Tag Archives: Greek
December 25, Whose Birthday?
Christmas is supposed to be a warm, happy time of year for people, but not for me. Since I was a kid I have always had an aversion to it. It seems odd to me that when Christmas came around each year I would have a depressed feeling. I guess it shouldn’t seem odd, since it was the confusing, materialistic spirit of Christmas that really got me down. Finally, I think I understand why I would always feel that way. Call me Scrooge or call me a heretic, but I can no longer accept or celebrate Christmas. Continue reading
The Trinity and Serapis Christus
And it came to pass, that a whole year _they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. (Acts 11:26)
Evidently, the name Christian was born from the association with worshipers of the Serapis “Christus” cult. It was said that the Bishops of the cult were called “Christians”. It appears that some of the concepts of the Christianity were adopted from cult of Serapis Christus: the name Christianity, the Trinity (three in one god Serapis) and Bishops. The word bishop was not known with the early Jewish believers. Religious leaders of the early church were known as priests or rabbi, as it had been for many years before. Continue reading
Who Created the Heavens and the Earth?
According to Philo Jesus is the Logos it and, as it says in John chapter 1 he calls the Logos “the first-born of God”. If he is the first-born, then he is a creation of God.
Therefore, Jesus is not eternal and cannot be God. If Jesus had been given all power — he didn’t always have the power. So he is a creation of God and could not have been the creator of heaven and Earth.
The idea of the “Word” in the first chapter of John about the Logos is absent in the other gospels; it is a Greek concept, foreign to the early Christians and is definitely not a part of the gospels taught by Jesus and the apostles. Theoretically, the Logos would be (translated) the Word, a concept which only exists in Greek philosophy. Continue reading