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A groundbreaking academic paper reveals the answers to Christianity's most profound mysteries including the 'silent years' of Jesus, the incompatibility between the deity of the Old Testament (Torah) and God Our Father as revealed in the New Testament, and a complete forensic reconstruction of the hijacking of Christianity.
🔍 Based on Peer-Reviewed Research:
This presentation is based on the academic paper "The Theophanic Replacement Protocol: A Forensic Reconstruction of Divine Identity Theft, Textual Erasure, and the Formation of Nicene Christianity" published in the Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies.
Read the academic submission here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17964660
Or the full journal article (with graphics and links) here:
https://journal.pre-nicene.org/TheophanicReplacementProtocol.html
Notes:
Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies
https://journal.pre-nicene.org/TheophanicReplacementProtocol.html
ISSN: 3068-8469 December, 2025DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17964659
References:
Barnes, T. D. (1981). Constantine and Eusebius. Harvard University Press.
BeDuhn, J. D. (2013). The First New Testament: Marcion’s Scriptural Canon. Polebridge
Press.
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. (12th cent.). Codex Vaticanus Arch. B. S. Pietro A 3 (Vat.
lat. 214664). Digital Vatican Library. https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/214664
The Canons of the Council of Nicaea (325 CE). In Schaff, P., & Wace, H. (Eds.), *Nicene and
Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 14.*
Lactantius. (c. 313-315 CE). On the Deaths of the Persecutors (De Mortibus
Persecutorum).
The Very First Bible. https://theveryfirstbible.org
Le Bas, P., & Waddington, W. H. (1870). Inscriptions grecques et latines recueillies en
Grèce et en Asie Mineure (Vol. 3, Inscription 2558).
Roth, D. T. (2015). The Text of Marcion’s Gospel. Brill.
Tertullian. (c. 207-212 CE). Against Marcion (Adversus Marcionem).
Marcionite Church. https://marcionitechurch.org
Primary Source Tradition:
Marcionite Church (2020). The Very First Bible: The Evangelion and Apostolikon (ISBN 978-0578641591).
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🔍 Based on Peer-Reviewed Research:
This presentation is based on the academic paper "The Theophanic Replacement Protocol: A Forensic Reconstruction of Divine Identity Theft, Textual Erasure, and the Formation of Nicene Christianity" published in the Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies.
Read the academic submission here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17964660
Or the full journal article (with graphics and links) here:
https://journal.pre-nicene.org/TheophanicReplacementProtocol.html
Notes:
Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies
https://journal.pre-nicene.org/TheophanicReplacementProtocol.html
ISSN: 3068-8469 December, 2025DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17964659
References:
Barnes, T. D. (1981). Constantine and Eusebius. Harvard University Press.
BeDuhn, J. D. (2013). The First New Testament: Marcion’s Scriptural Canon. Polebridge
Press.
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. (12th cent.). Codex Vaticanus Arch. B. S. Pietro A 3 (Vat.
lat. 214664). Digital Vatican Library. https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/214664
The Canons of the Council of Nicaea (325 CE). In Schaff, P., & Wace, H. (Eds.), *Nicene and
Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 14.*
Lactantius. (c. 313-315 CE). On the Deaths of the Persecutors (De Mortibus
Persecutorum).
The Very First Bible. https://theveryfirstbible.org
Le Bas, P., & Waddington, W. H. (1870). Inscriptions grecques et latines recueillies en
Grèce et en Asie Mineure (Vol. 3, Inscription 2558).
Roth, D. T. (2015). The Text of Marcion’s Gospel. Brill.
Tertullian. (c. 207-212 CE). Against Marcion (Adversus Marcionem).
Marcionite Church. https://marcionitechurch.org
Primary Source Tradition:
Marcionite Church (2020). The Very First Bible: The Evangelion and Apostolikon (ISBN 978-0578641591).
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00:00Time for another edition of Presbyter Chat, where your questions are answered through the
00:06prism of pre-Nicene Christianity. Now your host, Presbyter Darren Kalama.
00:12Thanks for joining us. In our last episode, we talked about something called the Eclipse
00:17Theophany. It's the religious belief of many pre-Nicene Christians that Jesus descended to
00:24Earth from Heaven on November 24th of 29 AD during a total solar eclipse over Capernaum,
00:32just as a massive earthquake rocked a city named Nicaea at the same time, on the same day.
00:40And it's not just a theory, it's actually backed up by astronomical facts and non-religious witnesses
00:47to the events. And we're of course familiar with the event because it matches the first sentence
00:52of the Evangelion, the Gospel of the Lord, received as revelation by the Apostle Paul on the road to
00:59Damascus in 34 AD. And it reads, quote, In the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being
01:07governor of Judea, Jesus descended into Capernaum, a city in Galilee, unquote. And that 15th year
01:15corresponds to, you guessed it, 29 AD. But it wasn't the complete story. Now, as amazing as that
01:23synchronization is, it's only part of a much larger and stunning backdrop from an academic paper from
01:30the Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies entitled, The Theophanic Replacement Protocol,
01:37A Forensic Reconstruction of Divine Identity Theft, Textual Erasure, and the Formation of Nicene
01:44Christianity. And in it, the author A.W. Mitchell lays historical facts from end to end, which
01:51some theologians now say definitively prove that what we call Christianity today is virtually
01:58unrecognizable from how it started. Now, to understand how all of this happened, you have
02:04to be able to answer the following question. How do you hide a total solar eclipse, a massive destructive
02:12earthquake, and hijack the world's largest religion all at the same time? It's a lot to ask, I know.
02:20So, to help out, we conducted a roundtable discussion to not only flesh out the core concepts
02:27behind the historical model known as the Theophanic Replacement Protocol, or TRP, but to also explore the
02:35implications of what can only be described as a theological crime scene, or to put it another way,
02:42divine identity theft, the grafting of the Hebrew deity Yahweh onto God our Father, who was, of course,
02:50only revealed by Jesus. Let's go ahead and join the discussion.
02:54Okay. I want you to start with the date.
02:57A very specific one.
02:58November 24th, 29 A.D. Just lock that into your mind.
03:03Right. Because this isn't the date you're, you know, going to find in your standard history books.
03:07No, not at all. And according to the stack of documents we have in front of us today,
03:13this might be the single most important day in human history.
03:16It's the day the world changed physically. That quite literally.
03:20Yeah, we're not talking about some kind of metaphor here.
03:23No, we're talking about a cosmic terrestrial signature. That's the term the sources use.
03:28Right. So picture this. It's just afternoon. You're in a region called Bithynia. That's modern day
03:35northern Turkey.
03:36The sun's high in the sky.
03:37And then bam, without any warning, the sky goes pitch black. Total solar eclipse.
03:42And at that exact moment, as the light just dies, the ground beneath your feet starts to heave violently.
03:48A massive earthquake. It rips right through the city of Nicaea.
03:52Darkness above, chaos below. I mean, it's the kind of event that feels like the universe is literally tearing itself apart.
03:59Welcome to the Deep Dive. Today, we're doing something, well, a little different.
04:05We're not just summarizing a paper. We're walking through a crime scene. A 2,000-year-old cold case.
04:11We're looking at a forensic reconstruction of early Christian history. We're pulling from the work of A.W. Mitchell, specifically a paper called the Theophanic Replacement Protocol, and also some research from the Journal of Pre-Nicene Christian Studies.
04:25And we should probably be upfront here. The claim being made in these documents is huge.
04:30It's massive. The central thesis is that the version of Christianity the world has known for about 17 centuries is the result of a deliberate, calculated cover-up.
04:39A cover-up they call divine identity theft.
04:42The technical term is the Theophanic Replacement Protocol, or TRP.
04:45It sounds like something from a spy movie. A black ops file.
04:49And it functions like one.
04:50The whole premise is this. The original faith, what they call the primary stratum, wasn't about a baby born in a manger to fulfill old prophecies.
04:59It was about the sudden, fully human descent of a divine being.
05:04Jesus revealing a God that humanity had quite literally never heard of before.
05:09And the protocol, the TRP, was the operation to hijack that entire event.
05:14Exactly. It was a multi-century operation to take this new alien God the Father and systematically swap them out for a different deity.
05:23For Yahweh.
05:24To take the messenger Jesus and graft him onto the history and the family tree of the God of the Hebrew Bible.
05:30So, for almost 2,000 years, the world has been worshiping a synthesis, a hybrid.
05:36That's the argument. And in this deep dive, we're going to walk through how they claim it happened, step by step.
05:41From the event itself to the final cover-up.
05:44It's an invitation to look at this history not as the smooth, organic growth of a religion.
05:48But as a crime scene.
05:49Where the winners wrote the history books and burned the evidence of the losers.
05:54Okay. So, before we open this file, let's just lay down some ground rules.
05:57These ideas are, to put it mildly, radical.
06:00They challenge the core narrative of, what, 2.4 billion people.
06:04Something like that.
06:04So, to be crystal clear, we are reporters today.
06:08We're just walking through the forensic model that Mitchell and the Marcionite research present.
06:12We're not taking sides.
06:14But we are going to take their claims seriously and see where the evidence they present actually leads.
06:19We have to follow the documents.
06:20If it's a cold case, we look at the fingerprints.
06:23And the very first fingerprint is that date.
06:25November 24th, 29 AD.
06:28Why is that specific Tuesday in November the anchor for this entire thing?
06:34It starts with hard science.
06:36The sources point to modern astronomical retrocalculations, specifically using NASA data.
06:41Okay.
06:42And they confirm, without a doubt, that on November 24th, 29 AD, there was a total solar eclipse.
06:48A total eclipse.
06:49Not a partial one.
06:50Total.
06:50And the path of totality, the moon's shadow, passed directly over Bithynia.
06:55Specifically, over the city of Nicaea.
06:57Okay, everyone listening.
06:58Put a mental pin in the name Nicaea.
07:00Yeah, that piece of geography is going to come back with a vengeance later on.
07:03I bet.
07:04So, totality was over Turkey.
07:06What about further south in Galilee?
07:08In Capernaum, this eclipse would have been a massive partial eclipse.
07:12We're talking 95% magnitude.
07:14So, at midday, the sun just almost disappears.
07:18The sky goes dark.
07:19It would have been terrifying.
07:21But it wasn't just the darkness.
07:22No.
07:23There was a simultaneous geological event.
07:25And for this, we have a historical witness, a second century historian named Phlegon of
07:30Trials.
07:31Oh, God.
07:32Yeah.
07:33And Phlegon records a great earthquake in Bithynia that, quote, overturned many things in
07:38Nicaea, happening at the exact same time as a solar eclipse.
07:42So, there it is, the cosmic terrestrial signature, darkness and shaking.
07:47But how does this connect to the story of Jesus?
07:49It's the timeline of Tiberius Caesar.
07:51History tells us the 15th year of Tiberius is the year 29 AD.
07:56Okay.
07:56Now, you look at the source material they cite, the Evangelion, which they identify as
08:01the original gospel of the Lord, it opens with a very specific claim.
08:05It doesn't start within the beginning or anything like that.
08:08No.
08:08It starts, in the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar, Jesus descended into Capernaum.
08:12Descended.
08:13That's the key word, isn't it?
08:15It's the smoking gun.
08:16The Greek word is catelfian.
08:18It means a vertical movement, a descent from above.
08:21So, no nativity story.
08:22None.
08:23The sources are absolutely adamant about this.
08:25The original gospel narrative has no Mary, no Joseph, no manger, no shepherds, no wise men,
08:30no genealogy.
08:31So, in this primary version, Jesus just appears.
08:34He appears, but we have to be super precise here, because the sources are, he didn't appear
08:40as like a ghost or a spirit or a beam of light.
08:43Right.
08:43He descended in fully human form.
08:46Okay.
08:46Let's unpack that.
08:47Because when I hear descent, I think of an angel or a vision.
08:51No, he was tangible.
08:52He looked like a man of about 30.
08:54He had flesh and blood.
08:55He was subject to gravity.
08:56If you'd shaken his hand, it would have been solid.
08:57But no biological origin.
08:59He didn't grow up.
09:00He just arrived.
09:01The source material is explicit on this point.
09:03It says, Jesus descended into Capernaum in fully human form, and he arrived on earth
09:08the same way he left it after the resurrection, by ascending and descending from heaven in
09:13fully human form.
09:14He came the same way he left.
09:16Exactly.
09:16That's a fascinating way to put it.
09:18It's like a diver entering the ocean.
09:20The diver doesn't need to be born from the water.
09:22He just jumps in, fully formed, with his suit on.
09:25That's a perfect analogy.
09:26It's an intrusion from the outside.
09:29A rescue mission.
09:29But wait a minute.
09:31If Phlegon recorded this eclipse and earthquake in 29 AD, and the original gospel ties Jesus'
09:37arrival to that exact year, why do we all associate the darkness with the crucifixion?
09:43Ah.
09:44That is what the paper calls the Phlegonian conflation.
09:47Okay.
09:48This is a brilliant bit of forensic work.
09:50Later church fathers, people like Eusebius, they knew about Phlegon's record.
09:55It was a well-known historical fact.
09:57But the date didn't fit their new narrative.
09:59They needed the big cosmic sign to happen at his death, not his arrival.
10:03Precisely.
10:04So they conflated the events.
10:05They claimed that Phlegon's eclipse from 29 AD was the darkness at the crucifixion, which
10:10happened in, say, 30 or 33 AD.
10:12They just moved it.
10:13They tried to.
10:15But the sources point out a huge scientific impossibility.
10:17What's that?
10:18You cannot have a total solar eclipse during the festival of Passover.
10:21Why not?
10:21The orbital mechanics don't work.
10:24Passover always happens at a full moon.
10:26Solar eclipses can only happen at a new moon, when the moon is between the Earth and the
10:29sun.
10:30It's astronomically impossible.
10:32It is.
10:33So the darkness at the crucifixion, described in the standard gospels, is scientifically impossible
10:38as an eclipse.
10:40But a total eclipse in November of 29 AD.
10:43Is a historical fact confirmed by NASA.
10:47The claim is that the apologists took the powerful theophanic signature of his arrival
10:51and just pasted it on to his death to add drama and fulfill a perceived prophecy.
10:57That's the first act of identity theft, then.
10:59Taking the cosmic sign of his arrival and repurposing it.
11:03But why?
11:03Why go to all this trouble to change the story from descent to birth?
11:08Because of the gods.
11:09Or, more accurately, the god.
11:11Explain that.
11:12I want to be very specific about the theology laid out in these sources.
11:16The pre-Nicene Christians, the ones following this original path, they will leave there
11:19as only one true god.
11:21The father.
11:22The alien god.
11:22Right.
11:23The god that Jesus revealed.
11:24And he's called alien because until that moment in 29 AD, he was completely and utterly
11:28unknown to this world.
11:29So, Abraham didn't know him.
11:31Moses didn't know him.
11:32Nobody knew him.
11:34He is a god of pure grace, pure peace, with no prior history in our timeline.
11:38He created heaven and earth, but was unknown to humanity until Jesus descended.
11:44Okay.
11:44So, if the father is the one true god, then what is Yahweh, the god of the Old Testament?
11:49This is the most radical part.
11:51Yeah.
11:51The sources argue that for these original Christians, Yahweh, the creator god of the
11:55Hebrew Bible, was regarded as a deity or a, quote, unclean spirit of some variety.
12:00An unclean spirit.
12:01Or a demiurge, a lesser power, a territorial god.
12:04The sources are very clear.
12:06Yahweh is the god of this world, that he is not the father.
12:09And the sources use a table to prove this, right?
12:11The characterological antithesis.
12:13Yes.
12:13It's basically a side-by-side rap sheet.
12:16It's presented as damning forensic evidence.
12:18So, what's on it?
12:18On one side, you have Yahweh.
12:20The source cites 1 Samuel 15.3, where Yahweh explicitly commands the slaughter of the Amalekites.
12:26And the order is to kill child and infant.
12:28It's a command for genocide.
12:29It is.
12:30Now, on the other side of the table, you have the father, as revealed by Jesus.
12:35And his ethic is, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.
12:40Right.
12:40One is an eye for an eye.
12:42The other is turn the other cheek.
12:44One uses conditional curses and blessings based on obedience to the law.
12:49The other offers unconditional grace.
12:51One is tribal, territorial, concerned with one group of people.
12:55And the other is universal.
12:57Exactly.
12:57The argument is that you cannot reconcile these two character profiles.
13:01You can't just say, oh, God was just in a different mood in the Old Testament.
13:05They're ontological opposites.
13:07They are.
13:07And for these early Christians, the conclusion was simple.
13:10Yahweh was the jailer.
13:12Jesus was the liberator who descended into the jail to set the prisoners free.
13:16Okay, but that brings us to the billion dollar question.
13:18If the original message was, Jesus saves us from the jailer Yahweh, how in the world did
13:23we end up with a faith where Yahweh is the father of Jesus?
13:26That is the protocol.
13:27The theophanic replacement protocol.
13:29The hijack.
13:30The source material calls it a hostile takeover of the faith.
13:34The entire mission was to take the moral authority and the spiritual power of Jesus, the liberator,
13:40and harness it for the service of Yahweh, the creator.
13:44It really is divine identity, though.
13:45It's the perfect crime.
13:47Think about it.
13:48If you can convince the prisoners that the liberator is actually the son of the jailer.
13:53Then the prison is secure forever.
13:55The prisoners will stop trying to escape.
13:57They'll even defend the prison walls because they think the jailer is actually on their side.
14:02That is a chilling metaphor.
14:03So how do you pull off a heist of that magnitude?
14:06It couldn't have happened overnight.
14:07No, it took centuries.
14:09The sources break it down into distinct phases.
14:11Phase one was what they call catechetical refounding.
14:14Catechetical?
14:15So like teaching?
14:16Exactly.
14:16They point to an early Christian text called the Dadok.
14:19It's like a training manual for new converts.
14:22And what did it do?
14:23The sources argue it was the software update that prepared people for the forgery to come.
14:28Before they even touched the scriptures, they changed the mindset of the believers.
14:34The Dadok starts to conflate loving God with Yahweh, the creator.
14:38It reinstates the two ways of the law.
14:41You know, blessings for obedience, curses for disobedience.
14:44So they start reprogramming the believers to think in terms of the old law again.
14:48Yes.
14:49And once that new software is installed, you can start messing with the hardware, the texts themselves.
14:55Phase two, textual forgery.
14:57This is where the real cutting and pasting begins.
14:59First and foremost, they had to get rid of the descent.
15:02Of course.
15:02Because a Jesus who just descends from heaven in 29 AD is an outsider.
15:07He has no connection to the Jews or to Yahweh's story.
15:10He's a total stranger.
15:11So you erase the descent narrative and you insert a birth narrative.
15:15The nativity.
15:16Think about what that does functionally.
15:18By creating genealogies, like in Matthew and Luke, they tie Jesus biologically to King David and to Abraham.
15:24He's no longer an alien visitor.
15:25He's the seed of David.
15:27He becomes the property of the old covenant.
15:29Exactly.
15:30And then there's John the Baptist.
15:31In the original Evangelion, Jesus just appears and starts his work.
15:36But in the later texts, he gets baptized by John first.
15:39Why is that so important?
15:40It's a subordination ritual.
15:42By having John, a prophet of the old law, baptize Jesus, they visually demonstrate that Jesus is under the authority of the old system.
15:50It's a public act of submission.
15:51It validates the old guard.
15:53It does.
15:54And then there's a key interpolation in Paul's letter to the Galatians.
15:57The line about being born of a woman born under the law?
16:01Yes.
16:02The sources claim that line was completely absent from Paul's original letters.
16:05It was added later.
16:06Why?
16:07What does it do?
16:08It's a kill shot.
16:09It explicitly states he is part of Yahweh's creation, born of a woman, and he is subject to Yahweh's rules, born under the law.
16:16It completely reverses Paul's entire theology of freedom from the law.
16:21Speaking of Paul, the picture these sources paint of him is so different from the traditional one.
16:27He's not the architect of the institutional church.
16:29He sounds more like a resistance leader watching his movement get co-opted in real time.
16:34That's the most accurate way to see him through this lens.
16:36The sources focus heavily on the Antioch defection.
16:40That's the famous argument between Peter and Paul.
16:42Right, which we usually hear about as a minor spat over table manners.
16:47You know, can Jewish Christians eat with Gentiles?
16:49But the sources say it was much more than that.
16:51They call it a counterinsurgency.
16:53A counterinsurgency.
16:54Let's break that down.
16:55So James, leader in Jerusalem, had actually come over to Paul's side.
16:59He was eating with Gentiles.
17:00Which was a huge deal.
17:02Massive.
17:02It meant he had accepted the father-only gospel.
17:05He had abandoned Yahweh's dietary laws.
17:08The resistance was winning.
17:10So James was on board with the alien god.
17:13He was.
17:13But then Peter shows up.
17:16And the source describes Peter not as a humble apostle, but as the enforcer for the circumcision faction.
17:21The Yahweh loyalists.
17:22Yes.
17:23He arrives with a cadre of Torah zealots.
17:25It's described like a mob shakedown.
17:27Seriously.
17:28Peter bullies James back into submission.
17:31He uses social fear.
17:33The text in Galatians says James feared them which were of the circumcision.
17:37So he backed down.
17:38He capitulated.
17:39So it wasn't a theological debate.
17:41It was a political purge.
17:43Exactly.
17:44Peter strong-armed the leadership back under the authority of Yahweh.
17:48And Paul is just standing there watching this whole thing go down.
17:51And he is absolutely furious.
17:53When he writes about it in Galatians, he calls their message another gospel.
17:59He's not just venting his frustration.
18:01He's running a battle report.
18:02He says, false brethren were brought in to spy out our liberty that they might bring us into bondage.
18:09Spy out our liberty.
18:11That's the language of espionage, not theology.
18:13Paul sees the protocol happening right in front of his eyes.
18:16He sees these agents trying to drag his converts back into the prison of the law.
18:20And he knows what's coming.
18:21There's a prophecy mentioned from Acts 20.
18:23The wolf prophecy.
18:24Yes.
18:25Paul is leaving the elders at Ephesus.
18:28And he tells them,
18:29I know that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
18:34Grievous wolves.
18:35But then he adds the really chilling part.
18:37Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things.
18:42So the threat is coming from the inside.
18:44He wasn't just worried.
18:45He was predicting the synthesis.
18:46He foresaw that the God of this world, Yahweh, would retake control of the narrative from within the movement itself.
18:54I mean, looking at history, he was right.
18:55The resistance lost.
18:57They did.
18:58And the suppression was systematic and brutal.
19:01This leads to the later phases of the protocol.
19:04The erasure.
19:05We jump forward a couple of centuries now to the year 303 AD.
19:10The Emperor Diocletian.
19:11The Great Persecution.
19:13Diocletian orders all Christian scriptures to be burned.
19:16But the source makes a fascinating forensic point about this.
19:20By this time, the synthesized texts, the ones that blend Jesus and Yahweh, the ones of the nativity stories, they were widespread.
19:28They were supported by the growing institutional bishop network.
19:31But the Marcenite texts, the originals.
19:33They were more concentrated in specific communities.
19:36So when the imperial order came down to burn the book.
19:38They were specifically targeted for total annihilation.
19:40It created what the paper calls a documentary vacuum.
19:44The originals were systematically turned to ash, which allowed the synthesized, proto-Orthodox versions to become the only surviving witnesses to the story.
19:53Which brings us to the final act.
19:55The final seal on the news story.
19:57The Council of Nicaea, 325 AD.
20:00This is the climax of the whole operation.
20:03And the location.
20:04It's just...
20:05It's spooky.
20:06It really is.
20:06It's the same city, Nicaea.
20:08The exact spot where the earthquake struck during the eclipse, during the descent, back in 29 AD.
20:14The site of the rupture becomes the site of the repair.
20:17The symbolism is just overwhelming.
20:19The place where the alien god physically shook the foundations of the old world is the very same place where the Roman Empire cemented the repair job.
20:26And they did it with one specific legal phrase.
20:28The homo usios.
20:29Yes.
20:30Of one substance.
20:31The council, backed by the emperor, decreed that Jesus the son is homo usios with God the father.
20:37But the Nicene Creed explicitly defines the father as the maker of heaven and earth.
20:42Which is Yahweh.
20:43So, by law, you could no longer say they were different beings.
20:47It became a heresy to separate them.
20:48Exactly.
20:49The homo usios clause was the dogmatic lock.
20:52It legally fused the identity of the liberator Jesus with the identity of the creator Yahweh.
20:58Anyway, the divine identity theft was now official state doctrine.
21:03If you denied it, you were an enemy of the Roman Empire.
21:06The perfect crime.
21:07The evidence was burned.
21:08The witnesses were silenced.
21:10And the new story was enforced by the sword.
21:13And yet, the sources say the protocol wasn't completely perfect.
21:16Yeah.
21:16There were cracks in the wall.
21:17Something survived.
21:18Okay, let's talk about survival.
21:19The name Jerome comes up.
21:21He's the one who translated the Bible into Latin, right?
21:23The Vulgate.
21:24Yes.
21:24The Vulgate became the standard Bible in the West for a thousand years.
21:28Jerome is a key figure in cementing the synthesis.
21:31But there's a huge catch.
21:33What is it?
21:34When he set out to translate Paul's letters, the Latin texts available to him were a complete mess.
21:39They'd been edited and re-edited and copied so many times.
21:43He needed a reliable early Greek source text.
21:46And where did he find one?
21:47The Vatican Library's own records admit this.
21:49No way!
21:50Yes.
21:51Jerome had to use Marcionite texts.
21:53He used the heretics books.
21:54He had no choice.
21:56They were the only ones that had preserved the earliest, most reliable copies of Paul's letters.
22:01So, ironically, even the architect of the final Catholic Bible was dependent on the very people his church was trying to erase.
22:09So the DNA of the original message is still hidden in the Vulgate?
22:12It's in there.
22:13You just have to know where to look.
22:14That's incredible.
22:15And there's also physical evidence.
22:17A stone.
22:18The Deer Lylee inscription.
22:20This is a fantastic piece of archaeology.
22:22It was found in Syria, and it's dated to 318 AD.
22:26That's just seven years before the Council of Nicaea.
22:29Right on the cusp.
22:30It's an inscription on a Marcionite church building.
22:32And what does it say?
22:33It dedicates the church to the Lord and Savior, Jesus the Good.
22:37Jesus the Good.
22:38It sounds simple, but it's a profound theological statement.
22:42The Good, in Greek krestos, was the specific title the Marcionites used to distinguish the Father, the alien God, from the just or severe creator God, Yahweh.
22:53So it's proof.
22:55Right up until the very end, there were public churches openly worshiping Jesus as the messenger of a good God.
23:02They were still there.
23:03They hadn't been completely stamped out yet.
23:05No.
23:05And the sources bring this story right up to the present day.
23:08They talk about a great return, an apocatestasis.
23:12Happening in 2020.
23:13In our lifetime.
23:14Yes.
23:15With the publication of a book called The Very First Bible in 2020.
23:19The claim is that the Marcionite church, or at least its core texts and beliefs, have reemerged.
23:25They argue that the protocol has finally run its course after 1700 years.
23:30The original Evangelion is back.
23:33It really does feel like the end of a movie where the truth that was buried 2000 years ago finally comes to light.
23:39It does.
23:40And it forces you to look at that Bible on your shelf in a completely different way.
23:44You start to see the seams.
23:47That's the perfect word for it.
23:48Once you see the seams, the awkward way a genealogy is pasted onto the front of a gospel,
23:53or the way Paul seems to be fighting with his own colleagues, you can't unsee it.
23:59It changes how you read everything.
24:00Take that concept of fully human again.
24:03It just fundamentally shifts the entire logic of the incarnation.
24:06If Jesus descended fully human and then ascended fully human,
24:10then the physical world isn't something he needed to be born into to experience.
24:15It wasn't about becoming human.
24:16It was about a human form being entering a foreign environment.
24:21It brings us right back to that core idea from the beginning.
24:24He arrived on Earth the same way he left it, by ascending and descending from heaven.
24:29It frames his time here not as a life that was lived from birth to death, but as a mission that was executed.
24:34You know, there's a quote that was in our brief for this deep dive that just perfectly sums up the historical challenge here.
24:41It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
24:45Attributed to Mark Twain.
24:46And yeah, it applies perfectly.
24:48We're talking about 1700 years of history, tradition, art, music, culture.
24:53All of it built on the foundation of the Nicene narrative.
24:57To suggest that it's all based on a protocol of identity theft, that is a very, very hard pill for anyone to swallow.
25:03It is.
25:04But the forensic evidence, the sources lay out, the astronomy, the textual analysis, the archaeology, the internal contradictions, it's compelling.
25:11It makes you wonder.
25:12It raises the ultimate question, doesn't it?
25:14If this model is even partially true, if the god of this world, Yahweh, successfully hijack the message of the alien god.
25:23Then what have we been looking at for the last two millennia?
25:26Exactly.
25:27Are the institutions we see today, the cathedrals, the denominations, all the structures, are they monuments to the liberator?
25:35Or are they extensions of the jailer's prison?
25:38That is the question the sources really want you to wrestle with.
25:41If the face on the statue is Jesus, but the spirit animating the system is Yahweh, who are people actually worshipping?
25:51And that is a thought that will definitely keep you up at night.
25:53It will indeed.
25:54Wow.
25:55We have covered a huge amount of ground today.
25:57From a solar eclipse over ancient Turkey in 29 AD, all the way to the re-emergence of these texts in 2020.
26:04It's a lot to process.
26:06It's history written by the losers, finally getting a chance to see the light of day.
26:10It really is.
26:10Thank you for walking us through this whole investigation.
26:13It has been truly revealing.
26:15My pleasure.
26:15It's always good to check the foundations of the thing.
26:17May our Father's Holy Spirit find and guide you in these confusing times and lift the veil from your hearts and minds.
26:28I'm Darren Kalam and we'll see you next time on Presbyter Chat.
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