I wrote the following post in response to a previous assertion on this forum in which the same video listed above allegedly portrayed the remains of a church wherein God’s true servants would have gathered for worship.
The facts clearly demonstrate this is not true. The ancient site in the video provides clear evidence of pagan aspects of worship that Greeks and perhaps local Hellenized Jews had developed into a corrupted form of Christianity which attempted to syncretize Jesus Christ with Greek Mythology, various aspects of astrology, and even much more ancient elements of the worship of the god Chemosh under the Moabites or Milcom under the Ammonites and portrayed by the stylized crescent moons in the mosaic.
I responded to jgredline’s posting of it on July 14 and clearly pointed out the dating was incorrect, but this fact was not acknowledged until it was brought up a second time by Relic as above. The original post can be accessed
Here.
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jgredline said:
I will however encourage you to view this video of the oldest church in israel and notice carefuly that at the end of the video they will show in the mosaic writing where they wrote Jesus is God..
P.S. Notice its BEFORE Constantine
No, apparently it wasn’t built before Constantine. Also, the inscription is surrounded by pagan Greek symbols indicating the reference to Christ as God was an assumption understandably made from the Greek polytheist perspective of those who commissioned the work.
Constantine allegedly converted to a form of Christianity in 318 CE. This ancient site is unlikely to have been built before the fourth century according to at least one anthropologist.
According to the Associated Press,
MSNBC News said:
Two mosaics inside the church  one covered with fish, an ancient Christian symbol that predated the widespread use of the cross symbol  tell the story of a Roman officer and a woman named Aketous who donated money to build the church in the memory “of the god, Jesus Christ.â€Â
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Joe Zias, an anthropologist and former curator with the antiquities authority, questioned the dating of the find, saying there is no evidence of churches before the fourth century. The building may have been in use earlier, but most likely not for Christian religious purposes, he said.
"They're going to be hard, hard-pressed to prove it ... because the evidence argues otherwise," Zias said.
Source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9950210/
The mosaic and the inscriptions found at this site was the evidence Jewish archeologists used to determine it was Christian. The inscription shows the site was a memorial "of the god, Jesus Christ." Of course the Jews do not accept Christianity as it is taught by Christendom as a whole, especially because Messiah is asserted to be God. So when a Jew identifies an artifact as Christian, he is as much calling that religion pagan from a Jewish perspective, or at the very least unbiblical.
The mosaic found at the site immediately reveals it has absolutely nothing to do with the faith once delivered to the saints. First and foremost, the early church were all iconoclasts - as the church remains today. Secondly, all the images in the mosaic are pagan in origin – without exception. The two-fish-swimming-in-opposite-directions symbol is the Vesica Pisces. It is a well known ancient pagan symbol that predates the fourth century Roman Christian use of the cross which is also of pagan origin.
This symbol, called the vesica pisces or "Jesus fish," has an unusual history. Used almost exclusively to denote membership in the Christian religion, the symbol once held a very different meaning.
The shape of the Vesica Pisces (literally 'vessel of the fish') is derived from the intersection of two circles, a pythagorean symbol of the intersection of the world of the divine with the world of matter.
In Pagan times, this glyph was associated with the Goddess Venus, and represented female genitalia. How it came to be associated with Christianity isn't entirely clear, but early depictions of Christ depict him as an infant within the vesica (usually called a mandorla, meaning 'almond shaped.'), which represented the womb of Mary. As such, it is also a doorway or portal between worlds, and symbolizes the intersection between the heaven and the material plane. The shape of arches in gothic architecture is based on this shape.
Source:
http://www.halexandria.org/dward097.htm
The Vesica Pisces is easily one of the most profound geometrical images of ancient and modern times. Essentially, the intersection of two, overlapping spheres, the Vesica Pisces (including the interior portion of it, and/or the more common two dimensional version) represents, among other things:
1) The joining of God and Goddess to create an offspring,
2) A symbol for Jesus Christ
Source:
http://www.halexandria.org/dward097.htm
ASTROLOGICAL AGES OF THE EARTH
A chart of the planetary positions at one’s birth cast in order to interpret the celestial connection for a person is a natal or birth chart. Casting charts for events or countries is called mundane astrology.20 There is an even larger picture, the ages of the twelve zodiacs through which the earth passes as the north pole shifts towards a new constellation approximately every 2,000 years, often called the astrological ages or World Ages.
Due to a slight wobble of the earth’s axis, the north pole does not move consistently in time back to the same beginning point in a constellation, but approximately to a spot one minute of arc earlier.21 This is a backward shift through the zodiac belt, so that the earth moves from Aries to Pisces to Aquarius to Capricorn, etc., rather than the reverse. It takes about 26,000 years for the earth to pass through all twelve zodiac constellations. This is called the Great Year.22
According to this view, since the birth of Christ came at the beginning of the Age of Pisces, and 2,000 years have now passed, the Age of Pisces is ending and the Age of Aquarius is upon us. With the focus on synchronicity and collective meanings of planetary symbols, the Age of Pisces is interpreted as a passage for all humanity that has spanned the birth of Christ until now. Christ becomes the living symbol of the Piscean Age.
Source:
http://cana.userworld.com/cana_pisean3.html
Other pagan symbols in the mosaic include: the Solar Star, the Kramo Bone, Triangle, Diamond, Crescent Moons, Thunder Cross, the Intertwined or Braided Knots, and several others yet unidentified from the photos.
Much could be posted on each of these also revealing their pagan origin and meaning.
Clearly this site was pagan. It was reported to be owned by a Roman officer. Most Roman soldiers of this era were adherents of the Mithraic Mystery Cult system* of which many embraced aspects of Christianity as it was portrayed by sects such as the Athanasians, who gained popularity and enjoyed State support under Constantine and others who followed. * Source:
http://www.well.com/~davidu/mithras.html
Archeological evidence of the true first century church will never be found in the form of symbols because they did not adopt any then and they which have followed after them never have either, and never will.
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However, I found many articles and pics on the web.
