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Religious Saviors And Their Claims.

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Religious Saviors And Their Claims Throughout History.[1]
If you think the so-called 'christ' is the only religious savior, you'd be wrong!

In the so-called [New Testament]™ of the Church of Rome, it is claimed by the apostles and disciples of 'Jesus Christ', that he was of divine origin; that, he was deity begotten, supernaturally conceived of a virgin woman, and although molded in human form, was in essence a part of the infinite godhead, thus making him half human and half divine in his sublunary[2] origin.

It is further claimed that he was the full and perfect 'god' incarnate, and a perfect man; and while he was 'god', he was also the son of 'god' (John 1:1-15), and as such was sent down by the father to save the fallen and guilty world; and thus his mission pertained to the whole human race (John 1:29); and his inspired apostles are made to declare that "every knee must bow, and every tongue confess that 'Jesus' is 'Lord', to the glory of 'god' the Father". (Philippians 2:10-11)

But we do not find that this prophecy has ever been, or is ever likely to be fulfilled. We do not observe that this claim to the infinite deityship of 'Jesus Christ' is even remotely possible.

Why? Because the Mighty One states scores of times, that HE alone, is our only Savior, and there is no other. The book of Isaiah is said to contain the most references to the Mashiach (Messiah), so we will cover two here and give further reference notes for others after[3].

(Isaiah 43:3) (NKJV) For I am the ETERNAL your SOVEREIGN the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

(Isaiah 43:11) (NKJV) I, even I, am the ETERNAL, and besides Me there is no Savior.

It is vital that you understand how important The ETERNAL CREATOR and SOVEREIGN of the universe views false idols, false 'gods', false saviors, and those who promote them, either intentionally or unintentionally. Make no mistake about it. The self-proclaimed 'son of god', met the following fate, even though much of what he said, and did, came to pass. It is also a test and a warning to see if you can be tricked into believing such a one.

(Deuteronomy 13:1-5) (WEB) ¹If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, ²and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, "Let us go after other gods" (which you have not known) "and let us serve them"; ³you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your CREATOR is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your CREATOR with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁴You shall walk after Yahweh your CREATOR, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him. ⁵That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your CREATOR, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your CREATOR commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

And removed it was. The ETERNAL made sure of it through the crucifixion. It wasn't long however, before this false prophet and dreamer of dreams with all his deceptions, came roaring back as a carved wooden figurine on a cross; and this time with a murderous vengeance. More people have been killed in his name, than any other single religious cause in the entire history of man [The Crusades], from Adam right up to this very day, with no signs of it ceasing anytime soon.

The [New Testament]™ Gets Created By Decree!

The First Council of Nicea, was a council of Christian bishops convened in Nicaea in Bithynia (present-day Iznik in Turkey) by the Holy Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325. This first ecumenical council was the first effort by a Holy Roman Emperor on behalf of the state, to attain consensus in the church by decree, through an assembly representing all of Christendom. Its main accomplishments were settlement of the Christological issue of the nature of 'God' the Son and his relationship to 'God' the Father (inclusion of baalism by introducing polytheistic 'multi-godhead' worship known as trinitarianism), the relationship of the people to the state, the construction of the first part of the Creed of Nicaea, settling the calculation of the date of Easter (inclusion of paganism by outlawing passover in favor of Easter, changing the ETERNAL's Sabbath from it's Hebrew calculation to sunday), and promulgation of early canon law. Various wars ensued for control of the Holy Land, which came to be known as the Crusades. These wars lasted roughly from the late 11th century into the late 14th century, in which untold numbers of people were tortured and mudrered in the name of this self-proclaimed 'son of god' idol, named 'jesus'. It has been estimated that those who perished, numbered in the millions, and HERE.

We Need To Get Back To The Hebrew Scriptures!

We [present day Israelites] can and must repent of worshiping 'g-ds' which the fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, did not know (i.e. a dead man [false idol], hanging on a wooden cross). Moreover, shouldn't you obey the Laws and Commandments the ETERNAL CREATOR, and SOVEREIGN of the universe has given you, the way He wants you to obey them? Willfully, cheerfully, with all your heart, and all your soul? With love and respect for all He has done, and is doing for you? Or, should you continue to obey the Church of Rome and her proselytising daughters with their so called [New Testament]™ "False Idol" and his lying [apostles, deciples, ministers, priests, deacons, popes, etc.], not to mention the "Self Proclaimed" Apostle Paul, with his 'baal' worshiping, polytheistic 'multi-godhead' trinitarian opinions, telling you that you have been set free from having to pay the penalty for breaking the ETERNAL's Laws, because they have been 'nailed to the cross', and that all you have to do now is believe? Really? Is that all you have to do? Think about it.

Is 'Jesus' The Only 'man-god' [Twinity/Trinity] Found In History?

On the contrary, it is found by a large portion of people, of even those nations now called Christian, that this claim has been found to be increasingly and unswervingly contradicted, through the whole line of history, stretching through the nearly two thousand years which have elapsed since his alledged earthly advent.

Even some of those who are represented to have been personally acquainted with him, even some of his own brethren in the flesh, children in the same household, children of the same mother, had the temerity to question the tenableness of his claim to a divine emanation. And when we extend our researches to other countries and eras, we find his claims to the contrary, far from being conceded, is denied and contested by whole nations and religions upon other grounds, as there are many rival claims as we shall see.

It is upon these grounds, that hundreds of millions of the established believers in divine revelation, hundreds of millions of believers in the divine character and origin of religion, reject the pretensions claimed for the so-called diety of 'Jesus Christ'.

They admit that both a 'god' and a 'Savior' exist, but do not accept 'Jesus of Nazareth' as being either. They admit to believing in a Messiah, but not 'the' Messiah; these nations contend that the title is misplaced which makes 'Christ the man-god', the Savior of the world. They claim to have been honored with the birth of the true Savior among them, and defend this claim upon the ground of priority of date. They aver that the advents of their Messiahs were long prior to that of the Christians, and that this circumstance adjudicates for them a superiority of claim as to having had the true Messiah born upon their soil.

It is argued that, as the story of the incarnation of the Christian's Savior, is of a more recent date than those of oriental and the ancient religions, (as is conceded by the Christians themselves), the origin of the former is thus indicated and foreshadowed as being an outgrowth from, if not outright plagiarism upon the latter, of which the pagan stories furnish the original.

Here, then, we observe a rivalship of claims, as to which of the remarkable personages who have figured in the world of 'Saviors', 'Messiahs', and 'Sons of god', in different ages and different countries, can be considered the true 'Savior' and sent of 'god'; or whether all should be, or the claims of all rejected.

For researchers in oriental history reveal the remarkable fact that stories of incarnate 'gods' answering to and resembling the miraculous character of 'Jesus Christ' have been prevalent in most if not all the principal religious heathen nations of antiquity; and the accounts and narrations of some of these deified incarnations bear such a striking resemblance to that of the Christian 'Savior', not only in their general features, but in some cases even the most minute details, from the legend of the immaculate conception, to that of the crucifixion, and subsequent ascension into heaven, that one might almost be mistaken for another.

More than twenty claims of this kind, claims of being invested with divine honor (deified), have come forward and presented themselves throughout the history of the world, along with their credentials, to contest the decree of Christendom, in having proclaimed 'Jesus Christ' the only son and sent of 'god'. Over twenty 'Messiahs', 'Saviors', and 'sons of god', according to history or traditions in past times, have allegedly descended from heaven and taken upon themselves the form of men, clothing themselves with human flesh, and furnishing incontestable evidence of a divine origin, by various miracles, marvelous works, and superlative virtues.

And finally these (more than) twenty pre 'Jesus Christs', who also laid the foundation for the salvation of the world, and ascended back to heaven:

Some say that the Christian religion came directly out of the Egyptian religion; or at least, that it was the probable source of the origins of 'Christianity'. Now let's compare the Egyptian deity 'HORUS' with the Christian deity 'JESUS CHRIST'. Here's a list of the similarities between 'Horus' and 'Jesus':

A comparative list of some pre-existing types to 'Christianity' shows further how these types were brought on in the canonical Gospels and the Book of Revelation:

In addition, here are some similarities between 'Krishna' and 'Christ':

Here is a small list of writers that lived during the time of 'Jesus', but aside from two forged passages in the work of a Jewish author*, and two disputed passages in the work of Roman writers**, there is to be found no mention of 'Jesus Christ' in this mass of Jewish and Pagan writers.

*"Josephus wrote his celebrated work, "The Antiquities Of The Jews", late in the first century, giving a history of his race from the earliest ages down to his own time. Modern versions of this work contain the following passage:

"For nearly sixteen hundred years Christians have been citing this passage as a testimonial, not merely to the historical existence, but to the divine character of 'Jesus Christ'. And yet a ranker forgery was never penned.

"Its language is Christian. Every line proclaims it the work of a Christian writer. 'If it be lawful to call him a man.' 'He was the Christ.' 'He appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him.'

"These are the words of a Christian, a believer in the divinity of Christ. Josephus was a Jew, a devout believer in the Jewish faith -- the last man in the world to acknowledge the divinity of Christ. The inconsistency of this evidence was early recognized, and Abrose, writing in the generation succeeding its first appearance (360 A.D.), offers the following explanation, which only a theologican could frame:

"Its brevity disproves its authenticity. Josephus' work is voluminous and exhaustive. It comprises twenty books. Whole pages are devoted to petty robbers and obscure seditious leaders. Nearly fourty chapters are devoted to the life of a single king. Yet this remarkable being, the greatest product of his race, a being of whom the prophets foretold ten thousand wonderful things, a being greater than any earthly king, is dismissed with a dozen lines."

**"Philo was born before the beginning of the Christian era, and lived until long after the reputed death of Christ. He wrote an account of the Jews covering the entire time that Christ is said to have existed on earth. He was living in or near Jerusalem when Christ's miraculous birth and the Herodian massacred occurred. He was there when Christ made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. He was there when the crucifixion with its attendant earthquake, supernatural darkness, and resurrection of the dead took place -- when Christ himself rose from the dead, and in the rpesence of many witnesses ascended into heaven.

"These marvelous events which must have filled the world with amazement, had they really occurred, we unknown to him. It was Philo who developed the doctrine of the Logos, or Word, and although this Word incarnate dwelt in that very land and in the presence of multitudes revealed himself and demonstrated his divine powers, Philo saw it not.

**"Justus of Tiberius was a native of Christ's own country, Galilee. He wrote a history covering this time of Christ's reputed existence. This work has perished, but Photius, a Christian scholar and critic of the ninth century, who was acquainted with it, says: 'He (Justus) makes not the least mention of the appearances of Christ, of what things happened to him, or of the wonderful works that he did' (Photius' Bibliotheca, code 33).

Imagine that an event so important to the history and well being of man, not being recorded by a single writer at the time it occurred, but 325 years later, and even then, only by the order of a head of state, the Holy Roman Emperor Constantine I. It is liken to man landing on the moon and walking on it for the first time in history, and have not a single person write about it during the time it occurred (1969), but in fact it wouldn't be written about for another 325 years (2294).

Footnotes:

[1] Read the complete work: The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, by Kersey Graves. (PDF) - (HTML)

[2] Sub·lu·nar·y; adjective: 1. belonging to this world as contrasted with a better or more spiritual one.

[3] See: (Psalms 106:21; Isaiah 41:13-14; Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 43:10-11; Isaiah 45:15; Isaiah 45:21; Isaiah 47:4; Isaiah 49:26; Isaiah 54:5; Isaiah 60:16; Isaiah 63:8; Jeremiah 14:7-8; Hosea 13:4).