An Amazon Prime documentary has made claim that Jesus Christ was not a Jew from Nazareth, but rather a Greek philosopher named Apollonius, born in the Anatolia region of Turkey.
The theory proposed by “Bible Conspiracies,” released in 2016, has drawn attention from several news sources after Sputnik News published the article, “Jesus Wasn’t a Jew, Bombshell Documentary Claims,” as The Independent observed.
“The film is peppered with dated computer animations and stock images in the place of interviews with experts or original footage, all accompanied by a monotone voiceover,” The Independent described.
“What about this person, Jesus? Was he real? Was he created? Was he alien?” asks the film’s narrator.
“There is, in fact, a man who can be found in text outside of the Bible after the after the church failed to eradicate him from history,” the film claims. Born around the same time as Jesus, Apollonius “became a disciple of Pythagoras renouncing flesh, wine and women. He wore no shoes and let his hair and beard grow long. He soon became a reformer and fixed his abode in the Temple of Aesculapius,” the narrator describes.
The film claims that Jesus did not exist, and instead has been mistaken for this philosopher. Like Jesus, Apollonius preached, and supposedly performed miracles and amassed a number of…
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