(October 7, 2021 at 8:24 am)Spongebob Wrote: I'll just toss this in since it hasn't been said yet. The virgin birth god/messiah trope was old when the Jesus story was concocted. In short, it was co-opted.
As was redemptive sacrifice, ritual cannibalism, salvation, and such like and so on. Christians did a lousy job of filing off the serial numbers.
Boru
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