The Jesus Deception: The Greatest Lie Ever Told | Dr. Nicholas Peter Legh Allen

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[davereese]

I like Jacob's style. He makes the show about the guest and not him. Its cerebral and not emotional. Its refreshing.

[joea]

Please purchase Dr. Allen’s book. I am 200 pages through it and highly recommend it.

[larrybikedummy]

Thanks for this interview, Jacob.
Greetings from Ukraine 🇺🇦

[TheManicMan-pl]

You should have this guy on again, Jacob. Very interesting!

[corbentaylor]

I like this guy. Very consistent with his logic

[Nudnik]

No historian mentions Jesus Apostles miracles Paul anywhere in any historical record from that era.
Josephus and Tactius were born and wrote decades later after Jesus.
Pliny the elder makes no mention of Jesus or miracles from any Roman records from that exact time period.
Only second hand accounts testimonials.

[blkhistorydecoded]

If someone said they had a VIRGIN BIRTH or resurrected from the dead, we wouldn't believe that person because it is NOT POSSIBLE.

[JC-vqcs]

One of the best basic short intro explanations of the "gnostic" theological framework, most appreciated. Will get the book!

[riley]

This was a fun discussion. I like some of the ideas and concepts of Gnosticism. I love the Gnostic texts. ❤

[danletras]

Brilliantly presented by Nicholas. How much one can learn in 48 minutes!

[JC-vqcs]

Dr. Allen's interviews remind me of why mythicism remains a valid hypothesis. The earliest Christ followers had radically different views of what or who he was. There was no single early "church" founded by Jesus (sorry, Mormons). There is no independent info or attestation of a human Jesus outside Paul & the various gospels, muvh of which is simply GrecoRoman elite lit with a Jewish core. Josephus passages overwhelmingly look 100% interpolated. Crestos v Christos is a problem. Pretty much every surviving text is corrupted or variant in various ways. The magical healer wonder worjer Jesus is all myth, common to con men of the day (and still now!) Any human Jesus who was an antiRoman-collaborators as described as leading various actions & drawing massive crowds would have been noted in Josephus & by other Romans of the day. Instead his rebel actions all seem copies of Josephus' portrayal of Judas the Gallilean & followers. Coincidence? Artwork & inscriptions show syncretism as Allen shows here.I personally don't care either way because any human Jesus was so heavily mythologized its a distinction without a difference. I just don't understand Jacob's recent militancy agsinst mythicism. Maybe we can just never really know & that's OK. Live this one life we are sure of to the fullest as an ethical good person as best we can, that is the true gnosis.

[josephsorce]

"If, 'Christianity' Originated with the Roman Era ....and, No Religions had Existed Prior to it ... The 'Bible' and other Stuff Presented, might give it Important Credibility (maybe), ... But, ... 'Religion' Pre-dates these Dogma by Thousands of ....Years !"

[Mr.PhatsVarietyVibesShow]

i like this channel ; this channel brings on learned guests.

[eximusic]

Jesus as the Good Shepherd 250 BCE?? The Good Shepherd, from the Catacomb of Callixtus, is mid 3rd Century "CE".

[voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang]

Nicholas Peter Legh Allen
M.F.A. (RU), M.A. (NMMU), M.Th. (NWU), Ph.D. (NWU), D.Phil. (UKZN), Laur. Tech. F.A. (PET). Professor emeritus, Professor ad hominem. Rated Researcher (C1) with the South African National Research Foundation.
Nicholas Allen is both an historian and an artist. He has authored and co-authored numerous academic books and accredited scientific articles on various topics including Art History, New Testament, Cognate and Deuterocanonical Literature, Sindonology and the History of Judaism and Christianity.

Other books by the author include:

• The Turin Shroud and the Crystal Lens. Port Elizabeth: Empowerment Technologies, 1998.

• Turin Shroud: Testament to a Lost Technology, Beau Bassin: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017.

• Christian Forgery in Jewish Antiquities: Josephus Interrupted. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.

Co-edited books:

• Allen N.P.L. and Pierre J. Jordaan, eds. Construction, Coherence and Connotations: Studies on the Septuagint, Apocryphal and Cognate Literature. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter Publishers, 2016.

• Allen, N.P.L., Pierre J. Jordaan and József Zsengellér, eds. Passion, Persecution, and Epiphany in Early Jewish Literature. London: Routledge, 2020.

• Allen, N.P.L. and Pierre J. Jordaan, eds. Rhetoric in 2Maccabees: Challenging God. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.

• Allen, N.P.L. and J.J.T. Doedens, eds. Turmoil, Trauma and Tenacity in Early Jewish Literature, Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, Vol. 50. Berlin: William de Gruyter, 2022.

Documentaries:

Television documentaries which have featured Allen’s photographic hypothesis as regards the manufacture of the negative image of Christ on the Shroud of Turin:

• Shroud of Turin. B.B.C. Tomorrow's World, 1995.

• Double Exposure: Shroud of Turin. B.B.C. Everyman, 1995.

• Leonardo: The Man Behind the Shroud? National Geographic Channel, 2002.

• Shroud of Christ? B.B.C. Channel Four, 2004.

• Leonardo’s Shroud? Discovery Channel, 2009.

• Treasures Decoded: The Turin Shroud. Discovery Channel, 2013.

• Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery. CNN Science Channel, 2015.
What is "Professor ad hominem"? strange

[commonsense]

One of the best videos about Jesus myth

[petebiram]

The problem is, not many people read the Bible and the parable of 'The Sower of Fine Seed'
If they did read it, they would understand that when the Sower of fine seed (Jesus) goes.
The Weed man comes and sows his seeds into religion.
That means after these weeds growing in religion, you are going to get them doing wrong things, and putting pagan stuff in.
Then Jesus says, we have to wait until harvest time.
That is when Jesus starts it back up, by getting his new followers preaching about his fathers Kingdom, and when all the inhabited Earth has a witness, then the end of this Satanic World will end.

[nomopayn]

What is the word Mr. Allen says that the Jews would have been at the 6:55 Minute mark and he mentions the word again at the 7:49 minute mark. After he said that the Jews during the time of Jesus would have been circumcised and following the Law Of Moses . Sounds like he says that the Jews would have been costrute-castrute or something like that I have tried to look the meaning of this word up in the dictionary and all I get is to castrate?

[phillipsugwas]

If u don't back up your hypothesis with external sources that offer credible support to your position, dont expect people to believe you. And importantly as regards messianic pretenders, explain why numbers of them arose whose acrual existence today is mostly unknown? What is the reason for the persistence of the Christian myth?

[integrationalpolytheism]

No resumé at the beginning, no welcome to the show... That's an interesting diversion from the usual format.