Jesus of Nazareth didn't know what the word "Christ" was. He, like other Hebrew people. was looking forward to a Messiah. His forefathers were Muslims since Ishmael, founder of Islam, was the son of Abraham and Hagar. Another son was Isaac whose mother was Sarah. She vowed no son of Hagar will ever inherit Abraham's land. Jesus and Ismael were half-brothers.
Dear Ones,
It was Pharisee Paul of Tarsus in Asia Minor (now Turkey) who founded Christianity in Antioch, near Antakya (original name of Antioch, in Greek Antiochia), Turkey. He had rejected the teaching of Jesus, whom he disliked, and was an accomplice in the stoning to death of the first Christian martyr, Stephen. Traditionally when Paul was on the road to Damascus in Syria, where Jesus used to travel, his conscience took him by surprise. In his mind he
thought the words came from Jesus, whom he had never met. His guilt made him drop to his knees.
From then on he preached the good words of Jesus. Paul wrote most of the New Testament and influenced other co-authors of the book in which he derided fellow Jews for causing the death of Jesus. It was actually the Romans who crucified him. Women were the first followers of Paul's new religion. Since he couldn't get male Jewish supporters, he solicited gentiles who were non-Jewish. After Jesus died, Paul took took over his beliefs and through the text persecuted Hebrews for not accepting his new religion.
Roman in 67 C.E. beheaded him, the mode of execution at the time, for disrupting the empire that from the beginning worshiped idol gods and goddesses, a belief system that didn't cause imperial problems since the Greeks, taken over by the Romans, were faithful to their traditional mythological deities.
Helene Smith (Mame),
World Enlightened News
