Capella's Guide to Atheism A guide from an ex-Christian to Bible errors, Bible contradictions,
See also: generic viagra|online pharmacy| Capella's Guide to Atheism
A guide from an ex-Christian to Bible errors, Bible contradictions, Bible atrocities, etc… as well as general problems with Christian beliefs
Pages Bible atrocities Atrocities and deviant behavior by key Bible figures Peculiar Bible verses Bible problems with common Christian doctrines Recognizing false arguments Problems with the Bible flood story The Greek roots of Christianity Examining some Creationism (or Intelligent Design) arguments Problems in the book of Matthew The Bible’s flat earth/solid sky dome universe Transitional fossils Transitional horse fossils Bible contradictions Bible errors Failed prophecies Links Atheism Websites
Skeptics Annotated Bible Talk.Archive YouTube Channels
King Heathen ProfMTH QualiaSoup Recent Posts Are Worship and Prayer the same as Hypnosis?God Jesus Claus Were the Egyptian Pyramids Ever Underwater?Did the Biblical Authors Know that the Earth is a Sphere?Stupid Bible Animal Tricks Capella’s Commandments Resurrection Island Christmas - Is Jesus Really the Reason for the Season?Huckabee explains his Christmas Cross Ad to Gomer Pyle The Virtues of Being a Pro-Life Fundamentalist Christian Egg Saints in Heaven Was Jesus just another Doomsday Cult Leader?The Baby Time Tunnel George Carlin On Religion Using Sex on the Beach to sell Jesus The God of the Gaps In the Flying Spaghetti Monster We Trust Famous Atheists Elijah, Elisha, and Oh Yea⦠Biblical Child Mauling Were the Founding Fathers Christian?Church Steeples â Iâll show you mine if you show me yours Bible Zombies The Bible says that Beating and Wounding People is Good for Them A Tale of Two Gramps - Does the Bible Contradict Itself on the Genealogy of Jesus?Animal Cruise â The Love Ark Nothing New Under the Shrinking Sun Jonah’s Underwater Stomach Vacation Was Jesus Wrong about His Second Coming and the End of the World?Is Evolution a Religion?Spacey Creationist Helium Argument Bible Personals â The Ultimate Agent of Evil Seeks a Serious Relationship Was Polytheism Edited Out of the Old Testament?8211; A Hunting Tragedy in Heaven Does the Creation Account in Genesis Fit the Big Bang and Modern Cosmology?According to the Bible, which came first?The Chicken or the Man?Bibleâs Wildest Videos â Isaiah spends 3 years as a Nudist Is the US a nation of church goers or a nation of UFO believers?Does God believe in Atheists?Does the Anthropic Principle indicate a Creator?Three Headed Jehovah Terrorizes Nude Atheists Nervous God - Bible Babels Putting the Shroud of Turin to Bed - Part II Putting the Shroud of Turin to Bed â Part I No Respect -The Story of Lot’s Dots Remember the Sabbath â Keep People âHoleyâ Was The Bible’s Cosmology ahead of it’s time?Did the Exodus really happen?The Apostle Paul vs.Women Adventures in Dying â the Judas Iscariot story Afterlife Roulette â Pascalâs Wager Universes are Us - The Universe Maker The Bible vs.Can the Biblical wars of extermination be reconciled with an image of a loving God?Is the definition of an Atheist really someone who denies the existence of God?Meta Log in Valid XHTML XFN WordPress The Greek roots of Christianity
Orpheus Bacchus depicted on the cross in late Orphism (earlier stories of his death have him being torn apart by angry women).
Bacchus was another name for Dionysus who was Orpheus’ alter ego in Orphism.
Orphism contained the concepts of original sin, sacramental ritual, and redemption.
A few centuries before Jesus, Alexander the Great conquered Judea.Along with much of the world at that time they underwent a period of Hellenization.Because of this the Jewish people spoke and wrote in Greek at the time of Jesus and the New Testament was written in Greek rather than Hebrew.At one point much of the Jewish people could not read Hebrew at all, hence the translation of the Old Testament into Greek (The Septuagint).This influence along with influences from other cultures can be seen in the resulting rituals and symbolism of the Christian religion.
Here Orpheus is depicted as one who fishes the uninitiated out of the water or ignorance and into the light.He is holding a net in his right hand and a pole in his left.Behind his right leg is a fish.
Here Jesus is calling his disciples to make them "fishers of men" (Mat 4:18-20).
In classical Greece, the chief staples of their diet were wine and wheat.These staples were used in ritual worship for their lifegiving properties.It was thought that the vines and wheat sprang forth from deities in the underworld.By consuming the wheat and wine they thought they were obtaining the life of the deities.
The wheat or body of Philosotes was eaten and the wine or blood of Dionysus consumed.
The later Christian counterparts are of course the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion where a wheat wafer or cracker is consumed as symbolic of Christ’s body and wine or juice to symbolize his blood (Mark 14:22-24).
Note that the absence of modern day understanding of digestion and absorption of food value may explain why these people felt compelled to rationalize plants and their derivatives as having life giving properties from gods.In even earlier religious activities people worshipped animals, possibly in part because eating them kept them alive, something that was a mystery to them.Dionysus with his wine in the chalice and his grapevines.He is holding a bread wafer and a goblet of wine for the body and blood of Jesus.
The Resurrection of Persephone
Demeter was the goddess of fertility and agriculture.
Her daughter Persephone was one day abducted by Hades, god of the underworld.
While Persephone was gone, Demeter was overcome with sadness and nothing on the earth grew.When Zeus saw that the earth was barren he sent Hermes to bring her back.
Unfortunately Persephone had eaten part of a pomegranate given to her by Hades and therefore a compromise had to be reached.Persephone would spend 4 months every year with Hades in the underworld and 8 months with her mother.
Consequently every year Persephone would have to descend into the underworld during which time Demeter would again be overcome by sadness and nothing would grow (winter).In the spring Persephone would resurrect from the underworld and life would abound.
Persephone and Jesus resurrecting
A goddess named Ishtar undergoes a similar dramatic routine in a Persian myth.The word Easter is thought to come from her name.Easter is also celebrated in the spring and is also about the resurrection of Christ and how that brings life (eternal life) according to Christianity.
It is thought that the concept of hell was borrowed from the underworld concept that was prevalent in the mythology of many surrounding cultures.
Castor and Pollux
Castor and Pollux were twins.Castor was mortal and Pollux was immortal.The idea of the dual nature of man in Christianity, of the mortal flesh and immortal spirit or soul, was probably derived from earlier concepts such as this.Bierlein’s Parallel Myths, Veronica Ion’s The World’s Mythology in Color.
This entry is filed under .You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.7 Responses to “The Greek roots of Christianity” 1 sherif says: August 10th, 2006 at 5:56 am
dude, why dont you just talk about mithranism and the god atis?they are more solid and concrete and direct arguments.you cant argue much with even the fact that atis and mithra where born on december 25 and they where both savior gods of 2 diffrent contemporary greek and roman religions.
2 Dazzler says: September 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
And the apostle Paul’s hometown was Tarsus,which happened to be the homebase of Mithranism….Very thanks and best regards from Germany.I think they were realized by many different cultures independently.
5 bvindh says: March 9th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
greek mythologies are heavily based on eygptian ones.the ressurrection of jesus is almost an exact copy of the ressurection of osiris.13 pieces and osiris did the same to his penis
6 B says: June 8th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
It ALL came from the schools and temples of ancient Kemet.Not a very popular truth.Jesus broke the first commandment, “you shall serve no other gods than Yahweh”.Jesus served the Greek gods Hades/Tartarus by accepting their doctrine of eternal torment and threatening people with it.Jesus spoke the words of Hades/Tartarus rather than the words of Yahweh which was of a benign, humane Sheol where everyone went.Sheol, a place of non-life/silence.This probably came about when the Hebrew bible was translated into Greek and the Hebrew word sheol was replaced with the word Hades.This probably led to some Jewish people becoming confused about which image of the underworld to believe.This coupled with the increasing contact with Greek ideas of Hades. Before Yahweh met many Greeks he only had a sketchy idea of the afterlife and had the doctrine of sheol at 700BCE when the O.Yahweh started to listen to the Greek folk and he started to fear and believe the god Hades that infact the underworld was a place of torment.Yahweh might have struck you with lightning or drowned you or had you stoned but he wasn’t so psychopathic as to make you suffer when you were dead. The changes in the concept of hell seen between the old and new testaments are testimony to the increased awareness by Jews of Greek and Egyptian mythology, not revelation from Yahweh
Leave a Reply
Name (required)
Mail (will not be published) (required)
Website
You can use these tags:
If this is your first comment please see the posting guidelines.
A guide from an ex-Christian to Bible errors, Bible contradictions, Bible atrocities, etc… as well as general problems with Christian beliefs
Pages Bible atrocities Atrocities and deviant behavior by key Bible figures Peculiar Bible verses Bible problems with common Christian doctrines Recognizing false arguments Problems with the Bible flood story The Greek roots of Christianity Examining some Creationism (or Intelligent Design) arguments Problems in the book of Matthew The Bible’s flat earth/solid sky dome universe Transitional fossils Transitional horse fossils Bible contradictions Bible errors Failed prophecies Links Atheism Websites
Skeptics Annotated Bible Talk.Archive YouTube Channels
King Heathen ProfMTH QualiaSoup Recent Posts Are Worship and Prayer the same as Hypnosis?God Jesus Claus Were the Egyptian Pyramids Ever Underwater?Did the Biblical Authors Know that the Earth is a Sphere?Stupid Bible Animal Tricks Capella’s Commandments Resurrection Island Christmas - Is Jesus Really the Reason for the Season?Huckabee explains his Christmas Cross Ad to Gomer Pyle The Virtues of Being a Pro-Life Fundamentalist Christian Egg Saints in Heaven Was Jesus just another Doomsday Cult Leader?The Baby Time Tunnel George Carlin On Religion Using Sex on the Beach to sell Jesus The God of the Gaps In the Flying Spaghetti Monster We Trust Famous Atheists Elijah, Elisha, and Oh Yea⦠Biblical Child Mauling Were the Founding Fathers Christian?Church Steeples â Iâll show you mine if you show me yours Bible Zombies The Bible says that Beating and Wounding People is Good for Them A Tale of Two Gramps - Does the Bible Contradict Itself on the Genealogy of Jesus?Animal Cruise â The Love Ark Nothing New Under the Shrinking Sun Jonah’s Underwater Stomach Vacation Was Jesus Wrong about His Second Coming and the End of the World?Is Evolution a Religion?Spacey Creationist Helium Argument Bible Personals â The Ultimate Agent of Evil Seeks a Serious Relationship Was Polytheism Edited Out of the Old Testament?8211; A Hunting Tragedy in Heaven Does the Creation Account in Genesis Fit the Big Bang and Modern Cosmology?According to the Bible, which came first?The Chicken or the Man?Bibleâs Wildest Videos â Isaiah spends 3 years as a Nudist Is the US a nation of church goers or a nation of UFO believers?Does God believe in Atheists?Does the Anthropic Principle indicate a Creator?Three Headed Jehovah Terrorizes Nude Atheists Nervous God - Bible Babels Putting the Shroud of Turin to Bed - Part II Putting the Shroud of Turin to Bed â Part I No Respect -The Story of Lot’s Dots Remember the Sabbath â Keep People âHoleyâ Was The Bible’s Cosmology ahead of it’s time?Did the Exodus really happen?The Apostle Paul vs.Women Adventures in Dying â the Judas Iscariot story Afterlife Roulette â Pascalâs Wager Universes are Us - The Universe Maker The Bible vs.Can the Biblical wars of extermination be reconciled with an image of a loving God?Is the definition of an Atheist really someone who denies the existence of God?Meta Log in Valid XHTML XFN WordPress The Greek roots of Christianity
Orpheus Bacchus depicted on the cross in late Orphism (earlier stories of his death have him being torn apart by angry women).
Bacchus was another name for Dionysus who was Orpheus’ alter ego in Orphism.
Orphism contained the concepts of original sin, sacramental ritual, and redemption.
A few centuries before Jesus, Alexander the Great conquered Judea.Along with much of the world at that time they underwent a period of Hellenization.Because of this the Jewish people spoke and wrote in Greek at the time of Jesus and the New Testament was written in Greek rather than Hebrew.At one point much of the Jewish people could not read Hebrew at all, hence the translation of the Old Testament into Greek (The Septuagint).This influence along with influences from other cultures can be seen in the resulting rituals and symbolism of the Christian religion.
Here Orpheus is depicted as one who fishes the uninitiated out of the water or ignorance and into the light.He is holding a net in his right hand and a pole in his left.Behind his right leg is a fish.
Here Jesus is calling his disciples to make them "fishers of men" (Mat 4:18-20).
In classical Greece, the chief staples of their diet were wine and wheat.These staples were used in ritual worship for their lifegiving properties.It was thought that the vines and wheat sprang forth from deities in the underworld.By consuming the wheat and wine they thought they were obtaining the life of the deities.
The wheat or body of Philosotes was eaten and the wine or blood of Dionysus consumed.
The later Christian counterparts are of course the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion where a wheat wafer or cracker is consumed as symbolic of Christ’s body and wine or juice to symbolize his blood (Mark 14:22-24).
Note that the absence of modern day understanding of digestion and absorption of food value may explain why these people felt compelled to rationalize plants and their derivatives as having life giving properties from gods.In even earlier religious activities people worshipped animals, possibly in part because eating them kept them alive, something that was a mystery to them.Dionysus with his wine in the chalice and his grapevines.He is holding a bread wafer and a goblet of wine for the body and blood of Jesus.
The Resurrection of Persephone
Demeter was the goddess of fertility and agriculture.
Her daughter Persephone was one day abducted by Hades, god of the underworld.
While Persephone was gone, Demeter was overcome with sadness and nothing on the earth grew.When Zeus saw that the earth was barren he sent Hermes to bring her back.
Unfortunately Persephone had eaten part of a pomegranate given to her by Hades and therefore a compromise had to be reached.Persephone would spend 4 months every year with Hades in the underworld and 8 months with her mother.
Consequently every year Persephone would have to descend into the underworld during which time Demeter would again be overcome by sadness and nothing would grow (winter).In the spring Persephone would resurrect from the underworld and life would abound.
Persephone and Jesus resurrecting
A goddess named Ishtar undergoes a similar dramatic routine in a Persian myth.The word Easter is thought to come from her name.Easter is also celebrated in the spring and is also about the resurrection of Christ and how that brings life (eternal life) according to Christianity.
It is thought that the concept of hell was borrowed from the underworld concept that was prevalent in the mythology of many surrounding cultures.
Castor and Pollux
Castor and Pollux were twins.Castor was mortal and Pollux was immortal.The idea of the dual nature of man in Christianity, of the mortal flesh and immortal spirit or soul, was probably derived from earlier concepts such as this.Bierlein’s Parallel Myths, Veronica Ion’s The World’s Mythology in Color.
This entry is filed under .You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.7 Responses to “The Greek roots of Christianity” 1 sherif says: August 10th, 2006 at 5:56 am
dude, why dont you just talk about mithranism and the god atis?they are more solid and concrete and direct arguments.you cant argue much with even the fact that atis and mithra where born on december 25 and they where both savior gods of 2 diffrent contemporary greek and roman religions.
2 Dazzler says: September 2nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
And the apostle Paul’s hometown was Tarsus,which happened to be the homebase of Mithranism….Very thanks and best regards from Germany.I think they were realized by many different cultures independently.
5 bvindh says: March 9th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
greek mythologies are heavily based on eygptian ones.the ressurrection of jesus is almost an exact copy of the ressurection of osiris.13 pieces and osiris did the same to his penis
6 B says: June 8th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
It ALL came from the schools and temples of ancient Kemet.Not a very popular truth.Jesus broke the first commandment, “you shall serve no other gods than Yahweh”.Jesus served the Greek gods Hades/Tartarus by accepting their doctrine of eternal torment and threatening people with it.Jesus spoke the words of Hades/Tartarus rather than the words of Yahweh which was of a benign, humane Sheol where everyone went.Sheol, a place of non-life/silence.This probably came about when the Hebrew bible was translated into Greek and the Hebrew word sheol was replaced with the word Hades.This probably led to some Jewish people becoming confused about which image of the underworld to believe.This coupled with the increasing contact with Greek ideas of Hades. Before Yahweh met many Greeks he only had a sketchy idea of the afterlife and had the doctrine of sheol at 700BCE when the O.Yahweh started to listen to the Greek folk and he started to fear and believe the god Hades that infact the underworld was a place of torment.Yahweh might have struck you with lightning or drowned you or had you stoned but he wasn’t so psychopathic as to make you suffer when you were dead. The changes in the concept of hell seen between the old and new testaments are testimony to the increased awareness by Jews of Greek and Egyptian mythology, not revelation from Yahweh
Leave a Reply
Name (required)
Mail (will not be published) (required)
Website
You can use these tags:
If this is your first comment please see the posting guidelines.