Description: An extreme alternative to the received wisdom regarding the advent of the Christian faith, this book explores the connection between early Christianity and Gnostic beliefs and concludes that the Christian founders pirated the origination...
Synopsis An extreme alternative to the received wisdom regarding the advent of the Christian faith, this book explores the connection between early Christianity and Gnostic beliefs and concludes that the Christian founders pirated the origination myths of pagans.
Details
Publication Date:
2001-09-01
Size
Length:
343 pages
Height:
9.3 in
Width:
6.3 in
Thickness:
1.0 in
Weight:
17.6 oz
Publisher's Note “Whether you conclude that this book is the most alarming heresy of the millennium or the mother of all revelations, The Jesus Mysteries deserves to be read.” -- Fort Worth Star -Telegram
What if . . . * there were absolutely no evidence for the existence of a historical Jesus? * for thousands of years Pagans had also followed a Son of God? * this Pagan savior was also born of a virgin on the twenty-fifth of December before three shepherds, turned water into wine at a wedding, died and was resurrected, and offered his body and blood as a Holy Communion? * these Pagan myths had been rewritten as the gospel of Jesus Christ? * the earliest Gnostic Christians knew that the Jesus story was a myth? * Christianity turned out to be a continuation of Paganism by another name?