needtogetaas said:
what I think is cool about all of this is yes every culter or race at one time or another has a similar story about jesus or what ever they called him...I find it cool that all of them have a the same story though.there has to be some truth to it if hundreds of deferent races and cultures have some kind of version of it.
it gives some truth or a very good indicators that there is a lot of truth to a few things
1.a man was born of a virgin
2.he was born around the same time of year in all stories
3.he was a prophit
4 he preformed miracles of divine nature
5.he was killed and rose from the dead in 3 days.
6.he was the son of god in most stories
7.he is the only way to heaven in most stories
what I find even more interesting is that is that is about all you really need to know and beleive.
the most interesting part to me though, is that all of these gods were worshipped LONG BEFORE the advent of Christ.
So what this says to me, is that when people went to write the Bible (remember, it was written by men) they borrowed HEAVILY from other gods and other stories.
Its also shown that these other stories were based on things like the sun and the stars.
So Christianity is a derivation, or a collaboration of many ancient beliefs.
Yet despite all of this, people STILL take it literally!
Do you agree that Mithra, Krisha, Dionisys, and others were NOT born of virgins right? Its pretty apparent that no one was born of a virgin, but it makes a great story for a god. Same goes for Jesus.
None of them were raised from the dead.
None of them performed "miracles."