What pagan myths was Jesus stolen from?

Question

I have been told many times that the entire christian faith was stolen from religions before.

so what ones did Jesus come from?

Answer 1

In the first century of the Common Era, there appeared at the eastern end of the Mediterranean a remarkable religious leader who taught the worship of one true god and declared that religion meant not the sacrifice of beasts but the practice of charity and piety and the shunning of hatred and enmity. He was said to have worked miracles of goodness, casting out demons, healing the sick, raising the dead. His exemplary life led some of his followers to claim him to be the son of god, though he claimed himself the son of man. Accused of sedition against Rome, he was arrested. After his death, his followers claimed he had risen for the dead, appeared to them alive, and then ascended to heaven. Who was this teacher and wonder worker? His name was Apollonius of Tyana. He died about 98A.D. His story may be read in Flavius Philostratus’s Life of Apollonius.


Attis, was considered born of a virgin and was believed to have died and been resurrected three days later. Attis derived his mythology from even earlier gods, Osiris, Dionysus, and Orpheus, who also were supposed to have been born of a virgin and suffered death and resurrection as long as 500 years before Christ was born. The death of Attis was commemorated on a Friday and the resurrection was celebrated three days later on Sunday.


Next lets talk about Mithra. He was born of a virgin on December 25th, was called "the good shepherd" and was also called "the way, the truth and the light." He even had twelve disciples and dined at a "last supper" with them before his death on a cross. He was buried in a tomb, rose after three days and then was resurrected. He had a Eucharist which was celebrated by the eating of bread and the drinking of wine.


Krishna, who's name is suspiciously similar, was born of the virgin goddess, Devaki. His birth was attended by angels, wise men and shepherds, and he was presented with gold, frankincense and myrrh. He had a carpenter for a father and was persecuted by a tyrant who tried to have him killed by executing thousands of infants. He was baptized in the river Ganges, worked miracles and wonders, raised the dead and healed lepers, the deaf and the blind. Krishna also used parables to teach the people about charity and love, just like some other character that proceeded him. And just like Jesus, in some traditions he died on a tree or was crucified between two thieves and then rose from the dead and ascended to heaven. He was also called the "Shepherd God" and "Lord of lords," and was considered "the Redeemer, Firstborn, Sin Bearer, Liberator, Universal Word." He is the second person of the Trinity, and proclaimed himself the "Resurrection" and the "way to the Father" and was considered the "Beginning, the Middle and the End," ("Alpha and Omega"), as well as being omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. And lastly, if all this weren't enough, his disciples affectionately named him "Jezeus," meaning "pure essence" and he's supposed to return to fight against the "Prince of Evil."


Horus is another really good example. He was born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25th in a cave, with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men. He taught in the Temple when he was just a child and was baptized soon thereafter by "Anup the Baptizer". He had twelve disciples and raised one man from the dead. His name? El-azar-us! He also walked on water, was crucified, buried in a tomb and resurrected. He was known as "Way, the Truth, the Light, the Messiah, God's Anointed Son, the Son of Man, the Good Shepherd, the Lamb of God, the Word" He was "the Fisher," and was associated with the Lamb, Lion and Fish. And most damning of all, he was called "the KRST" which means the "anointed one."

There are more, many more, but I think that these examples are enough to show that the story of Jesus is not original at all. It was stolen, plain and simple.

The evidence against Jesus ever existing doesn't end there, though.

Did you know that there is absolutely no contemporary evidence for his existence? Nothing! Not a shred for his birth, life or death. Everything that was written about this fictional character was written well after this alleged event took place.

The Gospels, which are completely anonymous (the author names were added later), were written, at the earliest, around 70 AD! And anything you will find about Jesus just happens to coincide with the date the first Gospel was published!

got one more thing...Nazarene....where jesus came from....didn't even exist till 25 years after he died

Jesus of Nazareth could not have been the place wasn't named that at his time.

Answer 2

Jesus was a real person, but the mythology around him is pagan, like moving his birthday to the winter solstice (when the sun god was born), the virgin birth, being the son of a god, etc. I saw someone else already mentioned Mithra and lots of the Jesus Myth is modeled on that Roman god.
When I took comparative religion in college, our instructor showed us how many of the passages in the New Testament were modeled on the Old Testament, especially some parts about David. I'm not Christa in and I don't read the bible but I remember being impressed by the similarities.
But the tone of your question tells me you will pick a Bible-thumper answer because you aren't interested in the truth, you just want validation that you are right and all others are wrong.

Answer 3

Christianity did not "thieve" different myths. it must be more advantageous precise to assert that one and all religions have a tendency to adhere to similar kinds and that one and all myths draw on elementary motifs that are deeply ingrained interior the human psyche. All religions believe in a author god. maximum also believe in some type of destroyer. And maximum of them have some type of savior ensure: Hinduism has Krishna. The Aztecs had Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl. The Greeks had distinct savior figures maximum surprisingly Dionysus. The Romans had Mithras. Christians have Jesus. The similarity between those figures that span a even as and continents ought to have not some thing to do with unsleeping stealing and larger to do with the actual shown truth that human societies got here into life in similar harsh situations, stepped ahead similar fears and anxieties, and suggested similar ideas to the questions of origins, existence and demise, good and evil, creation and destruction.

Answer 4

The alleged connections of Christianity with Mithraism are bunk. They rest mainly on bad 19th century studies in comparative religion.

If Christ was a borrowing from paganism, why is he presented in the Bible as such a Hebrew rabbi? If Christians were really just another pagan cult, why did the pagan Romans consider them atheists?

For more on Mithras, etc. see the link below.

Answer 5

Dionysis shares some similarities with Jesus. They were both born of virgins, fathered by the king of heaven, turned water into wine, resurected, and claimed to be the savior of man. There's a bunch more that share individual specifics with Jesus, check the links below.

Cheers.

Answer 6

To the person who posted above me, *Jesus* wasn't trying to borrow from or copy anyone. But you see, it wasn't Jesus who surrounded the life of a human rabbi with the idea of salvation based on dying and resurrected deities..that was Saul/Paul.

The Nazarenes (members of the Church of the Nazarene, the first proto-Christian church), who we must remember were largely of Pharisee backgrounds, and indeed, largely regarded themselves still as Pharisees, would have been horrified by this interpretation of Jesus's death and resurrection. They probably regarded it as a miracle wrought by God, but they did not think of Jesus as anything but human.


It was Saul/Paul who added that bit.

It's probable that while persecuting Jesus' followers, Saul would have heard about Jesus...and the story would have seemed strangely familiar to him, reminding him of the ikons of the God Attis had saw in Cilicia (the Hanged God whose flayed and dripping body fertilized the fields and whose mysteries renewed the souls of His followers).

Answer 7

the story of jesus is uncannily similar to the mithras of mithraism which originated a few hundred years earlier. its also extremely similar in theology to the egyptian god horus. and of course the idea of a god impregnating a virgin was pretty commonplace in greek religions. zeus in particular had a yen for the young ladies, if i may be so bold.

Answer 8

Xavier M, I stand and applaud you! What an excellent answer!
I'd say you have been given some examples of what you asked for.

Answer 9

i strongly suggest you stop listening to what other people say and study this up for yourself. Jesus was a real life person who lived and worked as a carpenter, there is a LOT of documentation to back that up. good luck!

Answer 10

None, He is the true God.