Evidence for Jesus and Parallel Pagan . All the pagan names linked above appear in a scrolling background graphic of the DVD. As a Catholic, those are the claims that interest me. Christianity. Flemming's commentary dealing. Protestant fundamentalism, dispensationalism (the. Other sources that make. I've combined a few of Flemming's. Bridge, Cobra, Corpse, Dog,/Cat, Downward Dog, Forward Bend, Half Shoulderstand, Head to Knee, Mountain, Sit/Easy Position, Triangle, Warrior I, Warrior II. Be kind to yourself when you practice yoga. This process of self-mummification was mainly practiced in Yamagata in. There is not an attempt in Part 1 to prove the. Part 2: The Evidence for Jesus). So for Jesus Christ from the New Testament we have the following : The prominent three . They are. mentioned in short interview clips with unsuspecting Christians leaving. Billy Graham crusade. So the. argument goes: All of. If you have 20 minutes, add these poses to your sequence. Paschimottanasana (Seated Forward Bend) 1 minute . Exhale and stretch your spine long. A term coined by art critic Harold Rosenberg in 1952 to describe the work of artists who painted with gestures that involved more than just the traditional use of the fingers and wrist to paint, including also. Jesus is on par with Dionysos, Mithras, and. Osiris. If one has. However, the information on them is. My main source is going to be the multi- volume The Encyclopedia of. Religion (1. 98. Mircea Eliade (see also the 2. The prominent three 'parallel pagan' gods appear to be Dionysos (spelled Dionysis or Dionysus in the DVD), Mithras, and Osiris so I want to pay special attention to these three. They are mentioned in short. The 33rd Parallel - Masonic Line of Death for Psychic Energy Geo-Spatial Alignment of Ssouthern Death Rows & Abu Ghraib as Evidence of Human Sacrifice Ritual to Superhuman Entities for Temporal Power 2005 12 29. The story of Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody follows 29-year-old programmer who is on a 'death march,' but one day he wakes up in another world after a nap. From a meteor shower he happens to gain vast. Matthew Henry Commentary 21:22,23 By the law of Moses, the touch of a dead body was defiling, therefore dead bodies must not be left hanging, as that would defile the land. There is one reason here which has reference to. It has found the 'God particle', but the Large Hadron Collider could soon detect a 'parallel universe'. The 'atom smasher' at Cern in Geneva is now operating at its highest level in a bid to detect miniature black holes, which.Lindsay Jones). Please visit your local public or. To repeat what skeptic Richard. Carrier says in the DVD. Then they'll put it on a. And then hundreds, thousands. Christians will read this and believe it because they assume, well this guy wouldn't lie. He wouldn't have made this stuff up. And so they go and repeat it. And so you get the lie repeated many times, mostly. And I. wish more people would. This . Surely, with so many. Saviors the world cannot, or should not, be lost. He was therefore not a. The. supposed . Most scholars immediately recognize many of his findings as unsupported and dismiss Graves as useless. After all, a scholar who rarely cites a source isn't useful to have as a reference even if he is. In general, even when the evidence is real, it often only appears many years after Christianity began, and thus might be evidence of diffusion in the other direction. While Flemming rejects the idea. DVD has anything to do with Kersey Graves' book, nevertheless the. And. Robert Price from the DVD: . And nobody thinks that. And their stories are so. Frazer The Golden Bough (1st. This theme was repeated by other scholars of. Joseph Campbell who edited Pagan and Christian. Mysteries (1. 95. The Hero with a Thousand. Faces (originally 1. PBS series . The majority of evidence for Near. Eastern dying and rising deities occurs in Greek and Latin texts of. Christian in date. All the. deities that have been identified as belonging to the class of dying and. In the first case, the deities. There is no unambiguous instance in the history of religions. Nock, Bruce. Metzger, and Gunter Wagner, it eventually fell out of fashion. Mettinger of Lund. University in Sweden, wrote a recent. He nonetheless admits. Those who still think differently are looked upon as. The situation during. Dumuzi / Tammuz. and that the ideas of a resurrection in connection with Adonis are very. The references to a resurrection of Adonis have been dated mainly. Christian Era.. Frazer's category was broad and all. To Frazer, Osiris, Tammuz, Adonis, and Attis were all. He explicitly identified Tammuz and Adonis. The category of. dying and rising deities as propagated by Frazer can no longer be. Mettinger, The Riddle of Resurrection. Nash examines in detail Hellenistic philosophy, the mystery. Gnosticism and their relationship to early Christianity. He. concludes: ? Was. Christianity a synthesis of ideas and practices borrowed from. To the extent that key words. I highly recommend this book as a. Christian reply to the . For a summary, see my Conclusion. Christianity versus Pagan . Paul, early Christianity, and. Jesus, see Mike. Licona's Review of . Despite an original Semitic provenance, there is no native mythology; what we know depends on later Greek, Roman, and Christian interpretations. The extant myth depicts Adonis being born from an incestuous union between Cinyras and his daughter Smyrna, who is turned into a myrrh tree from which Adonis is born. Zeus or Calliope decrees Adonis should spend part of the year in the. Aphrodite, and part in the lower- world with Persephone. There is no suggestion of Adonis rising. Combining the two forms, Adonis' alteration between the upper and lower worlds precedes his death. Only late texts, largely influenced by Christians, claim a subsequent day of celebration for Adonis having been raised from the dead. The earliest of these is alleged to be the 2nd century. AD ambiguous report of Lucian (Syrian Goddess 6- 7) that, on the . Lucian reports after the . AD) and Jerome (c. AD), commenting on Ezekiel 8: 1. Cyril of Alexandria (c. AD), commenting on Isaiah 1. There is no evidence for the existence of any mysteries of Adonis where a member of the cult was identified with Adonis or his fate. She became known in. Rome as Magna Mater (. She is. also known under variants Cybebe, Cybelis, and at Locri in Italy, Cybala. From Phrygia the cult probably passed to. Sardis, capital of the kingdom of Lydia, and to Hellenic cities of Asia. Minor and Europe. In several places, the cult of Cybele was combined. Attis (sometimes spelled Attys or Atys). In the picture (right), Cybele is depicted next to her lover Attis. She holds a tympanum and a staff. Next to her is her sacred animal the lion. The fact that Attis is shown as equal in size to Cybele suggests that in this case he was being worshipped as a god in his own right. Usually, humans appear smaller than gods in such. BC, discovered in a Greek city in Italy, now in Venice Museo. Archeologico). From a distinction originally made by Hugo Hepding (1. In the latter version, the sources in. Ovid, Pausanias, and Arnobius. In the account by. Ovid, Attis is a beautiful Phrygian youth who consecrates himself to. Cybele but then betrays her with the tree- nymph Sagaritis who dies from. Attis is driven mad. In one variation he is transformed into. Ovid in Metamorph X vv. Ibis, vv. 5. 05- 5. Lancellotti. page 2, note 4). In the Arnobius version (Adv nat V, 5- 7), Attis. In no sense is this a death. Attis' death is from loss of blood by his own castration. In this longer Arnobius version, Attis' mother is Nana, the daughter. King Sangarius. She became pregnant and conceived Attis from a pomegranate fruit produced. Agdistis the fierce hunter, after an attempt by Liber to. Endowed with extraordinary beauty, Attis. Cybele along with Agdistis, both who were born. Agdistis begged Jupiter . Satisfied with these favours, Agdistis consecrated the dead. Pessinous and honoured him with yearly ceremonies and. In the Phrygian version, Attis is killed by. Lydian version, he is killed by a boar. In neither. case is there any question of his returning to life. Two late, post- Christian. Naassene. Sermon and the . The Day of Joy is a late addition to what was once a three- day. Day of Blood was followed by a purificatory ritual. The Day of. Joy in the cult celebrated Cybele, not Attis. The sole text that connects the Day of Joy with Attis is a. AD biography of Isidore the Dialectician by the. Neoplatonic philosopher Damascius who reports that Isidore once had a. Attis and the Day of Joy was celebrated in his. The ritual of the taurobolium (bull slaying) came to be. AD and was. frequently performed as an explicit homage to the emperor. At least in. the fourth century AD the taurobolium was a kind of. There are some scholars who even question the. Baal has long been known from the Old. Testament (see Numbers 2. Judges 6; 1 Kings 1. Hosea 2; Jeremiah 9). His sister. and consort was the goddess Anat. He is alternately the son of El and. Dagan. To assume that Baal, Yamm, and Mot were the three. El seems to fit better the context of the Baal myths. The. cult of Baal took particular forms based on geographic locales: Baal- Peor. Baal- Sidon, Baal- Gebal, and others. The Old Testament expression. The most common. epithets for Baal are . Baal and. his entourage descend into the belly of the underworld and the earth is. Baal can no longer bring the. In a rage, Anat attacks Mot, cuts him up and sows him in the. The death of Mot allows Baal to revive and bring back fertility. Unfortunately, the order of incidents in. After some initial hesitation. Baal accepts the challenge and goes down. Anat descends and. Baal. is appointed. Anat seeks out and kills Mot. After another forty- line. El declares, based on a symbolic dream, that Baal still lives. Much depends on the order of incidents. The text appears to be. Baal is . In order to escape, he. Hadad's brothers eventually find. Nor is there any suggestion of an annual cycle of. The question whether Aliyan Baal is a . Apparently Brian Flemming didn't know this since he includes both. This is an attempt to have two . See Dionysos. for a complete evaluation of this deity and the comparison to Christ and. Christianity. TOPAgain, I'm not going to spend any time on the next three since they. Balder is a Norse deity, a son of Odin, whose mythology dates to the. AD. Soon after the complete introduction of Christianity in that country (A. D. Anderson, A. M., Professor of Scandinavian Languages in the University of Wisconsin, and Honorary Member of the Icelandic Literary Society. Holding muses (a reference to Back to the Future). Kersey Graves mentions Odin of the Scandinavians (page 3. Acharya S mentions Balder and Frey of Scandinavia in her book (page 1. Sources: see Norse. Mythology: Legends of Gods and Heroes by Peter Andreas Munch, and. Wikipedia article on Balder). TOPFlemming has already admitted his mistake on this one. It may be a corruption or variation of the. In an interview for the . It's in a background. And that's a mistake, that. What I did is I cut and pasted from a list of gods. I was researching to find out were these true or were they not, and I. Kersey Graves appears to have. And so people who say, you know, 'Kersey Graves is full of. Beddru thing, he only knows about it, it's probably false. And I'm going to change that in the second edition. DVD. We'll consider the case closed on Beddru. TOP (or Deva Tat)The same goes for this one. The source is Kersey Graves (page 3. No documentation is provided for. Apparently Kersey Graves and Acharya S think Deva Tat (and. Beddru) is a. distinct deity from Buddha since they include both in their lists.
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