Were the Stories about Jesus Copied from Previous Myths?

Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason exposes the faults in the challenge that the details about Jesus came from taking bits and pieces from ancient mythologies.
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[@MikeAcousticMusic]

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[@shaunigothictv1003]

Christianity is a strange religion because of its weird concept of sin.
The sin argument is an interesting one.
Christian apologists claim that Adam and Eve were created perfect but they had freewill - hence why they sinned.
The problem with this claim is that if they were created perfect then they should have always made perfect decisions.
Imperfection does not give birth to perfection.
That goes against the rules of logic.
PERFECTION BEGATS PERFECTION.
IMPERFECTION BEGATS IMPERFECTION.
Logic always wins.
Therefore, the Christian apologists claim is completely wrong from a logical standpoint - of course, that is if we are using the same logical parameters to assess this topic in the same way we would assess everything else in life.
Of course, the Eden story is entirely mythological - but Christian apologists interpret the story literally - thats the problem.
You see,
All the geographical locations in the bible are actually real - so are the various people groups mentioned in the bible.
But all the stories are entire mythological and consist of allegory and metaphor.
In fact, all the worlds organised religions are actually the same in this manner.
Ancient Humans were simply trying to understand the world around them and their greater purpose - so they wrote what they SURMISED was Gods nature and mixed in their own folklore tales with it.
They then put these ALLEGORICAL hybrid tales into books and the resulting end products are what you would call the so called "holy books" from the various people groups around the world.
There is nothing surprising about this.
Thats just human beings behaving like human beings.
Throughout the thousands of years people groups from around the world have done this.
The trick is to make the various resulting religions work for YOU.
Rather than YOU working for these religions.
Hell was not taught as a lake of eternal torture by fire in the Old Testament.
The greek idea of hell in the New Testament is very easy to explain.
Let us first examine the Jews.
The orthodox Jews claim that both Christianity and Islam are actually BASTARDISATIONS of orthodox Judaism.
The orthodox Jews do not believe in hell as a place of eternal torture by fire.
That would explain why greek ideas of hell have been put in Jesus's mouth by the greek writers of the New Testament.
Especially, considering that in order for any person to learn greek 2000 years ago the only greek writings actually available to actually PRACTICE learning the greek language were greek mythological epics which documented precisely greek ideas of hell.
For example, Hades and Tartarus are terms for hell copied straight from the greek mythological epics which contained these concepts and ideas.
People simply learnt these Greek epics as a way of practicing reading and writing greek as the main greek writings were all mythological works.
The New Testament writers then copied these greek ideas of hell into the greek
New Testament they were writing and assigned Christian concepts to them.
The New Testament is a fusion of Judaism and Greek mythology.
Hellinistic Judaism is well documented by Orthodox Jews themselves.
It was eventually suppressed -
but It re-emerged as New Testament Christianity in 325ad.
The difference is that this time it was backed by the state of Rome in what became known as Roman Catholicism.
ALL, the various protestant denominations copied these doctrines as they branched off from Roman Catholicism.
They left out other doctrines and took the main doctrines into their new Protestant version of Christianity.

[@MissTIckle23]

Your version of the Mithras religion is outdated with accepted research. Read The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World by David Ulansey. There are still similarities to Christian theology, but not the ones archaeologists, anthropologists, etc. have noted for generations.

[@Charles-tv6oi]

Religions copied Christ

[@chosenmotivation]

Christianity is not a religion , Christianity is relationship with GOD,
This is the way to eternal life

[@ParadiseLordRyu]

Yes it is

[@Tokahontes]

Thats a religion you believe in your god.

[@blacklyfe5543]

Wrong

[@blacklyfe5543]

What makes your religion any different from anyone else's religion

[@godlyrain-rc9hu]

It's a relationship with a man made myth..a God created by men. Now you can have a relationship with your tree ...if you truly believed it is God.

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The Truth is we don't know so Yes only fools say "There is a God" or "There is No God" both are Not true.

[@Doubleones-hz5zd]

So crazy you say this…. Low iq correlates to religious participation.

[@HearGodsWord]

@Doubleones-hz5zd in the sense that the higher the IQ, the more likely they are to have a faith than not have a faith. Low IQ tends to correlate with poor statements like the one you made.

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Only a fool knows the truth

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[@robertlove8593]

This guy is rather lying or uninformed. Virgin birth were claimed hundreds of year before Jesus. And yes Christianity did adopt aspects of other religions.

[@paulredding1955]

ok, I'll look up your source. What is your proof, and is it accepted by historians as a valid event? I'm sure there were many girls that claimed to "miraculously" get pregnant. How many of those didn't get stoned as a result? Keeping in mind that just just one of hundreds of prophecies regarding the Promised Messiah of Israel...

[@justanothergmailaccount1353]

If you’re talking about those ones with the being is somehow born from a rock, that is not a virgin birth.
I'd also like to add that acting like a child and just saying "Yes it did," isn't a rebuttal. I have heard other speakers go over other supposed virgin birth myths (and morons like you, Robert, use coming out of rocks as a virgin birth, not being born from a virgin), or supposed resurrection myths of other religions (where the person doesn't even die, or get resurrected).

[@steve69chevy]

I believe the Bible. .,
But the banksters sank the titanic and used that story.

[@3luckydog]

@@justanothergmailaccount1353 great reply.

[@HearGodsWord]

Quite a claim with no proofs.

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[@Steelmage99]

Guess the reason couldn't stand....

[@Renttroseman]

Thanks for this video it’s a good one for Muslims