Description

In 2007 the controversial film The Zeitgeist Movie was released as an effort, in part, to expose Christianity as a conspiracy which does not have its basis in a historical Savior known as Jesus of Nazareth. The thrust of the argument against Christianity is that the belief in Jesus as the Son of God is a belief which was fabricated through a conglomeration of pre-existing myths and astrological beliefs. The film attempted to claim the story of Jesus is merely a re-imagining of the accounts of such pagan deities as Horus, Attis, Mithra, Krishna, and Dionysus, each of whom is said to share certain biographical characteristics with Christ, such as a virgin birth announced by a star in the east, a visit by wise men, baptism and ministry around age thirty, a following of twelve disciples, the performance of miracles, that they were known by such titles as “Son of God,” “Light of the World,” “King of Kings,” and “Alpha and Omega,” a death by crucifixion, and a three day burial followed by a bodily resurrection. The film also claims that other Biblical accounts were the result of a re-imagining of other figures, such as Moses and Sargon, both of whom were said to have been adopted after being found in a basket floating in a river, or the Genesis flood and the Epic of Gilgamesh, both of which contains an account of a watery global destruction from which the animal species of the world and only a small number of individuals survived within the shelter of an ark.

This “copycat theory,” while not a new theory, has experienced a revival due to the increasing popularity of the Zeitgeist film and Internet propaganda. In this book, these and other claims will be scrutinized and found to be baseless in nature. In addition, it will be shown that the person of Jesus of Nazareth is the only crucified Savior the world has ever known, and in what ways He is unique from the deities recognized by the many religions of the world. Finally, the Gospel records themselves will be shown to be authentic and historical documents, providing a genuine and accurate account of the one who came to save His people from their sin.