Christians, isn't Jesus Christ actually Julius Caesar?

Question

Jesus Christ = J.C. = Julius Caesar
John the Baptist = Pompey
Simon = Antonius
Peter = Lepidus
Judas = Brutus
Nicodemus of Bethania = Nicomedes of Bithynia
Mary Magdalene = Cleopatra

Both Caesar and Jesus start their rising careers in neighboring states in the north: Gallia and Galilee.

- Both have to cross a fateful river: the Rubicon and the Jordan. Once across the rivers, they both come across a patron/rival: Pompeius and John the Baptist, and their first followers: Antonius and Curio on the one hand and Peter and Andrew on the other.

- Both are continually on the move, finally arriving at the capital, Rome and Jerusalem, where they at first triumph, yet subsequently undergo their passion.

- Both have good relationships with women and have a special relationship with one particular woman, Caesar with Cleopatra and Jesus with Magdalene.

- Both have encounters at night, Caesar with Nicomedes of Bithynia, Jesus with Nicodemus of Bethany.

- Both have an affinity to ordinary people-and both run afoul of the highest authorities: Caesar with the Senate, Jesus with the Sanhedrin.

- Both are contentious characters, but show praiseworthy clemency as well: the clementia Caesaris and Jesus' Love-thy-enemy.

- Both have a traitor: Brutus and Judas. And an assassin who at first gets away: the other Brutus and Barabbas. And one who washes his hands of it: Lepidus and Pilate.

- Both are accused of making themselves kings: King of the Romans and King of the Jews. Both are dressed in red royal robes and wear a crown on their heads: a laurel wreath and a crown of thorns.

- Both get killed: Caesar is stabbed with daggers, Jesus is crucified, but with a stab wound in his side.

- Jesus as well as Caesar hang on a cross. For a reconstruction of the crucifixion of Caesar, see:

http://www.carotta.de/subseite/texte/jwc...

- Both die on the same respective dates of the year: Caesar on the Ides (15 th) of March, Jesus on the 15 th of Nisan.

- Both are deified posthumously: as Divus Iulius and as Jesus Christ.

-Caesar and Jesus also use the same words, e.g.: Caesar's famous Latin 'Veni, vidi, vici'-I came, I saw, I conquered-is in the Gospel transmitted into: 'I came, washed and saw', whereby Greek enipsa, 'I washed', replaces enikisa, 'I conquered'.

Source(s):

'Jesus was Caesar' by Francesco Carotta

Answer 1

You have done great work of finding comparisons

but one thing is ignored . Julius was a political man and king by sword

Jesus Christ was not a political at all and only spiritual, and not a man but a Divinity in the form of man... who ruled the hearts of poor, and spiritual people.

Julius was not born of Virgin
Jesus was born of Virgin

When Julius was stabbed to death, his pet Dog ate his flesh and Cleopatra was nowhere in the sight at that time.
when Jesus was crucified he was brought down by Magdalena .

No one remembers any sermons given by Julius,
Jesus has given immortal sermons and shown the path to salvation.

Julius was a passionate man who loved worldly luxury, wealth and woman..
Jesus was also a lover , but lover of truth, of spirituality, and had no carnal desires..

there are upteenth and glaring differences which put both Julius and Jesus on extreme

Answer 2

"Both have to cross a fateful river...."
Broad generalization. There was no prohibition against Jesus from crossing the Jordan as there was with Caesar and the Rubicon. The Jordan was chosen because it already had historical importance (and was the site of John the Baptist's ministry), whereas the Rubicon obtained historic importance because Caesar's crossing of it provoked a civil war.

"Once across the rivers, they both come across a patron/rival: Pompeius and John the Baptist"
John was neither a patron nor a rival of Jesus.

"their first followers: Antonius and Curio on the one hand and Peter and Andrew on the other."
Who were all those soldiers that were under Caesar's command following then?

"Both are continually on the move...."
Another broad generalization.

"yet subsequently undergo their passion."
False in the case of Caesar. He is simply assassinated outright.

"Both have good relationships with women and have a special relationship with one particular woman, Caesar with Cleopatra and Jesus with Magdalene."
Except that Caesar was thrice-married (and broke off an engagement with another), and Cleopatra seemed to be in the "romance" mainly for convenience (and soon formed an "alliance" with Mark Antony soon after Caesar's death).

"Both have encounters at night, Caesar with Nicomedes of Bithynia, Jesus with Nicodemus of Bethany."
Where to begin? Caesar denied any nighttime (sexual) encounter with Nicomedes under oath, whereas the only nighttime "encounter" between Jesus and Nicodemus is when the latter comes to bury the former (with Joseph of Arimathea as chaperon, I suppose) after the crucifixion. Major equivocation of the term "encounter" here.

Answer 3

Caesar with around destroying nations and Jesus came that the nations be saved. First the Jews then the Gentiles. What is this a new Di Vinnie Code or what?

Answer 4

Interesting... but sometime in the future someone is bound to write a similar piece saying that John Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln were really the same person.

Answer 5

OMG - never realized the similarities before. What about the fact that Caesar was killed in 44 BC and Christ several decades later? Or is it just the story of Christ that began later?

Answer 6

Revisionist History?

Answer 7

NO. Only Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the third day and is True God and True Man! Praise the LORD Jesus Christ to the glory of God The Father in the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever, amen! God bless.

Answer 8

Mistaken identity is common even nowadays. For two individuals living about 2000 years ago, this may be also possible.

Answer 9

How could such utter nonsense come out of a persons mouth~Ceasar didnt rise from the dead. seen by thousands
he didnt roll a stone away !

Answer 10

Jesus was Jesus and Jesus is still Jesus. and Jesus isnt julius caesar Jesus wasnt a government and Jesus wasnt a dictator like julius caesar.