@the_bob_delusion wrote:born of a virgin mother on December 25th;
performing miracles such as changing water into wine;
appearing surrounded by or one of 12 figures;
know as "Father" and "Savior" "only begotten son";
dying, resurrecting after three days; and ascending into heaven.
You are Mithras, and I claim my five pounds. 
@johcaschro wrote:
@the_bob_delusion wrote:born of a virgin mother on December 25th;
performing miracles such as changing water into wine;
appearing surrounded by or one of 12 figures;
know as "Father" and "Savior" "only begotten son";
dying, resurrecting after three days; and ascending into heaven.
You are Mithras, and I claim my five pounds.
We have Almost a winner
. I was going for Dionysis/Osiris. Although Horus and Krishna might work too.
Was the Jesus' story just a copy of these myths and legends that was well known centuries before and at that time??? Current scholarship is beginning to go that way.
Either that or God was very unoriginal.
