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"Many of these gods come from stars"
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 9:46 pm
by aliantha
I don't think we have any Bible-is-truth fundamentalists here, so there shouldn't be any fistfights.
This is apparently a reprint of a Huffington Post piece from a few years back. It's kind of an exercise in comparative religion, with the birth of Jesus as the subject. Anyhow, here you go.
www.alternet.org/belief/many-these-gods ... -and-jesus
Re: "Many of these gods come from stars"
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 8:14 am
by Linna Heartbooger
aliantha wrote:I don't think we have any Bible-is-truth fundamentalists here...
Wait, not a one? Guess I've been being too subtle!

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:24 am
by Frostheart Grueburn
Does not every wight, from the fleet Ranyhyn to the enigmatic ur-viles, here wit that the Elohim are or descended from the stars?

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 1:11 pm
by Ananda
I've seen a lot of information about the jesus character being a solar messiah. Makes perfect sense when you hear it explained.
Re: "Many of these gods come from stars"
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 4:54 pm
by aliantha
Linna Heartlistener wrote:aliantha wrote:I don't think we have any Bible-is-truth fundamentalists here...
Wait, not a one? Guess I've been being too subtle!

Guess so.
Ananda, I'd heard Jesus compared to Mithras before, but some of the observations in this article were new to me.