Kenneth Humphreys is one of the leading experts in exposing the jesus fiction. He holds post-graduate qualifications from two British universities and taught for many years in the UK, Turkey and Papua New Guinea; including a Senior Lecturership in Modern Languages. He is now fully occupied as a writer, radio broadcaster and public speaker.
“I had a religion-free childhood and from the youngest age acquired an interest in history. In turns I was both fascinated and appalled by the history of the ‘Christian Faith’ and have made its legacy and crimes a life-long study…” ~ Kenneth Humphreys
Ken’s website, http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/ was launched in December 2001. It receives more than a million visitors per year and is currently being made available in nine languages.
The book, “Jesus Never Existed” was published in 2005 by Iconoclast Press. It has been shipped to more than thirty countries. Order here: http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/book.html
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~FYI, The following fictional characters, only exist on the pages of the New Testament. No first century portraits were made or descriptions given. So, we will not be posting any christian fantasy photos.
~MATTHEW?
A Gospel for Messianic Jews
The Gospel of Matthew is an expanded version of the Gospel of Mark.*
Almost all the story elements, phrases and words used by Mark – about ninety-five per cent of them – are regurgitated in Matthew. But the Markan core has been refined by the later writer with extra detail, explanatory clauses and improved adjectives. The gospel has gained an extra eight thousand words. “Difficult” passages have been improved upon. Thus, for example, where Mark tells briefly of a freshly baptized Jesus, tempted in the wilderness by Satan, Matthew illustrates that temptation with three examples: taunts of bread from stones, falling from the temple pinnacle, and a gift of the world. Each example is drawn – not from history! – but from Jewish scripture (Deuteronomy and Psalms).
But why rewrite Mark at all?
Matthew is writing later. The Second Coming has not materialized, the Jews have suffered a second catastrophic defeat at the hands of Rome, and the Marcionites were already circulating an early version of Luke, diluting the Jewishness of the divine mission. Matthew will put the Jesus train back onto its Jewish tracks.
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/matthew.htm
The Genealogy of Jesus – Matthew’s edit
How the godman was given a bogus pedigree
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/genealogy-matthew.html
~MARK?
Fabricating the Jesus Story
The Gospel of 'Mark’
Bringing the Celestial Super-jew Down to Earth
Though for much of Christian history the gospel of Matthew has been given primacy that honour actually belongs to the gospel of Mark, the shortest and least sophisticated of the Jesus stories. Mark’s literary creation was the starting point for both Matthew and Luke.Of approximately eleven thousand words found in Mark, ninety-five per cent of those words – entire paragraphs and stories in fact – are reused in the gospel of Matthew and sixty-five per cent of them in the gospel of Luke. Contrariwise, where Matthew and Luke differ most from each other – in the nativity and resurrection episodes – it is in material not found and not copied from Mark. Thus, to understand the trajectory by which the Jesus tale developed from an original hero – a righteous man infused by God’s holy spirit– through a hybrid godman possessing powers, to find final form as God incarnate on earth, one is best advised to begin with Mark’s pithy masterpiece.
“Those who affirm him to have been a man, and to have been anointed by election, and then to have become Christ, appear to me to speak more plausibly than you who hold those opinions which you express.” – Trypho to Justin, Dialogue with Trypho, XLIX.
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/mark.htm
Michael A. Turton’s Historical Commentary on the Gospel of Mark
This website contains a complete verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospel of Mark, focusing on the historicity of people, places, events, and sayings in the world of the Gospel of Mark. Where pertinent, useful, or just plain interesting, additional information is given.
http://www.michaelturton.com/Mark/GMark_index.html
~LUKE?
“An orderly account … of things fulfilled”
A Gospel for Credulous Pagans
In the seminal works ascribed to Luke – the longest of the gospels and the Acts of the Apostles – the author makes no claim to have been a witness to Jesus or to have known Paul personally. All that he writes is hearsay, and, certainly in respect to Act’s “biography” of Paul, scarcely agrees with a word from the apostle himself. It is questionable whether the author of the “genuine” Pauline letters knew of any “historian” named Luke, still less, travelled with him for any extensive period of time. Yet an “orderly account … of things fulfilled” was certainly prepared during the course of the 2nd century and in the wrangle for “orthodoxy” the partisans of Christ needed to give this pious fantasy the seal of an author befitting its great purpose. But who could that be?
Who on earth was Luke?
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/luke.htm
The Genealogy of Jesus – Luke’s edit
How the godman was given a bogus pedigree
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/genealogy-luke.html
~JOHN?
A Gospel to Silence the Gnostics
The Gospel of “John”
The Gospel of John is a sophisticated deceit, much worked on by a gaggle of fraudsters. But when you tug at the seams the whole fabric of invention unravels.
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/john.htm
Angry Jews and the “Churches of Asia”
The Apocalypse of John
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/revelation.htm
~PETER?
The curious career of “Saint Peter”
Linking Rome back to the Godman
In reaction to the runaway success of Marcion’s Pauline Christianity, scribes in Rome concocted a sacred history to bolster their own claim to singular authority. Their chosen hero figure was Peter, "first of the apostles".
But why did Rome need to make a saint out of Peter?
Making a Saint out of Peter
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/peter.htm
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