RE: Is Christianity unique or not?
July 26, 2018 at 7:22 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2018 at 7:24 pm by JairCrawford.)
Yes I know early Christianity polemicized against Mithraism as a satanic counterfeit.
Based on my reading (I'm doing some on Dionysus right now) I am definitely finding parallels, but I expected to. But said parallels aren't as broadly similar as that link above suggests^.
I can see a parallel with the Eucharist, and parallels with dying and rising (this goes way back in many many cultures), but as a concept of a savior, I have not come across any parallels yet. And this is the one I really don't get because I've heard it quoted by skeptics a lot but not much information to be found on it.
I see that Carier explains that this saving is through mysteries, but that is not Paul's message of salvation through Christ. Paul emphasizes grace. Paul's mysteries are written more as epiphanies on the Kingdom, and not as 'things you must experience to get into Heaven'.
Based on my reading (I'm doing some on Dionysus right now) I am definitely finding parallels, but I expected to. But said parallels aren't as broadly similar as that link above suggests^.
I can see a parallel with the Eucharist, and parallels with dying and rising (this goes way back in many many cultures), but as a concept of a savior, I have not come across any parallels yet. And this is the one I really don't get because I've heard it quoted by skeptics a lot but not much information to be found on it.
I see that Carier explains that this saving is through mysteries, but that is not Paul's message of salvation through Christ. Paul emphasizes grace. Paul's mysteries are written more as epiphanies on the Kingdom, and not as 'things you must experience to get into Heaven'.
