(July 15, 2012 at 8:36 am)Justtristo Wrote: As I have been reading the works of Robert M Price, the dying and rising god stories in Middle Eastern mythology originated as a personification of the sun going through the seasons. Given I would fully agree with DM Murdock that a lot of ancient religion is astrological, it is not too surprising.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_god
So the answer is yes, Jesus is the sun???