Creating Christ

How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity

By: James S. Valliant, C. W. Fahy

Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell

This explosive work of history unearths clues that finally demonstrate the truth about one of the world's great religions: that it was born out of the conflict between the Romans and messianic Jews who fought a bitter war with each other during the first century. The Romans employed a tactic they routinely used to conquer and absorb other nations: they grafted their imperial rule onto the religion of the conquered. After 30 years of research, authors James S. Valliant and C.W. Fahy present irrefutable archaeological and textual evidence that proves Christianity was created by Roman Caesars in this book that breaks new ground in Christian scholarship and is destined to change the way the world looks at ancient religions forever.

Inherited from a long-past era of tyranny, war and deliberate religious fraud, could Christianity have been created for an entirely different purpose than we have been lead to believe? Praised by scholars like Dead Sea Scrolls translator Robert Eisenman (James the Brother of Jesus), this exhaustive synthesis of historical detective work integrates all of the ancient sources about the earliest Christians and reveals new archaeological evidence for the first time. And, despite the fable presented in current best sellers like Bill O'Reilly's Killing Jesus, the evidence presented in Creating Christ is irrefutable: Christianity was invented by Roman Emperors.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2016 James S. Valliant & C. W. Fahy (P)2016 David N. Wilson

logical and relevant

Objectively argued is what I liked about this material. Critical thinking with an open mind and focus on provable points is well articulated.

I just wished I could have seen the illustrations of the various artifacts what are in the physical book.

A scholarly analysis of Judeo Christian and Roman history

Analyzing the fragmented bits of history that have been destroyed, hidden, re-written, and obfuscated over thousands of years is a daunting task for anyone, and this book discusses the convoluted aspects of this in a scholarly manner. The most profoundly honest look at religious history I have yet to find.

Very scholarly

Many times, when dealing with unpopular, or not widely-accepted ideas, authors become shrill and somewhat hysterical in their defense of their ideas against attack. This book is not like that. The authors maintain a balanced, scholarly approach throughout, and only occasionally launch criticisms against the pushback to the theory. Instead there is a refreshing adherence to the plain evidence, which is overwhelming and convincing on its own. Excellent work.

Shocking.

We know so little about the 1st century of Christianity. Hearing researched ideas about it is exciting. Great job.

how different my life could have been

How different my life could have been having known what is conveyed in this book, being able to avoid the guilt an unnecessary choices in a life guided and imposed upon by religious beliefs.

Surely The Truth will set you free.

Objectivity and a careful consideration does not begin to describe this book. The astounding conclusions are so obvious, in retrospect, and so unknown in common parlance, that one can see their daily effect on world events but before reading this they are invisible. This is great literature of the highest intellectual tradition, a solid integration that makes new discovery possible whilst carefully considering ALL the facts.

Compelling arguments

I’ve always thought it weird that the xtian lore says that the Romans hated xtians but then suddenly the Catholic Church was headquartered there. Also, the fact that the gospels and epistles were written later in time than many people believe, and what was happening in Judea at those times, the Jewish Wars, is interesting. The theory propounded in this book makes sense of these things I’ve wondered about. So many rabid believers do not even read the Bible fully or early church history. The Roman use of syncretism and propaganda makes the most sense to me, particularly regarding Paul’s various travels and supposed adventures. The Josephus link is really telling as well, as is the involvement of the Flavian characters who appear in Acts.

A MUST LISTEN & READ

I am not a historian or astute. I did find this a bit hard to follow as I am neither of the two. So I downloaded the Kindle version of this book so I can read it to better digest the information. What I really appreciate about this book is the thoroughness of the research that went into coming to such a conclusion.

As a pre- teen and through my adolescence and adult years my questions of the history and the aftermath of Jesus death confounded me actually moving me away from Christianity. I think few people, Christians will come to read this book because it will challenge and more likely abolish their belief in Jesus. This book is both liberating and transformative. It will take you, the listener into the depths of your own beliefs. It will give you opportunities to understand how even early governments, such as the Roman Empire, were able to use a groups belief system, Judaism, and other religions to create a subordinate people, particularly slaves. It is the root in my opinion of Anti-semitism, Jim-Crow law.

When you look beyond the Roman Empire to the Roman Catholic Church in its early days, you will see that it continued the same tactics as method of harnessing conquered lands, obtaining subordinate governments, making Kings-God ordained rulers. Very interesting and so this continues into our modern world. Blasphemy to condradict! I think just about all Christianity bends this way and I imagine this to be for all religions.

Why the Christian churches are inherently antisemitic

Exhausting and systematic review of hard pieces of evidence that at face value contribute to the understanding of the development of Western history during the Common Era. It makes so much sense and yet it is backed by factual elements and not articles of faith or requiring the blind belief of “the profound mysteries of our Lord”. I now understand much clearly the last two millennia of widespread antisemitism in the West: it is embedded in the creation of European modern history backed by its God “representatives on earth” the Christian rulers.

Un excelente libro de historia

Estupendo esfuerzo de los autores para reunir una historia completa de la época Romana durante el invento del mito que es el cristianismo