They Lied to Us in Sunday School

by Vayro, Ian Ross

• ISBN13: 9780975687864
• ISBN10: 0975687867
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-05
• Publisher: Bookworld Services

Summary

Novels like Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown have raised the awareness of people of all denominations to the possibility that there is much more to those quaint Bible stories than we might have been led to believe. In this book Ian Vayro has given us the facts in a way that is impossible to dispute. Ian is trained in Archaeology and Ancient History and he has spent a lifetime studying Theology. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Party Tricks	p. 13
Let's Play 20 questions	p. 13
Introduction: They Lied to Us	p. 17
Something is Wrong Here	p. 42
The Initial Realization	p. 42
The Who's Who of the Plural Godhead	p. 48
Mastema in the Godhead?	p. 52
The Garden of Eden	p. 55
Adam & Eve and the Tree of Knowledge	p. 57
Lying	p. 61
Jesus - Born in a Stable?	p. 61
The Magi & Their Gifts	p. 63
Jesus of Nazareth	p. 64
What Does it Take to be Saved?	p. 66
Mary Magdalene - The Scarlet Woman	p. 68
Lies & Deception	p. 73
The Anointing of Jesus	p. 73
Which Messiah?	p. 74
Peter - The First Pope?	p. 76
Leprosy & Contemporary Beliefs	p. 78
Demons	p. 79
Naked Men & Phallic Symbols	p. 80
Jesus Gets Around	p. 87
Shady Dealings	p. 90
The Promised Land	p. 94
Justification for Destruction & Killing	p. 95
The Jesus Pedigree	p. 98
Jesus in the Bible	p. 98
The 'Virgin' Mary	p. 102
The Herods	p. 106
Panthera	p. 109
The Hebrew Records	p. 115
Some Biblical Difficulties	p. 123
Twin Messiahs	p. 125
Was Jesus Born 25 December?	p. 132
The Jewish Rabbi	p. 134
Disciples & Desposyni	p. 138
The Crucifixion	p. 141
Jesus Unknown to First Century Historians	p. 141
The Sacrificial Lamb of Passover	p. 148
The Bible Record	p. 148
What They Didn't Tell Us	p. 151
A Substitute Crucified	p. 155
The Insurrection	p. 159
Those Crucified With Jesus	p. 160
Was Jesus Really Crucified & Resurrected?	p. 161
What Was Recorded	p. 164
Miracles & Magic	p. 168
Simon Magus The Holy God	p. 169
More Confusion	p. 172
All the Other Saviours	p. 181
The Uniqueness of Christ's Sacrifice	p. 181
The 'Holy' Ghost	p. 188
Requirements to be a God	p. 189
Similar Saviours	p. 191
Crucified Contemporaries of Christ	p. 194
The Purpose of the Crucifixion	p. 195
Twenty-three Crucified Saviours	p. 196
Conclusions	p. 226
The Chicken or the Egg	p. 229
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo	p. 229
The Wrestling Match	p. 232
We Know Where You Live	p. 233
So Where Does God Live	p. 235
Has Anyone Ever Seen God?	p. 237
The Chicken Has it!	p. 238
More Contradictions	p. 239
Heaven	p. 244
The Scriptures According to Jesus	p. 245
Who - What - Where?	p. 250
God's Punishment	p. 251
The Resurrection of Dry Bones	p. 253
The Sumerian Influence	p. 255
Clay Tablets	p. 255
The Enuma elish	p. 259
The Anunnaki Sky-Gods	p. 261
Hybrid Creation	p. 264
The Captivity in Babylon	p. 267
Returning Home	p. 270
Sumerian Influence in the Bible	p. 273
What the Bible is Telling Us	p. 277
Where is Mt. Ararat?	p. 280
The Pied Piper Analogy	p. 281
Noah	p. 282
What Really Happened	p. 284
Other Sources of the Creation Story	p. 285
Adam & Eve	p. 286
Cain & Abel	p. 287
Reality of the Rulers	p. 292
Lilith	p. 296
Gnostic Information	p. 298
The Book of Enoch	p. 302
The Watchers	p. 305
Who is this God?	p. 308
Gods of the Early Hebrew	p. 308
The Hebrew Worshipped 'Other Gods'	p. 317
Asherah, Ashtoreth & Anath	p. 324
Hebrew Exposed to Canaanite Deities	p. 329
Canaanite Temples	p. 331
Ba'al of the Canaanites	p. 332
Ba'al vs. YHWH	p. 340
Getting Rid of Ba'al	p. 342
Sun Worship	p. 346
'God' is not God's Name	p. 350
'God' is not God's Name	p. 350
Corruption	p. 351
The New Wrathful God	p. 353
Making Sense of it All	p. 356
So - Who is Almighty God?	p. 357
Where Do We Go from Here	p. 361
Secrets	p. 361
What About Jesus?	p. 365
Why Doesn't God Make Contact?	p. 365
Putting It All Together	p. 366
Right & Wrong	p. 368
Thinking Straight	p. 375
Getting Over It	p. 377
Party Tricks - Answers	p. 383
Bibliography	p. 397
References & Endnotes	p. 405
Index	p. 422
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