The Truth Revealed

Christianity

Excerpts from Confessions of a God Seeker

As one of the largest religions in the world today, much of Christianity’s real history has become lost or intentionally suppressed. Confessions of a God Seeker, — Holy Books and the Sixteen Crucified Saviors, uncovers this history and reveals how the Gospels were created from more than forty different versions floating around at the time. The noted Christian scholar Paula Fredriksen observes:

"The four gospels collectively stand as the survivors of a process whose principles of selection had more to do with competition between different Christian groups than with a disinterested concern for history."

This is far from the spoken Word of God that most Christians believe they represent.

Because the Gospels were written more than 100 years following the ostensible death of Jesus, they were decidedly not written by Mathew, Mark, Luke and John. Rather, Confessions reveals that this was an example of the early Church custom of attributing written works to those who did not write them. It was part of a practice called Pseudepigraphy, widely used by the early Church to fill-in the gaps, which real history could not fill.

Indeed, the seeds of the current crisis facing the Catholic Church involving cover-up and deception are shown in Confessions to have been planted by early Church Fathers. St. Augustine, for example, advocated a policy of suppressio veri, the active suppression or concealment of the truth for the sake of Christian instruction. This Church Father was himself so concerned about the practice of pious fraud, i.e. the act of lying for “Christ’s sake,” that he penned an admonition to the Fathers to stop lying in his treatise De Mendacio (on lying). This was followed twenty-five years later, when the pious fraud did not stop, with a second treatise Contra Mendacium (against lying). Thus were the seeds of the practice of deception planted in the early Church to bear the ugly fruit that has harmed the children and deceived the faithful today.

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Chapter 12 —

Old Testament Controversies

New Testament Controversies

The Early Role of the Church in the Formulation of the Gospels and Christianity

Pseudepigraphy, Pious Fraud, and the Greatest Story Ever Told

Creation of the Gospels: The Books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

Non-Gospel Sources for Jesus

Contemporary Support for the Gospels

The Story Behind the Epistles of Paul

The Jesus Story — The One and Only Savior?

Where the Story of Jesus Originated

The Basis of Contemporary Belief

A Final Word