Jesus The Extraterrestrial - Vol. I - Origins

Jesus

The

Extraterrestrial

A Trilogy

Volume I:  Origins

Leo Mark

A Novel based on historical documents

To follow:

Volume II: Armageddon

Volume III: The Return

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author´s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2011 by Leo Mark

All Rights reserved.

Published in the United States by the author Leo Mark

leomark@JesusET.com.br – www.JesusTheExtraterrestrial.com

Translation                                              Anthony Addis

Cover image                                             Benjamin West (1738-1820)

Cover design                                            Wellington Consoli

Diagramming                                         ****

Editorial Direction                              Marco Giroto

First Edition

2011

Author’s Note

From an early age I was always full of questions.  The world as I saw it wasn’t quite as people described it to me.  There always seemed to be something odd about the stories they told me: they didn’t quite fit, or something was missing.  But when you are a child and everyone tells you the same stories, you start to believe in them religiously; you carry them with you throughout your life, passing them on to your children and grandchildren.

A lot of my family are evangelicals (a brother of mine and an uncle are pastors of the church); and so in my childhood I studied in Adventist schools.  I attended religious studies classes and most days we had to say a prayer when we arrived at school and when we left (a true brain-washing exercise). 

All the children believed in those bible stories without so much as questioning them.  Yet I, something of a rebel as I always was, never entirely agreed with what they were telling me, for the stories seemed to be too fantastic and too unlikely, so I was never convinced that they were really true.  I had a lot of questions to ask about them all and I wouldn’t rest until my questions were answered.

And so, as a teenager, I started studying the Bible and began to formulate theories which, when I propounded them, made people think I was crazy or blasphemous.  They said my thoughts were sinful (was I to be punished, in other words, simply because I used my head for thinking, because I had opinions instead of accepting the opinions of others, because I rejected the collective truth?).

As time went by I went deeper into these matters and the research I carried out served to convince me that my theories weren’t so totally absurd or wrong, that on the contrary they were entirely correct – that the rest of the world believed in fairy tales.  People were tied to their beliefs, to baseless or outdated tales.  Perhaps because of the superior status of the storyteller, mankind’s own true history had become a narrative replete with obscure passages.