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ecause after a meeting between Podgorny of the U.S.R.R. and Pope Paul, the Vatican did an
about face, and began supporting the Moslems in their quest for a homeland in Palestine.
Let me interject, that Yadin, in his book Masada: Herod’s Fortress and the Zealots’ Last
Stand says of the 25 bodies, that the “only feasible assumption is that they were flung here
irreverently by the Roman troops when they cleared the bodies after their victory.” Plus, he never
mentions the discovery of a 15th scroll.
So, how could the veracity of this story even be considered? There is a developing trend that
purports that Jesus was not the product of a virgin birth, that He was a normal man with a
messianic complex, who was part of a conspiracy to fake his own death in order to fulfill Old
Testament prophecy. It is believed that the Last Supper was actually a meeting to plan a way for
Jesus to cheat death.
Dr. Hugh J. Schonfield, in his book The Passover Plot (1965), theorized that the vinegarsoaked
sponge given to Jesus during the crucifixion, actually contained a drug that made Jesus
appear as though He were dead, when he really wasn’t. This insured the prophetic fulfillment
that his legs would not be broken (which was done to bring death quicker). Joseph of Arimathea
(a member of the Sanhedrin) then went to Pilate to ask for permission to claim the body, so that
it could be interred in a tomb owned by Joseph. Pilate sent a centurion to confirm that Jesus was
dead. When Joseph asked for the body, he referred to it as ‘soma,’ (living); while Pilate referred
to the body as ‘ptoma’ (dead).
To substantiate these facts, it is pointed out that the place of the crucifixion had to be near the
tomb. While the other gospels state that He was crucified at Golgotha, “the place of the skull,”
John 19:41 says that he was crucified in a garden, where a new sepulcher had been hewn by
Joseph. This garden was actually ‘Golgeth,’ the ‘wheel press,’ where olives were pressed into
oil, which was the Garden of Gethsemane. Some have even theorized that Joseph was actually
the former husband of Mary, who had left Nazareth, and established himself at Jerusalem. After
the story about Jesus in the Temple, Joseph is not mentioned again. The ‘angels’ seen at the tomb
were said to be Essene physicians who were sent to revive Jesus, thus creating the illusion of a
resurrection.
The apocryphal Gospel of Peter, discovered in an upper Nile valley in 1886, had existed as
early as 180 AD, and reveals that Joseph of Arimathea was a friend of Pontius Pilate, and that
Jesus was buried in the “garden of Joseph.” Basilides, an Alexandrian scholar, who wrote
various commentaries on the Gospels between 120 and 130 AD, believed that Jesus did not die
on the cross. In December, 1945, an Egyptian peasant discovered a pot near the village of Nag
Hammadi in northern Egypt, which contained 13 scrolls, which consisted of copies of Biblical
texts, which dated to about 400 AD, and were based on writings that were no older than 150 AD,
and provides a good historical reference because they were not altered by the Roman Catholic
Church.
In one, the Second Treatise of the Great Seth, it talks about Jesus escaping His death on the
cross through substitution, who was identified as Simon of Cyrene. An ancient document, found
in the 4th century, in the library of a building used by Greek monks, said that Nicodemus and
Joseph conspired to retrieve the body of Jesus so that it could be revived by Essene physicians.
A document found in the 19th century by a member of the Societe Francaise Commerciale in
Abyssinia, in the library of an old building formerly occupied by Greek monks, said that Jesus
was born in Nazareth, was an Essene, and that after the crucifixion, Nicodemus told Joseph that
he was going to resuscitate Jesus, but that John was not to know it. Inside the tomb, using Essene
medical knowledge, stimulative substances were burned, and strips of ointment-covered linen