Our Lord Jesus Christ, Lord or Man? Options

During my internet years, I found info like Jesus married Maria Magdalena, went to India and studied there, that he did not die on the cross. I'm not sure what to believe in. Yesterday, I finished reading Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and in it I again read what I've found + Sarah, Jesus's daughter and how Constantine used the "perverted" new testament to make a god out of Jesus to win the Catholic over the Pagan. Altought the book has errors, it is still an interesting read.

What is your opinion on this? Jesus, the Lord or -just- a man?

I don't think Jesus the Christ even existed in the way that the christian church says he did. In fact, there is evidence that the biblical Jesus is actually a fusion between two figures; Jesus Barabbas and Mithra.

Jesus Barabbas was a man who was to die by crucifixion, on the same day as "Jesus the Christ", for his crimes as a bandit and terrorist.
In the story, the crowd was to be given a choice, due some celebratory tradition. To save one or the other, and they chose Barabbas to be freed.

Of course they would have chosen the man who actively fought for their freedom over a guy who fixes floors for a living and preached to people on mounts.
Just kinda makes sense seeing as how they were in dire need of freedom from Roman rule.


Now, some scholars believe that when they refer to "Jesus Barabbas", they're just refering to "Jesus the Christ", because "Barabbas" translates to "son of the Father".
Some scholars say that Jesus the Christ was called Jesus Barabbas by his followers by his addressing "God" as "Father".
But, if that were true, then the story of chosing one over the other wouldn't make any sense, would it?
How would the crowd be able to choose one over the other if they are one in the same? Would they take a sword and split him in half?



Mithra the demi-god of a Zoroastrian cult. I myself don't know very much about him, mainly since I didn't bother reading up on him.
But from what I do know, a lot of things about "the Christ" mirrors that of Mithra. For instance, Christmas. Christmas was said to be the day of Jesus' birth, and is celebrated (usually) by a feast.
Ironically, that same day is the day of the birth of Mithra, and is the day of the Saturnalia feast, which were both older than the Christmas holiday.
It has also been said that all of the "miracles" that "Jesus the Christ" had performed in the stories were all things that Mithra had done in his older legends.


I could go on further about churches and artwork and the Vatican, but I'm getting tired of typing about this.

This post has been edited by Djinn Shiva: Apr 22 2009, 07:17 PM