John D. Brey
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Theological historians claim, with the majority of Jewish voices I've read, that Jewish monotheism is unique to Abraham and his offspring. Religion prior to the rise of Jewish monotheism was "pagan" and included the idea of multiple gods, and the incarnation of the gods. Virgin birth of the gods is a motifs found throughout pagan (Gentile) religions, and is nearly universal in the pre-Abrahamic religions.
As modern Jews are constantly pointing out, Christianity was too perfect a fit for Gentiles who had believed in gods (Trinity) and virgin births from the very beginning of time. . . And speaking of time, if I had more of it, I could justify all the foregoing with quotations from the best mythologists and historians of the last century. Mithraism was practiced by Romans of Jesus' time, and incorporated many of the concepts found in the Gospels.
The point is that Christianity is a fulfillment of religious ideas going all the way back to Adam, while modern Judaism is a repudiation of those ideas.
But Christianity came first. Incarnation motifs are original. Virgin birth is original. Some of the best Jewish professors alive have acknowledged the scholarship of Professor Margret Barker's book, The Older Testament, which shows that Christian ideas not only predate Jewish monotheism, but Abrahamic religion was itself originally inundated with the same ideas. Rabbi Daniel Boyarin, who quotes Barker in his own books, shows how in the early centuries of the current era, every concept amenable to Christianity was erased from the Jewish hard-drive, and the entire faith was reformatted after the bleachbit was performed.
The important point that I was making in my original statement is that Judaism is secondary to Christian style incarnation theories and virgin birth motifs. They, those theories (and motifs), far pre-date Pharisaic Judaism and it's style of monotheism. Which is to say, Pharisaical Judaism is an amendment to human religion, and not the original human religion, so far as history is concerned.
The reason this concerns me in particular is that as anyone whose read anything I've written knows I believe Adam was originally a Jew, and became a Jewish heretic when he gave birth to the first Gentile, Cain, by producing him from someone other than a Jewish mother, Adam being the only possible Jewish mother in the original creation and the original religion. In my theology Judaism is first, and all Gentile religions are second. Judaism is original, and every other religion is an amendment or re-interpretation of Judaism.
Mix Professor Margret Barker's scholarship with my theorizing and the first Judaism was Christianity. The first man (Adam) was Christ's mother. Only after bleachbit is performed (post-Incarnation), and Judaism completely reformatted, does Abrahamic-monotheism take on the patina it has today. The original Judaism is the first Christianity. The first Adam (man) is the Great Goddess, the mother of the firstborn of creation, Christ.
John
As modern Jews are constantly pointing out, Christianity was too perfect a fit for Gentiles who had believed in gods (Trinity) and virgin births from the very beginning of time. . . And speaking of time, if I had more of it, I could justify all the foregoing with quotations from the best mythologists and historians of the last century. Mithraism was practiced by Romans of Jesus' time, and incorporated many of the concepts found in the Gospels.
The point is that Christianity is a fulfillment of religious ideas going all the way back to Adam, while modern Judaism is a repudiation of those ideas.
But Christianity came first. Incarnation motifs are original. Virgin birth is original. Some of the best Jewish professors alive have acknowledged the scholarship of Professor Margret Barker's book, The Older Testament, which shows that Christian ideas not only predate Jewish monotheism, but Abrahamic religion was itself originally inundated with the same ideas. Rabbi Daniel Boyarin, who quotes Barker in his own books, shows how in the early centuries of the current era, every concept amenable to Christianity was erased from the Jewish hard-drive, and the entire faith was reformatted after the bleachbit was performed.
The important point that I was making in my original statement is that Judaism is secondary to Christian style incarnation theories and virgin birth motifs. They, those theories (and motifs), far pre-date Pharisaic Judaism and it's style of monotheism. Which is to say, Pharisaical Judaism is an amendment to human religion, and not the original human religion, so far as history is concerned.
The reason this concerns me in particular is that as anyone whose read anything I've written knows I believe Adam was originally a Jew, and became a Jewish heretic when he gave birth to the first Gentile, Cain, by producing him from someone other than a Jewish mother, Adam being the only possible Jewish mother in the original creation and the original religion. In my theology Judaism is first, and all Gentile religions are second. Judaism is original, and every other religion is an amendment or re-interpretation of Judaism.
Mix Professor Margret Barker's scholarship with my theorizing and the first Judaism was Christianity. The first man (Adam) was Christ's mother. Only after bleachbit is performed (post-Incarnation), and Judaism completely reformatted, does Abrahamic-monotheism take on the patina it has today. The original Judaism is the first Christianity. The first Adam (man) is the Great Goddess, the mother of the firstborn of creation, Christ.
John
