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THE WORLD'S GREATEST HOLINESS PREACHER

A New Light Dawns!

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The Dilemma Today in Our Time - The 21st century not the 1st Century- (the century in which Jesus Christ actually lived) --

Is that we, the on-lookers --

The undecided --

The teenagers and youth of today

Those who have a CHOICE about whether or not they want to set foot in a church of any type--EVER!

Is that we (not the church-goers)

are presented (by TV and Cable)

and by ADS for Religious meetings,

by historical school courses, by rumors and the traditions of our church-going friends --

and by Hollywood movies we may attend out of curiosity --

with 6 decidedly different and incompatible with each other pictures or personalities of JESUS CHRIST!

6 Commonly Proposed Pictures or Personalities of Jesus Christ

Jesus #1, if he existed at all was a simple man, of little historical consequence. Jesus  #2, is as the Church councils have pictured him, a God who posed as a man Jesus #3, was an Essene, a man who lived a "Perfect" life, that we cannot match.

OUR HIGH PRIEST

      TRULY HUMAN

   BUT WITH TALENT!
Jesus #4, lived a celibate  life, like other Essenes, and Catholic priests and popes. Jesus #5, was our "High Priest" but we cannot possibly live like he lived Jesus #6, was not a high priest, but an occasionally sinful person such as we are.

Dr. Robert F. Holt, MD pictured here with this montage of pictures representing the Dead Sea Scrolls, is obviously biased towards Jesus #3, that Jesus was an Essene, but he has discussed in 6 pages, ending with this one, all these viewpoints and conflicting personalities for Jesus.   On this page I'll discuss the last of the 6 possibilities, that Jesus was an ordinary human being biologically and genetically, with two human parents like the rest of us, but with more talent than most, and with unusual opportunities.  He happened by chance to have been born at a time and in a place when and where these opportunities became available, and used them in an exemplary way.

      TRULY HUMAN

   BUT WITH TALENT!

SECULAR WRITERS, those looking at Historical Events and People who have changed the world in a significant manner, separate what can be proved about Jesus outside the Bible as being more important and less biased than the New Testament writers because of the odd way the Gospels and Acts are written, and because Paul's Epistles or "Letters" speak very little about Jesus' actual life. Paul knew better than most what it took to interest the Gentile World, the Greeks and Romans with which he lived and preached, and that they wouldn't be interested in the rather dull and ordinary details of his fellow Essene Jesus Christ's education, marriage, and efforts to open up Essenism to women and foreigners on at least a limited basis.   So he kept all these things SECRET, and preached only the CRUCIFIED "Lamb of God", a "Son of God" like the other mythological characters in the Religious Myths the Greeks and Romans loved to read about and watch in their Plays.

 

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

MAY SEEM HERETICAL AND INAPPROPRIATE TO MONKS AND PRIESTS AND POPES BUT

IT MAY BE WHAT OUR CURRENT WORLD NEEDS!

   On this page I will attempt to do quite a few things that some will not only disapprove of, but also declare that I am a follower of Satan, not Jesus Christ!   But since I believe him to be the world's greatest prophet, I cannot expect otherwise than this to happen, for his critics accused him of the same thing!  Being a follower of Beelzebub or Satan!

     Matthew 12:22 "Then there was brought unto him (Jesus) one possessed by a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw."

 Perhaps, Praise the Lord, we can with this Web Page duplicate Jesus' miracle here today.  There's more than one type of blindness! And a lot of people are dumb whose mouths run most of the time!

    23 "And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the

son of David?

   Now King David, in two genealogies, one in Matthew and one in Luke, the ancestor of Jesus Christ, was among other things,

a musician,

who composed songs, sang songs, and played a stringed instrument while he sang -- and by doing so, was able to cast evil spirits out of King Saul, his employer and King at the time these things were happening.

When Jesus Christ, his descendent, cast out this evil spirit, he may have been singing also, it doesn't say!

     24 "But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils."

    (Jesus, according to an earlier story in Matthew, had been led by the Spirit of God into the wilderness to have a debate with the Devil, and had won that debate by correctly quoting appropriate Scriptures.) Matt. 4:1-11

   25 "And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:  26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?"

    27 "And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do

your children

cast them out?  therefore they (your children?) shall be your judges.   28 "But if I cast out devils (solve emotional and religious problems) by the

Spirit of God,

then the kingdom of God is come unto you.  29 "Or else how can one enter into a STRONG MAN'S HOUSE, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man?  and then he will spoil his house."

    30 "He that is not WITH ME is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad."

WE WILL BE DISCUSSING HERE --

*CHRISTIAN ROCK MUSIC*

*JESUS as a MOVIE STAR*

*A TOTALLY HUMAN JESUS*

Neither "DIVINE" nor "PERFECT"

Evidence of Jesus' real Personality derived from a knowledge of "Gospel Pesher"

(Not all of these subjects will be completed on

this first of three pages)

 

    Jerry Lee Lewis was born to the poor family of Elmo and Mamie Lewis in Ferriday in Concordia Perish in eastern Louisiana, and began playing piano in his youth with two cousins, country music singer Mickey Gilley and

TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

His parents mortgaged their farm to buy him a piano.

Influenced by a piano-playing older cousin, Carl McVoy (who later recorded with Bill Black's Combo), the radio, and the sounds from a black juke joint across the tracks called Haney's Big House, On the live album By Request, More of the Greatest Live Show on Earth, Lewis is heard naming Moon Mullican as an artist who inspired him.

    His mother enrolled him in Southwest Bible Institute in Waxahachie, Texas, so that her son would be exclusively singing his evangelical songs. But Lewis daringly played a boogie woogie rendition of "My God Is Real" at a church assembly that sent him packing the same night. Pearry Green, then president of the student body, related how during a talent show, Lewis played some "worldly" music. The next morning, the dean of the school called Lewis and Green into his office to expel them. Lewis said that Green should not be expelled because "he didn't know what I was going to do." Years later Green asked Lewis: "Are you still playing the devil's music?" Lewis replied "Yes, I am. But you know it's strange, the same music that they kicked me out of school for is the same kind of music they play in their churches today. The difference is, I know I am playing for the devil and they don't."   WIKIPEDIA

    Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, the son of Vernon Elvis Presley and Gladys Love Presley  in the two-room shotgun house built by Vernon's father in preparation for the child's birth. Jesse Garon Presley, his identical twin brother, was delivered stillborn 35 minutes before him.[As an only child, Presley became close to both parents and formed an unusually close bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of God church, where he found his initial musical inspiration.

    The family often relied on help from neighbors and government food assistance. The Presleys survived the F5 tornado in the 1936 Tupelo-Gainsville tornado outbreak. In 1938, they lost their home after Vernon was found guilty of kiting a check written by the landowner, Orville S. Bean, the dairy farmer and cattle-and-hog broker for whom he then worked. He was jailed for eight months, and Gladys and Elvis moved in with relatives.

      In September 1941, Presley entered first grade at East Tupelo Consolidated, where his instructors regarded him as "average".  He was encouraged to enter a singing contest after impressing his schoolteacher with a rendition of Red Foley's country song "Old Shep" during morning prayers. The contest, held at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show on October 3, 1945, was his first public performance: dressed as a cowboy, the ten-year-old Presley stood on a chair to reach the microphone and sang "Old Shep". He recalled placing fifth. A few months later, Presley received his first guitar for his birthday; he had hoped for something else—by different accounts, either a bicycle or a rifle.

Over the following year, he received basic guitar lessons from two of his uncles and the new pastor at the family's church. Presley recalled, "I took the guitar, and I watched people, and I learned to play a little bit. But I would never sing in public. I was very shy about it."    WIKIPEDIA

   Jimmy Swaggart was born in Ferriday, Louisiana, on March 15, 1935, to Willie Leon  and Minnie Belle  Swaggart. He is the cousin of rock'n'roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis and country music star Mickey Gilley. With his parents, Swaggart attended a small, 25-member Assemblies of God church in Ferriday. On October 10, 1952, Swaggart married Frances Anderson (born on August 9, 1937). Their son, Donnie, was born on October 18, 1954. Swaggart worked several part-time odd jobs in order to support his young family and also began singing Southern Gospel music at various churches.
According to his autobiography Swaggart, along with his wife and son, lived in poverty during the 1950s as he preached throughout rural Louisiana, struggling to survive on US$30 a week. Being too poor to own a home, the Swaggarts lived in church basements, pastors' homes, and small motels. Sun Records producer Sam Phillips wanted to start a gospel line of music for the label (undoubtedly to remain in competition with RCA Victor and Columbia, who also had gospel lines) and wanted Swaggart for Sun as the label's first gospel artist. Swaggart's cousin Jerry Lee Lewis, who had previously signed with Sun, was reportedly making $20,000 per week at the time. Although the offer meant a promise for significant income for him and his family, Swaggart turned Phillips down, stating that he was called to preach the gospel.

Ordination and early career

Preaching from a flatbed trailer donated to him, Swaggart began full-time evangelistic work in 1955. He began developing a revival-meeting following throughout the American South. In 1960, he began recording gospel music record albums and transmitting on Christian radio stations. In 1961, Swaggart was ordained by the Assemblies of God; a year later he began his radio ministry. In the late 1960s, Swaggart founded what was then a small church named the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the church eventually became district-affiliated with the Assemblies of God.

     In the late 1960s Swaggart began transmitting a weekly 30-minute telecast over various local television stations in Baton Rouge and also purchased a local AM radio station, WLUX (now WPFC). The station broadcast Christian feature stories, preaching and teaching from various fundamentalist and Pentecostal denominations and played black gospel, Southern gospel, and inspirational music. As Contemporary Christian music became more prevalent, the station avoided playing it. Swaggart sold many of his radio stations gradually throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

 

    Luke 2:52 "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man."

    Luke 3:15 "And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John (the Baptist), whether he were the Christ, or not; 16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:

     16 "Whose fan (violin bow, trumpet, guitar, drumsticks) is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor (auditorium, hall, meeting place), and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable."

     21 "Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying (and perhaps singing), the heaven was opened, 22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. 23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph,----31 (last part)-- which was the son of David."

   Luke 4:16 "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

    17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place (where the music he liked started) where it was written,

    18 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach (and sing) the gospel to the poor (in a way they can hear it and understand it); he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach (and sing) deliverance to the captives ("Jailhouse Rock"), and recovering of sight to the blind (while I am accused of doing it by the power of Beelzebub, the prince of the devils), to set at liberty them that are bruised (by their priests and pastors),---"

    19 "To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."

 

 

 

THE PAGAN GODS OF SUMER, ASSYRIA, BABYLON, EGYPT, GREECE AND ROME WERE MORE INTERESTING AND BELIEVABLE THAN THE JEWISH GOD YAHWEH OR JEHOVAH!

AND SO JESUS WAS BORN OF THE LATE FIRST CENTURY BC EQUIVALENT OF A MOVIE STARLET TO WIN BACK THE HUMAN RACE FOR A GOD WHO WANTED TO BE THE GOD OF ALL THE WORLD, NOT JUST THOSE TROUBLESOME JEWS!

    AND OF COURSE THE MOST PRIESTLY AND PERFECTIONIST OF THE JEWS, MOST OF WHICH BELONGED TO THE ESSENES AT THAT TIME, OBJECTED STRONGLY, AND WHEN HE HAD CAUSED THEM CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE, A PERFECTIONIST PHARISEE HIGH PRIEST NAMED CAIAPHAS TURNED THIS ESSENE MESSIAH OVER TO THE ROMANS TO BE CRUCIFIED!

    IN WHAT WAS TO BECOME THE MOST POORLY KEPT "SECRET" LOVE AFFAIR OF THE NEXT 2000 YEARS, MARY MAGDALENE, THE SHADY LADY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE, WAS THERE AT THE CROSS AS THE ROMANS CRUCIFIED HER LOVER, WHOSE BABY SHE WAS PREGNANT WITH (OF COURSE), KNOWING THAT THE CLEVER ESSENES WOULD SOMEHOW OR OTHER SAVE HIM.  WHICH THEY DID BY MEANS HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT FOR ANYONE TO FIGURE OUT EXCEPT PERHAPS THE BRAIN-DEAD MONKS OF THE MIDDLE AGES WHOSE TASK WAS TO WRITE OUT, LABORIOUSLY BY HAND AND QUILL PENS, THIS INFORMATION, OVER AND OVER AGAIN WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING IT.

   THIS HAPPENED ON A FRIDAY, EVER SINCE THEN CALLED GOOD FRIDAY, ALTHOUGH IT WITHOUT DOUBT WAS THE WORSE FRIDAY THAT JESUS CHRIST SUPER-STAR EVER SPENT IN HIS LONG AND CHECKERED CAREER, MOST OF WHICH NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT BUT A FEW OF US, WHO HE HAS PERMITTED TO LEARN A LOT MORE THAN MOST DO.   NOT BECAUSE WE'RE MORE RIGHTEOUS BUT JUST LESS STUPID.  BY MONDAY, THREE DAYS AND A FEW HOURS LATER, HE WAS AT THE ESSENE GATE IN JERUSALEM OFFERING A PRIESTLY BLESSING OVER SOME FISH AND A HONEYCOMB.   AND SHOWING OFF HIS CRUCIFIXION WOUNDS.

SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD PLOT FOR A BROADWAY PLAY!

(Except for the BEST PARTS, which nobody is allowed to believe!)

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

is a 1970 rock opera, whose music was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and whose book and lyrics were written by Tim Rice. The musical started as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971. The musical is loosely based on the Gospels's accounts of the last week of Jesus's life, beginning with the preparation for the arrival of Jesus and his disciples in Jerusalem and ending with the crucifixion. It highlights political and interpersonal struggles between Judas of Carioth and Jesus, struggles that are not in the Bible narratives. The resurrection is not included. It therefore largely follows the form of a traditional passion play.

      The work's depiction offers a free interpretation of the psychology of Jesus and the other characters. A large part of the plot focuses on the character of Judas, who is depicted as a tragic figure dissatisfied with the direction in which Jesus steers his disciples. Contemporary attitudes and sensibilities, as well as slang, pervade the lyrics, and ironic allusions to modern life are scattered throughout the depiction of political events. Stage and film productions accordingly feature many intentional anacronisms."   WIKIPEDIA

 

 WITHOUT THE BOOK OF "J" NO ONE WOULD READ THE OLD TESTAMENT!

AND WITHOUT MARY MAGDALENE, AND JUDAS ISCARIOT, FEW WOULD

READ THE 4 GOSPELS!

 

 

The Book of "J"

Who is this J, described by Harold Bloom in "The Book of J" as one of the greatest of all writers? Hitherto, J has been a mere patchwork of passages, by an unknown author or authors, in the first five books of the Bible. Biblical scholarship has, by long and minute labor, and with continuing controversy, established that these books are a redaction of at least four separate documents (some say more). One of these, usually regarded as the earliest, was given the label J, because it refers to God by the name Jahweh or Yahweh. Another is known as E because he calls God by the plural word Elohim, a word J uses only for angels. Later came P, a priestly contributor, who wrote Leviticus, and D, who contributed largely to Deuteronomy. Finally there was R, the Redactor who, after the return from the Babylonian Exile, put all the books into something like their present form.

Nobody knows who J, as the author of J has come to be called for short, was, and many believe there were several J's; but Bloom, while agreeing that all these different authors were involved, is quite sure there was only one J, whom he takes to have been a writer living in Jerusalem about 3,000 years ago, during the decadent reign of Rehoboam. This person venerated the semidivine David and contributed to the cultural splendors of Solomon's court, along with another great writer, the author of II Samuel, who was probably a close friend.

Bloom has further decided that J was a woman, first arguing playfully that this assumption is no more and no less a fiction than the assumption that J was a man, and then, more positively, by adducing evidence for her feminine preferences. Thus J's most striking characters are women; her males are often childish. Even her Yahweh behaves like a headstrong, petulant boy, and is treated with a maternal indulgence tempered by irony. This hypothesis is advanced with the learning and ingenuity, the charm and the cheek, that characterize Bloom at his brilliant best. I can only hope that it will not cause such a stir that the rest of this fascinating book gets inadequate attention.  (More ---) Frank Kermode

 

JESUS the Violinist

Jesus the Guitar Player

Two of a Kind! Jesus and Elvis!

Playing  a more Jewish Instrument -- the Ram's Horn!

Advising some female admirers about Yahweh's Preferences

Listening to Angel Lullabyes as a baby

Get Ready for my Grand Entrance!

 

    Now admittedly these photos and illustrations I've shown you gleaned from other Internet Web Pages other than my own showing Jesus (or someone dressed up and made up to look like Jesus) is shown playing various modern musical instruments have minimal support in the 4 Gospels, where there is no clearly stated text saying that Jesus ever sang a note, recited a Psalm at any length, or played a single note on any stringed instrument.  That does not mean, however, that there is no New Testament Biblical support for the

Jesus as a Musician Theme

because in the Book of REVELATION, definitely a part of the New Testament, Jesus is indeed not only MUSICAL, but the LEADER of His own Musical Group, and I will next direct you to the page on which I'll introduce --

Jesus as the Conductor

of the All-Male, All-Virgin

144,000 Harpist Orchestra!

 

 

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