THE EGYPTIAN CONNECTION
First of all I would like to think all the readers who have found this site. No doubt you were intellectually curious. You no doubt are curious why I have chosen to call this site "Escape from Egypt". Well, when the Jews departed from Egypt in the Exicus, they carried over certain traits from Egypt that they perhaps shouldn't have. The Egyptians did things like marrying their sister and the early Israelites precticed more endogamy than is genetically advisable. The Hebrews were slaves before they left Egypt and as the reacent movie special of The Ten Commandments indicates, the Jews needed to be conditioned not to think like slaves. When struck by a superior the Israelites were accustomed to cowering in silence. Also there are provisions in the Mosiac law for slavery. This should not be in an ideal society. But the Christians, too, carried over certain "Egyptian" ideas into their religion. Theirs was a slavery of the spirit to whoever would make himself a religious leader over them and burden them with rules. The Egyptians thought they knew everything there was conceivably to know about the universe. In like manner the Catholic Church has in the past claimed to be the repository of all knowledge both physical and spiritual.
To me, the Church and perhaps the Israelites themselves made an error in thinking when the Roman general Titus, who later became emperor, marched into Jerusalem in 70 AD that somehow "God" had forsaken the Israelites once and for all. Once again Christianity was thinking in the old Egyption "master - slave" mentality. One thing people need to learn is just because something happens it doesn't mean God morally approves of it. This would seem obvious to any right thinker but to some deluded ones for good to be "predestined" to happen to one and bad to be "predestined" to happen to the second means the first person must be more Holy or Rightious or Godly than the second. I spoke on my last posting that the Universe has at least four dimensions. The best scientists today state that everything that ever happened or will happen was all predestined in The Big Bang that created this Universe. Albert Einstein was attempting to prove the Universe was predestined when he died. But just because the Universe is predestined the best thing you can say if you live your life by whether you are "lucky" or not is not to worship God but rather the Universe. God is greater than the Universe because he created it. When something either extrordenarily good or bad happens to you or another what you must think of is that this action is the Universe but not necessarily the heart of God. (Selah) This expression means either "pause" or "meditate on this truth" or "musical interlude in a psalm". It's an expression I often use in my writing to denote a moment of thoughtful pause.
We come again to the birth of Christianity. Scripture says "I called my son out of Egypt". The Bible quotes this to refer to Jesus. They say Jesus visited Egypt but I maintain that he already lived there before he even became Jesus. Some would say that my premise is shakey at best that Jesus was actually Philo of Alexandria before and after his life as Jesus. If Jesus was physically born in Egypt in 20 AD (approximately) that would make Jesus a much older man during his minestry. Yet it would. He would be about fifty. It's interesting that in John 5 or somewhere the Pharicees say to Jesus "You are not yet fifty years of age". If Jesus were thirty it might be premature to say he was "not yet fifty". There are numerous clues in the Bible that Jesus did not intend the "Kingdom of Heaven" to actually be in heaven but on earth. Didn't Jesus say, "the miek shall inheret the earth"? Not heaven but earth. Some may say John 14 talks about death and going to heaven but neither the words "death" or "die" appear in this chapter. All that Jesus said was that he was "going away". Jesus also told the priests in John 5 or 7 (I forget which) the following, 'I am going away. You will look for me but you will not find me". Jesus later said "I am no longer in the world" when he was about to die. Obviously if you believe in the resurrection this statement was not true. What he meant was this "world" of Palestine. Jesus in the nineth or tenth chapter of John said, "I have other sheep, which are not of this fold". The question arises, "What is a fold"? the fold in this case was the nation of Isrial. Even the people in Judea who Jesus preached to knew he was originally from Galilee. When Jesus saw Mary Magdolane after his resurrection he said "touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to the Father". Many have rightly said this was not an admonition against "touching". The desciples, according to scripture, did that. What he meant with Mary was "don't cling to me emotionally". Indeed the song "Don't Think Twice It's Allright" by Bob Dylan seems almost prophetic. In the song you think he must be saying the words he's saying while dead or something. He speaks of being "on this road". May I suggest it is the road back to Egypt.
Some of you may protest, "But you still haven't connected him to Philo of Alexandria". Well, in the book "The Jesus Papers" the author speaks of various documents saying that Pilate was compilcit in riggingJesus crusifiction so that he could survive it. We need look no further than scripture itself for support. It's a historic fact that in no other instance was Pilate swayed by a mob. Yet the Bible clearly states the Judean mob turned against him. But Jesus expected them to. It was part of his plan all along. Indeed Jesus said, "No man takes my life, I volentarily give my life, and if I lay down my life I can take it up again". This is not the way most people die. Most people don't plan out their death literally an eternity in advance of the event, and then stick to the plan. Pilate personally liked and respected Jesus for various reasons, one of them being that Jesus Christ never said one thing against the Romans. Any time there was any dispute between the Jews and the Romans Jesus always came down on the side of the Romans. "Should we fight in self defence"? Jesus said "No, lay down your life". "Should we pay taxes to Caesar?" Jesus said yes to pay the tax. The "bad" people in the Gospell are always Jews and the "good" ones are always Romans. I'm not here going to make a moral judgement on this now; my point is that the Judeans in Jerusalem had plenty of reasons to turn against Jesus. Do I believe Judas and Jesus got together to plan the betrayal? I don't know. It's a possability. We know Jesus wanted to be "betrayed" at a certain moment in time, right after the last supper, and if this betrayal were left to an outsider it "might not go as planned". Pilate didn't want Jesus dead, but he wanted Jesus "gone", kind of like the old Westerns, "get out of town before sundown" kind of thing. Scripture tells us the following "They gave me gall for my wounds". I didn't make that up; it's in the Bible. It also quotes God the father as saying "I will allot him (Jesus) a portion with the great". For those who think Jesus was absolute God what is he doing being rewarded. As scripture itself says "The one who blesses is greater than the one who is blessed" (Selah) We are told Jesus said, "I am thirsty" and someone came running up with a spongs with sour wine. Jesus took the sop and then lapsed into a swoon, some might say. Right away Pilate was told he was dead. In the Greek those who petitioned Pilate for the body asked for a "living body", not a corpse. Pilate agreed. He was taken down off the cross and then subsequently "treated" with herbs and spices.
What is the Coptic Church?
The word "Coptic" means Egyptian in their own tongue. We use the Greek word in our language. As you may know the first Gospell was written by Mark. According to my source Mark was a man of "African" descent who appeared around 50 AD in Egypt. It is said that Jesus life came to an end on earth about ten years before Mark died. This was around 65 AD. Ten years earlier would make 55 AD and those in the know say Philo of Alexandria died 50 AD. That's close enough in my estamation. Mark did not write the first gospell in Rome but in Egypt. Matthew, the second gospell is also Egyptian. So two of the first four Gospells are Egyptian. This is interesting. We don't need to rely on one author to say Jesus was alive in 50 AD because I found another source right here on the internet. Interestingly the "gospell" spread "like wild fire" in Egypt. Faster than it spread anywhere else. One might wonder why. I can guess.
There are many secrets we will never know. The Church has had two thousand years to destroy any documents they didn't like. If anyone is now in posession of any document that supports these two blog postings, I imagine they might want to keep that document well protected. I think a lot of facts will be coming out in the future due to "increased knowledge" (another prediction of Scripture) and the fact that we're all much more inter-connected than we used to be.
Note: The spell-checker doesn't seem to be working. Otherwise I'd use it now.
I have more to say on the subject of Christianity but I'll leave these two postings to be read for now. But there is a lot more that can and should be said.
Respectfully, Marcus Arelius
First of all I would like to think all the readers who have found this site. No doubt you were intellectually curious. You no doubt are curious why I have chosen to call this site "Escape from Egypt". Well, when the Jews departed from Egypt in the Exicus, they carried over certain traits from Egypt that they perhaps shouldn't have. The Egyptians did things like marrying their sister and the early Israelites precticed more endogamy than is genetically advisable. The Hebrews were slaves before they left Egypt and as the reacent movie special of The Ten Commandments indicates, the Jews needed to be conditioned not to think like slaves. When struck by a superior the Israelites were accustomed to cowering in silence. Also there are provisions in the Mosiac law for slavery. This should not be in an ideal society. But the Christians, too, carried over certain "Egyptian" ideas into their religion. Theirs was a slavery of the spirit to whoever would make himself a religious leader over them and burden them with rules. The Egyptians thought they knew everything there was conceivably to know about the universe. In like manner the Catholic Church has in the past claimed to be the repository of all knowledge both physical and spiritual.
To me, the Church and perhaps the Israelites themselves made an error in thinking when the Roman general Titus, who later became emperor, marched into Jerusalem in 70 AD that somehow "God" had forsaken the Israelites once and for all. Once again Christianity was thinking in the old Egyption "master - slave" mentality. One thing people need to learn is just because something happens it doesn't mean God morally approves of it. This would seem obvious to any right thinker but to some deluded ones for good to be "predestined" to happen to one and bad to be "predestined" to happen to the second means the first person must be more Holy or Rightious or Godly than the second. I spoke on my last posting that the Universe has at least four dimensions. The best scientists today state that everything that ever happened or will happen was all predestined in The Big Bang that created this Universe. Albert Einstein was attempting to prove the Universe was predestined when he died. But just because the Universe is predestined the best thing you can say if you live your life by whether you are "lucky" or not is not to worship God but rather the Universe. God is greater than the Universe because he created it. When something either extrordenarily good or bad happens to you or another what you must think of is that this action is the Universe but not necessarily the heart of God. (Selah) This expression means either "pause" or "meditate on this truth" or "musical interlude in a psalm". It's an expression I often use in my writing to denote a moment of thoughtful pause.
We come again to the birth of Christianity. Scripture says "I called my son out of Egypt". The Bible quotes this to refer to Jesus. They say Jesus visited Egypt but I maintain that he already lived there before he even became Jesus. Some would say that my premise is shakey at best that Jesus was actually Philo of Alexandria before and after his life as Jesus. If Jesus was physically born in Egypt in 20 AD (approximately) that would make Jesus a much older man during his minestry. Yet it would. He would be about fifty. It's interesting that in John 5 or somewhere the Pharicees say to Jesus "You are not yet fifty years of age". If Jesus were thirty it might be premature to say he was "not yet fifty". There are numerous clues in the Bible that Jesus did not intend the "Kingdom of Heaven" to actually be in heaven but on earth. Didn't Jesus say, "the miek shall inheret the earth"? Not heaven but earth. Some may say John 14 talks about death and going to heaven but neither the words "death" or "die" appear in this chapter. All that Jesus said was that he was "going away". Jesus also told the priests in John 5 or 7 (I forget which) the following, 'I am going away. You will look for me but you will not find me". Jesus later said "I am no longer in the world" when he was about to die. Obviously if you believe in the resurrection this statement was not true. What he meant was this "world" of Palestine. Jesus in the nineth or tenth chapter of John said, "I have other sheep, which are not of this fold". The question arises, "What is a fold"? the fold in this case was the nation of Isrial. Even the people in Judea who Jesus preached to knew he was originally from Galilee. When Jesus saw Mary Magdolane after his resurrection he said "touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to the Father". Many have rightly said this was not an admonition against "touching". The desciples, according to scripture, did that. What he meant with Mary was "don't cling to me emotionally". Indeed the song "Don't Think Twice It's Allright" by Bob Dylan seems almost prophetic. In the song you think he must be saying the words he's saying while dead or something. He speaks of being "on this road". May I suggest it is the road back to Egypt.
Some of you may protest, "But you still haven't connected him to Philo of Alexandria". Well, in the book "The Jesus Papers" the author speaks of various documents saying that Pilate was compilcit in riggingJesus crusifiction so that he could survive it. We need look no further than scripture itself for support. It's a historic fact that in no other instance was Pilate swayed by a mob. Yet the Bible clearly states the Judean mob turned against him. But Jesus expected them to. It was part of his plan all along. Indeed Jesus said, "No man takes my life, I volentarily give my life, and if I lay down my life I can take it up again". This is not the way most people die. Most people don't plan out their death literally an eternity in advance of the event, and then stick to the plan. Pilate personally liked and respected Jesus for various reasons, one of them being that Jesus Christ never said one thing against the Romans. Any time there was any dispute between the Jews and the Romans Jesus always came down on the side of the Romans. "Should we fight in self defence"? Jesus said "No, lay down your life". "Should we pay taxes to Caesar?" Jesus said yes to pay the tax. The "bad" people in the Gospell are always Jews and the "good" ones are always Romans. I'm not here going to make a moral judgement on this now; my point is that the Judeans in Jerusalem had plenty of reasons to turn against Jesus. Do I believe Judas and Jesus got together to plan the betrayal? I don't know. It's a possability. We know Jesus wanted to be "betrayed" at a certain moment in time, right after the last supper, and if this betrayal were left to an outsider it "might not go as planned". Pilate didn't want Jesus dead, but he wanted Jesus "gone", kind of like the old Westerns, "get out of town before sundown" kind of thing. Scripture tells us the following "They gave me gall for my wounds". I didn't make that up; it's in the Bible. It also quotes God the father as saying "I will allot him (Jesus) a portion with the great". For those who think Jesus was absolute God what is he doing being rewarded. As scripture itself says "The one who blesses is greater than the one who is blessed" (Selah) We are told Jesus said, "I am thirsty" and someone came running up with a spongs with sour wine. Jesus took the sop and then lapsed into a swoon, some might say. Right away Pilate was told he was dead. In the Greek those who petitioned Pilate for the body asked for a "living body", not a corpse. Pilate agreed. He was taken down off the cross and then subsequently "treated" with herbs and spices.
What is the Coptic Church?
The word "Coptic" means Egyptian in their own tongue. We use the Greek word in our language. As you may know the first Gospell was written by Mark. According to my source Mark was a man of "African" descent who appeared around 50 AD in Egypt. It is said that Jesus life came to an end on earth about ten years before Mark died. This was around 65 AD. Ten years earlier would make 55 AD and those in the know say Philo of Alexandria died 50 AD. That's close enough in my estamation. Mark did not write the first gospell in Rome but in Egypt. Matthew, the second gospell is also Egyptian. So two of the first four Gospells are Egyptian. This is interesting. We don't need to rely on one author to say Jesus was alive in 50 AD because I found another source right here on the internet. Interestingly the "gospell" spread "like wild fire" in Egypt. Faster than it spread anywhere else. One might wonder why. I can guess.
There are many secrets we will never know. The Church has had two thousand years to destroy any documents they didn't like. If anyone is now in posession of any document that supports these two blog postings, I imagine they might want to keep that document well protected. I think a lot of facts will be coming out in the future due to "increased knowledge" (another prediction of Scripture) and the fact that we're all much more inter-connected than we used to be.
Note: The spell-checker doesn't seem to be working. Otherwise I'd use it now.
I have more to say on the subject of Christianity but I'll leave these two postings to be read for now. But there is a lot more that can and should be said.
Respectfully, Marcus Arelius
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