Quran's STUNNING Divine Miracles: [1] Allah Almighty also promised in several Divine Prophecies that He will show the Glorious Quran's Miracles to mankind: 1- The root letters for "message" and all of its derivatives occur 513 times throughout the Glorious Quran. Yet, all Praise and Glory are due to Allah Almighty Alone, the Prophets' and Messengers' actual names (Muhammad, Moses, Noah, Abraham, Lot etc....) were also all mentioned 513 times in the Glorious Quran. The detailed breakdown of all of this is thoroughly listed here. This Miracle is covered in 100s (hundreds) of Noble Verses.2- Allah Almighty said that Prophet Noah lived for 950 years. Yet, all Praise and Glory are due to Allah Almighty Alone, the entire Noble Surah (chapter Noah) is exactly written in 950 Letters. You can thoroughly see the accurate count in the scanned images.Coincidence? See 1,000s of examples [1]. Quran's Stunning Numerical & Scientific Miracles. |
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The Pagan
Origins of the Cross
By Abdullah Kareem
In reading the New Testament we must cease to think of the man Jesus, and
even of the “Son of God”, and think of him rather of the sun of god, for
this is a solar myth, and its dying hero, a dying sun. [1]
The cross is a pagan symbol that was adored in
Tertullian confessed that pagans worshipped crucified
saviors hanging on a cross.
"Crosses, moreover, we Christians neither venerate nor wish for. You indeed who consecrate gods of wood venerate wooden crosses, perhaps as parts of your gods. For your very standards, as well as your banners, and flags of your camps, what are they but crosses gilded and adorned? Your victorious trophies not only imitate the appearance of a simple cross, but also that of a man affixed to it." [1]
The pagan roots of Christianity are clearly indicated by
this confession. Tertullian was a Christian who later
became a Gnostic. He implies that Christians borrowed the sun-god myth.
(Wilkinson's Egyptians, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson 1837-41)
The Pagan philosopher and satirist Celsus
criticized Christians for trying to pass off the
Jesus story as a new revelation when it was actually an inferior imitation of
pagan myths. He asks:
Are these distinctive happenings unique to the Christians-and if so, how are they unique? Or are ours to be accounted myths and theirs believed? What reasons do the Christians give for the distinctiveness of their beliefs? In truth there is nothing at all unusual about what the Christians believe, except that they believe it to the exclusion of more comprehensive truths about God.
The early Christians were painfully
aware of such criticisms. How could Pagan myths which predated Christianity by
hundreds of years have so much in common
with the biography of the one and only savior Jesus? Desperate to come up with an explanation, the Church fathers resorted to one of the most absurd theories
ever advanced. From the time of Justin Martyr in the second century onward, they declared that the
Devil had plagiarized Christianity by anticipation in order to lead people
astray! Knowing that the true Son of God was literally to come and walk the Earth, the Devil had copied the
story of his life in advance of it happening and created the myths of Osiris-Dionysus.
The Church father Tertullian writes of the
Devil's diabolical mimicry in creating the Mysteries of Mithras:
The devil, whose business is to pervert the truth, mimics the exact circumstances of the Divine Sacraments. He baptizes his believers and promises forgiveness of sins from the Sacred Fount, and thereby initiates them into the religion of Mithras. Thus he celebrates the oblation of bread, and brings in the symbol of the resurrection. Let us therefore acknowledge the craftiness of the devil, who copies certain things of those that be Divine.
Studying the myths of the Mysteries it becomes
obvious why these early Christians resorted to such a desperate explanation. (The Jesus Mysteries, pp. 26-27)
The scholar Timothy Freke says:
The
Amazingly, the bishop Tertullian
believed Jesus was crucified, but he rejected the cross as pagan. This probably
means the
Tertullian used to mark the forehead with a cross:
"In all our travels and movements", says Tertullian
(De cor. Mil., iii), "in all our coming in and
going out, in putting of our shoes, at the bath, at the table, in lighting our
candles, in lying down, in sitting down, whatever employment occupieth us, we mark our foreheads with the sign of the
cross" [2]
It seems Tertullian acknowledged
Jesus died on a cross, but rejected wooden
crosses. Nevertheless, he unambiguously said that Christianity borrowed the
cross and the concept of “dying for the sins of mankind”. Therefore,
Christianity is rehashed paganism and the New Testament is recycled pagan myth!
The followers of Tammuz also marked the forehead with a cross!
A pagan sign of the mystic Tau of the Chaldeans and the Egyptians, this cross was a symbol of the
Roman god Mithras and the Greek Attis,
and their forerunner Tammuz, the Sumerian solar god, consort of the goddess Ishtar. Conveniently, the original form of the letter 'T'
was the initial letter of the god of Tammuz. During baptism ceremonies, this
cross was marked on the foreheads by the pagan priest. [3]
The cross symbol (T) was the original cross of
Jesus:
The cross of Christ, as experts seem to agree, was actually a bar placed
across the top of an upright, so it was not a cross at all. It was a “Tee” (T),
called “Taw” in Hebrew and “Tau” in Greek. So the
cross that the victim was suspended from was actually a crossbar, and perhaps
in those days this was called the cross. The “Taw” sign was the symbol of the
dying and rising god, Tammuz, and “Taw” was the sign that was made on the heads
of those marked for salvation by the god. So, crucifixion images might not be
as conventional as the ones based on the Catholic crucifix. [1]
After the Egyptian/Greek/Roman pagans converted to Christianity, “these
different signs of the cross were united in one large sign such as we now make.
In the
The early Christians of Egypt were accused of sun-worship:
A letter ascribed in the Augustan History to the Emperor Hadrian refers to the
worship of Serapis by residents of Egypt who
described themselves as Christians, and Christian worship by those claiming to
worship Serapis:
The land of Egypt, the praises of which you have been recounting to me, my dear
Servianus, I have found to be wholly light-minded,
unstable, and blown about by every breath of rumour.
There those who worship Serapis are, in fact, Christians,
and those who call themselves bishops of Christ are, in fact, devotees of Serapis. (Augustan History, Firmus et al. 8) [1]
The cross was adopted six hundred years after Jesus’ departure.
It will come as a surprise to many that the first known figure of a god on a
cross is a likeness of the sun god Orpheus from some three centuries B.C.E. The
crucifix on the amulet on the cover of The Jesus Mysteries, by Freke and Gandy, clearly depicts this image. (Tom Harper, The Pagan Christ, pp. 45-46)
"That which is now called the
Christian cross was originally no Christian emblem at all, but was the mystic Tau of the Chaldeans and
Egyptians -- the true original form of the letter T -- the initial of the name
of Tammuz [...] That mystic Tau was marked in baptism
on the foreheads of those initiated in the Mysteries, and was used in every
variety of way as a most sacred symbol. [...] The Vestal virgins of Pagan Rome
wore it suspended from their necklaces, as the nuns do now. The Egyptians did
the same [...] There is hardly a Pagan tribe where the cross has not been
found. The cross was worshipped by the Pagan Celts long before the incarnation
and death of Christ."
"The ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol of life -- the ankh, a tau cross surmounted by a loop and known as crux ansata -- was adopted and extensively used on Coptic
Christian monuments." (The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition,
1995, volume 3, page 753)
"A still more curious fact may be mentioned respecting this hieroglyphical character [the Tau], that the early Christians of Egypt adopted it [...] numerous inscriptions, headed by the Tau, are preserved to the present day on early Christian monuments." (Wilkinson's Egyptians, by Sir J. G. Wilkinson, volume 5, page 283-284)
The use of the cross as a
religious symbol in pre-Christian times, and among non-Christian peoples, may
probably be regarded as almost universal, and in very many cases it was
connected with some form of nature worship."
(The Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, 1910, volume 7, page 506)
Here is an excerpt from Misha'al ibn `Abdullah Al-Kadhi
The ancient Egyptians also adopted the cross as a religious symbol of their
pagan gods. Countless Egyptian drawings depict themselves holding crosses in
their hands. Among them, the Egyptian savior Horus is
depicted holding a cross in his hand. He is also depicted as an infant sitting
on his mother's knee with a cross on the seat they occupy. The most common of
the crosses used by these pagan Egyptians, the CRUX ANSATA, was later adopted
by the Christians.
The Egyptian savior, Osiris, the Egyptian god of the dead and the underworld, is sometimes represented holding out this cross to mortals signifying that this person has discarded mortality for the life to come.
Another cross has been unearthed
in
(Orpheus crucified)
The legendary stories of ‘man-god’ saviors dying for the sins of their people
(and rising three days later) were very common. Christianity is based on the sun-god
myth. In fact the whole religion was fabricated after the departure of Jesus. None of these saviors are historical,
but only personifications of the sun.
Here is an excerpt from Mather Walker’s essays:
Orpheus (from whom the Orphics received their name)
and Dionysus went to Hades and returned. The Christians created the tradition
that during the three days while Jesus was dead before his resurrection He went
to hell and preached to the souls in prison.
Significantly, Plato, who follows the Orphic and mystery teachings throughout
his dialogues, has the following to say, in the Republic II (362e), referring
to the just man:
"What they will say is this, that such being
his
disposition the just man will have to endure the lash,
the rack, chains, the branding iron in his eyes, and
finally, after every extremity of suffering, he will
be crucified."
The Orphics had a number of books which contained the details of their theology.These books have been lost, but I have no doubt this little jewel from Plato came straight from one of these. Dionysus was known by the name "Pentheus", i.e. "man of suffering." [1]
The Babylonian god Tammuz also died and resurrected.
Tammuz was a god of Assyria,
Trust, ye saints, your Lord
restored,
Trust ye in your risen Lord;
For the pains which Tammuz endured
Our salvation have procured.
Tammuz was crucified as an atonement offering: “Trust ye in God, for out of his loins salvation has come unto us.”
Julius Firmicus speaks of this God rising from the dead for
the salvation of the world. This saviour which long
preceded the advent of Christ, filled the same role in sacred history. (Warning: atheist website [2]
Christianity is based on the sun-god myth.
The doctrine of salvation by crucifixion had, like many of
the ancient forms of religious faith, an astronomical origin. The sun is hung
on a cross or crucified when it passes through the equinoxes. People in
northern climates were saved by the sun’s crucifixion when it crossed over the
equatorial line into the season of spring, at the vernal equinox at Easter, and
thereby gave out a saving heat and light to the world and stimulated the
generative organs of animal and vegetable life. (*)
This pagan festival is actually a combination of both
The scholar Tom Harper states:
“The divine teacher is called, is tested by the “adversary”, gathers disciples,
heals the sick, preaches the Good News about God’s kingdom, finally runs afoul
of his bitter enemies, suffers, dies, and is resurrected after three days. This
is the total pattern of the sun god in all the ancient dramas”. (The Pagan Christ, p. 145)
When the Council of Nicea took place, the Emperor
Constantine
- Declared the
Roman Sun-day to be the Christian Sabbath.
- Adopted the
traditional birthday of the Sun-god, and the twenty-fifth of December, as the
birthday of Jesus;
- Borrowed the emblem of the Sun-god, the cross of light, to be the emblem of Christianity;
- And, although the statue of Jesus
replaced the idol of the Sun-god, decided to incorporate all the ceremonies
which were performed at the Sub-gods birthday celebrations into their own
ceremonies.
Christianity betrays the True Jesus as portrayed in the Quran,
and there is no other alternative but to accept the True Jesus. The only
Revelation of God that does not degrade Jesus is the Quran.
All other Scriptures must be abrogated in favor of the Quran
alone.
Here is the evidence for my assertions.
The fertilizing winter sun having been crucified,
and the summer sun risen into the heavens in resurrection, the blood of the
grape, ripened by its the heat, was symbolically “the
blood of the cross,” or “the blood of the Lamb.” Jesus is not the true vine for
no reason.
Because of our Christian culture and its imagery, the cross is necessarily the
instrument of the saviour god’s torture. However,
because the celestial origin of crucifixion in solar myths is that the sun
crosses over the celestial equator, the heavenly sign of the equinoxes, the
image of a crossover in the sky would be a cross like the Greek letter Chi (X)
not a Plus (+). (Warning: Atheist website [1])
The evidence that Christianity was in its beginnings firmly rooted in an
Egyptian-style, equinoctial mode of thinking still abounds today. The birthday
of Jesus Christ was first celebrated by the earliest Church in the spring of
the year. But in 345, Pope Julius decreed that the birthday (nobody knew any
precise date for it, suggesting again that the entire thing was pure myth) should
thenceforth be held on December 25, three days after the “death” of the winter
solstice and the same day on which the births of Mithras,
Dionysus, the Sol Invictus
(unconquerable sun), and several other gods were traditionally celebrated. (Tom Harper, The Pagan
Christ, p. 82).
The sun is born on the 25th of
December, the birthday of Jesus Christ. The first and greatest of the
labors of Jesus Christ is his victory over the serpent, the evil principle, or
the devil. In his first labor Hercules strangled the serpent, as did Krishna,
Bacchus, etc. his is the sun triumphing over the powers of hell and darkness;
and, as he increases, he prevails, till he is crucified in the heavens, or is
decussated in the form of a cross (according to Justin Martyr) when he passes
the equator at the vernal equinox. (Lloyd
Graham, Myths and Deceptions of the Bible, p. 208)
"Although surprising to us now, to writers of the first few
centuries CE these similarities between the new Christian religion and the
ancient Mysteries were extremely obvious. Pagan critics of Christianity, such
as the satirist Celsus, complained that this recent
religion was nothing more than a pale reflection of their own ancient
teachings. Early 'Church Fathers,' such as Justin Martyr, Tertullian,
and Irenaeus, were understandably disturbed and
resorted to the desperate claim that these similarities were the result of diabolical
mimicry. Using one of the most absurd arguments ever advanced, they accused
the Devil of "plagiarism by anticipation," of deviously copying the
true story of Jesus before it had actually happened in an attempt to mislead
the gullible!" Timothy
Freke & Peter Gandy (1999).
Julius Firmicus was a Christian author of the fourth century.
He wrote a book called "The Errors of the Profane Religions." He
found that many of these pagan religions of the Roman world had Saviors or
Redeemers. He learned that every year the birth of these gods was celebrated,
often in mid-winter, and every year, often about the time of our Easter, the
death and resurrection of the gods were celebrated. He discovered that in some
of these religions bread and wine were used at the altar, and candles and
incense and sacred water were part of the ritual. (Joseph McCabe (1867-1955) The Story of Religious Controversy. Chapter 2)
“The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of
the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the
Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.” Thomas
Paine, The Age of
Reason
The desperate response by Christians to solve these parallels is weak
because the Gospel story doesn’t have to be
100% plagiarized! For example, Osiris was ripped to pieces and restored to
life, but Jesus was never “ripped to pieces and restored to life”.
The cult of Osiris had a
particularly strong interest towards the concept of immortality. According to
the myth surrounding the cult, Set (Osiris's evil
brother) fooled Osiris into getting into a coffin,
which he then shut and threw into the
Okay, we know Osiris died and
resurrected differently from Jesus, but the story is the same: A “man-god” who
dies and resurrects. The idea was
borrowed by the Church, not the story itself. (*)
The website Tektonics confesses that Tammuz ‘resurrected’, but it
has “no parallel to the Christian religion” which is nonsense. The early Church
borrowed the idea.
The death and "raising" of Tammuz occurs
every year and corresponds with the natural cycle of vegetation. This provides
no parallel at all for the Christian religion, expect by redefining terms into
meaninglessness (i.e., "resurrection" meaning not just a specific
Jewish concept, but any dead-alive transition!) and ignoring vast differences
in meaning. [2]
Nobody worships Tammuz today, but millions of Christians worship Jesus as the “crucified savior who rose again”. The writer desperately says “this provides no parallel at all to the Christian religion”. But the parallels are very striking and evident. The Greeks and Romans converted to Christianity because it resembled their previous beliefs!
A true Jew would have immediately recognized the teaching of Jesus as a
reaffirmation of what Moses had taught. But to many a pagan, it must have
seemed new and strange and perhaps a little complicated. Most of the pagans
still believed in a multitude of gods who, it was thought, mixed freely with
human beings, mated with them, and took part in every sphere of human life. To the common people of
Whatever else one may believe about Jesus, it is clear both from the New
Testament documents and from the creeds of the early Church that he was a fully
human being. He knew hunger, thirst, weariness; he endured pain, grief, and the
agony of doubt; he experienced birth and death. His appearance must have been
ordinary, for on several occasions when trouble was brewing he was able to
simply lose himself in the crowds. The Church of the first few centuries had little trouble selling the idea of
God-in-human form to a non-Jewish audience: this kind of myth was
commonplace at this time. (Tom Harper, For
Christ’s Sake, p. 32)
Paul produced a religion which encompassed different contradictory elements. He
took the Unitarianism of the Jews and added to it the philosophy of the
pagans”. (Jesus Prophet of Islam, p.
71)
This shift of emphasis from Jesus as a man to the new image of Christ, who was
divine, enabled the intellectuals in
“…By using material familiar to these congregations, even while reshaping it
for his own purposes, Paul was performing as an accomplished rhetor. That would not have been unusual for the times.
(Mack Burton, Who Wrote the New
Testament? p. 77)
Paul abolished the Law, which was followed and preached by Jesus (pbuh), and corrupted the whole religion, giving it a new
form. The main ambition behind all this was, in his own words, “to win a larger
number” of followers; the followers of a new religion “the Pauline
Christianity”. (Roshen Enam,
Follow Jesus or Follow Paul p. 69)
The following is a list of dying-rising gods.
The above crucified saviors are personifications of the sun, or symbolizing the
birth and death of vegetation. The Gospel story of Jesus is plagiarized from
the pagan myths.
According to the Bible, Jesus died on a tree
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. (Acts 5:30, 10:39)
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us:
for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that hangeth
on a tree: (Galatians 3:13)
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. (1 Peter 2:24)
The scholar Arthur Weigall
describes that Osiris was crucified upon a tree, like
many previous ‘man-gods’, the cross was not unique, its pagan symbol. The Jehovah
Witnesses believe that Jesus was crucified upon a ‘stake’.
The ‘tree story’ was indeed plagiarized from the story of Osiris
and Isis.
The Popular and widespread
religion of Osiris and Isis exercised considerable
influence upon early Christianity, for these two great Egyptian deities, whose
worship had passed into Europe were revered in
Islam has destroyed the false charges against Jesus.
Christ the son of Mary was no more
than an apostle; many were the apostles that passed away before him. His mother
was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how Allah
doth make His signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from
the truth! (Al-Quran
5:75)
O people of the Book! There hath come to you our Messenger, revealing to you
much that ye used to hide in the Book, and passing over much (that is now
unnecessary). There hath come to you from Allah a (new) light and a perspicuous
Book, Wherewith Allah guideth all who seek His good
pleasure to ways of peace and safety, and leadeth
them out of darkness, by His will, unto the light,- guideth
them to a path that is straight. (Al-Quran 5:15-16)
[1] (Lloyd Graham, Deceptions and Myths of the Bible, p. 361)
Back to Contradictions and Errors in the Bible.
The Disciples' original writings declare that Jesus never got crucified.
Prophet Muhammad's (peace be upon him) section.
Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him) in Islam.
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Quran's STUNNING Divine Miracles: [1] Allah Almighty also promised in several Divine Prophecies that He will show the Glorious Quran's Miracles to mankind: 1- The root letters for "message" and all of its derivatives occur 513 times throughout the Glorious Quran. Yet, all Praise and Glory are due to Allah Almighty Alone, the Prophets' and Messengers' actual names (Muhammad, Moses, Noah, Abraham, Lot etc....) were also all mentioned 513 times in the Glorious Quran. The detailed breakdown of all of this is thoroughly listed here. This Miracle is covered in 100s (hundreds) of Noble Verses.2- Allah Almighty said that Prophet Noah lived for 950 years. Yet, all Praise and Glory are due to Allah Almighty Alone, the entire Noble Surah (chapter Noah) is exactly written in 950 Letters. You can thoroughly see the accurate count in the scanned images.Coincidence? See 1,000s of examples [1]. Quran's Stunning Numerical & Scientific Miracles. |
