The Resurrection Story

<div class="_5k3v _5k3w clearfix" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word; zoom: 1;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3y5hHZBNbW-8LpenBzTGr0YJ8s3hxOGBvsK0IufFzoxeVmGL262qdiZZMFv926zfymuFVBaM3UCq4kz7pM1PQilSvv0JnKxofYpOcZ3xctudXn01wDdTHJR5A7qZDD3VP8tPjm8GRrKGC/s1600/Resurrection.jpg" style="margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;"><img border="0" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3y5hHZBNbW-8LpenBzTGr0YJ8s3hxOGBvsK0IufFzoxeVmGL262qdiZZMFv926zfymuFVBaM3UCq4kz7pM1PQilSvv0JnKxofYpOcZ3xctudXn01wDdTHJR5A7qZDD3VP8tPjm8GRrKGC/s280/Resurrection.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Let's check these out!</span></div><ul style="list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><strong><span>Who went to the tomb?</span></strong><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif"> Matthew-2 Marys; Mark-2 Marys and Salome; Luke-at least 5 women; John-Mary Magdalene.</span></span></li></ul><ul style="list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><strong><span>What was seen?</span></strong><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif"> Matthew-Earthquake with angel sitting outside on the recently-moved stone; Mark-Stone already moved and a young man sitting inside; Luke-Stone already moved with two men standing inside; John-Stone moved. No one seen on 1st visit, but two angels sitting inside after two earlier visits.</span></span></li></ul><ul style="list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><strong><span>When did the woman/women leave to go to the tomb?</span></strong><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif"> Matthew-Towards dawn; Mark-Very early; Luke-At early dawn; John-Still dark (NB. John states it was still dark when Mary arrived at the tomb).</span></span></li></ul><ul style="list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><strong><span>What did man/men/angel/angels say?</span></strong><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif"> Matthew-Jesus was risen and disciples to go to Galilee; Mark-As Matthew; Luke-Jesus had risen: John-Asks why Mary is crying.</span></span></li></ul><ul style="list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><strong><span>What do the women/woman do next?</span></strong><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif"> Matthew-they run away but meet Jesus who repeats angel's instruction; Mark-They flee and SAY NOTHING TO ANYONE. This obviously contradicts the other three in which the women do go and tell the disciples (original Mark ended at 16:7); Luke-They go and tell disciples; John-Mary meets Jesus and they talk.</span></span></li></ul><ul style="list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><strong><span>What is 1st conversation with the risen Jesus?</span></strong><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif"> Matthew-Women on way from tomb; Luke-The two disciples on road to Emmaus; John-Mary Magdalene.</span></span></li></ul><ul style="list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span><strong>The time between the resurrection and ascension?</strong> </span><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif">Matthew-At least the time to reach Galilee (60-70 miles north); Luke-clearly one day only (see 24:13,33,36,50 - it is made very clear that Jesus rose, made all his appearances and ascended back to heaven on the same day); John-at least a week accepting John 20 as the original end to the Gospel, but with the John 21 appendix this means it was even longer as this has a Galilean appearance; Acts-40 days.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">An attempt to reconcile John's visit of just Mary Magdalene whilst still dark with the Synoptics where there are several women and it is daytime, is by saying John's was an earlier one, ie. the one in the Synoptics was a second one. However this cannot be so as John has Mary Magdalene seeing the empty tomb (20:1) and in the Synoptics when the women go to the tomb they ask about who would roll the stone away (Mark 16:3). However Mary Magdalene was with them (Mark 16:1) and she had already seen the stone had been moved away and there -fore they would already know this from her 1st visit.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Furthermore, Luke makes any appearance at, or journey to Galilee absolutely impossible as it has everything happening in the area of Jerusalem with the disciples being told to stay there until Pentecost, and the conclusion being Jesus' ascension from nearby Bethany.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">This is made clear - in Luke the first appearance is to the two travelling to Emmaus (10 miles West of Jerusalem) and 24:13 states this was "that very day"; the two then go "that same hour" to the eleven in Jerusalem (24:33); Jesus then appears whilst they are still explaning what they had seen (24:36). Jesus then tells them to STAY IN JERUSALEM UNTIL PENTECOST (24:49).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">As Luke 24:51 has the ascension on the same day as the resurrection this prevents any Galilean appearances by Jesus to the eleven as in Matt and John.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Luke's account makes nonsense of Matt having Jesus tell the women to instruct the disciples to go up to Galilee (Matt 28:10) if he was going to see them himself later that day (as in Luke and John), and furthermore see them in Jerusalem. Also, Luke makes it clear that the eleven were told to stay in Jerusalem from the day of the resurrection to Pentecost, but Matt has them traveling up to Galilee (28:16) as does John (21:1ff). Important to note is Mark 16:7, ie. that the women 'said nothing to anyone' - all three Gospels contradict this by them telling the disciples which then leads into their accounts. Because of Mark 16:7, this is really made impossible.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Luke also has Jesus appearing to "the eleven" on the same day as the resurrection (24:33-36), but John states Thomas was missing on this appearance and it was a week later that Jesus actually appeared to all eleven - with Thomas then being present (20:24,26).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif">In stark contrast to the Gospel accounts saying Jesus rose physically, Paul makes it clear he believed Jesus rose as a spirit and not physically- 1 Cor 15:44,45,50. The early Christian dummies couldn't even agree on this - </span><strong><span>pathetic!</span></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">[Source: HolySmoke.Org]<strong> </strong></span></div></div>

The Resurrection Story

Let's check these out! Who went to the tomb?  Matthew-2 Marys; Mark-2 Marys and Salome; Luke-at least 5 women; John-Mary Magdalene. What...

The Resurrection Story

Let's check these out! Who went to the tomb?  Matthew-2 Marys; Mark-2 Marys and Salome; Luke-at least 5 women; John-Mary Magdalene. What...

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The Crucifixion And Resurrection Were Never Prophesied In The Bible's Old Testament

<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0x-cdzB75TlNwCW-F_cI-bCzyZLMQPLla0JN5FddLU_H2ro_tMvlIalbTWs-pt2g4OQchc61tKFAabRE8BIFP3nVfq84VT7Xnx1zVZ9qJ7F8e8AbCBXMpWC1GYDK8l9u8fAHTA9oEwF4/s0/prophecy+%25286%2529.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 0em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="723" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0x-cdzB75TlNwCW-F_cI-bCzyZLMQPLla0JN5FddLU_H2ro_tMvlIalbTWs-pt2g4OQchc61tKFAabRE8BIFP3nVfq84VT7Xnx1zVZ9qJ7F8e8AbCBXMpWC1GYDK8l9u8fAHTA9oEwF4/s0/prophecy+%25286%2529.jpg"/></a></div>The sections of this article are:<div style="text-align: justify;">1. Ample Prophesies in the Old Testament about the Messiah getting saved from crucifixion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(a)  Psalm 91 is not just limited to the foot striking the rock!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(b)  The Crucifixion is Symbolic in the New Testament.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(c)  Indisputable errors and contradictions in the Crucifixion and Resurrection Accounts!<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2.  Isaiah 53 and its mistranslations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(a)  Isaiah 53's symbolic speeches - Detailed analysis on every verse. pulsar.gif (2171 bytes)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(b)  Isaiah 53:12.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />3.  The crucifixion would've broken at least one bone and refuted John 19:30-40!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />4.  Islam denies the crucifixion and much of the Bible agrees. Jesus was never "disfigured" to a point "beyond human likeness!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />5.  GOD Almighty Changed His Mind a lot throughout the Bible.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />6.  The Jews' view on Isaiah 53.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />7.  Conclusion. (Must read)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />8.  Rebuttals.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(a)  Detailed rebuttal on Isaiah 53.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(b)  Rebuttal from the New Testament.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1.  Ample Prophesies in the Old Testament about the Messiah getting saved from crucifixion:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You would expect that major events such as the crucifixion and the resurrection of Christ, that make up the entire case for Christianity, to be at least prophesied in the Bible's Old Testament clearly, without any ambiguity, and without any deliberate mistranslations and lies.  But the Truth and the sad reality for the believers in the crucifixion, who are too also desperate to prove trinity even though the word itself, "trinity", doesn't even exist in the entire Bible, is that these major events, the crucifixion and the resurrection, were never mentioned in the entire Old Testament.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The following Biblical verses that further refute the crucifixion and resurrection lies:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Being lifted and saved</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">[Luke 4:10-12]</div><div style="text-align: justify;">10 For the Scriptures say, ‘He will order his angels to protect and guard you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">11 And they will hold you up with their hands so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.’”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">12 Jesus responded, “The Scriptures also say, ‘You must not test the Lord your God.’”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">[Matthew 4:5-10]</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5 Then the devil took him to the holy city, Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">6 and said, “If you are the Son of God, jump off! For the Scriptures say, ‘He will order his angels to protect you. And they will hold you up with their hands so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.’”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">7 Jesus responded, “The Scriptures also say, ‘You must not test the Lord your God.’”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">8 Next the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">9 “I will give it all to you,” he said, “if you will kneel down and worship me.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">10 “Get out of here, Satan,” Jesus told him. “For the Scriptures say, ‘You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Please check: Psalm 91 clearly confirms that Jesus never got crucified.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are few points to notice in these verses:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1.  Notice how satan referred to Psalm 91 regarding the protection of Jesus.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2.  Notice how Jesus confirmed that Psalm 91 was indeed speaking about him by saying "the Scriptures also say..." (Luke 4:12 and Matthew 4:7).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3.  As we will see in the sections below, Psalm 91 is not just concerned with preventing Christ or the Messiah from striking his feet against the ground.  This is the least point the chapter is concerned with.  The chapter concentrated heavily on:<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">(see the following sub-section's points)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Psalm 91 is not just limited to the foot striking the rock!</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The following table contains all of Psalm 91 and detailed analysis about its key verses.  Notice how the New Testament in Luke 4:10-11 and Matthew 4:5-6 and in many other places completely misquoted and misunderstood Psalm 91.  Psalm 91 and its verses are not just concerned about Jesus' striking of his feet against a rock (Psalm 91:12).  That is a lie and a clear fabrication! [1] [2]  This piece is very minor in the chapter, because the chapter is more focused on:</div><ul style="list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;">GOD Almighty will hear his cries (Psalm 91:15) and will save him (Psalm 91:3).</li><li style="text-align: justify;">GOD Almighty will cover him with His Protection (Psalm 91:4).</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Christ will then not have any fear in him (Psalm 91:5).</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Christ will then observe with his own eyes the punishment of the crucified ones (Psalm 91:8).</li><li style="text-align: justify;">No harm (this includes crucifixion!) or disaster will even come near Christ (Psalm 91:10....this even contradicts him getting beaten up before crucifixion).</li><li style="text-align: justify;">GOD Almighty will send down the Angels to protect him and lift him (Psalm 91:11-12, 14, Isaiah 52:13).  Not even his foot will strike the ground from his enemies pushing, grappling and punishment.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Christ's call will be HEARD, and he will be delivered and honored (Psalm 91:15, Isaiah 52:13).  No way would these verses be valid if Christ got crucified.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">His life will be prolonged (extended) and he will live to even see his offspring (Isaiah 53:10 and Psalm 91:16, which by the way contradict Jesus never got married and had children.  In Islam's Noble Quran's 13:38, however, it is quite possible that Jesus Christ had wives and children).</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong></strong>[Isaiah 53:12] <strong>His life will overpower death </strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Death" in Isaiah 53:9 is proven to be symbolic using the Hebrew Lexicon and several English translations, and it never meant a literal death.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Important Note</strong>:  Psalm 91 is speaking as a number of Prophecies that WILL take place.  Notice how the verses are speak of future events that WILL TAKE PLACE.  Never once throughout the entire New Testament were the Angels sent to save Jesus from striking his foot against a rock.  This, again, clearly proves that the NT is indeed false and corrupt. </div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Here is Psalm 91 that Luke 4:10-11 and Matthew 4:5-6 link to Jesus:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pay attention to the red text below, especially in Psalm 91:11-12, 15 and the others</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">[Psalm 91]</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. [a]</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. I will say [b] of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare and from the deadly pestilence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">6. nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">7. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">8. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">(According to the Noble Quran and the original writings of the Disciples of Jesus, Jesus was not crucified, and he watched the crucifixion of the doomed person.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, according to the Apocalypse of Peter that was discovered in Egypt, Jesus sat on the tree and watched the crucified one getting crucified. Peter witnessed this and wrote the Apocalypse. Not only that, but while Christians insist that the book is a Gnostic one, but according to Wikipedia.org, "It is unclear whether this text advocates an adoptionist (Jesus was Divine) or docetist (Jesus' body and crucifixion were an illusion) christology". So there is no proof that the book is Gnostic.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">9. If you make the Most High your dwelling— even the LORD, who is my refuge-</div><div style="text-align: justify;">10. then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">11. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">12. they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If Jesus died on the cross and got buried, then his feet would've struck the ground and the stones on it from bringing him down, throwing him on the floor and burying him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">13. You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">14. "Because he loves me," says the LORD, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">15. He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">16 With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Footnotes</b>:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Psalm 91:1 Hebrew Shaddai</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Psalm 91:2 Or He says</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>There is no question!</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is no question that the emphasized parts above, especially in Psalm 91:11-12, 15 and others, clearly and indisputably agree with the Noble Quran and Isaiah 52:13! Jesus was neither crucified nor resurrected, and he was protected and lifted by GOD Almighty. Also, the New Testament, again, confirms that Psalm 91 is referring to Jesus Christ.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">GOD Almighty will hear his cries (Psalm 91:15) and will save him (Psalm 91:3).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">GOD Almighty will cover him with His Protection (Psalm 91:4).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Christ will then not have any fear in him (Psalm 91:5).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Christ will then observe with his own eyes the punishment of the crucified ones (Psalm 91:8).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">No harm (this includes crucifixion!) or disaster will even come near Christ (Psalm 91:10....this even contradicts him getting beaten up before crucifixion).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">GOD Almighty will send down the Angels to protect him and lift him (Psalm 91:11-12, 14, Isaiah 52:13). Not even his foot will strike the ground from his enemies pushing, grappling and punishment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Christ's call will be HEARD, and he will be delivered and honored (Psalm 91:15, Isaiah 52:13). No way would these verses be valid if Christ got crucified.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">His life will be prolonged (extended) and he will live to even see his offspring (Isaiah 53:10 and Psalm 91:16, which by the way contradict Jesus never got married and had children. In Islam's Noble Quran's 13:38, however, it is quite possible that Jesus Christ had wives and children).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">His life will overpower death (Isaiah 53:12).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Death" in Isaiah 53:9 is proven to be symbolic using the Hebrew Lexicon and several English translations, and it never meant a literal death.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important Note</b>: Psalm 91 is speaking as a number of Prophecies that WILL take place. Notice how the verses are speak of future events that WILL TAKE PLACE. Never once throughout the entire New Testament were the Angels sent to save Jesus from striking his foot against a rock. This, again, clearly proves that the NT is indeed false and corrupt.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><br /></strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Lifting up those who bow down:</strong></div><div style="text-align: justify;">[Psalm 145:14]</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The LORD upholds all those who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">[Psalm 146:8]</div><div style="text-align: justify;">the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">[Isaiah 52:13]</div><div style="text-align: justify;">13 See, my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Please check: Jesus bowed down to GOD Almighty begging Him to save him from the crucifixion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">GOD Almighty Saving His annointed King and saving those who take refuge in Him:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">[Psalm 20:6]</div><div style="text-align: justify;">6  Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed king. He answers him from his holy heaven. The power of God's right hand saves the king.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">[Psalm 17:7]</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Show the wonder of your great love, you who save by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">[Psalm 18:3]</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">[Psalm 9:13]</div><div style="text-align: justify;">O LORD, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">[Psalm 30:1]</div><div style="text-align: justify;">[A psalm. A song. For the dedication of the temple. Of David.] I will exalt you, O LORD, for you lifted me out of the depths and did not let my enemies gloat over me.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Note:</strong>  The Psalms of David, while they are narrated by him, but they do contain many prophecies about the coming of Jesus Christ or the Messiah.  The New Testament had made many references to many of the Psalms verses and linked them to Jesus Christ.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is also interesting to know that King David was never killed by his enemies.  Therefore, the speech in Psalm 9:13 and Psalm 30:1 refer to a live man and not a man who died.  Notice how David said:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1.  "I will exalt you, O LORD, for you lifted me out of the depths and did not let my enemies gloat over me."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2.  "Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The two quotes indicate that David cried out to GOD Almighty for help, and GOD Almighty lifted him from the enemies' defeat and death.  In other words, David was victorious and was never killed or put to death by them.  Remember that King David was never killed by his enemies.  He was lifted up by GOD Almighty and was made victorious over them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Therefore, it is also safe to say that GOD Almighty's Commands about "saving" and " sending down the Angels to lift up" Christ from his enemies, in Psalm 91 and the rest of the Psalm verses above, also undoubtebly prove that Jesus Christ indeed never got crucified and was indeed saved from crucifixion and death.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>For more on this please check</strong>:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Psalm 91 clearly states that Jesus Christ will never get crucified.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Psalm 116, 117 and 118 indesputably prove that Jesus Christ never got crucified.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jesus in Hebrews 5:7-8 cried out to GOD Almighty to be saved and "he was heard".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">[Source: Answering Christianity]</div>

The Crucifixion And Resurrection Were Never Prophesied In The Bible's Old Testament

The sections of this article are: 1. Ample Prophesies in the Old Testament about the Messiah getting saved from crucifixion. (a)  Psalm 91 i...

The Crucifixion And Resurrection Were Never Prophesied In The Bible's Old Testament

The sections of this article are: 1. Ample Prophesies in the Old Testament about the Messiah getting saved from crucifixion. (a)  Psalm 91 i...

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The Resurrection Hoax

<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span class="photo" style="padding: 0px;"></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62PUFQnEl1Mt5sXDPq7wqFVfe97dtXYO5_XSEvJ07f7Zxjufgvw-tzpqwerBCe7u2sX1f5CBMhZGvzQ1h1pL_nceSSPcjaZIsSnw0zRaiXw5FLIrxOJbPoTemdtbhuQLXDl8CmC74LUq_/s0/resurection.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 0em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi62PUFQnEl1Mt5sXDPq7wqFVfe97dtXYO5_XSEvJ07f7Zxjufgvw-tzpqwerBCe7u2sX1f5CBMhZGvzQ1h1pL_nceSSPcjaZIsSnw0zRaiXw5FLIrxOJbPoTemdtbhuQLXDl8CmC74LUq_/s0/resurection.jpg" /></a></div> <br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Rebuttal to Jochen Katz - The Resurrection Hoax</span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The Greek and Roman historians</span></strong></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Very few Christians know that Gentile historians NEVER mentioned the resurrection of Jesus. The Jewish philosopher Philo (50 CE) absolutely makes no reference to Jesus’ crucifixion. The Christians are embarrassed that Philo lived during Jesus’ lifetime and never mentioned his resurrection.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">After the departure of Jesus, his teachings spread to North Africa and Egypt, but he was not popular or widely known.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The following writers do not mention Jesus’ resurrection:</span></div><div><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: justify;">1. Philo-Judaeus</span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">2. Martial</span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">3. Arrian</span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">4. Appian</span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">5. Theon of Smyrna</span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">6. Lucanus</span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">7. Aulus Gellius</span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">8. Seneca</span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">9. Plutarch</span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">10. Apollonius</span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">11. Epictetus</span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">12. Silius Italicus</span><br /><span face=""helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">13. Ptolemy</span><br /></span><ol style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"></ol><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br />We challenge Christians to prove his resurrection.  None of these writers mentioned Jesus’ resurrection. (<a href="http://answering-christianity.com/abdullah_smith/the_resurrection_hoax.htm" target="_blank">Source</a>)<br /><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">In his unsatiable desire to attack the Bible, Smith overlooked yet again that this argument also destroys the Qur'an. How? Jesus is connected not only with his own resurrection but also with several people whom he resurrected from the dead back into this earthly life. For example, Jesus raised at least three people: the 12-year-old daughter of Jairus (Mark 5:21-43, Luke 8:40-56), a young man in Nain, who was the only son of a widow (Luke 7:11-17), Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha (John 11).</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Although the Qur'an does not give any details about those resurrections, it claims that Jesus did indeed raise people from the dead:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">And will make him ['Iesa (Jesus)] a Messenger to the Children of Israel (saying): "I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I design for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah's Leave; and I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I bring the dead to life by Allah's Leave. And I inform you of what you eat, and what you store in your houses. Surely, therein is a sign for you, if you believe. S. 3:49 Al-Hilali & Khan</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">(Remember) when Allah will say (on the Day of Resurrection). "O 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)! Remember My Favour to you and to your mother when I supported you with RuhulQudus [Jibrael (Gabriel)] so that you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and when I taught you writing, Al-Hikmah (the power of understanding), the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel); and when you made out of the clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, by My Permission, and you breathed into it, and it became a bird by My Permission, and you healed those born blind, and the lepers by My Permission, and when you brought forth the dead by My Permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from you (when they resolved to kill you) since you came unto them with clear proofs, and the disbelievers among them said: 'This is nothing but evident magic.' " S. 5:110 Al-Hilali & Khan</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><strong></strong></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><strong></strong></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto;">RESPONSE</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><strong></strong>Here is the complete list of Greek and Roman writers who don’t mention Jesus’ resurrection.</span></div><ol style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Apollonius       </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Appian                </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Arrian                 </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Aulus Gellius          </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Columella             </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Damis                  </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Dio Chrysostom        </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Dion Pruseus           </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Epictetus             </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Favorinus              </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Florus Lucius          </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Hermogones             </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Josephus               </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Justus of Tiberius     </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Juvenal                </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Lucanus                </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Lucian                 </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Lysias                 </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Martial                </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Paterculus             </span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Pausanias</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Persius</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Petronius</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Phaedrus</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Philo-Judaeus</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Phlegon</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Pliny the Elder</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Pliny the Younger</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Plutarch</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Pompon Mela</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Ptolemy</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Quintilian</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Quintius Curtius</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Seneca</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Silius Italicus</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Statius</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Suetonius</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Tacitus</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Theon of Smyran</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Valerius Flaccus</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Valerius Maximus</span></li></ol><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Christians have provided the most ludicrous reasons for why these writers DO NOT mention Jesus’ death. I have laughed at some of the responses by Tektonics, <em>a</em> <em>feel good</em> Christian website. (they are pathetic).<br /><br /></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The following list of historians does not mention Jesus’ resurrection:</span></strong></li></ul><ol style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Appian</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Arrian</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Dio_Chrysostom</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Florus</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Paterculus (Marcus Velleius Paterculus)</span></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Phlegon</span></li></ol><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The above historians lived in the decades following Jesus’ departure.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Some of the above writers were poets deeply rooted in Greek philosophy and the Ancient Wisdom. They were in the position of recording the “darkness and earthquake” at Jesus’ death.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Philo was alive when Jesus “rose from the dead”. He led an embassy of Jews to the court of Emperor Gaius Caligula (39-40 CE). Yet Philo makes no reference to Jesus’ death, and resurrection.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">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 presence of many witnesses ascended into heaven. These marvelous events which must have filled the world with amazement, had they really occurred, were unknown to him. (John Remsburg, <em>The</em><em> Christ</em>)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Katz applies my argument to the Holy Quran by saying the Quran is “proven false” because these writers do not mention Jesus’ miracles. (Quran 3:49, 5:110). There is a logical explanation.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">First, let us examine the crucifixion. The Holy Quran says Jesus was saved (Psalms 20:6, Quran 3:55), and someone else was crucified (4:157), but these writers do not mention the<em>appearance</em> crucifixion, because it was ordinary. The “darkness, earthquake, and rising saints” are legends attached to the Gospel narratives.</span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The Gospel of Barnabas (accepted by Irenaeus) describes the crucifixion of Judas as ordinary</span></strong></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">So they led him to Mount Calvary, where they used to hang malefactors, and there they crucified him naked;, for the greater ignominy. *Judas truly did nothing else but cry out: 'God, why have you forsaken me<strong>,</strong> seeing the malefactor has escaped and I die unjustly?' *Truly I say that the voice, the face, and the person of Judas were so like to Jesus, that his disciples and believers entirely believed that he was Jesus; wherefore some departed from the doctrine of Jesus, believing that Jesus had been a false prophet, and that by art magic he had done the miracles which he did: for Jesus had said that he should not die till near the end of the world; for that at that time he should be taken away from the world.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">But they that stood firm in the doctrine of Jesus were so encompassed with sorrow, seeing him die who was entirely like to Jesus, that they remembered not what Jesus had said. And so in company with the mother of Jesus they went to Mount Calvary, and were not only present at the death of Judas, weeping continually, but by means of Nicodemus and Joseph of Abarimathia; they obtained from the governor the body of Judas to bury it. Whereupon, they took him down from the cross with such weeping as assuredly no one would believe, and buried him in the new sepulchre of Joseph; having wrapped him up in an hundred pounds of precious ointments<em>. (Gospel of Barnabas)</em></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Paul makes no reference to Jesus as historical figure, he only says “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:2).</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The determination not to know anything but the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was narrowing down knowledge to rather a small compass. Evidently converts in Corinth were questioning, and Paul begins by establishing that questions are not allowed to Christians. Paul has to berate the wise and praise the foolish in this epistle. God chose the foolish things of the world not the wise. And so it has always remained—the most marvellous way of gulling the credulous. Anyway, already in the 50s of the first century some people were asking questions and one of the questions will have been whether Jesus was really crucified.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Irenaeus, one of the most frequently quoted Christian writers of the ancient bishops, declares upon the authority of the martyr Polycarp, who claimed to have got it from S John and all the elders of Asia, that Jesus Christ lived to be about fifty years old. There must have been a margin for distrusting the fact of the crucifixion. Yet, if Jesus was a saviour, it is likely that he must have been crucified because other saviours of the same type were. “Sacrilege!” Paul’s Christians, trained in foolishness, cry. “Jesus Christ was the only crucified saviour!” Sorry, other saviours are suspected of crucifixion, and certainly many were cruelly punished for saving humanity. Irenaeus might have felt it politic to deny crucifixion to distinguish the Christian saviour from the others! <em>(Warning: Atheist website</em>:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The Christian missionary can teach us nothing but “Christ crucified”. No wonder the early Christians were so dumb. The figurative Messiah (Islam) liberated the land of Palestine after so many failed Messiahs.</span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Paul regarded the crucifixion as symbolic</span></strong></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">It is evident that the early Gnostic Christians practised the ritual of symbolic death by crucifixion. It was meant to destroy one’s identification with the body and realize the true self within. Gnostics considered Christ allegoric and not as a historical person. Paul, a Gnostic later appropriated by the Church, declares, “The secret is this: Christ in you (Colossians 1:25-28.)” Paul makes it clear that Jesus was merely an allegory when he declares, “If Jesus had been on earth, he wouldn’t have been a priest.(Hebrews 8:4)” As Freke and Gandy point out, had Paul considered Jesus historical, he would have said, “When Jesus was on earth, he was not a priest.” This explains why Paul never quotes the words of Jesus which he should have had there been a historical Jesus.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Paul further confirms that he considered Jesus’ crucifixion symbolic where he declares, “I have shared Christ’s crucifixion. The person we once were has been crucified with Christ. (Colossians 1:24, Galatians 2:20, Romans 6:7)” He also tells Galatians, a community that lived hundreds of miles away from Palestine, that they too witnessed Jesus’ crucifixion (Galatians 3:1). Since Paul had never met Jesus, the crucifixion his audience in Galatia witnessed could not have been an historical event. It has to be allegorical. Ptolemy (~140 CE), disciple of Valentinus, reveals that Pilate merely made an image of Jesus and crucified it instead of crucifying Jesus himself.[vii] Basilides (116-161 CE), a Gnostic saint, writes that those who believe Jesus was physically crucified are enslaved to myths, and those who treat it as symbolic are liberated. (Kalavai Venkat, <em>Silencing The Da Vinci Code</em>.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">I will show later that some versions of the Osiris myth did indeed teach that he remained on earth for a time after his "reanimation," but for the sake of argument, let's just assume the truth of McFall's claim that Egyptian myths about Osiris taught that he had experienced only a "spiritual" resurrection. That still would not make the Jesus myth "unique," because the earliest version of this myth indicates that the resurrection of Jesus was merely spiritual. To see this, we have only to go to the apostle Paul's defense of the resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15. A face-value interpretation of this chapter, which doesn't assume the truth of the gospel accounts that were written much later, will show that Paul was claiming that Jesus had been not bodily but spiritually resurrected. After telling the Corinthian Christians that their faith was vain and they were of all men most miserable if Christ had not risen, Paul proceeded to develop a line of argumentation intended to prove that the resurrection had happened as he had preached it. <em>(Warning: Atheist website)</em></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Christians believe that Jesus died for the sins of the world. In ancient Greece there was a tradition of making a particular individual into a ‘scapegoat’, who symbolically took on the sins of the people and was expelled from the city or put to death. Such an individual was called a pharmakos, which simply means ‘magic man’. His persecution was clearly a religious event, since before his death he was fed at public expense on especially pure foods and was clad in holy garments and wreathed with sacred. Through his sacred sacrifice the sins of the city were banished. (Timothy Freke, <em>The Jesus Mysteries</em>, p 53)</span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Paul corrupted the Gospel and elevated Jesus to divine status</span></strong></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">On the face of it, Paul’s doctrine of Jesus is a daring departure from Judaism. Paul was advocating a doctrine that seemed to have far more in common with pagan myths than with Judaism: that Jesus was a divine-human person who had descended to Earth from the heavens and experienced death for the express purpose of saving mankind. The very fact that the Jews found this doctrine new and shocking shows that it plays no role in the Jewish scripture, at least not in any way easily discernible…There were those who accepted Paul’s doctrine, but did regard it as a radical new departure, with nothing in the Jewish scriptures foreshadowing it. (Hyam Maccoby, <em>The Myth-Maker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity,</em>p. 12)</span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Paul is responsible for discarding the Jewish Law, deifying Jesus, and creating his own religion</span></strong></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Jesus was not the founder of Christianity as we know it today. Most of the New Testament doesn't even concern the historical Jesus while the main influence is the Apostle Paul and through the church he founded at Ephesus a Greek convert named John. Paul never met Jesus in the flesh, he only claimed some strange vision and proceeded to paganize the teachings of Jesus (who preached an enlightened form of Judaism), until he created Pauline Christianity. Because there are no known writings from Jesus, the actual Apostles, or anyone that actually knew Him in the flesh (other then perhaps James), most of what He taught is lost forever.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">It is evident from scripture that Paul refused to come under the authority of the Church in Jerusalem. And this brought him into conflict with them. Pauline Christianity became Christianity minus the Judaism of Jesus and plus the Hellenization that ultimately led to the great historical schism within Christianity between Pauline Christianity established in Rome and Jerusalem Christianity established by Jesus and the twelve. The foreign influences which Paul introduced into the teachings of Jesus is so massive that it is said by scholars that Paul hijacked Christianity from the apostles of Jesus. However, to give Paul the credit due him, I have doubts he ever intended his letters become "God's Word" and the Christian religion to be based on him.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Paul's Hellenistic bias and influence was certainly the result of being born and raised in Tarsus - one of the major centers of Hellenistic philosophy in Asia minor. It is more than likely that Paul was taught bodily resurrection there. Paul wrote in Greek and quoted the Septuagint (the Greek form of the Scriptures) rather than communicating in Hebrew - the language of Jews in Jerusalem. Hellenistic philosophy was more fitting to Roman culture than to Jerusalem Judaism. As Rome began to exert more and more power, Paul's pagan version of Christianity fostered in Rome and became victorious over the Christianity established by Peter. The schism between Paul's paganized version of Christianity and Peter's Jewish Christianity meant that only one version could be victorious. As Rome completely destroyed Jewish culture in Israel in 70 AD, it was clear which version of Christianity was left standing. Jewish Christians in Jerusalem clearly resented the victory of Roman influence over Judaism. They believed that Rome's victory was achieved at the expense of assimilating the teachings of Jesus with the Hellenistic philosophy and culture of Rome.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The idea of a sacrificed saviour is Mithraist, so is the symbolism of bulls, rams, sheep, the blood of a transformed saviour washing away sins and granting eternal life, the 7 sacraments, the banishing of an evil host from heaven, apocalyptic end of time when God/Ormuzd sends the wicked to hell and establishes peace. Roman Emperors, Mithraist then Christian, mixed the rituals and laws of both religions into one. Emperor Constantine established 25th of Dec, the birthdate of Mithras, to be the birthdate of Jesus too. The principal day of worship of the Jews, The Sabbath, was replaced by the Mithraistic Sun Day as the Christian holy day. The Catholic Church, based in Rome and founded on top of the most venerated Mithraist temple, wiped out all competing son-of-god religions within the Roman Empire, giving us modern literalist Christianity." </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The above writers do not mention <em>every single</em> crucifixion. But that doesn’t mean the crucifixions never occurred! At least 2,000 Zealots were crucified by the Romans. Yet the crucifixion of Jesus is supposed to be unique. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Matthew tells us (xxvii. 31) that when Christ was crucified, there was darkness all over the land for three hours, and "the earth did quake, and the rocks were rent, and many of the saints came out of their graves."  Here we have a series of events spoken of so strange, so unusual and so extraordinary that, had they occurred<strong>, they must have attracted the attention of the whole world </strong>-- especially the amazing scene of the sun's withdrawing his light and ceasing to shine, and thereby causing an almost total darkness near the middle of the day…<strong>Even Seneca and the elder Pliny, who minutely chronicle the events of those times, are silent about the greatest event in history</strong>. Each of these philosophers, in a detailed work, recorded all the phenomena of nature’s earthquakes, meteors and eclipses, he could collect. And, although Mark incidentally alludes to the darkness, in their gospels neither Luke nor John, know of any of these wonderful events. Christians tell us that God deliberately came to earth to die because he wanted to save wicked mankind—then he forgot to make sure everyone knew about it! <em>(Warning: Atheist website</em> [1])</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">It is shocking to find a complete absence of Jesus’ resurrection in these writers. More shocking is that Paul does not make any reference to Jesus’ trial and arrest. The pagan Katz knows that he’s trapped, so he resorts to attacking the Quran by using my argument. What a fool, I don’t know any other word to describe Jochen Katz.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">There is a good explanation to solve this “problem of silence” which applies to every historical figure. The biography of every great man is always composed after his death. The Hadith were compiled<em> after</em> the Prophet’s death, the Gospels were composed<em> after</em> Jesus’ departure, and the Torah was composed <em>after</em> Moses’ death. Even the earliest biography of Alexander the Great was composed decades<em> </em>after his death!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The Gospels were contemporary documents to these writers (50-150 CE), so they should have acknowledged Jesus’ death, but sadly they didn’t. The Quran was revealed 600 years later in the Desert of Arabia, hundreds of miles away from Palestine. The burden is on the Gospels because they were <em>contemporary </em>to these writers. It’s completely illogical to force the Quran into this discussion. The Quran is the Word of God with scientific miracles, so the miracles of Jesus (3:49, 5:110) are undoubtedly true.</span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The Holy Quran records the True Miracles and avoids the false miracles that exist in pagan myths</span></strong></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The True miracles of Jesus are attested in the Quran (healing the sick, raising the dead, and curing the blind) which are confirmed by the Gospels (Matt 12:22, Mk. 5:21).</span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The Quran does not record the Transfiguration, walking on water, and turning water into wine because these miracles were COPIED from the pagans.</span></strong></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The Gospels are perverted cosmology…This is the Transfiguration, an event in the life of the Creative Principle, and therefore of Jesus only as this personified. It’s nothing new in occult cosmology: <strong>Buddha was transfigured on a mountain in Ceylon;</strong> Noah and Moses were also transfigured, at birth, their light filled the whole house—not man’s but God’s solar temple. Describing Noah, the Apocryphal Book of Enoch says, “A body white as snow, hair white as wool and eyes that are like the rays of the sun (Lloyd Graham, <em>Deceptions and Myths of the Bible,</em> p. 333)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><strong>The Buddha had his transfiguration when he went up a Sri Lankan mountain called Pandava</strong>, or Yellow-white. “There the heavens opened and a great light came in full flood around him and the glory of his person shone forth with ‘double power’. He shone as the brightness of the Sun and Moon”. This exactly parallels—but predates by six centuries—the Gospel story of Jesus’ transfiguration on Mt. Tabor. (Tom Harper, <em>The Pagan Christ,</em> p. 31)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The Buddha told this story at Jetavana Monastery about a pious lay follower. One evening, when this faithful disciple came to the bank of the Aciravati River on his way to Jetavana to hear the Buddha, there was no boat at the landing stage. The ferrymen had pulled their boats onto the far shore and had gone themselves to hear the Buddha. The disciple's mind was so full of delightful thoughts of the Buddha, however, that even though he walked into the river, <strong>his feet did not sink below the surface and he walked across the water as if he were on dry land</strong>. When, however, he noticed the waves on reaching the middle of the river, his ecstasy subsided and his feet began to sink. But as soon as he again focused his mind on the qualities of the Buddha, his feet rose and he was able to continue walking joyously over the water. When he arrived at Jetavana, he paid his respects to the Master and took a seat on one side.”</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">"Good layman," the Buddha said, addressing the disciple, "I hope you had no mishap on your way."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">"Venerable sir," the disciple replied, "while coming here, I was so absorbed in thoughts of the Buddha that, when I came to the river, I was able to walk across it as though it were solid."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">"My friend," the Blessed One said, "you're not the only one who has been protected in this way. In olden days pious laymen were shipwrecked in mid-ocean and saved themselves by remembering the virtues of the Buddha." [1] [2]</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">"The Johannine story of Jesus' turning water into wine (2.1-11) <strong>was modeled on a myth about Dionysus told in a Dionysiac festival</strong> celebrated at Sidon [Phoenicia]. A first- or second-century A.D. report of the festival shows striking similarities, even in wording, to the gospel material and makes its polemic purpose apparent." - Morton Smith, <em>Jesus the Magician: Charlatan or Son of God?</em> (1978) p. 158</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">It is possible that Dionysian mythology would later find its way into Christianity. There are many parallels between Dionysus and Jesus; both were said to have been born from a mortal woman but fathered by a god, to have returned from the dead,<strong> and to have transformed water into wine. </strong></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The historians never objected to Jesus’ miracles (3:49, 5:110) because they are supported by the Gospels (Matt 12:22, Mk. 5:21). I am speaking of the historians who lived after the Quran was revealed. Also, the scientists have confirmed the miracles in the Quran.</span></div><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; list-style-type: square; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 25px;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Roboto;">Allah speaks of how Christians borrowed the pagan myths</span></strong></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">But there are, among men, <em>those who purchase idle tales, </em>without knowledge (or meaning), to mislead (men) from the Path of Allah and throw ridicule (on the Path): for such there will be a Humiliating Penalty. (Al-Quran 31:6)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The Jews call 'Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) <em>they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say</em>. Allah's curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! (Al-Quran 9:30)</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;">[Source: Abdullah Smith and his war against the Crucifixion, by <a href="http://www.answering-christianity.com/abdullah_smith/katz_crucifixion_rebuttal_4.htm" target="_blank">Abdullah Kareem</a>]</span></div>

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