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Peter Joseph’s “Zeitgeist The Movie—The Greatest Story Ever Sold” is one of the most popular and influential Internet films to appear in recent years. Tragically, it has effectively deceived many undiscerning people who have been mesmerized by its fast pace and have accepted it prima facie, without carefully examining the film’s claims. Sadly, the net effect has turned countless people away from Christ by using a pack of devilish lies.

Zeitgeist presents a long debunked theory that claims early Christians created a “Christ myth” that is loosely based on an alleged amalgamation of ideas that were borrowed from various pagan religions. However, serious scholars, long ago, refuted the ideas promulgated in Zeitgeist. To its own detriment, Zeitgeist quotes plenty of biased occult sources and very few, if any, primary sources.

Skeptic Magazine did a review of Zeitgeist entitled, “The Greatest Story Ever Garbled” by Tim Callahan, who made the understatement of the year when he spoke of “a certain naïveté on the part of Peter Joseph in regard to his knowledge of the Bible.” The e-Skeptic article stated that the worst thing about the movie is that it mixes some truth with much “that is plainly and simply Bogus.” (e-Skeptic, Vol. 15 No. 1 p. 61)

In watching Zeitgeist, I personally had a hard time believing so many lies could be crammed into one film. Zeitgeist, for instance, makes the utterly preposterous claim that “Horus being the sun [god]…” was one of the myths that early Christians borrowed from when they allegedly developed the “Christ myth.” Zeitgeist claims that Jesus and Horus were sun gods that were worshipped by three kings, had 12 disciples, and were crucified, among other claims. Contrary to the misinformation in Zeitgeist, the reality is that the Egyptian god, Ra, was the sun god and Horus, was a sky god. Moreover, there is no ancient witness in antiquity that claims that the god, Horus, had 12 disciples or that he was crucified.

Historically, the Bible never speaks of three kings worshiping Jesus, but a group of magi from the east. And contrary to subsequent traditions, the Bible does not specify any number (Matthew 2:1-11). Furthermore, the Bible never portrays Jesus as a sun god and expressly forbids the worship of the sun or any other created thing (Deut. 4:15-16, 19; 17:2-5; Ezekiel 18:15-18; Matthew 4:8-11; Revelation 19:10).

The most disturbing thing about this film is that Zeitgeist falsely claims that Jesus is mere ‘myth’ and not the Savior of the world. However, these claims clearly go against historical evidence to the contrary. Serious scholars and historians no longer question Jesus’ existence. Beyond reliable biblical witnesses, there are reputable first century historians like Josephus, Flavius, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus and Suetonius who make mention of Jesus as a historical figure. Josephus refers to “Jesus, who was called the Christ,” when referring to the execution of his half brother James (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, book 20, chapter 9, item 1), and Tacitus, writes of “Christ, [who] had been executed in Tiberius’ reign by the governor of Judea, Pontius Pilatus.” (The Annals of Imperial Rome, Book 1, Chapter 15)

Overall, Zeitgeist repeatedly relies on the views of Satanists and famous occultists like Madame Helena Blavatsky and Manly P. Hall. Many historians document that Blavatsky’s occult teachings inspired the occult worldview of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi movement. One of the astonishing ironies about the Zeitgeist movement is that it came under the guise of exposing pagan beliefs and globalism only to end up leading people away from the truth of God’s word and into the occult and The New World Order!

Zeitgeist takes its name from the German word which means “time spirit” and means “the spirit of the age,” which ironically sum up the very “spirit of the antichrist” that is prophesied would to delude the world at the end of the age (1 John 4:1-4).
Contrary to the lies propagated by Zeitgeist, there is absolutely no record of any God in antiquity, prior to Jesus Christ, who was said to have become a man, experience death by crucifixion, and then be raised from the dead on the third day as the Savior of the world! Moreover, Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection were prophesied in the Old Testament, several centuries before He came to earth and these biblical prophecies were fulfilled when He died for our sins (Isaiah 53). Truly, this is by far, the Greatest Story Ever Told!

Click here to read The Zeitgeist Deception-Part 2: Roots and Fruits