Jesus Christ: A Pagan Myth
by Laurence E Dalton and Shirley Strutton Dalton
It has long been held by scholars and believers that Jesus was born a Jew and the seeds of Christianity grew from a Jewish sect. However, we believe that Christianity originated and grew up in the Greco-Roman world of the first three centuries CE.
This book is a detailed examination of the ethical teachings and miracles delivered by Jesus and recorded in the New Testament. We look primarily at the earliest gospel preserved in the NT, that attributed to Mark. And we examine the letters attributed to Paul, the so-called apostle to the Gentiles. His letters supposedly were written before the gospels.
These writings are compared to the religious and ethical beliefs held by the Greco-Roman world: the mystery religions of Dionysus, Mithras, Isis, and more; and the prevalent ethical philosophy of the time, Stoicism. It will be seen that the teachings of Jesus bear more resemblance to the Stoic teachings than they do to the Judaism of the time. The miracles are derived from the miracles attributed to the gods of the pagan mystery religions.Jesus Christ: A Pagan Myth presents evidence that Jesus is a literary fiction, one derived from a Greco-Roman pagan environment and created by the church.
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