Top 10 Reasons the New Testament Took Place 900 Years Ago in France!
One of the wackiest and most interesting theories to come out of the alternate history/truther community in the past year, while many have been at home or working from home far more than usual, is the idea that the New Testament did not take place 2000 years ago in Palestine, but only maybe 900 years ago in France.
Is it completely crazy? Kind of compelling? Clearly conclusive? Obviously none of us were alive then, so you be the judge!
Here are (in my humble opinion) the top ten pieces of evidence:
1. The Artefacts
There are a number of significant artefacts in Christendom that (according to Christian tradition) claim to be from New Testament times, such as:
-The Shroud of Turin (pictured above)
-The Crown of Thorns
-The Cross of Jesus
-Nails from the Crucifixion
-The Spear of Destiny/Lance of Longinus (used to pierce Jesus' side)
Many of these artefacts have been disregarded by modern historians, however, as unlikely forgeries.
Why?
Well, in part, because most cannot be legitimately traced back any further than the 11th-, 12th- or 13th-century, to some notable appearance and a book or story about how so-and-so 500 years ago travelled the 2000 miles to Palestine and then back again (4000+ miles total as the crow flies) to retrieve it from the Arabs.
And all of them (or pieces thereof) can still be found today in French cathedrals/churches, most notably Notre Dame de Paris, because they are still revered in Christendom, and millions upon millions have historically made pilgrimages to these churches to view these artefacts.
There are other less notable artefacts claimed to be from Jesus, but all are either found in Italy, Vatican City or Spain (or certain Belgian and German cathedrals bordering modern France).
Still, all the early Christian artefacts are focused in a specific geographical area in Western Europe, with the two focused hubs being Vatican City and Paris.
Vatican City makes sense because they once controlled nearly all of Christendom by fiat.
Paris, on the other hand, makes less logical sense, unless it’s more significant than modern history books purport.
2. The Bones
The bones of the apostles are mostly in Italy, but according to French churches and cathedrals, the majority of non-apostolic remains are in… you guessed it, France.
Here are a few notable examples:
- Mary Magdalene
- Joseph of Arimathea
- Nicodemus
- Pontius Pilate
- Claudia Procula of Narbonne (Pilate’s wife)
- Anne of Brittany (mother to the Virgin Mary)
Obviously some of these are disputed. For instance, some stories allege that Joseph of Arimathea died in Britain. And some modern “historians” claim sites in the Middle East, because Western Europe doesn’t “fit the narrative”.
However, the older records in Christian tradition definitely show that both Pilate’s wife and Mary’s mother were born and died in regions of France, that Pilate was exiled to regional France by Rome, and that Joseph of Arimathea and Mary Magdalene fled together to southern France in the years following Christ’s ascension into heaven. There are specific churches built on cemeteries and crypts “dedicated” to each of these individuals.
And there are many more less notable examples. ie. Herod Antipas was exiled to “Gaul” by Caligula.
When you begin to consider the sheer distances involved in such travels if they are travelling to and from the Middle East, it begins to appear ridiculous that people kept ending up back there. Even the apostolic journeys around the Mediterranean are more localized with France as a starting point.
3. The Cemetery
Considered the oldest cemetery in Paris, the Cemetery of the Innocents is “dedicated” to the innocent infants murdered by King Herod. While the cemetery is alleged to date back to the 9th century, the church there was named, built and dedicated on the site in the 11th century.
But could there possibly have been a murderous King Herod in 11th-century France?
Well, coincidentally, yes.
There were two different King “Harolds”, Harold Godwinson of England/Denmark and Harald Haradra of Normandy, France, with both of them vying for rule in both France and England to different degrees during the 11th Century.
Given that the earliest New Testament documents that we have access to are in Greek (those not held privately in the Vatican Archives, that is), both Harold and Haradra are linguistically acceptable permutations on “Herod”.
Both Harold Godwinson and Herod the Great died by stabbing, although modern “historians” say Herod’s stab wounds were self-inflicted as an attempt to end the pain of gangrene and kidney failure, attributing his death to those diseases as the primary cause.
But those two aren’t the only possibilities. According to mainstream French monarchical history, the King of the Francs during the same period as King Harold of England, was King Henri I (Also linguistically acceptable for Herod), followed by his son King Philip I.
Now, Herod the Great is notable for dividing his kingdom into three main parts, north, middle and south, spread across three of his sons, Herod Archelaus, Herod Antipas and Herod Philip, known also as Philip I.
Now that is a pretty solid father-son combination that seems to match our cemetery.
But wait, there’s more.
It is important to remember that the Carolingian dynasty was also divided into three kingdoms, North, Middle and South, sometimes referred to as Francia Occidentalis, Francia Media and Francia Orientalis.
Suffice it to say, there’s enough similarities here that it’s not so ridiculous as it sounds.
If any or all of the secret societies operating in Christendom during the 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th centuries were actively working to hide the true Holy Land, it wouldn’t be hard to manipulate records through language and translation to obfuscate these obvious similarities.
4. The Kings
On the subject of Kings, one of the most fascinating stories about the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is the statues of 28 Jewish Kings which have been there since, you guessed it, the 11th/12th century.
These kings by different accounts are meant to all be descendants of Abraham/ancestors of Jesus, which appears to perfectly match Jesus’ genealogy recorded in the very first chapter of the New Testament.
As you can see, the 42 generations from Abraham to Jesus are divided up into 3 groups of 14 generations; 14 from Abraham to David, 14 from David until the Jews were carried away captive into Babylon, and 14 from then until Jesus. The significance of 28 Jewish Kings (2 times 14) should not be lost upon anyone.
Even more interestingly, after the beheading of Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution in 1793, the crowds, hungry for more royal heads, stormed into Notre Dame and beheaded the 28 statues of Jewish Kings, allegedly “mistaking them” for French Kings.
Now, was it actually a mistake or were the Jewish Kings and French Kings one and the same?
Either way, 21 of the heads remain today and can be seen at the Cluny Museum in Paris.
5. The Star
Between 1054 and 1056, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in the heavens that was noted particularly by Chinese astronomers (a.k.a. “wise men from the East”).
A new star appeared, so bright that for 23 days it was visible during daylight hours while the sun was up, and thereafter easily discernible at night for the next 26 months.
All the early records of this “star” come from Asia, however, by 1056, observations were recorded all the way to Western Europe, most notably recorded on the Bayeux tapestry (below).
While most modern astronomers follow Edwin Hubble’s theory that the guest star was the Crab Nebula supernova, some accounts depict the star moving contrary to the ordinary rotation of the heavens, like a comet or planet/wandering star, with some accounts referring to it as a red dragon in the sky.
The Bayeux Tapestry is a 230ft long tapestry depicting a range of historical scenes leading up to the Norman conquest of England in the late 11th century, which has been displayed annually inside the Bayeux Cathedral, Normandy, France.
One of the many scenes depicted shows a group of men wondering after a dragon- or bird-like comet (or wandering star) in the heavens during the reign of a King Haroid.
Given that modern Christian astronomers have completely failed to come up with any sort of valid historical explanation for a Star of Bethlehem 2000 years ago in the Middle East, and this event from approximately 968 years ago is the most noteworthy celestial phenomenon on record, this point may very well be the most solid piece of evidence that Jesus was in fact born in the late 11th century.
6. The Cuisine
When one looks at the cuisine mentioned in the New Testament to ascertain the types of foods Jesus would have eaten, we see bread, corn, fish, lamb, eggs, locusts, water, milk, honey/honeycomb, olives, grapes, figs, wine, vinegar, olive oil, mustard, mint, dill, anise, cumin, cinnamon, and rue.
Most notably eaten by Jesus on multiple occasions were bread, fish, wine and honeycomb. These may seem somewhat universal but they are also particularly French, Greek, Italian, Spanish, etc.
Modern Israeli cuisine, on the other hand is distinctly Middle Eastern, not Mediterranean.
Israeli cuisine appears to consist mostly of lentils, grain-based dips and baked goods, with some dates, figs, olives, pomegranates and goats milk thrown in for good measure. There are a lot of vegetarian foods. Kebab is probably the only real meat dish.
Their national liquor is arak, a licorice-flavored spirit made with aniseed and seasonal fruit that is nothing like the obvious wine culture of the New Testament. Yes, there are some wineries there now, but the winemaking culture was brought in from Europe in the last hundred years. So if you visit Israel, don’t miss out on trying their Cabernet, Merlot, or Sauvignon Blanc(!)
Likewise, there are no signature Israeli fish dishes. Best you have is Lox, which is a Yiddish term for salmon and cream cheese on a bagel, once again brought in from Europe when the Ashkenazi Jews came into Palestine under the Balfour Declaration in the past 100 years. Salmon are obviously not native to the Middle East and are certainly not found in Lake Tiberias (now called the Sea of Galilee), which only contains 3 types of freshwater fish, one of which is sardines.
In fact, much of Jesus’ travels during his ministry seem to be in seaside locations, and most of the people he taught appear to be farmers and fishermen, hence why the majority of his parables center around farming (and as such which were hard for the Pharisees in the big city to understand).
One could make a case that modern-day Israel fits the Old Testament cuisine and culture, but the whole oeuvre of the New Testament doesn’t quite seem to fit.
And since we’re talking culture, I’ll just quickly thrown in the point that wood in the Middle East is very expensive due to its scarcity. Jesus was by trade a carpenter as his father before him, which in the Middle East would be an uncommon and high-quality artisanal business.
Logically, if you were from a royal lineage, that has in the last few generations been ousted from the throne by competing interests in cahoots with Rome, you don’t jump into an elite artistic trade always rubbing elbows with your usurpers. That is how you get found out and killed. Instead, you pick something common, lowly, dime-a-dozen, a profession in which you can hide.
And to really bring it home, if you lived in a desert area where good timber is scarce, you wouldn’t kill petty criminals by hanging and crucifixion, you behead them like the Arabs do in the Middle East.
Especially not since, according to the Mosaic Law, if you do hang a criminal on a tree, in order to avoid idolatry, you then need to fell the tree afterwards so it does not serve as a monument or shrine to the dead man. (This is why it is specified in the New Testament that after Judas Iscariot hanged himself on a tree, God smote the tree with lightning.)
The more and more you think about it, the Middle East does not quite fit the Biblical text.
7. The Sea
Since we’ve covered the topic of fishing, we need to take a closer look at the so-called “Sea of Galilee”.
Lake Tiberias, as it has always been known to the local Arab population, is a relatively small, 8-mile-by-12-mile, freshwater, non-tidal lake. In fact, the only real waves there come purely from modern boat engines cutting through the water and creating ripples.
It must be wondered at how such a small, shallow lake bereft of waves could host not one but at least two different storms during Jesus’ 3-to-4-year ministry so fierce that it caused lifelong fishermen to quake, tremble and fear for their very lives.
France, on the other hand, (after Nazare in Portugal) has the biggest waves in all of Europe, and a thriving surf culture with over 300 miles of surf beaches to boot.
Not only that, it has the Sea of Gallia/Gallic Sea, known now as the English Channel.
Most non-Europeans probably don’t realize this, but the “English Channel” has storms every single year with hurricane-force winds and waves up to 30ft high. Ships are damaged every year. The “Channel” covers an area over 450 times larger (and is over 4 times deeper) than Lake Tiberias, and has hundreds of varieties of fish.
The Sea of Gaul/Gallia in every way makes far more sense when trying to place a location for the Sea of Galilee based on the scriptural account alone.
8. The Language
There are two significant reasons I needed to mention this coin.
Firstly, Henri IV (known also as Good King Henry or Henry the Great) broke with the tradition of several generations of kings who had titled themselves “King of the Francs and Navarre” (Francorum et Navara Rex) and titled himself as King of all Gaul/Gallia, indicating either a return to tradition or that his kingdom was larger than that of his predecessors, and not simply limited to the Francs.
Secondly, the inscription on the coin is not fully Latin. The word ADNO (sometimes adeno or adnow) is a Hebrew proper noun, meaning (or used in lieu of) “the name of our Lord”. Obviously the significance of this cannot be understated. It is a largely ignored and unacknowledged fact that all the non-Latin etymological roots of medieval French are Paleo-Hebrew.
For instance, when Jesus announces himself as the Messiah to the Jews at the beginning of his ministry (see John 8), he keeps telling them in more and more explicit language:
“…if you believe not that I AM (he), you will die in your sins…”
“…when you have lifted up the Son of man, you will know that I AM (he)…”
And they just aren’t getting it, until finally he reiterates the words Jehovah spoke in the burning bush unto Moses, “before Abraham was I AM”, and the Jews absolutely lose it and attempt to stone him to death.
It should not be lost on anybody that “I AM” in French is “JE SUIS”, so Jesus literally tells the Jews, “before Abraham was JE SUIS (Jesus)”, and that is when it finally clicks.
And the linguistic connections certainly don’t end there. So many modern terms and place names hearken back to some variation of Gaul. To name a few:
-Portugal, the port of Gaul.
-The Gaelic language of the “Celts”.
-The French valley of Galilee.
-Galatia in Asia Minor (modern Turkey).
-The gallon measurement comes from the standard size of the French pail/bucket.
-French Galleons and Galleys.
Most people don’t realize just how recently the French thought of themselves as Gauls or living in “Gallia”, in much the same way that Greeks still think of themselves as Hellenes. Most of Europe, before it was Europe, was Gallia/Gaul. And understanding this, having this context, makes it so much clearer why, to the Jews, everyone else around them were Goyim/Gaullim.
For further context, it’s important to note that Jesus is never once referred to in the New Testament as Jesus of Bethlehem or Jesus of Jerusalem or even Jesus of Judea.
He’s either referred to as a Galilean (from Galilee) or a Nazarene (from Nazareth).
(For a Nazareth in Western Europe, we have at least four possible locations, linguistically speaking. Saint-Nazaire in north-western France. The Gallia Narbonnensis region in southern France, still identifiable by the city of Narbonne. The Navara/Navarre region in modern Spain that was often tied to French Kings. And Nazare in modern Portugal.
While we’re on the topic of linguistic connections, it’s important to note that many earlier European tribes are definite plausible match ups with the original twelve tribes of Israel. For instance:
Danes = Dan.
Jutes/Dutch/Deustche = Judah.
Suomi/Saami = Simeon.
Saxons = Issachar/Isaac’s sons.
Franks = Ephraim.
Italia/Napoli = Naphtali.
Vanguards = Gad.
Ostrogoths/Rosh = Asher.
Visigoths/Helveti = Levi.
Bretons/Normans/Belgians = Benjamin.
Polonia/Poles = Zebulun.
Romanian = Reuben.
You also have linguistic connections to other notable New Testament cities like Zurich/Turicum and Jericho, Caen and Cana, Tours and Tyre, Cavernaux and Capernaum, Belleme and Bethlehem, etc.
There’s even an interesting linguistic crossover between the Pyrenees Mountains/Iberian Peninsula and the Hebrews/Ebreu/Ibray/Hebraios and the Biblical Mount Hebron
So modern France, and by extension Western Europe, is full of these linguistic connections to the New Testament.
Some might argue here that these were named later in homage to New Testament places, but the fact remains:
No such obvious linguistic connections exist in the Middle East. Little to none of the Arab place names going back 1500 years have any connection to New Testament. Only in the last 200 years or so have “scholars” attempted to pin down all the New Testament locations in the Middle East, but all are guesswork at best.
9. The City
But what about Jerusalem; the Holy City?
Well, to the Arabs in the Middle East, the city we now refer to as Jerusalem has only ever been known as Al-Quds, and is significant to the Islamic faith as the site where Mohammed ascended into heaven.
There is zero historical association with Al-Quds and Isa/Jesus, whom the Quran reveres as one of the greatest prophets of all time, just not the Son of God as Christians see him. The focus they have on Mohammed is simply because he is their most recent prophet.
Logically speaking, if Muslims did have historical evidence that Jesus had taught and been killed in Al-Quds, and/or ascended to heaven there also, this would (in all likelihood) bump the city up from their third holiest site to their second holiest site. The ramifications for Christians would likewise be significant, having another external confirmation of the Biblical narrative.
However, no such external evidence for the Biblical Jerusalem in the Middle East exists.
(Yes, there does appear to be some archaeological evidences for events of the Old Testament in the Middle East, such as the split rock of Horeb, Lot’s Wife, the Ark remains on Mount Ararat, but these are comparatively few when compared to the 1000–2000 years of Old Testament history that purports to be there.)
Now, what do we know about the mainstream history of Paris?
Well, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the first written records we have of Paris come from Rome identifying an advanced “tribe” called the Parisii, with their own gold coinage system and advanced warfare tactics, living on the Île de la Cité (Isle of Cite) on the Seine, which later became Paris’ Jewish slum, and upon which Notre Dame is built.
The Romans referred to the city that sprawled out from there as “Lutetia”, allegedly Latin for “Midwater-dwelling”. However, one only needs to look briefly into the Jutes/Iuti/Iutæ/Jyden/Jotan, to see that Lutetia and Judea are completely linguistically compatible.
Even more striking is that the modern term “Jerusalem”, which is said to mean “Holy City” (Île Cité?), comes from the Greek “hieru” meaning holy or sanctuary, and “salem” the old name for the city where Melchizedek was once King, which like shalom and salaam means “peace”.
Melchizedek was the “King of the Peaceful Sanctuary”, and the prophesied Messiah was to be the Prince of Peace or Prince of Salem (which as the descendent of 28 Kings of Judah, he was, even though Herod held the throne publicly).
So, it’s easy to see that one travelling to “Jerusalem, the Holy City in Judea” could easily be travelling to “the sanctuary (a.k.a. tabernacle/temple) on the Île de la Cité in Lutetia.”
This is doubly confirmed when we see that the name Paris comes from the Parisii “tribe”, and the term Pharisee comes from the Hebrew word “Parus”, meaning “separated” or “separate ones”. The Pharisees were, politically, the separatist party.
It’s like Washington DC being known 1000 years from now as Republica, because of the Republican party.
Continuing on in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, we learn that within 200 years of Rome’s first forays into the area, there was already a Christian church there on the island with a significant Christian population and Christian graveyard.
Vatican seminarial texts indicate that the first Bishop there on the Île de la Cité was St. Denis or Dionysius, whom allegedly after being beheaded on Montmartre (the Mount of the Martyrs) picked up his head and carried it over 6 miles, all the way preaching a powerful sermon on repentance and converting hundreds of onlookers.
Interestingly, Lazarus whom Jesus raised from the dead, was anointed by Peter first Bishop of Citium or Citi, allegedly in modern Cyprus, but that would be a good cover story if one were trying to hide that he were the first Bishop of the church in Cité, 2000 miles from Al-Quds in Palestine.
While the names Denis/Dionysius are not so linguistically compatible as many of the other terms covered above, the striking similarities in the two stories are still noteworthy, if only just to mention Montmartre (“the mount of the martyrs) as a likely location for Golgotha “the hill/place of the skull”.
And the final interesting point of note on the early history of Paris from the Encyclopaedia Britannica is that the first French King to make Lutetia/Paris their capital was Clovis I of the Salian Franks who captured the city from the Gauls, beginning the Merovingian dynasty. Anyone who has been paying attention thus far should see “Salian Franks” and immediately think Ephraimites from Salem? Maybe.
10. The Crusades
I’m not going to get into the deep intricacies of the Crusades here. I just want to point out the stupidity of the idea that anyone would make a 4,000–5,000-mile round trip pilgrimage to their religious “Holy Land” just to despoil and desecrate thousand-year-old graves and iconography and cart it all the way back home.
The base concept of the mainstream story just doesn’t make sense.
And the more you look into it, neither does the Inquisitions, or all the secret societies in Europe from the 11th century onward, or (most of all) the “Dark Ages”.
How can we see so much change in the world in the past 100 years and yet you have 1000 years of not-that-distant history in which there is zero progress and you see the same family line of kings with all the same names over and over and over again like it’s playing on repeat for 1000 years, and the same corrupt religious institution rules Europe by fiat unchallenged for 1000 years, and 40–50 generations of people that are just too stupid to challenge the enslavement and tyranny? Really?
We have 1000 years of no real progress in Music, Art, Literature, Philosophy, Law, Medicine, and then somehow, coming out of all that, we suddenly have Shakespeare and Bach and Da Vinci and Martin Luther and Thomas Aquinas and Descartes, and many more whom by all standards are superior to almost anything being produced in any of those fields today.
It sounds strange and stagnant. It’s not what we see nowadays.
Which brings us to the mystery of Anno Domini.
Anno Domini (“in the year of our Lord”) is the dating identification system of the so-called “Common Era”. Despite modern secular attempts at gaslighting, it identifies the alleged birth year of Jesus as the quintessential moment in all of history to divide time between earlier and later.
If I were formally identifying an important date on paperwork such as the printing of the King James Bible in 1611, the proper numerical designation is AD1611, or if written, “in the year of our Lord sixteen hundred and eleven.”
The problem is we begin to see some problems and inconsistencies when we look at things carved into stone.
Here is a headstone dated to J802.
The question then becomes, is that a weird/fancy way of writing 1802, or does the J stand for Jesus, and this is an alternative way of writing AD802?
Problem is, even things written in stone wear away. According to Google, the oldest legibly dated marked gravestone belongs to Captain Jonathan Alden 1697 in Massachusetts.
Well, that settles things. It must just be a fancy way of writing 1802.
Except it isn’t.
Here we have a headstone dating to I 624, obviously disproving what Google asserts whether it is a “1" or an “I”. If you look at the other letters on the headstone carefully, we have both J’s and I’s to compare it to, and the spacing makes it clear that it stands apart from the 624.
This appears to clearly indicate “in the year of our Lord 624”.
But if our calendar system is correct — you know, the Gregorian calendar system that was completely redone by Pope Gregory and his Vatican henchmen as their 1000+ years of tyrannical rule over Christendom falls apart before their eyes— then this legible English headstone is almost 1400 years old, and appears to be less faded than many headstones over 1000 years younger!
But for kicks, here are a few more.
There are hundreds of other examples of such suspicious headstones, many of J’s, many more I’s than might be otherwise mistaken for 1s, although plenty are have obviously distinguishing features identifying a common pattern.
It seems pretty unbelievable, but the most rational explanation appears to be that a lot of headstones are being passed off as belonging to the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, when really they belong to the 7th, 8th and 9th.
What does this mean? Well, if we had a consistent examples spanning the gap there, not much. Not much at all.
But we don’t. We seem to have some sort of ongoing format transition from the late J700s and all the way through the J800s until we’re firmly in the 1800s.
It would appear that 270 years ago, in 1752 (Gregorian), the Vatican, in cahoots with elite European royal families (from Roman bloodlines), in some strange attempt to solidify their rule over Christendom/the Western world, when they released their new calendar, added Ms and 1s to all the dates that weren’t already beginning with an I or a J, and tried to pass things off as though their legacy of rule was much, much longer than it actually was.
And then what do we see?
American and French revolutionary wars.
The “discovery” of Australia, even though the Dutch had already been there for at least 200 years.
Changes to law and governments across the world, making them all function as corporations.
The institution of central banking across the world.
The institution of a whole slew of anti-Christian and atheistic theories and philosophies: heliocentrism, evolution, Darwinism, Marxism, feminism, germ theory, etc. leading to the great “falling away” from God that we have seen exponentially.
In light of this bigger-picture Rome-centred globalist beast-system takeover of the world, things like the “crusades” displacing of the true Holy Land to a useless spot of desert 2000 miles away, and “secret societies” attempting to keep the truth hidden for good or ill, and Vatican “inquisitions” targeting groups that might be preserving knowledge of the truth all makes a hell of a lot of sense.
We’re in what is ultimately a spiritual conflict warring for your soul.
Ephesians 6:12- “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places.”
So, those are some of the best proofs thus far that the New Testament actually took place 900 years ago in France.
What do you think? Are you convinced?
It certainly makes a lot of sense to me.
Oh and here’s a medieval tapestry depicting David killing Goliath in European garb.
