The Pagan Christ

00:00:09 A religious mystery worthy of the Da Vinci Code.

00:02:31 Ordinary people suspect that there a lot there to be told

00:05:24 He is also a professor of New Testament and Greek Studies

00:06:46 preachers use theater to teach those seeking more insight

00:08:37 solely about Jesus.

00:10:11 On the shores of the Sea of Galilee

00:11:42 whose writing suggest that Christ was not born in a manger in Bethlehem

00:13:18 the decent into hell

00:14:59 as, mystery cults.

00:16:46 or what Tom Harpur claims to be a virgin birth

00:18:37 for the fact that each one of us, when we were born

00:20:21 that get to write the story, get to write how it happened.

00:21:49 and bloodiest cover-up in history.

00:23:37 And they became very vicious, and their persecution of roasting anything

00:25:14 and that was it.

00:26:47 On the shelves of these caves laid religious texts

00:28:49 in the year 1 of the coming era.

00:31:06 Well, Tom Harpur is not alone in his beliefs.

00:32:53 For the millions who visit each year

00:34:33 The greatest suspicion is cast on the work of Flavius Josephus

00:36:22 Constantine's conversion and what that did for Christianity

00:38:12 You know, you see them came in the park like this

00:40:25 centuries earlier.

02:00:00 teacher called Joshua