Dr. Janice Helena Hawkins November 11, 2013 at 8:45 pm Error – Historical evidence that proves “Jesus Christ” never existed and was created by Constantine (Romans) on April 25, 2013 at 1:26 am The Council of Nicea – The Council that created Jesus Christ The author of this piece has strung together a number of separate ideas to support his theory that Jesus the Christ was created by Constantine and never existed. Ptolemy 1 was credited for combining to create Amun-Ra, a solar creator god as early as the fifth dynasty. Amun-Ra was given the official title “king of the gods” by worshippers, and images show the combined deity as a red-eyed man with a lion’s head that had a surrounding solar disk. The sculpture pictured is a rather common form of Grecian statuary. Any art student from the Renaissance era was inspired by Grecian and roman art, as subsequently found it had nothing to do with the actual appearance of Jesus who had no statues or paintings of Him during His time on earth. Ptolemy sent great assistance to Rhodes when it was besieged by Demetrius (305/304) during a war. Pausanias reports that the grateful Rhodians bestowed the name Soter (“saviour”) upon him. This was a practical rather than a spiritual title given by a grateful people. To draw a parallel between Ptolemy or Amon Ra on the translation of a specific single term “savior” is erroneous for a number of reasons. The Bible only uses the term savior only once in regard to Jesus. His mother Mary said: “My soul exalts the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior Luke (1:46-47). The word Savior simply means a person who rescues another from harm, danger, or loss as Ptolemy did 300 hundred years earlier and it is commonly used among Christians to describe Jesus’ role in our lives. Ptolemy I’s created a deity that would be worshipped by both the Egyptians and the Greeks. Serapis was devised during the 3rd century BC on the orders of Ptolemy I of Egypt combined iconography from a great many cults, representing both abundance and resurrection. The cult survived until all forms of religion other than Nicene Christianity were suppressed or abolished under Theodosius I in 391. The name Jesus Christ is more faithfully rendered Jesus THE Christ, Christ meaning “anointed one”. It is a title rather than a last name. Jesus natural name would have been Jesus bar Joseph (Jesus son of Joseph) as Joseph was His mother’s husband at the time of His birth. So no you wouldn’t see Jesus Christ or Jesus the Savior This scholar bases his belief that the cult of Serapis and Christianity melded based on an alleged single letter from Hadrian to Servianus 134 AD. The ultimate source for this argument is a work by Robert Taylor called the Diegesis, which quotes an alleged letter of Emperor Hadrian to his brother-in-law Servianus… there is more to the quote: It goes on to speak of rulers of Jewish synagogues, Samaritans, and presbyters of the church, and Hadrian says that there are none of these “who is not either an astrologer, a soothsayer, or a minister to obscene pleasures,” and though they proclaim allegiance to either Serapis or Christ, their only real god is money. this letter is actually quoted by Flavius Vopiscus (a historian writing in 300 AD!), who in turn is said to be quoting Phlegon, a freedman of Hadrian generally regarded it as “spurious. This author’s claim there were no previous proofs of the life of Christ ignores Flavius Josephus (a.k.a. Joseph ben Matityahu in Hebrew) was a Jew who is considered one of the definitive scholars of that time. The earliest description of Jesus outside of the Gospels is found in Josephus’ Jewish Antiquities circa the year 90. Or Clement of Alexandria (c. 150 – 215) (Titus Flavius Clemens) was an early African Christian philosopher and one of the most distinguished teachers of the Church of Alexandria. He is known for his attempt to unite North Africans who were the first to receive and embrace the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The early church in North Africa went through severe persecutions A.D. 64 thru 311. In response, the church established the Catechetical Schools of Alexandria, among other similar schools of Christian truction. Many significant leaders of the faith emerged from the early African church. All of which predate Constantine’s Nicene council. the Ethiopian Church originated with a royal official baptized by Philip the Evangelist during the time of Jesus (between 30 and 60 A.D.). “Then the angel of the Lord said to Philip, Start out and go south to the road that leads down from Jerusalem to Gaza. So he set out and was on his way when he caught sight of an Ethiopian. This man was a eunuch, a high official of the Kandake (Candace) Queen of Ethiopia in charge of all her treasure”. (Acts, 8:26-27) The Ethiopic version of this verse reads “Hendeke” (ህንደኬ); Queen Gersamot Hendeke VII was the Queen of Ethiopia from ca. 42 to 52. Orthodox Christianity became the established church of the Ethiopian Axumite Kingdom under king Ezana in the 4th century .One of the few pre-colonial Christian churches of sub-Saharan Africa, the Ethiopian Church has a membership of between 40 and 45 million the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is the longest continuous Christian church to this day. Note the dates Constantine the Greek (a.k.a Constantine the Great) Roman Emperor from 306 to 337, is known for being the first Roman emperor to be converted to Christianity; This document is a mixture of opinion, conjecture and poorly researched facts. Dates are mixed; entire experts are ignored while hearsay is held up as fact. It is of course anyone’s choice as to what they believe but to attack the views of others is ill advised if you haven’t done you own homework. It is also not wise to start with an assumption and then only document “stuff” that supports it. BTW it is already established fact that Christianity did not start in Europe – get a clue. Author, do your research.
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