(August 19, 2015 at 8:18 pm)Shuffle Wrote:(August 19, 2015 at 8:15 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: I'd like to be really clear on this point: scholars who have studied these so-called "dying and rising gods" of the Middle East find no basis for the claim that the disciples drew upon any of these mythologies as the basis for a copy-cat tale about Jesus.I'm talking about the ones I just made up.
The evidence points in the opposite direction - members of these pagan cults saw the success of Christianity in the first and second centuries, and they copied Jesus.
Ah...well, it shouldn't be long before the atheists here start mocking your new gods.
Good luck with that.
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