If Christianity is true, then way does Jesus' life mimick Mithras, a pagan god?

Because it's a continuance of the 'Myth cycle'.





As can be said for Horus, Dionysus, Krishna, Mithras, Bacchus,Tammuz, Lao Zi, Heracles, Hercules so on.








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7 of 9, all have died and been resurrected, and the disciples are merely a representation of the 12 zodiac symbols.If Christianity is true, then way does Jesus' life mimick Mithras, a pagan god?
It's not just Mithras, there are DOZENS of mythical figures predating Jesus that share some of his characteristics of sacrifice and 'salvation' of mankind. Prometheus, for instance, who made man creative and intelligent by giving him fire, then was condemned to suffer eternal punishment.





If you were a Christian, you might see all these as 'foreshadowing'. You might think people knew that someday there would be (or had been) a godlike being who sacrificed himself for the good of mankind, and that they might feel grateful and reverent even though they didn't know the details.





To me, as a non-Christian, I see it as just an apparently natural thing for people to believe, to be grateful for the gifts we have, the freedom we have, etc. And Jesus is just the Christian version of a story that is much more widespread in different versions.If Christianity is true, then way does Jesus' life mimick Mithras, a pagan god?
Paganism may have preceded Jesus Christ and Christianity, but it did not precede Judaism. If you read the Bible you will find that many of the descendants of Noah were scattered throughout the world. Most of them left because they didn't want to follow God's commandments and grew impatient for the Messiah.





With them they took some of the oral traditions and prophecies that were handed down since the beginning, even though they worshiped other gods, much the same way men today adhere to Biblical laws that they're comfortable with but reject any relationship to God.





It was from these that they claimed the Messiah prophecy fulfilled from within their own sub-tribes because despite their refusal to remain faithful, they still wanted to claim they were God's chosen. It's the same jealousy that's driven man to lie (sin) since Cain was driven through jealousy to slay Abel.





Now.. How many times are we going to have to answer this same question?
One of the Church Fathers (Tertullian) wrote: The devil whose business is to pervert the truth, mimics the exact circumstances of the Divine Sacraments. He baptises his believer 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.
The person who WROTE about the pagan god, mimicked the real Jesus- because Satan would do anything the make people not believe in Jesus, and His death and resurrection from the dead.- if people believe that Jesus is a myth, then Satan has won. Sorry- Jesus is the real thing- Mithras cannot save!!





I am saying that Jesus is truth and Mithras is false, take that to mean an evil spirit yes- AND NO JESUS IS NOT OF AN EVIL SPIRIT
And of course the Christians make the usual array of excuses, utterly unwilling to accept the notion that the Jesus story plagerized pre-existing myths and juggled them around to wrap around their favorite uber-good-guy.
Your assumption that Mithras is false is telling. Mithras is true... Christianity may also have truths if it is based on Mithraism, and the Mithraic Mysteries.
This study should answer your question:





http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/me鈥?/a>
Mithras' followers were represented by the 12 signs of the zodiac.





There's your 12 disciples.
Gods works in wondrous ways.





There are many examples in the Bible where God teaches concepts before the actual events occur.





Example: Sacrificing lambs to teach about the sacrifice of Christ.
Show me a pagan God or diety with 12 disiples and who died and was resurrected and then I will believe a word you are saying... otherwise, blah, blah, blah.
Because people like you find similarities between two seemingly different things. It's called ANALOGY.
It could have just been a coincidence, right?


I mean, how close does the story follow the life of Jesus?
so that this question can be asked a million times