Why do Christians think the Story of Christ is so unique and original?

Question

When history tells us of Countless Virgin Birth stories(Krishna,Zarathustra, Mithra's, Dionysus,Osiris,Horus,Tammuz,
Lao Zi,Attis,Heracles) All pre dating the stories of Christ. I mean it's obvious to anyone know studies other religions and cultures that Christianity is just a re worked copy of other stories that had been previously told. There is nothing unique at all about the myths of Jesus. It's just that some people take the story Literally and some people recognize it for what it really is. Do you feel like you have a firm enough grasp on history to fully understand the evolution of these stories?

Answer 1

Dude, main stream Christians will not have a clue to what you have learned, but good try to bring this to them

Answer 2

Question everything....

LOL Have to ask.....were you alive back when all of these things were supposedly done first? You learned these things through books then...books written by man...indeed, by mankind that you know only what you have been told about them....

Yet, you BELIEVE them.

Why?

The Bible prophesied about the comming of Christ Jesus in the O.T.....and it spoke of false prophets and false messiahs.

Seems people are quick to accept THAT from the Bible... enough to apply it against the very Book it came from.

Why is that, do you suppose?

Skeptics stress the mass destruction God did throughout the O.T. to point out how "evil" God was.... yet overlook WHY it was done....

We humans see dandelions in our yards and weeds in our gardens and will go to mass extremes to erradicate them...even to the point of tilling up the old and/or laying down good sod that has no blemish in it's place, or new hybrids of seed and fertilizer.

Earth is GOD'S "garden" and "yard".... satan and all those demigods are the blight and infesting weeds threatening to overrun God's yard and garden.

Do you find fault with yourself and your neighbor for doing exactly what God did?

Yet, you read somewhere that the Bible and all it spoke of was a myth.... we Christians do not deny that mankind worshipped other "god's" because the Bible says it to be true.

Satan walks this earth and he and his other fallen angel compadres had a field day mating with beasts and humankind alike.....their offspring would create many different species, and since God would not have them in His own garden and yard, they had their own lands to create... this is why God says that some "people" are NOT HIS and were spawned of the devil. If an Ape and a fallen angel mate....what would be the outcome do you think?

They say life is often stranger than fiction...and that in everything that is imagined there must be some base of reality...

May you find peace :)

Answer 3

It is an Islamic viewpoint that every community and nation was sent a Messenger for their guidance. Therefore, it should not suprise anyone that there are countless religions which are similiar to one another.

The main concept of many of these religions is Monotheism i.e., the oneness of God (Allah in arabic). However, overtime many of these religions strayed from the true religion by adding additional gods.

As it is mentioned in the Qur'ân:

And verily, We have sent among every community a Messenger proclaiming: "Worship Allah (Alone), and avoid (or keep away from) all false deities. Then are some whom Allah guided and some upon whom the straying was justified. So travel through the land and see what was the end of those who denied (the truth). (Qur'ân 16:36)

Some of these Messengers are mentioned in the Qur'ân by Allah and some of them are not as the Qur'ân says:

And, indeed We have sent Messengers before you (O Muhammad) of some of them We have related to you their story and of some We have not related to you their story. (Qur'ân 40:78)

Different tribes in different parts of the world had Monotheism, i.e., worship of one true God. But along the true God some subservient gods are also worshipped in some cases and strayed from the true religion.

It is believed that the Prophet Mohammed is the only prophet not sent to a particular tribe or race but to all mankind. He is believed to be the last prophet God will send.

Answer 4

What makes the story of Jesus unique from other religions is not His virgin birth or miracles, but that He was willing to be tortured and die a violent death for the sins of people he didn't even know, most of whom weren't even born yet. I'm not aware of any god from any other religion doing this.

I have a few questions for you. Why is it that nonchristians are so intent on attacking the beliefs of Christians. I don't see this being done to people of other faiths. Certainly it is no more difficult to believe in Jesus as it is Buddha, yet you don't attack the Buddhists. Could it be that deep down you actually believe in Him and are afraid of what it could mean to you if He exists? Why else would you spend so much energy trying to convince yourself of His nonexistence? Jesus asks us to live a life of love and forgiveness. What is so threatening about that to make you feel the need to attack Him? Why does it bother you so much that people actually believe in Him?

Answer 5

oh, I can answer this one for you, Doll. At least from the stand-point of a very lapsed Baptist. While I can't speak for Catholics, etc, the Baptists very much frown on thinking for yourself & seeking your own answers. I sat in a church & listened to a minister explain that a college education would send you right to hell. He also thought that a woman could not get pregnant if she was raped. So evidently, all the "breed them out" plans for population control all throughout history were just so much eyewash. All those women must have lied. From what I've seen, there is a very strong tendancy to take everything on faith, whether it makes sense or not just cuz some rumpled old prophet mumbled it eons ago. While it may be obvious to you that it's all 'borrowed' from other spiritualities, they aren't encouraged to seek for themselves.

Answer 6

There is a problem with the written word, incorporeal beings can't write. So we are left with interpretations from prophets and madmen that took what they may have seen or been told and wrote their own versions of it. Look at the disciples (sp?) of Christ, what is written in the bible. Two stories of the same man, being told by two people, with similar writing but people can take them in two different context. And i know that all those other stories came first but ever "great" religion needs conflict in it's mythology, and occasions that are miraculous. In truth, we don't know who wrote any of them, and we don't know who wrote the bible. I mean from what the history channel tells us (i know i am getting dirty looks for this one) that much of the stories of Christ weren't written until two-three hundred years after Christ had past. And for that matter we don't even have any proof that he existed, for all we know it could have been one big con and had people to exaggerate what he was doing. we don't know and we won't know until we die, you here that, we have to die to know the truth, or invent a time machine and go back in time to find out for sure, i leave it all up to you people.

Answer 7

Actually all of the names you have mentioned are copy cat religions which came after Jesus.

And like Dan Brown's book the DaVinci Code, they have changed their teaching to match Jesus and then predated it to make it appear that Christianity copied after them.

This is what we call Revisionist Historians who re-write history to make their own guy look good or in some cases to make someone they don't like look bad.

All of this was documented in a sermon series which any one can download from the links below. Look for the sermon series on the DaVinci Code, from Coast Hills Church.

Pastor Art

Answer 8

Well if it's obvious to anyone who studies other religions, why aren't all those people who do, in agreement with you?

The reason is that many of those you mention did not pre date Christianity. The Mithras for example are thought to have taken a lot of what they believe from
Christianity. The Mirthas did exist before Christ but the idea of the virgin birth was not part of their belief until after Christianity. So, they took that from Christians.

Answer 9

How does this logic work so lets say I make up a story about a hiker named Bob a boulder traps his arm while hiking and he must either amputate his arm or die. Now this really happened to a hiker somewhere, however, I wrote my story before the event. So in your logic since his account is unoriginal it is false, even if there is a sign (his missing arm) to suggest it is true.

Answer 10

It IS unique.

Take the WHOLE story into consideration, including the numerous fulfilled prophecies.

There just wasn't anybody else like Jesus Christ.

Answer 11

Read this literature, and if God chooses to open your eyes to the truth.... then you may understand why Jesus Christ is the ONLY WAY...... http://www.lcg.org/cgi-bin/tw/booklets/print-bk.cgi?action=print_item&category=Booklets1&item=1140203084&print=yes.... http://www.ucg.org/booklets/JC/