Who was the Divine Savior
in this Inscription Dated 9 BC?

Caesar Augustus!

The Greco-Roman world believed
that Augustus actually accomplished
what the Church later claimed for Jesus

Source of the Inscriptions on this Page: Ancient Roman Religion, Edited (and translated), with an Introduction by Frederick C. Grant, (The Liberal Arts Press, Inc., 1957) pp. 173f.

"Dittenberger, OGIS, II. 458; P. Wendland, HRK, p. 409, no. 8; F. H. Gaertringen, Inschriften von Priene (1906), No. 105. This decree of the Provincial Assembly (Koinon) of Asia is dated 9 B.C. It sets forth the usual reasons for the worship of the emperor, viz., the benefits of the Roman peace. At the proposal of the Proconsul, Paulus Fabius Maximus, the new year is to begin with the emperor's birthday, the ninth day before the Kalends of October (September 23). We have fragments of the decree, including even a Latin translation, from Priene, Apameia, Eumeneia, and Dorylaeum. Lines 1-29 give the letter of the Proconsul, lines 30-77 the decreee of the Assembly. The Greek of the inscription is especially interesting for its use of terms also found in early Christian literature."

Another Inscription dedicated to Caesar Augustus
from Halicarnassus dated after 2 BC
British Museum Inscriptions, 894,
Cf. P. Wendland, HRK, p. 410, no. 9.

"Since the eternal and deathless nature of the universe has perfected its immense benefits to mankind in granting us as a supreme benefit, for our happiness and welfare, Caesar Augustus, Father of his own Fatherland, divine Rome, Zeus Paternal, and Savior of the whole human race, in whom Providence has not only fulfilled but even surpassed the prayers of all men: land and sea are at peace, cities flourish under the reign of law, in mutual harmony and prosperity; each is at the very acme of fortune and abounding in wealth; all mankind is filled with glad hopes for the future, and with contentment over the present; [it is fitting to honor the god] with public games and with statues, with sacrifices and with hymns."

Another Inscription under a statue of Caesar Augustus in Myra in Lycia
E. Petersen, Reisen in Lykien, II, 43

"The God Augustus, Son of God, Caesar, Autocrat [Autokrator, i.e., absolute ruler] of land and sea, the Benefactor and Savior of the whole cosmos, the people of Myra [acknowledge, or , have set up this statue]."