Question:
Why Are Their So Many Divine Sun Stories That Pre-Date Christianity? Is It Ok To Pray To Them?
The Axe Of Jon
2009-03-23 22:22:06 UTC
If I tell an amazing story to a friend, he changes the names and claims it as his own, tells the world, then I come around and say the story came from me, and now I'm the one with the false story? No Fair!


Mithra, Dionysus, Osiris, Khrishna (reminds me alot of "Christ" btw) etc...Virgin Mothers, Divine Fathers, performed miracles, died and rose again...
Nine answers:
no body
2009-03-23 22:25:47 UTC
shhh.. don't tell the christians that, you might make a few of them actually do some real research...
2009-03-23 22:27:35 UTC
Mithra, Dionysus, Osiris, Krishna might have similarities but not Truth.



Christianity: "In the beginning God......



EDIT: What predates those stories Jon B:



Is the Old Testament. Those similarities had to be fulfilled by Jesus because they were Old Testament prophecies regarding the Jewish Messiah. If He didn't He wouldn't have been the Messiah but a fraud. So it's not circular reasoning at all, but fulfilled prophecy.



-Till Christ Returns



God Bless
2009-03-23 22:35:29 UTC
Sun does not equal "Son." Who would make such an error?



Since you're making these claims, I would very much appreciate it (and I'm sure others would, as well) if you would post your original source materials as documentation to back them up.



Good luck with that -- because there are none which prove any link to Christianity.



(Hint: Zeitgeist is based upon flawed sources).



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And you personally researched all the "sources," for reliability, right? How do you know they are not along the lines the works of Massey and Acharya S?



Do you not grasp the concept that a source which says Horus (et al) was born on December 25th does not prove a link to Jesus, because the original source material for Jesus (the Bible) does not say when Jesus was born? The fact that his birthday is celebrated on that day is irrelevant because he was not in fact born on that day?



Further, just one example of the faulty scholarship of the writer is this, in writing:



"Therefore, it must be reasonable to assume that people in the sun-worshipping societies interpreted the sun’s rising in the constellation of Virgo as if the Virgin gave birth to the Sun, which was worshipped as a god. Consequently, the Virgin gave birth to the God or to the Son of God. "



Any scholar would know that it is not "reasonable to assume." Because such conclusions require huge leaps of inference --that is the opposite of scholarship.



And, if you read his references -- they do not prove any connection. So sorry, but your citation fails.
Herodotus
2009-03-23 22:32:54 UTC
Sorry, but I don't think this is true. I know Krishna and Osiris do not fit the model at all. There are plenty of sound reasons to disbelieve in supernatural beings. We needn't rely on shoddy scholarship to make this point.
Mikelley
2009-03-23 22:35:28 UTC
Before God revealed himself and his infinite love and mercy in Jesus Christ man took what was the greatest thing in nature they knew of and made it into a god. But Jesus is the only one God raised from the dead just as Jesus said he would.

All the others are only human inventions.
jamestheprophet
2009-03-23 22:26:36 UTC
...can you imagine how God put His Son's story in peoples heads before He came to get them ready for when He has it go down for real?
DONNIE
2009-03-23 22:28:19 UTC
Christianity stealing stories and claiming them as their own???



Can't be true!



They can't be wrong!
2009-03-23 22:27:09 UTC
It's ok to worship ANY god.

Just not the one who says to worship only him. He's evil.
Denny M
2009-03-23 22:27:05 UTC
Those stories were made up and falsely dated by Satan to test the faith of todays believers and nonbelievers . . . duh.


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