Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THERE is a philosophical principle underlying the doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, whose logical deductions completely overthrow the claim of Jesus of Nazareth to the Godhead, and which we regard as settling the question as conclusively as any demonstrated problem in mathematics. This argument is predicated upon the […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE incarnation of an infinite God is a shocking absurdity, and an infinite impossibility. We ask in all solemn earnestness, and in the name of the intuitive monitions of an unshackled reason and an unbiased conscience, can, any man in his sober senses, who has been in the […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. WHEN Christians are asked for the proof of the divinity of Jesus Christ, they point to his miracles and precepts, and the Messianic prophecies, said to have been fulfilled by his coming. And the same kind of evidence is adduced to prove the divine claims of their bible […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. MIRACULOUS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF OTHER GODS AND DEMI-GODS OF ANTIQUITY THE age in which Christ flourished, as before remarked, was pre-eminently an age of miracle. The practice of thaumaturgy, and the legends invested with the display of the miracle-working power, both preceding and subsequent to that era, rose […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THEIR MIRACULOUS HISTORY AND LEADING PRINCIPLES The advent of each Savior was miraculously foretold by prophets.   The fallen and degenerate condition of the human race is taught in the religion of each.   A plan of restoration or salvation is provided for in each case.   A […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. MORE than twenty thousand sermons are preached in the Christian pulpits, on every recurring Sabbath, to convince the people that the religion and morality taught and practiced by Jesus Christ was of divine emanation, and was never before taught in the world, — that his system of morality […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. Extraordinary Revelations in History and Science RECENT explorations in the field of oriental sacred history have revealed to the antiquarian some curious and deeply interesting facts appertaining to traditions founded on, and growing out of, astronomical phenomena and changes in the visible heavens, which throw much light on, […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. “AND I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.” (Gen. iii. 15.) This text is often cited by Christian writers and controversialists as prefiguring the mission of the Christian […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. CHAPTER XXIX JESUS CHRIST A DEMIGOD, ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN WRITERS IT is truly surprising to observe the damaging concessions of some of the early Christian writers, ruinous to the dogmas of their own faith with respect to the divinity of Jesus Christ, placing him, as they do, on […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE custom and ceremony of anointing with oil by way of imparting some fancied spiritual power and religious qualification seems to have been extensively practiced by the Jews and primitive Christians, and still more anciently by various oriental nations. Mark (xiv. 4), reports Jesus Christ as speaking commendingly […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. At the feast of the Passover, Christ is represented, while distributing bread to his disciples, to have said, “Take, eat; this is my body” (Matt. xxvi. 26); and while handing round the consecrated cup, he enjoined, “Drink ye all of it, for this is my blood of the […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. BAPTISM, in some of its various forms, is a very ancient rite, and was extensively practiced in several oriental countries. It was administered in a great variety of forms, and with the use of different elements. Water was the most common, but fire and air, wind, spirit or […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. SOME Christian writers have labored to make it appear that this is exclusively a Christian doctrine, while others have labored as hard to get it out of their bible, or make the people believe that it is not therein taught. We shall show, upon scriptural and historical authority, […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. “THERE are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.” (i John v. 7.) This text, which evidently discloses a belief in the existence of three separate and distinct beings in the Godhead, sets forth a doctrine […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE WORD AS CREATOR, AS SECOND PERSON OF THE TRINITY, AND ITS PRE-EXISTENCE The Word of Oriental Origin “IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John i. 1.) The doctrine of the divine creative word (from the Greek […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. OF all the weird, fanciful, and fabulous stories appertaining to the Gods and other spiritual entities of the olden times, whose capricious adventures we find so profusely narrated in oriental mythology — of all the strange, mythical and mystical feats, and ever-varying and ever-diverging changes in the shape, […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THERE were various practices in vogue amongst the orientalists, which originated with the design of appeasing the anger and propitiating the favor of a presumed to be irascible deity. Most of these practices consisted in some kind of sacrifice or destructive offering called the “atonement.” But here let […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. MANY cases are related by their respective sacred narratives of the ancient Saviors, and other beings possessing the form of man, and previously recognized as men, reappearing to their disciples and friends, after having been consigned to the tomb for three days, or a longer or shorter period […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. NEARLY all religious history is prophetic of the coming of Saviors, Messiahs, Redeemers, and virgin-born Gods. Most religious countries, and more than a score of religious systems, had a standing prophecy that a divine deliverer would descend from heaven and relieve them from their depressed state, and ameliorate […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. WE find presented in the canonized histories of several of the demigod Saviors the following remarkable coincidences appertaining to their death: —   Their resurrection from the dead.   Their lying in the tomb just three days.   The resurrection of several of them about the time of […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE next most important event in the histories of the Saviors after their crucifixion, and the act of giving up the ghost, is that of their descent into the infernal regions. That Jesus Christ descended into hell after his crucifixion is not expressly taught in the Christian bible, […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. MATTHEW tells us (xxvii. 31) that when Christ was crucified, there was darkness all over the land for three hours, and “the earth did quake, and the rocks were rent, and many of the saints came out of their graves.” Here we have a series of events spoken […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. “FOR I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.” (I Cor. ii. 2.) There must have existed a very considerable amount of skepticism in the community as to the truth of the report of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the country […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. IT is unwarrantably assumed by Christian writers that the incarnated Gods and crucified Saviors of the pagan religions were all either mere fabulous characters, or ordinary human beings invested with divine titles, and divine attributes; while, on the other hand, the assumption is put forth with equal boldness […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. RETIREMENT AND FORTY DAYS’ FASTING CHRIST taught, “My kingdom is not of this world.” And we find that most of the other Saviors virtually and practically taught the same doctrine. The first practical evincement of it was exhibited by retiring from the world; that is, they retired from […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. OF course, all Gods must be heroes — physically or intellectually, or both. The more danger they encounter, and the earlier they manifest a precocious or preternatural smartness, the more like Gods. And hence we find several of the Saviors in very early childhood displaying great physical prowess […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. OF course such an extraordinary circumstance as the birth of a God into the world must be marked with unusual incidents and great eclat. This was first exhibited by angels, shepherds, prophets, magi or “wise men,” flocking around their cradles. In the second place we observe an unusual […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. IN order to exalt the dignity and character of the Christian Messiah still higher than a mere claim for a divine origin paternally would have the effect to do, two of his assumed to be inspired biographers have set up for him a claim to a royal lineage […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. WE have the singular coincidence presented in the histories of several of the Saviors of their lineal descent through a line of kings or princes, and yet commencing their probationary life under the most humble and adverse circumstances — being born in stables, caves, and other inauspicious situations. […]

IT is claimed by the disciples of Jesus Christ, that he was of supernatural and divine origin; that he had a human being for a mother, and a God for his father; that, although he was woman- conceived, he was Deity-begotten, and molded in the human form, but comprehending in essence a full measure of […]