The history of Jesus Christ is fiction, says Bible scholar

An American Bible scholar has made a discovery that he says testifies that the history of Jesus Christ was invented as a system of mind control to enslave the poor.

Joseph Atwill, author of the book entitled “Caesar's Messiah: Roman conspiracy to invent Jesus” says that Christianity began, not as a religion, but as a sophisticated government propaganda used to appease subjects of the Roman Empire.

At the conference “Covert Messiah”, which was held in London, Atwill presented his theory that the New Testament was written by first - century Roman aristocrats and that the entire history of Jesus is fiction, broadcasts the Express.

Stressing his ideas in a post on his website, Atwill writes: “Christianity may be considered religion, but it actually developed and was used as a mind control system to produce slaves who believed that God had decreed their slavery”.

Atville says that the acts of the uprising of the Jewish sects, which were awaiting the arrival of the so - called Messiahy Warrior in Palestine, were a constant problem for the Roman Empire and that after the Empire had eliminated all traditional means of dealing with the problem, they used psychological warfare.

“They thought the best way to prevent the spread of the zealous activity of the Hebrew missionaries was to create a competitive belief system”, Atwill told PRWeb.com.

And this was when the Messiah's peace story was invented. Instead of inspiring war, the Messiah sought the return of pacifism and urged Jews to submit to Caesar and pay taxes to Rome”, he said.

Atwill continues: “Although Christianity can be a comfort to some, it can also be harmful and oppressive, a secret form of mind control that has led to the blind acceptance of charity, poverty and war throughout history.

Until now, especially in the United States, Christianity is used to provide support for the Middle East war of”.

Somewhere else, Atwill also writes: “Actually he (Jesus) can be the only imaginary character in literature whose life story can be traced to other sources. Once all these sources are discovered, there's just going to be nothing left at”.

Atwill says he made his discovery when he was studying the New Testament along with “The War of the Jews” by Josephus ʹ the only historical remnant of first - century Judea.

Whatever seems to have enabled many scholars is that the order of Jesus ' events and positions of service is more or less the same as the rankings of the events and whereabouts of the Flavius Titus' military campaign, as described by Josephus”, says Atwill.

“This is clear evidence that this is a deliberately built” model, he continues. Jesus ' background was actually made from previous stories, but especially from the biography of Roman Caesar”, he says.

Richard Dawkins, the English evolutionary author and biologist, known for his antireligious views, had written a tweet about this event held in London.

He said Atwill's theory is simply one of some of the theories of Bible conspiracy. These theories usually include the suggestion that secret societies, mysterious schools, and other religions used Christ's imaginary history to unify the Roman Empire under a religious state.