Question by hindutrinity: Did early Gospel writers introduce Pagan Roman concepts into the faith to attract new converts ?
“Christianity…[has become] the most perverted system that ever shone on man….Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.” — Thomas Jefferson
“There is strong reason to believe that St. Paul fabricated the belief system of Christianity from Zoroastrian mythology. In order to hide Paul’s plaigerism… Christians burned the library of Alexandria in 390 A.D. Books in that library kept Mithra’s original story of what Pauline Doctrine is an almost exact copy. (George Sarton , Introduction to History of Sciences) ,
The Christian Trinity is a copy of the Pagan religion of Rome called Mithraism. Mithra was a half man half god who died for the sins of his followers. Guess what date the SUN god Mithra was born on ? – Thats right …December 25th
The concept of God having a son is the basis of most Polytheistic religions and the exact opposite of the Abrahamic message of Monotheism. Your Lord is ONE – no partner, no Son , No God incarnate.
“The son-ship of Jesus Christ is the greatest fiction of human history.” (Lord Bishop of Canterbury Commission, the Spiritual Head of England, 1910.)
“The son-ship of Jesus Christ, the Trinity, the blood sacrifice of the lamb of God, atonement are not the teachings of Jesus. These are all inventions of Saint Paul who never really met Jesus.” (Hastings Rashdall, The Theory of Good and Evil)
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Answer by bregweidd
yes
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No, the early gospel writers didn’t do it. The Catholic church did to try and help convert others.
I would strongly suggest to get out your Bible and read it. Begin with the book of John. Then read it again. Next go to Matthew, Mark and Luke.
See if that helps to answer your question.
Best wishes and happy reading!
Prove it, please.
mithras born of a virgin raised the dead healed the sick killed resurected
jesus born of a virgin raised the dead healed the sick killed resurected
all gods are all myths not one of them is real they are all based on older pagan myths and legends
Okay, what do you want from us ?
for sure
As a religion scholar and someone who supports the critical historical study of the Bible, I find it just as unfortunate that inaccurate ideas like this are spread on Yahoo! answers, as the equally inaccurate ideas propagated by antievolutionists and fundamentalists. The idea that books that no longer exist and of which no one knows the contents contained exactly the ideas found in Paul’s letters is a baseless supposition and not an argument. None of the New Testament authors thought of Jesus as God incarnate in the sense that later Christians would, and so your argument is perhaps with later (predominantly non-Jewish) Christianity. Even in the Gospel of John, the ideas that are used (concepts like God’s pre-existent Word or Wisdom) are most likely drawn from Jewish sources, and thus are related to Greek philosophy only at one or more removes.
It is true that Paul did not know Jesus personally and that he engages in theologizing that goes beyond anything that Jesus said. But he was just part of a larger movement encompassing most of early Christianity, which tried to make sense of why the individual they believed to be the Messiah would have died. To explain it they drew on ideas such as sacrifice, but largely from their Jewish milieu. Take a look for example at the ideas about martyrs’ sacrifices as having atoning value in 4 Maccabees, written about the same time as many of the New Testament documents.
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls basically put to rest the idea that Christianity in the New Testament changed as it went from a largely Jewish to a paganized Hellenistic environment. On the one hand, all Judaism was “hellenized” in this period, while on the other, the sorts of ideas found in later writings such as those of Paul and John can be found in Jewish sources from this period as well.
Finally, quoting from self-proclaimed experts (especially without specific publications and page numbers) proves nothing. Please cite primary sources, as well as evidence that individual New Testament authors drew directly on these ideas (as opposed to them being independent expressions of widespread prevailing cultural currents).
If they did borrow from the pagans I demand they give it all back to us.
Hey we loaned them that ritual thousands of years ago, they must have used it a few times by now or should get us a new one… those Christians they came by the other day and “borrowed” some candles and incense in will be a cold day on the summer solstice before I see those again.