The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Before Christ

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In his book The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors Before Christ Kersery Garves makes the assertion that “Here we will note it as a curious circumstance, that several of the above-named Saviors are represented as being black, Jesus Christ included with this number. There is as much evidence that the Christian Savior was a black man, or at least a dark man, as there is of his being the son of the Virgin Mary, or that he once lived upon the Earth. And that evidence is the testimony of disciples who had nearly as good an opportunity of knowing what his complexion was as the evangelists, who omit to say anything about it”. The book of Revelations clearly states that Jesus himself had “Feet like bronze and hair like wool” depicting him to be the

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