Tag: Mithras
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The Resurrection: Was Jesus a Pagan Copycat? (Habermas v. Callahan)
(Originally posted March 31st, 2015) Christian historian and scholar Gary Habermas debates atheist Tim Callahan on the resurrection of Jesus. Callahan claims the resurrection of Jesus was influenced by pagan and Greek mythology, like Osiris, Dionysus, Adonis, Attis, etc. Of course, Callahan’s views are typical among so many young gullible atheists influenced by Richard Carrier…
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Is Jesus a Copycat Savior?
(Originally posted December of 2015, Refreshed June of 2022) Here are three segments of a pretty thorough refutation of the “copy-cat messiah” myth many in the gen Y and X generation have been influenced by. Full Video Response HERE I wish to point something out. Very rarely do you find someone who is an honest…
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Sargon of Akkad’s Skepticism Is Nothing Special
I was listening to Steven Crowder and “Sargon of Akkad” talk about various subjects… and then it got onto the Bible. Typical things like presuppositions about miracles being impossible stated BEFORE saying the miraculous life of Jesus is impossible… but before getting into more of the miraculous and Mithra’ism, I want to deal with an…
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The Virgin Birth Compared to Other Religions (Det. Wallace)
The mother of Horus was believed to be the goddess Isis. Her husband, the god Osiris, was killed by his enemy Seth, the god of the desert, and later dismembered. Isis managed to retrieve all of Osiris’s body parts except for his phallus, which was thrown into the Nile and eaten by catfish. Isis used…
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Is Christianity Connected with Mystery Religions?
A small excerpt from Mary Jo Sharp’s chapter, “Does the Story of Jesus Mimic Pagan Stories,” via, Paul Copan & William Lane Craig, eds., Come Let Us Reason: New Essays in Christian Apologetics (pp. 154-160, 164). Mary Jo has a website, Confident Christianity. (Click to enlarge – above & below) Just three pages from Edwin Yamauchi’s…