I know exactly to whom I refer,... Mithra looks nothing like Jesus!
Posted on 08/19/2008 4:18:38 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
Bingo. And there's an interesting archaeological example of this: the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome.
Archaeological excavations under the Basilica have revealed that the site in the 1st century was probably the house church of Titus Flavius Clemens, who was persecuted by the emperor for his Christianity. Then in the 2nd century, what appears on the very same site but a Temple dedicated to Mithras. Just my speculation, but I think planting Mithras there was a very deliberate effort by the Mithraists to symbolize a conquest of Christianity.
Needless to say, if that was their intent, it didn't exactly work. :)
“Sh’ma Yisrael: Adonai elohenu. Adonai echad!”
Can you translate that please?
Deuteronomy 6:4
I know exactly to whom I refer,... Mithra looks nothing like Jesus!
Got it, The Hebrew God told the Hebrews he was the only God. Could have just wrote that- right?
Nope. They had to live it to communicate it, and still do. While their detractors rise and fall across history, the Jews go on.
Mark 12:30 AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, Mark 12:31 "The second is this, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'[Lev. 19:18] Mark 12:32 Mark 12:33 AND TO LOVE HIM WITH ALL THE HEART AND WITH Mark 12:34 When Jesus (Yah'shua) saw that he had answered intelligently, He said to him,
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
Mark 12:29 Jesus( Yah'shua ) answered, "The foremost is,
'HEAR, O ISRAEL! THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD;
AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.'
[Deut. 6:4,5]
There is no other commandment greater than these."
that HE IS ONE, AND THERE IS NO ONE ELSE BESIDES HIM;
ALL THE UNDERSTANDING AND WITH ALL THE STRENGTH,
AND TO LOVE ONE'S NEIGHBOR AS HIMSELF,
is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."
"You are not far from the kingdom of God."
You should be a Christian and let Jews be Jews.
Christians that talk this way are funny to me....
To the author of the post, I always thought the resurrection of Christ was what was being compared to Mithra’s birth. Not that Mithra was born of a virgin. Unless rocks have a wound.
Considering that many Zorasterists branched off into Mithraism because of a “birth”(real or not), ala the Isrealites and Jesus, the comparsion is warranted.
Plus since we are speaking full truths, you can’t call the Mithraists out on borrowing Christian rites and practices. You have to tell the people that Early “Christianity”(if we can call it that at that time) did not initially have the rites and customs that it came to be known for. And since Paul stressed that the old covenant of the Jews became insignificant within the Kingdom of Jesus, calling Simon Peter out on it, the forms of traditional Christian customs and imagery were also adopted. More than likely from competing religions, Mithraism included.
;-/
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