by
Roland E Bouchard
Copyright 2007
www.jesusbarabbas.info
This literary work is Dedicated to God Almighty
And His Ever-Living Son, -at Whose Holy Feet
this unworthy Author imbibed the Sweet Elixir of
His Holy Naam or Word, -may I never forget His
Holy Name.
Author’s Prologue
Anathema: The Secret Story of Jesus Before The Holy Gospels Were
Written is a historical-fiction portrayal of three obscure but profoundly influential
men whose names are: Jesus, -but who has been otherwise called only “Barabbas”
instead; Judas the Galilean, -author of a fourth sect among the Jews and principal
protagonist of the generally glossed-over New Testament account of the actual
bloody insurrection that eventually led to the wealthy and educated Jews scattering
themselves abroad, the temple at Jerusalem was razed to the ground and, the nation
ceased to exist; and, Saul of Tarsus, -the actual creator and founder of
‘Christianity’ (along with his cohorts: Mark and Luke and their supporters) behind
the scenes of all that took place ‘in those days’.
Does one believe what one sees with one’s own eyes or what others tell you
what to see (and ‘believe’)? Have ‘books’ and ideas been burned and banned and
therefore ‘know’ only what we see and that there is no alternative?
How quickly and easily ‘we’ (latter-day people) loose sight of the fact that
“Jesus Barabbas” is ‘documented’ as having been ‘chosen by the Jewish multitude
to be released’ (not by ‘us’ latter-day people, ‘Christians’ and/or otherwise) and,
that, at the same time, also demanded the crucifixion of “Jesus Christ”. ‘They’
obviously had a reason or motive (‘good’ or ‘bad’) for deciding upon such a
dastardly deed. And so ‘a reasonable excuse’ is surreptitiously and cunningly
inserted into the passion narrative… to provide to ‘us’ (who really, it would seem,
have no business in that matter so long ago) with instilling sympathy and thus ‘we’
relate… i.e. “envy”. But, was that the real or only reason or motive for ‘the Jews’
to have acted in such an incongruous matter? In that we weren’t there (neither do
we have all the facts of the matter) -except that we have ‘sympathy’. Our attention
is cunningly diverted away from the insurrection that was raging all around them
and thus we loose sight of the fact that the ‘Holy Gospels’ weren’t written to
provide us with ‘facts’ or history in the scientific sense of that word in the first
place. They were written to provide and instill in us ‘faith’, -never letting the facts
get in the way of the ‘Good News’ story.
‘Envious’ = bad Jews’ (who were actually present and preferred who or
what , ‘we’ latter-day people, assume is the guilty [Jesus] Barabbas…) versus: ‘us’
latter-day people (who were not there…) but who are ‘good’ sympathetic followers
of the supposedly and assumed innocent “[Jesus] Christ” and, therefore are
‘Christians’. Ironically, ‘envy’ (‘jealousy’ and ‘blinding life-long hatred’) really
was the reason… but not of or by all the Jews at that time, rather the envy, jealousy
and blinding hatred of only one man… behind the scenes.
Jesus Barabbas and “Jesus Christ” are inexorably and forever intertwined
cunningly, cleverly and fraudulently ‘documented’, -in the Holy Gospels, -albeit
rightly or wrongly. Latter-day ‘Christians’ are wont to point-out the secularly
historical ‘documents’, -particularly those of the turn of the first century Flavius
Josephus as well as the second century Tacitus and, to a lesser degree, Suetonius.
Indeed, Josephus was the first non-ecclesiastical historian to cite “Jesus Christ”,
and as such, was utilized during the Council of Nicaea (325 c. e.) as ‘evidence’ of
the historicity of “Jesus Christ” -one can only wonder why it took nearly two
centuries to provide this ‘historical evidence’… but I digress.
Purely for edification’s sake, let us look at the noted reference concerning
Josephus’ “Jesus Christ” that immediately follows his “…thus the end was put to
this sedition”. “Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to
call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works -a teacher of such men as
received the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and
many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the
principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at
the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as
the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things
concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at
this day.”
Without much ado, I completely and utterly reject the claim that Josephus
actually wrote the above ‘good news’ nonsense, -it belies the facts of who and
what Josephus actually accomplished in his lifetime and what he otherwise wrote.
He was a Jewish General who fought against the fanatical ‘messianists’… until the
wealthy and educated Jews scattered themselves abroad, the temple at Jerusalem
was razed to the ground (-save the western or ‘wailing wall’) and the Jewish nation
was utterly destroyed in 70 c. e. The ‘historical reference’ regarding “Jesus Christ”
is obviously fraudulent, inserted into the contents of Josephus’ ‘history’, by a
latter-day ‘Christian’, for the sole purpose of establishing the credence of
‘historical documentation’. Likewise, the same is true regarding Tacitus and
Suetonius. In short and to the point, there is no creditable ‘historical
documentation’ concerning the mortal or corporal “Jesus Christ”, -save the ‘Holy
Gospels’… made possible by the efforts of Saul of Tarsus (and his cohorts and
their supporters) who wrote the ‘Holy Gospels’ and created and founded
‘Christianity’.
The long and short of all the references and arguments regarding the ‘spirit’
of “[Jesus] Christ” is simply this; ‘he’ (“if it be lawful to call him a man”) is a
literary confluence of the ‘switched’ “Jesus” [Barabbas]” and “Judas the Galilean”,
on the one hand and, is the immaculately conceived invention or creation, -as a
direct result of Saul of Tarsus -aka the Apostle and eventual Saint Paul’s epiphany
of the deceased ‘descendant of David and Jewish messiah’ (Judas the Galilean) as
the Greek converted philosophical notions i.e. the “risen [Jesus] Christ”, on the
other hand. Jesus Barabbas simply maintains His obscurity (despite His
‘notoriety’) and disappears from whence He came, -anathema (rendering unto God
that which is God’s).
Let me be quick to say that, of course I know and realize that, the
chronology as it relates to both Jesus Barabbas and Judas the Galilean is skewed,
-it was skewed in the first instance i.e. ‘those days’ (not by me). Although Jesus
Barabbas supposedly appeared during the reign of Pontius Pilate (26-36 c. e.) and
that Judas the Galilean ‘rose up in the days of the taxation (6 or 7 c. e.)’, Judas the
Galilean and all those who followed him (including and up to the days of Simon
Bar Korba (Son of the Star) -sometimes called ‘the Prince of Israel’) had only one
common idea and mission: the restoration of the theocracy as in the days of kings
David and Solomon. Many a Jewish ‘messiah’ was crucified, -indeed, thousands
were routinely crucified, -Judas the Galilean is merely identified here as the
‘author of the fourth philosophical sect of the Jews and chief protagonist of the
insurrection’ and thus represents all ‘Jewish messiahs’ (in the political sense of
affirming belief in a theocratic form of governance. (The same may be applied to
Ayatollahs of Islam).
Let us take a brief look at Saul of Tarsus, -his ancestry in particular and
more importantly, his ‘human nature’ as it relates to ‘those days’… particularly as
it relates to ‘the descendants of David’…
Saul of Tarsus is of the tribe (or family) of Benjamin and is the namesake of
the first ‘anointed’ king of the Jews. Born around the time of the initial call for
insurrection by Judas the Galilean (6 – 7 c. e.), young Saul eventually became a
flunked-out Pharisaic student of Gamaliel in his mid twenties and earned his living
as ‘temple thug’ some years later “persecuting ‘Christians”, as it were. (However,
with respect the ‘Christians’, there were no ‘Christians’ to speak of, -only fanatical
followers of the ‘descendants of David and the Jewish ‘messiah’.) Young Saul
possessed a particular and singular view of ‘the descendants of David’ since birth,
-being a direct descendant of his great-great grandfather, king Saul, the first king of
the Jews.
King Saul eventually was rebuked by ‘the Lord’ (for having disobeyed the
Lord’s commandment) and striped of his kingship. Dishonored and shamed as
king, nevertheless, he continuously commanded a large number of men in the
cause of protecting the Jews from her enemies. Eventually, he “fell upon his own
sword”, ostensibly to avoid being captured by the Philistines. This abominable act
brought everlasting dishonor and shame upon his heirs and descendants, -not to
mention permanently barring his heirs and descendants from ascending the royal
throne ever again.
King Saul was replaced by David (of the tribe of Judah). King David was
succeeded by his son, Solomon. King Solomon was succeeded by his son,
Rehoboam… however, ten tribes revolted away from Rehoboam and/or the
existing theocracy as instituted by David and maintained and enlarged by
Solomon. Jeroboam headed a parallel secular government. This schism among the
Jews continued down through the centuries… into the days of the Roman installed
and supported secular governance of Herod the Great (an Idumean and ‘convert’
Jew).
The actual reality of ‘those days’ is simply this, that, No Jew, ‘good’ and/or
‘bad’, ever knew, or saw or even heard of “Christ”, -likewise, neither have any of
‘us’ would ‘know’ anything about either man, -save from out of the exclusive
pages of ‘The Holy Gospels’ themselves, -obfuscated by Saul of Tarsus.
Emanuel Kant once observed, “…it is not the falsehoods that matter, but the
intention behind it.”
Why, or rather ‘who’s intention was it to the render the Holy Gospels
historically inaccurate, its chronology contradictory, confusing, incongruous…?
Although the deafening silence of and by the ‘Church’ during these past two
millennia requires clarification of these issues, alas, I have determined that it will
never come, -it cannot. The modern-day ‘Church’, having whole-heartedly
accepted and vigorously maintains the previous claim that she is the sole arbiter of
‘The Holy Gospels’ as being ‘the inspired Holy Word of God’, -not to mention the
veneration of Saul of Tarsus into sainthood, this makes any current correction or
clarification impossible… except as anathema to ‘Christians’.
But, even that is not enough for me to be prompted to pen this literary work,
such as it is… for it was not until I took the ‘mortal leap’ further and delved into
the mystery of Such a One as Him, that I have come to my own ‘epiphany’
concerning ‘those days’ and these things…
What good might there be to merely denounce one man (if it be “lawful to
call him a man”) as merely a myth and point to another man in speculation instead?
That Jesus Barabbas surely lived and walked among humankind (not only
merely among the Jews exclusively in ‘those days’)… Such a One did before. The
unrealized history of man indicates He does so today. He has always lived and
continues to walk among humankind.
‘Truth is above all, -but true living is higher still’. It is in life that we may
experience pleasure and pain; it is in love that we may know right and wrong, it is
in light (our daily life) that we may find our way.