The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ
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Graves Kersey. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ
EXPLANATION
ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY
CHAPTER I. RIVAL CLAIMS OF THE SAVIORS
CHAPTER II. MESSIANIC PROPHECIES
CHAPTER III. PROPHECIES BY THE FIGURE OF A SERPENT
CHAPTER IV. MIRACULOUS AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE GODS
CHAPTER V. VIRGIN MOTHERS AND VIRGIN-BORN GODS
CHAPTER VI. STARS POINT OUT THE TIME AND THE SAVIORS' BIRTH-PLACE
CHAPTER VII. ANGELS, SHEPHERDS AND MAGI VISIT THE INFANT SAVIORS
CHAPTER VIII. THE TWENTY-FIFTH OF DECEMBER THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GODS
CHAPTER IX. TITLES OF THE SAVIORS
CHAPTER X. THE SAVIORS OF ROYAL DESCENT, BUT HUMBLE BIRTH
CHAPTER XI. CHRIST'S GENEALOGY
CHAPTER XII. THE WORLD'S SAVIORS SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION IN INFANCY
SECTION II. – INCREDIBILITY OF THE STORY OF THE MASSACRE OF THE HEBREW INFANTS
CHAPTER XIII. THE SAVIORS EXHIBIT EARLY PROOFS OF DIVINITY
CHAPTER XIV. THE SAVIORS; KINGDOMS NOT OF THIS WORLD
CHAPTER XV. THE SAVIORS WERE REAL PERSONAGES
CHAPTER XVI. SIXTEEN SAVIORS CRUCIFIED
CHAPTER XVII. THE APHANASIA, OR DARKNESS AT THE CRUCIFIXION
CHAPTER XVIII. DESCENT OF THE SAVIORS INTO HELL
CHAPTER XIX. RESURRECTION OF THE SAVIORS
CHAPTER XX. REAPPEARANCE AND ASCENSION OF THE SAVIORS
CHAPTER XXI. THE ATONEMENT – ITS ORIENTAL OR HEATHEN ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXII. THE HOLY GHOST OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXIII. THE DIVINE "WORD" OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXIV. THE TRINITY VERY ANCIENTLY A CURRENT HEATHEN DOCTRINE
CHAPTER XXV. ABSOLUTION, AND THE CONFESSION OF SINS, OF HEATHEN ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXVI. ORIGIN OF BAPTISM BY WATER, FIRE, BLOOD AND THE HOLY GHOST
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SACRAMENT OR EUCHARIST OF HEATHEN ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXVIII. ANOINTING WITH OIL OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXIX. HOW MEN, INCLUDING JESUS CHRIST, CAME TO BE WORSHIPED AS GODS
CHAPTER XXX. SACRED CYCLES EXPLAINING THE ADVENT OF THE GODS
CHAPTER XXXI. CHRISTIANITY DERIVED FROM HEATHEN AND ORIENTAL SYSTEMS
CHAPTER XXXII. THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX STRIKING ANALOGIES BETWEEN CHRIST AND CHRISHNA
CHAPTER XXXIII. APOLLONIUS, OSIRIS, MAGUS, ETC. – GODS
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE THREE PILLARS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH – MIRACLES, PROPHECIES, AND PRECEPTS
CHAPTER XXXV. LOGICAL OR COMMON SENSE VIEW OF THE DOCTRINE OF DIVINE INCARNATION
CHAPTER XXXVI. PHILOSOPHICAL ABSURDITIES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE INCARNATION
CHAPTER XXXVII. PHYSIOLOGICAL ABSURDITIES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE INCARNATION
CHAPTER XXXVIII. A HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF CHRIST'S DIVINITY
CHAPTER XL. A METONYMIC VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST
CHAPTER XLI. THE PRECEPTS AND PRACTICAL LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST; HIS TWO HUNDRED ERRORS
CHAPTER XLII. CHRIST AS A SPIRITUAL MEDIUM
CHAPTER XLIII. CONVERSION, REPENTANCE, AND "GETTING RELIGION" OF HEATHEN ORIGIN
CHAPTER XLIV. THE MORAL LESSONS OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY
CHAPTER XLV. CONCLUSION AND REVIEW
NOTES
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Dr. Prince, of Long Island (now deceased), wrote to the author, respecting the thirty-fifth chapter of this work, entitled "The Logical View of the Incarnation," after he had seen it in the columns of a newspaper, "It is a masterly piece of logic, and will startle, if it does not revolutionize, the orthodox world. And the chapters comprising 'The Philosophical View,' and 'The Physiological View,' were afterward pronounced specimens of profound and unanswerable logical reasoning." We thus call the reader's attention to these chapters in advance, in order to induce that thorough attention to their facts and arguments which will result in banishing from his mind the last vestiges of a belief (if he entertain any) in the doctrine of the divine incarnation.
IMPORTANT FACTS CONSTITUTING THE BASIS OF THIS WORK.
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We shall present an array of facts and historical proofs, drawn from numerous histories and the Holy Scriptures and bibles appertaining to these various Saviors, and which include a history of their lives and doctrines, that will go to show that in nearly all their leading features, and mostly even in their details, they are strikingly similar.
A comparison, or parallel view, extended through their sacred histories, so as to include an exhibition presented in parallels of the teachings of their respective bibles, would make it clearly manifest that, with respect to nearly every important thought, deed, word, action, doctrine, principle, precept, tenet, ritual, ordinance or ceremony, and even the various important characters or personages, who figure in their religious dramas as Saviors, prophets, apostles, angels, devils, demons, exalted or fallen genii – in a word, nearly every miraculous or marvelous story, moral precept, or tenet of religious faith, noticed in either the Old or New Testament Scriptures of Christendom – from the Jewish cosmogony, or story of creation in Genesis, to the last legendary tale in St. John's "Arabian Nights" (alias the Apocalypse) – there is to be found an antitype for, or outline of, somewhere in the sacred records or bibles of the oriental heathen nations, making equal if not higher pretention to a divine emanation and divine inspiration, and admitted by all historians, even the most orthodox, to be of much more ancient date; for while Christians only claim, for the earthly advent of their Savior and the birth of their religion, a period less than nineteen hundred years in the past, on the contrary, most of the deific or divine incarnations of the heathen and their respective religions are, by the concurrent and united verdict of all history, assigned a date several hundred or several thousand years earlier, thus leaving the inference patent that so far as there has been any borrowing or transfer of materials from one system to another, Christianity has been the borrower.
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