For example Mithras lived 3,000 BC (that is BEFORE Christ), and was worshipped by many.
Mithras was born of a virgin on Dec 25th, Mithras had twelve disciples, Mithras traveled as a teacher, Mithras came from heaven to be born as a man to save men from their sins.
Mithras was known as Savior, Son of God, Redeemer, and Lamb of God. Mithras died and rose again.
The followers remembered him with sacramental meals of bread and water or bread and wine, which represented the body and blood of the sacred bull.
On the wall of a Mithraic temple in Rome was found “And thou hast saved us by shedding the eternal blood"
And the list goes on and on and on...
Was Jesus ever found guilty of plagiarism by the way?
(before I'm suspected of plagiarism, I always tell my sources. It was my great friend on Y!A, music_girl, who provided me with this info, which made me see things very very clear)
2006-09-28 15:52:55 · 19 answers · asked by Thinx 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, there are plenty common elements in religions. Most of the Jesus themes can be found in earlier religions too, such as in case of Osiris, Dyonisus... etc., just to name the most known figures.
However, this can prove also what Christians like saying that "before the Bible the word of God was written in the hearts".
See more on the plagiarism at:
2006-09-28 20:52:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I will admit that I had never heard of this, so I did some poking around on the net to learn a little. I am far from studied, but I did see that Mithra was born of a rock, not of a virgin (from Wikipedia). I also saw that there is a mostly dissenting opinion of what you have said. The fact that the two use similar symbols and dates is not unusual to many religions.
Yes, it could be said to look as if someone borrowed from one religion to create another. Yes, it looks like you have once again given evidence to make people doubt. Yes, you have changed the mind of... hopefully no one. To all Christians and any one else out there honestly looking for answers. Go and look up the information yourself and see if there is reasonable evidence to believe what is being said here. I have no fear of those who seek the truth, because I am confident in what the truth is. I mourn for those who are mislead, but each of us has a choice to make.
2006-09-28 16:40:40 · answer #2 · answered by hisnamesaves 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What kind of proof of this is there, just curious. But, Jesus could never be charged with plagiarism since he is in the bible and not the one who wrote it. It would have to be the many people over the centuries the took, redefined and sometimes twisted the stories.
However, from what I've seen there's more evidence of the bible then anything else. Not that I wouldn't appreciate another opinion.
2006-09-28 15:59:57 · answer #3 · answered by Coool 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, but mithraism isn't as old as she said.
"Mithras was the central 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."
still older than christianity, though.
2006-09-28 16:03:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm well read in Mithra studies, well enough to know that very few scholars assert a substantial relationship between Mithraism and early Christianity. Would you like to cite two scholars who claim your view posted here?
2006-09-28 16:10:56 · answer #5 · answered by BABY 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Born of a virgin in a cave, beginning attended through sensible adult males, had 12 disciples, preached 3 years, develop into done and rose from the lifeless. Sound favourite? particular, yet we are speaking about the Persian Mithra, who predated Jesus through a pair hundred years. There are different, Horus isn't the in elementary words one. the full "death/resurrected god/guy" is a familiar archetype in the jap "secret religions". Paul, who develop into raised in Tarsus and knew those religions fairly properly, in simple terms conflated that archetype and the Jewish Messiah theory to come back up with the "crucified and risen" Christ that he preached. look into "zeitgeist The movie" on the internet, also "Mithra, the pagan Jesus". study middle jap religions, you'll locate they "borrowed" liberally from one yet another. there is little or no it quite is unique in both the former or the recent Testaments. reward on your journey!
2016-12-06 08:41:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in this Mithras, I believe in Jesus Christ, the 1 true son of God. Who died on the cross to bear the sins of this world that all we have to do is to accept his free gift.
God loves us, that's why he sent his son to die on the cross to bear our sins.
2006-09-28 16:12:43 · answer #7 · answered by Bryan M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all sources tell the truth. But the bible is always the truth teller. No matter how much proof we try to give you of God and that He existed. You would still not believe. It takes faith to believe. So no matter the facts you tell us. we are still not going to believe, so you might as well give up.
2006-09-28 16:51:15 · answer #8 · answered by jrealitytv 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How come we have never heard of this Mithraic - but almost everyone in the world has heard of Jesus in every generation since his birth til now - over every continent???
2006-09-28 15:55:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Read some Joseph Campbell. Lots of the supposedly Christian tales and such are common to many other mythologies. Often arising independently.
2006-09-28 15:57:21 · answer #10 · answered by Skeff 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋