Christianity, Paganism
And 12 Guys Who Loved to Fish

by John C. A. Manley | Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Jesus Christ before the fishing boat of Simon Peter
Ever notice how much catching and eating of fish goes on in the New Testament? The Zeitgeist Movement offers an astrological explanation.

The Zeitgeist film shows the hard to debate connections between pagan symbolism and Christian tradition. Just a few key examples…

  • How Easter falls on the Vernal Equinox and Christmas three days after the Winter Solstice.
  • How there are 12 disciples and 12 signs of the Zodiac.
  • The endless references to fish in the four Gospels (representing the current astrological Age of Pisces).

Some of this may have been added to the Bible to help merge the popular pagan beliefs of the time with Christianity.

But lets assume that Jesus was born three days after the Winter Solstice, crucified on the first day of Spring and had 12 disciples who loved to fish…. I’d say that this helps prove that the Macrocosmic Power and Intelligence which orbits the Earth around the sun was fully expressed in the microcosmos of Jesus’ life. His little human body and its experiences reflected his oneness with Cosmic Consciousness which has the universe as Its body.

So it doesn’t mean, as the Zeitgeist Movement suggests, that Divine Incarnations were merely a man-made portrayal of natural phenomena.

Or another way of looking at it… Yes, Jesus was fiction. Just like every other human being is a dream.

The facts that the Zeitgeist Movement bring forth, in my opinion, do not prove Jesus was an imaginary creation of man. Instead, these symbolic manifestations of Nature in the life of Jesus were there to disprove the reality of the material universe.

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