The Non-Judaic Nature of Christ

The Non-Judaic Nature of Christ

The primary purpose of this blog is an attempt to debunk traditionally held beliefs that Jesus Christ was the Jewish Messiah that the Jews rejected and crucified. The nature of Christ and the mere notion of a Jewish Messiah are two vastly different concepts; the two simply cannot be the same being. The Triune God of Christianity, represented by God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, is not a petty tribal god , it is the supreme creator deity known to all of mankind since the dawn of time. I pray that one day we Christians, especially the evangelicals amongst us, will realize this fact and stop preaching an absurd theological paradox known today as Judaeo-Christian belief system. Allow me to first begin by stating that the nature and character of Christ our God has more in common with Zoroaster's Ahura Mazda (Armenian: Aramazd) than with Moses' tribal god called Yahweh.

I accept traditional Christianity, in particular Orthodox Christianity, simply as a national/cultural expression and as one that compared to other Christian faiths most closely represents the true essence of Christ. However, personally and spiritually, I am far from being considered a traditional Christian in the sense that I reject the so-called "Old Testament" (the Hebrew Torah/Tanakh) and its blood thirsty, oppressive and jealous tribal god called Yahweh. In my opinion, and in the opinion of many early Christians, the divine Trinity we believe in has nothing to do with Hebrew scriptures and even less to do with their god, Yahweh. The present character of traditional Christianity is a direct result of a shrewd political move by Constantine the Great of Rome at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. Constantin's primary intention was to unite his empire's large Pagan, Christian and Jewish populations under one sociopolitical system. As a result, mainstream Christianity today is the inheritor of Constantin's theopolitical formulations, or manipulations. Thus, as a result of Constantin's actions, traditional Christianity today has inherent flaws and inconsistencies emanating out of a political attempt by special interests at the time, be it Roman or Hellenized Jew, to combine the story of the Godman Christ with that of the Jewish Messiah.

Back to the basics: Jew do not accept Christ as the Messiah because -

1) Christ/Jesus did not fulfill the messianic prophecies

2) Christ/Jesus did not embody the personal qualifications of the Messiah

3) Biblical verses in the Hebrew texts supposedly "referring" to Christ/Jesus are mistranslations

4) Jewish belief system is ethnocentric, it is a national revelation

5) Christianity contradicts core tenants in Jewish theology

A Jewish Rabbi/theologian once said: "Christians stole our watch and for two thousand years they have been telling us what time it is."

I happen to strongly agree with the Rabbi here. Let's stop pretending that we Christians of various Pagan backgrounds know better than Jews who or what their long awaited Messiah is or was. Moreover, it also needs to be mentioned here that ancient Hebrews may have originated within the Armenian Highlands. They were most probably related to the proto-Armenian Huri tribe or the proto-Kurdish Hibaru tribe, or more likely both. Needless to point out, their early sacred literature, from the creation account to the great flood, takes place primarily within the Armenian Highlands. Their patriarch, Abraham, was a native of the ancient Armenian town of Urfa (Edessa). Genetic tests conducted on modern Jews reveal that their phenotype can be traced to Anatolia. It is also very interesting to point out that we Armenians call Hebrews - Hria, which linguistically has the same value as the name, Huri; the proto-Armenian Hurrian tribe s of the Armenian Highlands that rose to prominence in the second millennium BC around the region of lake Van. Nonetheless, since we not too long ago celebrate the birth of our Godman Christ in Palestine, I want you all to meditate and reflect on this very poignant event: When Christ, our Lord and savior, was born in Bethlehem the Jewish king sought to murder him - as three Zoroastrian priests from Persia were searching for Christ to worship him.

Unlike Jews, Pagans of the time recognized Christ exactly for who he was - God on earth.

How could one reconcile or associate the following natures and characteristics of Christ and Christianity with classical Judaism? A brief look at the non-Jewish nature of Christianity as it existed at the time of Christ:

The Holy Trinity (had similar counterparts only within the Pagan world)

The Holy Spirit (appears exclusively within the Christian Gospel and the only other place that such a being is mentioned is within the Zoroastrian Avesta)

God being all good, not capable of evil (exclusively Zoroastrian in nature)

The Son of God (a non-Jewish concept that was ubiquitous within the Pagan world)

The nature and order of the angelic world in Christianity (exclusively Zoroastrian in nature)

Nature of the spirit world (Pagan)

The virgin giving birth to God (exclusively Pagan)

God descending to earth to dwell with mankind (Pagan in nature)

God being all-good, compassionate and loving (exclusively Zoroastrian in nature)

Last judgment at the end-days (Pagan)

A savior coming to earth to save all of mankind (Pagan)

Cleansing and purification rites through water (Pagan)

Partaking in a communal meal as ritual (Pagan/Mithraic)

The nature of Satan, heaven and hell (exclusively Zoroastrian in nature)

Divine numerology, symbolic numbers such as forty, seven, three, twelve, etc. found throughout Christian and Hebrew scriptures (Pagan)

Do not lose faith in Christ as some may do once traditionally held beliefs concerning him and his religion are challenged. Allow your faith in him grow even stronger when you begin seeing his boundless nature and divine essence in a new, more universal light. Just imagine: When the Jewish king Herod was searching for the newly born Christ to kill him, three Zoroastrian priests from either Persia or Armenia was traveling to Palestine to worship the infant Christ. This opening act in the Gospel of Christ is the most profound yet the least understood episode in the history of Christianity.

Arevordi