was Jesus , son of Mithras, i.e. god ?

Answer 1

Jesus is God and is neither Mithras nor the son of Mithras.

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

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

I think it's more likely that Jesus' story was a ripoff of Mithras' story, right down to the virgin mother and the wise men.

1) Hundreds of years before Jesus, according to the Mithraic religion, three Wise Men of Persia came to visit the baby savior-god Mithra, bring him gifts of gold, myrrh and frankincense.

2) Mithra was born on December 25 as told in the “Great Religions of the World”, page 330; “…it was the winter solstice celebrated by ancients as the birthday of Mithraism’s sun god”.c

3) According to Mithraism, before Mithra died on a cross, he celebrated a “Last Supper with his twelve disciples, who represented the twelve signs of the zodiac.

4) After the death of Mithra, his body was laid to rest in a rock tomb.

5) Mithra had a celibate priesthood.

6) Mithra ascended into heaven during the spring (Passover) equinox (the time when the sun crosses the equator making night and day of equal length).

Answer 3

I've never heard of Mithras, sorry.

But Jesus is God incarnate (in the flesh)

God bless!

Answer 4

Jesus was the foster son of joseph and the real son' of God.

Answer 5

Many of these god-man stories are similiar. It really doesn't matter. Just look at the lesson behind them. It is about becoming like the highly spiritual person, using them as a role model about how to live your life.

Answer 6

First poster. WOW.
and most of Mithra's story was stolen by Jesus.

Answer 7

No, Mithras is a myth that evolved to include aspects of Christianity (a copycat religion). Jesus, Son of God, is who he says he is.

Test them and see.

Answer 8

(And remember) when the angels said: O Mary! Lo! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a word from him, whose name is the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, illustrious in the world and the Hereafter, and one of those brought near (unto Allah). ,He will speak unto mankind in his cradle and in his manhood, and he is of the righteous,She said: My Lord! How can I have a child when no mortal hath touched me? He said: So (it will be). Allah createth what He will. If He decreeth a thing, He saith unto it only: Be! and it is.,And He will teach him the Scripture and wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel, And will make him a messenger unto the Children of Israel, (saying): Lo! I come unto you with a sign from your Lord. Lo! I fashion for you out of clay the likeness of a bird, and I breathe into it and it is a bird, by Allah's leave. I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I raise the dead, by Allah's leave. And I announce unto you what ye eat and what ye store up in your houses. Lo! herein verily is a portent for you, if ye are to be believers. ,And (I come) confirming that which was before me of the Torah, and to make lawful some of that which was forbidden unto you. I come unto you with a sign from your Lord, so keep your duty to Allah and obey me. ,Lo! Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. That is a straight path.
Lo! the likeness of Jesus with Allah is as the likeness of Adam. He created him of dust, then He said unto him: Be! and he is.

And they say: Allah hath taken unto Himself a son. Be He glorified! Nay, but whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth is His. All are subservient unto Him.
Quran

Answer 9

No. Two different savior gods.