Behold Jesus: God's-Sun Sacrifice For Human Sin

The title says it all in a nutshell ...

Behold Jesus: God's-Sun Sacrifice

For Human Sin

Written By Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

Copyright © 2019 Marvin Thomas Cox

DBA: Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

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Historically: Sol Invictus (The Unconquered Sun)

Allegedly: Jesus Christ, when in fact making/creating

images is strictly forbidden by Torah/The Law of Moses

Behold, Jesus (not that historical Jesus but that Jesus portrayed within the Gospels' accounts) whom Christianity proclaims as representing a God-Sun-Man Hybridized Savior (a Hybrid that flies directly in the face of Leviticus 19:19 & Deuteronomy 22:9-11's prohibition against creating or allowing the creation of mixed [Hybrid] species), literal, Human Sacrifice for the sins of the world, when, in fact of Judaism's Torah (Law of Moses) given reality, the God of Abraham does not require, nor accept, Human Sacrifice, despite the -- controversial, misinterpreted, misunderstood, misconstrued, and seldom mentioned -- alleged example of Jephthah's purported sacrifice of his own daughter given in the Book of Judges (Judges 11:29-40). 

For, you see, though the Book of Judges reveals a time when Israel lacked effective leadership and, as yet, had no King, the events in Judges took place after the days of Moses and Moses giving unto the children of Israel the Torah (Law of Moses) which had already established the Levitical Priesthood (Levites), with the Tabernacle at Shiloh -- the “House of God,” with, “the Ark of the Covenant of God,” where were, “offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD” -- along with precise instructional commandments as to what was, and was not, permissible and acceptable to be offered as a sacrifice unto the God of Abraham, as well as further instructional commandments as to, exactly, how each permitted type of sacrifice was, without deviation, to be selected, kept, watched, examined, slain, and prepared, prior to being placed upon the altar by the priesthood as an acceptable sacrifice to the God of Abraham -- as failure to, implicitly, follow the instructional commandments given by Moses within the Torah (Law of Moses) would have resulted in circumstances tragically similar to what took place when, "Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not," a failure to expressly adhere to declared Torah (Law of Moses) instructions that was allegedly, clearly, interpreted by the God of Abraham as an overt act of disobedience in blatant deviation from the Torah (Law of Moses) commanded instructions made emphatically known to these two men by Moses and their father, Aaron. The two men were fully aware of proper procedure and instructions, and chose to deviate upon their own chosen path with no one to blame but themselves.

Furthermore, “if Jephthah desired to offer his offspring to the God of Abraham, finding a priest at the tabernacle in Shiloh who would kill, skin, cut into pieces then burn his child before the Lord (required for burnt offerings - Leviticus 1) would have been almost impossible!” In fact, the same would have held true for the Gospel's Jesus had he actually been a true human sacrifice for sin, as the cross would not have sufficed, but would have required the Torah (Law of Moses) instituted ceremonial sacrifice of his body -- would have explicitly required the priesthood of the Temple to ritually slaughter, skin, and cut the body of Jesus into pieces and burn those human remains, while the Gospels make light of this Torah (Law of Moses) based fact of reality by boasting that, "these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken," as manipulated lines of scripture dressed up as prophesy that stands inherently in direct contradiction of the Torah (Law of Moses), itself, as to what is, and is not, acceptable to sacrifice unto the God of Abraham only after it is ritually slaughtered, skinned, and cut into its instructed designated pieces -- upon the altar by the Judaic priesthood and not a dispatch of Roman soldiers to oversee his execution under the auspices of Roman law's preferred punishment for acts of sedition, because the historical Jesus had dared to seek to free his people, nation, and holy Temple from Roman occupation and oppression ...

Albeit, the Church seeks to smooth over these discrepancies in its doctrinal dogma of man-made teachings by telling its, all too gullible, Sheeple-People disciples that the God of Abraham does not, literally, accept Human Sacrifice, therefore, Jesus was slain outside the camp as a figurative representation of the Levitical Priesthood placing the sins of the nation of Israel upon the scapegoat, as per Torah (Law of Moses) commandment, and so took upon himself the sins of the world. The problem with this logic is that the scapegoat -- whether one believes that the goat actually bore the weight of all the sins of the nation of Israel, or not -- was commanded to be set free in the wilderness and, neither, killed, nor offered as a sacrifice for Israel's sins unto the God of Abraham, while Jesus, obviously was killed outside the camp -- outside the walls of Jerusalem, but his body was not, literally, offered as a sacrifice to the God of Abraham upon any prescribed altar's methodology of offering sacrifices to the God of Abraham beneath the supervision of the Levitical Priesthood.

A cold hard fact of religious hocus-pocus reality? The precise stipulations of the Torah (Law of Moses) requiring the casting of two lots in determining the selection between two required goats �" one goat specifically to be ritually slaughtered and offered as a sacrifice for the sins of the people, and the other specifically to be set free as the scapegoat -- is only spoken of in direct connection and legal relation to Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement) and has absolutely nothing, whatsoever, to do with Jesus being executed on, or during, Passover well over 2,000 years ago. Had Jesus truthfully represented the Torah (Law of Moses) instructed and selected scapegoat, he would have been set free, alive, outside the camp (outside the walls of Jerusalem) on Yom Kippur and, precisely, not Passover, rather than having been executed just beyond the walls of Jerusalem by an escort of Roman soldiers. Furthermore, it does not take a rocket scientist to conclude the difference between an execution, where the executed is, then, buried (as was, allegedly, Jesus), and a sacrifice that is ritually slaughtered, to immediately be ritually prepared for presentation upon the altar of the God of Abraham -- and that event of commanded ritual obedience carried out by the Priesthood (not Roman soldiers) would have taken place upon the outer altar (consisting of unhewn stones [untouched or altered by human hands) in the courtyard of The Temple -- and that fact of reality undertaken explicitly and implicitly, of absolutely and undeniably and irrefutably, no where else on this planet we call Earth at that most ancient time in Biblically attested ancient Human History.

One must bear in mind that sacrifices for sin offered upon the altar to the God of Abraham were commanded to be eaten by the Levitical Priesthood in sustaining their livelihood as that one tribe without Torah (Law of Moses) appointed and apportioned lands to work as means of providing for themselves.

Thus, we must now ask ourselves a most serious of pertinent questions: Are we, honestly, stupid enough to believe that the -- professed and famed as burning bush's proclaimed -- God of Abraham is, factually of actually, a pagan God that promotes and condones Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism -- a God who, also allegedly, proclaims that he desires mercy and not sacrifice?

Perhaps we had best undertake a scrutinizing examination of, exactly, that which the Torah (Law of Moses) reveals to us in regards sacrifices offered for sin:

Lev 6:24-30 KJV -- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD: it is most holy. The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in the holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation. Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place. But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken: and if it be sodden in a brasen pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water. All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy. And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt in the fire.

The above passages denote the exact instructions to be adhered to and implicitly, most emphatically, carried out to the Torah's (Law of Moses') exactness of the ceremoniously puritanical letter without alteration, deviation, or license of liberties taken -- to be implicitly, most emphatically, carried out by those of the Levitical Priesthood, only -- in the orchestration's administration of offerings for sin. What was to be feared in daring to think of veering from the implicitly emphatic stringenices of the Torah's (Law of Moses') explicit instructions? There is one somewhat famous (seldom pondered upon) instance recorded in the Old Testament Scriptures, wherein is exampled the undesirable results and deadly consequences of members of the Priesthood thinking to deviate, taking it upon themselves to be creative with the Torah's (Law of Moses') exactingly stringent instructions -- as per below.

Lev 10:1 KJV -- And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.

Num 3:4 KJV -- And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.

Num 26:61 KJV -- And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.

We should also take careful note that these Torah (Law of Moses) instructions designate that the Priest, carrying out the offering of a sacrifice for sin, and all the males of the Levitcal Priesthood (Levites) were explicitly instructed to eat that sacrifice offered to the God of Abraham for sin. Let us also note that therein, above, are further instructions as to, exactly, where the sacrifice was to be killed and, precisely, where it was to be eaten: "In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD" ... " in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation."

It should not take a lot of calculating for us to now determine that, according to the alleged statements within the Gospels, Jesus was not killed (ritually slaughtered) by any member of the Levitical Priesthood, but was put to death by Roman soldiers. Nor, was he put to death, "where the burnt offering is killed," at the Temple, "on the north side of the altar¹¹," where the Shehitah (Ritual Slaughter) was carried out, " by means of a swift, smooth cut of a sharp knife whose blade is free of any dent or imperfection¹²." Nor, was was his slain body eaten by any member of the Levitical Priesthood -- or eaten by anyone, except, those Christians who, unto this very today, continue to partake of the (instituted well prior to the birth of Jesus) pagan feast of Mithra magically transformed (via the assigned names by The Church but, actually and factually historically anonymous, authors of the Gospels) into The Lord's Supper. Nor, do we witness, in the Gospel accounts, where Jesus', "blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile in the holy place," to see his body, then, not buried in a tomb but, burned and consumed in the altar's fire -- and his ashes scattered outside the camp, the walls of Jerusalem.

Of course, The Church will attempt an immediate diversionary distraction's rebound by way of attempting to justify Jesus being executed by the Romans upon a cross, rather than in the Torah (Law of Moses) specified manner -- a manner which excludes human beings as acceptable offerings for sacrifice -- in order to dazzle our minds with its pet teaching that Jesus became accursed for us due to the fact that he was hung on a tree -- nailed to the cross.

Deu 21:22-23 KJV -- And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Act 5:30 KJV -- The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.

Act 10:39 KJV -- And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:

Act 13:29 KJV -- And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

There are most pertinent points regarding this Torahless (i.e.: Lawless) line of reasoning that require urgent blinder's-removal-clarification of a blatantly overlooked (1+1+1+1 does = 4) reality which stands ominously eye-gouging before our deceit bludgoened noses -- albeit, near sight unseen, due to Christian-religiosity's, magically-orchestrated hocus-pocus, slight of hand that deftly serves as a grifting two fingered poke dealt deceptively to one's self-assumed I.Q., as well as one's self-assertive intelligence of thinking to be in full possession of an astutely discerning Mind's-Eye -- and cannot be the sum of any other conclusion to be had, but that of sanely cumulative deducive logic and common horse sense reasoning:

1.  If Jesus was accursed it was not because of a leafy tree or a wooden cross, but because of accusations and charges made against him for possessing particular devout, fervent, and zealous (Iscariot literally means zealot) beliefs and openly speaking of carrying out such beliefs as overt acts or actions in support of his declared beliefs, which the Jewish Religious leaders viewed as a threat to what little remained of Israelite freedoms and independence of self rule as a Roman invaded, conquered, and occupied Israel -- (the southern kingdom of Israel: The House of Judah) and Samaria (that which was once the northern kingdom of Israel: The House of Israel whose population, except for a tiny remnant, were carried away captive by the Asyrians beginning around 732 BCE) -- as well as a threat of sedition, rebellion, and revolt against the occupying Roman army -- crimes against the Roman Empire that were mandated by Rome to be swiftly dealt with as punishable by death -- a most harsh and cruel death by means of crucifixion (nailing a convicted as guilty individual to a tree: i.e.: a wooden cross), or as per Israel and the commands of Torah decreed in Deuteronomy 21:22-23 -- following execution, a tree was the means used to put those heinous criminals and sinners on open display before the people of Israel in order that all might see the plight of those who dared to consider doing such abominable things.




2.  If Jesus was accursed, no matter the cause or reason, then, he was clearly not a perfect and unblemished sacrifice for sin. 





3.  If Jesus was accursed as the goat selected by the casting of lots on Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement, observed at the beginning of Fall), which is not in any way or fashion related to Passover (observed at the beginning of Spring), then, according to Torah's instructions, he would have died from the fall of being shoved off the edge of a cliff, and not from being nailed by Romans to a tree's wooden stake: i.e.: cross.




4.  Thus, if Barabbas was the casting of lots chosen Scapegoat, as Christianity proclaims, then, he would have been set free at the beginning of Fall on Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement) and not at the beginning of Spring on Passover day.

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The Church also proclaims, making handy use of the alleged words of Paul, that Jesus was/is our Passover: “Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.” Here is revealed, not only a false statement made by Paul -- a self appointed Apostle and self professed Jew who knew the truth, and chose to lie -- as but, yet, another oversight on the Church's part in its attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of its (“you can't buy your way into Heaven so let us relieve your pocketbook of at least a ten percent tithe”) disciples: Passover is not, and never was, an act of sacrifice for sin to the God of Abraham, though, once the Temple was built in Jerusalem, the Levitical Priesthood oversaw the selection of each Passover lamb to be killed for the Passover meal, and its proper preparation for eating the lamb on Passover night. Passover is, and always has been, an act of personal obedience to the God of Abraham (and that by decision of the head of each household), and is not, nor shall it ever be, a sacrifice for sin unto the God of Abraham, or else the Passover meal would be required by Torah (Law of Moses) to be eaten within the Temple near the sacrificial altar. Obviously, that is not the case.

In utter exasperated desperation, The Church will respond, to the above presented thesis, that Jesus was only metaphorically the scapegoat upon which, each year, was placed the burden of the sins of the nation of Israel, and is only metaphorically our Passover Lamb, just as it attempts to continue deceiving its mentally conditioned, aphid-like tithe excreting, Sheeple-People disciples by craftily explaining to them that -- the pagan ritual of Mithra incorporated into the Gospels -- in The Lord's Supper, where Jesus asks his disciples to drink (consume, eat) his blood (which is, expressly, forbidden by Torah [Law of Moses] and declared an abomination), and, then, feast upon his flesh in an outright act of cannibalism (which is mockingly representative of the prophesied curse of the God of Abraham and the sieges of Jerusalem and Samaria), is only metaphorical in nature and does not constitute an outright act of drinking blood and dining upon human flesh. 

Well, folks, if that is true, then, it seems to me that, perhaps, those who believe in the Eternal Salvation The Church alleges is to be had, by accepting Jesus as savior, is only metaphorical as well, and not to be taken as a literal fact of reality. One thing you can be absolutely sure of: The Church does not seek your metaphorical tithes and offerings. The Church seeks cold hard cash via that ingenious mechanism of Blind Faith (belief without true understanding, perception, or discrimination.) in things that can easily be construed and explained away as being only metaphorical in nature and meaning …

What's more, The Church chooses to willfully ignore that fact that there is no Torah allotted sacrifice, of any kind or type, for acts of willful sin: Murder, adultery idolatry, blasphemy, etc. Thus, Paul -- a man who by his own mouth was allegedly guilty of complicity in the murders and imprisonment of Jesus' disciples, including Stephen (Yet, no explanation is given in Acts as to how Stephen, a man with a Gentile name [thus, a Gentile], gained access to that Temple area where Gentiles were, expressly, prohibited entering, and that upon pain of death) -- a willful sinner, (And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women -- Acts 22:4) would have gone to his grave with his sins unforgiven, as would have also the majority of Mankind living at the time, and living as members of the Church today -- even if such sins were only committed within the mind and only metaphorically in that realm of imagination and fantasy.

Num 15:28-31 KJV -- And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him. Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

Mat 5:28 KJV -- But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Mat 12:35 KJV -- A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

Mat 15:19KJV -- For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

1Jn 3:15 KJV -- Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

1Jn 4:20 KJV -- If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 

The anonymously unknown author of the letter to the Hebrews was fully aware of the fact that Torah's prescribed sacrifices for unintentional sin makes no allowance, no room for negotiation of oblations, for obtaining forgiveness, for willful, intentional, defiant, sin, for sin is clearly stated by the writer of the letter of First John to be the violation of the Torah (Law of Moses) itself …

Heb 10:26-27 KJV -- For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

1Jn 3:4 KJV -- Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

Another interestingly curious point swept beneath the rug of Torah (Law of Moses) based reality? According to the Tanakh (Old Testament), every man must die for his own sins, and not those sins of other men:

Deu 24:16 KJV -- The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

2Ch 25:4 KJV -- But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

Jer 31:30 KJV -- But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Eze 18:20 KJV -- The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. 

Thus, behold the historical Jesus, a good and righteous man in accordance with the fervent devout zealotry he exhibited towards Torah, Temple, and Israel, a mortal man whom, I personally theorize, went to his death in desperation's effort to see his nation and people free from Roman conquest, occupation, oppression and religious desecration, and for this demonstration of integrity, character, and perseverance of desire, he found himself arrested, tried, and executed as a common criminal -- nailed to a wooden stake, and that unashamed, undaunted, and unabashed, for he knew what manner of man he was. And he was not that manner of man as presented within the textual body of the New Testament, nor its Gospels. The man, Jesus, would, literally, turn over in his grave, had he a clue what Paul, and his assorted cohorts of henchmen, had turned his life's purpose of living into as the monstrosity that has, hence, become Christianity, the Roman Empire's, insidiously nefarious created and fabricated, One World Religion of those ancient days and times that continues its tradition of spewing forth the lies of the past unto this very day of modern society wherein technological advances can do nothing to stem the tide of human nature's proclivity of inherent propensity towards being taken mentally captive within the allure of ancient mythological fairy-tale superstition's magical-miracles, and that realm of the supernatural.

Cut to chase, stop beating around the tush's bush? Paul, himself, officially instituted, and incorporated into Christianity, the Mithraic pagan ceremony that has come to be revered by The Church as The Lord's Supper in his first alleged letter to the Corinthians, as scholars in the field of textual criticism have adequately established, and agree, that the Gospels were not, contrary to what Christians have been led to believe, penned to page until quite some time after the writing attributed (ascribed and/or credited) as the authored writings of Paul began to be circulated.

“ … Even though it is very hard to date the Gospels with precision, most scholars agree on the basic range of dates, for a variety of reasons. Without going into all the details, I can say that we know with relative certainty -- from his own letters and from Acts -- that Paul was writing during the fifties of the common era. He was well-traveled in Christian circles, and he gives in his own writings absolutely no evidence of knowing about or ever having heard of the existence of any Gospels. From this it can be inferred that the Gospels probably were written after Paul’s day. It also appears that the Gospel writers know about certain later historical events, such as the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE (possibly Mark, in 13:1; almost certainly Luke, in 21:20 -- 22). That implies that these Gospels were probably written after the year 70.

There are reasons for thinking Mark was written first, so maybe he wrote around the time of the war with Rome, 70 CE. If Matthew and Luke both used Mark as a source, they must have been composed after Mark’s Gospel circulated for a time outside its own originating community -- say, ten or fifteen years later, in 80 to 85 CE. John seems to be the most theologically developed Gospel, and so it was probably written later still, nearer the end of the first century, around 90 to 95 CE. These are rough guesses, but most scholars agree on them. This means that our earliest surviving written accounts of Jesus’ life come from thirty-five to sixty-five years after his death ...” (Jesus Interrupted by Bart Ehrman)

In Paul's introductory letter to the Corinthians account of The Lord's Supper, to later be, all too coincidentally, corroborated and incorporated within the Gospels, presents a Torah (Law of Moses) obedient Jesus who, out of George Strait's, Clear Blue Sky, suddenly requests his Torah (Law of Moses) obedient disciples to participate in acts of cannibalism and the abomination of drinking blood.

In reiterations redundant renovations of the same old metaphorical sad song and dance routine, The Church will give one last, hump your mind if we can, hurrah attempt in directing their last ditch attempt towards, an all out concerted effort to recapture those bleating sheep who have ceased to eat fool's fodder, by convincing your aroused (all neurons firing pall mall), awakened, mind to return to that deceived sleeping sheep fool's slumber of sleeping while wide awake with your hand upon the liar's brake but failin' to initiate screechin' to the sudden stop of drop that damn bullshit line that eatin' blood is mighty fine when it's done via metaphorical, only, design -- for if it is deemed wrong by the God of Abraham to metaphorically murder your brother in your heart, metaphorically lust after a woman and commit adultery, etc., then, it absolutely must be wrong to metaphorically participate in a pagan ceremony of dining upon human flesh and drinking human blood, thus carrying his disciples away into idolatry and rendering them as abominable in the sight of the very God of Abraham they sought to serve. Oh yes, and, coincidentally, December 25^th (Christmas Day) just happens to be the birthday of Ole Mithra, the Roman Sun-God, and was a part of the annually observed, pagan, Roman winter solstice festival -- marking the death and rebirth of the sun (i.e. Sun-God) -- called the Saturnalia.

A Torah (Law of Moses) established fact of reality? Human beings are not to be found listed within the Torah (Law of Moses) as acceptable sacrifices upon the Altar of the God of Abraham, as there is a distinct life and death difference between that of being set aside and consecrated to the God of Abraham, and that of finding oneself slaughtered and offered as a sacrifice, upon the altar, unto the God of Abraham -- and if such a reality holds true for acceptable sacrifices, then, the same life and death reality, also, holds true for any priest, or person, who would have thought to take it upon themselves to deviate from Torah (Law of Moses) given acceptable sacrifices in making a conscious decision to choose to offer a human being upon the altar before the God of Abraham as though such an act of disobedience would find itself rewarded by the God of Abraham, Himself, and, in truth, it would have been rewarded -- in seeing whomever committed such an act with witnessing their own deaths.

An undeniable conclusion? If Jesus, theoretically speaking, could have served as an offered human sacrifice for sin, the only sin Torah allows to be atoned for by sacrificial offerings is unintentional sin. Thus, those who were previously idolaters seeking forgiveness, those who were adulterers seeking forgiveness, those who were murderers (or complicit to murder which Paul, himself, confessed, that he, personally, was), seeking forgiveness, those who were blasphemers seeking forgiveness, would have no Torah established (faintly or vaguely, as hope of grasping for straws) opportunity's source of any means, whatsoever, of obtaining forgiveness through the alleged sacrificial death of Jesus -- thus, (regardless of whether one wishes to believe that Jesus was God in the flesh or whether one believes he was a mere mortal man) rendering his alleged sacrificial death absolutely meaningless to any, and all, who had committed willful sins worthy of death ...

And, finally, let let us take a long and deep breath and calmly confront and deal with that age old doctrinal teaching of Christianity -- a doctrine without a single iota's inkling shred of Scriptural basis that is truly a desperation's attempt at grasping for straws -- which, somehow most befuddlingly, seeks to reason that Jesus was God's appointed sacrifice for Human Sin, and that, historically known, dastardly, man Barabass was released by the Romans, because he, a known rebel, insurrectionist, and murderer was God's appointed Scapegoat. Poppycock!

(Written April 13^th, 2019)

Please Do Note: “This article or poem of speculative conjecture is a shared expression of my, personal, views, beliefs, and opinions, only, and is not, necessarily, a statement of indisputably established sustainable facts -- with the exception of evidential footnotes when provided -- nor, is this article or poem intended to be offensive towards anyone of any given faith or religion.

Christopher Columbus believed the world was round in a world of peers who devoutly attested the world was flat. His personal belief was an unpopular opinion, that later proved to be truth. However, opinions are like arseholes: Everyone has one. Albeit, there are those Free Thinkers who dare pose opinions as to commonly held truths that may be readily revealed as untruth upon scrutinous studied and researched inspection. I am simply sharing my studied and researched opinion upon such commonly held and widely accepted truths, many of which are based solely upon Blind Faith (belief without true understanding, perception, or discrimination. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/blind-faith).

If asked, every person will respond that they seek only truth and never lies, but the search for truth is not an easy or smooth path, and truth, when discovered and uncovered, is not always a pretty thing to behold, nor is it, necessarily, a tasty treat to be savored, for, all too often, accurately established truth revealed, and no longer concealed, is a shocking revelation of bitterest reality ...” -- Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

Author's Note

Evidential Footnote Proofs Provided For My Readers, As Follows, Which The Writerscafe Robot Will No Allow Within The Textual Body Of This Article, Nor As Links:

1 Torah (Law of Moses) Prohibition Against Mixing Species of Animal & Plant Life (creating Hybrids) — Lev 19:19 KJV — Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

Deu 22:9-11 KJV — Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

2 Jephthah's Vow — Did Jephthah really sacrifice his daughter?: http://www.tektonics.org/gk/jepthah.html


The Jewish Encyclopedia: Jephthah: http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8584-jephthah


Rethinking Jephthath's Foolish Vow: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/adopted-by-the-living-god/


Did Jephthah Actually Kill His Daughter: Torah.com: https://thetorah.com/did-jephthah-actually-kill-his-daughter/


3 Levites (Levitical Priesthood) Present In The Land Of Israel Within The Book Of Judges — Jdg: 17:7 & 9-13, 18: 3 & 15, 19: 1, 20: 4

4 The Tabernacle & Levitical Priesthood In The Book Of Judges— Jdg 20:26-27 KJV — Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

5 Nadab & Abihu's Deviation From Torah Instruction In Offering Strange Fire — Lev 10:1 KJV — And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.


Num 3:4 KJV — And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.


Num 26:61 KJV — And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.

6 Did Jephthah sacrifice his daughter? — “If Jephthah desired to offer his offspring to God, finding a priest at the tabernacle in Shiloh who would kill, skin, cut into pieces then burn his child before the Lord (required for burnt offerings - Leviticus 1) would have been almost impossible!” http://www.biblestudy.org/basicart/did-jephthah-sacrifice-daughter-to-god.html

7 A Bone Of Him Shall Not Be Broken — Joh 19:36-37 KJV — For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

8 Sheeple-People — A word and term I find myself favoring in my attempt to communicate the all too factual reality that people tend to allow themselves — even seem to want — to be led, watered, and fed, much like sheep, trusting others with decisions and truths regarding their lives, their futures, their welfare, and their safety, rather then shouldering up such responsibilities themselves as individuals, in finding and enjoying the comfort of numbers. The word sheeple was first coined by actress and Wall Street Journal writer, Barbara Anderson, in 1984.

9 Torah Of The Scapegoat — Lev 16:8-10 & 26 KJV — And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness … And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp

10Mercy & Not Sacrifice: Bible Quotes — What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. When you come to appear before me, who asked this from your hand? Trample my courts no more; bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and calling of convocation-- I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity. Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them. When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow. -- Isaiah 1:11-17



For in the day that I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to them or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. But this command I gave them, "Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk only in the way that I command you, so that it may be well with you." -- Jer. 7:22-23

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. -- Hosea 6:6

I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. -- Amos 5:21-24

Hear what the LORD says: Rise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice. Hear, you mountains, the controversy of the LORD, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel. "O my people, what have I done to you? In what have I wearied you? Answer me! For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and redeemed you from the house of slavery; and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. "With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?" He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? -- Micah 6:1-4, 6-8

[Jesus said,] "Go and learn what this means, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners." -- Matthew 9:13

[Jesus said,] "But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless." -- Matthew 12:7

http://girardianlectionary.net/res/mercy_not_sacrifice.htm

11 The Jewish Encyclopedia: Burnt Offering — http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3847-burnt-offering

12 My Jewish Lerning: Kosher Slaughter — https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/kosher-slaughtering-an-introduction/

13 Why Are The Gospels Anonymous — Bart Ehrman's Blog: https://ehrmanblog.org/why-are-the-gospels-anonymous/

14 Paul's False Claim To The Corinthians — 1Co 5:7 KJV — Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

15 Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us — 1 Corinthians 5:7

16 Mithraism — “A pagan religion consisting mainly of the cult of the ancient Indo-Iranian Sun-god Mithra. It entered Europe from Asia Minor after Alexander's conquest, spread rapidly over the whole Roman Empire at the beginning of our era, reached its zenith during the third century, and vanished under the repressive regulations of Theodosius at the end of the fourth century. Of late the researches of Cumont have brought it into prominence mainly because of its supposed similarity to Christianity ...”

“... After the conquest of Babylon this Persian cult came into contact with Chaldean astrology and with the national worship of Marduk. For a time the two priesthoods of Mithra and Marduk (magi and chaldaei respectively) coexisted in the capital and Mithraism borrowed much from this intercourse...”

“... When magi, coming from King Tiridates of Armenia, had worshipped in Nero an emanation of Mithra, the emperor wished to be initiated in their mysteries...”

“... But with the triumph of Christianity Mithraism came to a sudden end. Under Julian it had with other pagan cults a short revival. The pagans of Alexandria lynched George the Arian, bishop of the city, for attempting to build a church over a Mithras cave near the town. The laws of Theodosius I signed its death warrant. The magi walled up their sacred caves; and Mithra has no martyrs to rival the martyrs who died for Christ...”

“... Mithra was born of a mother-rock by a river under a tree. He came into the world with the Phrygian cap on his head (hence his designation as Pileatus, the Capped One), and a knife in his hand. It is said that shepherds watched his birth, but how this could be, considering there were no men on earth, is not explained...”

“... He celebrates a last supper with Helios and his other companions, is taken in his fiery chariot across the ocean, and now in heaven protects his followers. For the struggle between good and evil continues in heaven between the planets and stars, and on earth in the heart of man. Mithra is the Mediator (Mesites) between God and man. This function first arose from the fact that as the light-god he is supposed to float midway between the upper heaven and the earth. Likewise a sun-god, his planet was supposed to hold the central place amongst the seven planets. The moral aspect of his mediation between god and man cannot be proven to be ancient...”

“... They believed in the immortality of the soul, sinners after death were dragged off to hell; the just passed through the seven spheres of the planets, through seven gates opening at a mystical word to Ahura Mazda, leaving at each planet a part of their lower humanity until, as pure spirits, they stood before God. At the end of the world Mithra will descend to earth on another bull, which he will sacrifice, and mixing its fat with sacred wine he will make all drink the beverage of immortality. He will thus have proved himself Nabarses, i.e. '"never conquered"'...”

“... Worship: There were seven degrees of initiation into the Mithraic mysteries. The consecrated one (mystes) became in succession crow (corax), occult (cryphius), soldier (miles), lion (leo), Persian (Perses), solar messenger (heliodromos), and father (pater)...”

“... The chief of the fathers, a sort of pope, who always lived at Rome, was called "Pater Patrum" or Pater Patratus." The members below the degree of pater called one another "brother," and social distinctions were forgotten in Mithraic unity...”

“... A sacred meal was celebrated of bread and haoma juice for which in the West wine was substituted. This meal was supposed to give the participants super-natural virtue...”

“... Sunday was kept holy in honour of Mithra, and the sixteenth of each month was sacred to him as mediator. The 25 December was observed as his birthday, the natalis invicti, the rebirth of the winter-sun, unconquered by the rigours of the season...”

“... Mithraism had a Eucharist, but the idea of a sacred banquet is as old as the human race and existed at all ages and amongst all peoples...”

Excerpts taken from: The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10402a.htm

17 Parents Eating Their Children – God's Curse & Its Undertones In Medieval Interpretation — https://thetorah.com/parents-eating-their-children-the-torahs-curse-and-its-undertones-in-medieval-interpretation/

18 God's Curse of Starvation Induced Cannibalism — Ki 6:28-29 KJV — And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

Eze 5:10 KJV — Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

19 Blind Faith — belief without true understanding, perception, or discrimination. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/blind-faith

20 Paul's Confession of Guilt — Act 22:4 KJV — And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

21 Paul's Hand In The Death of Stephen — “... If Saul appears to be merely standing by when Stephen is stoned (Acts 7:58), this impression is quickly corrected as the Book of Acts unfolds. Just a few verses later, we read,

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison (Acts 8:3).

Now we read that Saul is “still breathing out threats to murder the Lord’s disciples” (Acts 9:1). Saul is not merely threatening murder, he is participating in it; indeed, he is instigating it. Saul appears to be the ringleader of the opposition to the church:

“I persecuted this Way even to the point of death, tying up both men and women and putting them in prison” (Acts 22:4).

“And that is what I did in Jerusalem: Not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons by the authority I received from the chief priests, but I also cast my vote against them when they were sentenced to death” (Acts 26:10).

The word “still” (Acts 9:1) is significant. It indicates that Saul has been “breathing out threats to murder” for some time. It indicates that Stephen’s death did not slow Saul down at all. Instead, it would appear that it fueled the “fire” of his zeal to crush Christianity. As I have said earlier, I believe that Saul is the ringleader, the driving force behind the persecution that has arisen against the saints.

Initially, Saul’s activities seem to have been limited to Jerusalem, but as the church scattered, Saul’s activities became “international.” He received letters from the high priest which authorized him to go to the synagogues of other (foreign) countries:

I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme. Because I was so furiously enraged at them, I went to persecute them even in foreign cities (Acts 26:11).

One such “foreign country” was Syria, with Damascus as its capital city. There was a large congregation of Jews living there, and the high priest’s letter seemed to give Saul the authority of extradition, so that he could arrest Christian Jews and take them back to Jerusalem for punishment. The journey to Damascus was approximately 150 miles, which shows how serious Saul was in his opposition to Christianity...” https://bible.org/seriespage/14-salvation-saul-acts-91-31

22 Recommended Reading: James The Borther of Jesus by Robert Eisenman — https://www.amazon.com/James-Brother-Jesus-Unlocking-Christianity/dp/0670869325/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=JAA03JHWV388BRQWSCC6

23 Paul As Herodian by Dr. Robert Eisenman — https://depts.drew.edu/jhc/eisenman.html

24 Recommended Reading — James The Brother of Jesus by Robert Eisenman: https://www.amazon.com/James-Brother-Jesus-Unlocking-Christianity/dp/0670869325/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=JAA03JHWV388BRQWSCC6

25 Dating The Gospels — Interrupting Jesus by Bart Ehrman: “ … Even though it is very hard to date the Gospels with precision, most scholars agree on the basic range of dates, for a variety of reasons. Without going into all the details, I can say that we know with relative certainty—from his own letters and from Acts—that Paul was writing during the fifties of the common era. He was well-traveled in Christian circles, and he gives in his own writings absolutely no evidence of knowing about or ever having heard of the existence of any Gospels. From this it can be inferred that the Gospels probably were written after Paul’s day. It also appears that the Gospel writers know about certain later historical events, such as the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE (possibly Mark, in 13:1; almost certainly Luke, in 21:20–22). That implies that these Gospels were probably written after the year 70.


There are reasons for thinking Mark was written first, so maybe he wrote around the time of the war with Rome, 70 CE. If Matthew and Luke both used Mark as a source, they must have been composed after Mark’s Gospel circulated for a time outside its own originating community—say, ten or fifteen years later, in 80 to 85 CE. John seems to be the most theologically developed Gospel, and so it was probably written later still, nearer the end of the first century, around 90 to 95 CE. These are rough guesses, but most scholars agree on them. This means that our earliest surviving written accounts of Jesus’ life come from thirty-five to sixty-five years after his death ...” (Jesus Interrupted by Bart Ehrman)

26 The Catholic Encyclopedia on Christmas — http://www.cogwriter.com/news/church-history/the-catholic-encyclopedia-on-christmas/

27 Saturnalia — http://www.historytoday.com/matt-salusbury/did-romans-invent-christmas