(December 31, 2013 at 4:38 pm)The_Thinking_Theist Wrote: A god's resurrection from the dead is an ancient archetype found all over the world, so it wasn't borrowed from anyone, more likely it was just another expression of the human's innate fear of death. For the record, Osiris' "resemblances" to Jesus are really stretched.
The response to you is as to Mini: That Jesus was a god/God was not an early Jewish contribution to, and had nothing to do with the origin of, the resurrection myth. The origin of the myth was the original question posed by this thread. For the original Jewish followers, equating a mortal man with God was inconceivable and entirely unnecessary. Rather, the myth originated as the resurrection of a dead mortal man, for reasons Xpastor provided, and his view is entirely consistent with the "actual facts" as I set out in a miracle-free scenario that is consistent with Jewish law, the calendar, the clock, and the "technology". Hey, Jews had precedent: Elisha did it, so it could happen again. Only later did the conflation occur with the god-resurrection myths of the neighbors, and its absorption into Christology
