[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Perhaps pagan myth foreshadowed and prepared the way for Christianity. (Someone--perhaps C.S. Lewis-- wrote this.) Corn gods who died and resurrected bringing fertility were common in the mid east and Mediterranean world. The concept of a sacrifice to atone for sin was not unknown. Judaism with its insistence on one God and repudiation of all others stuck out like a sore thumb surrounded by all these other corn god/fertility god religions, but the irony is that the true sacrificed and resurrected God came from monotheistic Judaism

[Jack Straw from Wichita]

Isn’t corn a New World crop?

[daniel1212]

Perhaps pagan myth foreshadowed and prepared the way for Christianity.

Well, the devil could know what would be required to redeem lost souls, and would bruise his head.