OUT OF EGYPT

The Roots of Christianity revealed

Pub. Century 1998

`Out of Egypt I called my son,' wrote the Old Testament prophet Hosea, and St Matthew declared this prophecy fulfilled by the Holy Family's return to Calilee after the night into Egypt.

This book demonstrates that the prophetic books of the Bible's Old Testament and their accounts of the exploits and achievements of Abraham, Isaac and his son Joseph (who became chief minister to Pharaoh) are essentially Egyptian in origin. Furthermore, Ahmed Osman shows, by comparing the hazy chronology of the Old Testament and its factual content with the ancient Egyptian written records, that the major Old Testament figures - Solomon, David, Moses and Joshua - are based on Egyptian historical originals

Not only were these major personalities and the stories - military, territorial and prophetic - associated with them nurtured on the banks of the Nile but the major tenets of Christian belief - the one Cod, the Trinity, the hierarchy of heaven, life after death and the Virgin birth - are all Egyptian in origin.

Ahmed Osman provides in this book a convincing argument that Jesus himself came out of Egypt. The Essenes and the Gnostics were devoutly guarding the secret Egyptian teaching well before the first century AD. John the Baptist was himself an Essene, and St Paul, as he indicates in his letter to the Galatians, had himself been initiated into the Egyptian mysteries by the Gnostics at Sinai.

By the second century AD the Egyptian cults, the Gnostics and for example the cults of Isis and Serapis, happily coexisted in Alexandria, Carthage and pome itself. But, in the fourth century AD, the bishops of pome embarked upon a programme of suppression and persecution. The Egyptian monuments of Alexandria were effaced and thrown down, and the great library was burnt on the orders of the Christian archbishop Theophilus, The Cnostics were branded as heretics, and the canon of scripture coupled with the creed ensured that Christians would be required to believe that the origins of Christianity were to be found in Judaea.

Ahmed Osman shows how Egyptian, Biblical and Rabbinical sources, coupled with recent archaeological discoveries prove that the roots of Christian belief spring not from Judaea but from Egypt.