jstrodel Wrote:It will do no good trying to learn from mistakes about Christian history that never actually happened (such as Christianity copying pagan ideas and being mostly derived from them).
Well that's awkward, because your own side admits to copying the pagans. Justin Martyr wrote:
Jesus took bread, and when He had given thanks, said, "This do ye in remembrance of Me, this is My body;" and that, after the same manner, having taken the cup and given thanks, He said, "This is My blood;" and gave it to them alone. Which the wicked devils have imitated in the mysteries of Mithras, commanding the same thing to be done. For, that bread and a cup of water are placed with certain incantations in the mystic rites of one who is being initiated, you either know or can learn.
He believed that the devil set up these pre-Christian faiths before the first coming of Jesus in order to derail people and lead them astray. In other words, he explicitly admits to Christianity having copied rituals of pre-Christian faiths.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
