Jesus Never Lived! Volume 3 The Pagan Morals of Jesus Christ

240 Pages·2014·1.69 MB·English

by  Laurence E. Dalton, Shirley Strutton Dalton

J E S U S N E V E R L I V E D !
V O L U M E 3
T H E P A G A N M O R A L S O F
J E S U S C H R I S T
J E S U S N E V E R L I V E D !
V O L U M E 3
T H E P A G A N M O R A L S O F
J E S U S C HR I S T

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
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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.