The Christ Enigma - The Jesus Myth and the Gospel Code
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (699 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00A4GGNWO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 377 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Gary L said Important book for those seeking Truth. In recent years many authors have extrapolated the sketchy biblical accounts of the life of Jesus of Nazareth in an ongoing search for the "real Jesus." For instance, some authors have speculated as to whether it was Jesus who was actually crucified; or if it was him, perhaps he somehow survived the ordeal, and then went on to live out his life in India - or was it France?. A hidden treasure of wisdom Amazon Customer Wow. Just wow.I've been excited about the idea of Richard Carrier's super-book that's coming out next spring, "On the Historicity of Jesus," but this book got first punch. It covers almost everything I've ever heard about why the Gospels and Epistles are mythologies, and it covers them well. I don't know if I have any need to read Carrier's book after reading this one (but. "Fascinating debunking of Jesus myths and explanation of their symbolic sources" according to Bob Makransky. The Christ Enigma is a scholarly investigation into the historical Jesus; and it makes a good case for the fact that no such man ever existed. Page’s scrupulously documented research debunks pretty much everything which has ever been written about Jesus (starting with the Gospels). But at the same time he points out the “hidden”, encoded symbolism which u
There never was any Mary and Joseph, birth in Bethlehem, Sermon on the Mount, or Last Supper. For the gospels are much more than the life-story of the Man from Galilee - they are carefully contrived allegories, full of coded keywords that would have been known to the spiritually enlightened: Gnostics, Hermetics and Mystery initiates. For years now, scholars have known that much of the Christian Bible is the stuff of myth. In short, everything you thought you knew about the Jesus story is wrong. It's a brand new and controversial look at the New Testament - how it was really written, when and why. Then again, what if Jesus himself never existed? Can this ever be proven? The Christ Enigma also reveals the existence of the Gospel Code, known to scholars of the second and third centuries A.D. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The Bible is in serious conflict with known history, and though the New Testament includes undoubted historical figures (like Herod and Pilate), there never was any Slaughter of the Innocents when Jesus was born; not even a Crucifixion in Jerusalem. * The real source for the fictional Mary Magdalene * What evidence exists for a mythical Jesus * How the gospels are full of coded messages for ‘those in the know’* And how the Church maintains its ignorance about Jesus to this day. But