OR, CHRISTIANITY BEFORE CHRIST
By Kersey Graves
PREFACE.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
EXPLANATION
ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY.
THE WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS.
CHAPTER I. RIVAL CLAIMS OF THE SAVIORS
CHAPTER II. MESSIANIC PROPHECIES
CHAPTER III. PROPHECIES BY THE FIGURE OF A SERPENT The Seed of the Woman Bruising the Serpent's Head.
CHAPTER IV. MIRACULOUS AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE GODS
CHAPTER V. VIRGIN MOTHERS AND VIRGIN-BORN GODS
CHAPTER VI. STARS POINT OUT THE TIME AND THE SAVIORS' BIRTH-PLACE
CHAPTER VII. ANGELS, SHEPHERDS AND MAGI VISIT THE INFANT SAVIORS
CHAPTER VIII. THE TWENTY-FIFTH OF DECEMBER THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GODS.
CHAPTER IX. TITLES OF THE SAVIORS
CHAPTER X. THE SAVIORS OF ROYAL DESCENT, BUT HUMBLE BIRTH
CHAPTER XI. CHRIST'S GENEALOGY
CHAPTER XII. THE WORLD'S SAVIORS SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION IN INFANCY
SECTION II. INCREDIBILITY OF THE STORY OF THE MASSACRE OF THE HEBREW INFANTS.
CHAPTER XIII. THE SAVIORS EXHIBIT EARLY PROOFS OF DIVINITY.
CHAPTER XIV. THE SAVIORS; KINGDOMS NOT OF THIS WORLD Retirement and Forty Days' Fasting.
CHAPTER XV. THE SAVIORS WERE REAL PERSONAGES
CHAPTER XVI. SIXTEEN SAVIORS CRUCIFIED
CHAPTER XVII. THE APHANASIA, OR DARKNESS AT THE CRUCIFIXION.
CHAPTER XVIII. DESCENT OF THE SAVIORS INTO HELL.
CHAPTER XIX. RESURRECTION OF THE SAVIORS
CHAPTER XX. REAPPEARANCE AND ASCENSION OF THE SAVIORS.
CHAPTER XXI. THE ATONEMENT ITS ORIENTAL OR HEATHEN ORIGIN.
CHAPTER XXII. THE HOLY GHOST OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXIII. THE DIVINE "WORD" OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN. The Word
CHAPTER XXIV. THE TRINITY VERY ANCIENTLY A CURRENT HEATHEN DOCTRINE
CHAPTER XXV. ABSOLUTION, AND THE CONFESSION OF SINS, OF HEATHEN ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXVI. ORIGIN OF BAPTISM BY WATER, FIRE, BLOOD AND THE HOLY GHOST
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SACRAMENT OR EUCHARIST OF HEATHEN ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXVIII. ANOINTING WITH OIL OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXIX. HOW MEN, INCLUDING JESUS CHRIST, CAME TO BE WORSHIPED AS GODS
CHAPTER XXX. SACRED CYCLES EXPLAINING THE ADVENT OF THE GODS
CHAPTER XXXI. CHRISTIANITY DERIVED FROM HEATHEN AND ORIENTAL SYSTEMS
CHAPTER XXXII. THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX STRIKING ANALOGIES BETWEEN CHRIST AND CHRISHNA
CHAPTER XXXIII. APOLLONIUS, OSIRIS, MAGUS, ETC. GODS
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE THREE PILLARS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH MIRACLES, PROPHECIES, AND PRECEPTS
CHAPTER XXXV. LOGICAL OR COMMON SENSE VIEW OF THE DOCTRINE OF DIVINE INCARNATION
CHAPTER XXXVI. PHILOSOPHICAL ABSURDITIES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE INCARNATION
CHAPTER XXXVII. PHYSIOLOGICAL ABSURDITIES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE INCARNATION
CHAPTER XXXVIII. A HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST.
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF CHRIST'S DIVINITY.
CHAPTER XL. A METONYMIC VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST
CHAPTER XLI. THE PRECEPTS AND PRACTICAL LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST; HIS TWO HUNDRED ERRORS
CHAPTER XLII. CHRIST AS A SPIRITUAL MEDIUM
CHAPTER XLIII. CONVERSION, REPENTANCE, AND "GETTING RELIGION" OF HEATHEN ORIGIN
CHAPTER XLIV. THE MORAL LESSONS OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY.
CHAPTER XLV. CONCLUSION AND REVIEW.
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