(August 19, 2015 at 8:21 pm)abaris Wrote:(August 19, 2015 at 8:15 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: 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.
As I said. Look at Egyptian myths, Greek myths, all predating christianity by at least centuries and form your own opinion. You're quotemining so called scholars, who confirm your opinion instead of embarking on the journey. Look at the story of Osiris and Dyonisos. Not word for word the same as Jesus, but the concept certainly is the same. There's also the sun god Ra, who according to Egyptian mythology travels through the realm of death at every night to rise again in the morning. Not word for word the same, but again the concept is what counts.
On a side note, Dyonisos even pulled the water to wine trick several centuries before Jesus.
Um...I'm "quote-mining" scholars who have studied these same issues for decades. In the original languages. Have you?
The concept is what counts, eh? Yeah, that's my point...there are parallels but no real evidence that supports this stupid hypothesis.
