Is this your lord?

Question

Born on December 25th
Born to a Virgin
Had twelve disciples
Travelled far and wide as a teacher and illuminator of men
Is part of a Holy Trinity
Had a "last supper" with his followers
Was crucified
Was buried in a tomb from which he rose again from the dead before ascending to heaven

Sound like your lord?





















Congratulations, you've just worshipped Mithras!

Mithras was long revered by the Persians and the Indians around 600 BCE, as "God's Messenger of Truth"

Notice any similarities to your lord? I mean if your lord was Dionysus, tammuz, adonis, hercules, robin hood, or even Jesus.

Do some research. Don't blindly follow what your preacher/family tells you. Read the bible for yourself. Read bible criticisms. Read, read read outside the bible. Is your life not worth it?

p.s. When asked about the similarities of Jesus to these other god's I've mentioned, the official church position is "the devil went back in time and planted these stories to tempt you"

Nice.

p.s. The official church position comes from one of the original Apologetics, Justin Martyr.

And yes, will, I have done my homework. Now you do yours.

p.p.s. If anybody thinks that "wikipedia" is the be-all, end-all of human knowledge had better think again.

Answer 1

So u mean christ is like a copy story?

Answer 2

Born on December 25th: a common falacy meant to combat a pagan holiday.
Born to a Virgin: An act of God, not easy to do with first century technology.
Had twelve disciples
Travelled far and wide as a teacher and illuminator of men
Is part of a Holy Trinity
Had a "last supper" with his followers
Was crucified
Was buried in a tomb from which he rose again from the dead before ascending to heaven

Sound like your lord?

Very much so.
However, there are things you left out.
1) Is the one and only I AM (John 1)
2) was without fault (Isiah 53)
3) Is comming back (Revelation)

Answer 3

You are welcome to believe what you would like. Jesus was not born on December 25th. Judging from the description of His birth, scholars assume it was probably late August or early September but the Gregorian calendar. It was only in the 3rd Century when Christ's birth was first celebrated (other than at the original time, of course). The pope chose December 25th as a way to combat the pagan celebrations of the Winter Solstice and Saturnalia.

There are other cultures who have adopted the concept of virgin birth. Not surprising in Persia, considering that the Jews were in exile in Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar’s reign until Cyrus conquered Babylon & let the Jews go home. Given their history, it is equally likely that the Persians stole the Messianic stories and adapted them to their own gods. Same with the rest of the information.

BTW – I have read outside the Bible, perhaps for longer than you’ve been alive. It’s through this study that includes the Bible that I am able to see the truth and separate it from the chaff. I suggest that you read history instead of just religion and mythology. It will allow you to see the interaction and to verify, as I have, many of the Biblical accounts rather than to believe the first thing I read that contradicts them.

Answer 4

That's why I'm happy I know the truth! :)

No my lord, Jesus was not born in December. Evidence points closer to late September/October, and that's not important anyways because he never commanded that we celebrate his birth (of which we do not know to begin with), but instead he instituted the Lord's Evening Meal for us to observe, not "Christmas" (which has nothing to do with the Son of God, but rather the literal Sun).

No my lord Jesus is NOT part of a Trinity that was only started 300 years after he died by a man named Constantine. The Bible says through and through that he is the Son of God, the Father, NOT God himself.
Father=Son?
I think not. Father implies creating the Son. Right there that makes the Son created and thus inferior (since the Father, Jehovah is the Alpha and Omega, no beginning, no end), and definitely not equal. The Trinity is not supported in the Hebrew or Greek Scriptures in any way, shape, or form. Oh and where does that Holy Ghost come in? It doesn't. That's right.

Jesus Christ, my lord, did not die on a cross. The Greek word xy'lon implies and upright stake or post, or tree. In no way, shape or form does that word (as appears in the original scrolls) imply two pieces of wood being nailed/posted together at ANY angle.

Jesus Christ has many disciples. His disciples (or followers) are anyone that choose to accept him and follow him whole-souled. While he may have had 12(then 11) APOSTLES, while he was living, Paul and many others became his apostles after he had already died. So again he had more than 12 disciples (and Judas Iscariot wouldn't count anyways since he betrayed him and lost his right to be an apostle, or "hand picked, chosen" follower of Christ.)


Yes I agree:

People shouldn't "blindly follow what your preacher/family tells you." They should "Read the bible for [them]self. Read bible criticisms. Read, read read outside the bible. Is your life not worth it?"

Hope we both make them think. :-)

Answer 5

Good one--I already knew about the Mithras basis for the history of Jesus' birth, but I wasn't aware of some of the others. The early church wanted to make people accept Christianity, so they just said, "Yeah--that god that was born on December 25? That wasn't really Mithras--that was Jesus!" For the people who didn't know it, watch the History Channel around Christmas some time. At least they didn't try to say that Jesus slaughtered bulls, like Mithras.

Answer 6

I consider you can discover it is not ALWAYS written in capitals within the historical testomony. (In Psalm a hundred and ten:a million, for example, you can traditionally see whatever like 'The LORD mentioned to my Lord'.) The purpose you can see it written that method normally is that after the title of God is written within the historical testomony, many translations change it with the phrase LORD in capitals. (Not all translations achieve this, and I'm no longer certain how the quite a lot of ones that achieve this justify it!) But while the customary language actually contained the phrase 'lord' in that loanguage, then they only maintain it in reduce case. You do not discover the all-caps variant traditionally in new testomony translations in view that no longer some of the new testomony manuscripts had God's title in in any respect (even though finally a few had been determined that did).

Answer 7

Mithras was the central savior god of Mithraism, a syncretic Hellenistic mystery religion of male initiates that developed in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE and was practiced in the Roman Empire from the 1st century BCE to the 5th century CE. Parthian coins and documents bear a double date with a 64 year interval that represents Mithras' ascension to heaven, traditionally given as the equivalent of 208 BCE, 64 years after his birth. The Romanized Greek Plutarch says that in 67 BCE a large band of pirates in Cilicia—on the southeast coast of Anatolia— were practicing "secret rites" of Mithras.

The name Mithras is the Greek masculine form of Mithra, the Persian god who was the mediator between Ahura Mazda and the earth, the guarantor of human contracts, although in Mithraism much was added to the original elements of Mitra. However, some of the attributes of Roman Mithras may have been taken from other Eastern cults: for example, the Mithraist emphasis on astrology strongly suggests syncretism with star-oriented Mesopotamian or Anatolian religions. At least some of this synthesis of beliefs may have already been underway by the time the cult was adopted in the West. When Mithraism was introduced by Roman legions at Dura-Europos after 168 CE, the savior god assumed his familiar Hellenistic iconic formula (illustration above right) [1].

The mythology surrounding Mithras is not easily reassembled from the enigmatic and complicated iconography. Indeed the dedicatory inscription on a 2nd-3rd century tauroctony discovered in a Mithraeum at Ostia in the 1790s refers to the "incomprehensible deity": INDEPREHENSIVILIS DEI [2]. Apparently the cult did not depend on the interpretation of divinely-inspired revealed texts, and the textual references are those of Christians, who mention Mithras to deplore him, and neo-Platonists who interpreted Mithraic symbols within their own world-schemes.

Answer 8

Which"church" gave you this "official" position?...never heard it myself... All of mankind has an inborn God knowledge... All of mankind had, in the begining, the knowledge from God of what was prophesied to come... These "stories" got taken all over the World as the population grew and spread out. The story of the comming Christ got distorted by the lost cultures... But it is all the Word of God still lingering in the genetic memory of man... Every one knows God exists... it is just so tangeled up and buried in the mind that it manfrests itself in some very negative ways... thus all the conflicting "creation stories" for example... all of the same events just distorted.... by the leading of The Holy Spirit God's Word can still be found and followed..

Answer 9

"p.s. When asked about the similarities of Jesus to these other god's I've mentioned, the official church position is "the devil went back in time and planted these stories to tempt you""

Only a church of idiots would use that excuse...

More likely Zoroastrians "borrowed" much of the back story from christians. Because, almost all of their holy text where destroyed.

Answer 10

Actually, no, my Lord was not born on Dec.25...closer to October 15 or so. He was born to a virgin named Mary. The rest are rip offs...how? Because Satan knew the plan of salvation before any humans did and he started his deceptions and rip-off's early on. The mother-son story has been throughout history and the mother (false ones) are what Revelations calls The Great Harlot. Read the article about it at Zion's Fire.

Answer 11

Their are many names for the bible...The Koran is one for example. They also speak of ppl similar to Jesus in the Bible. Every country has their "version". All religions (besides ones "made up" 1900 or greater) lol are the same with a few differences. I am glad that you noticed the similarities. I wish that all faiths would notice the similarities and then all religions could come together and stop fighting so much.