(April 20, 2014 at 6:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: People like to push these similarities beyond all reason.
Resurrecting gods were a dime a dozen in the ANE. Jesus is nothing special. It is not necessary to make connections to every aspect of the story.
Indeed - We can assume that the christ - as well as the Xtian and Jewish religions -0were not solely based on just the Egyptian religion. It is just as obvious that some of the Myths of the bible are based on Babylonian myth - among others.
As people moved about - and came into contact/bondage to other cultures - the religions took on some of the features of those religions - in a "can you top this" sort of way.
About the only thing we can say about the xtian Mythology - is that NONE of it is original - it all had a prior basis.
