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Counterfeit Christs The Counterfeit Christ of Mythology “ The reality is, Jesus was the Solar Deity of the Gnostic Christian sect and like all other Pagan gods, he was a mythical figure. ”– Movie Zeitgeist “ Why should we consider the stories of Osiris, Dionysus, Adonis, Attis, Mithras, and the other pagan mystery saviors as fables, e across essentially the same story told in a Jewish context and believe it to be the biography of a carpenter from Bethlehem? ”– Timothy Freke / Peter Gandy “ The Jesus Mysteries ” was a very important book for me in leaving Christianity …”– Skeptic Forum Post “ The reality is, Jesus was the Solar Deity of the Gnostic Christian sect and like all other Pagan gods, he was a mythical figure. It was the political establishment that sought to historize the Jesus figure for social control. By 325 . in Rome, emperor Constantine convened the Council of Nicea. It was during this meeting that the politically motivated Christian Doctrines were established and thus began a long history of Christian bloodshed and spiritual fraud. ” - Zeitgeist Transcript Questions That Need Answers: 1. Did Jesus of Nazareth actually live? 2. Where do these claims of a mythological e from and what are they? 3. Was the Person of Jesus distorted into something much more by His disciples or others? "Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced... more true than truth itself." - Irenaeus A Warning about Discernment Did Jesus of Nazareth actually live? “ Historically it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if he did we know nothing about him. ”– Bertrand Russell Why I am not a Christian , 16 1. Bibliographical Test – how reliable are the manuscripts we have and how early is the dating? 2. Internal Evidence