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 Is The New Testament Based On Myths? | Pagan Christ | Timeline 

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The Pagan Christ 

The truth is that the miracles ascribed to Jesus on earth were already described in the pre-Christian religion. Of this, there is ample proof. Horus is, as we shall see, behind the very same miracles that are repeated in the Gospels and were first performed as mysteries in the divine netherworld, according to the myths.

Once the historicization and literalization of the central character in the Jesus myth had taken place, and what had begun as a series of dramas based on a symbolic or mythical redeemer was firmly locked into the four Gospels as actual histories of a god in disguise, the charge of the Pagan enemies and critics of Christianity was sounded. You have stolen all our beliefs and rites, they claimed, and by making them out to be concrete, historical events, you have claimed them as your own. What you have written in your Gospels has all been written before by the sages and demigods whom we revere.

In my view, this verdict of the so-called Pagans is now unassailable. When you read, for example, about the saviour figure Horus explicitly making the kind of "I am" claims that conservative Christians loudly teach are wholly unique to Jesus—especially in John's Gospel—you see what these Pagan critics were saying.

新約聖書について

１）イエス・キリストは存在したが歴史的に正確ではない

という説と

２） イエス・キリストは存在しなかった。新約聖書は当時の神話を歴史的、文字通り起きたものとして制作されたもの。

という説があることは知っていたが、２）説は説得力あるね。

ただ、架空のものであっても、宗教的意味がなくなるわけでもない。仏典なんて、空想の産物だけど、それでも意味はある。

・・・ああ、ちなみにキリスト教の倫理なローマストイシズムの倫理とそっくりと言われる。（ただし、ストア派のほうがより寛大みたいな・・・）

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出典: フリー百科事典

 

 キリスト教の歴史を知ることは大事だね。