The Pagan Christ(ianity) 1

The Pagan Christ(ianity)

It is acknowl­edged that the Chris­tian­i­ty of today is based on the com­bined doc­trines of var­i­ous mys­tery reli­gions in the ancient world. The doc­trines of the Trin­i­ty” and incar­na­tion” were bor­rowed from the pagans. In fact, the whole reli­gion was fab­ri­cat­ed after the depar­ture of Jesus. The leg­endary sto­ries of man-god” sav­iors dying for the sins of their peo­ple (and ris­ing three days lat­er) were com­mon­ly prop­a­gat­ed as a fea­ture in the pre­vail­ing Roman cults of the day. It is inter­est­ing to note that in the apoc­ryphal writ­ings of the Gospel of the Nazorenes, the fol­low­ing was attrib­uted to Jesus(P) which ran con­trary to the beliefs of the mod­ern-day Christians.

Jesus was teach­ing his dis­ci­ples in the out­er court of the Tem­ple and one of them said unto him : Mas­ter, it is said by the priests that with­out shed­ding of blood there is no remis­sion. Can then the blood offer­ing of the law take away sin ? And Jesus answered : No blood offer­ing, of beast or bird, or man, can take away sin, for how can the con­science be purged from sin by the shed­ding of inno­cent blood ? Nay, it will increase the con­dem­na­tion.1

The Chris­tian­i­ty that we know today sim­ply pla­gia­rized the sto­ries and foist­ed them upon Jesus(P).

Tom Harp­er writes :

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.2

A very impor­tant part of the pagan faiths was the belief in a god who was young and hand­some and was sup­posed to have died or muti­lat­ed him­self for the sake of mankind.3 The dog­ma of the Incar­na­tion was tak­en into Chris­tian­i­ty, like many oth­er Chris­t­ian doc­trines, from pagan­ism. In pre-Chris­t­ian mytholo­gies, we often read of the hero being regard­ed as a God. The Hin­dus of India even today wor­ship their ancient heroes, Rama and Krish­na, as incar­na­tions of Vish­nu, the sec­ond per­son of the Hin­du Trin­i­ty. Islam has lib­er­at­ed its fol­low­ers from the bondage of such super­sti­tions by reject­ing the dog­ma of the Incar­na­tion.4

It seems that Jesus was actu­al­ly the Sun of God, and not the Son of God”, yet both of these titles are pagan, ascribed to Jesus after his depar­ture. No won­der that the ear­ly Chris­tians of Egypt were accused of sun wor­ship. Jesus reject­ed the title Son of God“5 and that is why the Qur’an rejects the alleged son­ship of Jesus(P), because it is entire­ly pagan in origin.

The authen­tic hadith says :

Nar­rat­ed Umar : I heard the Prophet say­ing, Do not exag­ger­ate in prais­ing me as the Chris­tians praised the son of Mary, for I am only a Slave. So, call me the Slave of Allah and His Apos­tle.“6

Jesus(P) was sent by God to preach the Gospel and Torah to the Chil­dren of Israel. He was a Prophet and Mes­sen­ger of God who claimed no divin­i­ty. He was trans­formed into God after his depar­ture at the Coun­cil of Nicea, the pagan Emper­or Con­stan­tine made the decree, yet Jesus said The Father is greater than I“John 14:28 and I can do noth­ing of my own author­i­ty“7

The Chris­tians” cor­rupt­ed the teach­ings of Jesus after his dis­ap­pear­ance ; they replaced the Gospel of Jesus with the cor­rupt­ed Gospel of Paul. Chris­tian­i­ty today is indeed the Gospel of Paul, the cor­rupter of the Gospel of Jesus. What is the sig­nif­i­cance for our faith and for our reli­gious life, the fact that the Gospel of Paul is dif­fer­ent from the Gospel of Jesus ?

The atti­tude which Paul him­self takes up towards the Gospel of Jesus is that he does not repeat it in the words of Jesus, and does not appeal to its authority….The fate­ful thing is that the Greek, the Catholic, and the Protes­tant the­olo­gies all con­tain the Gospel of Paul in a form which does not con­tin­ue the Gospel of Jesus, but dis­places it.8

It is the con­sen­sus of the schol­ars that where the ori­gins of Chris­tian­i­ty is con­cerned, it can be invari­ably be summed up as follows :

Chris­tian­i­ty began as a cult with almost whol­ly pagan ori­gins and moti­va­tions in the first cen­tu­ry, and by the fourth it had utter­ly turned its back on Pagan­ism and repu­di­at­ed very hint of…connection with it, load­ing it with con­tempt from that day to this.9

Thus it is clear that :

The wor­ship of suf­fer­ing gods was to be found on all sides, and the belief in the tor­ture of the vic­tims in the rites of human sac­ri­fice for the redemp­tion from sin was very gen­er­al. The gods Osiris, Attis, Ado­nis, Dionysos, Her­ak­les, Prometheus, and oth­ers, had all suf­fered for mankind ; and thus the Ser­vant of Yah­weh was also con­ceived as hav­ing to be wound­ed for’ men’s trans­gres­sions. But as I say, this con­cep­tion had passed into the back­ground in the days of Jesus.10

A very impor­tant part of the pagan faiths was the belief in a god who was young and hand­some and was sup­posed to have died or muti­lat­ed him­self for the sake of mankind.11 The Chris­t­ian doc­trine of atone­ment was great­ly col­ored by the influ­ence of the mys­tery reli­gions, espe­cial­ly Mithraism.12

From the Islam­ic per­spec­tive, Maw­du­di con­cludes as follows :

The false ten­den­cies, born of cen­turies of devi­a­tions, igno­rance and mal­prac­tice, now took anoth­er form. Though they accept­ed their Prophets dur­ing their lives and prac­ticed their teach­ings, after their deaths they intro­duced their own dis­tort­ed ideas into their reli­gions. They adopt­ed nov­el meth­ods of wor­ship­ping God ; some even took to the wor­ship of their Prophets. They made the Prophets the incar­na­tions of God or the sons of God ; some asso­ci­at­ed their Prophets with God in His Divin­i­ty.13

And cer­tain­ly, only God knows best !Endmark

Cite this arti­cle as : Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi, The Pagan Christ(ianity),” in Bis­mi­ka Allahu­ma, July 22, 2007, last accessed March 29, 2024, https://​bis​mikaal​lahu​ma​.org/​c​h​r​i​s​t​i​a​n​i​t​y​/​t​h​e​-​p​a​g​a​n​-​c​h​r​i​s​t​i​a​n​i​ty/
  1. Gospel of the Nazorenes, Lec­tion 33, vers­es 1 – 2[]
  2. Tom Harp­er, The Pagan Christ, p. 145[]
  3. A.D. Aji­jo­la, The Myth of the Cross[]
  4. Ulfat Aziz-Us-Samad, Islam and Chris­tian­i­ty, Inter­na­tion­al Islam­ic Fed­er­a­tion of Stu­dent Orga­ni­za­tions, p. 38[]
  5. Luke 4:41[]
  6. Sahih Bukhari, Kitab Bha­van, New Del­hi, India, 1987, trans­lat­ed by M. Khan, Vol­ume 4, Book 55, Num­ber 654[]
  7. John 5:30[]
  8. Albert Schweitzer, The Quest for the His­tor­i­cal Jesus[]
  9. Tom Harp­er, op. cit., p. 51[]
  10. Arthur Weigall, The Pagan­ism in Our Chris­tiantiy, 1928, p. 106[]
  11. A.D. Aji­jo­la, op. cit.[]
  12. Yousuf Saleem, What is Chris­tian­i­ty, p.87[]
  13. Abdul Ala Maw­du­di, Towards Under­stand­ing Islam, p. 39[]

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5 responses to “The Pagan Christ(ianity)”

  1. Om Avatar
    Om

    @peter Deneke
    Now to start of the argue­ment pagan­ism, when you claimed there are his­tor­i­cal evi­dences of allah(swt) hav­ing a wife you first need to see where that source of info is com­ing from and in this case this top­ic falls into the argue­ment of the satan­ic verse which has no his­tor­i­cal accu­ra­cy and has a weak and fab­ri­cat­ed nar­ra­tion. Plus if you read the quran it clear­ly states that allah(swt)has no wife and is far exalt­ed from hav­ing one(referencing to surah al maid­ah and surah maryam). More info regard­ing the top­ic of the satan­ic” vers­es can be found in this article.
    https://​www​.bis​mikaal​lahu​ma​.org/​h​a​d​i​t​h​/​s​t​o​r​y​-​o​f​-​t​h​e​-​c​r​a​n​e​s​-​o​r​-​s​a​t​a​n​i​c​-​v​e​r​s​es/
    As for the star falling from the sky you must be refer­ring to the black stone and rather than wor­ship it we just fol­low what is said in the hadith below which in this case we only fol­low what the prophet peace be upon him did and we believe it could nei­ther ben­e­fit or harm us.

    حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي مَرْيَمَ، أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي زَيْدُ بْنُ أَسْلَمَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ لِلرُّكْنِ أَمَا وَاللَّهِ إِنِّي لأَعْلَمُ أَنَّكَ حَجَرٌ لاَ تَضُرُّ وَلاَ تَنْفَعُ، وَلَوْلاَ أَنِّي رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم اسْتَلَمَكَ مَا اسْتَلَمْتُكَ‏.‏ فَاسْتَلَمَهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ فَمَا لَنَا وَلِلرَّمَلِ إِنَّمَا كُنَّا رَاءَيْنَا بِهِ الْمُشْرِكِينَ، وَقَدْ أَهْلَكَهُمُ اللَّهُ‏.‏ ثُمَّ قَالَ شَىْءٌ صَنَعَهُ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَلاَ نُحِبُّ أَنْ نَتْرُكَهُ‏.‏

    Nar­rat­ed Zaid bin Aslam from his father who said :

     Umar bin Al-Khat­tab addressed the Cor­ner (Black Stone) say­ing, By Allah ! I know that you are a stone and can nei­ther ben­e­fit nor harm. Had I not seen the Prophet (ﷺ) touch­ing (and kiss­ing) you, I would nev­er have touched (and kissed) you.’ Then he kissed it and said, There is no rea­son for us to do Ramal (in Tawaf) except that we want­ed to show off before the pagans, and now Allah has destroyed them.’ Umar added, ‘(Nev­er­the­less), the Prophet (ﷺ) did that and we do not want to leave it (i.e. Ramal).’

    Sahih al-Bukhari 1605
    In-book : Book 25, Hadith 91
    USC-MSA web (Eng­lish) : Vol. 2, Book 26, Hadith 675 (dep­re­cat­ed)
    Sahih Bukhari

  2. peter Deneke Avatar
    peter Deneke

    If Chris­tian­i­ty has pagan ori­gins. Can you explain the pre- arbic ori­gins of the name Allah. There are his­tor­i­cal sources say­ing that Allah had a wife called Al-Lat. All this sounds very pagan as well. Not to men­tion the star that fell from the sky. Sounds like star worship.

  3. ROB Avatar
    ROB

    MODERN DAY PAGANS leave chris­tianties pagan krist for the ORIGINAL

    I feel very emo­tion­al,” said Ms Pep­pa, a writer. We have been per­se­cut­ed for 16-and-a-half cen­turies but now we are here. This is our human right. And we shall car­ry on wor­ship­ping at our tem­ples. They have now been put to prop­er use.

    This is as impor­tant to us, as prayers are for Mus­lims, Chris­tians or Hin­dus,” said Apol­lo­nius, a for­mer tav­er­na own­er from Mel­bourne, Australia.

    He aban­doned the Church for the 12 Gods, because they make me feel whole, they make me feel part of the universe.”

    http://​news​.bbc​.co​.uk/​2​/​h​i​/​e​u​r​o​p​e​/​6285397​.​stm

    NOTE SHE SAID WE HAVE BEEN PERSECUTED…”
    sounds like for cross­tian­i­ty sez

  4. ABarton Avatar
    ABarton

    MENJ, Tom Harper’s alle­gia­tions are com­plete­ly reject­ed whole­sale by all schol­ars. He is a con­spir­a­cy the­o­rist jour­nal­ist. Can you pro­vide any ref­er­ence to any schol­ar who takes his work or alle­ga­tions seri­ous­ly as correct ?

  5. robin Avatar
    robin

    …pre-Chris­t­ian mytholo­gies, we often read of the hero being regard­ed as a God. The Hin­dus of India even today wor­ship their ancient heroes, Rama and Krish­na, as incar­na­tions of Vish­nu, the sec­ond per­son of the Hin­du Trinity.”

    E doher­ty :
    On the oth­er hand, they say a pic­ture is worth a thou­sand words. British trav­eller Edward Moor around 1800 brought back many sketch­es of Hin­du sculp­tures and mon­u­ments, some which depict­ed a fig­ure appar­ent­ly cru­ci­fied, with nail holes in feet and hands. Moor’s pub­li­ca­tion of these trav­els and sketch­es was edit­ed and cen­sored at the behest of Chris­t­ian author­i­ties of the time in Britain, while oth­er reports from India suf­fered a sim­i­lar fate. Kersey Graves reports :

    (Sir God­frey Hig­gins) informs us that a report on the Hin­doo reli­gion, made out by a dep­u­ta­tion from the British Par­lia­ment, sent to India for the pur­pose of exam­in­ing their sacred books and mon­u­ments, being left in the hands of a Chris­t­ian bish­op at Cal­cut­ta, and with instruc­tions to for­ward it to Eng­land, was found, on its arrival in Lon­don, to be so hor­ri­bly muti­lat­ed and evis­cer­at­ed as to be scarce­ly cog­niz­able. The account of the cru­ci­fix­ion was gone — can­celled out. The infer­ence is patent. [Six­teen Cru­ci­fied Sav­iors, p.107]

    Acharya S, in her recent Suns of God, tells a sim­i­lar sto­ry, of plates and an entire chap­ter removed [from Moor’s pub­li­ca­tion], which have luck­i­ly been restored in a recent edi­tion of the orig­i­nal text” [p.243], although descrip­tions of this miss­ing mate­r­i­al have long been avail­able through God­frey Hig­gins who exam­ined Moor’s orig­i­nal work in the British Muse­um dur­ing the 1800s. This is part of a thor­ough exam­i­na­tion in one chap­ter of Suns of God, of the whole ques­tion of whether Krish­na was regard­ed, at least in some cir­cles, as cru­ci­fied. There are mul­ti­ple ver­sions of his death (as there are in most ancient mythol­o­gy attached to sav­ior gods), and it is pos­si­ble that some form of cru­ci­fix­ion’, prob­a­bly on a tree, is one of them. Acharya refers to oth­er cas­es of appar­ent destruc­tion of records and muti­la­tion of texts in mod­ern times, by eccle­si­as­ti­cal inter­ests seek­ing to hide the evi­dence of par­al­lels. To this we must add the destruc­tion caused by con­flicts like World War II, a sit­u­a­tion which has made it more dif­fi­cult than ever for mod­ern researchers to track down and ver­i­fy the exis­tence of such par­al­lels in the pri­ma­ry record. Dis­missal by mod­ern apol­o­gists of such con­di­tions and prac­tices as some kind of nut­ty con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry is unwise, as Chris­t­ian his­to­ry almost from its begin­nings is full of wan­ton destruc­tion of any­thing that could call into ques­tion the verac­i­ty and orig­i­nal­i­ty of the Chris­t­ian faith.

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