Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone… And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion… For Yourselves And Everyone Else… All Around The World! And There Should Never Be A Time When Any Of Us Doubt The Love Of The Great “I AM” – For Ourselves Or Anyone Else In The World – Based On Our Circumstances Or The Experiences We Must Endure. Yet Sometimes, In Our Human Thinking… We Do! Now That May Be Somewhat Comprehensible When We Are Unknowledgeable Of… And Unconnected To The Presence Of The Living God Within Us; But Once We Come To Know And Accept That Our Very Own “Mighty I AM Presence” Is The Spirit Of The Almighty God In Action – Our Life Stream – Activating Us Every Day That We Awaken; That Doubt Will Truly Diminish… And Our Conscious Connection To The “Presence” Of All Life… Will Begin To Flourish! Amen…

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…

And Y’all Be Love…

“It is claimed by the disciples of Jesus Christ, that he was of supernatural and divine origin; that he had a human being for a mother, and a God for his father; that, although he was woman-conceived, he was Deity-begotten, and molded in the human form, but comprehending in essence a full measure of the infinite Godhead; thus making him half human and half divine in his sublunary origin.

It is claimed that he was full and perfect God, and perfect man; and while he was God, he was also the son of God, and as such, was sent down by his father to save a fallen and guilty world; and that thus, his mission pertained to the whole human race. And his inspired seers are made to declare that ultimately every nation, tongue, kindred, and people under heaven will acknowledge allegiance to his government, and concede his right to reign and rule the world; that “every knee must bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

But we do not find that this prophecy has ever been or is likely to be fulfilled. We do not observe that this claim to the infinite deityship of Jesus Christ has been or is likely to be universally conceded. On the contrary, it is found that by a portion, and a large portion of the people of even those nations now called Christian, this claim has been steadily and unswervingly controverted, through the whole line of history, stretching through the nearly two thousand years which have elapsed since his advent to earth.

Even some of those who are represented to have been personally acquainted with him, aye, some of his own brethren in the flesh, children in the same household, children of the same mother, had the temerity to question the tenableness of his claim to a divine emanation. And when we extend our research to other countries, we find this claim, so far from being conceded, is denied and contested by whole nations upon other grounds. It is met and confronted by rival claims.

Upon this ground, hundreds of millions of the established believers in divine revelation, hundreds of millions of believers in the divine character and origin of religion, reject the pretentious set up for Jesus Christ. They admit both a God and a Savior, but do not accept Jesus of Nazareth as being either. They admit a Messiah, but not the Messiah. These nations contend that the title is misplaced which makes “the man Christ Jesus” the Savior of the world. They claim to have been honored with the birth of the true Savior among them and defend this claim upon the ground of priority of date. They aver that the advent of their Messiahs was long prior to that of the Christians’, and that this circumstance adjudicates for them a superiority of claim as to having had the true Messiah born upon their soil.

It is argued that, as the story of the incarnation of the Christians’ Savior is of more recent date than that of these oriental and ancient religions (as is conceded by Christians themselves), the origin of the former is thus indicated and foreshadowed as being an outgrowth from, if not a plagiarism upon the latter; a borrowed copy, of which the pagan stories furnish the original. Here, then, we observe a rivalship of claims, as to which of the remarkable personages who have figured in the world as Saviors, Messiahs, and Sons of God, in different ages and different countries, can be considered the true Savior and “sent of God”; or whether all should be, or the claims of all, rejected.

For research into oriental history reveal the remarkable fact that stories of incarnate Gods answering to and resembling the miraculous character of Jesus Christ have been prevalent in most, if not all the principal religions heathen nations of antiquity. And the accounts and narrations of some of these deific incarnations bear such a striking resemblance to that of the Christian Savior, not only in their general features, but in some cases in the most minute details; from the legend of the immaculate conception to that of the crucifixion, and subsequent ascension into heaven, that one might almost be mistaken for the other.

More than twenty claims of this kind, claims of beings invested with divine honor (deified), have come forward and presented themselves at the bar of the world with their credentials, to contest the verdict of Christendom, in having proclaimed Jesus Christ, “the only son, and sent of God”. Twenty Messiahs, Saviors, and Sons of God, according to history or tradition have, in past times, descended from heaven, and taken upon themselves the form of men, clothing themselves with human flesh, and furnishing incontestable evidence of a divine origin, by various miracles, marvelous works, and superlative virtues. And finally, these twenty Jesus “Christs” (accepting their character for the name), laid the foundation for the salvation of the world, and ascended back to heaven.

Chrishna of Hindustan; Buddha Sakia of India; Salivahana of Bermuda; Zulis, or Zhule, also Osiris and Orus, of Egypt; Odin of the Scandinavians; Crite of Chaldea; Zoroaster and Mithra of Persia; Baal and Taut, “the only Begotten of God”, of Phenicia; Indra of Tibet; Bali of Afghanistan; Jao of Nepal; Wittoba of the Bilingonese; Thammuz of Syria; Atys of Phrygia; Xaniolxis of Thrace; Zoar of the Bonzes; Adad of Assyria; Deva Tat and Sammonocadam of Siam; Alcides of Thebes; Mikado of the Sintoos; Beddru of Japan; Hesus or Eros, and Bremrillah, of the Druids; Thor, son of Odin, of the Gauls; Cadmus of Greece; Hil and Feta of the Mandaites; Gentaut and Quexalcote of Mexico; Universal Monarch of the Sibyls; Ischy of the Island of Formosa; Divine Teacher of Plato; Holy One of Xaca; Fohi and Tien of China; Adonis of Greece; Ixion and Quirinus of Rome; Prometheus of Caucasus; Mohammed, or Mahomet, of Arabia.

These have all received divine honors, have nearly all been worshiped as Gods, or sons of God; were mostly incarnated as Christs, Saviors, Messiahs, or Mediators. Not a few of them were reputedly born of virgins; some of them filling a character almost identical with that ascribed by the Christian’s Bible to Jesus Christ. Many of them, like him, are reported to have been crucified; and all of them, taken together, furnish a prototype and parallel for nearly every important incident and wonder-inciting miracle, doctrine and precept recorded in the New Testament, of the Christian’s Savior. Surely, with so many Saviors, the world cannot or should not, be lost.

We have now presented before us a two-fold ground for doubting and disputing the claims put forth by the Christian world on behalf of “Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” In the first place, allowing the question to be answered in the affirmative, as to whether he was really a Savior or supernatural being, or more than a mere man, a negative answer, to which seems to have been sprung at the very hour of his birth, and that by his kindred, his own nearest relatives. As it is declared, “his own brethren did not believe on him”, a skepticism which has been growing deeper and broader from that day to this.

… Was he (Christ) the only Savior, seeing that a multitude of similar claims are now upon our council-board to be disposed of? We shall, however, leave the theologians of the various religious schools to adjust and settle this difficulty among themselves. We shall leave them to settle the question as best they can, as to whether Jesus Christ was the only son and sent of God, “the only begotten of the Father”, as John declares him to be (John 1:14); in view of the fact that long prior to his time, various personages, in different nations, were invested with the title “Son of God”, and have left behind them similar proofs and credentials of the justness of their claims to such a title, if being essentially alike.

… While Christians only claim, for the earthly advent of their Savior and the birth of their religion, a period less than nineteen hundred years in the past, on the contrary, most of the deific or divine incarnations of the heathen and their respective religions are, by the concurrent and united verdict of all history, assigned a date several hundred or several thousand years earlier, thus leaving the inference patent that so far as there has been any borrowing or transfer of materials from one system to another, Christianity has been the borrower.

And as nearly the whole outline and constituent parts of the Christian system are found scattered through these older systems, the query is at once sprung as to whether Christianity did not derive its materials from these sources, that is, from heathenism, instead of from high heaven, as it claims.”

The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors, by Kersey Graves, 1875

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