How much truth is there, really, in what some critics claim are similarities between Jesus and pagan mythical figures? I did a few studies earlier. Click on the desired topics and see what I have found.
Polytheism represents an entirely different worldview than does monotheism. To claim that monotheism copied from a polytheist worldview is illogical. Euripides wrote a play called The Bacchae, which acts out two different worldviews. The one, polytheism employs many contradictory forces (gods) to account for what we experience in our world. The other, monotheism, is a worldview that embraces only one cause for what we see and experience in our world.
The Bacchae, then, was a play, acted out an historical scenario which can be applied to both Judaism and Christianity.
[THESE STUDIES HAVE BEEN UPDATED AS OF JANUARY 2025]
- Jesus Copied Mithraism? (a reply to a reader who claimed the writers of the NT copied Mithras a god / hero of the Roman military)
- Jesus, the Mithras and December 25th
- The New Testament and Syncretism
- Jesus and Krishna
- Jesus and Attis
- Jesus and Horus
- Jesus and Zoroastrianism
- Jesus and Gautama – The Buddha
- Jesus and Dionysus
- The ‘Virgin Births’ of Other Faiths
- Monotheism v/s Polytheism
- Why the Silence?
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