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Shhh Dont tell anyone that Pope Benedict XIII (1394-1423) ordered the suppression of the true name of Jesus Christ.

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Tampered texts Edward Reuss of Strasbourg published a description of different Bible versions issued up to 1869. He was able to identify a staggering eight hundred and fifty-three separate and variant editions, and other divergent editions have since been produced. Amazingly, there are over one thousand different readings of the Bible, and that enormous thesaurus of conflicting information is covered by at least seventeen different copyrights. That stage of the history of the transmission of the Bible was characterised by the huge number of variant readings of the Gospels in particular, now running into tens of thousands. Mr. B. A. Hinsdale (MA), the author of the book called the Genuineness and Authenticity of the Gospels, felt compelled to stress that, There are 150,000 various readings of the New Testament manuscripts alone, the greater part of which must be corruptions since there can be but one original reading for any given passage. Telling the truth This poem1 was written by the erudite Alexander Pope (1688-1744) and reflects his thoughts on the New Testament: Some old words to fame have made pretence, Ancient in phrase, not modern in sense; Such labourd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze the unlearnd, and make the learned smile.
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Temple Virgins The Gospel of James describes how Mary was one of seven Temple Virgins maintained by the high priest of Jerusalem, and if those narratives reflect any truth, the deep mysteries of ancient Pagan rites buried within passages of the New Testament may be revealing themselves. Temple Virgins were

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not physical virgins in the sexual sense of the word, but holy harlots or prostitute-priestesses. To qualify for entry into heaven in early Jewish tradition a sacrifice was necessary, and those so inclined availed themselves to the sexual favours offered by the Temple Virgins. No virgin refused them, for in the sexual act she believed that she was performing the prestigious function of a heavenly Goddess on earth. After the qualifying ritual was complete, it became time for the purification and sacrifice the removal of the penis of the participant by the men of the city and the dedication of the severed phallus to the Temple Virgin.

Angelica Kauffmann, Pinacoteca, Dresden; Photo by M. K. Beatrice, 1903

A Temple Virgin holding a vial to receive the severed phallus of the participant. Advanced students of the New Testament may recognise here symbols of earlier religions and some features of the deeper, underlying Pagan beliefs in the Gospels, and associate this ritual with these words of Jesus: And there were eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of

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the Kingdom of Heaven.1 In the context of Temple Virgins as presented in the Gospel of James, it could be argued that the Temple Virgin Mary mothered Jesus after normal sexual intercourse with a participant, yet was still considered a virgin in the tradition of her time.
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Matt 19:12

Tertullian, Bishop (160-210) Like all early presbyters, he was rough, rowdy and a hot-headed and rash Roman barbarous, uncouth.1 He was the author of more than thirty curious writings, some of them being; Second Marriage a Species of Adultery, To His Wife, Adverse Haereses, Adverse Marcion, Against the Gentiles, Adverse Judeaus, On the Veiling of Virgins, Prescriptions of Tertullian and Scorpiace. His constant and bitter condemnation of early congregations is seen in this statement, where he pronounces the true spirit of the early church when he said of those who criticised the presbyters orations: I hope to see them all in the fire of Hell. What shall be the magnitude of that scene! How shall I laugh. How shall I rejoice! How shall I triumph when I see so many illustrious kings who were said to have mounted into heaven, groaning with Jupiter, their god, in the lowest darkness of hell! Then shall those who have persecuted us burn in more cruel fire than any they had kindled for their enemies.2 In a document he wrote called The Confessions of Tertullian he revealed that the authors of the Gospel of John applied a liberal amount of religious license in the construction of that writing and said of the developing Jesus story: It is by all means to be believed, because it is absurd; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.3 However, he, like Bishop Irenaeus, denied both a virgin birth4 and a resurrection, claiming that Jesus was stoned, not crucified.5 Tertullian regarded women as a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.6 To the embarrassment of

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the later church Tertullian abandoned the Christian faith and became a Montanist, and then labelled a heretic.7
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Catholic Encyclopedia, iv, 583 Despectae, Ch. xxx, Tertullian De Carne Christi, ch. v, Ante-Nicene Fathers, iii, 525 New Catholic Encyclopedia, xiv, 694 Adverse Judeaus, C.IX, last paragraph The Confessions of Tertullian Catholic Encyclopedia, vi, 12

The good bishop Church historian Sozomen relates at the Council of Tyre in 355, Athanasius, the Bishop of Alexandria, was charged with breaking a mystical chalice, smashing an episcopal chair, false imprisonment, deposing a bishop unlawfully, placing him under military guard and torturing him, striking other bishops physically, obtaining his bishoprics by perjury, breaking and cutting off the arm of one of his opponents, burning his house, tying him to a column and whipping him, and putting him in a cell illegally; all this in addition to teaching a false doctrine. The venom employed in the church controversies reflects the fundamental instability of Christian belief during the early centuries. The Ten Commandments They were not new codes of conduct invented for the Israelites, but newly restated versions of the ancient pharonic confessions from Spell No. 125 in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The unexplained In his lists of earlier bishops, Eusebius never spoke of Peter as ever being the Bishop of Rome. However, he did say that Peter travelled to Britain1 and archaeological evidence confirms the church record.
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The discovery at Whithern in Lincoln of a headstone now called the Peter Stone supports Eusebius statement. It is a rough pillar, around four feet high and fifteen inches wide. An inscription in despoiled Roman capitals reads: LOE (VS) S (ANC) TI PETRI APVSTOLI, The Place of Peter the apostle. It seems that Peter was buried in Britain, not Rome.
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Metaphrastes ad 29 Junii, Menaloggi Graeceorum

They roared with laughter With the stories and legends surrounding Osiris, Krishna, Buddha, Hesus, Prometheus, Baal, Mithra, Adonis and Pythagoras, it is possible to see the presence of a kind of universal religious mythos, the details of which slightly vary because they were composed in different ages and different countries around a variation of Kristos-type figures. The ancient picture of previous saviours being only a type of Christ,1 is the explanation orthodox Christian apologists offer to account for the extraordinary similarities of the Pagan stories2. Justin Martyr, in his writing called Dialogue with Trypho, acknowledges the parallels and tries to explain them away by claiming that it was the devil, to imitate the truth, who invented the stories of Bacchus, Hercules and Esculapius. Tryphos companions roared with laughter at St. Justins trite comments in which he hardly denies the story that Bacchus rose again, Hercules after his death, ascended into heaven, or that Esculapius cured diseases and made people rise from the dead. Later apologists took the same line of blaming the devil for the existence of legends that subsisted centuries before the commencement of the Christian era with Bishops Eusebius and Augustine being two of them.3
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Catholic Encyclopedia, 1908 Ed., Saviours Catholic Encyclopedia, Pecci Ed., ii, 117-118 Ecclesiastical History and City of God

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