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In antiquity, filled with legend, lore, and superstition, the report of a virtuous woman giving birth to a child with the usual form, and possessing the usual characteristics of a human being, but without a male partner in the conception, might in an age of miracles and ignorance of natural law, be believed with implicit credulity. But in an age of intelligence, when the keys of science have provided modern man the answers for such lengeds and myths. Modern investigations into religous histories of pagan nations have laid bare the fact that most ancient religious countries abound in reports of these "virgin births." That being the case then the only recourse for a Christian who is a "thinking believer" is to obtain a profound and general skepticism after he has done personal study into into such legends.
We continue our search for the truth and origin of the "virgin birth" stories that not only were applied to Jesus in the New Testament, but which also can be traced to the beginning of time for other "god-men" and the various religions of the heathen nations.What is truth? How do we know we have? How do we know we don't have it? Well, the last question is easy: You study!
My research has again linked such "virgin birth" stories to the Sun. Nothing is new here as you shall quickly see. In this respect these immaculately conceived "virgin born" gods are personified from the Sun.
Mankind will not emulate extraordinary leaders but instead fall to their knees, adore and worship them. Rather than follow a difficult example it is easier to deify the exemplar thus providing an excuse for not emulating him. It has been said: "How can mere men do what gods can do?" This inclination to worship Jesus as a god rather than follow him as a man stems from the earliest days of Christianity. Within 60 years of the crucifixion Jesus's adoring followers had created the myth of the conception of Jesus by the Holy Ghost making him at least half a god from the start. He thus became an impossible role model for merely mortal men. Yet even the half of him that was human passed on by his mother was too much for the adorers. They they wanted a fully fledged god. After centuries as a tolerated heresy, in 1854 the doctrine of "The Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God" was adopted by the Roman Church rendering Jesus's mother a perfect being from her own birth, free of original sin, incapable of sin throughout her life - a sinless mate for God Almighty to conceive a divine son. Jesus as a fine example of loving manhood had been usurped by the adorers and worshippers.
But lets look at the text. No mention is made of the Virgin Birth in the epistles and in fact Paul could not be more explicit in recording that Jesus was "of the seed of David according to the flesh" as if he were refuting the suggestion. For Paul Jesus was the Son of God through the "Spirit of Holiness" which did not require a supernatural conception. Nor does the earliest gospel mention the virgin birth. The mystical Book of the Revelation of John the Divine does not mention it, though it would be perfect for inclusion in such an allegorical piece. None of the Jewish patriarchs were born of virgins and, though older women beyond the menopause had their wombs "opened" to conceive Isaac, Jacob and Samuel, no divine impregnation was suggested.
The virgin birth appears in Luke and Matthew, years after the event, to prove Jesus's divinity. The birth stories in the two gospels come from different sources and differ widely but both contradict their central thesis that Jesus's mother was a virgin by giving a genealogy to show that Joseph was descended from David, an irrelevancy if Joseph had not impregnated his wife. The original idea was obviously to trace Jesus's lineage through Joseph to David to fulfill messianic prophecy. Then the idea of making Jesus more divine through a virgin birth arose and was tacked on spoiling the object of the genealogy. The editors of both gospels see a problem and try to avoid it: in Luke by inserting "as people thought" to show Jesus was not really Joseph's son and in Matthew by slyly separating Joseph from his son by inserting after "...Joseph" "the husband of Mary, of whom was begotten" Jesus. If the intention was to imply that Mary was begetting Jesus then the person inserting the story was either ignorant or depended on the ignorance of his readers for only men could beget according to Jewish convention. Neither Luke nor Matthew refer to the birth story again and indeed it contradicts the main story. Presumably his family or at least his mother would have been aware of all that feting by kings and shepherds, and glory in the heavens, and the reason for it all. Yet later they are continually puzzled and disappointed by Jesus's behaviour. And why bother trying to establish a divine conception when both refer to Joseph in the main narrative as the father of Jesus.
The Ebionites, the first Jewish followers of Jesus accepted Joseph as the natural father. An attempt was made by the early Christians to justify the virgin birth story by referring to Isaiah 7:14 where is written, "Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son". The word employed in the Greek version of the Old Testament was parthenos. But a reference to the original Hebrew yields the word almah. Both parthenos and almah did not necessarily mean a virgin as we understand it, a woman who had never had intercourse. In Greek it could mean youth, the state of unmarriage, or even a person who is first married. In Hebrew it could mean beside the usual meaning, an immature girl who could not conceive because she had not yet started to menstruate. The idea of a virgin as a premenstrual girl allows her to have children and still be a virgin. If she were to conceive from her very first ovulation, she would not have menstruated but would be a mother and still a virgin. If she conceived at the first ovulation after the birth, she could be a virgin mother of two children of different ages. Since Jewish girls often married before menstruation - in Joel 1:8 an almah's husband is mentioned - virgin mothers were not unusual. Now Mary was described as "betrothed" to Joseph implying that she was a minor under the age of twelve and a half. After that age she could become his wife. Thus the "virgin" Mary could have given birth. If she did, the truth was misunderstood in the gentile world of the Roman Empire, and indeed beyond, where it was de rigeur not only for gods but also great men to be born of virgins. Ra, Hatshepsut, Amenophis III, Cyrus the Great, Julius Caesar, Perseus, Plato, Apollonius of Tyana, Fohi, Lao Kium, Zoroaster and Attis all came of virgin births according to their followers.
Herodotus explained that such conceptions occurred by way of a ray of light and according to Plutarch's book on Isis and Osiris it entered through the ear. Tertullian confirms it was a ray of light. Thus medieval pictures of Mary at the moment of conception show a ray of light entering her ear. Furthermore it is common for gods and those akin to gods to have mothers called Mary or a cognate name. Adonis was born of Myrrha, Hermes of Maia, Cyrus of Mariana or Mandane, Joshua of Miriam, Buddha of Maya and Khrishna of Maritala.
Many are the cases noted in history of young maidens claiming a paternity for their male offspring by a God.
Mr. Kenrick tells us the likeness of this virgin mother, with the
divine child in her arms, may now be seen represented in sculpture on some
of the ancient, ruined temples of that ruined empire. And Mr. Higgins (Anacalypsis)
makes the broad declaration that "the worship
of this virgin mother, with her God-begotten 
child,
prevailed everywhere." This author also quotes Mr. Riquord as
saying, this son of God "was exhibited in effigy, lying in a manger,
in the same manner the infant Jesus was afterward laid in the cave at
Bethlehem." Mr. Higgins further testifies that
the worship of this virgin God-mother (that is, the God and the mother) is
of very ancient date and universal prevalence in all the eastern
countries, as is proved by sculptured figures bearing the marks of great
age. By the way, the reprint of Anacalypsis is available on
the Internet...I recommend it very highly if you want to get to the truth
about many of the doctrines of Christendom.
Mr. Higgins remarks that the mother was still held to be a virgin, even after she had given birth to other children besides the deity-begotten bantling, which furnishes another striking parallel to the history of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as she was still called a virgin after she had given birth to Jesus and his brothers James and John. And it is an incident worth noticing here, that, in the case of Mayence, virgin-mother of the God-sired Hesus of the Druids, the ancient traditions of the country, more than two thousand years old, represent her body as being enveloped in light, and a crown of twelve stars upon her head, corresponding exactly to the apocalyptic figure described by St. John, in the twelfth chapter of his Revelation. She is also represented with her foot on the head of a serpent, according to Davie's Universal Etymology.
In corroboration of this statement one only needs to examine the evidence existing today of such legends; such evidence from the religious records of India, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, Mexico, Tibet, etc.
Maia, mother of Sakia and Yasoda of Chrishna; Celestine, mother of the crucified Zunis; Chimalman, mother of Quexalcote; Semele, mother of the Egyptian Bacchus, and Minerva, mother of the Grecian Bacchus; Prudence, mother of Hercules; Alcmene, mother of Alcides; Shing- Mon, mother of Yu, and Mayence, mother of Hesus, were all as confidently believed to be pure, holy and chaste virgins, while giving birth to these Gods, sons of God, Saviors and sin-atoning Mediators, as was Mary, mother of Jesus, and long before her time.
Ceres, the virgin mother of Osiris, claimed that he was begotten by the "father of all Gods."
In Greece it became so common that the reigning king issued an edict, decreeing the death of all young women who should offer such an insult to deity as to lay to him the charge of begetting their children. The virgin Alcmene furnishes a case of a young woman claiming God as the father of her offspring, when she brought forth the divine Redeemer Alcides, 1280 years B.C.
Auguste Nichols tells us, in his Philosophical Essays on Christianity, that Io is called, in Eschylus, "the Chaste Virgin," and her son "the Son of God" If you would like to see other example you need look no further than Guigne's History of the Huns.
Gonzales informs us he found on an ancient temple in India the Latin inscription 'Partura, virginis,' "the virgin about to bring forth." And similar inscriptions have been found on pagan temples in the country of the ancient Gauls (Riquord's Theology of the Ancient Gauls, Chapter X.).
"He who hath ears to hear, let him hear," and treasure up these facts. According to Chinese history there were two beings -- Tien and Chang-Ti -- worshiped in that country as Gods more than twenty- five hundred years ago, born of virgins "who knew no man." The mother of the mighty and the almighty God Hercules, we are told, "knew only Jove."
Curiously, several of the above-named Saviors are represented as
being black, Jesus Christ included with this number. There is as much
evidence that the Christian Savior was a black man, or at least a dark
man, as there is of his being the son of the Virgin Mary, or that he once
lived and moved upon the earth. And that
evidence is the testimony of his disciples, who had nearly as good an
opportunity of knowing what his complexion was as the evangelists, who
omit to say anything about it. In the pictures and portraits of Christ by
the early Christians, he is uniformly represented as being black. And to
make this the more certain, the red tinge is given to the lips; and the
only text in the Christian bible quoted by orthodox Christians, as
describing his complexion, represents it as being black. Solomon's
declaration, "I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem"
(Sol. i. 5), is often cited as referring to Christ. According to the bible
itself, then, Jesus Christ was a black man.
But a little background into the "black virgin." Hundreds of icons of Mary have intentionally black faces and hands. In France they are called "Vierge Noires" or Black Virgins; in other countries they are called Black Madonnas. Some call her "the other Mary"; Jung said she is Isis; others consider her to be the iconic remains of prehistoric Earth Mother worship. She is linked with Cybele, Diana, Isis & Venus; cross-culturally she is associated with Kali, Inanna & Lilith. Historically she has ties to the Crusades and the Moorish occupation of Spain, to the Conquistadors, who brought her to the New World, and to the Merovingians and Knights Templars, who saw her as Mary Magdalene. As Sara-la-Kali she is revered by the Gypsies at Saintes Maries de la Mer. For modern psychologists she is said to express the archetype of the Dark Feminine. Whoever the enigmatic Black Virgin may be, she holds a powerful attraction for her millions of devotees around the world. Her sacred sites stand on highly charged earth energy centers, enhanced by megalithic ley-lines and sacred architecture. From ancient times to present, people have undertaken pilgrimages to her shrines as a way to explore her mysteries and to enable her to do her miraculous work of healing, transformation and inspiration. France has more than 300 Black Virgin sites, with over 150 Black Virgins still in existence.
Answer for yourself: It is believed by many that Jesus will return to this planet as Messiah. Let us suppose that, at some future time, he makes his second advent to the earth, as some Christians anticipate he will do, and that he comes in the character of a "black" Messiah, how would he be received negro-hating Christians or the sons of the Aryan nations?
Answer for yourself: Would they worship a negro God?
And the tradition of divine Saviors being born of undefiled and undeflowered virgins has an astronomical chapter we must not omit to notice. The virgin, with her God-begotten child, was pictured imaginarily in the heavens from time immemorial. They are represented on the Hindu zodiac, at least three thousand years old, and on the ancient Egyptian planispheres. And if you will examine Burritt's Geography of the Heavens, you will find the infant God-son (the sun) is represented as being born into a new year on the 25th of December (the very date assigned for Christ's birth), and may be seen rising over the eastern horizon, out of Mary, Maria, or Mare (the Latin for sea), with the infant God in her arms, being heralded and preceded by a bright star, which rises immediately preceding the virgin and her child, thus suggesting the text, "We have seen his star in the east, and have come to worship him." (Matt. 2:8).
If you have not you need to refresh yourself with the 280 cycle from the vernal equinox to Dec. 25 which the ancients believed was the gestation of the Sun-god impregnation of "mother earth." The ancients believed this "child god" was to be born of a Virgin. This, of course represents the constellation of Virgo. Virgo had command of teh Fall equinox at the time this passage was edited by the Gentile priesthood. And Virgo, as such, represented the fall of the fetus in the third trimester, before it's birth. A human fetus enter's it's third trimester after 186-187 days. The Fall equinox, Sept. 22 (when the fetus falls toward the vagina, birth) is 186 days from the Conception at the vernal equinox (March. 21). Again, we see the link between the human body and the Cosmos and the ancients interpreted this as man being made in the image of the Cosmos which delcared to them God.
Answer for yourself: Is this a coincidence and is the writers of the New Testament relating "truth" when they write of the birth of Jesus? Where is the Holy Spirit in any of this?
Such facts led the learned Alphonso to exclaim:
And such facts fasten the conviction on our mind that the stories of Gods cohabiting with young maids or virgins, and begetting other Gods, is of astrological origin -- the story of Jesus Christ included. A critical research shows that astronomy and religion were interblended, interwoven, and confounded together at a very early period of time, so indissolubly, that it now becomes impossible to separate them (at least without a considerable amount of study and finanes to procure the necessary documents for inspection).
This Virgin, of whom the Sun, the true "Savior of Mankind," is born, is neither the bright and beautiful Dawn, or the dark Earth, or Night. Hence we have, as we have already seen if your have read the prior articles, the "Virgin," or "Virgo," as one of the signs of the Zodiac. The sign of the "Celestial Virgin" rises above the horizon at the moment in which we fix the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ (Higgins, Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 314, and Bonwick, Egyptian Belief, p. 147). We have in the first decade the Sign of the Virgin, following the most ancient tradition of the Persians, the Chaldeans, the Egyptians, Hermes and Aesculapius, a young woman called in the Persian language, "Selinidos de Darzama; in the Arabic, Aderenedesa-that is to say, a chaste, pure, immaculate virgin, suckling an infant, which some nations call Jesus (Savior), but which we in Greek call "Christ" (Abulmazer). As a Christian you need to understand that this is the origin of the Mary and Jesus statues you see in many Catholic Churches. From this would come a whole host of "false doctrines" believed by millions today.
The "Dawn" was personified by the ancients as a "virgin mother, who bore the Sun" (Fiske, Myths and Mythmakers, p. 156). In Sanskrit "Ida" is the "Earth," the wife of Dyaus (the Sky), and so we have before us the mythical phrase, "the Sun at its birth rest on the earth." In other words, "the Sun at birth is nursed in the lap of the mother." The moment we understand the "nature" of a myth, all impossibilities, contradictions, and immoralities disappear. If a mythical personage be nothing more than a name of the Sun, his birth may be derived from ever so many different mothers. He may be the son of the Sky or the Dawn or of the Sea or of the Night (Renouf's Hibbert Lectures, p. 108).
This Celestial
Virgin was feigned to be a mother. This
Celestial Virgin is represented in the Indian Zodiac of Sr. William
Jones, with ears of corn in one hand, and the lotus in the other. In
Kircher's Zodiac of Hermes, she has corn in both hands. In other
planispheres of the Egyptian priests she carries ears of corn in one hand,
and the infant Savior Horus in the other. In Roman Catholic countries, she
is generally represented with the child in one hand, and the lotus or lily
in the other. In Vol. II. of Montfaucon's work, she is represented as a
female nursing a child, with ears of corn in her hand, and the legend IAO.
She is seated on clouds, a star is at her head. The reading of the Greek
letters, from right to left, show this to be very ancient.
In the Vedic hymns Aditi, the "Dawn," is called the "Mother of the Gods." She is said to have given birth to the Sun (Max Muller, Origin of Religions, p. 261). "As the Sun and all the solar deities rise from the east," says Prof. M. Muller, "we can understand how Aditi (Dawn) came to be called the "Mother of the Bright Gods" (Ibid. p. 230). The poets of the Veda indulged in theogonic speculations and they knew of Indra as the greatest of gods, they knew of Agni as the god of gods, they knew of Varuna as the ruler of all; but they were by no means startled at the idea that their Indra had a mother, or that Varuna was nursed in the lap of Aditi. All this was true to nature; for their god was the Sun, and the mother who born and nursed him was the Dawn. Without scarcely an exception, all the names by which the "Virgin goddess" of the Akropolis was known point to this mythology of the Dawn (Cox, Aryan Myths, vol. i. p 228).
We find in the Vishnu Purana, that Devaki (the virgin mother of the Hindu Savior Chrishna, whose history corresponds in most every particular with that of Christ Jesus who would come over 800 years later) is called Aditi, which, in the Rig-Veda, is the name for the Dawn. Thus we see the legend is complete. Devaki is Aditi, Aditi is the Dawn, and the Dawn is the Virgin Mother. "The Savior of mankind," who is born of her is the Sun, the Sun is Chrishna, and Chrishna is Christ.
In the Mahabharata, Chrishna is also represented as the "Son of Aditi" (Cox, Aryan Myths, vol. iii, pp. 105, and 130, vol. ii). In other words, Chrishna is the son of the "Virgin Mother" as is the Christ.
Indra, the Sun, who was worshipped in some parts of India as the Crucified God, is also represented in the Vedic hymns as the Son of the Dawn. He is said to have been born of Dahana, who is Daphne, a personification of the Dawn (Fiske, Myths and Mythmakers, p. 118).
The humanity of this SOLAR GOD-MAN, this demiurge, is strongly insisted on in the Rig-Vida. He is the son of God, but also the son of Aditi. He is Purusha, the man, the male. Agni is frequently called the "Son of man." It is expressly explained that the titles Agni, Indra, Mitra, etc., all refer to one Sun-god under "many names." And when we find the name of a mortal, Yama, who once lived upon earth, included among these names, the humanity of the demiurge becomes still more accentuated, and we get at the root idea.
Horus, the Egyptian Savior, was the son of the virgin Isis. Now, this Isis, in Egyptian mythology, is the same as the virgin Devaki in Hindu mythology. She is the Dawn (Renouf, Hibbert Lectures, p. 111 and 161). Isis, as we have already seen, is represented suckling the infant Horus, and, in the words of Prof. Renouf, we may say, "in whose lap can the Sun be nursed more fitly than in that of the Dawn" (Ibid., p. 161, 179).
Among the goddesses of Egypt, the highest was Neith, who reigned inseparable with Amun in the upper sphere. She was called "Mother of the gods," "Mother of the sun." She was the femine origin of all things, as Amun was the male origin. She held the same rank at Sais as Amun did at Thebes. Her temples there are said to have exceeded in colossal grandeur anything every seen before. On one of these was the celebrated inscription thus deciphered by Champollion:
She was mother of the Sun-god Ra, and is commonly supposed to represent Heaven; but some expressions which are hardly applicable to heaven, render it more probable that she is one of the many names of the (Ibid., p. 179).
If we turn from Indian and Egyptian, to Grecian mythology, we shall also find that their Sun-gods and solar heroes are born of the same virgin mother. Theseus was said to have been born of Aithra, "the pure air," and Cedipus of Iokaste, "the violet light of morning." Perseus was born of the virgin Danae, and was called the "Son of the bright morning" (Tales of Ancient Greece, pp. xxxi). In Io, the mother of the "sacred bull, the mother also of Hercules, we see the violet-tinted morning from which the sun is born; all these gods and heroes being, like Christ Jesus, personifications of the Sun (Cox, Aryan Myths, vol. i. p. 229). The bull symbolized the productive force in nature, and hence it was associated with the Sun-gods. This animal was venerated by nearly all the peoples of antiquity (Wake, Phallism in Anct. Religs. p. 45).
"The Savior of Mankind" was also represented as being born of the "dusky mother," which accounts for many Pagan, and so-called Christian, goddesses being represented black. This is the "dark night," who for many weary hours travails with the birth of her child. The Sun, which scatters the darkness, is also the child of the darkness, and so the phrase naturally went "that he was born of her." Of the two legends related in the poems afterwards combined in the "Hymn to Apollo," the former relates the birth of Apollo, the Sun, from Leto, the Darkness, which is called his mother. The idea was entertained by the ancients that these god-begotten heroes were engendered without any carnal intercourse, and that they were they sons of Jupiter. This idea is later expanded and relates that such "virgin births" comes from the idea that the Holy Spirit was operating in some fashion on the virgin mother Earth (Knight, Ancient Art and Mythology, p. 156).
The dark earth was also represented as being the mother of the god Sun, who apparently came out of, or was born of her, in the East, as Minos (the sun) was represented to have been born of Ida (the earth) (Cox, Aryan Myths, p. 87).
In Hindu mythology, the Earth, under the name of Prithivi, receives a certain share of honors as one of the primitive goddesses of the Veda, being thought of as the "kind mother." Moreover, various deities were regarded as the progeny resulting from the fancied union of the Earth with Dyaus (Heaven).
Our Aryan forefathers looked up to the heavens and they gave it the name of Dyaus, from a root word which means "to shine." And when, out of the forces and forms of nature, they afterwards fashioned other gods, this name Dyaus became Dyaus pitar, the Heaven-father, or Lord of All; and in far later times, when the wester Aryans had found their home in Europe, the Dyaus pitar of the central Asian land became the Zeupater of the Greeks, and the Jupiter of the Romans, and the first part of his name gave us the word Deity.
According to Egyptian mythology, Isis was also the Earth (Williams, Hinduism, p. 24). Again, from the union of Seb and Nut sprung the mild Osiris, Seb in the Earth, Nut in Heaven, and Osiris is the Sun (Renouf's Hibbert Lectures, p.110-111).
Tacitus, the Roman historian, speaking of the Germans in A.D. 98, says:
These virgin mothers and virgin goddesses of antiquity, were also, at times, personifications of the Moon, or of Nature (Knight, Ancient Art and Mythology, pp. 81, 90, and 166). The moon was called by the ancients, "The Queen," "The Highest Princess," "The Queen of Heaven," "The Princess and Queen of Heaven," etc. She was Ishtar, Ashera, Diana, Artemis, Isis, Juno, Lucina, Astarte,etc. (Goldzhier, pp. 158; Knight, pp. 99-100).
Answer for yourself: Who is "God the Father," who overshadows the maiden?
The overshadowing of the maiden by "God the Father," whether he be called Zeus, Jupiter, or Jehovah, is simply the Heaven, the Sky, the "All-Father," looking down upon with love, and overshadowing the maiden, the broad flushing light of Dawn, or the Earth. From this union the Sun is born without any carnal intercourse. (virgin birth). The mother is not yet a virgin. This is illustrated in Hindu mythology by the union of Pritrivi, "Mother Earth," with Dyaus, "Heaven." Various deities were regarded as their progeny. The "God the Father" of all nations of antiquity was nothing more than a personification of the Sky or the Heavens. In one of the Chinese sacred books, the Shu-king, Heaven and Earth are called "Father and Mother of all things" (Taylor, Primitive Culture, pp. 294-296). The "God the Father" of the Indians is Dyaus, that is, the Sky (Williams, Hinduism, p. 24). Ormuzd, the god of the ancient Persians, was a personification of the sky. In Greek iconography Zeus is the Heaven. The Christian God supreme is still Dyaus Pitar, the "Heavenly Father."
In the Vedic hymns the Sun, the Lord and Savior, the Redeemer and Preserver of mankind, is frequently called the "Son of the Sky" (Muller, Origin of Religions, pp. 261, 290).
Answer for yourself: Did you notice that the Sun is now become the "Son"? Get ready for incarnational theology for here it comes.
According to Egyptian mythology, Seb (the Earth) is overshadowed by Nut (Heaven), the result of this union being the beneficent Lord and Savior, Osiris (Renouf, Hebbert Lectures, pp. 110-111). The same thing is to be found in ancient Grecian mythology. Zeus or Jupiter is the Sky, and Danae, Leto, Iokaste, Io and others, are the Dawn, or the violet light of morning (Cox, Tales of Ancient Greece, pp. xxxi, and 82; and Aryan Mythology, vol. i. p. 229).
The Phoenician theogony is founded on the same principles. Heaven and Earth (called Ouranos and Ghe) are at the head of a genealogy of aeons, whose adventures are conceived in the mythological style of these physical allegorists (Squire, Serpent Symbol, p. 66).
In the Samothracian mysteries, which seem to have been the most anciently established ceremonies of the kind in Europe, the Heaven and the Earth were worshipped as a male and female divinity, and as the parents of all things (Squire, Serpent Symbol, p. 64).
The Supreme God (the Al-fader), of the ancient Scandinavians was Odin, a personification of the Heavens. The principal goddess among them was Frigga, a personification of the Earth. It was the opinion among these people that this Supreme Being or Celestial God had united with the Earth (Frigga) to produce "Baldur the Good" (the Sun), who corresponds to the Apollo of the Greeks and Romans, and the Osiris of the Egyptians (Mallet, Northern Antiquitiess, pp. 90, 94, 98. 406, 510, 511).
Xiuletl, in the Mexican language, signifies Blue, and hence was a name which the Mexicans gave to Heaven, from which Xiuleti-cutli is derived, an epithet signifying "the God of Heaven," which they bestowed upon Tezcatlipoca, who was the "Lord of All," the "Supreme God." He it was who overshadowed the Virgin of Tule, Chimelman, who began the Savior Quetzalcoatle (the Sun).
Now I could go on but you get the point. As you have seen, the overshadowing of the Earth by the Sky produced the Sun. It would be a short step from personification to glorification to deification. And as you also saw, as far back as the Vedic hymns the Sun, the Lord and Savior, the Redeemer and Preserver of mankind, is frequently called the "Son of the Sky" (Muller, Origin of Religions, pp. 261, 290). It is this concept later accepted by Nicea that made Jesus "of the same essence as the Father;" therefore the Son is equal with the Father. This is how idolatry and Sun Worship crept into the faith of the early church and remains there today!
Answer for yourself: Now don't you think that these beliefs among the Gentiles of the world played a large part in the fashioning of many doctrines "about Jesus?' Could it be possible such doctrines were "read into the life of Jesus" by non-Jews who had ingrained anit-Semitism? Is is possible that they made "Jesus equal with God" and recorded such "beliefs" in documents that you have come to believe today are "inerrant" and "infallible" (New Testament)?
Answer for yourself: Is the evidence not overwhelming? Where is a Jewish Rabbi to be found in any of this whose purpose was to bring men to God by preaching repentance and obedience to the Commandments of God?
Answer for yourself: As a Christian, could you have inherited and believed lies instead of the truths about the "historical Jesus" which fly in the face of such pagan traditions?