Дева и Первосвященник: Рождение Мессии

The Virgin and the Priest: The Making of the Messiah.

THE LOST SECRETS OF THE MESSIANIC CODE

AND THE TRUE IDENTITY OF JESUS’ FATHER

Preface

Church attendance in developed nations has been on a downward spiral for the best part of a century. The strong likelihood is that it will continue to decline. In the past, almost everyone was a churchgoer. But today, irrespective of whether or not they believe in God, the majority of the population regards organized religion as an anachronism.

Increased levels of education since the end of World War II brought with them a greater demand for intellectual satisfaction. Now, most people will only accept something as ‘true’ if it can be explained by reason or else resonates with their experience.

Absolute ‘truths’ must pertain to reality. Not reality as perception, but reality which is the same for everyone. Doctrines that insist on faith in the irrational and unfamiliar no longer have mass appeal, because by implication, they are not true.

Formerly, the Church could withdraw some of its erroneous tenets, for example, that the sun orbits the earth, because they were incidental to its central theology. In the modern era, as potential embarrassments cropped up with increasing regularity, the Church adopted the position that religion and science were mutually incompatible. Therefore, any attempts to reconcile them were futile.

The idea that life allowed for the existence of contradictory laws did not impress Einstein, who famously stated that “God does not play dice with the universe.” His comment that “science would provide a surer path to God than religion,” reflects a widely held opinion that religious institutions are paralyzed by the instinct for self-preservation and reluctance to acknowledge error. As far as most people today are concerned, the Church has not only ceded to science the ability to interpret the physical world, but also the world unseen, and all that that implies.

Despite public skepticism toward the Christian Church, the indisputable fact of history is that Western civilization is a Judeo- Christian legacy. The predominant culture is actually based on a complex synthesis of Hebraism and Hellenism, but its catalyst was provided by events in the life of one man - Jesus. And we simply cannot understand the modern world without first understanding our Judeo-Christian past.