how come Christians do not see the Jesus story as a myth?

Question

and do others understand the pagan origins of the Christ Myth?

Answer 1

They've been brainwashed since birth.

Answer 2

It's all because Paul was a master spin doctor and scammer - he put together the Greatest Sting of all time - he maximised the use of the hell concept using it as the ultra-punishment for ALL those not sucking up to the Jesus concept he borrowed from the other God-man myths like Mithras, Horus and Zarathustra.

I doubt many would admit the depth to which the Pagan religions were mined to come up xianity. Maybe a holiday here or there and maybe a xmas tree but nothing more *cough*.

Answer 3

I have not asked others about the Pagan point of view. I guess I should to see what is new in the Pagan world.

When it comes to Jesus, I have had the privilege to meet some people who are devout in their belief in Jesus. Why? Well, these people have been touched by Jesus personally. One has been cured from his deathbed at the hospital of AIDS. The other has been cured of Hepatitis C. Both diseases do not have a cure. If you get these diseases, you should end up dead. These two, however, did not. Instead, they have been healed of their disease and have moved to share what Jesus has done for them. The sweet part of this is that both have the medical documents to show that they really were sick, and that they should have died. The documents also show that the medical field had gave up on them. God had other plans, clearly.

These two individuals, along with others, show the physical evidence that Jesus is real. I do love fact over fiction.

Answer 4

Because Jesus was a historical figure. Elements of the Jesus story that arose contain mythical roots, and I don't have a problem with that. But it's a little different from the Creation myths because Jesus was an actual person. Even taking away the elements of the Christ story that were well-known to hero stories of the time, I still affirm that in his life and teaching Jesus revealed certain truths about the nature of God and God's realm.

Answer 5

All though I know more about biblical history I do believe there are roman records of Jesus and his ministry so you can't call the man a myth. Now the belief that Jesus was god in human form or that he performed miracles these things can be seen as a myth. And every religion evolves as they come into contact with new people with different cultures, everything in life is fluid and transitory even beliefs.

Answer 6

Not even close is the Mithra crap.Josephus a Jewish(and never Christian ) writer ,puts down in his book' Antiquities',a passage about Jesus.He lived in the 1rst century and was also a witness to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD just as Jesus said it would happen in 33 AD.
Jesus was real,He was the Messiah and not only millions of Gentiles but millions of Jews have accepted Him as well(millions haven't but then millions of gentiles haven't either).

Answer 7

There is no physical or contemporary historical evidence of any kind that anyone named Jesus or anyone that could have been Jesus, ever lived. There is no description of what Jesus might have looked like from anyone who would have been alive to see him at the time Jesus was supposed to have lived. Similarly, there is not one word he might ever have spoken that was written down by anyone who could have been there.
Many of the statements attributed to Jesus claim to have come from him when he was alone – how do they explain that?

There is no mention of Jesus, or anyone like him, in the records of Jerusalem or of the personal or official papers of Pontius Pilate (or any other Roman official). Similarly, there is no record of a crucifixion that could have been that of Jesus. The supposed darkness that fell upon the earth at the time he died was not mentioned by anyone anywhere on the planet, including Jerusalem itself.

The is no record of a city, town, or village called Nazareth, even in the detailed list of cities and towns in Galilee compiled by the historian Flavius Josephus in the first century C.E.; nor is such as place ever mentioned in the Old Testament.

No one knows who actually wrote any of Gospels and, whoever they were; even they never claim to have met the earthly Jesus. Moreover, the original manuscripts do not even exist. The earliest is probably Mark (70 C.E.), although no one knows who wrote it, where they wrote it, or exactly when they wrote it. Paul's biblical letters are the oldest surviving Christian texts (60 C.E.), and even he never claims to have met or seen an earthly Jesus. Neither does he give any reference to Jesus' life on earth. The Gospel of John disagrees with events described in Mark, Matthew, and Luke; and it was written in Greek around A.D. 90-100.

How could it be that someone supposedly as widely known as Christians claim Jesus was never be mentioned, at all, by a single person who knew or met him?

The Gospels claim that Jesus was well known and widely recognized not only by his many followers but also Priests, Pontius Pilate, and Herod, knew "of the fame of Jesus" (Matt 14:1)" , and that multitudes of people knew of Jesus the prophet, teacher, healer, and miracle worker (Matt:14:5). Matt (4:25) states that "there followed him [Jesus] great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordon." Luke (12:1) speaks of, "innumerable multitude of people... trod one upon another" and (Luke: 5:15) "fame abroad of him… and great multitudes came together to hear...”

The persecution of Jesus in Jerusalem supposedly was such a big deal that Pontius Pilate and the High Priest Joseph Caiaphas not only knew about it, but were part of it (Matt 21:15-23, 26:3, Luke 19:47, 23:13).

If this is all true, then why is Jesus never mentioned by any of these people? And, why are there no records of Jesus, or anyone, having great multitudes of followers or going around performing miracles at the time Jesus was supposed to have lived?

If Jesus did live, no one at the time seems to have thought that his live was worth mentioning, and if he was crucified in Jerusalem, no one seems to have noticed cared.

Answer 8

Yeh, right. So I'm descended from an ape-like ancestor. I suppose THAT is not a myth.

The Jesus story satisfactorily answers my three big questions:

Where do I come from?
What am I doing here?
Where am I going?

Are you satisfied with the answers the monkey story provides? It's one or the other; no other religions makes the claims of the God of the Christians.

Answer 9

You do not understand the power of the Holy Spirit. When you think like God, you know, without a doubt, what is real and what is myth. Jesus is real. There is nothing pagan that relates to Jesus.

Answer 10

Because they are not stupid. Just because it replicates pagan blood ritual symbolism does not make it myth. Most Christians do not understand his psychological approach to unity consciousness but that is their loss. You might consider looking into it yourself.

Answer 11

2 Pet:1:16:

For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.