Paganism was the first religion. This is an umbrella term and goes back to many “caveman” religions and rituals. Pagans were the first use inscense, as when Abraham found the God of Israel he was the only one while everyone else were pagans, and they used inscense in these times.
The Bible is not a good source of information if we are talking about history, since it is a little bit of faith and history entwined. But I saw on the History channel (info on this channel is usually quite well-researched and accurate) that Constantine, the Roman Emperor, was a pagan converted and kept the day of worship on Sunday, the pagan day of worship, rather than the Jewish one, which is Saturday. So it is again pagan in origin. Jesus traditionally rising on Sunday may also be a reason added later, but the original reason was because of the pagans.
Not necessarily. There is evidence that Jesus was born sometime in the spring or summer, but certainly not winter. The date, Dec. 25, is purely tradition—and a pagan tradition at that. The 25th coincides closely with the winter solstice, or Yule, a major holiday in which pagans celebrate the birth of God. Mithros was born on December 25th. And almost all Christmas traditions, mentioned in my post before, are pagan.
There isn’t that much evidence besides the Gospels that Jesus even existed. The first Gospels weren’t written until at least 50-80 years after Christ’s death by anonymous authors. All stories were passed down through oral tradition. It is very likely that many unknown scribes altered the original texts of the New Testament before a final version was settled on between the third and fourth centuries AD. It is also probable that kings and priests may have altered the Bible for various reasons. There is no agreed method for sorting out when a verse entered the gospels or what the original wording might have been. There were other gospels, such as the Gnostic Gospels, that were not chosen to be in the Bible and labeled heretical. But how did people who never even met Jesus justify ignoring and trying to destroy them? Words are attributed to Jesus that no one could possibly have heard, such as in the garden of Gethsemane. The four gospels also contain too many gaps. There is nothing close to a full biography, Except for his appearance at the temple when he was 12, there is no information from the time of his birth to his baptism. The Jesus of the gospels is psychologically incomplete as well. He never smiles or laughs. He rarely refers to himself at all. He never speaks of his birth in Bethlehem or the miraculous events surrounding it. He doesn’t tell us if he is married or single. The writers of the gospels set out not to tell the facts of life but to convert nonbelievers and support their own belief in Jesus as the Messiah. To this end they almost certainly exaggerated events, invented miracles, and put words into Jesus’ mouth. For example, Jesus often directly quotes Old Testament prophecies about the coming Messiah or refers to them. Is this how the actual Messiah spoke or how a messiah has to speak if converts are to be won over? So no one can validly say “Jesus spoke these exact words.”
The statues of Horus and Isis came first, way before Jesus and Mary. It is the same archetypal image, so even though they have different labels they are the same thing.
Stop accusing me of having no grasp on history when you blindly think that everything in the Bible is historically true. I have debunked everything you have said to be pagan in origin. You seem to be much more religiously misinformed about history than I am.
