This is a standard but unfounded accusation. These articles will help:
I explain it simply with faith. Many of the stories in the bible have been told by others previously, they are not unique to the bible, but its a matter of personal faith as far as who you believe, whether it is the Hebrews, or the Egyptians, or the Sumerians, or Babylonians, etc. I like the christian version myself.
The short answer is: those are made stories up by anti-Christian folks seeking to make Christianity sound pagan.
well it is very pagan, but not in a bad way. its simple syncretism, and its how it took over everything so easily in many places. because there is a bend to the rules and traditions, its something we learned quite well from the Romans. There are a lot of similarities from many religions, and we just merged them into ours to get converts, its the natural way about it.
Actually, I would highly suggest a non-Catholic author, and hopefully, an author that isn’t even Christian. A person’s education and credentials, not their religion, is what should matter in this case, but it won’t stop people from pointing out the faith of the author and disregarding them as a result.I would seek out a good historical work from a catholic author. Suggestions welcome…
Ive read lots of pages listing this sort of thing, some of which seem to actually be based on no evidence at all.
Be comfortable in history then meeting challenges like this becomes easier and more critical.
Thats how i approach it.
So Jesus and His Gospel is a conglomeration of various pagan myths? If you are a Christian, you need to do some serious rethinking.
Agreed, basically just do a good amount of research
STRAWMAN :yawn:
a most excellent point, I would like to 2nd that.
Perhaps, but a strawman easily constructed from your posts which haven’t addressed the uniqueness of Christian revelation as opposed to the religious myths of earlier cultures, e.g, the Egyptians, which is what the OP was asking about. Of course Christianity has absorbed many cultural practices of the peoples it has encountered through the centuries, but these are different from God’s revelation in and through His Incarnate Son which is to be held with Catholic faith.
well then yeah, I don’t disagree with you. I was talking about the syncretism of Christianity absorbing other faiths along the way, and their cultural practices. I am not sure how easy it was to build because I only made one post and you got on me for it, besides i know what i was thinking even though it may be hard to type from time to time, lol.
