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Caesar's Messiah, a real life Da Vinci Code, presents the dramatic and controversial discovery that the conventional views of Christian origins may be wrong. Author Joseph Atwill makes the case that the Christian Gospels were actually written under the direction of first-century Roman emperors. The purpose of these texts was to establish a peaceful Jewish sect to counterbalance the militaristic Jewish forces that had just been defeated by the Roman Emperor Titus in 70 A.D.
Atwill uncovered the secret key to this story in the writings of Josephus, the famed first-century Roman historian. Reading Josephus's chronicle, The War of the Jews, the author found detail after detail that closely paralleled events recounted in the Gospels.
Atwill skillfully demonstrates that the emperors used the Gospels to spark a new religious movement that would aid them in maintaining power and order. What's more, by including hidden literary clues, they took the story of the Emperor Titus's glorious military victory, as recounted by Josephus, and embedded that story in the Gospels - a sly and satirical way of glorifying the emperors through the ages.
Originally posted by chromatico
reply to post by Lilitu
Too bad hardly any early Christians were Jews!
Originally posted by ajmusicmedia
Lilitu: thanks for the link, this is very interesting and warrants further research. From what I know of that time period, it does make sense.
Originally posted by Indellkoffer
No offense, but the theory relies on you not knowing much about Julius Caesar and not researching his life well. Caesar's opinions and beliefs are well known and they don't mesh with the teachings in the Bible.
Jesus wasn't a bureaucrat (Caesar was), Jesus didn't go around setting up taxes and a private army, Jesus wasn't the grandson of a famous sex goddess (Caesar traced his lineage to Venus), Jesus didn't join the army and become a field commander (Caesar did), Jesus never became the head of a secular government, Jesus died around age 33 -- Caesar was 56, Jesus was not a wealthy slave owner but Caesar was, Jesus didn't suffer from epilepsy (Caesar may have)... and on and on and on. There's no record of Jesus partying out in orgies but there is of Caesar doing so.
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I think it's a real stretch based on the initials only (and not realizing that Caesar's first name is Gaius.
Besides, Caesar was worshiped after his death under his own name by decree of the Emperor Augustus.
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this is a good point, but then again it says nothing new. christianity has lifted whole chunks of thought and religous practice from almost every culture it has encountered to make it acceptable to the culture it is trying to convert.
How do you get Romans to accept a Jew as their saviour? You make him like the most popular Roman of all, Julius Caesar.
have been looking for a similar path to search for the Roman
Catholic church conspiracy on world power and there role on
the new world order agenda
Originally posted by ajmusicmedia
Without him, the Gauls would never have accepted conquest. Rome considered them invulnerable and they stood in the way of their becoming more than just a big republic. Without the conquest of the Gauls, there would never have been a Roman empire and we would live in a totally different world today.
Caesar also reformed the Republic in order to give more power to the people. No other senator than he would have wanted to do this. This is also what saved the Republic.
How do you get Romans to accept a Jew as their saviour? You make him like the most popular Roman of all, Julius Caesar.... A comparison of Caesar’s and Jesus’ lives brings up an uncanny amount of similarities.
. Caesar was dictator and headed the Senate. There were hundreds of Senators. Out of these, twelve conspired against him. One, Brutus, betrayed him and the other eleven denied his position when it counted.
Two weeks before his death, Caesar was having supper with the twelve conspirators (there was no conspiracy at this time, only one, Crassus, who was trying to stir things against Caesar). Crassus asked Caesar how he would like to die. The great man responded that he would like to be assassinated as this would prove that he had done something great that disturbed the order.
Originally posted by ajmusicmedia
It is also believed that since Caesar had accomplished everything he’d set out to do and had nothing more to accomplish, that he organized his assassination himself.
Which would greatly explain Brutus’ treason.
The conspirators accused Caesar of wanting to proclaim himself king, which Caesar would never have done.
It is said that the first eleven conspirators attacked Caesar individually and that they all missed. Then Brutus took his knife out. Seeing this, Caesar said “Et tu, Brutus” (you also, Brutus; either as a statement of astonishment, or as an order), enveloped himself in his cape and waited for Brutus, a Roman soldier, to stab him in the side.