Julie


I’ve herad that the idea of Jesus came from Eastern religions, or mythology. I am wondering which religions, and where this information is coming from. I am interested to read about it and see what they are talking about.

7 Responses to “References for the idea that Jesus came from Eastern religion/mythology?”

1. galactic_bodhisattva - SGI on December 28th, 2008 6:16 am

   Research the Persian god Mithra. An old idea stolen and recycled.

2. Joe Bloe on December 28th, 2008 11:58 am

   The early Christians made it clear that their religion was stolen from the pagans. I’ll give you some quotes in a minute…

   Justin Martyr
   Having heard it proclaimed throught the prophets that the Christ was to come and that the ungodly among men were to be punished by fire, the wicked spirits put forward many to be called Sons of God, under the impression that they would be able to produce in men the idea that the things that were said with regard to Christ were merely marvellous tales like the things that were said by poets.

   Firmicus Maternur
   The resurrection of Dionysus is an attempt by the devil to riducule the true faith.

   Tertullian
   The devil whose business is to ******* the truth mimics the exact circumstances of the Divine Sacraments. He baptises his believers and promises forgiveness of sins and thereby initiates them into the religion of Mithra. Thus he celebrates the oblation of bread and brings in the symbol of the resurrection. Let us therefore acknowledge the craftiness of the devil, who copies certain things of those that be Divine.

   These excuses come under the heading of Diabolical Mimicry or Plagiarism in Anticipation and they were written by the Fathers of the Christian religion — Do you dare to call them liars?

3. Johnny on December 31st, 2008 9:50 am

   Supposedly it was a conglomeration of Mesopotamian, Hindi, Egyptian, Greek/Roman, Norse, and even some native american. Which begs the question of which came first the chicken or the egg.

4. Leslie D on January 1st, 2009 4:52 pm

   There are numerous cults which Christianity is supposed to have stolen ideas from. Horus is one of the favourites. However, you can read an outline of the Horus myth yourself, and make up your own mind. It’s not quite what you would find on an atheist website:

5. Lakely on January 4th, 2009 2:00 pm

   “Autobiography of a Yogi”

   “Aquarian Gospel”

   “Gospel Enigma” is the latest and most comprehensive.

   All three are free, online and complete.

6. Andrew K on January 7th, 2009 4:33 pm

   The philosophy of Jesus was the contemporary philosophy of Judea at the time. It was already heavily present in Greek philosophy, Mithraism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism.
   Mithra, Krishna, Hercules, Perseus all share literary and philosophical traditions with what’s presented in the Bible.

7. baseballkrba_10 on January 9th, 2009 11:36 pm

   Although those arguments have some validity, they have major problems as well. For instance, people see that the cult of Isis has a cleansing with water that they insist is the root of Baptism. However, cleansing with water is a very common human archetype. We wash our bodies of filth, its not a very far leap to wash the “soul” of filth. So when reading these cross religion comparisons, it is important to understand the biases of the source.

   As for Jesus, a good comparison can be made between a Greco-Roman Pagan holy man and Christ. Read about Alexander of Abonutichus and Apollonius of Tyana, you can find primary documents on the internet. These two men have countless similarities to Jesus Christ, and these are Greco-Roman pagans.

   So people suggest that this is one of the origins of Christianity. However, the similarities may just show a change in the role of the holy man in ancient society, that Jesus fallowed. Jesus was Jewish, so the similarities may have been early Christian attempts to Romanize Jesus, by making him fair skinned, and wear linen clothes, niether of which are mentioned in the text of the Bible, but its a common attribute of Christ.

   My point is, that people tend to see similarites in religions and make more out of it than they should. Although some similarities my be from a cross culture exchange of ideas, it could also just be a fairly basic idea that is easily reasoned to, such as baptism. Or it may be a practicle religious tenant, such as not eating shell fish. Jews and several other religions not relating to Jeudism fallow this because eating shellfish can kill people. Thus both religions came to this conclusion independantly.

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