Those of Mexican or Peruvian or Bolivian origin and all those nations where the Aztecs and the Incas once lived in South America, should not by any means take offence by this essay. The European nations and the African nations and most other nations before the arrival of Christianity also practiced ritual or mass
I read this essay to my husband, and had my own realization. I really did not know the vast and immense human sacrifice that went on in the world. It shocked me.
And to know Christ died on the cross for a new beginning touches my soul viscerally.
I learn so much from you Dr. Christian. Thank-you kindly. 💜🙏
Child sacrifice still is going on big time—abortion. The “gods” that these innocents are sacrificed to are convenience, self-centeredness, ideology, and now the old demonic gods are back as well. We are doomed to repeat history when we remain ignorant of it.
I am concerned that you let Christianity off the hook too easily. At the insistence of church fathers, 50k women were burned to death in medieval Europe for being 'witches', actually herbalists and midwives, but who practiced knowledge outside of church purview. The Protestant Reformation was accompanied by the killing of those who strayed. Body parts of Anabaptists were nailed to the city gates in Geneva, and there are still extant cages hanging at the top of a European cathedral, where heretics were left to die and rot, among many other examples. Christoforo Columbo in 1493 brought a flotilla of Inquisition expelled Jews to the Caribbean where they started plantations, importing the first Africans to work in the deadly heat and sun. Many of the colonists to the New World were escaping religious strife in Europe. I had Quaker ancestors put in English dungeons for refusing to pay tithes to the church of England, and then sent to exile in Holland. We later called them the Pilgrims.
Where human sacrifices ended? The Deep State and Biden-Child-Sniffer-Pedo-Warmonger and Collaborators have sacrificed the lives of 500,000+ Ukrainian men with over 1.5 million estimated to be wounded so they can't go back to battle. Human Sacrifice is very much alive and well!
Look at the altar of the Pandemic with over 17 Million+ who dies of the vax poison let alone of the bio-weaponized covid-19 itself!
The author is far to blind! Human Sacrifice is very much alive and well!
Christianity doesn't involve a trinity either. There is a Father and a Son, Who are one, and a spirit which fills them both.
Shamayim, of course, does exist.
I'm not sure I see the logic of needing to explain why islam copied the notion.
Let me at least try to help you to understand.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the image of God, ie something seen at a distance which isn't the entire thing, just as an image in binoculars is an image of something binoculars can only provide a visual representation of.
They don't enable you to touch the object, or smell it, or taste it, etc - they just give you an image.
We know this is so because no man can look upon God and live - but they can look upon His beloved Son, Who took human form so we could see something of the Father.
It's quite a crude analogy, but I find it helpful to think of a lava lamp; this substance can split apart into a small piece and a large piece; they are both made of the same substance, but the small piece represents the Son, and the large piece, the Father.
In due course they will recombine into the One God attested to by the jews.
One of your remarks about the Aztecs suggests that they and Israel's priesthood had in a common an ancient delusion about human being. You wrote that...
"The Aztecs...ritually sacrificed thousands of human victims...and in each case, the abdomen of the conscious victim would be ripped open, the still beating heart plucked out by the priest."
Can you think of any reason for them to do that if they believed that the central nervous system, esp. the brain, is the seat of human consciousness and emotion? Why fetishize the human heart, as do both Israel's religion and the cult of Jesus, if you've formed some idea, however dim, that the heart is just a blood pump?
It's only too obvious that the Aztecs ripped out hearts because of some delusion about it being critical to human consciousness and emotion, or a seat of the soul, or something like this. When you read the older testament, you find again and again this same notion baked into the scriptures. Read the first few chapters of Proverbs, for example, for repeated references to the heart. That mistake has penetrated so deeply into language and culture that we've retained it in figures of speech long after figuring out the importance of the brain. Almost no one raises an eyebrow when some gasbag speaks about the importance of winning hearts and minds for this or that political program.
Israel's priesthood held also that the life is in the blood, which is an easy mistake if you've convinced yourself that the heart has the function of the brain. Possibly their mistaken reasoning ran in the other direction, though. They may have supposed that the life is in the blood, then held the heart to be special. In either case, the biological error is so extreme that it counts as evidence that the priests' theology, like their scriptures, is rubbish.
You wrote that, "Upon the Cross, the Saviour is ushering in a new destiny for mankind, a new dispensation, a new creature in Christ. The Resurrection then makes this new and abundant life eternal."
Well, 'tis not true. Jews have covered the first and most obvious problem with your christology. For help, see the website and YouTube channel of Jews For Judaism. They make it abundantly clear that Jesus failed to meet the minimum requirements of their moshiach. (They discuss your distortions of their scriptures, too.) In fact, Trinitarian scripture insists that Jesus has no human father, in which case he wasn't descended patrilineally from David, as Israel's christ must be. Jesus was neither moshiach, nor savior, nor god. Your story about him is a clumsy myth.
Now, in parts of your garbled old literature, the author(s) report that the self-appointed moshiach wailed, "eli, eli, lema sabachthani!". At the time he was dying on a cross or a pole. Was he telling the truth? If so, Jesus and his god were not one in being with each other. Perhaps Jesus had been one in being with his god, but the god changed his mind about Jesus and abandoned him, as must be possible for an omnipotent spirit to do. The "new dispensation" stops with his death.
If, on the other hand, Jesus was not telling the truth, we need to ask about the reason(s) for his dishonesty. I have suggested the first reason already. Jesus had been delusional about his status all along. He was never one in being with his own god, nor was he Israel's moshaich. Here, too, the "new dispensation" ends with the death of Israel's most famous narcissist.
Another possibility is that Jesus was lying. Can not an omnipotent god speak with intent to deceive? This seems likely given that finite, mortal beings have this trivial power. So Jesus was pulling the legs of his audience, then he died, which seems like an odd development in the life of an immortal being. Lying or not, it's self-evident that Jesus was a heretic who divided the substance of the trinity. Maybe those Arians and JW's are onto something here.
An interesting essay that makes a clear point but misses an important reason for the rapid conversion of the indigenous people in Mexico. Following the Spanish arrival in 1519, Cortez and the Catholic missionaries made little progress in 11 years of trying to end the Aztec practice of human sacrifices and to bring the good news of Jesus Christ. That changed in 1531, when a Chichimec peasant, Juan Diego, reported that Mary, the mother of God, had spoken to him in his native language of Nahuat and told him to visit the bishop in Mexico City. There, he showed his tilmàtli (cloak) with an image of the Virgin Mary which he said had been divinely created for him. The tilmàtli gave his account much needed credibility with the Catholic hierarchy, and more importantly, with his fellow indigenous people, resulting in their remarkably quick embrace of the Christian faith. Surely, the credit for that belongs with Juan Diego, not the Spanish.
".......where we offered numerous historical proofs that the vast majority of European pagans freely accepted Christianity without the use of force — and even more proofs were presented by our readers in the comments section.
The reason these early pagan Europeans, such as the Druids, so readily accepted Christianity and its Hebrew roots is that many of them were descendants of the “lost” Ten Tribes of Israel from the Assyrian captivity who — over many centuries — had lost their conscious connection to those tribes, but had nevertheless retained many of the pagan religious practices and traditions they had learned during the Assyrian captivity and then brought with them when they migrated up into Europe.
Recall that God had “divorced” the ten northern tribes of Israel and sent them into captivity because they had turned their backs on Him — breaking the First Commandment — by embracing the pagan religions of the surrounding nations — such as Baal worship, and sacrificing their children to Molech.
It should come as no surprise that when these “lost” ten tribes migrated up into Europe, they would retain these pagan practices and practice them in their new European homelands with local added color mixed in."
The above is from one of the articles I found from a word search in DaLimbraw Library on the subject of of Lost Tribes of Israel -
We prefer to say 'Amen brother', rather than be challenged on what we already 'know' - and I can personally attest to my own previous 'unchallengable truths' which I discovered were not only challengable, but based on poor logic and reason - and unbiblical.
Anyone interested in digging deeper? Lots to read. Let's admit it - our current state of mind of what is commonly called Christianity......ain't!
I read this essay to my husband, and had my own realization. I really did not know the vast and immense human sacrifice that went on in the world. It shocked me.
And to know Christ died on the cross for a new beginning touches my soul viscerally.
I learn so much from you Dr. Christian. Thank-you kindly. 💜🙏
Your writing is always so deep and I always learn so much from you. Thank you.
Child sacrifice still is going on big time—abortion. The “gods” that these innocents are sacrificed to are convenience, self-centeredness, ideology, and now the old demonic gods are back as well. We are doomed to repeat history when we remain ignorant of it.
I am concerned that you let Christianity off the hook too easily. At the insistence of church fathers, 50k women were burned to death in medieval Europe for being 'witches', actually herbalists and midwives, but who practiced knowledge outside of church purview. The Protestant Reformation was accompanied by the killing of those who strayed. Body parts of Anabaptists were nailed to the city gates in Geneva, and there are still extant cages hanging at the top of a European cathedral, where heretics were left to die and rot, among many other examples. Christoforo Columbo in 1493 brought a flotilla of Inquisition expelled Jews to the Caribbean where they started plantations, importing the first Africans to work in the deadly heat and sun. Many of the colonists to the New World were escaping religious strife in Europe. I had Quaker ancestors put in English dungeons for refusing to pay tithes to the church of England, and then sent to exile in Holland. We later called them the Pilgrims.
Where human sacrifices ended? The Deep State and Biden-Child-Sniffer-Pedo-Warmonger and Collaborators have sacrificed the lives of 500,000+ Ukrainian men with over 1.5 million estimated to be wounded so they can't go back to battle. Human Sacrifice is very much alive and well!
Look at the altar of the Pandemic with over 17 Million+ who dies of the vax poison let alone of the bio-weaponized covid-19 itself!
The author is far to blind! Human Sacrifice is very much alive and well!
What is Israel doing right now, if not human sacrifice? It isn't war. Maybe they are just sacrificing their humanity, over and over, like the Passion.
Christianity doesn't involve a trinity either. There is a Father and a Son, Who are one, and a spirit which fills them both.
Shamayim, of course, does exist.
I'm not sure I see the logic of needing to explain why islam copied the notion.
Let me at least try to help you to understand.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the image of God, ie something seen at a distance which isn't the entire thing, just as an image in binoculars is an image of something binoculars can only provide a visual representation of.
They don't enable you to touch the object, or smell it, or taste it, etc - they just give you an image.
We know this is so because no man can look upon God and live - but they can look upon His beloved Son, Who took human form so we could see something of the Father.
It's quite a crude analogy, but I find it helpful to think of a lava lamp; this substance can split apart into a small piece and a large piece; they are both made of the same substance, but the small piece represents the Son, and the large piece, the Father.
In due course they will recombine into the One God attested to by the jews.
One of your remarks about the Aztecs suggests that they and Israel's priesthood had in a common an ancient delusion about human being. You wrote that...
"The Aztecs...ritually sacrificed thousands of human victims...and in each case, the abdomen of the conscious victim would be ripped open, the still beating heart plucked out by the priest."
Can you think of any reason for them to do that if they believed that the central nervous system, esp. the brain, is the seat of human consciousness and emotion? Why fetishize the human heart, as do both Israel's religion and the cult of Jesus, if you've formed some idea, however dim, that the heart is just a blood pump?
It's only too obvious that the Aztecs ripped out hearts because of some delusion about it being critical to human consciousness and emotion, or a seat of the soul, or something like this. When you read the older testament, you find again and again this same notion baked into the scriptures. Read the first few chapters of Proverbs, for example, for repeated references to the heart. That mistake has penetrated so deeply into language and culture that we've retained it in figures of speech long after figuring out the importance of the brain. Almost no one raises an eyebrow when some gasbag speaks about the importance of winning hearts and minds for this or that political program.
Israel's priesthood held also that the life is in the blood, which is an easy mistake if you've convinced yourself that the heart has the function of the brain. Possibly their mistaken reasoning ran in the other direction, though. They may have supposed that the life is in the blood, then held the heart to be special. In either case, the biological error is so extreme that it counts as evidence that the priests' theology, like their scriptures, is rubbish.
You wrote that, "Upon the Cross, the Saviour is ushering in a new destiny for mankind, a new dispensation, a new creature in Christ. The Resurrection then makes this new and abundant life eternal."
Well, 'tis not true. Jews have covered the first and most obvious problem with your christology. For help, see the website and YouTube channel of Jews For Judaism. They make it abundantly clear that Jesus failed to meet the minimum requirements of their moshiach. (They discuss your distortions of their scriptures, too.) In fact, Trinitarian scripture insists that Jesus has no human father, in which case he wasn't descended patrilineally from David, as Israel's christ must be. Jesus was neither moshiach, nor savior, nor god. Your story about him is a clumsy myth.
Now, in parts of your garbled old literature, the author(s) report that the self-appointed moshiach wailed, "eli, eli, lema sabachthani!". At the time he was dying on a cross or a pole. Was he telling the truth? If so, Jesus and his god were not one in being with each other. Perhaps Jesus had been one in being with his god, but the god changed his mind about Jesus and abandoned him, as must be possible for an omnipotent spirit to do. The "new dispensation" stops with his death.
If, on the other hand, Jesus was not telling the truth, we need to ask about the reason(s) for his dishonesty. I have suggested the first reason already. Jesus had been delusional about his status all along. He was never one in being with his own god, nor was he Israel's moshaich. Here, too, the "new dispensation" ends with the death of Israel's most famous narcissist.
Another possibility is that Jesus was lying. Can not an omnipotent god speak with intent to deceive? This seems likely given that finite, mortal beings have this trivial power. So Jesus was pulling the legs of his audience, then he died, which seems like an odd development in the life of an immortal being. Lying or not, it's self-evident that Jesus was a heretic who divided the substance of the trinity. Maybe those Arians and JW's are onto something here.
Enter abortion
An interesting essay that makes a clear point but misses an important reason for the rapid conversion of the indigenous people in Mexico. Following the Spanish arrival in 1519, Cortez and the Catholic missionaries made little progress in 11 years of trying to end the Aztec practice of human sacrifices and to bring the good news of Jesus Christ. That changed in 1531, when a Chichimec peasant, Juan Diego, reported that Mary, the mother of God, had spoken to him in his native language of Nahuat and told him to visit the bishop in Mexico City. There, he showed his tilmàtli (cloak) with an image of the Virgin Mary which he said had been divinely created for him. The tilmàtli gave his account much needed credibility with the Catholic hierarchy, and more importantly, with his fellow indigenous people, resulting in their remarkably quick embrace of the Christian faith. Surely, the credit for that belongs with Juan Diego, not the Spanish.
Is there more to this?
".......where we offered numerous historical proofs that the vast majority of European pagans freely accepted Christianity without the use of force — and even more proofs were presented by our readers in the comments section.
The reason these early pagan Europeans, such as the Druids, so readily accepted Christianity and its Hebrew roots is that many of them were descendants of the “lost” Ten Tribes of Israel from the Assyrian captivity who — over many centuries — had lost their conscious connection to those tribes, but had nevertheless retained many of the pagan religious practices and traditions they had learned during the Assyrian captivity and then brought with them when they migrated up into Europe.
Recall that God had “divorced” the ten northern tribes of Israel and sent them into captivity because they had turned their backs on Him — breaking the First Commandment — by embracing the pagan religions of the surrounding nations — such as Baal worship, and sacrificing their children to Molech.
It should come as no surprise that when these “lost” ten tribes migrated up into Europe, they would retain these pagan practices and practice them in their new European homelands with local added color mixed in."
The above is from one of the articles I found from a word search in DaLimbraw Library on the subject of of Lost Tribes of Israel -
https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/search?q=Christians+truth+lost+tribes&updated-max=2023-06-12T10:28:00-07:00&max-results=20&start=0&by-date=false&m=1 - Christians for Truth has become a very informative site for me to fill in the gaps of knowledge which inhibit our learning. As Hosea wrote - "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge!"
We prefer to say 'Amen brother', rather than be challenged on what we already 'know' - and I can personally attest to my own previous 'unchallengable truths' which I discovered were not only challengable, but based on poor logic and reason - and unbiblical.
Anyone interested in digging deeper? Lots to read. Let's admit it - our current state of mind of what is commonly called Christianity......ain't!