GOSPEL OF JOHN WAS INSPIRED BY A GREEK PLAY
By Andre Austin
Many Bible scholars now admit that the Gospel of John used Euripides, (484BC-406BC), play Bacchae. Poets like Ovid, (43BC-17AD), in The Metamorphoses Book 4 said that one of the major characters of the play Pentheus was none other than Osiris. Bacchus= Bakh (Bacis/Buchis) Egyptian word for bull.
I’m more concerned with the early Christian Justin Martyr (100AD-165AD) in his dialogue with Trypho (First Apology) saying that the devil plagiarized Christianity before Christianity came into existence admitting Bacchus etal foretold of Jesus to come. Martyr said: “We propound nothing different from what you believe”. Wow!
Herodotus, the Greek historian writing around 450BC reports:
“In other ways the Egyptian method of celebrating the festival of Dionysus is much the same as the Greek, except that the Egyptians have no choric dance” The Histories Book 2:48-50. Herodotus goes on to state that a Melampus took the Egyptian ceremony of the Egyptians and bought it over to Greece.
Plutarch in his essay Isis & Osiris he states:
35. That Osiris is identical with Dionysus who could more fittingly know than yourself, Clea? For you are at the head of the inspired maidens of Delphi, and have been consecrated by your father and mother in the holy rites of Osiris.If , however, for the benefit of others it is needful to adduce proofs of this identity, let us leave undisturbed what may not be told, but the public ceremonies (Private ceremonies we are unaware of what they did) which the priest perform in the burial of the Apis, when they convey his body on an improvised bier, do not in any way come short of a Bacchic procession; for they fasten skins of fawns about themselves, and carry bacchic wands and indulge in shoutings and movements exactly as do those who are under the spell of the Dionysian ecstasies. For the same reason many of the Greeks make statues of Dionysus in the form of a bull; and the women of Elis invoke him, praying that the god may come with the hoof of a bull; and epithet applied to Dionysus among the Argives is “Son of the bull”.
When Alexander the so-called Great (356-323BC), invaded Egypt in 331BC he mixed the Greek and Egyptian gods together so that everybody could worship Osiris as Serapis= a mixture of Osiris name with the apis bull. This is the first time that whites created an image of Jesus as white. Serapis/Jesus was also called Chretus or Christ.
With all of this background information we can see why the early Christian Justin Martyr stated that Bacchus foretold of Jesus to come. And its no surprise of accident that the Gospels of John used Euripides play Bacchus to write about Jesus.
Notes:
Please see Dennis Macdonald youtube video it is titled John’s Dionysian Gospel: Imitations of Euripides’ Bacchae
By Andre Austin
Many Bible scholars now admit that the Gospel of John used Euripides, (484BC-406BC), play Bacchae. Poets like Ovid, (43BC-17AD), in The Metamorphoses Book 4 said that one of the major characters of the play Pentheus was none other than Osiris. Bacchus= Bakh (Bacis/Buchis) Egyptian word for bull.
I’m more concerned with the early Christian Justin Martyr (100AD-165AD) in his dialogue with Trypho (First Apology) saying that the devil plagiarized Christianity before Christianity came into existence admitting Bacchus etal foretold of Jesus to come. Martyr said: “We propound nothing different from what you believe”. Wow!
Herodotus, the Greek historian writing around 450BC reports:
“In other ways the Egyptian method of celebrating the festival of Dionysus is much the same as the Greek, except that the Egyptians have no choric dance” The Histories Book 2:48-50. Herodotus goes on to state that a Melampus took the Egyptian ceremony of the Egyptians and bought it over to Greece.
Plutarch in his essay Isis & Osiris he states:
35. That Osiris is identical with Dionysus who could more fittingly know than yourself, Clea? For you are at the head of the inspired maidens of Delphi, and have been consecrated by your father and mother in the holy rites of Osiris.If , however, for the benefit of others it is needful to adduce proofs of this identity, let us leave undisturbed what may not be told, but the public ceremonies (Private ceremonies we are unaware of what they did) which the priest perform in the burial of the Apis, when they convey his body on an improvised bier, do not in any way come short of a Bacchic procession; for they fasten skins of fawns about themselves, and carry bacchic wands and indulge in shoutings and movements exactly as do those who are under the spell of the Dionysian ecstasies. For the same reason many of the Greeks make statues of Dionysus in the form of a bull; and the women of Elis invoke him, praying that the god may come with the hoof of a bull; and epithet applied to Dionysus among the Argives is “Son of the bull”.
When Alexander the so-called Great (356-323BC), invaded Egypt in 331BC he mixed the Greek and Egyptian gods together so that everybody could worship Osiris as Serapis= a mixture of Osiris name with the apis bull. This is the first time that whites created an image of Jesus as white. Serapis/Jesus was also called Chretus or Christ.
With all of this background information we can see why the early Christian Justin Martyr stated that Bacchus foretold of Jesus to come. And its no surprise of accident that the Gospels of John used Euripides play Bacchus to write about Jesus.
Notes:
Please see Dennis Macdonald youtube video it is titled John’s Dionysian Gospel: Imitations of Euripides’ Bacchae