What's hard about tracing back the roots of Christianity is that the other mystery cults wrote nothing down (to my knowledge). We can only gather what they were like from early Christians, because as they say, history is written by winners.
Justin Martyr, a Christian living around 150 A.D, wrote about the competing religion called Mithras and how those 'devils' copied their rituals like putting oil on their foreheads, eating and drinking the blood of Christ etc. Basically what I'm trying to say is that Christianity is only one facet to the myth. To properly understand where it all came from you need to understand all the other cults and trace all of them back which isn't easy to do.
Justin Martyr, a Christian living around 150 A.D, wrote about the competing religion called Mithras and how those 'devils' copied their rituals like putting oil on their foreheads, eating and drinking the blood of Christ etc. Basically what I'm trying to say is that Christianity is only one facet to the myth. To properly understand where it all came from you need to understand all the other cults and trace all of them back which isn't easy to do.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
