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Justin says that the demons knew in advance the plan of God about the Son since they did make any Pagan mystery a parody of the death and resurrection of the Son. Interestingly, in Ephesians 3 Paul says: This is the reason that I Paul am a prisoner for Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles— 2 f...

This remembers Acts of Peter, 37: "It is right to mount upon the cross of Christ, who is the word stretched out, the one and only, of whom the spirit saith: For what else is Christ, but the word, the sound of God So that the word is the upright beam whereon I am crucified. And the sound is tha...

Good ones. I have added them. I forgot this one: Plato, Phaedo, 83d http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0170%3Atext%3DPhaedo%3Apage%3D83: Because each pleasure or pain nails it[the soul] as with a nail to the body and rivets it on and makes it corporeal, so that it...

From what I understand, the Platonists didn't take myths literally. So they didn't think a son of god like Heracles or Dionysus literally lived on earth.

What are other viable options? I consider it possible that the gospels are allegories for what the "soul" goes through when incarnated into the "flesh" or physical body. Jesus representing the spiritual aspect in everyone. In the mystery cults initiates would perform a death and...

Thanks, but I mean the reference to the pagan source material, like "Pyramid Texts, Vol 3, Spell 11", at least when quoting that material directly. If you read the link I gave you he goes into where the translation is coming from. It's from different papyrus texts. There's also temple ins...

Could I ask you to provide references to the ACTUAL source material being used on the pagan side, please? Otherwise, all we have are people's translations of what they think some text might be. (There's already enough arguments on translations of Biblical passages for the Christian text side, even ...

Romans 6:3–7 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if ...

If you're interested (I know some people are tired of this subject), there's a good website that goes into the parallels between Osiris and Jesus. The site is by D.N. Boswell who isn't a scholar but uses academic sources to back up what he's saying.

https://mythodoxy.wordpress.com/

Sueton: "Julius Marathus informs us, that a few months before his birth, there happened at Rome a prodigy, by which was signified that Nature was in travail with a king for the Roman people; and that the senate, in alarm, came to the resolution that no child born that year should be brought up...