nailed to a cross, at the Qumran monastery, not in, or near the city of Jerusalem, as has been supposed by so many, for so many years, Jesus only a relatively few hours after His crucifixion, did indeed get off that cross, by himself, under his own power. ~The Modern Case Against The Gnostics as presented by Marvin Olasky in World, May 20, 2008, Volume 21-Number 20.

The darkness, which befell the supposed crucifixion of Jesus is already well noted in many Pagan myths, and merely duplicated in another Christian myth, "Such a story has obvious mythic overtones and can easily be doubted. That a solar eclipse should mark the death of a king was common lore among Greeks and other Mediterranean peoples [Herodotus, 7.37, Plutarch, Pelopidas 31.3 and Aemilius, Paulus 17.7-11, Dio Cassius 55.29.3, John Lydus, De Ostentis 70.a], and that such events corresponded with earthquakes was also a scientific superstition [Aristotle, Meteorology 367.b.2, Pliny, Natural History 2.195, Virgil, Georgics 2.47.478-80]. It was also typical to assimilate eclipses to major historic events, even when they did not originally correspond, or to invent eclipses for this purpose [Préaux claims to have counted 200 examples in extant literature; Boeuffle and Isaac Newton have also remarked on this tendency]. The Gospel stories also make a solar eclipse impossible: the crucifixion passover happened during a full moon, the darkness supposedly lasted three hours, and covered the whole earth. Such an impossible event would not fail to be recorded in the works of Seneca, Pliny, Josephus or other historians, yet it is not mentioned anywhere else outside of Christian rhetoric, so we can entirely dismiss the idea of this being a real event." ~historian Richard Carrier.

Jesus is actually another Biblical mistranslation of a Greek mistranslation. In Hebrew Yeshua means Salvation, while the name Jesus has no actual intrinsic meaning in English what-so-ever. But the Christian tome [book] says otherwise, ‘Names mean nothing; it is the sense that matters,’ and here we have the whole Jewish-Christian hierarchies of Heaven and Hell a thousand years before Jewish-Christian ‘Revelation’ identities! . . . ~Catholic Encyclopedia, quoted in Bible Accuracy by P. Wesley Edwards.

The Hebrew God is now transformed from a vindictive God in the Old Testament to a more humane God by the Christians, but, even through Christianity, God disappears in the Bible… Gradually… The deity appears less and less to humans, speaks less and less… Among God’s last words to Moses, the deity says, ‘I shall hide my face from them. I shall see what their end will be.’ ~Richard Friedman, The Disappearance Of God: A Divine Mystery.

In the Old Testament, God demands that 16,000 virgins be given to the soldiers as war plunder, and 32 be set aside for himself, Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord Commanded Moses. The plunder remaining from the spoils that the soldiers took was 675,000 sheep, 72,000 cattle, 61,000 donkeys, and 32,000 women who had never slept with a man… And the half, the portion of those who had gone out to war, was… 16,000 people, of which the tribute for the Lord was 32. ~Numbers 31:31-40.

Matthew created events in the life of Jesus in order to fulfill the Old Testament prophecies. In Matthew we have Jesus riding on two donkeys at the same time because he misread Zechariah 9:9 which reads in part, Mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey. ~Zechariah 9:9, cf. Matthew 21:1-7.

What have the Greeks to do with Scriptures? I love this pharse, especially after listening to a Christian preacher saying, Nothing! Dionysus of Greece, was also said to have been born of a Virgin on December 25th, was a traveling teacher who is said to have performed great miracles such as turning water into wine, and was referred to as the King of Kings, God’s Only Begotten Son, The Alpha and Omega, and many other similar Christian sobriquets, and upon his death, he was Resurrected [or Revivified, Reanimated, Regenerated, Recussitated as Christian apologists like to say so to disclaim the similarities to their Jesus]. ~cf. Ecclesiastes 1:9.

Jesus is similar to:

cross.jpg The sons of Jupiter: Mercury

cross.jpg Æsculapius

cross.jpg Bacchus

cross.jpg Hercules

cross.jpg The sons of Leda

cross.jpg The sons of Dioscuri

cross.jpg The sons of Perseus

cross.jpg The son of Danae

cross.jpg The son of Bellerophon.

All of whom were produced without sexual union [Virgin Births], suffered an untimely death, and all ascended into Heaven. ~cf. Justin Martyr, First Apology.

What have the Greeks to do with Scripture? The Christian Logos, or Word of God, is an appellation of Jesus Christ, which was also an epithet of the God, Mercury. ~cf. John 1:1-4.

The ‘Word,’ is pilfered [stolen] from the Pagans, and admitted, "The ‘Word,’ ‘Logos’ [Gr. Logos; Lat. Verbum] is the term by which Christian theology in the Greek language designates the ‘Word of God,’ the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. Before St. John had consecrated this term by adopting it, the Greeks and the Jews had used it to express religious conceptions, which, under divers titles, have exercised a certain influence on Christian theology… It was in Heraclitus [535-475 B.C.E.] that the theory of the ‘Logos’ appears for the first time, and it is doubtless for this reason that, first among the Greek philosophers, Heraclitus was regarded by St. Justin [Apology I, 46] as a Christian, before Christ… It reappears in the writings of the Stoics, and it is especially by them that this theory is developed. God, according to them, ‘Did not make the world as an artisan does his work [though Genesis 2 says he did], but it is by wholly penetrating an matter [thus a kind of ether] that He is the Demiurge [subordinate Deity] of the Universe.’ He penetrates the world ‘As honey does the honeycomb’ [Tertullian, Adv. Hermogenem, 44] . . . This ‘Logos’ is at the same time a force and a Law [How, then, a Second Person Trinitarian God?] . . . Conformable to their exegetical habit, the Stoics made of the different Gods personifications of the ‘Logos,’ e.g. of Zeus and above all of Hermes… In the [Apocryphal] Book of Wisdom this personification is more directly implied, and a parallel is established between Wisdom and the ‘Word.’ In Palestinian Robbinism the ‘Word’ [Memra] is very often mentioned… It is the Memra of Jehovah, which lives, speaks, and acts… Philo’s problem was of the philosophical order; God and man are infinitely distant from each other, and it is necessary to establish between them the relations of action and of prayer; the ‘Logos’ is here the intermediary… Throughout so many diverse [both Pagan and Jewish] concepts may be recognized a fundamental doctrine; the Logos is an intermediary between God and the world; through it God created the world and governs it; through it also men know God and pray to Him… The term ‘Logos’ is found only in the Johannine writings… This resemblance [to the notion in the Book of Wisdom] suggests the way by which the doctrine of the ‘Logos’ entered into Christian theology." ~Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. IX, 328-9. The ‘Word’ was not dogmatized until 381 C.E.

What have the Greeks to do with Scripture? Jesus may have spoken in ancient [Koine] Greek, which is why Scripture has him claiming to be the First and the Last [in Greek Letters: Apha and Omega]; Jesus said he was the first and last; letters of the Greek alphabet.

cross.jpg I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending…

cross.jpg I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.

cross.jpg I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end…

cross.jpg I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end . . . ~Revelation 1:8-11; Revelation 21:6, and 22:13

Of important concern is that none of the Gospels ever mention the devastating destruction and slaughter of the Jews of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem in 70 C.E., which was a momentous event, an event which leads many historians to believe that they were not written in the late 1st century, as claimed, "It was not until about the middle of the 2nd century [when we see the Gospel Books were really written], that under the rubric [authoritative rule] of Scripture the New Testament writings were assimilated to the Old… But it should be remembered that the Inspired character of the New Testament in a Catholic dogma, and must therefore in some way have been revealed to, and taught by, Apostles!" ~Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 275.

The gold in the Holy Jewish Temple was taken, and melted down, and the historic stone walls, the Romans ripped apart, stone by stone, in order to steal the gold within. The taking of Pagan gold from their sacred temples [but not considered really stealing], for, . . . There is no such thing as ‘Robbery’ for those Saint Augustine who truly possess Christ. ~Libanius, Or. 30.9f.

This is significant because Jesus had prophesied concerning the temple when He said, As for these things, which you are looking at, the days will come in which there will not be left one stone upon another, which will not be torn down… ~Luke 21:6, Matthew 24:1, and Mark 13:1. The Book of Acts also ignores this event.

A new god is created; mankind has by then created hundreds; Christianity was new religion, and Jesus was a new God. I don’t think you can point out this God or that God and say, ‘Ah ha! Jesus!’ However, what that culture believed were the attributes of a God were applied to Jesus. Jesus is more a product of what that particular culture believed what a God should be than he is a facsimile of any other God. ‘O the stale old dogs who pretend to guard the morals of the masses, how smelly they make the great back-yard wetting after everyone that passes.’ ~The Young and Their Moral Guardians quoted in How Does Christians Explain The Similarities Between Jesus’ Life and Pagan Gods That Existed Before Him? http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080414142317AAOZBvj

Creation of a new God was nothing new in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th centuries. When a new God was fashioned, the scribes assisted in creating another God of miracles, It is strange and amazing history that I have to tell, but it is true… Every word of the charge, which I make. It is an account of the deliberate and malicious corruption of the most ancient and honorable religion in the world. It involves the interpolation and destruction of a vast literature, and finally the ruin of one of the greatest civilizations ever known, to cover up the crime. And so successfully was this work of interpolation and destruction brought about that few people of the present even suspect the colossal humbug that was played upon the world… The accusation, which I make is that those religious beliefs constituting what is known today as the Christian religion do not owe their origin to the teachings and practices of a Jewish itinerant named Jesus Christ, but came into being in quite another manner, and actually existed before the time he is supposed to have lived. Indeed it is a matter of grave doubt among profound scholars whether any such person ever lived, or as to whom he may have been if he did live. ~J.R.L. Morrell, Spiritism and the Beginnings of Christianity, Foreword.

And, for the new two millenniums, Christian Apologists, have dedicated themselves to denying the similarities. But, one adversary shall persevere. One adversary shall stand out amongst all others, and that adversary is Truth. For no matter how strongly the Christians denounce the Pagans, they cannot forever deny the Truth. The truths, which God revealed have been overthrown by the truths, which man has discovered. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911.

Apologists write, Using Christian terminology to describe Pagan traditions, then remarking on the alleged similarities, and then claiming that Christianity copied from Paganism. ~Christianity Was Not Influenced by Paganism by By G.R. Konig, August 15, 2006, Revised Oct. 29, 2006, About-Jesus.org. cf. Ecclesiastes 1:9.

From the Testament of  the Twelve Patriarchs, a Jewish book composed about 120 B.C.E., from which the New Testament authors copied copiously, many quotations of Jesus can be traced. The Jewish born Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures, and after His death, His supporters relied upon them for answers to the meaning of his life and significance.

And from the Pagan beliefs, Christianity will evolve, beliefs, which supercede the so-called True Faith, "These stories are far older than the Pentateuch. Persian: God created the world in six days, a man called Adama, a woman called Evah, and then rested. The Etruscan, Babylonian, Phoenician, Chaldean and the Egyptian stories are much the same. The creation stories of the Avesta, the Persian scriptures of the Zoroastrians will no doubt seem very familiar to those who only know the version copied into the later Biblical Eden story, ‘The Avesta tells how the God Ormuzd created the world and its first two human inhabitants in six days and rested on the 7th. He created the Heavens on the 1st day, water on the 2nd, earth on the 3rd, plants on the 4th, animals on the 5th and the first man and woman on the 6th. Adama and Evah are the names of the first man and woman in the Zoroastrian Scriptures." ~Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, About the Holy Bible, 1894 American politician, orator, and free thinker.

The Christian ministry claims God created the world in six days, and on the 7th day, he rested, yet, "The Church… Does not attach decisive influence to the chronology of the Vulgate, the official version of the Western Church, since in the Martyrology for Christmas day, the Creation of Adam is put down in the year 5199 B.C.E., which is the reading of the Septuagint. It is, however, certain that we cannot confine the years of man’s sojourn on earth to that usually set down… Various explanations have been given of chapter 5 [Genesis] to explain the short time it seems to allow between the Creation and the Flood… The total number of years in the Hebrew, Samaritan, and Septuagint differs, in the Hebrew it being 1656, in the Samaritan 1307, and in the Septuagint 2242… According to Science the length of this period was much greater than appears from the genealogical table… In any case, whether we follow the traditional or critical view, the numbers obtained from the genealogy of the Patriarchs in chapter 11 must be greatly augmented, in order to allow time for such a development of civilization, language, and race type as had been reached by the time of Abraham." ~Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. Iii, 731-3.

In Hebrew, man is called, ‘Adam,’ because he is formed out of adamah [the ground/clay]; just as in Latin man is called homo because he is formed from humus, the ground, homo ex humo, in the epigram of Father Lactantius. ~Lactantius, Divine Institutes, ii, 58; Ante-Nicene Fathers, Book vii, p. 58.

Of course, there are those who are most apprehensive to bring into disrepute the religious impulses saying, Yes, they are mere forms and phantoms of the mind, ephemeral dreams, projected on the background of Nature, and having no real substance or solid value. The history of Religion [they will say] is a history of delusion and illusion; why waste time over it? These Divine grizzly Bears or Aesculapian Snakes, these cat-faced Pashts, this Isis, Queen of Heaven, and Astarte and Baal and Indra and Agni and Kali and Demeter and the Virgin Mary, and Apollo, and Jesus Christ… And Satan and the Holy Ghost, are only shadows cast outwards onto a screen; the constitution of the human mind makes them all tend to be anthropomorphic [having human attributes], but that is all; they each and all inevitably ass away. Why waste time over them? ~Richard Jefferies, The Story of my Heart. Note: Mary loses her virginity after Jesus is born, Matthew 1:25. cf. Luke 1:26-35.

Paul’s name, in Acts, has also been associated with a mysterious Apollos [aka Pol, Apollo]; and still again Apollonius’ personal attaché, Damis, who seems to match well enough to Paul’s companion and personal friend Demas. Growing opinion holds that Apollonius was the flesh and blood reality behind the uncertain and in many respects decidedly unsupported historicity of both Jesus and Paul. Gospel stories are so close to similar stories of the miracles wrought by Apollonius of Tyana, Pythagoras, Asclepius, Asclepiades the Physician, and others that we have to wonder whether in any or all such cases free-floating stories have been attached to all these heroic names at one time or another, much as the names of characters in jokes change in oral transmission. ~Robert Price, Deconstructing Jesus, p. 258-9. cf. Ecclesiastes 1:9.

Christian writers concede Apollonius to the 3rd century C.E., but then this contradicts his intrusion into the Gospels in the 1st century, performing miracles, preaching, and helping the poor, with references to and by Bishop Eusebius, But in the time of our own ancestors, during the reign of Nero, there flourished Apollonius of Tyana, who from mere boyhood when he became the priest in Aegae of Cilicia of Asclepius, the lover of mankind, worked any number of miracles, of which I will omit the greater number, and only mention a few. ~The Treatise of Eusebius, The Son of Pamphilus, Against The Life Of Apollonius of Tyana, written by Philostratus, Occasioned By The Parallel Drawn by Hierocles Between Him and Christ, Translated by F.C. Conybeare, 1912. Transcribed from the Loeb Philostratus, vol. 2, pp. 484-605.

Man has always concerned himself with that, which he has no power over [illness, suffering, death, and dying], and many have abused this power by claiming to speak for a non-entity, a magical unknown factor, which allegedly can help mankind. That Church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves; that a nun is Holier in the sight of God than a loving mother with her child in her thrilled and thrilling arms; that a priest is better than a father; that celibacy is better than that passion of love that has made everything of beauty in this world. That Church tells the girl of sixteen or eighteen years of age, with eyes like dew and light; that girl with the red of health in the white of her beautiful cheeks tells that girl, ‘Put on the veil, woven of death and night, kneel upon stones, and you will please God.’ I tell you that, by Law, no girl should be allowed to take the veil and renounce the joys and beauties of this life. ~Col. Robert Ingersoll, American free thinker.

Claiming to speak for a God, a God, which no one has ever seen, nor can they prove, nor disprove his/her existence, these self-proclaimed Holy priests set about putting to writing what they felt man should or should not do. Sacrifices, rituals, and superstitious acts were created to instill into the masses a sense of fear if they did not obey, retribution if they strayed, pain and eternal suffering if they did not comply, To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force. ~Hypatia, 370-415 C.E., Alexandria Egypt, philosopher, murdered by Saint Cyrus and his barbarian mob who peeled her skin off with oyster shells, Ecclesiastical History, Book VII.

The clergy were exempt from a number of municipal duties in the Roman Empire, thus providing significant incentives for the richer social classes to become priests and Bishops, but fear has always been the underlying standard of the Christian clergy since their creation of God, "Whosoever attempteth anything for the public [especially if it pertain to Religion, and to the opening and clearing of the Word of God] the same setteth himself upon a stage to be gloated upon by every evil eye, yea, he casteth himself headlong upon pikes, to be gored by every sharp tongue. For he that medleth with men’s Religion in any part, medleth with their custom, nay, with their freehold; and though they find no content in that, which they have, yet they cannot abide to hear of altering." ~King James Version of the Bible, 1611, Introduction.

Biblical scholars Wescott and Hort may be correct in their assessment that the original New Testament texts are forever lost; purely fabricated texts, and all the remaining texts have been preserved solely because of their evil character, while the texts that more faithfully preserved the purity of the Gospel have all been destroyed because they did not agree with the doctrines of the Roman Church.

Many Christian sects still use the King James Version of the Bible, an admittedly corrupted Bible, ". . . This text [the Received Text] differs in many places from the oldest authorities of the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries, and, therefore, must be replaced by a text, which is really drawn from the oldest sources discoverable. The difficulty of finding such a text lies in this that there is a great diversity among the texts." ~Codex Sinaiticus by Dr. C. Tischendorf, p. 85.

Honest, believing Christians, today have no means to deal with the issue of corrupted Biblical texts, so they have adopted the idiotic doctrine that God wrote the Authorized, or King James Version of the Bible. It doesn’t matter that the Authorized Version is also founded upon the most corrupted manuscripts in Christian history. It does not matter that the Authorized Version is actually, at numerous theological points, in opposition to the original teachings of Jesus; it says what the masses want to hear, and what the masses want to believe, and ultimately, it means that this faithful flock expects God to be in subjection to man, and conform to the doctrines contained in the believer’s version of the Bible. What they in fact proclaim, is that since the Church wrote it, then God must accept it! ~Has The Bible Been Faithfully Preserved? By Allan Cronshaw.

Fear, with its entourage of myths, superstitions, and fallacies, and relying upon fabricated miracles; stories, which are further augmented by zealous priests hoping to convert the Pagans, and hence, their coffers, . . . Speaking of the legends of the miracles of Saints, says, ‘It must not be supposed that these absurdities were produced as well as nourished by ignorance. In most cases they were the work of deliberate imposture. Every cathedral or monastery had its tutelar saint, and every saint his legend, fabricated in order to enrich the churches under his protection, by exaggerating his virtues, his miracles and consequently his power of serving those who paid liberally for his patronage.’ No impartial person can doubt its essential truth… The religious history of several centuries is little more than a history of the rapacity of priests and of the credulity of laymen… But legends of this kind… Must not blind us to the fact that the period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind… A crowd of superstitions, attributed to infallible wisdom, barred the path of knowledge, and the charge of magic or the charge of heresy crushed every bold inquiry in the sphere of physical nature or of opinions… True inquiry had been cursed by the Church. A blind unquestioning credulity was inculcated as the first of duties, and the habit of doubt, the impartiality of a suspended judgment, the desire to hear both sides of a disputed question, and to emancipate the judgment from unreasoning prejudice, were all in consequence condemned. The belief in the guilt of error and doubt became universal, and that belief may be confidently pronounced to be the most pernicious superstition that has ever been accredited among mankind… Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science and classical freethought and industrial independence broke the scepter of the Church did the intellectual revival of Europe begin… The monasteries diffused, wherever their influence extended, habits of credulity and intolerance that are the most deadly poisons to the human mind… It is difficult to look upon Catholicism in any other light than as the most deadly enemy of the scientific spirit… ~Lecky, The Middle Ages, Ch. IX, Part I.

Fear is ingrained in the superstitious minds of man from the earliest of Greek times, Whilst human kind throughout the lands lay miserably crushed before all eyes beneath Religion—who would show her head along the region skies, glowering on mortals with her hideous face a Greek it was who first opposing dared raise mortal eyes that terror to withstand, whom nor the fame of Gods nor lightning’s stroke nor threatening thunder of the ominous sky abashed, but rather chafed to angry zest his dauntless heart to be the first to rend the crossbars at the gates of Nature old. ~Of The Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus, 99 B.C.E.-55 B.C.E., A Metrical Translation By William Ellery Leonard.

Fortunately, for mankind, there were rationalists in these early times to explain that which was theologically unmanageable, Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by Divine power: it is so full of imperfections. ~Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe.

No one was exempt; children, virgins, soldiers, all could be sacrificed to an unknown God, if the priest so deemed it, Religion is the brainchild of fear, and fear is the parent of cruelty. The greatest evils inflicted on humankind are perpetrated not by pleasure-seekers, self-seeking opportunists, or those who are merely amoral, but by fervent devotees of religion. ~Emmanuel Kofi Mensah.

The New Testament authors were not Peter, Paul or any of the other disciples, but a group of unknown persons who adopted the names of the Apostles in their opening words to help proselytize the Gospels of Christiandom, unnamed authors who spread their testimonials of individuals long deceased, and of historical accounts, which they knew little or nothing of, "The Apostle Peter was illiterate, and therefore could not have written two letters [1 and 2 Peter] credited to him in the Bible." ~Bart Ehrman, Forged. Note: Six of the Pauline Letters in the New Testament have now been verified as outright forgeries. Cf. Acts 4:13.

The Roman Church proudly claims their ancient Codex Vaticanus, yet, of the 4th Century creation, One marked feature is the great number of omissions, which induced Dr. Dobbin to speak of it as an abbreviated text of the New Testament. He calculates that whole words or clauses are left out no less than 2,556 times. ~Scrivener, on the Codex Vaticanus, Page 120, Volume I, quoted in Has The Bible Been Faithfully Preserved? By Allan Cronshaw.

Why didn’t Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John use their names in their alleged Gospels? To us the greater part of this material is not in any proper sense historical at all, but for the early Israelite as for the early Greek historian it was otherwise our distinctions between authentic history, legendary history, pure legend, and myth, he made as little as he recognized our distinction of natural and supernatural. It was all history to him, and if one part of it had a better attestation than another, it was certainly the sacred history as it was told at the ancient sanctuaries of the land. The early Hebrew historians did not affix their names to their works; they had, indeed, no idea of authorship. The traditions and legends, which they collected, were common property, and did not cease to be so when they were committed to writing; the written book was in every sense the property of the scribe or the possessor of the roll. Only a part of the great volume of tradition was included in the first books. Transcribers freely added new matter from the same sources on which the original authors had drawn, the traditions of their own locality or sanctuary, variants of historical traditions or legend. Every new copy was thus in some measure a fresh rescension… Scribes compared different copies, and combined their contents according to their own judgment or interests… Of records or monuments there are but a few traces, and these for the most part doubtful. ~Encyclopedia Britannica, Book ii, 2075-76.

Due to the wide spread of numerous so-called spurious Scriptures, some of which were still used among the Eastern Churches, the need for a more uniform officially sanctioned canon of the New Testament became increasingly evident. Christians aiming to authorize their views and wanting others to accept them wrote in the name of the Apostles, Fabricating, falsifying and forging documents. ~Bart Ehrman.

Some of the best known of these false writings are: The Gospel of Nicodemus, written 2nd to 5th century, The Passing of Mary, 4th century, The Gospel According to the Hebrews, 2nd century, The Gospel of Peter, 150 C.E., The Gospel of Thomas, 2nd century, The Acts of Peter, 190-200 C.E., The Acts of John, 190-200 C.E., The Acts of Andrew, 190-200 C.E., and The Epistle to Laodicea, 4th century, which means there were fifty Gospels that were not accepted, and perhaps even more that were false Acts and Epistles. ~InPlainSite.org.

What was once considered as out of favor, and now grudgingly admitted to being a forgery, 173 accepted Christian writings now show the early church was nothing more than another counterfeit mill, while claiming all the time that the Pagans and Gnostics were forgers, and who is to have the final pronouncement on this matter? Numerous works purporting to have been written by Apostles, or their associates, but not able to secure a general or permanent recognition. These may be classified thus: (a) Gospels; (b) Acts of Apostles; (c) Epistles; (d) Apocalypses; (e) Didactic Works; (f) Hymns. (Ib. p. 748.) The name Gospel," And, says The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. VI, p. 656, "As indicating a written account of Christ’s words and deeds, has been, and still is, applied to a large number of narratives of Christ’s life, which circulated both before and after the composition of our Third Gospel [cf. Luke i, 1-4]. The titles of some fifty such works have come down to us… It is only, however, in connection with some twenty of these ‘Gospels’ that some information has been preserved… Most of them, as far as can be made out, are late productions, the Apocryphal character of which is generally admitted by contemporary [i.e., present day] scholars… Naming first as No.’s 1-4 ‘The Canonical Gospels,’ now falsely labeled with the names of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the twenty best known ones are listed as follows; viz: The Gospels according to the Hebrews; of Peter; According to the Egyptians; of Matthias; of Philip; of Thomas; the Proto-Evangelium of James, Gospel of Nicodemus [Acta Pilati]; of the Twelve Apostles; of Basilides; of Valentius; of Marcion; of Eve; of Judas; the Writing Genna Marias; the Gospel Teleioseos." ~Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. vi, 656.

None other than the Pagan, sun worshiping, semi-God, Roman Emperor Constantine chairs the proceedings of the Roman Church, dictating what will or not be accepted Doctrine. ~Many of the fraudulent documents can be found in Wilhelm Schneemelcher (ed.)., New Testament Apocrypha.

Individual Gospels are forged in the names of each of the Twelve Apostles, severally [individually], and a joint cock-and-bull story is created under the name of The Gospel of the Twelve, which is then put into the mouths of the twelve Apostles, using the first person lexis to give the ear-marks of Inspired authenticity to their forged utterances, and discretely, Almost every one of the Apostles had a Gospel fathered upon him by one early sect or another. ~Encyclopedia Biblica, vol. i, 259.

Chrysostom was one of the gifted Greek Fathers of the early Church, concerning whom we have the apologetics stating, The Greek Fathers thought that, when there was a justa causa, an untruth need not be a lie… Now, as to the just cause… The Greek Fathers make them such as these self-defense, charity, zeal for God’s honor, and the like. ~Cardinal Newman, Apology for His Life, Appendix G, p. 345-6.

Who cares about historical accuracy, who care about the truth, who cares about Scriptural authenticity, when one can influence the extension of the faith? Our forefathers assigned this to their chief priests and prophets, and down to our own times these records have been, and I venture to say, will continue to be, preserved with scrupulous accuracy. ~Flavius Josephus, on Jewish Scriptures, not Christian New Testament writings, Contra Apion, 1:29.

On the other hand, seldom are two Christian Bibles alike, "Now, the whole of the period, from the 5th to the 15th century, was one of great darkness as regards regular historical records, and it is difficult to fix accurate dates with absolute certainty." ~The Mysteries of Chronology, with Proposal for a New English Era to be called The Victorian, by F.F. Arbuthnot, 1833-1901, Author, Editor, and Translator of Various Works, London, William Heinemann, 1900, And V.E. [Victorian era] 64.

Early forgers took great pride in their ability to fool the credulous masses, and to make money doing it. The order to carry no money nor provisions reflects the older environment of the mission to the Jews.

The Greeks had twenty-six words to describe forgeries, and the Romans had only fifteen, To pass a censure upon all kinds of writings, to show their several excellencies and defects, and especially to assign them to their proper Authors, was the chief province and the greatest commendation of the Ancient Critics, and it appears from those remains that are left us, that they never wanted employment. For to forge and counterfeit Books, and father them upon great names, has been a practice almost as old as Letters… Glory and affectation, as an exercise of style, and an ostentation of wit… That silent pride and fraudulent pleasure, though it was to die with them, before an honest commendation from posterity for being good imitators.’ ~Richard Bentley, Epistles of Phalaris.

Early Christians are taught to overlook the often spurious interpretations of their so-called Holy Bible, taught to consent to ridiculous explainations, taught to even listen to such absurd things as that a father-in-law should lie with his daughter-in-law, as Judah did; or a father with his daughters, as the Biblical Lot did; or the great prophets with harlots, like Hosea; or that a husband should sell his wife for a night to her lover, like Abraham; or that a man should marry two sisters, like Jacob; or that the rulers of the people and the men you consider as most inspired should keep their mistresses by hundreds and thousands; or, according to the provision made in Deuteronomy about wives, that the wife of one brother, if he dies without children, should marry the surviving brother, and that he should raise up seed from her instead of his brother; and that if the man refuses to do this, the fair plaintiff should bring her case before the elders, that the brother may be called and admonished to perform this religious duty; and that, if he persists in his refusal, he must not go unpunished, but the woman must loose his shoe from his right foot, and strike him in the face, and send him away, spat upon and accursed, to perpetuate the reproach in his family; all of which are contaned in the Holy Bible. ~Contra Faustus Manicheun, 400 C.E.

Scripture is what the Orthodox Church says it is, As a result of some of these rules of interpretation the literal sense of certain passages of the Bible must be excluded altogether; e.g., passages in which according to a literal interpretation something unworthy is said of God, or in which statements are made that are unworthy of the Bible, senseless, contradictory, or inadmissible; or in which allegorical expressions are used for the avowed purpose of drawing the reader’s attention to the fact that the literal sense is to be disregarded.~cf. Cannons of Allegory, De Victimas Offerentibus, § 5 [ii. 255]); Laws of Allegory, De Abrahamo, § 15 [ii. 11]), and De Somniis, ii. 2 [i. 660].

Long before the electronic era, we have in the 1562 second edition of the Geneva Bible, Blessed are the pacemakers."

~Matthew 5:9.

The New Testament is based primarily upon the writings of a Jewish rabbi Yeshua Nazaret, known as Jesus [The Word Christ means Messiah].

The First Book of Timothy is known to be an early forgery, which is still used today by the Christian ministry to oppress the rights of women, and provides the Scriptural basis for the Roman Catholic Church’s refusal to ordain any female priests. ~Bible Scholar Exposes Christian Fraud, Monday, 21 March 2011, 20:16 Acharya S.

Much of Christianity was not formulated until the 2nd-4th century, in which the Church Fathers, often times belligerent, bigoted, ignorant, and unforgiving group of religious fanatics whose characters have been embellished via Christianized history, wrote unceasingly, creating the Apostle’s Creed [forged centuries after the Apostles], and Nicene Creed in response to the swelling of Pagans across the Empire and to Preserve the Faith. All are fabrications, "Throughout the Middle Ages it [The Apostle’s Creed] was generally believed that the Apostles, on the day of Pentecost, while still under the direct inspiration of the Holy Ghost, composed our present Creed, each of the Apostles contributing one of the Twelve articles. This legend dates back to the 6th century, and is foreshadowed still earlier in a sermon attributed to Saint Ambrose, which takes notice that the Creed was ‘Pieced out by twelve separate workmen.’" ~Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. I, p. 629.

It appears that Hosius declared that the simplest way of reaching agreement amongst the argumentative Bishops would be to draw up a Creed. But the first Creed presented to the council was written by eighteen of the Arian Bishops, who embedded their beliefs in Scriptural language, this Creed stated the Arian position so offensively that pandemonium soon broke out again when it was solemnly presented to the Bishops.

Bishop Eusebius, of Caesarea, then suggested a Creed that he had first heard as a child, an astoundingly beautiful Creed, which was to form the basis of the Creed, which will eventually be adopted, after much criticism, and much debate. Eusebius was very careful to say he advanced this Creed only because he believed Divine things cannot be fully expressed in human language, and although it was not perfect, it was as close to perfection as he ever hoped to reach.

The Creed of Nicaea, with the critical phrases surreptitiously absent, the Greek term Homoousion does not emerge at all; instead of the affirmation that Jesus is the Son Begotten of the Father, we now have simply stated that as God, the Logos, He existed from all time, which the Nicaean definition is not overtly repudiated, it is simply ignored.

The Bishops, at Jerusalem, have deviously endorsed a new practice, that of finding alternatives for the definitions of Faith in order to rally their restless dissidents, a precedent that henceforth all condemned heretics will be most assiduous to pursue, Many heretical or Gnostic works of the same Apocryphal kind were changed into Orthodox by expurgation of objectionable matter or by rewriting, using the same outlines; thus a series of Catholic Acts was produced, written from an Orthodox standpoint. ~NIE. Vol. i, 748.

Heresy means Choice, and the heretics, not pleased with the unadorned, unembellished, unvarnished truth of the Gospels, wanted to combine Christian ideology with their bountiful mythologies, chosen from the various regions and composed a medley of contradictory concepts, which they substituted for the Christian faith. Early Christians hammered out rules to govern their duties to the State. They forbade certain professions: the actor who had to play the part of Pagan Gods, the teacher forced to teach Pagan mythology in public schools, the gladiator who took human life for sport, the soldier who killed, the policeman and the judge. ~Philip Yancey.

The Truth will be mysteriously misplaced at Nicaea, forgotten in the Christian battle against its strong adversaries, a confrontation, which will know no bounds; neither spiritual nor historical truth shall prevail. "The Emperor, having summoned the Bishops, ordered them to sign the condemnation of [Saint] Athanasius and to receive the heretics into Communion. They protested against this innovation in Church discipline, crying out that such is not the Ecclesiastical rule. Whereupon the Emperor broke in, ‘My will is Canon Law!’ Bishops in Syria make no such objections when I address them. ‘Obey me or… Exile.’ The Bishops, astounded at such language, lifting their hands to Heaven, with great boldness opposed to the Emperor that his kingly power was not his own, that it was in fact God’s gift to him, and that he should fear God who could, and suddenly, strip him of it. They reminded him of the Last Day and its Judgment. They advised him not to