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Acts 2:1-13 |
Even the Pentecostal micracle of "speaking in tongues" is prefigured by Pagan
myth. After Jesus' death the disciples found themselves miraculously speaking in strange
tongues, which others heard as their own native language. The same phenomonon was reported
centuries earlier at Trophonius and Delos, where the oracular priestesses seemed to some
to speak unintelligibly, while other witnesses heard them speaking in their own differing
mother toungs.[1.3.115] Burkert, one of the foremost modern classical scholars, asserts
that these Pagen and Christian miracles "have justly been compared."[1.3.116] [1]
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Acts 9:5-6 |
"Note! - But sometimes the whole paragraph itself, was
altogether a forgery. Acts ix. 5,6, which Erasmus himself foisted in without authority of any manuscript whatever. - See
Marsh, vol. 2, p. 496." [Quoted from Robert Taylor's Syntagma, written in 1826, pg. 66. I don't know
who "Marsh" is whom Taylor quotes. I have not found a reference to "Acts ix" in
Joseph Wheless' book Forgery in Christianity.]
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Acts 17:28 |
This is a quote from Diosemeia, a poem by Aratus, who lived from 400 to 350 B.C.
Aratus wrote a very famous work about the heavens called Phaenomena, in which he
described all the constellations and figures of the heavens. His poem Diosemeia was
the most famous and most popular Greek poem next to the two famous poems of Homer,
The Iliad and The Odyssey.[2] Evidence that the Bible story
is an astro-theological allegory.
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Acts 21:9 |
"He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied."
"I should not wonder if their names were Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter." - Taylor DP1 pg. 308]
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Acts 28:11 |
Castor and Pollux are the twins of Gemini, one of the signs of the Zodiac.
Further evidence that this Bible story is an astro-theological allegory.
In Greek mythology Castor and Pollux are the twin sons of Zeus and Leda. Leda was a
married woman when Zeus descended on her in the form of a swan. The boys born of this
union hatched from an egg. Both were heros. Castor liked horses. Pollus liked to box.
Pollux was immortal. Castor was not. Both joined Jason on the quest for the Golden
Fleece. When Castor was killed in a fight, Pollux begged Zeus to bring him back to life.
Zeus agreed to allow Pollux to share his immortality with Castor, but he insisted they
alternate shifts; while one walked alive, the other remained in the underworld. Their
fraternal loyalty was apparently commemorated by the two stars in Gemini. [3,pg.134ff]
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1. Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy
The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original jesus" a Pagan God?
pg. 41
1.3.115 pg.265 ref 115 Herodotus,
The Histories, Book 8, 135;
see also
athanaissakis, A.P.(1976), 20,
Homeric Hymn to Apollo, 158-64. This report
probably has a connection to the Pythagoreans. The altar at Delos offered only
bloodless sacrifices, and the island is often mentioned in connection with the
vegetarian Pythagoras.
1.3.116 pg.265 ref 116 Burkert, op. cit., 110: "This has justly been compared to the
pentecostal miracle and the speaking in tongues in the New Testament."
ibid. pg.
ibid. pg.
2. D. James Kennedy
The Real Meaning of the Zodiac pg. 16
2. Dr. Edwin. C. Krupp
Beyond the Blue Horizon: Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets
