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  • Jesus Christ Killed Had Bad Temper Apocrypha Bible

    One of the problems, which those who design a Religious text, do not realize that, whatever be the presentation and promotion , Truth will surface.

    Especially so, if the Religious text is selected from about 300 versions and only that which suited the Political expediency is accepted.

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    Lost Books of The Bible.

    The danger is that there are chances that the rejected material shall also come through.

    This, being of the same origin as that of the accepted Text will carry the same force as the one accepted.

    I am talking about the Bible, which was compiled by a Conclave of Cardinals and only that which suited the political necessities of Empire Constantine was accepted as the Religious text.

    There were more than 300 versions reported to have been considered by the conclave of the Cardinals.

    Now there are those versions of the Bible that have become available that speak differently of Jesus and His Character.

    These Books are called the Lost Books of the Bible, Apocrypha Bible.

    Some of the material found in these books are very uncomfortable for a Religion which says it the most Compassionate and Jesus  was a Prince of Peace.

     

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    No question, the kid portrayed in the “The Lost Books of the Bible” isn’t exactly the Prince of Peace. After recounting three murders in two pages, one passage concludes, “Then said Joseph to St. Mary, henceforth we will not allow him to go out of the house; for everyone who displeases him is killed.”

    The “lost books” are part of the apocrypha, quasibiblical works not included in the official Bible. There are several dozen of these, dating from both Old and New Testament eras and exhibiting considerable variety in length, completeness, and credibility. A few of these were considered inspired in some corners of the early church but were ultimately excluded from the formal canon for one reason or another; the remainder, which account for the bulk of the material, have always been regarded as spurious by the mainstream church and include works condemned as heretical or fraudulent…

    In 1820 a number of the apocryphal books were compiled into a sort of alternative Bible called the Apocryphal New Testament. This was republished in 1926 as The Lost Books of the Bible and reprinted in 1979; the last version is what you saw. The 1820 book in turn was an aggregation of two English translations published in 1736 and 1737. The original works were a serious attempt to advance bible study, but the subsequent publications, arguably in 1820 and certainly from 1926 onward, were an attempt to sell books by creating scandal.

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    The homicidal-Jesus stories come from something known as the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. (This is to be distinguished from the better-known but equally apocryphal Gospel According to Thomas, about which more below.) Several versions of the Infancy Gospel have come to light, dating back to about the sixth century AD; all are copies of earlier texts.

    As near as scholars can make out, the Thomas story originated in the mid-second century AD, subsequent to the four canonical gospels (that is, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). Some say it was based in part on Luke; the two books share the story of Jesus scourging the money lenders at the Temple. It is one of the few portrayals, spurious or not, of Jesus’s early life, which no doubt accounts for its continued circulation after eighteen hundred years…

    Gospel According to Thomas, a collection of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus discovered in Egypt in 1945. It is taken more seriously than the Infancy Gospel and while not as outrageous is equally troubling in its way. It ends, “Simon Peter said to them, ‘Let Mary leave us, for women are not worthy of life.’ Jesus said, ‘I myself shall lead her in order to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every woman who will make herself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.’”

    Old Testament orders to Kill.

     

    Zephaniah 2:12-15

    “You Ethiopians will also be slaughtered by my sword,” says the LORD. And the LORD will strike the lands of the north with his fist. He will destroy Assyria and make its great capital, Nineveh, a desolate wasteland, parched like a desert. The city that once was so proud will become a pasture for sheep and cattle. All sorts of wild animals will settle there. Owls of many kinds will live among the ruins of its palaces, hooting from the gaping windows. Rubble will block all the doorways, and the cedar paneling will lie open to the wind and weather. This is the fate of that boisterous city, once so secure. “In all the world there is no city as great as I,” it boasted. But now, look how it has become an utter ruin, a place where animals live! Everyone passing that way will laugh in derision or shake a defiant fist

     

    Ezekiel 9:5-7

    “Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, “Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked. Show no mercy; have no pity! Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children. But do not touch anyone with the mark. Begin your task right here at the Temple.” So they began by killing the seventy leaders. “Defile the Temple!” the LORD commanded. “Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill! Go!” So they went throughout the city and did as they were told.”

     

    Matthew henry’s Biblical commentary writes this on Ezekial 9:5-7 :

     

    . A command given to the destroyers to do execution according to their commission. They stood by the brazen altar, waiting for orders; and orders are here given them to cut off and destroy all that were either guilty of, or accessory to, the abominations of Jerusalem, and that did not sigh and cry for them. Note, When God has gathered his wheat into his garner nothing remains but to burn up the chaff, Matthew3:12 http://www.studylight.org/desk/?query=mt+3:12&t=kjv.

     

    1. They are ordered to destroy all, (1.) Without exception. They must go through the city, and smite; they must slay utterly, slay to destruction, give them their death’s wound. They must make no distinction of age or sex, but cut off old and young; neither the beauty of the virgins, nor the innocency of the babes, shall secure them. This was fulfilled in the death of multitudes by famine and pestilence, especially by the sword of the Chaldeans, as far as the military execution went. Sometimes even such bloody work as this has been God’s work. But what an evil thing is sin, then, which provokes the God of infinite mercy to such severity! (2.) Without compassion: “Let not your eye spare, neither have you pity (Ezekiel 9:5 <http://www.studylight.org/desk/?query=eze+9:5&t=kjv&gt; ); you must not save any whom God has doomed to destruction, as Saul did Agag and the Amalekites, for that is doing the work of God deceitfully, Jeremiah 48:10 <http://www.studylight.org/desk/?query=jer+48:10&t=kjv&gt; . None need to be more merciful than God is; and he had said (Ezekiel 8:18 <http://www.studylight.org/desk/?query=eze+8:18&t=kjv&gt; ), My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity.” Note, Those that live in sin, and hate to be reformed, will perish in sin, and deserve not to be pitied; for they might easily have prevented the ruin, and would not.

     

    1. They are warned not to do the least hurt to those that were marked for salvation: “Come not near any man upon whom is the mark; do not so much as threaten or frighten any of them; it is promised them that there shall no evil come nigh them, and therefore you must keep at a distance from them.” The king of Babylon gave particular orders that Jeremiah should be protected. Baruch and Ebed-melech were secured, and, it is likely, others of Jeremiah’s friends, for his sake. God had promised that it should go well with his remnant and they should be well treated (Jeremiah 15:11 <http://www.studylight.org/desk/?query=jer+15:11&t=kjv&gt; ); and we have reason to think that none of the mourning praying remnant fell by the sword of the Chaldeans, but that God found out some way or other to secure them all, as, in the last destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, the Christians were all secured in a city called Pella, and none of them perished with the unbelieving Jews. Note, None of those shall be lost whom God has marked for life and salvation; for the foundation of God stands sure.

    Some of the Lost Books.

     

    • Biblical Corruption?

    • The Acts of The Apostle Thomas
    • The Apocalypse of Peter
    • The Apocalypse of Paul
    • The Book of Enoch
    • Eugnostos the Blessed
    • The Book of James – Protevangelium
    • The Book of Jubilees
    • The Dialogue of the Saviour
    • The Didache: Teachings of the 12 Apostles
    • The Epistle of Barnabas
    • The Epistle to the Laodiceans
    • The Essenes and The Dead Sea Scrolls
    • The Essene Gospel of Peace
    • The Essene Book of Revelation
    • The Forgotten Books of Eden: First and Second Book of Adam and Eve:
    • The Gospel of the Egyptians
    • The Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
    • The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary
    • The Gospel of Nicodemus
    • The Gospel of The Perfect Life / Holy (12) Twelve
    • The Gospel of Philip
    • The Gospel of Thomas
    • The Gospel of Truth
    • The Heavenly Prince Melchizedek
    • The Lost Gospel of Peter
    • The Sophia (Wisdom) of Jesus
    • The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel
    • The Lost Years of Jesus
    • The Testament of Abraham
    • The Treatise on the Resurrection

     

    Citation and References.

    http://thefrt.com/what-are-the-lost-books-of-the-bible-did-jesus-kill-2-boys-a-schoolmaster-because-they-displeased-him/#

    http://answering-christianity.com/sami_zaatri/another_bible_myth.htm

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  • Bible Family Tree In Bhavishya Purana Enoch and Others

    Judaism and Christianity seem to have borrowed heavily from Hinduism.

     

    I am providing the family Tree according to The Bible and the Text from the Bhavishya Purana.

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    Family Tree of The Bible.

    Click to Enlarge the Image.

    Bhavishya Purana Text.

    “Text: 31
    His wife Havyavati (Eve) will be very eager to see the tree of sin, and will go by the shadow of the tree. Kali (Satan) also will come there in the form of serpent.

    Text: 32
    Then they will disobey the commandment of Vishnu who told Adama (Adam) not to eat the fruit of the tree of sin. Because the fruit was good to see they eat it and become “Mleccha” and hence will turn towards the world.

    Text: 33
    They will wear the garments of fig leaves against the wind. The children of their generation will be called as “Mlecchas” because Adama (Adam) and Havya (Eve) will disobey Vishnu.

    Text: 34
    Adama (Adam) will live for 930 years.

    Text: 35
    Shveta (Seth) will be his son, of Shveta (Seth), Kenaasha (Cainan), son of Anuha.

    Text: 36
    Anuha (Enos) will be the son of Shveta (Seth), Kenaasha (Cainan), son of Anuha.

    Text: 38
    Virada (Jared) his son will live for 160 years and beget a son, and then live 900 years.

    Text: 39
    Hanucha (Enoch) son of Virada will be an ardent worshipper of Vishnu.

    ”

    Enoch (/ˈiːnək/; Hebrew: חֲנוֹךְ, Modern H̱anokh, Tiberian Ḥănōḵ; Arabic: إدريس‎ ʼIdrīs) is a figure in Biblical literature. In addition to an appearance in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, Enoch is the subject of many Jewish and Christian writings.

    Enoch was the son of Jared (Gen 5:19-21), the father of Methuselah, and the great-grandfather of Noah. Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God, which is a small amount of time compared to his offspring Methuselah, who lived to be 969 years old. The text reads that Enoch “walked with God: and he was no more; for God took him” (Gen 5:22–29). This Enoch is not to be confused with Cain’s son Enoch (Gen 4:17). The Christian New Testament has three references to Enoch from the lineage of Seth (Luke 3:37, Hebrews 11:5, Jude 1:14–15).’-Enoch 

    Text: 40
    Hanucha (Enoch) will rule for 365 years and being an ardent worshipper of Vishnu according to Mleccha Dharma, he will ascend bodily to heaven.

    Text: 43
    Matocchila (Methusela) his son will rule for 970 years.

    Text: 44
    Lomaka (Lamech) his son will rule for 777 years.

    Text: 45
    Nyuha (Noah) will be his son. He will rule for 500 years. He will beget three sons. Seema, Shama (Shem), and his brother. Nyuha will be the only beloved of Vishnu always meditating on Vishnu.

    Text: 47
    Lord Vishnu will one day appear in a dream to Nyuha (Noah) and will say:

    Text: 48
    “My son Nyuha (Noah), hear me, this world will be destroyed by flood in seven days. Therefore build thou a ship (ark) for you and your family only to be safe from Pralayam (Flood).

    Text: 49
    Prosper in this world after the flood for thou art the most righteous man on the earth”. Then the sage Nyuha (Noah) will prepare a ship.

    Text: 50
    Length of the ship 300 hand breadth, Width, 50 hand breadth, height 30 hand breadth.

    Text: 51
    Meditating on Vishnu, Nyuha (Noah) will ascend the ship along with his wife, his three sons and their wives (eight souls). The world was flooded by rain for 44 days.

    Text: 52
    The whole land of Bharata (India), Plava (Palestina) and Sindava (Punjab) will go submerged in that flood.

    Text: 54
    All will be lost except Nyuha and his family. Thus ends the 4th chapter.

    Ch.5 Text 1-3
    The Vedic Script will be lost in the floods. Only the Mleccha language will prevail. As Kali Yuga will proceed Brahmi language will prosper.

    Text: 5
    Sima (Shem), Hama (Ham) Yakuta (Japheth) will be the three children of Nyuha who will replenish the earth after the flood Yakuta will beget seven sons.

    Text: 9
    The second son Hama (Ham) will beget four sons. Kusha (Cush) Mishra (Mizraim), Kuja (Canaan) and…….

    Text: 11
    Nimaruh (Nimrod) son of Kusha will be mighty in strength and prevail.

    Text: 13
    Sima (Shem) the eldest son of Nyuha will be ruler for 500 years.

    Text: 14
    Arkansada (Arphaxed) his son rules for 430 years.

    Text: 15
    Simhla (Sela) will rule for 406 years. His son is Ivrata (Eber).

    Text: 16
    Phalaga (Peleg) his son will rule for 224 years.

    Text: 17
    Ravu (Reu) his son will rule for 237 years.

    Text: 18
    Juja (Serug) his son, Nahora (Nahor).

    Text: 19
    Tahara (Terah) will beget Avirama (Abraham), Nahura (Nahor), Harana (Haran).

    Text: 20
    They all become Mleccha by the curse of Saraswati and they will speak Mleccha language but Samskrita (Sanskrit) will be the language of Bharata Desham (India).

    Text: 22
    But these people (Mleccha) will go to another country and prosper there as Mlecchas in that country, but originally belonging to Bhara Desham.

    Text: 29
    2000 years after the prosperity of Mlecchas the whole world will be full of mixed people.

    Text: 30
    Some divine sage will stay on the shores of river Saraswathi. One great leader of Mlecchas, Moosha (Moses) wil arise.

    Text: 31
    At that time in Kali Yuga there will not be true worship of God, the true Vedic language is lost and the Mleccha language will be of four types.

    Citaion.

    Bible Family Tree in Bhavishya Purana

  • Jesus ‘mentally ill suffered from paranoia’ Bible Not Historic Study

    I chanced upon this.

    I thought about skipping it.

    But the names associated with it included A. Schweitzer.

    Worth reading.

    That the Bible was concocted is a fact, that it was compiled by Emperor Constantine to suit his political ambition is true.

    As to Christ, I doubt he existed,

    Please read my post on this.

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    Dead Christ supported_by the madonna and saint John pieta

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    Even those who deny that Jesus existed – and I am one of them – must agree that whether the gospels are true or not they don’t give us any confidence in the sanity of Jesus Christ.  Even if Jesus didn’t exist the gospels could have been based on stories about eccentrics and fairly obscure prophets of the time who did exist. 

     

    If we can prove that the Jesus Christ in them was mad then that is all we need to destroy Christianity.  It would mean that the apostles he chose and the Church he founded were all very silly people indeed.  It would mean that we have to be on guard against any other religious movement because if Christianity was founded on the ravings of a madman and was such a success any other religion could have been the same.

     

    We can be sure that there is no evidence for Jesus’ sanity and plenty of evidence against it.

     

    You will see plenty of Christian books written in defence of the faith that deny that Jesus was mentally ill and claim that he was the sanest person that ever lived.

     

    It is possible that Jesus was a manic-depressive.  He said he was the light of the world (John 9:5) and the only way to God (John 14:6) and the unique Son of God (John 17).  That is the sign of severe mania.  He was unnaturally full of himself.  Even if it were true, we would expect him to let others say he was this great being instead of him trying to convince him.  If he really had the power to influence people through using the Holy Spirit he did not need to make such declarations.”

     

    The following information is worth thinking about as it throws quite a few questions about Bible and Jesus.

    ‘This study was published in Dutch as: Jezus de Messias. Was het christendom een vergissing ? Antwerpen, EPO, and as:Toen God sliep schreef de mens de Bijbel. De bijbel belicht door een psycholoog. Antwerpen, Facet.

    Summary.

    This psychopathological study of the Gospel resulted in a revolutionary view on the personality of Jesus and his life, the sources of his spirituality and ideas. The hypothesis of paraphreny was able to explain a number of otherwise unexplained events. Did Jesus survive the crucifixion ? Is the Apocalypse the first Christian document, earlier than the letters of Paul ? Was the resurrection a myth? These questions find an answer in this study.

     

    About 1910 three competent psychiatrists: Ch. Binet-Sangle, G.L.De Loosten (G. Lomer) and W. Hirsch concluded after thorough examination of the texts, that Jesus was mentally ill and suffered from paranoia. They were criticised by A. Schweitzer who alleged that from an historical point of view most texts were dubious or certainly not historic, e.g. the quotations from the Gospel of St. John, and from a medical point of view that the alleged symptoms of paranoia or another mental disease were misunderstood.
    Three objections seemed essential: first: there is no certainty about the historical truth of the texts, secondly: what seems to us like a symptom was possibly a normal trait, a cultural feature in that civilisation, thirdly: there are not enough sure elements in order to found on them a safe judgment.

    If witnesses describe in a text correctly (according to modern psychopathology) a number of elements (symptoms) and if these symptoms are coherent and can be identified with a known syndrome, while these witnesses ignored completely psychopathology and moreover intended to prove a very different interpretation of the facts (a faulty one), there can be no more doubt about the authenticity of the described facts.

    The decision consequently about the historicity of the facts will no more depend upon mere philological criteria, but also upon psychopathological ones. Schweitzer supposes incorrectly, that the philological criteria are the only ones that can decide about historicity; in fact: the psychopathological control is more efficient and safe. So the first objection of Schweitzer is eliminated.

    The second objection of Schweitzer, that symptoms may be misunderstood cultural features, is at least superficial. It is very clear that the true pathological nature of the observed symptoms is culture-independent, although they may be coloured by the cultural background. Unadapted and strange behaviour as it is seen by extraneous observers, is on account of this fact itself matched against the own cultural background of the observers, but if this background is identical with the background of the subject no cultural interference exists any more. Therefore it is important to study the reaction of the own cultural milieu of the subject…

    In the Gospel of Mark a child is described, possessed by the devil. The features, found in the text, are all coherent with the syndrome of epilepsy and especially with an infantile type: perinatal infection of the ear with inflammatory complications, causing thrombo-phlebitis in the brain with the consequence of epileptic seizures and deaf-muteness. In the text of Mark all symptoms are precisely described: the child is mute, falls in the water and the fire (loss of conscience), utters a cry and is agitated, has foam on his mouth, becomes like dead and after a while is “cured”.
    2000 years ago nobody was aware of the true nature of epilepsy and the typical features in young children. (Hippocrates described the epilepsy as a disease, but we can consider that this was largely ignored in Judaea.)
    In the Bible numerous texts mention the hearing of voices, especially the voice of God. Current exegesis (Kittel, Theologisches Woerterbuch des Neuen Testaments, s.v. “Phone”) interbreeds these texts as metaphorical: hearing the voice of God is simply the expression for a vocation by God. However in psychopathology “hear a voice” is a current expression for an auditive (sensory) hallucination. Often the voice heard is identified as the voice of God. So the question is, if the voices heard by Jesus ( Baptism, desert, Thabor) were hallucinatory ones as even Schweitzer suggests.
    The narrative of the baptism of Jesus shows a text-evolution. In the Gospel: as Mark says that Jesus saw the Heaven opened, Matthew says that the heaven opened and that Jesus saw a bird… Luke lays a heavy accent on the physical appearance of a dove and eliminates any allusion to a vision, John adds the testimony of John the Baptist, the latter saw the ghost… The text-evolution seems to intend to change a subjective vision into an objective happening. Of course Mark has always the most original version: Jesus saw the heaven opened, he saw a bird, he heard a voice. This is the evidence, if one considers the complete narrative of Jesus baptism and his stay in the desert. Psychopathological investigation discovers in Mark, Luke and Matthew, regardless of the fact that especially Luke adapted the original version, a number of well-known symptoms of an hallucinatory state: hearing the voices of God and the devil, seeing wild beasts (zoopsie), having the impression to fly (vestibular hallucination), having visions of the whole world, suffering from anorexia (fasting). In that light the vision of the Baptism also is certainly another manifestation of this hallucinatory state: a well-localised (heavenly) vision, seeing a light (opening of heaven) , of a bird, the hearing of a voice, communicating a grandiose genetic message (you are my beloved son), a voice speaking in the second person as hallucinatory voices often do.
    Date Contradcition about the date of birth of Jesus
    It is important to see the essential difference between the Gospel of Infancy and the baptism-Thabor episode. Most biblical students see the Gospel of Infancy as a mythical corpus in the New Testament and they mention numerous reasons. First there are the chronological contradictory data. According to Matthew Jesus should be born (between 6 and 4 B.C.) during the reign of the great Herod, who died in 4 B.C.; the census which according to Luke, obliged the parents to travel to Bethlehem, was executed by Quirinius, who according to the precise indications of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian, became procurator of Syria in 7 A.D.., i.e. 11 to 12 years later. Furthermore the beginning of Jesus public life, when he was about thirty years, is situated by Luke (3,1) in the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius (1 October 27-30 September 28). According to that indication Jesus should be born in 4-3 B.C . The historians never solved these difficulties.
    Secondly: the divergence between Matthew and Luke is striking. For Luke an angel appears to Mary and to Elizabeth. For Matthew each event is predicted in the Old Testament; for Luke the quotations of the O.T. are replaced by occasional prophecies by Hannah and Simeon. For Matthew a star appears, magicians come, there is a flight to Egypt and a killing of innocents by the great Herod. For Luke there are only shepherds, angels and music, the circumcision in the Temple and a simple return to Nazareth. He does not mention Egypt, or the Innocents. In the Protevangelium Jacobi another series of divergent elements can be found. Herod kills Zechariah, while John is sought for; there is no star, no magicians, no prophecies, only the angels and their message to Mary and to Elizabeth.
    Thirdly: the only elements, which all witnesses have in common are: 1° the exceptional pregnancy of Mary, 2° the hesitation of Joseph, 3° the birth of Jesus, 4° the  exceptional sphere of wonders. Each witness surrounds these historical events with a scenery of marvellous elements of his own…
    As has been said, if all symptoms coherently are in accordance with a well-known syndrome, there can be no more doubt about the historical truth of the described facts because it was impossible in Hebrew antiquity to describe accurately and correctly what twenty centuries later became known as a mental disease without having observed it. The fact that can be shown is that in the Gospel an image is found of Jesus, which is entirely coherent with the syndrome of paraphrenia, and that it is quite sure that this was not the intention of the authors of the Gospel. Nothing specifically divine or even superior is noted. Paraphrenia has to be understood as a mental disease sometimes also classified in the category of paranoia and opposed to schizophrenia. In opposition to the schizophrenic the paraphrenic remains adapted to his milieu, has a coherent thinking and a well-organised behaviour. Generally hallucinations are rare, but initiate a delusional state, often with a grandiose genetic theme. The paraphrenic is very sensitive to the opposition against his ideas: he is often full of resentment and hate. This is exactly the image the Gospel has painted of Jesus. If miracles are the only argument for the supposed divinity of Jesus, one must take into account that a number of these are certainly pseudo-miracles (cf. the epileptic child ‘(Mc. 9) or the possessed of Gerasa (Mc. 5)).
    Citation from the research Papers.
    * This Post is to present diverse views.I have posted artciles on Objectiobale material in Hinduism,Islam as well.
    So do not conclude this is Christianity bashing.
    Contradicting views with research welcome.

  • Why Islam Is Violent, A Christian View.

    I chanced upon an article which was interesting and I am sharing it here.

    It states that,

    ‘

    Yet when we consider that, historically, geographically, and, most importantly, theologically, Islam is remarkably continuous with both Judaism and Christianity, we should see that this is a question that must be raised.  After all, Jews, Christians, and Muslims are of one mind in affirming the divine origins of the Hebrew Scriptures, monotheism, the personal nature of God, God’s justice and compassion, the creation of the world, the orderliness and goodness of the world, and the irreducible individuality of the human person.

    Christianity Violence on the Non believers
    Violence in Christianity

    Despite these fundamental similarities, it is the followers of Islam alone that have never stopped slaughtering in the name of their God.  Why?..

     

    ‘As some critics have plausibly argued, monotheism, being a sort of one size-fits-all concept, expresses a moral universalism that, like all such universalisms, can and has bred arrogance and intolerance in those who endorse it.  Judaism and Christianity, however, have tempered this vision.  Islam, though, has not.  In fact, it is precisely in the Muslim’s objections to Judaism and Christianity that this becomes most clear.

    From the Muslim’s perspective, neither Judaism nor Christianity is truly monotheistic.  Judaism has always revolved around the historically andculturally-specific experiences of a particular people—i.e. “the Chosen People,” the Jews.  And Christianity, with its doctrines of the Blessed Trinity (God is Three Persons in One) and the Incarnation (God entered the flux of history by becoming a man in Christ), compromises monotheism even further.’

    Judaism  Christianity and Islam share common geographical location and legends.

    Christianity  Non-Violent?

    Spanish Inquisitions, Bloody Mary,Crusades are some examples of Tolerance.

    Then came and it still exists, carrots, in the form of Money,free Education, Vatican Budget for conversion.

    Christianity  has ‘mellowed’ because it has found a  better tool for conversion, persuasion, and the use of Money, both to individuals and Government.

    Islam has not learnt it or refuses to learn this from Christianity.

    Pot calling the kettle black?

    As to Monotheism, where is it in Christianity except in few references in The Bible, there too you would find the father being mentioned apologetically.

    Curiously the author has rolled father, Son and the Holy Spirit into One!

    Compared to it, Islam is Monotheistic , if not Monistic.

    “The Bible is a historical narrative.  It is this narrative framework that constrains the range of interpretations that the text lends.  It is the Bible’s sequential ordering of events, its meticulous attention to details, to context, that informs its message regarding the One, True God.’

    The Bible was prepared edited and published by Constantine ,period.(see my posts on this)

    ”

    The Koran has no narrative.  Rather, it is essentially a collection of divinely issued moral precepts that, devoid as they are of context, are meant to pertain to all peoples—everywhere.  In ignoring the context of its emergence and development, Islam also neglects the contexts of those upon whom it seeks to impose itself.

    This explains why Islam has not, cannot, assimilate to any institutional arrangements that allow a separation of some sort or other between the eternal and temporal spheres.  It is this that accounts for why Islam appears incapable of co-existing for long with any and all potential competitors.

    Christianity was institutionalized by Constantine and we know what the Church has done or is doing, including keeping mum during the holocaust.

    When a religion is institutionalized it ceases to be free and religion loses its moral force.

    And finally is Christianity tolerant?

    Source for discussion.

    http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jack-kerwick/why-islam-leads-to-violence/

    Related;

    The first item is to define violence. The only violence that matters to someone outside of Islam, Christianity, or Judaism is what they do to the “other,” or political violence. Cain killing Abel is not political violence. Political violence is not killing a lamb for a meal or making an animal sacrifice. Note that regardless of whether a vegan or a PETA member considers both of these actions violent, neither constitutes violence against vegans or PETA members.

     

    The next item is to compare the doctrines both quantitatively and qualitatively. The political violence of the Koran is called “fighting in Allah’s cause,” or jihad.

     

    We must do more than measure the jihad in the Koran. Islam has three sacred texts: Koran, Sira, and Hadith, or the Islamic Trilogy. The Sira is Mohammed‘s biography. The Hadith are his traditions — what he did and said. Sira and Hadith form the Sunna, the perfect pattern of all Islamic behavior.

     

    The Koran is the smallest of the three books, also called the Trilogy. It is only 16% of the Trilogy text[1]. This means that the Sunna is 84% of the word content of Islam’s sacred texts. This statistic alone has large implications. Most of the Islamic doctrine is about Mohammed, not Allah. The Koran says 91 different times that Mohammed’s is the perfect pattern of life. It is much more important to know Mohammed than the Koran. This is very good news. It is easy to understand a biography ab out a man. To know Islam, know Mohammed.

     

    It turns out that jihad occurs in large proportion in all three texts. Here is a chart about the results:
    It is very significant that the Sira devotes 67% of its text to jihad. Mohammed averaged an event of violence every six weeks for the last nine years of his life. Jihad was what made Mohammed successful. Here is a chart of the growth of Islam.

  • Mother Teresa Blog,Comment, Origin of The Bible.

    For my post ‘Mother Teresa, No Saint, Glorified Suffering Media Creation, I received a comment and i have sent a reply.

    I felt that the reply can be posted as a Blog for others also to know the story behind The Bible and the Role of Constantine.

    Emperor Constantine
    Emperor Constantine
    Eastern Orthodox icon depicting the First Council of Nicea
    Eastern Orthodox icon depicting the First Council of Nicea
    “hi,
    Thank you for your comments.
    My comment on the subject is based  on
    1.That the bible was compiled and not revealed ;
    2.It was compiled by Constantine after calling for a Conclave of Cardinals.
    3.They were asked to choose among some three hundred versions of the Life and preaching of Christ..
    4.Constantine chose one Text it would keep his regime in tact , in the wake of protests in his regime..
    He also wanted a temporal authority to control this Religion and ensured that he created one that would support the Regime.
    This is the origin of papacy.
    Now, why one should go by this ‘Beatification’ by a body is ,fist of all , Political by Nature?
    Mother Teresa is one who is by The Church and she was involved in Conversions and the medical Miracles are not.miracles?
    Kindly refer my posts on Christianity for more on Christianity.

    —

    Ref:Constantine had invited all 1800 bishops of the Christian church (about 1000 in the east and 800 in the west), but a smaller and unknown number attended. Eusebius of Caesarea counted 220,[19] Athanasius of Alexandria counted 318,[20] and Eustathius of Antioch counted 270[21] (all three were present at the council). Later, Socrates Scholasticus recorded more than 300,[22] and Evagrius,[23] Hilary of Poitiers,[24] Jerome[25] and Rufinus recorded 318. Delegates came from every region of the Roman Empire except Britain. In Ethiopic Christian literature including both theFetha Negest and the Kibre Negest, the First Council of Nicea (Niqya) is traditionally referred to as “the three hundred and eighteen Orthodox Fathers”.

    The participating bishops were given free travel to and from their episcopal sees to the council, as well as lodging. These bishops did not travel alone; each one had permission to bring with him two priests and three deacons; so the total number of attendees could have been above 1800. Eusebius speaks of an almost innumerable host of accompanying priests, deacons and acolytes.

    A special prominence was also attached to this council because the persecution of Christians had just ended with the Edict of Milan, issued in February of AD 313 by Emperors Constantine and Licinius.

    The Eastern bishops formed the great majority. Of these, the first rank was held by the three patriarchs: Alexander of Alexandria, Eustathius of Antioch, and Macarius of Jerusalem. Many of the assembled fathers—for instance, Paphnutius of Thebes, Potamon of Heraclea and Paul of Neocaesarea—had stood forth as confessors of the faith and came to the council with the marks of persecution on their faces. This position is supported by patristic scholar Timothy Barnes in his book Constantine and Eusebius.[26] Historically, the influence of these marred confessors has been seen as substantial, but recent scholarship has called this into question.[27]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

    According to Professor John Crossan of Biblical Studies at DePaul University the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (274-337 CE), (a bust of Constantine is pictured below) who was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity, needed a single canon to be agreed upon by the Christian leaders to help him unify the remains of the Roman Empire. Until this time the various Christian leaders could not decide which books would be considered “holy” and thus “the word of God” and which ones would be excluded and not considered the word of God.

    http://www.deism.com/bibleorigins.htm

    * The Comment may be seen on Mother Theresa post by me.

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