James McDonald has
written a very angry book. But he has reason to be angry.
Bible
scholarship has shown time and again how the Bible was extensively
modified. He shows how stories like the Nativity were just faked by
Church fathers to make the birth of Jesus seem a portentous event and
they added their fiction to the Gospels, the originals of which never
contained the story of the Nativity. The origin of the Virgin Mary
myth just comes from the insistence of the Church fathers of finding
major events prophesied in the Old Testament; so they found Isaiah
7:14 which was mistranslated into the koine Greek Septuagint; a
translation made some 200 years before the birth of Jesus. The
correct translation refers to a young woman not a virgin. These are
just two issues that press my buttons but in fact McDonald shows
clearly that the whole edifice of Christian belief is just so much
made-up poppycock. Furthermore this poppycock has been a disaster
for the western world where it held back scientific research for so
long.
Bible
scholarship has shown time and again how the Bible was extensively
modified. He shows how stories like the Nativity were just faked by
Church fathers to make the birth of Jesus seem a portentous event and
they added their fiction to the Gospels, the originals of which never
contained the story of the Nativity. The origin of the Virgin Mary
myth just comes from the insistence of the Church fathers of finding
major events prophesied in the Old Testament; so they found Isaiah
7:14 which was mistranslated into the koine Greek Septuagint; a
translation made some 200 years before the birth of Jesus. The
correct translation refers to a young woman not a virgin. These are
just two issues that press my buttons but in fact McDonald shows
clearly that the whole edifice of Christian belief is just so much
made-up poppycock. Furthermore this poppycock has been a disaster
for the western world where it held back scientific research for so
long.
So what do we have now
? We have the teachings of Jeshua (Jesus is the Greek form of his
name) in the two books he has given us through the channelling
process: A Course in Miracles and The Way of Mastery (in 3 volumes). And for the Course, I recommend the original text. These are his
direct words and they don't try to found a religion, instead they talk about spirituality and what he says is very
real. And welcome to a world where we are all sons and daughters of
God.
And if you want to hear Jeshua preach live, you can because Pamela Kribbe channels him, see www.jeshua.net
And if you want to hear Jeshua preach live, you can because Pamela Kribbe channels him, see www.jeshua.net
Yes, though I confess I have not yet read these books, my understanding is that Yeshua and his teachings were morphed by those in power at the time, to be a Sun God. In my belief system, the Christos symbolizes the heart chakra in all of us.
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