It is rare that I encounter other bloggers sharing my perception of our Sun as a celestial being – a conscious entity. So it was great to be reading Michael Fenemore’s knowledgeable account of the Sun-worshipping foundations of Christianity. I got the impression of someone coming to similar conclusions as myself though from a very different route. But when I came to his final sentence I would have spluttered out anything in my mouth at the time.
It begins like this:
Although Christians generally consider such veneration paganism, it’s evident even Christianity is rooted in pagan mythology and sun worship.
The sun takes preeminence over the apparently tiny stars of the Zodiac, a large region of the night sky ancient astronomers divided into 12 constellations or “signs.”
In Genesis, Jacob, the patriarch of Israel, plainly refers to himself and his 12 sons as the “sun” and “stars.” (See ch. 35:22b; 37:9-10, NRSV throughout.)
There is, in fact, a lot of paganism in Israel’s history. However, since most readers of this column are probably more familiar with the New Testament (NT), let us skip forward a few centuries. The sun sustains all life. In the NT, Jesus is a “great light” and the only “true light” able to provide the “light of life” (Matt. 4:16; John 1:6-9; 8:12). (See also, John 10:28; Acts 4:12.) The sun lights up the world, followed nightly by 12 star signs. In the NT, Jesus is the “light of the world” followed by twelve disciples (John 8:12).
Most modern Christians know virtually nothing about astrology. Consequently, they fail to recognize its symbols in scripture. In former times, however, Christians were aware of the Bible’s astrological connections and embraced them.
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4 thoughts on “Christ, astrology, pagans and Sun worship”
Hey Greg hope you’re good
Your article strummed a harmony in my song, for just last weekend we were puzzling over the origin of the word Sunday, and how it relates to all modern Latin derived versions (Domingo etc) which translate to “day of God”. So the English must have nearly all been sun worshipers for them to adopt the name. I’ve begun a small solar business here and was pondering a name, whilst researching Mithras, which was a secret mystery religion devoted to sun worship I discovered in wiki there are over 600 (!) underground temples in Rome alone, known to be dedicated to the Mithras cult. Here’s my card anyhow.
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Actually have been getting some nice Sun blessed days this autumn/winter. Mithraism, yes. Didn’t know there were so many temples, and underground. Zoroastrians scorned temples for many centuries since their divinity, light, was plainly evident without them. Mithraism excluded women but not slaves, and in the church a slave would often rise to higher rank than his master.
Hi Greg – are you familiar with Jordan Maxwell? – he seems to know a lot about astrotheology and the origins of christianity. He’s completely into the idea of Jesus being the sun. Talks about Mithraisim in Rome and temple in Petra carved out of the rock. He’s a bit controversial, but interesting.
Thanks for the tip Stu. Watching one of his videos now.
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