(August 26, 2012 at 10:59 am)spockrates Wrote:(August 25, 2012 at 11:08 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Inanna, Romulus, Osiris, Zalmoxis, and Adonis are considered dying and rising gods.
Of course, none of them will match completely the story of Jesus, but they same basic elements
Of the written accounts of these gods, are there any that indicate the god was incarnate in human form and the human form (rather than the god) died and was resurrected?
I don't remember. Why does that matter? To make an analogy, you're just getting distracted by the equivalent of little melodic figures and ornaments and missing the shared underlying harmonic progression common to all of them.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).