what impact did followers of Mithra and Attis have upon first converts to Christianity?

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research before giving glib answers using bible to prove itself..which in an invalid resourse to do so

check out the Green Man cults too and the Sader or people who think they drink symbolic blood of a dying/resurecting son to achieve eternal life

Answer 1

I would think very little.

There were so many dieties in the Greco-Roman world that you can find surface paralles everywhere. But any look beneath the surface reveals oceans of difference.

+ Mithra +

Mithraism is a pagan religion consisting mainly of the cult of the ancient Indo-Iranian Sun-god Mithra.

The similarity between Mithra and Christ struck even early observers, such as Justin, Tertullian, and other Church Fathers spoke of in their writings.

In recent times, some have suggested Christianity is but an adaptation of Mithraism. Against these erroneous and unscientific speculations, consider the following:

+ Christ was (and is):
. + A real historical person
. + Recently born in a well known town of Judea
. + Crucified under a known Roman governor
+ Mithra was
. + An abstraction
. + A personification not even of the sun but of the diffused daylight
. + supposed to have happened before the creation of the human race

Our knowledge regarding Mithraism is imperfect and is mostly guesswork. Our only sources are:
+ About 600 brief inscriptions
+ About 300 often fragmentary, almost identical monuments
+ A few casual references in the Fathers or Acts of the Martyrs
+ A brief document against Mithraism, which the Armenian Eznig about 450 probably copied from Theodore of Mopsuestia (d. 428) who lived when Mithraism was almost a thing of the past

Some apparent similarities exist. However, in a number of details it is quite probable that Mithraism was the borrower from Christianity. Tertullian about 200 could say: "we are but of yesterday, yet your whole world is full of us.”

It is natural to suppose that Mithraism, which filled the whole world, should have been copied at least in some details by another religion, which was quite popular during the third century.

Moreover, the resemblances pointed out are superficial and external. Similarity in words and names is nothing; it is the sense that matters.

During these centuries, Christianity was coining its own technical terms, and naturally took names, terms, and expressions current in that day; and so did Mithraism. Nevertheless, under identical terms each system thought its own thoughts.
+ Mediatory
. + Mithra is called a mediator only in a cosmogonic sense
. + Christ, being God and man, is by nature the Mediator between God and man.
+ Eucharist
. + The idea of a sacred banquet is as old as the human race and existed at all ages and amongst all peoples
+ Salvation
. + Mithra saved the world by sacrificing a bull
. + Christ by sacrificing Himself.

Differences:
+ How born:
. + Christ was born of a Virgin
. + Mithra was born from the rock.
+ Where born:
. + Christ was born in a cave
. + Mithra was born under a tree near a river

Much as been made of the presence of adoring shepherds; but their existence on Mithraic sculptures has not been proven, and considering that man had not yet appeared, it is an anachronism to suppose their presence.

The small Mithraic congregations were like Masonic lodges for a few and for men only and even those mostly of one class, the military; a religion that excludes the half of the human race bears no comparison to the religion of Christ.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10402a.htm

+ Attis +

The Greek god Attis was:
+ A life-death-rebirth deity
+ Both the son and the lover of Cybele
+ Cybele's eunuch attendant and driver of her lion-driven chariot
+ Was driven mad by Cybele and castrated himself

Attis was originally a local semi-deity of Phrygia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attis

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 2

I am sure christianity borrowed some concepts from both Mithraism and Attisism.

The christian god is not the first god to have been resurrected. The christian god is not the first to have been born from a virginal birth.