Similarities Between Belief in the Trinity and the Character of Dionysus in Greek Mythology
God is my Lord and your Lord so worship Him. That is a straight path.
(Koran, 3:51))
(Koran, 3:51))
Those who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the Earth: 'Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire.
(Koran, 3:191)
(Koran, 3:191)
Statements about Jesus (pbuh) by believers in the Trinity bear uncanny similarities to the character of the pagan deity Dionysus in Greek mythology (Bacchus in Latin), the worship of whom is estimated to have persisted until around the Fourth Century AD:
- Dionysus is a mortal god, the son of an immortal deity father Zeus.
- Dionysus was born to a mortal mother by the name of Semele.
- He was killed by mortals.
- He was sent to the world as a savior.
- Dionysus was resurrected in physical form after his death.
- Although Dionysus was semi-divine, he lived among people in human form and shared people’s weaknesses.
- Dionysus permitted himself to be caught and put to death as a sacrifice of his own free will.
- Followers of Dionysus in ancient Greece ate meat and drank wine in remembrance of and to give thanks to him. They regarded this as eating the flesh and drinking the blood of Dionysus and imagined that this drew them closer to him. This pagan ritual, a precursor to the doctrine of transubstantiation, is applied to Jesus (pbuh) in a most interesting way in The Gospel According to St. John:
Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them." (John 6: 53-56)
- In another passage, Jesus gives the disciples wine to drink by his own hand and tells them to regard this as his blood:
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body." (Matthew 26: 26)
Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins." (Matthew 26: 27-28)
How Was the Belief in the Trinity That Developed Parallel to Pagan Belief Disseminated?
- Christian historians and theologians are agreed that the idea of the Trinity was first disseminated by St. Paul. The accuracy of this is confirmed by historical documents and by Paul’s letters in the Gospels.
- Paul was not a disciple of Jesus. Not only was he not a disciple, he was originally fiercely opposed to him in life. Four years after the ascension of Jesus he claimed to have seen a sudden vision and declared himself to be a follower, thus entering the first Christian community.
- Paul’s aim was to be able to spread Christianity to the West. In order to do that he sent numerous letters to various regions in the West, 14 of which appear in the Gospel as "immutable" sacred texts known as the Pauline Letters.
- Paul was a Roman citizen who, in addition to the Aramaic and Hebrew spoken by the Jews, also spoke very good Greek. He was well acquainted with the Romans and was well aware of the policies needing to be adopted against them.
- In order to be able to spread his ideas to the West, Paul therefore established a Christian dogma ideally suited to the pagan beliefs in the region (there is of course a possibility that his expositions were misinterpreted by the pagan society in question). He adopted the concepts of the Father and the Son to Roman pagan beliefs, establishing a concept similar to that of the belief in a tripartite deity consisting of a father and son in that pagan system. It is highly likely that he did thus in the hope that it would be easier for Christianity to spread in that form.
- The terms "father" and "son" appear frequently in his letters that appear in the Gospel.
- This pagan belief added onto Christianity spread easily through the region – since it was eminently compatible with the West’s pagan views. As Western Rome and Byzantium gradually grew materially and politically stronger, a policy of repression of the monotheistic conception in eastern Christianity appeared. Attempts were made to eliminate eastern Christian monotheism, attempts which were to a large extent successful.
The "Religious Dogma" Established by the Church and how Christians Were Compelled to Adhere to it
- It was Trinitarian Christians who imposed a new meaning on the word "dogma."
- In brief, religious dogma means that the "Christian religion can only be formulated by the Papacy or Church authorities, and it is obligatory to believe in it in just that form."
- To put it another way, it is impossible for a Christian to decide what or what not to believe on the basis of the Holy Book. The Church decides what he may or may not believe.
- For example, if someone says, "I reject the Trinity and believe that God is the One and Only Creator, and that Jesus is the servant of God, not His son," then he is no longer a Christian, strictly speaking. No matter how much he has reached this conclusion from the holy books he has read and his own investigations and in the light of his own reason, conscience, conceptual abilities and mental capacities, the Church will still not regard him as a Christian.
- That is God, your Lord. There is no god but Him, the Creator of everything. So worship Him. He is responsible for everything.
(Koran, 6:102)They believe in God and the Last Day, and enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and compete in doing good. They are among the righteous.
(Koran, 3:114) - Christians Must Heed Jesus St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York
- In order to be regarded as a "Christian," a person has to close his eyes to the truth shown him by his conscience, mind and experience and adopt the idea of the three-in-one deity, defined as the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, as imposed by the Church.
- The shape of the belief was formulated in this form by the Church and a Christian is obliged to believe in it in that form.
- That is what is meant by religious dogma, or religious imposition, to put it another way.
- That is the sole reason why a great many Christians are so devoted to the idea of the Trinity. Since the Church and the Papacy were shaped according to the structure of the Roman Empire, the Church was also the source of the idea of the Trinity. That is why regarding the Gospel has having been altered or rejecting the Trinity is regarded as "abandoning the faith."
- Yet all these pretexts for "excommunication" emerged hundreds of years after Jesus and were invented by the Church. Many of our Christian brothers are totally unaware of all this.
As is clear from above, the Papacy and the Church obviously possessed greater authority than a holy book. And that is the case still, despite the Reformation, meaning a return to the holy book, and the Protestant movement.
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