Pre-Christian mythology and Christianity

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Hi all,

Was hoping that someone here could help me out with a question from my wife.

She is a convert, and is lately wondering if some elements of the faith are real. Specifically, she thinks a lot of what the early Christians did was just to take pagan practices or customs or stories and dress them up in Christian attire (her undergrad degree was in Clasics, so she looks heavily at early Greece here).

For example, last night she brought up the idea of Jesus having God the Father as his dad, and wondered if this was just the same old thing as what happened with Hercules or Pelias or any of these guys who had a god for a father and a mortal mother.

My point to her was that folks throughout history (including current non-Christian religions) have received glimpses of the truth to varying degrees, and have incorporated these incompletely into their stories, but that this revelation only came into full realization or clarity in Jesus, but she wasn’t having it. I think she needs something more.

So my question to you all is: does anyone know of any good resources to help her with the issue of similarities between pre-Christian classical mythology and Christianity, and the idea of the latter copying from the former?

Many thanks in advance for your help.
 
Don’t waste a lot of time on these false claims, just another diversion to lead you away from the Truth that is Jesus Christ, our Lord & Savior!.

Here’s one blog from Jimmy Akin; jimmyakin.typepad.com/defensor_fidei/2005/08/the_virgin_birt.html

i like this comment “Both the catechism and the doctrine on divine revelation make reference to the pagans “dim understanding” of the Truth. God transcends time and space, the birth of Jesus was the single most significant event in human history and would have impacted the past as well as the future. All the pagan stories are simply attempts to grasp the Truth before the epiphany of the birth of Jesus. So to say that “this came first and influence that” is rather a backward way of looking at things. Whats wonderful about this teaching of the church is that it allows artists, writers, poets, musicians, etc to look for the truth in the pagan mythologies as inspiration to create “new epiphanies” of the divine.”

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!

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