Do You Think Christianity Can Survive This?

Question

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm


Does this make Christians more naive than they already seem?

It seems the God-Man concept is being recycled.

Ha! It's funny how it takes all in all about 3 minutes to read the entire page, but two seconds for you to tell me how "deceived" I am.

Answer 1

Satan can read the scriptures too.

He is smart enough to figure out how to create substitutes for everything God does, and predicts.
Satan is much more clever than the average person understands. He is the greatest deceiver of all time.

He even managed to get Christians to include some pagan holidays in their practices to give non believers some ammunition to use against Christians. What better way to discredit any group than to sneak in something erroneous and later use it to question the accuracy of the entire organization.

Christmas season as we know it was a pagan festival even before the time of Christ. Supposedly Jesus' birth occurred in the spring, not in December. Many years ago officials anxious to convert pagans to Christianity slowly introduced a festival that coincided with the same date as the pagan one and in time it became "Christmas". That is not from God it is from humans who had good intentions but may have been a bit misguided in their understanding of Gods' will.

So now we observe Christmas on December 25 out of tradition not out of historical accuracy. The date is now questionable but the season is sincere at least to devoted Christians. And look here again, Satan has managed to create a substitute to even the "questionable" day of Jesus' birth with a jolly, chubby old guy who magically flies all over the entire earth on one night delivering toys to good little boys and girls. SANTA!

There is no end to what satan will do to discredit and call into question the things of God.

BECAUSE HE HATES GOD.

That's the bottom line.

Answer 2

Yes, I agree there is a lot out there with respect to the parallels you mention. Christianity will not be affected by this because typically they will be told not to read something or educate themsleves. DONT read Richard Dawkins, DONT read Davinci Code. The strength of this religion is predicated upon keeping people ignorant. Why do you think college Biology books are available with and without the chapters on evolution? MODERN DAY!!! 2006. Movies edited to take out references of the earth being more than 6000 years old. Even though god can no longer "hide in the gaps", i.e. be used as a simple excuse for anyhting we do not have a scientific answer for, it has come to the piont where it is a VIRTUE in that religion to NOT QUESTION the pastors, NOT READ anything that provokes thought or FACE THE WRATH.

Extraterrestrials could come down to earth, thereby invalidating LOADS of religious ideologies, and Christians would still believe they are right regarding their dogma. So in theory the evidence makes them more naive, but it will not have the effect of making them question their beliefs.

Answer 3

Fascinating comparison. Anyway, if this causes a crisis of faith in any of the faithful, how faithful could they really be? As with most religions, Christianity is a case of either you believe or you don't. Sweetie, if this bothers you, then I have terrible news. A good part of the Christian belief system is borrowed from others.

Almost every single creation myth the world over involves a supreme being. Though this being may have offspring or a companion, many myths begin with the being alone creating the earth and the sky.

African Bushmen once lived in peace and harmony with the animals, until they built a fire (which the Father-of-All-Spirits had expressly forbidden them to do). For this sin, their peaceful relationship with the animals was destroyed. Pandora, in Greek myth, was given a box by Zeus and instructed to keep it safe and not look inside. When she opened it for a peek, all of the evils within flew out to plague man ever after. Australian Aboriginies believe that the Sun Mother had originally created all animal and told them to live peacefully together. When the animals began to quarrel, she created two humans who would have superiority over them. All of these myths are similar to the story of Adam and Eve, who disobeyed God's instructions not to eat from the forbidden tree.

The Deluge (the Great Flood), for example, appears in no less than 30 different cultures, and several of them sound remarkably similar to the events described in Genesis.

Christmas, Halloween, Easter, and St. Valentines Day were not chosen at random. All four are days of celebration held by ancient cultures. Yule is celebrated on the winter soltice (typically on Dec 21 or 22), Halloween marks Samhain (the pagan celebration marking the end of summer), Easter falls near the Spring Equinox (a time of fertility and rebirth for ancient cultures). While it is true that St. Valentine's Day is named for two Christian saints, it's no coincidence that February 14th was chosen, since February 15th was the Lupercalia, an ancient Roman fertility festival.

As noted in the article, Horus walked on water, as did Gautama Buddha (in 450 B.C.) and Orion in Greek mythology. Even Hindu mythology has water walking as a feature.

Dionysus turned water into wine, many mythical and historic figures have been described as the "Son of God" (and Romulus is even said to have been born of a virgin), ancient writings are full of references to the good going to the Elysian Fields and the not so good to Hades, Vespatian's spittle healed a blind man, and Apollonius of Tyana raised a child from the dead.

Fact is, every religion borrows from other beliefs, but that doesn't make it any less meaningful for the truly faithful.

Answer 4

One person's opinion. Egyptian mythology and Christianity may have been in the same general region, but in the time of Jesus, Rome was the major power in the world, not Egypt. There may have been some interaction between Christians and Egyptians, but it was on the level of Christians going to Egyptians during their missionary journeys, which they went everywhere, and the story remains the same with all the missionaries, no matter where they went. It would lend more credence to this person's theory if Christianity would have started in Egypt and radiated out. But the first people to be called Christians were in Antioch, a city near Israel.

Answer 5

I brought up this very fact a few days ago and not surprisingly the Christians spun the information to say that this parallel didn't really exist.
One thing I have learned about most religious people is that, facts, reality, commonsense, rational thinking, and the like, have no place in their lives. You can not reason with them - it's the great mystery of human behavior.

I just read some of the responses by Christians and once again they prove my point.

Answer 6

The great thing about our God is that he gives us a free will to chose what we believe. For even those who say that they don't believe he at some point tugs at their heart as if to say Look for me. He also tells us that we are to work out our own Salvation. In other words. rather we chose to believe or not to believe, Our beliefs will never Change one thing in God's word. He would rather we chose Him, but if we don't it changes nothing, He still wins. He does say how ever That he is the very beginning and the End and in him are all things. So in that when it happens the end I mean everyone rather they chose to believe or not will PROCLAIM him King of Kings. But those who believe him now will live with him forever. And those that chose not to believe, will You know the story "The Lake of Fire"There is no debate on this. Just Simple Fact. I read the ending and HE our God win's..So can chrisitianty survive? We will just have to wait and see..

Answer 7

I hope not.

Simon built the church and christianity, not jesus.

Jesus is not christian, muhammad is not muslim, buddha is not buddist, just as columbus did not discover america and the wright brothers were not the first to fly, yet these fallacies survive as truth absolute.

We are all the product of a lottery of sorts, born into a set of circumstance and fed information as if all else is wrong or inferior.

Can humanity survive this is the broader question.

Answer 8

Survive? are you kidding? do you think that some comparison with a false religion is going to harm CHRISTIANITY? Sweetheart, CHRISTIANITY, and the BIBLE are 2 anvils that have worn out many a hammer over the years and will continue to do so. The proof for CHRISTIANITY is in a changed life honey.
You should stop trying to disprove that which is disprovable... if you reject CHRIST to your grave you "will" stand before GOD and give account of your rejection... and then be cast into the lake of fire with all others who have rejected CHRIST. It doesn't matter that you do not believe it, its coming....
~GOD BLESS YOU AND LEAD YOU INTO ALL TRUTH~

Answer 9

actually its the concept of the trinity that has been recycled. Most of the ancient myths of the god-man race are very different than the birth of Christ... all it takes is a bit of time to research and curiosity.

Answer 10

Christianity can survive anything because it doesn't rely on facts. Christianity, like most religions, rely on emotional hooks and manipulation of human insecurities. If facts come up, like this, they are just rationalized away. The human capacity for rationalizing away what they don't want to accept is nearly infinite, as far as I can see. Note how much they stress faith when pinned by evidence.