Gerald Massey VS Bart Ehrman: Armageddon, The Egyptian Non-Historical Origins Of Bible Revelation!
Introduction: Deconstructing a Foundation Story The origin story of Christianity is foundational to Western thought: a single historical figure, Jesus of Nazareth, lived and taught in first-century Judea, and his disciples recorded his life and ministry, giving birth to a new faith. But what if this entire historical edifice rests upon a profound misinterpretation? This was the radical counter-narrative proposed by Gerald Massey, a self-taught 19th-century scholar whose work extended into the early 20th century. Massey argued that what we call Christianity was not born from a historical personage, but was a literal reading of spiritual allegories and myths whose origins lay in ancient Egypt, transmitted through various Gnostic, Nazarene, and Hellenistic wisdom schools. He contended that the Canonical Gospels were not historical records but a palimpsest, a later history deliberately written over a much older Gnostic wisdom-tradition. This article explores the five most startling takeaways from his deeply challenging work. ——————————————————————————– 1. The “Golden Age” of Christianity Came Before Jesus A cherished belief in many Christian traditions is that a “golden age” of pure, primitive faith existed immediately following the life of a historical Jesus, only to be corrupted by the institutionalized Roman Church. Massey dismisses this as a delusion. His research contended that the purest form of this belief system existed before any Apostolic church, in the Gnostic and Essene communities. He describes these groups as “prehistoric Christians” who didn’t just preach their creed—they lived it. …
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