Aren’t there some striking parallels between the Jesus and Mithra stories?

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[Krankor]

Do you mean Mothra?

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Alex Murphy]

Thread inspired by comments made on another of my threads today...

[ken21]

i was told in a college course that christianity incorporated elements of mithra for reasons of propaganda, i.e. to attract the followers of mithra and similar religions.

[bleach]

Mothra only had two miniature disciples. Mysteriously they have yet to carbon date the cocoon of Tokyo.

[Krankor]

Three- including me.

[Gargantua]

Yeah! This dude's messing with the Legend of Mothra!

;-/

[BenLurkin]

Mithra — just another of Satan’s false religions.

All intended for deception.

[Little Pig]

Wouldn’t be the first time, nor the last. See: Greenman, Yule, Christmas tree, Holly wreath. All are pagan symbols incorporated into Christian tradition for various reasons. All certainly had symbolism appropriate to Christianity, most having to do with resurrection, an important theme for Christians. And there certainly was an aspect of propaganda to their adoption.

[wendy1946]

you might have left something out. Mithra never told anybody that you can’t take it with you; the day before Jesus was born, the whole world believed you could.

[HarleyD]

Actually, if I'm not mistaken, there were a number of these stories that popped up throughout the first couple of centuries before the birth of Christ; all of them stating they were the Messiah. I honestly believe they were demonically inspired simply to minimize the actual birth, life, death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

It should be noted that in all the religions and all the belief that have appeared on the earth, only our Lord Jesus promised to give us His Spirit to change our lives. Rather a bold claim that has never been duplicated and one that is confirmed by countless saints.

[ffusco]

If you are a practicing Christian you are also part of a Pagan culture that predates the Old Testament. early Christians did not throw away the baby with the bath water. Christian Holidays were set on older Pagan holidays which tended to follow even older seasonal rituals. Christ rises in the Spring,on Easter, which uses 2 fertility symbols: The rabbit and the egg. Christ’s birth is very close to the New Year and is symbolized by a Tree, another symbol of life. At the very least you maintain the same arrogance of the early Christians, they were the only people in the Empire that opennly mocked other beliefs as being inherently false.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

This is the first time I’ve heard all this. Thanks for posting. Must be what they are teaching in comparative religion class now days.

[guitarplayer1953]

There has been a lot added to Chrianity that is not of Christ and you have stated several of these. More of these can be traced back to Augustine and his paganization of the true faith. If you read the new testament the birth of Christ was sometime in the spring as the Sheppard's were tending their flocks. And easter is is most definitely pagan since it is a fact by Scripture that Christ was not crucified on Friday and raised on Sunday.

[ffusco]

You say paganization, I say a brilliant strategy to synthesize the Classical with the Holy Spirit.

[guitarplayer1953]

I call it an unholy mixture. And the Holy Spirit has nothing to do with it.

[ffusco]

Call it whatever you want. You wouldn’t even have heard about Christ if it weren’t for Pagan “corruption”.

[Uri’el-2012]

You wouldn’t even have heard about Christ if it weren’t for Pagan “corruption”.

This statement denies the sovereignty of the creator of the universe.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai

[ffusco]

Christianity was spread by people who shared a common language, currency and safe reliable transportation around the empire. It has nothing to do with the sovreignty of the Creator- go ask 2 billion Hindus and Buddhists.