Interesting to say the Least.
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Recently I’ve seen the split between
the “Holy Roman Church” and the
Apostles of Jesus moving in the opposite directions at This particular time
In History.
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Any takers on Expanding this occurrence?
This article is about Zernaki Tepe - in what is now Turkey, but 1700 years ago was on the borderland between the Roman Empire and Parthia/Sassanid Persia.
Mithra is a Indo-Iranian god.
HOWEVER, Mithraism in the Roman empire was different from the Indic or even the Iranic worship of the same named god - in many ways it was a different religion.
In the Roman empire, the Mithraem was basically a man’s club (think of the Flintstone’s warthog club) - so we don’t know the exact details of this, but it was mostly guys hanging together. it also wasn’t inspiring per se, which is why it died out.
This article is a nothingburger - nothing really new. the site was abandoned by the Mithra-ites long long before Christians met in this place
In 300 AD the Apostles were long dead.
However we have the writings of the Apostles students - like Ignatius of antioch or Irenaeus of Lyon - and we see that there was direct continuity between the Jerusalem church in 33 AD and Christianity in 300 AD -- note that this was the time of the Diocletian persecutions of Christianity, so we have a lot of text from Christians AND their detractors from this time about what Christians believed in and the rituals they followed -- hint they were all the same as that recorded in the 1st century Didache and the same as what you have in the Catholic/Orthodox/Oriental Orthodox/Assyrian church