Italy’s favourite saint faked his stigmata
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Historian Sergio Luzzatto’s book, The Other Christ: Padre Pio and 19^th Century Italy reveals Padre Pio, who was made a saint in 2002, had used carbolic acid to get the Christ-like wounds in his hands.
ROME: Padre Pio, Italy’s most loved saint, faked his stigmata by pouring carbolic acid on his hands, according to a new book. The Other Christ: Padre Pio and 19^th Century Italy, by the historian Sergio Luzzatto, draws on a document found in the Vatican’s archive. The document reveals the testimony of a pharmacist who said that the young Padre Pio bought four grams of carbolic acid in 1919.
“I was an admirer of Padre Pio and I met him for the first time on 31 July 1919”, wrote Maria De Vito. She claimed to have spent a month with the priest in the southern town of San Giovanni Rotondo, seeing him often. “Padre Pio called me to him in complete secrecy and telling me not to tell his fellow brothers, he gave me personally an empty bottle, and asked if I would act as a chauffeur to transport it back from Foggia to San Giovanni Rotondo with four grams of pure carbolic acid”. “He explained that the acid was for disinfecting syringes for injections. He also asked for other things, such as Valda pastilles.”
The testimony was originally presented to the Vatican by the Archbishop of Manfredonia, Pasquale Gagliardi, as proof that Padre Pio caused his own stigmata with acid. It was examined by the Holy See during the beatification process of Padre Pio and apparently dismissed.
Padre Pio, whose real name was Francesco Forgione, died in 1968. He was made a saint in 2002. A recent survey in Italy showed that more people prayed to him than to Jesus or the Virgin Mary. He exhibited stigmata throughout his life, starting in 1911.

Parting of the Red Sea True or False
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In the Bible it is written that in order to escape the Pharaoh’s horses & chariots horsemen and troops and with the Red Sea in front of them they had no escape route. Then the Lord said to Moses “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horseman. The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh his chariots and his horsemen.”
It further goes on to say that the angel of God withdrew and went behind them. A pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them, coming between the army’s of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to one side and light to the other side.
Then Moses stretched out his hand and there were two walls of water with dry land in the centre. After they crossed they were followed by Pharaoh’s army and the sea drowned them all, by Moses stretching out his hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back.
The Old Testament is a collection of books rather like a Library. For many years, before writing was widely used stories of the past were handed down by word of mouth. Later many of these stories were written down. Later still they were collected together and the Old Testament were formed. These writings were written in Hebrew. The Old Testament took place about 950 B.C.
The Old Testament has been translated from Hebrew to Greek by Alexander the Great by 72 Jewish scholars in about 250 B.C. During Alexander’s time the language that was predominant was Greek.
(The Exodus took place in the reign of Ramses II (1290 – 1224 B.C.))
The New Testament was originally written in Greek. In about 382 Pope Damasus I translated the Bible to Latin. In about 1382 the English Bible appeared.
We read all this hulla bulla, about the Red Sea. But the actual fact is that the Hebrew term Yam Suph means the “Sea of Reeds” and was incorrectly translated as “Red Sea” by Alexander. No reeds grow by the Red Sea, but further north where today the Suez Canal runs, was a shallow lake with reed beds. It was in this knee deep water that the Israelites were able to cross on foot but the chariots that followed them had their wheels entangled and the entire army of Pharaoh was disarranged.
This means that the hulla bulla story of the Red Sea is a big fash. So many movies have been made of this great event, which did not ever take place.

Mother Teresa
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I have great respect for Mother Teresa, for the outstanding work she has done to help the sick, poor and downtrodden.
A new book Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light has published her letters that reveal that she faced a deep crisis of faith in God, as mentioned in one of her letters written to Rev Michael Van Der Peetin September 1979 that “Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear. The tongue moves (in prayer) but does not speak.”
The book also states that Mother Teresa did not feel God “in her heart or in the Eucharist.” Even though she was perpetually outwardly cheerful, she struggled fiercely with her faith. She compared her problems to hell and admitted that she had begun to doubt the existence of Heaven and God. “The smile’” she wrote, “is a mask or a cloak that covers everything. I spoke as if my very heart was in love with God, a tender personal love. If you were there you would have said, ‘What hypocrisy’.”

Spiritual silence

In an increasingly raucous world it’s interesting to read her views of silence as a great tool for soul search and piece: “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in the noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

Was Jesus crucified on a cross or hung on a tree?
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The church tells us that Jesus was crucified on a cross and died. The Bible is the only source of evidence, but these scriptures are inconclusive about the basic facts in question. The cross is symbolically associated with Jesus Christ, but while the Bible clearly states in places that Jesus was hung on a tree, there is no clear statement that Jesus was crucified on a cross. References the crucifixion tends to allude to these facts rather than simply stating directly that Jesus died by crucifixion on a cross, and statements about the cross and the crucifixion are ambiguous, elusive, mysterious, and possibly allegorical. For example, Peter told the Jewish authorities they had killed Christ "by hanging him on a tree" (Acts 5:30). Peter was denouncing them for wrongly having subjected Jesus to a humiliating death. But, said Peter, God had glorified Jesus by raising him from the dead (verse 31). Peter did not mean to say the Jews had actually carried out a crucifixion. When Pilate suggested that the Jewish religious leaders judge Jesus, they said, "We have no right to execute anyone" (John 18:31).

"And we are witnesses of all things which he [Jesus] did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree" (Acts 10.39.)
"And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulcher." (Acts 13.29.)
"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness" (Peter 2.24.)
If Jesus was hung on a tree, perhaps the cross entered Christian symbolism because it has been an important religious symbol since long before the Christian era and before Jesus was crucified. "Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." (Jesus speaking long before he was crucified,
according to Mark 8.34.)
"For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ" (Philippians 3.18.)
And he said to them all, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me." (Luke 9.23.)
If Jesus was hung on a tree, what is meant by the following verse?
"...for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree" (Galatians 3:13.)

Evolution or Adam & Eve
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BANGALORE: Standing erect, they measure about 4 Ft. They utter primitive cries, grow long nails, sport strong, powerful jaws, can gallop and they can be extremely strong when aggressive.
The triumvirate is from Mylapore, Chennai: Vinayaka Murthy (52), Armugam (48) & Elamalai(36). They are three of the five brothers & sisters born to Shadevan, a dyer, & Kamakshiammal. The other siblings are absolutely normal & bear no resemblance to them. The trio is being taken care of by one of their brothers S. Musugeshan, who says that “the brothers do not sleep like us – at best, they sleep for about 2 hours, the rest of the time they keep playing. They hate to wear clothes & take them off at the slightest pretext. The brothers have no sex drive: they have genitals but show no interest in woman.” The eldest, was born with a tail that was removed through surgery as the doctors feared he might otherwise get aggressive. “The three brothers are now under control, but it was not easy in the beginning.
J. Robert from the Indian Institute of Science says: “The research team in the human cloning experiment should be greatly interested in what they lack genetically. As they physically resemble our hominid ancestors, study should be made on their evolution. Perhaps, they should provide the missing link to some of our theories.”

Even more startling Judas text emerges
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Los Angeles: Recent interest in the newly discovered gnostic writing “Gospel of Judas” is now drawing attention to a much more controversial, 1,900 year old, document that was discovered in Jerusalem in 1963, translated into German by 1970, and first published in Switzerland in 1978 with English versions appearing since 1992.
THE JESUS STORY: Known as the Talmud of Jmmanuel (the “J” symbol is pronounced with the short “I” sound as in Immanuel), the TJ, as it is called, shares one feature with the Gospel of Judas – Judas Iscariot was no betrayer. Instead, he was the trusted writer of the TJ. The TJ is much more comprehensive than the Gospel of Judas, while indicating that the man we know as Jesus was originally named Jmmanuel, that he survived the crucifixion and then traveled through several countries with his mother Mary, his brother Judas-Thomas and Judas Iscariot, that Mary died while on their trek to northern India and was buried in Pakistan, that Jmmanuel married and had numerous descendants and that he died at over 100 years of age and was buried near Srinagar, Kashmir.
SOURCE OF MATHEW’S GOSPEL: With the order of events in Matthew’s account of Jesus’ ministry closely following those in the TJ, and with the TJ’s original Aramaic text having been destroyed in 1973, due to its great heresies for Judeo-Christianity, the TJ was at first dismissed as a literary hoax based upon the Gospel of Mathew. This left only the German translation available for analysis. However, according to Prof. Emeritus James Deardorff, an independent gospel scholar who has researched the TJ extensively, the translation gives its own spiritual message while it resolves over 300 inconsistencies that have long troubled New Testament scholars of Matthew. This occurs often and by unexpected means, without problematic breaks in its text, such as those which plague Matthew. Through redaction criticism Deardorff concludes that the probability of TJ being a hoax is effectively non-existent, and that the TJ is in fact the actual source upon which the Gospel of Matthew (not Mark) was dependent.

Where was JESUS between the ages 12 to 30 years?
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Jesus, Mary, & Joseph traveled from Nazareth to Jerusalem to attend the Passover Festival. Thinking he was with some fellow travelers they returned back home, but since they could not find him, went back to Jerusalem, searched everywhere but could not find him. Three days later, they found him in the Temple courtyard. He was sitting among teachers, listening & asking them questions. Mary asked him, "Son why have you done this to us”? “Your father & I have been worried looking for you”. Jesus answered "How is that you sought me? Knew you not that I have to be about my Father's Business?
This happened at the age of 12. If Jesus could speak in such a commanding tone, how is that he disappears from the limelight for the next 18 years. I personally feel that he might have traveled to India, which was a land of mystics, where people could bury themselves in the ground for months, and even do such feats as walk on water.
Alexander The Great got to India in 327BC & took the sea route back to Alexandria. So clearly, there were contacts between India & Europe then. Even the doubting Thomas traveled to India.
There is also a Hollywood movie in the making named “THE MISSING YEARS OF JESUS CHRIST” which highlights Jesus Christ’s travel and adventures through INDIA.