[Responding to a poster asking why Mithras, Attis, and Dionysus have similar stories to Jesus.]
There are promises throughout the bible that God's Word was preached to "every creature." Just as men corrupt the bible today (400 Christian denominations), why wouldn't you think men thousands of years ago were taking the Word of God and re-writing it for their own benefit? In a few thousand years, if you have your bible in hand and unearth a book of Morman, will you contend that the bible copied Joseph Smith or vice versa?
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Well, it´s explainable bearing in mind that Dyonisus, Mitthras and Attis are mentioned at least 200 years before Christ is. That is. And by the way, do you know who they were?
Just so you'll know Tychicus. Mithras is the Hertzgovinian god of myths, Attis is the Khazakistani god of attics, and Dionysus is the Polynesian god of dinosaurs. Now impress all your friends(people who know you)with your great intellect(smarts) by telling them this.
The Bible was preceded by these myths and a great many like them. There were at least a dozen god-men who died and came back to life long, long before anyone heard of Jesus. There was a window of about 1500 years during which you couldn't join the Gods' Bowling League if you hadn't risen from the dead. By the time Jesus got around to it, it was a cheap parlor trick.
This remidns me of that page of Cap's site ("Back-To-School Special") where Cappyman claims that the cross came before the Ankh and the Ankh was mocking the cross, despite the Egyptian ankh coming long before crucifixion....and how could the Egyptains possibly know to mock something that hadn't become a religious symbol yet??
This evokes a philosophic-oid speculation:
Well, since The Book of Mormon clearly indicates that it is an "additional" book of scripture intended to be read in concert with the KJV, I suspect that I would pretty much figure it out.
TARDIS for Jesus Award- I agree.
That argument would be sound, if it weren't for the fact that the myths regarding Mithras, Attis and Dionysus hadn't been told centuries before Jesus was supposed to have been born.
We know for a fact that those legends preceed the story of Jesus by thousands of years.
In a few thousand years, if you have your bible in hand and unearth a book of Morman, will you contend that the bible copied Joseph Smith or vice versa? Vice versa. Because the Bible came first .
How can one steal a story that hadn't been written yet?
Death is the most powerful force we know of. All succumb to it. Is it hard to think that some people made some shit up to make them feel better about their inevitable death?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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