Re: CHRISTIANITY IS AN ANCIENT PAGAN RELIGION NOT FROM JESUS

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>, Raymond
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> wrote:

> On May 7, 10:09=A0am, 2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (=95R. L. Measures) wrote:
> > In article <ai5324t7sd1m4e6dge5uktll0btme38...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, duke
> >
> > <duckgumb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 6 May 2008 20:49:22 -0700 (PDT), arah <arah1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> :
> >
> > > >Christianity is an ancient Pagan religion.
> >
> > > You know that nobody in his right mind would believe you, don't you.
> >
> > =95 =A0Good point Duke. =A0However, Christianity is somewhat based on
a
> > sacrifice-based pagan Sun-God religion named Mithraism which was
popular
> > in Rome over a century before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
=A0Examples:=
> 
> > December 25, the Winter solstice was changed to the Christian God's
> > birthday from Mithra's birthday. =A0Even though Saturday was the
Jewish
> > sabbath - and Jesus was Jewish, Christianity adopted the Sun God
Mithra's
> > Sabbath of Sunday. Additionally, =A0Mithra had multiple personalities
as d=
> id
> > the Christian God - while the Jewish supreme being thankfully had only
one=
> 
> > personality.
> 
> Your reply is total idiocies.  I sure there were many thousands of
> gods people followed many had sacrifice blood based and so on.  

**  agreed

>Which
> has nothing to do with Jesus or a pagan Sun-God play of words it is
> SON of GOD not SUN.   

**  Mithra was the Persian sun God. 

>Jesus came to set such silly teachings like
> yours to rest and make the way for mankind to find the real GOD!  Dec
> 25, was not and could not be the birthday of Jesus

**  Agreed

> it was only a day
> that was picked out of 360 days, no matter what day one picked people
> like you would find some reason to mock it.  

**  Picking the birthday of the sun God Mithra was not a good choice since
Jesus of Nazareth was likely born in October.  

>Christianity never
> adopted any God Mithra's or what ever name one wants to use.  

**  History says they did. 

>You seem
> to forget it was God that made all days and pagans just used them.  So
> when a Christian takes back the day, you all try to make it sound like
> the pagan owned it.  Sorry that ideal does not hold water.  God made
> the days long before any pagan lived.  You also don't seem to know
> much about true history or the teachings of the Jew that is real and
> theirs not some book of pagan teachings that you seem to follow or
> want others to believe which are just lies and falsehoods.

**  paganization of Christianity did not come until 3-centuries after the
curcifixtion.  
> 
cheers Raymond

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