The MSNBC Spin on Jesus

An estimated 2 billion Christians around the world celebrate the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. While those believers take the stories of Jesus as told in the New Testament on faith, archaeologists have scoured the Holy Land and beyond in search of clues about the real life of Jesus and his followers. — John Roach, msnbc.com contributor (From here.)


I find it fascinating that educated journalists know so little about Christianity and assume that our Faith has no basis in historical realities.

Note that Mr. Roach neglects the central doctrine of Christianity; that Jesus is the Son of God whose coming into the world fulfilled a divine promise made to Abraham's Nilotic ancestors that the Woman (Mary) would bring forth the "Seed" (Jesus Christ) who would crush the serpent's head and restore paradise (Gen. 3:15).  Jesus claimed to fulfill the Edenic Promise when He told his disciples that He was going to Jerusalem to die. When they protested, He explained, "unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." (John 12:24)

The ancient Horites observed the death and resurrection of HR (Horus) in a five day festival in which they planted grain on the third day, signifying the resurrection of HR, who they called "Son of God."

People think of Christianity as an off-shoot of Judaism. However, the core of Christianity can be traced back to Abraham and his Nilotic ancestors long before Judaism. In this sense, Christianity isn't original. What it lacks in originality, it makes up for in antiquity and herein rests its authority.

The origins of Christianity came to Abraham, not as special revelation, but as a tradition received from his forefathers (horim). The distinctive traits of this tradition align remarkable well with the key features of catholic faith and practice and have been confirmed by archaeological finds, anthropology and linguistics:

1. All-male ruler-priests
2. Blood sacrifice at altars
3. Expectation of the appearing of a Divine Son
4. Belief in an eternal and undivided Kingdom
5. As in heaven, so on earth - reflected in the Lord's Prayer
6. Circumcision

Because of God's promise in Eden (Gen. 3:15) Abraham and his ancestors lived in expectation of the Son of God and taught their children to do so. Their priestly lines intermarried exclusively (endogamy) in expectation that the Seed of the Woman would come of their priestly lines. In other words, the Edenic tradition is a family-tribal tradition. This is evident when one studies the genealogies and discovers that the ruler-priest lines of Abraham's people intermarried and shared common beliefs and practices. Using the genealogical data of the Bible, specifically the king lists, it is possible to trace Mary and her cousin Joseph back to the earliest rulers of the Bible in Genesis 4 and 5. It is possible because the Horite ruler-priest lines (some of whom were later called "Levites") practiced endogamy.

Since the Bible contains 66 books written by many different authors over about 1300 years, it is not possible that this scheme was imposed at a late date.  In other words, analysis of the marriage and ascendency pattern of the Horim shows that Jesus is the direct descendant of Abraham's ancestors to whom God made the promise concerning the coming of the Son of God. There is a reason why Jews call their ancestors horim.

John wrote, "This is the revelation of God's love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him." (1 John 4:9) This sounds like foolishness to those who are perishing, but to those who know that God's promises are sure, it is the hope and assurance of life eternal.



Related reading:  The Marriage and Ascendency Pattern of Abraham's People; Eden: A Well-Watered Region; Extant Biblical Clans and Tribes; Nilotic Celestial Archetypes; Challenge to Shaye Cohen's Portrayal of Abraham; The Ethnicity of Abraham and David

Holy Tradition on Formation vs Generation

Alice C. Lisnley


In conversations about Genesis and creation one must be mindful of the distinction between the original formation of Man and Woman and the generation of the human race. This distinction is necessary to understand the Bible's teaching on Christ's Incarnation by the Holy Spirit and the fulfillment of Genesis 3:15 through Mary, the Mother of God. St. John of Damascus compared the Mary with Eve, writing: Just as the latter was formed from Adam without connection, so also did the former bring forth the new Adam, who was brought forth in accordance with the laws of parturition and above the nature of generation. (On the Orthodox Faith, IV, 14)

Holy Tradition, which in the first order is the unchanging and immutable kergyma concerning Jesus Christ, teaches that all things came into being through Him; that Christ existed with the Father before the world was created. The Beloved Son is the first Man, even before He became Man at His Incarnation. If we think of the creation from the worldly perspective alone we will miss what matters.  All things are to be examined through the lens of the Promised Son for whom God has prepared a Kingdom "not of this world" that is populated by world-lings (imagine that!).  This is the doctrine of the Lord that astonishes (Acts 13).

St. John of Damascus, whose thought is representative of the teaching of all the early Fathers on the formation of man, also wrote: The earliest formation (of man) is called creation and not generation. For creation is the original formation at God's hands, while generation is the succession from each other made necessary by the sentence of death imposed on us on account of the transgression. (On the Orthodox Faith, II, 30)

The woman who Adam named Eve was formed by God also, as St. Cyril explained: Eve was begotten of Adam, and not conceived of a mother, but as it were brought forth of man alone. (Catechetical Lectures, XII, 29). She was formed by God from Man, not born of human flesh. Male and Female were at the beginning formed by God; Adam from the dust and Eve from Adam. This is why it is false to claim that humans are not special; that we are the product of evolutionary generation.

It is also falsely claimed (Aristotle being an advocate) that when humans die their decomposition represents a rebirth. This atomistic regeneration is the basis for many Hindu and Buddhist beliefs, but is not what the Bible teaches. According to the atomistic view, the first humans were produced by nature through spontaneous generation. Yet no examples of spontaneous generation of humans has ever been observed. The idea that matter, when subjected to the correct conditions, can produce human beings is a pagan idea and a popular alternative to what the Bible teaches. But is it supportable?