maxmercury wrote:And from depictions of Akhenaten, he does have a peculiar resemblance to what can be described as an extraterrestrial.
Actually, I always thought Akhenaten looked like a rather tall, thin Mulatto with a significant amount of Chinese or Mongollian in his DNA. The Hittites, who were part of the Hyksos rule in Egypt are actually said to have either been Mongollian or a Caucasian/Mongollian mix. I think it was the archaeologist, A.E. Sayce who first pointed that out in the last century.
Also, I might add that to date, we have no clue how many men claimed they were Jesus after the crucifixion took place. We can be reasonably certain (by the evidence found in the Babylonian Talmud) that one man was identified as Jesus (Yeshua) and crucified, but since he was popular among the people, my guess is many stood up and claimed they were the resurrected Christ.
Whoever wrote the Book of Hebrews (we know it wasn't Paul) declared that Jesus was the high priest, Melchizedek. Melchizedek (also called Adonizedek in the Book of Jashur) was the Priest-King of Jerusalem, and today we know from the letters written to Akhenaten and found at Tel Armarna, that whoever held the title, "priest-King of Jerusalem" was a man appointed to that position by the ruling Phraoh of Egypt. In other words "Melchizedek" appears to be a priestly title rather than a name. It is thought that the author of the Book of Hebrews was an Alexanderite Jew or Greek, so it stands to reason or perhaps was in the best interest of the rulers of Egypt to maintain that Christ was appointed to his position by the Pharaoh who, at the time, would have been part of Egypts' Greeco/Roman ruling caste.
However, none of the other disciples ever declare Christ to have been a priest in the Order of Melchizedek, so the Book of Hebrews, in my view anyway, may have been a spurious addition made by a Jew or Greek living in Egypt who had "an agenda."
It's very obvious that the Greeks, Romans and certainly the Gnostic Jews believed Christ to be a sun god. However, clearly John the Divine, the author of Revelations, set out to refudiate that belief. When he identified "the antichrist" (someone who attempts to usurp the thone of Christ by deception) by the number 666, he was identifying the antichrist as a "sun god." The numeral 666 is taken from a well-known system of magic that was practiced throughout India and the Near and Middle East in antiquity. That occult system is called "Magic Squares." These squares were typically carved on the faces of amulets and talismans to either bring someone luck or to ward off evil and everybody from the lowest peasant to the wealthiest of kings used them.
Magic squares are comprised of blocks of numerals that add up to the same sum whether added by rows, columns or diagonally. There were seven primary magic squares dedicated to Mars, Venus, Saturn, Mercury, Jupiter and the sun and the moon and each square was thought to magically represent a specific god. But it was the magic square of the Sun that was the most famous of all, and everybody in antiquity, the rich and poor alike, knew that the sum of all the numbers in the magic square of the sun (which was understood to mean the sun god) added up to 666.
Thus I have arrived at the conclusion that John the Divine was definately saying that Jesus Christ was NOT "a sun god."
If anybody wants to confirm the association of the numeral 666 with the sun god, just do an internet search on "magic squares, 666" and you'll find plenty.
Too spooky for me...
