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To: Thomas Calvet who wrote (19624)	7/26/1998 2:30:00 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 39621

" Do you believe that the New Covenant supercedes the Old?" Yes! Heb.8 6: But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7: For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8: For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10: For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12: For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13: In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. Heb.10 12: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13: From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14: For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15: Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 16: This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17: And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 18: Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. 19: Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20: By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21: And having an high priest over the house of God; 22: Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Phil. 3 3: For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. 4: Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: 5: Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6: Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. 7: But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8: Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, Gal.3 26: For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27: For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29: And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

To: Thomas Calvet who wrote (19624)	7/26/1998 9:25:00 AM
From: Sam Ferguson	Respond to of 39621

The Judeo-Christian religious concepts have been borrowed from nearly every culture of the ancient world. From Egypt: monotheism; a preoccupation in the after-life, complete with rewards dependent upon ethical and sacramental considerations of this life; soteriology, ie. the death and resurrection of the "Jesus Christ as salvation" (a key element). From Africa: the doctrine of eucharist, which has its ultimate root in prehistoric cannibalism. From the ancient cult of Attis: celibacy and the Gospel injunction commanding auto-emasculation. (Removing the testicles.) From the Semitic peoples of 2700 BC, the Mother-Godess principles. From Pythagorean Greek doctrines, communism and celibacy. From Greece (the Stoics): the Logos doctrine which was in time to develop in the doctrine of the Trinity. From the Zoroastrianism of Babylon and Persia: the absolute metaphysical dualism of good (Ahuramazda) and evil (Aharman or Ahriman); the use of water for baptism and spiritual purification; the savior born of a true virgin-mother; the belief in demons who make human beings impure and who must be exorcised; the apocalyptic vision and prophecy (ie Armageddon, Last Judgment, establishment of the Kingdom of Righteousness; and intensely personal and vivid concepts of hell and heaven. From the Brahmans of India: the concept of the clergy as direct representatives of the Great Father (that inspired the clergy of the Catholic Church to designate themselves as the Holy Fathers); the Absolute Authority of the Priesthood; the exclusion of women from the clergy; elaborate formulae by which sinners might free themselves from guilt; excommunication (the principle thunderbolt of the Catholic Church); the immunity of the priesthood from taxation or civil duties,several sanctions against remarried women; recognition of degrees of legality in marriages; and a requirement that an ascetic joining a religious order bestowing all his wealth upon the official priesthood.From Buddhism: glorification of celibacy, separation of religious and civil codes of conduct ("render unto Caesar..."), the emphasis on the rights and virtues of poverty, equating it with sainthood; salvation made an internal, not an external process; renunciation of the flesh; and most important of all, ethics (much of Buddhism's ethical system passed almost intact into the Gospels). The four primary components of the Gospel Jesus are: soteriology, which comes from the mystery-cults; ethics, which came primarily from India; eschatology, largely derived from Persia; and the supernatural Messianic concept, which was an Essene adaptation of a Zoroastrian doctrine. The one essential element which gives vitality to the religion of Jesus Christ is the faith in Him as the savior, that is the God-man who sacrificed Himself for us, whose eucharist makes us divine, and who confers upon us resurrection and blessed immortality. (It is the Zoroastrian Myth of Mythra, btw, that gives us a babe born miraculously, in a cave, on the 25th of December, witnessed only by some shepherds who brought gifts.) The one basic weakness of Mithraism was that it had no historical founder. In the struggle between the early Christian Church and the esoteric mystery-cults, which proved once and for all that any religion which becomes the state will most certainly destroy all its competitors and, at the same time, every vestige of freedom, one of the first to fall before the Church Triumphant was the mystery-cult of Mithra, to which Christianity owes so much. Egypt gave the world the god-man savior, who was several times reconstituted in Greek and barbarian mysteries; Persia gave us the fear of Hell and the hopes of Paradise, and the concept of the Last Judgment; India gave us the priest state and the Buddhist's renunciation, which made sex, family, wealth, labor and comfort into crimes, and which made of idle communism and holy parasitism the saintly way of life; Greece gave us democracy and private property, which Pythagoras attempted to replace with a celibate but self-reliant communism. The Essenes were Pythagoreans who encased their pagan religious synthesis (which Jesus absorbed) in a Jewish integument. In the Gospels, therefore, we find a synthesis of Osirian-Dionysiac soteriology, Zoroastrian eschatology, Buddhist ethics and renunciation, Pythagorean communism, and the Essenic Parousia. Since this is in fundamental contradiction with private property or enterprise,and since it is the reverse of the secular way of life which we have developed, the modern individual who accepts the Christian synthesis as written exists in a state of duality: he gives lip service to a philosophy of life which is diametrically opposed to his actual manner of existence. For this reason, countless millions read their Gospel without the faintest realization of its true meaning.