Just Let Me Explain Myself One More Time

My last post was particularly dreadful as I was using a Blackberry. Now that I am back on my laptop let me make clear what my motivations are in my investigations.

Christianity doesn't make sense to me or to anyone else. It only seems to make sense to some because of its familiarity - like a child who grew up in a household where everyone else was schizophrenic.

The problem comes down to this.

Jesus wasn't the messiah. It's not just me that says this. It's not just the Jewish tradition that refutes this. The point is decided by the combination of a number of factors not the least of which is Jesus' reluctance to apply the term to himself.

So there had to be a messiah and he wasn't Jesus.

The next difficulty is in the way most scholars interpret what came after Jesus appeared on the cross.

The Marcionites were a real Christian tradition - perhaps the oldest - and not only did they deny that Jesus was the messiah and said instead that he was God or the angel of the presence they took over very Jewish sounding ideas about Christianity's messiah and his role in the restoration of Jerusalem.

I also think there is good circumstantial reasons for assuming that the Marcionite messiah's name being Mark.

If the reader accepts my idea that the Alexandrian tradition was one and the same with the Marcionite Church and that a number of neo-Marcionites like Clement and Origen decided to avoid Imperial condemnation by accepting the new New Testament canon developed by Irenaeus in the period, then we see how it was that Alexandria became the focal point of persecutions in the next two hundred years.

We also get an idea who the 'hypocrites' are that are associated with Marcus Agrippa and Mohammed ...

Maybe this is too much for people to understand in one shot. Read my other posts, read my book and I am sure that it will all start to make sense to you ...

I promise.