Is religion just one big Chinese Whisper?

Question

In some mystery religions of the past, there was a chief god which was the equivalent of the God of the monotheists and the other gods were what became the Angels that many today believe in. A most important of these gods was Mitras, the Sun God. Mitraism was the main religion of the Roman Empire before Christianity became the established religion of Rome.

There are many parallels between the life of Mitras and Jesus. Mitras was born on December 25 and had twelve disciples. He had a last supper before being crucified and resurrected. Ultimately he rose to heaven on a cloud. Given that Tarsus, the birthplace of Saul who later changed his name to Paul, was a center of Mitraism and that December 25, was chosen as the birth of Jesus many biblical scholars believe that some of the more mythological aspects of the New testament may be derived from the myth of Mitras and Mitraism.

PS, if you get your beliefs from you parents, that is blind faith, you need not reply

Answer 1

Many will paralell each other. We could contribute this to the 100th monkey theory, or more likely the stories evolved as they were translated, edited and rewriten down through the cultures and time. The evolution of the metaphors! ; )
I am not personally familiar with the Mitraism beliefs, but I have studied many religions and numerology, and this type of repediness is quite common amoung beliefs of different sects. I don't think it proves much more than the fact that people are gullable! ; )

Answer 2

PS - If you get your information from an outdated source and then refuse to check the facts, that is also blind faith. You need to do some more research on Mithraism. First, Mithraism was not the dominant religion of the Roman Empire before Christianity. Second, all referrences to the Roman Mithras appear centuries after the advent of Christianity. Third, the only reason that scholars once assumed Mithraism pre-dated Christianity is because they assumed that the Roman Mithras was brought back from Persia by Roman soldiers fighting against the Parthian Empire. The modern concensus is that the Roman Mithras is completely independent of the Persian Mithras - there are too many differences between Mithraism and Zoroastrianism.

Mithras did not have twelve disciples, he did not have a last supper, and he was not crucified. And the Christians were celebrating the nativity on Dec. 25 before any historical reference to Mithraism.

Answer 3

Throughout the historical texts of the bible most things concerning christ were in prophesy, it wasnt hard for someone to come up with a copycat religion in that day, that is false, why is it not around today, because it is false. The real christ came not the false one in Mitras.

Answer 4

That is very deep, the belief of which you speak is a belief that
believes the one God is so magnificent it cannot be conceived in the mind of man and as such was never given a name because who could name it. We can only live in the microcosm and know that it paints a picture of the macrocosm, that we will know one day.

Answer 5

Did you know that Shang Ti is how you say God in Chinese?
Check out the Temple (alter) of Heaven in Beijing.

Answer 6

did you know that when christianity became popular, many of the mystery/pagan religions copied christianity inorder to gain or not lose followers! WE have no pre-christian evidence suggesting that these gods are similar to Jesus Christ, since their beliefes were kept secret.

Answer 7

No, it's a big game of telephone. This is the 21st century, not the 11th.

It's the Ring dynasty, not Ming. ^_^


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Answer 8

I think you make a good point

Answer 9

That is EXACTLY what it is.