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Bethsaïda
The
New Testament has been composed of a range of other writings.
Theologians
of many countries have been studying this composition of texts.
The
people who composed the New Testament had the purpose
to
make a story according to their views on the reality as they saw it.
Time
of composition: around 340AD.
Very
probably it took them several years to finish the job.
Every
scripture had to be written by hand on papyrus and leather.
After
finishing the composition of the New Testament
they
started to push their views on "what happened"
into
the Christian world of their time.
We
all know how successful their pursuite has been.
Careful study of the remnants of the ancient writings available
are giving glimpses of the ancient Christian scriptures
that originally were in existence.
Such a glimpse we get from the ancient story of Bethsaïda.
In
this ancient temple with five rows of columns
a
group of seriously ill people are waiting day and night
around a pond called Siloam.
In
the gospel of John this temple is called Bethsada
(translated
into Bethesda in some Bibles).
In
the gospel of Marc this temple is called Bethsaidan.
(Five
rows of columns are mentioned explicitly,
because
this means that the temple design
is
the design of the Thracian temple,
which
design became the image of the hieroglyph of "temple").
Relatives
of the waiting people are throwing their ill relatives
into
the pond at the moment of unrest of the water.
When
the ill people are touching the water while it is unrestful,
they
are being healed. See the gospel!
The
gospel says it is an angel touching the water surface.
Jesous
heals one of the persons, because there is nobody
who
helps the paralyzed man to be thrown into the pond
on the right moment. There is no doubt
whatever of Jesous or anybody else
about
the correctness of the story of the waiting people
and the healing effect of the water of the
pond.
What is the glimpse of ancient Christianity in this story?
Fish and the Fisherman were the real symbols of ancient Christianity.
The symbol of the Cross was only introduced by the power groups after
340AD.
The Fish ICHTHUS was the great symbol and an important element of the
First Initiation.
The Fisherman was an important function in the ancient church.
These people were waiting in the temple of Bethsaïda.
Beth means House.
Saïda means of Sid.
Sid
is the fish-god of the inhabitants of Palestine.
The
fish-god is also known as Oannes, Jannes, Joannes, Oen, Johannes, Hans,
IaGhani,
EaGhani, Hani (pronounced as Ghani), Nun, Dagon, Poseidon (=Bo-Sidon =
Baal-Sidon).
His
wife was known as Ishanna, Jana, Anna.
In
the Christian world (at those ancient times certainly in the Ethiopian
churches)
the mother of Miriam (=Mary) is known as Anna.
Jana
and Jannes are the names of the original religion of Western Europe
and many persons have either Jana (Jeanne,
Sjaan, Joan)
or
Jannes (Janus, John, Jean, Jan) as their first names.
Those
people were waiting in the house of the Fish-god for their healing.
Also Jesous did not doubt their healing,
but helped one of them, because that one
person could not
reach the water of the pond in time.
The
angel touching the water?
Ofcourse
the Fish-God ICHTHUS himself.
ICHTHUS,
the well known Christian symbol unto even today,
is
the name of the Syrian and Hittite Fish-god Ichthus,
also
known as Sid.
Sidon,
the big city in the Lebanon, is the City of Sid, the fish-god.
The
fish-god Sid is also the god Orpheus,
the
male God of the Thracians.
There
is no doubt, that ancient Christianity and
the
religion of Orpheus once were the same or almost the same religions,
with proven exchange of influences,
initiations, art, hymns
until
at least 800AD.
Many
ancient writers of those ancient centuries a
re
emphasizing the unity of ancient
Christianity
and the Orpheus religion.
The
pond of Bethsaïda is called in ancient writings
the
"probatica piscina".
This
means the fishpool of the sheep.
"Piscina"
means the baptismal font in ancient writings.
Several
ancient baptismal fonts are known with the images of fishes upon them.
Persons
being Fish are First Initiated believers.
Persons
being Sheep are Second Initiated believers.
The
story of Bethsaïda is related
with
the second initiation of ancient Christianity.
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2007
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