Was Jesus story copied off early Pagan stories by the church or did Jesus just copy them?

Question

Before Christ:
1. Vespatian's spittle healed a blind man.
2. Apollonius of Tyana raised a girl from death
3. Pythia , the priestess at the Oracle at Delphi prophesied, the prophecies came true.
4. Dionysus turned water into wine and Dionysus believers are filled with atay, the Spirit of God
5. Romulus, Alexander the Great, Augustus, Dionysus, and Scipio Africanus is described as the Son of God, born of a virgin.
6. The souls of Dionysus followers in the afterlife, drinking not from one particular spring in Hades, but from another cool pool—and that will give them divinity and eternal life.

Jesus is described as
the Son of God,
born of a mortal woman or virgin,
according to prophecy,
turning water into wine,
raising girls from the dead, and
healing blind men with his spittle,
and setting it up so His believers got eternal life in Heaven, and off to Hades—er, I mean Hell—for the bad folks

And could this explain why the chruch was trying to destroy Paganism?

Answer 1

First, let me say you are my hero. Second, don't forget these.
One of the universal qualities of a savior is a virgin birth. These are some of the Pagan Gods who were born of a virgin; Bacchus, Horus, Adonis, Hercules, Crishna, Buddha and too many other gods, kings and prophets to mention.

Those who descended into Hell and rose again in three days; Zoroaster, Osiris, Horus, Adonis, Bacchus, Hercules, Mercury, Balder and Quetzalcotle.

Gods and prophets who will judge the dead; Buddha, Crishna, Oriris, Ormuzed, Aeacus of the Greeks.

Gods who were hung on a cross. Prometheus, Crishna, Indra.

Gods who were saviors; Bacchus, Hercules, Apollo, Serapis, Mithras, Hermes.

Answer 2

LOL...if you're asking if Jesus ever raised the dead and the rest, "the evidence is inconclusive"; but the premise is repugnant to common sense.

The Jesus legend was manufactured to include features from many of the pagan religions it absorbed. Accidental similarities were exploited and other features were simply grafted on. It would hardly have occured to the actual historical Jesus (or one of the several figures from whom the composite character in the gospels was created) to identify himself with the pagan gods. To a first century fundamentalist Jew, such concepts as the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection would've smacked of gentile blasphemy.

Answer 3

or did the stories that you mentioned just get copied from Christ's dealings with man during Old Testament times?

The record we have is incomplete there are atleast 13 books that are mentioned by a prophet of God that those who assembled the Bible as we know it to day did not for whatever reason put in to the Bible.

"Sometimes called missing scripture, they consist of at least the following: book of the Wars of the Lord (Num. 21: 14); book of Jasher (Josh. 10: 13; 2 Sam. 1: 18); book of the acts of Solomon (1 Kgs. 11: 41); book of Samuel the seer (1 Chr. 29: 29); book of Gad the seer (1 Chr. 29: 29); book of Nathan the prophet (1 Chr. 29: 29; 2 Chr. 9: 29); prophecy of Ahijah (2 Chr. 9: 29); visions of Iddo the seer (2 Chr. 9: 29; 2 Chr. 12: 15; 2 Chr. 13: 22); book of Shemaiah (2 Chr. 12: 15); book of Jehu (2 Chr. 20: 34); sayings of the seers (2 Chr. 33: 19); an epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, earlier than our present 1 Corinthians (1 Cor. 5: 9); possibly an earlier epistle to the Ephesians (Eph. 3: 3); an epistle to the Church at Laodicea (Col. 4: 16); and some prophecies of Enoch, known to Jude (Jude 1: 14). To these rather clear references to inspired writings other than our current Bible may be added another list that has allusions to writings that may or may not be contained within our present text, but may perhaps be known by a different title; for example, the book of the covenant (Ex. 24: 7), which may or may not be included in the current book of Exodus; the manner of the kingdom, written by Samuel (1 Sam. 10: 25); the rest of the acts of Uzziah written by Isaiah (2 Chr. 26: 22).
The foregoing items attest to the fact that our present Bible does not contain all of the word of the Lord that he gave to his people in former times, and remind us that the Bible, in its present form, is rather incomplete.
Matthew’s reference to a prophecy that Jesus would be a Nazarene (Matt. 2: 23) is interesting when it is considered that our present O.T. seems to have no statement as such. There is a possibility, however, that Matthew alluded to Isaiah 11: 1, which prophesies of the Messiah as a Branch from the root of Jesse, the father of David. The Hebrew word for branch in this case is netzer, the source word of Nazarene and Nazareth. Additional references to the Branch as the Savior and Messiah are found in Jer. 23: 5; Jer. 33: 15; Zech. 3: 8; Zech. 6: 12; these use a synonymous Hebrew word for branch, tzemakh"

Answer 4

In Jewish history, there was many things told about a Messiah who would come. ALL those things were fulfilled in this Jesus. Even at his trial, it was told that the Messiah would die for the sins of the World. He was beaten far past the point of mortal man's life. People had died with way less of a beating. It was foretold that He would die upon a tree. The ones who crucified Jesus called him a deceiver. He had guards placed outside a sealed tomb because he said he would rise again in three days.
The hill where He died was called "the hill of the skull" for a reason, because if you died there, you stayed there until your skull showed. Jesus died there, was buried, and did rise again on the third day in spite of what others may believe about him.

Answer 5

No,Jesus was not copied of pagan ideas.I'm surprised how often this pseudo-scholarly claim is thrown around by those who know next to nothing about these legendary figures.
http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/copycathub.html
Answering claims about Dionysus-http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/dionysus.html
Apollonius-http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/apollonius.html
And,what the heck,I'll throw in Mithra as well-only because that one gets thrown around by the gullible too many times to count-
http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/mithra.html

Answer 6

The church was trying to destroy Paganism, yet they incorporated many pagan traditions and rituals in an attempt to make Christianity more acceptable to non Christians. Since that didn't work they started torturing and murdering them. That didn't work so well either. we(Pagans) are still here.

Answer 7

Jesus appears to have been a Jewish Rebbe and a working Magus. Beyond that, there is little but hearsay and conjecture.

Answer 8

Christianity has so much pagan background that I wouldn't be surprised if the whole story was just copied!

Answer 9

Golly I hope that you give Jesus Christ a chance.

He loves you and made you. And if you look for Him he will

NOT

let you down. Just be open to whatever answer He throws at you.... Cause you never know He might just show you he is here

.

Answer 10

the pagans wer the first religion the the christians came and killed anyone who was not christian. if you wernt a Christian then you wer evil and a witch