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Jesus
Christ
and
Mythology
"Exaggerations
and oversimplifications abound in this kind of literature. One encounters
overblown claims about alleged likenesses between baptism and the Lord's
Supper and similar "sacraments" in certain mystery cults. Attempts to find
analogies between the resurrection of Christ and the alleged 'resurrections'
of the mystery deities involve massive amounts of oversimplification and
inattention to detail."
Ronald
Nash (Christian Research Journal, Winter 1994, p.8)
I. Claims of Mythological Borrowing.
A. Favorite Charge of Skeptics.
It is often claimed that mythological figures
from other world religions were similar to Jesus, and that central notions
form Christian doctrine are really copies of Pagan concepts. The most frequently
sited perhaps is the notion of
a demigod, or the son of a god and mortal, such
as Hercules. But Jesus was no demigod and the concept is totally different.
Hercules was just a man with great strength, he was like superman, but
just a man. He was not co-eternal, not the second person of the Godhead,
and not co-creator of the universe. Not only was Jesus all these things
(John 1:1) but he was also an historical flesh and blood human who really
lived. None of these mythological figures such as Hercules or Mythras can
say that. They were not real people, Jesus was.
On Message boards it is quite common to find them
arguing that the Apostles just consciously copied the pagan myths. Some
of the more slick skeptics know this is a silly charge, and are a bit more
subtle about it (or should I say sub-Till?)
1) Farell Till argues:
In his Debate with Norman Geisler Ferell Till, editor of Skeptical
Review, states:
"The first major flaw that I would
like to point out in Dr. Geisler's position is that the story of Jesus
is a story that was just too familiar by the time that it started being
told and"
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