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Historical Christianity
The Writings of Jesus the Church Destroyed
How the Church Hid the True Historical Jesus
The other day I was in a conversation with my brother who holds a Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. Our conversations rarely turn religious, but on this particular day we spent the better part of the hour-long conversation discussing an emerging theory—something that has likely been brought up many times before in history—but is again making its way back into the mainstream of modern thought.
That “theory” is that you don’t become the prominent religious figure of your era by being an illiterate nobody. Modern scholars are only now, meaning within the last century, rediscovering the lost history of Jesus and his rather prominent family.
One of the things I have learned in my own journey of faith is that the last place to find the truth is to ask the Church, meaning the Church’s holy tradition—especially when it comes to Jesus and his family. This tradition of understanding is usually man-made, meaning massaged, bears little to no resemblance to the actual facts, and was most probably wrought or steeped in Rome’s anti-Semitic aversion to anything even remotely “Jewish”.
The Church would like you to believe that God was inspiring them (their Pagan leadership) at every step along the way, but that is just not the truth. Modern scholars of many denominational stripes will openly tell you that the Church played fast and loose with the facts and history of itself in order to massage away its own heinous deeds, bogus dogma, just pick your era.
Aramaic—the Language of Jesus
Scholars have long wondered why there are no extant writings of Jesus and the Twelve.
“Oh, but we have Matthew and Mark and Luke and John,” the unskilled in Christian history will immediately note.
Not so fast.
It has long been a footnote of Christian history that Jesus spoke Aramaic. But none of us is really ever taught what that language was. It seems odd to us that Jesus didn’t at least speak Greek. After all, the New Testament was specifically all written in Greek, the language of the Bible, right?
