Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [20]
1. Steiner, 168.
2. Wheless, FC, 163.
3. Wheless, FC, 145.
4. Doane, 412.
5. Wheless, FC, 94.
6. Keeler, 23.
7. Leedom, 173.
8. Waite, 307.
9. Waite, 346.
10. Walker, WEMS, 469.
11. Waite, 461.
12. Higgins, 1, 680.
13. Wheless, FC, 99-100.
14. www.infidels.org
15. Wheless, xxxi.
16. Eusebius, 132.
17. Waite, 328.
18. Wheless, FC, 105.
19. Larson, 506.
20. Wheless, FC, 67.
21. Wheless, FC, 101.
22. Wheless, 102.
23. Doane, 459.
24. Wheless, FC, 109.
25. Wheless, FC, 178.
Biblical Sources
The story of Jesus Christ can be found only in the forged books of the New Testament, an assortment of gospels and epistles that required many centuries and hands to create. As Dr. Lardner said, ". . . even so late as the middle of the sixth century, the canon of the New Testament had not been settled by any authority that was decisive and universally acknowledged...", Mead describes the confused compilation of the "infallible Word of God":
The New Testament is not a single book but a collection of groups of books and single volumes, which were at first and even long afterwards circulated separately.... the Gospels are found in any and every order. . . . Egyptian tradition places Jn. first among the Gospels.2
In fact, it took well over a thousand years to canonize the New Testament, and the Old Testament canon remains different to this day in the Catholic and Protestant versions. This canonization also required many councils to decide which books were to be considered "inspired" and which "spurious." Contrary to the impression given, these councils were not peaceful gatherings of the "good shepherds of Christ" but raucous free-for-ails between bands of thugs and their arrogant and insane bishops. As Keeler says:
The reader would err greatly did he suppose that in these assemblies one or two hundred gentlemen sat down to discuss quietly and dignifiedly the questions which had come before them for settlement. On the contrary, many of the bishops were ignorant ruffians, and were followed by crowds of vicious supporters who stood ready on the slightest excuse to maim and kill their opponents.3
In fact, at the Council of Ephesus in 431 mobs consisting of the dregs of society and representing the warring factions of Antioch and Alexandria broke out in riots and killed many of each other. This melee was merely one of many, and this shedding of blood by Christian followers was only the beginning of a hideous centuries-long legacy.
Church historian Eusebius admits the chaotic atmosphere of the Christian foundation:
But increasing freedom transformed our character to arrogance and sloth; we began envying and abusing each other, cutting our own throats, as occasion offered, with weapons of sharp-edged words; rulers hurled themselves at rulers and laymen waged party fights against laymen, and unspeakable hypocrisy and dissimulation were carried to the limit of wickedness. . . . Those of us who were supposed to be pastors cast off the restraining influence of the fear of God and quarrelled heatedly with each other, engaged solely in swelling the disputes, threats, envy, and mutual hostility and hate, frantically demanding the despotic power they coveted.4
Such were the means by which the New Testament was finally canonized. Concerning the NT as it stands today, Wheless says:
The 27 New Testament booklets, attributed to eight individual "Apostolic" writers, and culled from some 200 admitted forgeries called Gospels, Acts, and Epistles, constitute the present "canonical" or acceptedly inspired compendium of the primitive history of Christianity.5
The various gospels, of which only four are now accepted as "canonical" or "genuine," are in actuality not the earliest Christian texts. The earliest canonical texts are demonstrably the Epistles of Paul, so it is to them that we must first