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The Crucifixion Was A Fraud
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Billions of Christians believe Christ
was crucified, buried, and then rose again.
This is the basis
for Christian faith. What if Jesus survived the
crucifixion? Would this be pure blasphemy or is there reason behind
this assumption? There is evidence in the gospels themselves that
say Christ may have survived the crucifixion and that
the crucifixion to put it bluntly was a "fraud."
Writer and researcher Michael Baigent, author of
Holy
Blood-Holy Grail, and other scholars believe that the gospels
are suspect to the theory of the survival of Christ. He says
his theories are not intended to offend, but one must keep a clear
 distinction
between the Jesus of history and the Jesus of theology even
though the Jesus of theology is based on the historical
Jesus.
One can only find the figure of the Jesus of
history by teasing out of various historical documents, some which
are the New Testament.
In the theory of the survival of Jesus, there are a number of
clues which help support it, but there are two major clues that are
the strongest.
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The first is in the crucifixion
itself. When a person was crucified they did not die
quickly, but rather a slow painful, morbid death which would
have taken two to three days, possibly even a week. Jesus
supposedly died within two to three hours.
Joseph of
Arimethea went to Pilot and asked to have the body of Jesus, which was contrary to Roman law anyway, and when
Pilot heard that Jesus was already dead, he was so
surprised to hear that Jesus had died so quickly that he
sent a centurion to check.
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The second oddity is that the
crucifixion took place in what seemed to be a private garden
and tomb owned by Joseph of Arimethea. The importance of
this observation is that if there was any fraudulence associated
with the crucifixion, then the public could be kept away in a
private garden and Jesus could be privately taken away,
revived, tendered and ministered to.
If Jesus did not die on the
cross he would have been forced to flee the Holy Land.
If
authorities discovered Jesus was still alive, he would have
been punished again. So where would he have gone? There is a story
of Christ's life after the crucifixion.
That the blood
relatives of Jesus may still live among us!
Rennes le Château is at the foot of the Peraniese Mountains
in the South of France. This small town is at the center of a
religious and historical cyclone. The story begins with a young
Parish priest by the name of Bérenger Saunière.
Bérenger
Saunière was first assigned to Rennes le Château in 1885 at the age
of 33. He started renovations of the church and found a suspicious
hallow piece in the altar when taking it apart. Within the hallow
piece he found four parchments, which started the mystery.
Two of
the parchments were written in code which he could not decipher.
Saunière took the parchments to
Paris to seek help from experts in military code and ciphers. It is
believed that he found the key to unlocking the mystery of the
documents. It is also believed that someone gave Saunière money to
find out what information was obtained in the parchments or perhaps
to keep the secrets of Rennes le Château from becoming public.
When Bérenger Saunière went home he started a full renovation of
the church. He found new details within the church's artwork that he
thought to be clues to the information contained in the parchments.
Is it possible that the coded documents revealed to Bérenger
Saunière that Christ had
survived the crucifixion? In a depiction of
stage fourteen of the cross (click
image right), which is normally the body of Christ
being carried to the tomb, Saunière showed the moon as already
risen, thus Passover had already begun.
No Jew would handle a dead
body after the beginning of Passover.
Either Saunière was
showing that:
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The body is
not dead
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They were taking the body out of the tomb
and not in
After renovating the church, Saunière
still had some money left over, so he continued in
Rennes le Château and built a
house, garden, and a tower which he named after Mary Magdala
(Magdalene).
The figure of Mary Magdala may prove key to historical
legends that Mary Magdala traveled to the South of France, in
addition some scholars believe she may have been the wife of
Jesus.
A number of documents spoke of relationships between Mary Magdala
and Jesus which could only be described as close. For
example, it was witnessed that Jesus kissed her often on the lips to
the point where the other disciples complained, perhaps they felt
jealous. Jesus was a religious teacher. It was very unusual for a
Jewish religious teacher to be unmarried, in fact a commandment of
God was to be fruitful and multiply.
The question arose, what could
possibly be so important about this relationship that would cause
such a mystery?
Michael Baigent believes two stories converge here.
Could the Holy Grail, the illusive treasure of legend and myth be the key to
unlocking this mystery? It would seem unrelated to Jesus and Mary
but may be the most important clue of all. The Holy Grail was
thought of as the chalice Christ drank from at the Last Supper, and
which may of held his blood after the crucifixion.
Could the Holy
Grail have another meaning? A meaning hidden in the French words for
Holy Grail:
SAN
GREAL = Holy Grail,
if broken differently to
SANG
REAL = Blood Royal, the royal blood line
During research historical proof was
found that the line of David, Jesus' blood line,
existed in Europe during Medieval Times.
According to Bérenger
Saunière when the knight finds the Grail, he does not find the
golden chalice, but proof that Jesus survived the crucifixion.
In 1917 when Saunière was dying, he called for a priest to
hear his confessions. When the priest did, he fled from the room in
shock, never smiling again. Perhaps Saunière imparted in him
a secret, a secret that has been suppressed for 2,000 years.
A secret that Jesus had survived the crucifixion. A secret
that Jesus had a relationship with Mary Magdala, a
relationship which produced children. And that these children made
their way to France, where the bloodline of Christ, the
bloodline of the royal line of David, continued and in fact
continues today.
Your looking at the difference between the Jesus of
theology and the Jesus of history.
The Jesus of
theology is a God, the Jesus of history is a man like all other
men.
"We are trying to regain the
Jesus of history, to find Jesus the man who walked,
loved, and taught in Judah in the 1st Century A.D."
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