* The Imperial Legate stationed in Antioch (Syria) remained in office until 60 A.D. (year of his death for natural causes), first under Claudius and then under Nero. No Procurator - obliged to hand over his duties according to precise rules - could have confirmed Ananias as “High Priest of the Temple and the Sanhedrin”, even if the candidate had been proposed by King Agrippa II. Until the 66 A.D. revolt against the Romans, the High Priest selection was subject to the “placet” of the Procurators who, in turn, were subject to the “Legatus Augusti pro Praetore”.

Another piece of evidence demonstrating the invention of the character "Saint Paul" can be found in the biography dedicated to him in 382 A.D. by the historian and Doctor of the Church (beatified) Sophronius Hieronymus in "De viris illustribus" chap. V:

"Saul belonged to the tribe of Benjamin and to the city of Giscala in Judea. After the Roman occupation of this city, he emigrated with his parents to Tarsus in Cilicia" (Op. cit).

In the biography of Paul, Jerome cites "Acts of the Apostles" but makes no reference to the "Roman citizenship" of the Apostle, at the moment of his arrest, for he cannot accept the contrasting declarations (as we have seen) which Paul made with regard to his place of birth. It is, therefore, not by chance if Jerome decided to have him be born in Giscala (erroneously placed in Judea rather than in Galilee) "after the Roman occupation" of 6 A.D. (it is important to remember that Galilee was occupied by the Romans led by Vespasian in 66 A.D.). In fact, until 6 A.D. Judea was a Roman protectorate and the forces present in this region were subject to the Jewish Etnarch Archelaus while the deployment of Roman soldiers in Judea under the authority of a Prefect began in 6 A.D., when the region was declared a Province of Rome and annexed to Syria by Caesar Augustus. As a result, the young Saul moved to Tarsus after 6 A.D. Later on, according to his testimony in Acts (22,3), he went to the school of Gamaliel in Jerusalem. But then  ... why, when and how did the Jew Saul request and obtain the diploma of Roman citizenship? And in particular, not being born in Roman, according to what requisites? It was the lack of an explanation to these fundamental questions which forced Jerome to justify the Roman name of the Apostle as such:

"As soon as Sergius Paulus, Proconsul in Cyprus, believed in his preaching of Christ, Saul borrowed the name Paul from him" (Op. cit.).

In fact from a reading of "Acts" we see that Saul, from this time onwards, was called "Paul". In order to underline the importance of Saint Jerome's conclusions, let's remind readers that the Doctor of the Church translated the Bible from Greek into Latin, including "Acts of the Apostles". Having established that not even a Saint managed to patch up the bogus biography of his great predecessor, we advise the Paul's ectoplasm to resurrect and "appeal to History"... before "appealing to Caesar".

But, unfortunately for believers, it is History which contradicts the doctrine of Paul, or rather the Christian scribe who invented the super Apostle and his letters. An ideology totally inclined to Roman power, therefore totally against the slaves present in the Provinces of the Empire, many of whom, according to the phony "Christian tradition", are said to have been followers of Christ.
Here is how, to date, the relationship between slaves and owners is represented in the holy texts accredited to Paul of Tarsus:
"Slaves, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling" (Eph 6,5).
Evidently, the warning given by the super Apostle to the slaves in favour of their owners, does not take at all into consideration first century Roman Law; precisely, the scribe who created the Apostle Paul's "Letters to the Ephesians" beforehand did not inquire about the slavery laws in effect during the hypothetical existence of Saint Paul (early first century - 68 A.D.): the unawareness of these inhuman and absurd laws totally frustrates the fabulous "Christian pietism".
Now let's provide documentary evidence of slavery laws during this period; the Pauline evangelist was totally unaware of such legislation and went as far as to defend the exclusive economic interests of the owners ... yet totally indifferent towards the physical survival of slaves.

As of the first century the "Senatus Consultum Silanianum de Servis" - issued during the principate of Caesar Augustus in 10 A.D. - was in force in the territories subject to Roman Law and sentenced to death all slaves, including women and children, living under the same roof of a owner found murdered by a stranger inside his domus.
The reason behind this cruel law was that slaves were obligated to be aware of the act of violence which had provoked the death of the dòminus and of the person who had carried out the murder.

Subsequently, in 57 A.D., Nero issued the "Senatus Consultum Pisonianum" - with provisions added to those contained in the previous "Senatus Consultum Silanianum de Servis" - concerning the investigations that were to be carried out after the murder of a slave owner. The Neronian decree called for the torture even of the slaves belonging to the spouse of the victim.
Of utmost importance the fact that owners had the legal right to privately order the crucifixion of the unlucky people, by paying a designated organization, appointed by Magistrates and whose task it was to carry out such torture. As demonstrated by the "Tabula Puteolana", a marble epigraph found after the Second World War in Pozzuoli (Italy), made known to the public in 1966 and today kept in the Natonal Museum of Archeology in Naples.

The Christian scribe who, three centuries later, invented a Paul of Tarsus alive in the first century, was unaware of Roman Law in force at that time, nor could he imagine that archeology would be capable of contradicting Pauline doctrine and ... and the super Apostle of the Gentiles.
The century foloowing the imaginary Apostle Paul, Emperor Hadrian (in office from 117 to 138 A.D.) prohibited owners from executing their slaves as they abused such right. The merciless doctrine against slaves, contemplated by Roman Law, was further improved by Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

"Everyone is to obey the governing authorities, because there is no authority except from God and so whatever auhorities exist have been appointed by God" (Romans 13.1).

According to the current ideology of Saint Paul, slavery is expression of the will of the God of the Christians, that is to say the same God of the Muslims and the Jews. Three peoples who are constantly in conflict as they are convinced that their respective "prophets" are the only guardians of the authentic "revelation of God"; instead the followers of the other "divine oracles" have always been considered (to this very day) as infedels and heretics to be crushed.
Yet no follower of these factions, dedicated to absolute monotheism, has ever dared to reflect that it is unacceptable for there to be God who has revealed himself through discordant truths to peoples destined to massacre one another due to "holy" doctrinal divergences. Atheism is undoubtedly more civil.

The trials of Nero against Paul of Tarsus are phony: here is the proof

With regard to the “Lawsuit: Caesar Nero against Paul of Tarsus”, which has not reached through the “Acts of the Apostles” but thanks to the “Letters” of the super Apostle of the Gentiles,  where we learn that the wicked Caesar made him undergo two “trials”. Let’s try and follow the chronology of the two criminal proceedings, by following the necessary depositions (indispensable to the investigatory phase of the trials) all the way through to the final verdict.

“Given that in the Acts of the Apostles much is said about the life of Paul, I will limit myself  to saying that in the twenty-fifth year after the death of the Lord, that is in the second year of Nero, when Festus succeeded Felix as Procurator of Judea, he was sent to prison in Rome. Here he stayed for two years on probation”. Reported by Jerome in “De viris illustribus” Chap. V.

In the second Letter “To Timothy” (2 Tm4,16-17) we learn that Paul was acquitted in the verdict of the first instance and freed. However, history reports that the Procurator “Claudius Antonius Felix” handed over his powers to his successor “Portius Festus” (Gaius Avidius from the Gens Porcia) in 59 Anno Domini and, according to the Jerome’s “testimony”, took place 25 years after the crucifixion of Christ, which was carried out in 59 minus 25 equal to: 34 A.D. Was this the fateful year of Jesus’s death? … But let’s carry on with the comparison of the data and read the testimonies of Paul.

“Paul therefore, in the fourteenth year of Nero (67 A.D.), on the very day of Peter’s martyrdom, was beheaded in Rome for his faith in Christ and was buried on the road to Ostia, thirty-seven years after the death of the Lord” (Op. cit. Chap V).

There is no doubt (according to the doctrine) that Paul was sentenced to death by Nero at the end of a second trial; in fact the Apostle foretold his death in the second Letter “To Timothy” (2 Tm 4,6). And yet, even in this case the figures don’t add up; in fact all one needs to do is subtract from 67 (year of the decapitation of the super Apostle) the 37 years “after the death of the Lord” to realize, so help me God, that Jesus died in 30 A.D. But, being that we are examining the “Pauline” documentation concerning the trials undergone by the Saint, the two chronological reference points regarding the death of Jesus obtained thus far are so contradictory that they invalidate the “testimonies” of the historian Jerome on the life of Paul and his phony trials.
This conflicting information makes it indispensable to further verify the trials and, inevitably, compare the data to that contained in the “Acts of the Apostles”, where the circumstantial causes that brought about the trial of Paul are described.

As we have seen in the "holy texts", it all started with the argument between Paul and “Ananias, son of Nebedee”, which took place inside the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem in 59 A.D. The latter, in his role as High Priest of the Temple and of the Sanhedrin, was insulted by Paul, the reason why the Apostle was referred to the imperial Procurators Felix and Festus and then sent to Rome for his trial.
After the verification of the series of High Priests (reported by Josephus Flavius), we discover that in 59 A.D. the Jewish historian Josephus* was the Sanhedrin scribe present inside the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem, where the “Acts of the Apostles” describe the presence of the quarrelsome Paul that insults the High Priest, who in 59 was not “Ananias”, the High Priest of the Temple and of the Sanhedrin according to the Acts of the Apostles, but “Ismael, son of Fabi”, in office from 56 to 61 A.D., as reported by Josephus himself. This historical piece of information is more than enough to affirm with certainty that the two trials started by Nero against Paul of Tarsus are nothing but boastfulness invented by fourth century Christian historians, just like the Letters and the Gospels.

* Josephus Flavius, born in 37 A.D. into an aristocratic priestly family of excellency, related to the royal dynasty of the Hasmoneans. After adhering as a priest to conservative Phariseism, in 56 A.D. he joined the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem where, thanks to his profound knowledge of the Bible and of Greek, he began his political career as a Scribe and ultimately achieved the military rank of “General Commander of the two Galilees” during the Jewish War against Rome.

As further confirmation of the imaginary ecclesiastical biography concerning Paul of Tarsus can be found in the dating of his death, which the Church indicates as having taken place between 64 and 67 A.D. (see "Cathopedia", Vatican Catholic Encyclopedia). A chronology in contrast with the precise testimonies of the initial Christian historians, Jerome Sophronius (see above) and Eusebius of Caesarea (HEc. II 25), who both declared that Saint Paul and Saint Peter were martyrized on the same day in 67 A.D.
It is easy to understand that the Church was forced to "correct" the date of the death of the Apostle Paul by including the year "64 A.D." so as not to belie the massacre of Christians ordered by Nero (according to the chronicle of Cornelius Tacitus which has reached us) because declared guilty of setting fire to Rome in the same year.
In fact, being that the Christians were crucified for this crime, Paul of Tarsus - being the most authoritative preacher among all the faithful and already in chains and put on trial by the Emperor himself - should have been the first to be crucified by Nero in 64 A.D. As a result it is necessary to highlight the fact that the primitive Christian historians, Jerome and Eusebius, could have known nothing about "testimony" of the first century imperial chronicler Tacitus concerning the extermination of a great multitiude of Christ's followers, since the Codex which narrated the phony event was transcribed by the scribes in the eleventh century (see twelfth study).

To conclude this first analysis regarding Saint Paul as a man who actually existed, a historian must recognize that no subject of the Empire could have acted against the laws of Rome in such a blatant way without paying the “price” immediately. A true equestrian Roman military Tribune, after taking cognizance of Paul's contradictions regarding his Roman citizenship, would have first of all asked him to show his citizenship certificate; then, in fulfilment of its duty, it would have immediately put the boaster in chains, while Antonius Felix, acting as accusator and judge, would have beheaded him after a summary trial (as provided for by law).
A quarrel between any Jew (or ex-Jew, as in the case of Paul) and the High Priest of the Temple demonstrates that the author of this farse - which was written long after the narrated events happened and without sufficient knowledge of the citizenship laws (including the "Diploma of citizenship" abolished in 212 A.D.) that were in effect at the time in which we are led to believe these events occurred - did not recognize the authority and the power exercized by who held this holy office. This power was subject only to the discretion of Roman legates or sovereigns, all of whom designated directly by the Emperor.

Thanks to the historical methodology that we are following - which allows us to verify truths and falsifications by comparing New Testament scriptures with the historiography of the time and archaeology - we can demonstrate that Saint Paul was an invented character and then certified as an Apostle “dazzled” by Jesus who had already risen into heaven. This is a rational method that we must follow, as it is the only way to learn about the origins of Christianity.

Saint Paul, Saint Philip and Saint Stephen

Herodotus, in “Historiae”, referred to the lands south of Egypt as “Ethiopia”. One these lands, Nubia (a region in the middle Nile located in present-day Sudan), after the decline of Egyptian domination, became the center of a great Kushite civilization: “The Land of the Black Pharaohs”, with Meroe as its capital.

Acts of the Apostles:

The historians of the period - starting with the Greek Strabone (Geo. XVIII 1,53-54), followed by Plinius the Elder (Hist. Nat. VI 35,186) and lastly Cassius Dio (Hist. Rom. LIV 5) - did not know the language and mistakened the title of “Queen”, or rather “Kandàke” (Katkè in Nubian) for a name, thus repeating the error committed by the scribes who had given an account of the famous and unique Kandàke who challenged Rome.

In his work “Res Gestae” (XXVI 25), Caesar Augustus describes the military campaign which he ordered the Prefect of Egypt Gaius Publius Petronius to undertake in 23 B.C. in order to re-subjugate a part of Nubia; in 24 B.C. Queen “Kandàke” Amaniarenas - an indomitable warrior with “a virile appearance, blind in one eye” (as described by Strabone) - personally led a revolt against the Romans.
Petronius defeated the Nubians and forced a peace treaty on the sovereign; the treaty - which defined the borders of the Empire with the Meriot Kingdom - was stipulated with the Emperor on the island of Samos in 21 B.C.

Amaniarenas died in 10 B.C. and, as reported by Suetonius, the scrolls of the “Res Gestae” of the divine Augustus were deposited in the Senate after his death, thus becoming a direct source for the imperial historians.
The important archaeological ruins found in Meroe and the studies carried out by paleographers in the twentieth century have allowed us to decipher the language and discover the real name of the Queen, which was “Amaniarenas”. We must highlight that the only Kushite sovereign who entered into conflict with the Romans was Kandàke Amaniarenas. This statement is supported by the fact that if the Greek and Roman historians of the first century had known about other Meroite queens … all with the name “Kandàke”, they would have been the first to realize that it was not a name but a royal title and therefore would have reported the real appellative to posterity.

The episode narrated in the “Acts” is of course dated after the death of Christ, between 30 A.D. and 40 A.D.; therefore the scene described is a lie as it took place more than fifty after the death of the famous Queen “Kandake” whose real name, as known, was Amaniarenas; an eyewitness Evangelist (Philip) of the Acts of the Apostles - inspired by “an angel of the Lord” (Acts 8,26) and by the “Holy Spirit” - should have been aware of this before inventing a eunuch official, “Superintendent of the Treasury” of a dead queen, and having him speak to Philip about the prophet Isaiah “announcing the Gospel” in order to convert him (Acts 8,30/40). In fact this official should have known the real name of his queen and reported it to Philip, explaining to him that the words “Queen Kandake” made no sense as they meant “Queen … Queen”, and - as there was no language barrier - he should have also reported the original meroitic title: “Katke” not “Kandake”.

The Christian scribe of Eusebius of Caesarea (cfr HEc II 1,13) who used the pseudonym “Luke”, long after the narrated events took place, wanted to "prove" how the Christianization of Ethiopia began since the advent of Christ (a false conversion proven by the archaeological findings of the necropolis that show how all the rulers of Kush and its subjects continued to worship the God Amon three centuries after Christ), and to do this gathered information from the historical sources of the period ... but these contained the error which misinterpreted the title of Queen Kandake by mistakening it for a person's name: a grave misinterpretation taken from historiography and archaelogy which today has proved to be a “mortal sin”, as this alone would be enough to destroy the credibility of all the evangelical testimonies ... even if (as we are highlighting) history demonstrates that there is a superabundance of similar “mortal sins” in New Testament documents (starting with the writings of Luke).

The genuflexion experts - who have been caught out by this absurdity reported by an evangelist “inspired by God” - attempt to evade the issue and inexorably wander away from historical and archeological rationality. In fact, from the death of Christ to the time of Nero, only Kings reigned in Meroe: Pisakar (King from 30 to 40 A.D., during the evangelical era), Amanitaraqide and Nebmaatre. Only later, between 62 A.D. and 85 A.D. did a female “Kandake” reign: Amanikhatashan. This detail, however, is superfluous because these names could not have been known and reported by Greek and Roman historians of the time … simply because the three kings did not carry out a war against Rome but merely respected the treaties stipulated by their ancestor Amaniarenas with Caesar Augustus; they were perfectly aware of the risk which they would have run if they had attempted to reconquer the fertile regions around the lower and middle Nile.

It is also important to highlight that the grey eminences of the Catholic Church are now aware of the gross historical error committed by the Christian scribes (evidence of this is today provided by archeology) and are therefore modifying the above-mentioned passage from the “Acts of the Apostles”. The English version of “Catholic Bible” (which can be found on the net) says the following: “... kandake, or queen of Ethiopia” (Acts 8,27). By simply adding “or” the clever exegetes, underhandly e deliberately translate “Kandake” into “Queen” so that it does not appear to be a person's name … with two precise conclusions: first, make the English-speaking believers throughout the world seem incompetent; second, show that the “holy Gospels” were not “dictated by God”, as falsely decreed by the Council of Trent, but were invented by clerics long ago (who were their ideological forerunners), therefore modifiable at any moment for “pius” opportunism. The occult manipulators of Christian faith exclude the possibility that a "lamb" belonging to the flock of acolytes can "get lost" through a simple verification of the very ancient "Codex Sinaiticus", translated and published on the web; or read the "Codex Bezae Cantabrigensis" of the fifth century in which it explicitly refers "... Candace, an established Queen of the Ethiopians ...".

On the basis of this gross error other related lies contained in the “holy text” can be discovered. Carrying on our study we can demonstrate that the “Acts of the Apostles” were created by Christian scribes long after the events described in the “Acts” are said to have occurred. The authors wanted to “confirm” the advent of “Jesus Christ” and the Apostles who spread his doctrine by inventing a series of people as “extras”; and it was their task to “attest” these extraordinary and miraculous deeds.

These important theological second leads were artfully created (as in the case of the Apostles), so that they could interact with famous people who actually existed and who are traceable in the historiography of the time, exactly like the places in which they recite (all well-known and described in the Gospel). The error regarding the word “Kandake” made by the imperial historians - who did not know that in the language of the Meroites the term was used to refer to the “Queen” - was repeated, unconsciously, by the false Christian scribes; but today - thanks to archeology and paleography, along with the historic date of the death of the warrior sovereign - we are able to highlight the falsification and demonstrate that “Philip” had been invented.

But this is not enough

According to the “Acts” (Acts 6,5), this “Philip” was sent along with another six saints (his “colleagues”) to work wonders; they all possessed supernatural powers and one of them was the first martyr of Christianity: Saint Stephen “a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit … who was filled with grace and power and began to work miracles and great signs among the people” (Acts 6,5/8). So if Saint Stephen was with an inexistent Saint “Philip”, it is obvious that he also was invented (like the other five).
It is also important to highlight that Philip was an Apostle who followed Jesus; he announced Jesus's “Advent” to his “fellow Apostle” Nathaniel (Jh 1,45) and eyewitnessed His elevation to heaven 40 days after the “resurrection” (Acts 1,1-12). This is just one of the many pieces of evidence which demonstrate that the “resurrection” of Jesus was invented; and Saint Philip (sic!) took part in the “miracle of the loaves and fishes” (Jh 6,5/7). One must ask: Have the “blessed (believers) who are poor in spirit” read the Gospels?...

“The evangelist Philip had four unmarried daughters who were prophets” (Acts 21,9):
"It has already been reported that the apostle Philip lived in Hierapolis together with his daughters: it must now be noted that Papia, who was Bishop of Hierapolis, was with them ..." (Historia Hecclesiastica III 39,9).

Obviously, also "Papia, Bishop of Hierapolis" proves to be a false character being approached, in an ecclesiastical text, to an unreliable Saint Philip; nevertheless, the Church, aware of it before the nonexistence of this Philip referred to in "Acts", today denies that it was one of the apostles, concealing the evidence to the faithful themselves. On the contrary, we refer to his believers the testimony of the historic Bishop, Eusebius of Caesarea (Ecclesiastical History III 31, 2-5) in which, referring to the Saint in the passages quoted above in the "Acts", he states:

“Philip was one of the twelve apostles … after his death he rests in Hierapolis along with the tomb of his daughters”.

In reality, if the scribe had meant to mention another “Philip”, and not the Apostle belonging to the “twelve” (Acts 1,13), he would have done this by clearly distinguishing between two protagonists bearing the same name: the Jews used the patronymic in order to do this.
To confirm what was demonstrated in the first study “The Apostles did not exist”, even this “Saint”, like the other Apostles, was invented and depicted as a Galilean Jew with an impossible Greek name. Today he is once and for all cancelled from history.

This is still not enough

The martyr Stephen, according to “Acts”, was lapidated by order of a Sanhedrin convened by a High Priest in the absence of the Roman Imperial Legate (and without even requesting his authorization) (see Antiquities XX 197/203); this was the only organ which had the power to consent an execution (ius gladii) … therefore: false martyrdom, false Kandake, false Philip, false Sanhedrin, false Stephen and, needless to say, false miracles.

Note: The body of the protomartyr Saint Stephen was “discovered” and taken to Jerusalem in 416 A.D. by the historian Presbyter Paulus Orosius, collaborator of Saint Augustine, the brilliant Bishop and Father of the Catholic Church.

Miserable human remains, dug up almost four centuries after the narrated events took place, were cut into pieces and distributed to many churches in Europe; these remains continue to be venerated by the naive and “blessed who are poor in spirit”.

And there's more

Another invented person is introduced into this false scene whose protagonist is a false martyr; he is one of utmost importance for the Christian faith: Saint Saul Paul; still young and at whose feet the false martyrdom of a false Saint Stephen takes place (Ac 7,58).

The series of lies described thusfar and confirmed by the studies mentioned above and by the ones which will follow, demonstrate that Saint Saul Paul was not a real person but merely a lie created for ideological and doctrinal reasons.

Let's continue

The scenario extends to Samaria and ...

“The people unanimously welcomed the message Philip preached, because they had heard of the miracle he worked and because they saw for themselves. For unclean spirits came shrieking out of many who were possessed and several paralytics and cripples were cured” (Acts 8,6/7).

The “blunder” regarding Saint Philip made by the false Christian scribes - very clever “monastics” but not very knowledgable about history – is similar to another contained in the “Letters” of Saint Paul (the 2^nd to the Corinthians 11,32) and in “Acts” (12,4/7), when the copyists have the Apostle of the Gentiles declare:

According to “Acts” this event dates back to before 40 A.D. (the year of his death), therefore this monarch had to have been Nabateus King Aretas IV of Petra whose daughter married Herod Antipas the Tetrarch, who then ripudiated her after marrying Herodias.
But the father-in-law of Herod Antipas never reigned over Damascus because it was part of the Roman province of Syria: if this had actually happened the imperial historians would have reported it (as it would have been consideerd an important event). This fact, however, does not emerge. On the contrary, one of the ancestors of King Aretas IV, King Aretas III, reigned over Damascus over a century before Christ walked over the waters.
In 85 B.C., Aretas III, King of the Nabatean Arabs, conquered Damascus where he reigned until 83 B.C., when Tigranes II of Armenia (called the Great) conquered Syria, forcing Aretas III to abbandon Damascus and take refuge in Petra. The Imperium of Tigranes II did not last long.

The relentless advance of the power of Rome, personified by Pompey the Great and his legions, provoked the decline of the eastern kingdoms of the Mediterranean and Aretas III took advantage of these conflicts to extend once again the borders of Nabatean Arabia as far as Damascus; but, in 64 B.C., the Proconsul Emilius Scaurus (Jewish Wars I 159; mentioned even in the Qumran scrolls), Pompey's Lieutenant, forced Aretas III to withdraw from Damascus and retreat to Philadelphia and then to Petra (which was even farther south), interposing the arid desert between himself and the Roman legions.

After Aretas III, Obodas II reigned over the Nabateans; the latter was succeeded by Malichus I, who was succeeded by his son Obadas III father of Aretas IV. The latter reigned from 4 B.C. to 40 A.D., but never over Damascus. It is extremely evident that Saint Luke glued his “little historical bait” to a wrongly numbered genealogical hook.

What has been described is documented and proven by archeology and numismatics. On the contrary, the inspired historians (who are in a total mystic crisis), in order to safeguard the evangelical “Truths”, maintain that upon the death of Tiberius in 37 A.D. Gaius Caligula nominated Aretas IV as King of Damascus. These people lead us to believe that a king (who ascended the throne in 4 B.C. without the “placet” of Caesar Augustus) - after having attacked and defeated Herod Antipas ally of Rome in 36 B.C. - during the conflict between Rome and the Parthians dared take control of the territories of Perea, governed by Herod but belonging to the Empire. The “blitz” forced the King to take refuge in Petra in order to avoid being beheaded by Lucius Vitellius, Legatus Augusti (until 39 A.D.) of the Emperors Tiberius and Caligula (Antiquities XVIII 125).

So - according to the over-devout exegetes - with such a “record” he would have been awarded the throne of Damascus? In Syria? When between Damascus of Syria and Petra there was an immense territory under Roman domination which included Trachonitis, Batanea, Auranitis, Gaulanitide, Decapolis and Pereas … This is impossible! These exegetes need to demonstrate this with historical and archeological data as in the case of Aretas III and Petra. A “pius teacher” of history and classical literature needs to come along and publicly affirm that Damascus was granted to Aretas IV by Rome. Incidentally, Pompey the Great (in 64 B.C.) created a federation of ten cities – Decapolis – inhabited by Greeks and Romans; this federation – which was separated from the Kingdom of Judea and annexed to the province of Syria – was much further south than Damascus but … much further north than the Nabatean Arabia of Aretas.

The initially victorious war which Aretas brought against Herod Antipas (vassal of Tiberius) in 36 A.D. provoked the reaction of Rome, which had total control over communication and maritime routes; these were indispensable for the flourishing trade carried out with the Orient. Therefore Petra – after achieving its maximum splendor under Aretas IV – remained isolated and underwent an irreversible economic decline and under Traianus, the Nabatean kingdom was definitively submitted to the Roman Empire by Consul Aulus Cornelius Palma. 
The “inspired” historians with faith pretend (in bad faith) not to understand that “Saint Luke” pierced a series of “little baits” onto the hook of history to have them take the bait: the “little baits” are swallowed one by one as if they were consecrated hosts.
This huge religious lie cannot justify the right to change the past: the knowledge of how historical events actually occurred is a patrimony belonging to all of us.

And yet the genuflexion exegetes who “apostolate” are ashamed to publicize this “holy text” … priests are perfectly aware that it is ridiculous and they keep it hidden: as it were “apocryphal”. Priests know that if the “blessed who are poor in spirit” today discovered the foolishness which it contains … they would flee.

The “Sudden Inspiration of Saint Saul Paul”

He was imagined and described with juvenile expedients and gross historical errors, which are so evident that no one can affirm or demonstrate that Paul of Tarsus truly existed. On the contrary, it is the duty of a historian to highlight the falsity of his existence; a man who did not exist could not have written any letters, and the fact that there is a contrast among faithful Christian philologists with regard to the authenticity of the “letters” attributed to him confirms what we have just said: the “letters” were written by others using his name and at various times in relation to the development of the doctrine.
Before verifying the narration of the “sudden inspiration” of Saul who – according to the Bible – was a ferocious and zealous torturer who moved from nation to nation in order to massacre Christians, it is important to place oneself in the true context of the time so as to better understand what we are talking about.

Tacitus (Annales IV 5) reports that Antioch (Syria) hosted the Headquarters which controlled all of the Orient, a huge territory which answered to the Governor of Syria (Lieutenant of the Emperor), who commanded four legions plus auxiliary forces (having roughly the same number of men).
The following were subordinate - both juridically and militarily - to the Governor of Siria: all the Procurators, Prefects, Tetrarchs and vassal Kings with their respective armies. These soldiers - over 40,000 men - constituted a taskforce deployed in times of peace, whose task it was to defend the “limes” which ran from the Black Sea, Pontus, Armenia, the upper Euphrates to the Dead Sea (including Palestine). Rome wanted to defend itself against the potential threat of the Parthians who wanted access to the Mediterranean Sea, which was the most important trade route connecting the rich and fertile lands of the world known to those who wrote Western history ... and the Gospels.

The Caesars conferred the right to execute (ius gladii) only to the Governors of the Roman Provinces, commanders of adequate military contingents who possessed hegemonical and absolute territorial power. They were Magistrates with the power to act as both prosecutors and judges of inhabitants accused of commiting crimes, apart from those subjects having Roman citizenship, certified through a diploma issued by the Emperor. Roman citizens were to be tried by a court made up of several judges, and if such a court did not exist in the territory in which the crime had been commited, they were sent to Rome in chains on the first trireme headed for Rome. These Governors had enormous military power, making it possible to guarantee the unity of a very vast Empire.
No high priest "ἀρχιερεῖς" (archiereis) of the many divinities worshipped in the territories under Rome's subjugation had the right to execute subjects of the Emperor; therefore the High Priest of the Temple of Jerusalem could not suppress any citizen of the Empire without the prior consent of the Imperial Legate, even in the case of a violation of the Mosaic Law which was not binding for a Roman official ... and the High Priest was aware of this.
Ius Gladii was assigned to the client Kings, Tetrarchs and Ethnarchs ruling over the regions under Roman protectorate; they were granted the right to maintain an army with light armaments in order to guarantee public order and collect taxes.

This was the territorial, military and juridical scenario of the Roman Empire in the first century, which Luke made the bad mistake of ignoring when he invented:

“the sudden inspiration of Saul on the road to Damascus”

“Meanwhile Saul was still breathing threats to slaughter the Lord's disciples. He went to the High Priest and asked for letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, that would authorise him to arrest and take to Jerusalem any followers of the Way, men or women, that he might find. It happened that while he was travelling to Damascus and approaching the city, suddenly a light from heaven shone all round him. He fell to the ground, and then he heard a voice saying «Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?»” (Acts 9,1/4).

“I even persecuted this Way to the death and sent women as well as men to prison in chains as the High Priest and the whole Council of Elders (Sanhedrin) can testify. I even received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, which I took with me when I set off to bring prisoners back from there to Jerusalem for punishment” (Acts 22,4-5).

This “evidence” of the existence of the first “followers of Jesus”, with another strained reference to the High Priest of the Temple and of the Sanhedrin (for Luke it was an obsession which he could not avoid “tripping on”), is another “show” recanted by Roman law; the aim of this “production” is to preserve imperial domination by means of a group of rigidly hierarchical public officials.
The High Priest who presided over the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem did not have the power to send his thugs to arrest Damascene citizens subject to the jurisdiction of the Province of Syria, governed directly by Rome through an official stationed in Antioch: the Lieutenant of the Emperor, who answered only to the Emperor himself. The authority of the Imperial Legate would have been supplanted by the power of the High Priest and the Jewish Sanhedrin (but the power to “slaughter” men which was a prerogative belonging solely to the Romans).

Only an ascetic ignorant unaware of the historical context of the time could have invented such absurdities and presented them as a doctine “dictated by God”. Only the Princeps (Emperor) of the Roman Empire or the Senate had the power to ban and legitimize a cult; only the Emperor and the officials who he nominated and sent to the Provinces had the power to exercise “ius gladii” - the right to execute or repress inhabitants who provoked disorders (including those of religious origin).

In the territories under Roman domination governed by Kings nominated by the Emperor and loyal to Rome, monarchs were given the right to execute according to local law; however, no leader of a cult or sect had the right to persecute the followers of other cults, especially if they were religious citizens (of any faith) residing in other territories subject to public officials directly nominated by the Emperor.
The "cursus honorem" of the Roman high officials in the imperial Provinces called for them to respect a rigidly disciplined hierarchy imposed by the Caesar.

At the time of the “sudden inspiration of Saul”, Judea was governed by a Prefect chosen by the Emperor and delegated full powers and the right to execute; only he, after having examined each individual case, could grant the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem the right to come together in order to make an unappealable decision regarding the possible execution, in their territory, of Jews guilty of having violated Ancestral Law.
In order to start up the procedure, the presence of a Prefect or Procurator was indispensable and the violation of Roman Law implied the immediate removal of the High Priest of the Temple presiding over the Sanhedrin (Antiquities XX 202-203).

In Syria (where Damascus was located) the military garrisons of Rome were indispensable in order to keep the Parthians under control; here the contingents were larger and strategically more important than the garrison stationed in Jerusalem which answered to the Roman Tribune. In theory only the Tribune, and not the Jewish High Priest, could have asked - through his superior, the Prefect of Judea, residing in Maritime Caesarea - the Lieutenant of the Emperor, Commander of the Roman Headquarters in Antioch, to arrest citizens of Damascus and extradite them to Jerusalem, in Judea.

Saint Luke planned that the “mission” of Paul - aimed at crushing the movement of the followers of “Jesus” - would have turned into a “mission” in favour of the “Christians” thanks to an extraordinary event: the “sudden inspiration”.
It was during this bogus journey - in contrast with the rigid hiearchical, military and juridical structure which answered to Caesar - that the evangelist invented the “conversion of Saul” (Acts 9,1/9) and, after having been “dazzled” and blinded by a Jesus who “God raised … to life, and of that we are all witnesses. Now raised to the heights by God's right hand” (Acts 2,32/33), he created a new Apostle: “Saint Paul”.

Another aspect of particular importance is the fact that "the Damascus Road" did not exist in the first century when Paul of Tarsus would have traveled it to get there. A Roman milestone bearing an inscription from the period of Emperor Hadrian (2nd century AD): «Emperor Caesar, of the divine Trajan Parthicus son, of the divine Nerva nephew Trajan Hadrian Augustus...» attests to the important road that ran through the village of Capernaum and connected Galilee with Damascus. As history teaches us, Hadrian was a lover of Greek culture and, as a Roman Emperor, he knew of the existence of ten Greek cities called "Decapolis" all planned according to the Greco-Roman models and recognized by Rome as automome; but Damascus, although part of the Decapolis, was located in Syria therefore to the north and too far apart from the other nine. It was to facilitate relations and connections between the ten Greek cities that Hadrian, as a convinced Hellenist, decided to facilitate the Greeks in their relations by building a special road called "the Damascus Road".

As we have shown in the VI study, part three, the Gospels we know today were written in the Council of Constantinople in 381 AD, in execution of the Imperial Edict of Thessalonica of the previous year. Therefore the Christian scribes who published the gospels such as those of the "Acts of the Apostles" described by Eusebius of Caesarea, were all aware of the existence of the "Way to Damascus" but had no knowledge of the archaeological data that proved its realization in the second century A.D by the Emperor Hadrian. This ignorance was the cause of the blatant mistake committed by the Christian scribes of "Acts of the Apostles" who signed themselves "Luke", or a further mortal sin that denies the credibility of the so-called "sacred scriptures".
The current Church - aware of the error described in "Acts of the Apostles" which narrate the conversion of Saul-Paul on the Damascus Road - disavowed by archeology, tried to remedy it by hypothesizing on the Wikipedia proclive under the entry "Via Maris" by inserting this quote: "If the Via Regia cut the Sinai peninsula from Memphis in the east, up to the Gulf of Aqaba, and then turned north, towards Transjordan and Damascus, the Via Maris seems to reach Damascus". Beyond this conjecture, the ecclesiastical exegetes have not been able to go well knowing that there is no route of the deviation of the Via Maris towards Damascus, unlike the other ancient Roman and pre-Roman roads whose archaeological features still remain today; therefore, to try to solve the problem, they devised the drawing of a fake track on today's maps consisting of dots; vice versa, here is the photo that archaeologically demonstrates the imperial road built (2 centuries after Christ) by the will of Hadrian with his milestone of Capernaum:

The scribe who attempted to prove the existence of Paul of Tarsus made his character wander towards Ephesus, capital of the Roman province of Asia Minor, where, according to the “Acts”, thanks to the miraculous healings carried out, he was able to convert “all the inhabitants of the Province of Asia”. This is obviously an exaggerated piece of news (therefore invented) which can be easily proved wrong by history and archeology.
As the presence of Paul of Ephesus is related to that of the elderly Apostle John, which discussed in the fifth analysis where we demonstrate the inexistence of the two pillars of primitive Christianity created after the resurrection of the Redeemer of sinful humanity.

The scribes had the gall to invent stories so as to justify their jesuit doctrine, inexistent in the first century; they even went as far as to falsify a serious famine in Judea under Tiberius, by having it take place under Claudius. In order to do achieve their aim they had their preferred theological actor, Saul Paul, take a further trip to Judea "escorted" by the Holy Spirit:

And one of them whose name was Agabus, seized by the Holy Spirit, stood up and predicted that a severe and universal famine was going to happen. This in fact happened when Claudus was emperor. The disciples decided to send relief, each to contribute what he could afford, to the brothers living in Judea. They did this and delivered their contributions to the elders through the agency of Barnabas and Saul" (Acts 11,28/30).

We are dealing with a very detailed event, created with extreme hypocrisy, with the sole aim of preventing the historical dating of a Jewish rebellion against Roman domination of the land of Israel while a serious famine was claiming victims among the population. The discovery of such a falsification would have allowed researchers to trace the intervention (not the Advent) of the Messiah Saviour by identifying him as a person belonging to the Zealot reality of the period. If this had happened, the doctrine of salvation would have been disavowed and thwarted. The evidence of this further, abhorrent trip taken by Saul Paul is offered in the tenth study.

Paul of Tarsus. The new “revelation” of God was incarnated by a totally invented character by one or more mystics, with no knowledge of laws, but clever enough to understand that the illusion of the “resurrection of the flesh” was an irresistable mirage for most men.

Thanks to the invention of the super Apostle Saul Paul, the founding Fathers decided to graft the ritual of the theophagic eucharistic sacrifice of the pagan Soter (Saviour) into the Jewish Messiah Jeshùa … but this would have violated the Mosaic Law revealed to the Semitic prophets by Yahweh. In fact, their prophecies did not contemplate the Advent of the "Divine Oiled" to sacrifice to the Divinity (in Latin “Hostia”) which then resurrects and is divided into particles (blood and body) which are swallowed by the believers (in the form of a piece of bread) in order to have the right to eternal life.
In order to do this, it was necessary to excogitate the intervention of the Messiah himself (who had already resurrected) in order to "authorize" from the high heavens a revision of the Bible through a new Apostle who is not mentioned in the Gospels.

During the third century the Roman Empire found itself unable to defend its borders. The power of Rome was no longer capable of withstanding the pressure of the peoples living along its borders, interested in invading the fertile territories under Roman domination.
The population of the Empire interpreted this weakness as a consequence of the lack of protection offered by the Capitoline gods and thus, spontaneously, turned to other religions (especially those of eastern origin), capable of satisfying individual existential needs, both during life and after death.
At this time Christianity was able to develop, obtain legal recognition and, finally, become the sole state religion within an Empire which was about to break up.
Among the many Christian sects – all believers of Christs conceived in different manners both in the form and in the divine substance - the one which prevailed was that of the followers of the doctrine of the Apostle Paul.

The Christianity of Paul – based on an illusion of the salvation of eternal life and officialized by an Empire in decline – prevailed and spread throughout the Roman Provinces; after the end of the Empire the Christianity of Paul spread to faraway territories ... and became the greatest brainwashing which humanity has ever encountered.

Emilio Salsi