Mythology 101

[goodwithoutgod]

Does anyone know if an editor has compiled all of the relevant texts pre-Christ that establish the preeminence of certain ideas in the culture and that together can be easily shown to form the prototype for a mystery cult such as the Christian faith? Often times I read about the similarities but no direct passages or translations are given, and then I read them myself to find the comparisons a bit of a stretch.

As I mentioned briefly, there is a pattern, a flow of direct, similar pieces that are used when hero gods are constructed, and there are reasons for this based on the cultural expectations at the time of what makes a hero god..From Horus to Jesus, you can line them up and check the boxes for similarity. A popular posit, and one I used to make until I came across the story of Romulus, was Mithra.....and there are some similarities, but there are a lot of pieces of misinformation out there about Mithraism and its similarities to the jesus story. Mithra was a prevalent religion at the time, and there has been conjecture that if Xtianity hadnt been embraced and enforced by Emperor Constantine as the only authorized religion, that Mithra may have become the dominant religion.

The similarities with Romulus stops the clock for me....800 years pre-jesus....it seems too much of a coincidence, unless of course jesus was a construct for political purposes and they used the execution of a man named jesus who was one of many self proclaimed prophets/son of gods who was convenient to use as a basis for the myth...remember the "odd period of silence" in which there is nothing about jesus, then suddenly, years later, a scramble is done to put together urban myth stories about this magical demi god who upon his death, the earth shook, the sky went dark, and corpses burst out of the ground and went walking around town...odd no one at the time thought any of that was noteworthy...

Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

Mark 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

Luke 23:44-48 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

Unfortunately, there is not one shred of evidence that this happened...zero, all of the royal scribes, historians, philosophers, and literate people who wrote down and recorded EVERYTHING of any significance, failed to note the whole earth going dark mid-day for three hours...an eclipse lasts about 7.5 min max, so it wasn’t that...nothing, .....zero....not one word written down at the time....not even anywhere in the world for this "global event"... Never happened.

Matthew 27:51-53
King James Version (KJV)
51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

Again, as I said previously, one would posit a zombie invasion would gather some attention....nope, nothing to see here, time to go milk the goats..

Why there are no records of Jesus Christ

It is not possible to find in any legitimate religious or historical writings compiled between the beginning of the first century and well into the fourth century any reference to Jesus Christ and the spectacular events that the Church says accompanied his life.

This confirmation comes from Frederic Farrar (1831-1903) of Trinity College, Cambridge:
"It is amazing that history has not embalmed for us even one certain or definite saying or circumstance in the life of the Saviour of mankind ... there is no statement in all history that says anyone saw Jesus or talked with him. Nothing in history is more astonishing than the silence of contemporary writers about events relayed in the four Gospels."
(The Life of Christ, Frederic W. Farrar, Cassell, London, 1874)

This situation arises from a conflict between history and New Testament narratives. Dr Tischendorf made this comment:
"We must frankly admit that we have no source of information with respect to the life of Jesus Christ other than ecclesiastic writings assembled during the fourth century."
(Codex Sinaiticus, Dr Constantin von Tischendorf, British Library, London)

There is an explanation for those hundreds of years of silence:
the construct of Christianity did not begin until after the first quarter of the fourth century, and that is why Pope Leo X (d. 1521) called Christ a "fable"