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No parallels except also coming back from the dead. :roll:
Think about my title: Something borrowed, something new...
Here's another quote from Mettinger, busting your bs!
https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2013/04/bible-qa-was-jesus-resurrection-stolen-from-mythology/
Uh....wut?
No parallels except also coming back from the dead. :roll:
Think about my title: Something borrowed, something new...
.....no parallels, because you can't name one! :lol:
Furthermore, your own source Mettinger, doesn't agree with you!
Yeah, I saw your title and I say.......your title is faulty!
The Resurrection wasn't borrowed (as you claimed).
And your author Mettinger, haven't said anything like what you're trying to attribute to him.
In fact, he concluded the contrary to what you're claiming!
Which means, you jumped the gun when you read that cockamamie claim in some sites, and you must've thought you got an "aha moment!".....but alas, you just relied on Wiki. :lol:
So now, it's like a pie that landed squarely on your face!
If Adam and Eve in 3900 BC are teaching their offspring that the Messiah in the future will be born of a virgin, will be the Son of God, will perform a sacrifice for sin, and will be the first ressurrected of the human family, it is logical over the course of thousands of years that all kinds of religions would descend from the true original with traces of the original.
Coming back from the dead is the parallel....a common myth for millennia.
Nope. It's not a parallel. That's what your own author had concluded.
There's more to just coming back from the dead, you know.
Even today....we hear of people that were pronounced dead, "come back from the dead."
There's nothing "mythical" about that. They happen sometimes.
Nope. It's not a parallel. That's what your own author had concluded.
There's more to just coming back from the dead, you know.
Even today....we hear of people that were pronounced dead, "come back from the dead."
Like this one:
Man declared dead comes to life in funeral home: Miracle? - LA Times
There's nothing "mythical" about that. They happen sometimes.
Yeah, that must explain it :roll:
Christians think they have a unique event...Christ Rising from the dead. But, of course, that myth has been around for ages.
So, really, what we have here is myth sharing.
23 Reasons Why Jesus is Not a Copy of Pagan Myths
https://jamesbishopblog.com/2015/01...-know-jesus-is-not-a-copy-of-pagan-religions/
Why do you think that any of that is reasonable and even feasible?
Christians think they have a unique event...Christ Rising from the dead. But, of course, that myth has been around for ages. Long before the sandal wearing hippie ever walked the dunes between Jerusalem and Galilee, rode an ass in Damascus or faced his fate on a cross planted atop a hill, mythical characters were rising from the dead.
So, really, what we have here is myth sharing. Clearly, since Jesus came after all these other resurrected characters from what amount to fairy tales, reason dictates the Jesus myth too is a fairy tale.
Now, of course, Christians will say those other resurrections are myths but the resurrection of Jesus was real. Of course, we know better. Fact remains, Jesus myth is just as contrived as the Osirus and Achilles myths. Is there any doubt?
The OP thesis appears to be based on the erroneous premise that if something occurs in a story, it cannot occur in life, an argument demonstrating scant appreciation of the relationship between art and life. Love and marriage, to say nothing of journeys and quests, take place universally in myths. According to the OP logic, these mythic tropes don't happen in life, and to claim otherwise is worthy of derision.
Enough said. We can hear the edge of this axe grinding a mile away.
If you hate it then it must be true.
Sure, and Che Guevara is a saint.The OP thesis appears to be based on the erroneous premise that if something occurs in a story, it cannot occur in life, an argument demonstrating scant appreciation of the relationship between art and life. Love and marriage, to say nothing of journeys and quests, take place universally in myths. According to the OP logic, these mythic tropes don't happen in life, and to claim otherwise is worthy of derision.
Enough said. We can hear the edge of this axe grinding a mile away.
Produce a resurrection Angel. If you can't show it, you don't know it.
Sure, and Che Guevara is a saint.
Hark! Another axe grinding in the west.
Give it a rest, man.
The OP thesis appears to be based on the erroneous premise that if something occurs in a story, it cannot occur in life, an argument demonstrating scant appreciation of the relationship between art and life. Love and marriage, to say nothing of journeys and quests, take place universally in myths. According to the OP logic, these mythic tropes don't happen in life, and to claim otherwise is worthy of derision.
Enough said. We can hear the edge of this axe grinding a mile away.
mythWhere's your evidence it's a myth?
Prove it.
All it does is undermine your entire premiseeace out
Considering that this all happened thousands of years ago, and there's only so much "evidence" to go around, it's not too surprising that there isn't too much "hard" evidence.
Which is an entirely different debate that claiming Jesus was "contrived".
You agree that there is no evidence of the Jesus resurection. OK. Good.
For some reaso, when it comes to this particular myth, the lack of physical evidence spurs the believer on rather than making them question its validity. "Ah, but there were witnesses," they say.
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