Isn't Christianity just like ancient religions that sacrificed humans?

Question

Those religions believe that by sacrificing a human the rest would be saved. In addition ancient roman and Greek religions also believed in a trinity and God being born via a virgin birth.
Please correct me if i'm wrong but aren't they all the same.
Only monothestic religions like Judiasm and Islam follow the same God

Answer 1

True. Jesus was a righteous Prophet of God who gave teachings on "how people should live". He didn't give a liturgy, ecclesiastical order, endless rituals and sanctions for holy war. He didn't create a complex theology and certainly didn't say His only purpose was to die. In fact, Jesus stated that there is no original sin. If that's the case, there is no need for a single redemptive sacrifice. These things came afterwards and were invented by fallible human beings.

The idea of a saviour-god comes from Mithras and other pre-Christian deities. Mithras was the Son of God, was born on Christmas Day.... etc.

As the Qur'an clearly points out, God does not beget, nor is He begotten. He has no partner and there is none like unto Him. To say otherwise is to deny the unity of God.

Answer 2

In most human-sacrificing religions, the sacrifices had to keep coming or the gods would get angry. In Christianity there was only one sacrifice, Jesus. It was self-sacrifice, he knew it was coming, he could have escaped it but he allowed it. People have been killed because they were Christians, but Christianity has never promoted human sacrifice as far as I'm aware.

I've never heard of a virgin birth in either Greek or Roman mythology, could you explain please?

Answer 3

I think most religions were created with some sinister intentions in mind.. Most were propogated by royalty of some country or other, so you can assume that they meddled with the teachings/scripture in such a way as to be able to control the masses (most religions support governments, and tell you to use 'faith'- a word which to me means to not examine things, to simply believe all that you are told naívely).

Answer 4

Oh, it's more pagan than you know. the "dying and resurrected god" was a symbol of the solar cycle and agriculture. He was the son of the mother Earth when the seeds grew, and he was her consort when the seeds were planted in the earth. His descent into the underworld represented the planting. He died a violent death (harvesting) and was reborn every year. As the solar god, his birthday was the winter solstice.

Answer 5

Whatever is of God, the Devil will copy and corrupt. This accounts for so many similarities you mention. The trick is identifying God's truth and Satan's subtle distortions.

Because of sin, God instigated sacrifice as the means of teaching humanity the immensity of what sin does. The first sacrifice in the Bible was Abel (animal) and Cain (vegetable) with Abel's offering being acceptable to God, but Cain's was not because sin was crouching, trying to ensnare him. It succeeded and Cain became the first murderer and Abel the first martyr. Now, THERE's a lesson in sin and sacrifice!

Later God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, the child of promise. Abraham was prepared to do that, but God prevented him, saying this test proved Abraham's faith (in God and the resurrection of the dead), and God provided a ram for the sacrifice instead. This historic account foreshadowed God's immense love for us sinners being such that he would sacrifice his own beloved Son, Jesus Christ, so that our sins could be forgiven. So it is actually true that God requires a human sacrifice to save the rest. The wonder of God's requirement - as opposed to satanic requirements - is that God provides the sacrifice himself. He does not ask us to sacrifice our children, or other humans. Satan would have us murder innocent children and adults (Aztecs, for example). Because Jesus was fully human AND fully divine (part of the God-head), God suffered the physical pain, the emotional pain and the spiritual pain ("My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?") Jesus was without sin and did not deserve to die, even naturally, let alone tortuously. You can be sure Satan was behind all of Christ's physical torture - not God. Christ offered himself for us, to pay the price of our sin. So God has only authorised and accepted ONE human sacrifice in the whole of history, thereafter raising Jesus from the dead.

So, to answer your question - No. The differences are astounding. Critical differences are likewise seen in the Christian trinity and virgin birth, and other religions' pseudo-equivalents. But you will have to search sincerely to notice them because the Deceiver is not so named without good reason.

Answer 6

Interesting question! I agree with you somewhat because I believe Christianity is not monotheistic because God said to Moses (decalogue) thou shall not have any God's before me, therefore it is wrong to say that he has a son and to say his son is God too. Therefore it is a polytheistic religion. Jesus was a good pious man but was not the son of God and he never said he was. The virgin birth doesn't mean it is literal, in early Judaism and Christianity this phrase was used a lot and just meant young and noble woman.

Answer 7

Many of the pagan tribes had human sacrifice.

Christ did choose to save the human race but it did not choose to be crucified. It was our sinful nature that crucified him. This is not the same as human sacrifice.

We are called to sacrifice but that entails giving up a little so all people can have some. To a child, it would be called sharing.

Answer 8

It IS an ancient religion that sacrificed humans.

Answer 9

All human sacrifice is wrong, and not the way of God, but the way of man and his crave for power over others, to sacrifice is to put fear in to others, if they fear then you control them,
mans work not Gods

Love & Peace

Answer 10

Only God can tell you.