Jesus Never Lived! Volume 3 The Pagan Morals of Jesus Christ PDF
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JESUS NEVER LIVED! VOLUME 3 THE PAGAN MORALS OF JESUS CHRIST JESUS NEVER LIVED! VOLUME 3 THE PAGAN MORALS OF JESUS CHRIST Laurence E. Dalton Shirley Strutton Dalton Jesus Never Lived! Volume 3 The Pagan Morals of Jesus Christ Jesus Never Lived! Volume 3 The Pagan Morals of Jesus Christ Copyright © January 2014 Laurence E. Dalton and Shirley Strutton Dalton ISBN-13: ISBN-10: www.jesusneverlived.com Under Creative Commons public license Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International the copyright holders hereby grant a license to copy and redistribute the within material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. This license cannot be revoked as long as licensee follows the license terms. You must give appropriate credit and provide a link to the license. No derivatives or adaptations are allowed. You may not remix, transform, or build upon the material; you may not distribute modified material. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. This license does not reduce or restrict exceptions and limitations to copyright, such as fair use quotation, provided credit is given. Contents Preface .............................................................................................................................. 9 PART 1 The Moral Teachings in the Gospels are not from Jesus ............ 13 Chapter 1 Jewish Morals in the Gospels? .......................................................... 15 Parallels to the the Gospels ........................................................................... 17 Chapter 2 The Moral Teachings of the Gospels Are Falsely Attributed to Jesus. ................................................................................................................................ 35 PART 2 Christians on Pagan Philosophies ..................................................... 49 Chapter 3 Most ancient Christian Writers Believed That All Pagan Philosophies Have Some Christian Truth. ........................................................ 51 Pagan Philosophy and Christians ............................................................... 51 Two Early Christians Who were Against Pagan Philosophy .......... 59 EXCURUS .............................................................................................................. 62 Christians who Accepted Pagan Philosophy as Truth ....................... 63 Pagans On Philosophy..................................................................................... 76 Conclusion for This Chapter:........................................................................ 79 PART 3 Christian and Pagan Stoic Morals ...................................................... 87 Chapter 4 Jesus and Paul And Pagan Stoics On Sexual Morals. ............... 89 The Religion of Woman – An Historical Study ................................... 107 Chapter 5 Comments on Morals by Pagans and Jesus .............................. 131 Chapter 6 More Christian and Pagan Morals Compared ......................... 173 Chapter 7 The “Liberal” Image of Jesus .......................................................... 215 The Gospel of Mark ....................................................................................... 215 PREFACE The purpose of this Volume is to show that Christian ethics were derived from the pagan world – from Roman Stoicism. The argument that the "unique" moral teachings of Jesus can be traced back to an historical personage is false. As the reader will see in what follows, the moral teachings attributed to Jesus are found in the pagan Stoicism of the Roman Empire. Stoicism was founded in Athens by Zeno about 308 BCE. The Stoic School was closed, along with all the other pagan schools of philosophy, in 529 CE by the order of the Christian Emperor Justinian. Roman Stoicism flourished from the first century CE, the same century in which Jesus was alleged to have lived. We believe that Christian and Roman Stoic morals differ in two important ways. First, the Christians added eternal punishment in Hell to the Stoic philosophy. Secondly, the Roman Stoics taught universal love whereas the Christians restricted that love to members of the Christian religion (and only Orthodox Christians at that). (For more, see Runar Thorsteinsson’s book, Roman Christianity and Roman Stoicism: A Comparative Study of Ancient Morality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.) Quotes on the Stoic influence on the New Testament: Bruno Bauer argued that Christianity “is Stoicism in Jewish garb.” The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels (1914) by Joseph McCabe.
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