THE BIRTH OF JESUS IS A MYTH INVENTED BY THE CHURCH…OR ??

THE PATRIARCHS       God promised them that through them all the nations of the world would be blessed.

PREDICTIONS     that the tribe of Juda would be supreme among the other Hebrew tribes, until the coming of Him, whom all nations would obey.

ALEXANDRIAN JEWS            predicted the Virgin birth of the Messiah.

ISAIAH       seven hundred years before the birth of Jesus predicts His Suffering and Passion in great detail. They were all fulfilled.

TACITUS (pagan testimony)        speaking to the Ancient Romans: ‘People, persuaded in faith, believed that from Judea was to come the Master and Ruler of the world.’

SUETONIUS         recounts thus: ‘It was an old and constant belief throughout the East, that by indubitably certain prophecies, the Jews were to attain the highest power.’

CHINA        being on the other side of the world, believed that a Wise Man would come from the West.

ANNALS OF THE CELESTIAL EMPIRE           On the 8^th day of the 4^th moon, a light appeared in the south-west  which illumined the king’s palace. His sages told the monarch that this prodigy signifies the appearance of the great Saint of the West.

GREEKS        expected Him. Quoting Aeschylus in his ‘Promotheus’ there’s written: ‘God appears, to accept upon His head the pangs of thy own sins vicarious.’

THE MAGI            they knew about Christ’s birth from prophecies circulating all round the world, both by Jews and by pagans.

HEROD       was si fearful that he ordered the murder of all male babes under the age of two.

PLATO and SOCRATES                     spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man, “yet to come”.

CONFUCIUS        spoke  of ‘The Saint to come”.

THE SIBYLS        prophesied the “Coming of the Universal King.”

A GREEK DRAMATIST          wrote about a Saviuor and a Redeemer who was expected to come to ‘loosen’ man from the ‘primal eldest curse’.

JESUS CHRIST       when He appeared He struck History with such impact that He split it into two, dividing it into two periods; one before His coming (BC), and one after His coming (AD).

The chap who invented this ‘Myth’ must have been a super intelligent fellow, with an unbeatable IQ, who was able to influence the whole world; East and West, throughout the ages, from the earliest Prophets, 700 years before Jesus was born. He must have depended on the computer and other IT information.

BUT, only fools believe that this was an invention. The arrival of Christ, the Messiah, was announced years before He was born, and His life amongst us fulfilled all that was foretold.

Adapted from Fulton J.Sheen