Are Elements of the Jesus Christ Narrative based on Apollonius of Tyana? 1.Apollonius was born in 4 BC, the year now recognized by scholars as the Birth year of Jesus Christ. 2.The life and biography of Apollonius contains a missing period of about 20 years , which begins when he was about thirty , at approximately 50 years of age his biographical record can again be traced. So where was Pol/Apollonius for twenty years after being so visible and so successful as a philosopher and teacher ? Just a possibility: Luke 3:23: Jesus was about thirty years old when he began his work. 3.Apollonius is responsible for bringing the stories of Krishna to the West, he brought back to Rome the teachings of Krishna who Greeks called Christos. Many believe that a certain Bishop Marcion discovered the writings of Apollonius in Asia Minor (Turkey) a century later and translated them into Greek and Latin, producing the first compiled Christian Bible. 4.Sossianus Hierocles claimed, it was library of Apollonius that was plagiarized in producing the New Testament. Hierocles, a governor in Bithynia and later Lower-Egypt, {reign of Diocletian 245-315 AD) and an enemy of the Christians verbally attacked Christianity . As per Eusebius of Caesarea . Hierocles tried to weaken the importance of Christs miracles without however denying them, and wanted to show that Apollonius had performed some of equal importance and even more important ones. Eusebius replied with a treatise that he wrote Against The Thesis Of Hierocles on Apollonius of Tyana. Eusebius recognized that Apollonius was a very wise man worthy of admiration; admitted everything that was told about his holiness and his teachings, but rejected many of the miracles that were assigned to him, dismissing them outright or assigning them as either magic or to the work of demons. Hierocles also states in his writings that “Jesus was the leader of a band of highway robbers numbering more than 900 men” Luke 22:36 : But now he that hath a purse, let him take it and likewise his scrip; and he that hath no sword let him sell his garments and buy one. and - You proclaim Jesus a god on account of a few prodigies recorded by their evangelists, yet we have writers of more education than yours and with more care for truth, who relate solid judgment, do not make him a god on account of them, only regard him as a man found pleasing to the gods. 5.Numerous contemporary historians make mention of Apolloniuss remarkable career but absolutely ignore his fabled contemporary, Jesus. Jesus appears in later writings by Christians , most of whom went to great lengths to denigrate Apollonius , as though by discrediting the Sage from Tyanna The King of Jews would somehow gain in stature - [it worked]. 6.As per legend The coming of Apollonius was announced to his mother by an Angel, and he was born either 3 or 4 BC - the same date {Circa}which scholars now claim Jesus was born. 7.He visited Rome and raised the daughter of a senator from the dead. Which is reminiscent of daughter of Jairus {Luke Chapter 8 40-42} 8.Followers of Apollonius claimed that he was the son of Proteus, a god of the sea, not nearly as popular as Poseidon or Oceanus, he was better known as their servant. Apollonius is said to have repudiated this claim. Regardless, it was believed by many contemporary and subsequent adherents that Apollonius was of divine parentage and that messengers of Apollo sang at his birth. As per legend the Angels sang at Jesuses.•To his mother, just before he was born, there came an apparition of Proteus, who changes his form so much in Homer, in the guise of an Aigyption Daimon. ... asked him what sort of child she would bear. And he answered: ‘Myself.’ ‘And who are you?’ she asked. ‘Proteus,’ answered he, ‘the god of Aigyptos ’ Well, I need hardly explain to readers of the poets the quality of Proteus and his reputation as regards wisdom; how versatile he was, and for ever changing his form, and defying capture, and how he had the reputation of knowing both past and future. And we must bear Proteus in mind all the more, when my advancing story shows the hero to have been more a prophet than Proteus.” - Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.4 9. The Christian Holocaust instigated by Nero coincided with / or was the same persecution inflicted upon the Apollonians. 10. Justin Martyr , a Christian apologist, born about 100 C.E., was said to have asked: •How is it that the talismans of Apollonius have power over certain members of creation, for they prevent, as we see, the fury of the waves, the violence of the winds, and the attacks of wild beasts. And whilst Our Lords miracles are preserved by tradition alone, those of Apollonius are most numerous, and actually manifested in present facts, so as to lead astray all beholders? 11.An Athenian man, possessed by a devil shrieked in fear and rage, and could not face the look of Apollonius, reminds us of the Gospel narrative of the demon possessed man of Gadera 12.Many pictures recognizable as a likeness of Jesus actually have their origins in a portrait of Apollonius of Tyana painted in the reign of Vespasian.
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