Man"s Imagination Created His Gods
Ancient Religious Philosophy Before science and observations brought perspective and knowledge about the universe and the things of life, including procreation, there was only the imagination.
Even that was restricted to what one saw within their environment and how others of their group perceived things.
This allowed flexibility and misguided thinking to build thoughts into ideas that eventually were hard to eradicate.
Among those thoughts were ideas related to the sun, the moon and the stars.
The most perplexing idea of all was what happened after death.
Meteors shooting through the sky gave them the notion that stars were the continuation of life.
They thought that when one dies one rises as a star but if rejected then that star was sent to an eternal grave.
The star was a mini sun (sol) and so the notion of a soul was born.
Rising upwards meant an eternity as a 'sol' in the sky.
The sun, however, was thought of as the creator of all life and she was deemed the Mother God.
In time she was called 'Ma-r-i' which translates linguistically as 'Mother-powerful eye'.
'Mari' is the same as 'Mary'.
Modern Faits Born of Greek Philosophers Such thinking was behind the Greek philosophy from around 800 BC (Before Caesar).
In attempting to get their heads around the religious ideology of their day many philosophers, such as Pythagoras, travelled throughout the east and some went to India in search of answers.
Their influence on later religious doctrine cannot be ignored, especially that of the Trinity god-head which found its way into Constantine's Catholic Church philosophy.
The notion of the 'haven of the Mother God' or 'heaven' as it became was deeply ingrained as was the notion of the sol rising upwards after death.
This is still seen in the lighting of candles and in some Eastern countries where pockets of air trapped in containers rise upwards with lit candles or lights attached.
It symbolises how the sol or soul should travel.
Invention of Hell One of the laws of physics states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
This did not escape the philosophers who imagined that souls could go up or down.
The Catholic religion decided that down meant fire, such as they saw spewing out of volcanoes.
That meant Hell, a derivative of 'hill' and all volcanoes are hills.
Constantine Established the Roman Catholic Church When Constantine's religion was established in 325 AD it required the word of Jerome to bring the New Testament into being.
This he did from the documentation floating around the empire of which he selected the most likely stories to include.
One of these was the story of the birth and life of Krishna, from whom the term 'christian' was derived.
It was used by Plato some 600-700 years earlier.
It was copied with changes into the Book of Matthew, the first in the publication.
Son of God Born from Reflected Sunlight The notion that the 'sun of the sun' in the form of the reflection in water could become a living person was an old idea that had seen the rise of stories like that of Moses, Bacchus, Apollo and so on.
Plato had determined that light can take any shape and consequently it could resemble that of a man.
The Gospel of John calls Jesus Christ the 'light of the world', as noted in John 6:35.
Constantine saw himself as the light of the world and the son of Apollo.
While this was all in the thinking of the day the religion he founded is largely based on the philosophy of his time and the notions that humans used to create their own gods.
Even that was restricted to what one saw within their environment and how others of their group perceived things.
This allowed flexibility and misguided thinking to build thoughts into ideas that eventually were hard to eradicate.
Among those thoughts were ideas related to the sun, the moon and the stars.
The most perplexing idea of all was what happened after death.
Meteors shooting through the sky gave them the notion that stars were the continuation of life.
They thought that when one dies one rises as a star but if rejected then that star was sent to an eternal grave.
The star was a mini sun (sol) and so the notion of a soul was born.
Rising upwards meant an eternity as a 'sol' in the sky.
The sun, however, was thought of as the creator of all life and she was deemed the Mother God.
In time she was called 'Ma-r-i' which translates linguistically as 'Mother-powerful eye'.
'Mari' is the same as 'Mary'.
Modern Faits Born of Greek Philosophers Such thinking was behind the Greek philosophy from around 800 BC (Before Caesar).
In attempting to get their heads around the religious ideology of their day many philosophers, such as Pythagoras, travelled throughout the east and some went to India in search of answers.
Their influence on later religious doctrine cannot be ignored, especially that of the Trinity god-head which found its way into Constantine's Catholic Church philosophy.
The notion of the 'haven of the Mother God' or 'heaven' as it became was deeply ingrained as was the notion of the sol rising upwards after death.
This is still seen in the lighting of candles and in some Eastern countries where pockets of air trapped in containers rise upwards with lit candles or lights attached.
It symbolises how the sol or soul should travel.
Invention of Hell One of the laws of physics states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
This did not escape the philosophers who imagined that souls could go up or down.
The Catholic religion decided that down meant fire, such as they saw spewing out of volcanoes.
That meant Hell, a derivative of 'hill' and all volcanoes are hills.
Constantine Established the Roman Catholic Church When Constantine's religion was established in 325 AD it required the word of Jerome to bring the New Testament into being.
This he did from the documentation floating around the empire of which he selected the most likely stories to include.
One of these was the story of the birth and life of Krishna, from whom the term 'christian' was derived.
It was used by Plato some 600-700 years earlier.
It was copied with changes into the Book of Matthew, the first in the publication.
Son of God Born from Reflected Sunlight The notion that the 'sun of the sun' in the form of the reflection in water could become a living person was an old idea that had seen the rise of stories like that of Moses, Bacchus, Apollo and so on.
Plato had determined that light can take any shape and consequently it could resemble that of a man.
The Gospel of John calls Jesus Christ the 'light of the world', as noted in John 6:35.
Constantine saw himself as the light of the world and the son of Apollo.
While this was all in the thinking of the day the religion he founded is largely based on the philosophy of his time and the notions that humans used to create their own gods.
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