Editor’s pick: Two natures of Jesus: another Christian mystery!
Rubin Vase: Dualistic Reality or Myth?
By John Blake, CNN
(CNN)– Timothy Freke was flipping through an old academic book when he came across a religious image that some would call obscene.
It was a drawing of a third-century amulet depicting a naked man nailed to a cross. The man was born of a virgin, preached about being “born again” and had risen from the dead after crucifixion, Freke says.
But the name on the amulet wasn’t Jesus. It was a pseudonym for Osiris-Dionysus, a pagan god in ancient Mediterranean culture. Freke says the amulet was evidence of something that sounds like sacrilege – and some would say it is: that Jesus never existed. He was a myth created by first-century Jews who modeled him after other dying and resurrected pagan gods, says Freke, author of “The Jesus Mysteries: Was the ‘Original Jesus’ a Pagan God?”
“If I said to you that there was no real Good Samaritan, I don’t think anyone would be outraged,” says Freke, one of a group of mythicists who say Jesus never existed. “It’s a teaching story. What we’re saying is that the Jesus story is an allegory. It’s a parable of the spiritual journey.”
Categories: Ahmadiyyat: True Islam, CHRISTIANITY
In the Name of Allah the Most Gracious Ever Merciful
When real things are put out of proportions, the reality seams as myth. Same is the case with Holy Jesus Christ, a story has been woven by St. Paul for him. Jesus a human being so frail a toy in the hands of Jewish people, who abased him, pulled him on the cross and tried to kill him on the cross, although their nefarious design were frustrated by the Mighty God, depicted as son of god or even god himself by Christians, so from reality he become a myth.
No doubt Jesus was a great prophet of God, a beloved of God, but a frail human being who cannot save himself from the hands of Jewish people, who prayed all night “Elli Elli Lima shabaqtani” suffered with the pain and wounds over the cross and became like a dead person on the cross, I wonder, how come a son of god rather than god himself would save others and would be a judge for the sinners?
Zarif Ahmad