Were Christian Doctrines Plagiarised From Pagans? (2021-03-15) ​

0:00:04 judaism
0:00:05 christianity and islam are typically
0:00:07 grouped together
0:00:08 under the same umbrella of abrahamic
0:00:10 religion
0:00:11 this video is going to show that far
0:00:14 from being a religion in the
0:00:15 monotheistic lineage of
0:00:16 abraham christianity in fact has its
0:00:19 origin in pagan cults
0:00:26 christianity has the doctrine of the
0:00:28 trinity in which god
0:00:30 is said to manifest as three persons the
0:00:32 father
0:00:33 son and holy spirit let's compare this
0:00:37 concept
0:00:38 of three related divinities to different
0:00:40 pagan religions
0:00:42 the ancient egyptians had the trinity of
0:00:44 our moon
0:00:45 ray antar an egyptian hymn reads
0:00:48 all gods are three our moon ray antar
0:00:55 babylonians worship the trinity of nana
0:00:58 shamash and ishtar
0:01:02 hinduism has the concept of trimurti
0:01:05 in which the supreme god brahman is said
0:01:08 to manifest as the three forms
0:01:10 brahma vishnu and shiva the hindu text
0:01:14 padma purana states he who is the
0:01:17 eternal god
0:01:18 became the three gods brahma vishnu and
0:01:21 shiva
0:01:24 the greeks had the goddess hekate whom
0:01:26 they described as
0:01:28 triple headed and goddess of the triple
0:01:30 ways
0:01:33 the romans venerated diana as diva
0:01:36 triformis
0:01:36 which means three formed a roman poet
0:01:40 wrote
0:01:41 all three formed goddess to thee i
0:01:43 dedicate the pine tree
0:01:47 northwestern european tribes worshiped a
0:01:50 group of three female deities
0:01:52 known as matrone which means matrons
0:01:55 [Music]
0:01:57 persians had the triad ahura mazda
0:02:00 mithra
0:02:00 and anahita an ancient royal inscription
0:02:03 reads
0:02:04 may ahura mazda anahita and mithra
0:02:08 protect me and my building against evil
0:02:13 we can see that this concept of three
0:02:15 related divinities
0:02:16 is an ancient phenomenon which has been
0:02:18 present in different pagan religions
0:02:20 throughout the world it's important to
0:02:22 point out
0:02:23 that the christian trinity differs in
0:02:25 its finer details when compared to these
0:02:28 other cults
0:02:29 however this basic concept of three
0:02:32 related divinities
0:02:33 is common to all of them and is
0:02:35 fundamentally pagan
0:02:37 the greek philosopher aristotle had this
0:02:39 to say
0:02:40 about the mystical significance of the
0:02:42 number three
0:02:44 just as the pythagoreans say the whole
0:02:46 and all things are delimited by the
0:02:48 three
0:02:49 for end middle and beginning have the
0:02:51 number of the whole
0:02:52 which is that of the triad wherefore we
0:02:55 use this number
0:02:56 also in the worship of the gods taking
0:02:58 it from nature
0:02:59 as a law of it
0:03:05 in christianity jesus is the incarnate
0:03:08 son of god
0:03:09 who is said to possess two natures one
0:03:11 divine
0:03:12 and one human this idea of a god man
0:03:15 hybrid
0:03:15 is fundamentally pagan greco-roman
0:03:18 religions
0:03:19 were filled with tales of gods
0:03:21 procreating with human women
0:03:23 and begetting god men for example the
0:03:26 chief god in the greek pantheon
0:03:28 zeus visited the human woman danae
0:03:31 in the form of golden reign and fathered
0:03:34 perseus
0:03:34 a god-man hercules also the son of zeus
0:03:39 is another example of a god-man the new
0:03:42 testament states
0:03:43 that the role of the incarnate son of
0:03:45 god is to be the savior of mankind
0:03:48 the father has sent his son to be the
0:03:50 savior of the world
0:03:52 the belief that gods became incarnate as
0:03:54 men
0:03:55 and acted as universal saviors was also
0:03:58 common in paganism perhaps the best
0:04:00 known example
0:04:01 is the roman dictator julius caesar
0:04:05 an ancient inscription has this to say
0:04:07 about him
0:04:08 descendant of aries and aphrodite the
0:04:11 god who has become manifest
0:04:13 and universal savior of human life here
0:04:16 julius caesar is said to be a
0:04:18 manifestation of the gods
0:04:19 and the savior of mankind another direct
0:04:22 parallel can be found in the gospel of
0:04:24 mark
0:04:25 the beginning of the good news about
0:04:27 jesus the messiah
0:04:28 the son of god this statement that jesus
0:04:31 the son of god
0:04:32 is the beginning of the good news is
0:04:34 also mirrored by another roman dictator
0:04:36 augustus
0:04:38 the birthday of the god has been for the
0:04:40 whole world the beginning of good news
0:04:43 concerning him the concept of a human
0:04:46 being
0:04:47 who is a divine son of god the savior of
0:04:49 mankind
0:04:50 and good news was a sort of template
0:04:53 that was applied to people of great
0:04:54 power and authority
0:04:56 we've seen that the history of paganism
0:04:58 is littered with such examples
0:05:00 and the christian conception of jesus
0:05:02 was just another incarnate god
0:05:04 in a long line of incarnate gods that
0:05:06 had preceded him
0:05:08 the early christian apologist justin
0:05:10 martyr considered a saint in the
0:05:12 catholic church
0:05:13 admitted that christianity had borrowed
0:05:16 its concept of divine sonship from
0:05:18 pagans
0:05:19 when we say that the word jesus christ
0:05:22 the firstborn of god
0:05:24 was produced without sexual union and
0:05:26 that he was crucified
0:05:28 and died and rose again and ascended to
0:05:30 heaven
0:05:31 we propound nothing new or different
0:05:34 from what you pagans believe
0:05:36 regarding those whom you consider sons
0:05:38 of jupiter
0:05:45 the gospel of matthew states that jesus
0:05:48 foretold he would die
0:05:49 and rise again after a period of three
0:05:52 days and three nights
0:05:54 for as jonah was three days and three
0:05:56 nights in the belly of a huge fish
0:05:59 saw the son of man will be three days
0:06:01 and three nights in the heart of the
0:06:03 earth
0:06:04 very early on churches taught that
0:06:07 during his three-day
0:06:08 and three-night absence jesus descended
0:06:10 into hell
0:06:11 the apostles creed is an early statement
0:06:14 of christian belief
0:06:15 it states i believe in jesus christ
0:06:18 his only son our lord was crucified
0:06:21 died and was buried he descended into
0:06:24 hell
0:06:24 the third day he arose again from the
0:06:26 dead
0:06:27 these beliefs mirror an ancient sumerian
0:06:30 myth
0:06:31 about the goddess inanna which states
0:06:34 from the great heaven inanna set her
0:06:36 mind on the great below
0:06:38 inanna abandoned heaven abandoned earth
0:06:40 and ascended to the underworld
0:06:42 after three days and three nights had
0:06:44 passed thusla inanna arise the gospel of
0:06:48 matthew
0:06:49 also tells us that something
0:06:50 extraordinary happened when jesus died
0:06:54 at that moment the curtain of the temple
0:06:56 was torn in two
0:06:58 from top to bottom the earth shook the
0:07:00 rocks split
0:07:02 and the tombs broke open the bodies of
0:07:05 many holy people who had died
0:07:06 were raised to life they came out of the
0:07:09 tombs
0:07:10 after jesus's resurrection and went into
0:07:12 the holy city and appeared to many
0:07:14 people
0:07:16 now none of the other gospels mention
0:07:18 this astonishing
0:07:19 incident of the walking dead only
0:07:21 matthew reports it
0:07:23 let's compare the accounts of matthew
0:07:25 and mark regarding the death of jesus
0:07:27 notice that even though mark's account
0:07:30 is virtually identical to that of
0:07:31 matthew
0:07:32 mark does not mention the rising of the
0:07:34 dead saints
0:07:35 if such a miraculous event really
0:07:38 happened then there will be no
0:07:39 rational reason for mark to omit it from
0:07:42 his gospel
0:07:43 consider that the apostle paul had the
0:07:45 perfect opportunity
0:07:47 to mention this story when he was
0:07:48 preaching to an audience that was
0:07:50 skeptical about life after death
0:07:53 but if it is preached that christ has
0:07:55 been raised from the dead
0:07:56 how can some of you say that there is no
0:07:58 resurrection of the dead
0:08:00 paul could have easily proven that there
0:08:02 is life after death
0:08:04 by mentioning the numerous resurrections
0:08:06 that took place when the dead saints
0:08:07 walked the streets of jerusalem
0:08:10 he did not mention anything about such
0:08:12 an event because it never happened
0:08:14 flavius josephus was a first century
0:08:16 historian who was born in jerusalem
0:08:19 even though he was a prolific writer and
0:08:21 documented much about the city
0:08:23 he also failed to mention anything about
0:08:25 this most public of miracles
0:08:27 even conservative christian scholarship
0:08:30 rejects the historicity of this event
0:08:32 the new testament scholar mike lacona
0:08:34 stated that this story is a strange
0:08:36 report
0:08:37 and literary special effects the
0:08:40 theologian
0:08:40 william lane craig stated that probably
0:08:43 only a few
0:08:44 conservative scholars would treat the
0:08:46 story as historical
0:08:48 if matthew's story of the walking dead
0:08:50 is an invention
0:08:51 then from where did he get his
0:08:53 inspiration for such a tale
0:08:55 it just happens to be present among
0:08:57 pagan cultures
0:08:58 the ancient greeks celebrated a
0:09:00 three-day festival
0:09:01 known as anthesteria during which it was
0:09:04 believed
0:09:05 that the dead came back to life and
0:09:07 walked among the living in the cities
0:09:09 the roman poet virgil wrote that when
0:09:11 julius caesar was assassinated
0:09:14 phantoms of an earthly power were seen
0:09:16 in the falling darkness
0:09:25 the gospel of john narrates to us the
0:09:27 following conversation between jesus and
0:09:30 his disciples
0:09:31 this bread is my flesh which i will give
0:09:33 for the life of the world
0:09:35 whoever eats my flesh and drinks my
0:09:37 blood has eternal life
0:09:39 and i will raise them up at the last day
0:09:41 for my flesh is real food and my blood
0:09:43 is real drink
0:09:44 whoever eats my flesh and drinks my
0:09:46 blood remains in me
0:09:48 and i in them here jesus instituted the
0:09:51 ritualistic consumption of bread and
0:09:53 wine
0:09:54 said to represent his flesh and blood
0:09:57 note the great importance that is placed
0:09:59 on the ritual
0:10:00 it was claimed to bestow eternal life
0:10:02 all of this has precedent
0:10:04 in the ancient egyptian cult of osiris
0:10:07 osiris was believed to be the god of the
0:10:09 dead and the god of resurrection
0:10:12 the body of osiris was represented by
0:10:14 bread the valley gives you bread from
0:10:16 the burial of her father osiris
0:10:18 your loaves are osiris the blood of
0:10:21 osiris was represented by wine
0:10:23 my blood is drunk even my redness you
0:10:26 are wine you are not wine
0:10:28 but the guts of osiris the ritualistic
0:10:32 consumption
0:10:32 of osiris in the form of bread and wine
0:10:35 was believed to allow one to partake in
0:10:37 the nature of osiris and be granted life
0:10:40 your eyes are opened by the earth your
0:10:42 limbs are gathered
0:10:44 raise yourself up when the great bread
0:10:46 and this wine like water
0:10:48 were given to him the bread and wine
0:10:51 ritual is performed in churches to the
0:10:53 present day
0:10:54 as a way of commemorating jesus
0:10:56 resurrection back to life
0:10:57 in christianity the symbol of the
0:10:59 resurrection is the cross
0:11:01 most christians assume that its design
0:11:03 is based on the t-shaped roman torture
0:11:06 instrument
0:11:07 however the bible itself does not
0:11:09 precisely describe
0:11:11 the shape of the cross it merely states
0:11:13 it was made of wood
0:11:14 or timber you may be wondering where its
0:11:17 design
0:11:17 originated from like the bread and wine
0:11:20 eating ritual
0:11:21 the cross also happens to have a
0:11:23 parallel in ancient egyptian religion
0:11:26 compare the christian cross to the
0:11:28 egyptian ankh
0:11:29 their resemblance is not just in shape
0:11:32 but also in meaning
0:11:33 as egyptian hieroglyphics use the symbol
0:11:35 to represent the word for life
0:11:37 here the egyptian god horus is bringing
0:11:40 a dead pharaoh back to life using the
0:11:42 ankh
0:11:43 we can see that the ankh and christian
0:11:45 cross are both linked to resurrection
0:11:48 the early christian historian socrates
0:11:50 scholasticus
0:11:52 recorded a fascinating argument between
0:11:54 christians and egyptian pagans
0:11:56 who both laid claim to the cross when
0:11:59 the temple of serapis was torn down
0:12:01 and laid bare they were found in it
0:12:03 engraven on stones
0:12:05 certain characters which they call
0:12:07 hieroglyphics having the forms of
0:12:09 crosses
0:12:10 both the christians and pagans on seeing
0:12:12 them
0:12:13 appropriated and applied them to their
0:12:15 respective religions
0:12:16 for the christians claimed this
0:12:18 character as peculiarly
0:12:20 theirs but the pagans allege that it
0:12:22 might a pertain
0:12:23 to christ and serapis in common
0:12:25 [Music]
0:12:33 just how did the original message of
0:12:35 jesus transform
0:12:36 from the pure monotheism of the old
0:12:38 testament into the paganistic
0:12:40 religion of christianity today did early
0:12:43 christians get together
0:12:45 and agree upon a secret agenda to
0:12:47 corrupt the religion
0:12:48 and the masses just went along with it
0:12:51 there is no need to resort to conspiracy
0:12:53 theories to understand what actually
0:12:54 happened
0:12:56 when there are multiple ideologies in a
0:12:58 geographic area
0:12:59 you often find that there is an exchange
0:13:01 of ideas
0:13:02 with the dominant ideology prevailing in
0:13:04 the exchange this is known as syncretism
0:13:08 the people who allow changes to creep
0:13:10 into a religion are not necessarily
0:13:11 doing it with an evil intention
0:13:14 it may come about due to pressure from
0:13:16 society or ruling authorities
0:13:18 it may even seem natural to adopt
0:13:20 certain beliefs and practices
0:13:22 if culturally that is what a people are
0:13:24 used to
0:13:26 historically this is what happened with
0:13:28 christianity
0:13:29 jewish people were the initial target
0:13:31 audience of the evangelism of jesus and
0:13:33 his disciples
0:13:34 however they largely rejected jesus as
0:13:37 the messiah
0:13:38 jesus only gained a sizable following
0:13:41 after he ascended to heaven
0:13:42 when the apostle paul started
0:13:44 evangelizing to gentiles
0:13:46 i.e non-jews paul preached a modified
0:13:50 version
0:13:50 of the message of jesus that was
0:13:52 stripped of its jewish elements
0:13:54 such as circumcision and keeping the
0:13:56 sabbath this watered-down version
0:13:58 appealed to gentiles who started to
0:14:00 embrace paul's teachings in large
0:14:02 numbers
0:14:03 culminating in the pagan roman empire
0:14:06 adopting christianity
0:14:07 as its official state religion several
0:14:09 centuries after jesus
0:14:11 so we need to understand the mindset of
0:14:13 the gentiles
0:14:14 who first received paul's message in
0:14:16 order to understand how paganism crept
0:14:19 into christianity
0:14:20 when jewish people heard stories about
0:14:22 jesus performing amazing miracles
0:14:24 they would have understood him in the
0:14:25 same context as the likes of moses
0:14:27 and the other israelite prophets who
0:14:29 were all granted signs and wonders by
0:14:31 god
0:14:32 however such stories about jesus would
0:14:35 have been interpreted very differently
0:14:36 by pagan gentiles this is illustrated in
0:14:39 the new testament book of acts which
0:14:41 informs us
0:14:42 in lystra they sat a man who was lame he
0:14:45 had been that way from birth
0:14:47 and had never walked paul looked
0:14:49 directly at him
0:14:50 saw that he had faith to be healed and
0:14:52 called out stand up on your feet
0:14:54 at that the man jumped up and began to
0:14:56 walk when the crowd
0:14:58 saw what paul had done they shouted in
0:15:00 the lyconian language
0:15:01 that gods have come down to us in human
0:15:03 form
0:15:05 we can see that the pagan gentile
0:15:07 peoples to whom paul was preaching
0:15:09 were in the habit of idolizing human
0:15:11 beings
0:15:12 with this in mind it's easy to
0:15:14 appreciate why gentiles from a pagan
0:15:16 background
0:15:17 would idolize jesus upon hearing stories
0:15:21 about the miracles of jesus they would
0:15:23 naturally interpret him
0:15:24 in the same light as the greco-roman
0:15:26 gods they were used to
0:15:28 the early church emerged in both a
0:15:30 jewish and gentile world
0:15:32 and so christians had to reconcile the
0:15:34 pure monotheism they had inherited from
0:15:36 judaism
0:15:36 with the polytheism they are derived
0:15:38 from paganism gregory of nissa
0:15:41 is a 4th century bishop who is venerated
0:15:43 as a saint
0:15:44 in the roman catholic and eastern
0:15:46 orthodox churches
0:15:47 he wrote for the truth passes in the
0:15:50 mean between
0:15:51 these two conceptions destroying each
0:15:54 heresy
0:15:54 and yet accepting what is useful to it
0:15:57 from each
0:15:58 the jewish dogma is destroyed by the
0:16:00 acceptance of the word
0:16:01 and by belief in the spirit while the
0:16:03 polytheistic
0:16:04 era of the greek school is made to
0:16:06 vanish by the unity of the nature
0:16:08 abrogating this imagination
0:16:10 of plurality here gregory of nisa
0:16:14 acknowledged that the christian
0:16:15 conception of god
0:16:17 is neither purely the polytheism of the
0:16:19 greeks nor purely the monotheism of the
0:16:21 jews but rather a mixture of both
0:16:32 the quran declares that those christians
0:16:34 who deify jesus are imitating pagans of
0:16:48 old
0:16:54 here the quran demonstrates remarkable
0:16:57 insight by pointing out
0:16:58 that christian beliefs about jesus
0:17:00 originate from past pagan religions
0:17:03 the message of islam like christianity
0:17:05 was also delivered to a pagan audience
0:17:08 but unlike christianity islam's
0:17:10 monotheism was
0:17:11 untainted and remains pure to this day
0:17:14 even rabbis acknowledge this fact
0:17:17 because they permit jewish people
0:17:19 to pray in muslim places of worship in a
0:17:21 situation where no synagogue is
0:17:23 available
0:17:24 rabbi maimonides a leading authority in
0:17:26 jewish law
0:17:27 wrote the following with regards to the
0:17:29 islamic concept of god
0:17:31 these ishmaelites are not idol
0:17:33 worshippers in the least
0:17:34 and paganism has long since cut off from
0:17:36 their mouths and their hearts
0:17:38 and they worship the singular god
0:17:40 properly and without any blemish
0:17:43 by comparison jewish people are
0:17:45 forbidden from even setting foot
0:17:47 inside churches rabbi maimonides had
0:17:49 this to say about christianity
0:17:51 know that this christian nation with all
0:17:54 their many different sects
0:17:55 are all idol worshipers and all their
0:17:57 holidays are forbidden
0:17:59 and we deal with them regarding
0:18:00 religious issues as we would pagans
0:18:03 the kaaba is situated in saudi arabia
0:18:06 and represents the holiest site on earth
0:18:08 for muslims
0:18:09 today it contains neither idols nor
0:18:12 images
0:18:13 but before the advent of islam the pagan
0:18:15 arabs
0:18:16 housed numerous idols inside the kaaba
0:18:18 so central was the kaaba to idolatry
0:18:21 that pagans from all over arabia would
0:18:23 make pilgrimage there
0:18:24 in the short span of just 23 years
0:18:28 islam managed to completely eliminate
0:18:30 all traces of idolatry
0:18:32 taking people away from their worship of
0:18:34 carved images
0:18:35 to the worship of the one true god of
0:18:37 abraham when it comes to preserving the
0:18:39 purity of monotheism
0:18:41 just how did islam succeed where
0:18:43 christianity failed
0:18:44 the quran takes into account the
0:18:46 psychology of its audience
0:18:48 which is demonstrated in its use of
0:18:50 language when god defines the
0:18:52 relationship between himself
0:18:53 and mankind he avoids terms like father
0:18:56 when referring to himself and sons of
0:18:58 god when referring to human beings
0:19:01 such language can be easily
0:19:02 misunderstood especially in the minds of
0:19:04 those who come from a background of
0:19:06 idolatry
0:19:07 and are used to interpreting such
0:19:08 language literally the quran also
0:19:11 outlines its doctrines clearly with god
0:19:14 describing his nature in such a way that
0:19:16 it is impossible to get it confused
0:19:18 with polytheism
0:19:23 [Music]
0:19:31 god revealed the quran in order to
0:19:33 rescue mankind
0:19:34 from the polytheism that we are drowning
0:19:36 in the quran
0:19:38 restores the original monotheistic
0:19:40 message of jesus
0:19:41 who is not part of a trinity but rather
0:19:43 a human messenger
0:19:44 and the messiah
0:20:00 [Music]
0:20:04 foreign
0:20:13 to learn more about the true message of
0:20:15 jesus please download your free copy of
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0:20:18 jesus man messenger messiah from the
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