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RE: Is Christianity based on older myths?
February 3, 2015 at 11:20 pm
(February 3, 2015 at 9:49 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Mithras, Osiris and the rest are just myths and were understood as such by their adherents. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, was a real person and the early Christians knew that.
Yeahhhh...
No.
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RE: Is Christianity based on older myths?
February 3, 2015 at 11:22 pm
(February 3, 2015 at 9:49 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Mithras, Osiris and the rest are just myths and were understood as such by their adherents. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, was a real person and the early Christians knew that.
You're big into special pleading, aren't you.
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RE: Is Christianity based on older myths?
February 3, 2015 at 11:30 pm
(February 3, 2015 at 9:49 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Mithras, Osiris and the rest are just myths and were understood as such by their adherents. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, was a real person and the early Christians knew that.
Are you saying that the followers of older religions knew their religions were false while they were practicing them? Why would someone invest their time and energy into a religion they felt was not real?
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RE: Is Christianity based on older myths?
February 4, 2015 at 12:52 am
When the pantheon poobahs waved their hands and mumbled their mumbo jumbo, and then told the gathered Romans to go outside at dusk and look to the west and see the gods Venus and Mars and Jupiter, and then in a few weeks had cavorted into a different pattern across the sky, those Romans BELIEVED.
Throw in a lunar eclipse once in a while (which they could accurately predict in those days), experience the winds blowing, the crack of thunder and you had a religion that was demonstrably FACT.
At least as far as they could tell.
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RE: Is Christianity based on older myths?
February 4, 2015 at 5:11 am
(February 3, 2015 at 9:49 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Mithras, Osiris and the rest are just myths and were understood as such by their adherents. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, was a real person and the early Christians knew that.
Where do you get your idea of Mithras and Osiris being myths to their adherents? For them they were as real as Jesus, who, as described in the bible, was as real a person as Roger Rabbit.
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RE: Is Christianity based on older myths?
February 4, 2015 at 5:23 am
(February 4, 2015 at 5:11 am)abaris Wrote: (February 3, 2015 at 9:49 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Mithras, Osiris and the rest are just myths and were understood as such by their adherents. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, was a real person and the early Christians knew that.
Where do you get your idea of Mithras and Osiris being myths to their adherents? For them they were as real as Jesus, who, as described in the bible, was as real a person as Roger Rabbit.
Ohh..... that Jessica...
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RE: Is Christianity based on older myths?
February 4, 2015 at 8:33 am
Lucky woman, to be able to date Roger. Or was she married? I forget.
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RE: Is Christianity based on older myths?
February 4, 2015 at 9:38 am
(February 4, 2015 at 8:33 am)Chad32 Wrote: Lucky woman, to be able to date Roger. Or was she married? I forget.
Married... but she played patty cake with other men... -.-'
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RE: Is Christianity based on older myths?
February 4, 2015 at 9:40 am
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(February 2, 2015 at 12:09 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: There is little doubt that the advent of Christ was foreshadowed by pagan myths, like Mithras and Osiris, but that does not diminish the truth of our Lord and Savior's actual coming.
I'd have thought, seeing the parallels, it would do.
(February 3, 2015 at 9:49 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Mithras, Osiris and the rest are just myths and were understood as such by their adherents. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, was a real person and the early Christians knew that.
Nah.
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RE: Is Christianity based on older myths?
February 4, 2015 at 9:45 am
(February 3, 2015 at 9:49 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Mithras, Osiris and the rest are just myths and were understood as such by their adherents. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, was a real person and the early Christians knew that. Of course they knew. Just like you do.
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