Is Christianity based on older myths?

[Mister Agenda]

I have heard some level the charge the Christianity is a recycling of older myths. I don't believe this to be so and if anyone is so inclined, I would like to hear the arguments.

That's a good question, Steve. I hope what you've been hearing isn't based on that 'zeitgeist' stuff. It's not exactly first-rate scholarship.

[RobbyPants]

There is little doubt that the advent of Christ was foreshadowed by pagan myths, like Mithras and Osiris, but that does not diminish the truth of our Lord and Savior's actual coming.

How do you justify this assertion, please?

In an ad hoc fashion, most likely.

[FatAndFaithless]

Seeing as the OP hasn't responded once to this thread, my hopes aren't high.

[KevinM1]

There is little doubt that the advent of Christ was foreshadowed by pagan myths, like Mithras and Osiris, but that does not diminish the truth of our Lord and Savior's actual coming.

[abaris]

There is little doubt that the advent of Christ was foreshadowed by pagan myths, like Mithras and Osiris, but that does not diminish the truth of our Lord and Savior's actual coming.

There's even less doubt that Osiris and Mithras were hijacked by christianity.

[Minimalist]

Seeing as the OP hasn't responded once to this thread, my hopes aren't high.

Another shit and runner.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Mithras, Osiris and the rest are just myths and were understood as such by their adherents. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, was a real person and the early Christians knew that.

[Chad32]

Jesus' story bears a striking resemblance to all these other people who did the same thing. Virgin births, working miracles, and rising from the dead were all the rage back then. Since we don't have proof that Jesus really existed, why should we believe he was real? There really were people back then that worshiped those other gods that we can be pretty sure don't exist, but you want us to believe your god is special, despite his story and actions not being all that special compared to other figures.

[The Valkyrie]

There is little doubt that the advent of Christ was foreshadowed by pagan myths, like Mithras and Osiris, but that does not diminish the truth of our Lord and Savior's actual coming.

Yeah, it does.

Quite dramatically, actually.

[Jackalope]

Mithras, Osiris and the rest are just myths and were understood as such by their adherents. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, was a real person and the early Christians knew that.

Of course he was.