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00:00 The Creating Christ book is really very fascinating.

00:11 There's so many fascinating things about this.

00:16 Very early on we began looking for archaeological evidence.

00:21 For years my co-author had been looking for this physical evidence and happened across

00:25 the specific image that was used thousands of times by the Emperor Titus on his own coinage.

00:33 This image was never used before by a Roman Emperor and early Christians began using different

00:40 versions of it in the same era.

00:43 That's so strange.

00:45 Now if the Romans were hated enemies, why would Christians appropriate this?

00:53 That was a very surprising thing, almost a smoking gun, so I have to take that seriously.

01:03 And the kings that came in the wake of Alexander the Great, such as the Ptolemies of Egypt,

01:07 were attempting an integration both of local culture, the Egyptian culture, with Greek

01:12 culture.

01:13 The Ptolemy commissioned the creation of this god.

01:17 They took the face and the hair and the overall impression of Serapis and Asclepius and then

01:23 turned him into Jesus Christ.

01:29 That's not so strange because all the Middle Eastern empires for hundreds of years had

01:36 gone farther than that.

01:38 It's not fantastic in the least.

01:47 All this religious innovation on the part of the Romans did not sit well with the monotheistic

01:54 Jewish people.

01:57 So they said that we should have no ruler but God and so we're going to throw off the

02:02 yoke of Rome.

02:06 People think, "Oh, the scrolls are just an early version of Christianity."

02:09 No, they're not because they're not peaceful.

02:14 It's always been a revolutionary movement, the real revolutionary movement in Palestine.

02:21 And this was a source of conflict.

02:24 What's interesting in the New Testament, therefore, is that all of these barriers seem to be eliminated

02:32 in the teachings of Jesus and Paul.

02:35 Christianity didn't exist.

02:36 I don't think they had the word Christ.

02:39 Paul starts to use these words in his letters.

02:42 Paul creates this language.

02:44 Paul is from the Herodian family, the enemies of the Jewish people.

02:51 And during the last two years of Nero's reign, Vespasian successfully prosecuted the war

02:57 in Galilee and wider Judea.

02:59 And so when he became emperor, he left his son Titus in charge of the final sack of Jerusalem,

03:05 which would fulfill Jesus' prophecy, as he returned to Rome to take up world rule and

03:11 to proclaim himself a new prince of peace.

03:16 Everybody's jockeying for position.

03:18 By the end of the second century, you've got the Romans are in charge.

03:21 It's the Roman Catholic Church now.

03:23 It becomes the Holy Roman Empire.

03:25 It's no longer the Roman Empire.

03:27 It becomes the Holy Roman Empire.

03:32 And now set adrift from that Flavian origin, Christianity was free to form different sects

03:39 and spread out into a rather unorganized variation of Christian themes.

03:45 And this has become all the clearer in light of the 1945 discovery of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic

03:53 manuscripts.

03:55 This revealed an amazing array of types of Christianity.

04:02 And by the time we get to Constantine, when it becomes the official religion of the Roman

04:09 Empire, a single Orthodox version of it has to be laid down.

04:13 And that was the principal function of the Council of Nicaea in the early fourth century.

04:18 And so then it becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire under Constantine.

04:23 And once that happens, you're going to get a huge amount of people coming in.

04:28 And that's what happened.

04:34 One can really only understand the theory of Roman providence by assembling all the

04:39 pieces of the mosaic.

04:40 And only when you put each piece in its appropriate place can you pan back and then accurately

04:46 see the entire picture.

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