Another Futurist self-contradiction!  Yet they say
they don't make them!

Jesus cannot sit at the right hand of the Father
forever in Heaven, if as you believe, both He
and the Father are going to leave Heaven,
to come and live on some new planet Earth!

And as for what else you said to this guy,
there's more to it than just similarities!
There is when they developed, in what
area and with whom!

No you don't.

All that has to be done is to show the same basic myth story exists in
mythologies other than xianity, and predates xianity.

It's simply a borrowed myth, as is virgin birth. Do you think all these
yarns are going to be exactly the same?

The thing about lies, is that they change with the telling...

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-death-rebirth_deity

""  The category life-death-rebirth deity also known as a "dying-and-rising"
or "Resurrection" deity is a convenient means of classifying the many
divinities in world mythology or religion who are born, suffer death, an
eclipse, or other death-like experience, pass a phase in the underworld
among the dead, and are subsequently reborn, in either a literal or symbolic
sense.

Male deities among such figures might include Osiris, Adonis, Tammuz,
Zalmoxis, phoenix, Jesus, Baldr, and Odin.

Female deities who passed into the kingdom of death and returned include
Inanna (also known as Ishtar) whose cult dates to 4000 BC and Persephone,
the central figure of the Eleusinian Mysteries, whose cult may date to 1700
BC as the unnamed goddess worshiped in Crete.

Historically, this category has been most strongly associated with two
different approaches to the study of religion. The first, which might be
labelled the "naturalist" approach, seeks to explain such myths in terms of
parallels with natural processes. The second, which might be labelled the
"internal" approach, seeks to explain such myths in terms of individual
spiritual transformation or timeless, archetypal truth.  """

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If you read Joseph Campbells books on religious mythology - you will
find that virtually all of the so called Christian claims came from
other religions. Some came directly from the Jewish - and are documented
right in the bible.

THe "Love your enemies" came from Buddha

Revere your enemies as you revere your parents.
--The Perfect Enlightenment Sutra

The Koran itself disputes both that the christ was the son of god and
that he rose from the dead.

The jewish religion - for whom the savior was supposedly sent - doesn't
recognize the christ as a savior - or a god - or the son of god - etc.
Noting that the Christ died a Jew (INRI KING OF THE JEWS) - this is
telling evidence against the christ.

It would be hard to call the Jews and Muslims atheists - since they are
not. In fact- both the Muslims and Christians recognize the god of
abraham - ie - the jewish god - as the one true god.

Birth fathered by a god and by a  human woman exist - Perseus being the
most obvious - mothered by a virign locked away - Danae.

It is unusual for a religion to claim the resurrection of their god -
since most god are expected to be eternal - ie - always have and always
will exist - so their god is not capable of death. It is interesting
that all christian religions describe their god that way - most in their
masses -  "As he was in the beginning, is now - and ever shall be" and
do not see the obvious contradiction that causes. However, in the
ancient Babylonian religion - far predating christianity - their god
Tammuz - the god of vegetation did it.

Still - the resurrection of the soul - or living again in some way - is
a major part of most early religions as well. Symbolic resurrection, or
rebirth of the spirit, occurred in the Hellenistic mystery religions,
such as the religion of the goddess Isis of Egypt. Zoroastrianism holds
a belief in a final overthrow of Evil, a general resurrection, a Last
Judgment, and the restoration of a cleansed world to the righteous -
some 500 to 600 years before the christ. Of course - the jewish religion
also predates the Christ for that.

What little the christian religions did not directly take with them from
their jewish origins is mostly rehash of religious myths that predate
them. The December 25th date of the birth of the christ - was to replace
the Roman Festiival of the sun on that day - and likely has little to do
with the actual day the christ supposedly was born . Noting that
December is winter in that area - and freezing weather and snow are
unlikely but possible - it is more likely that the actual birthday of
the christ was after harvest and before winter - warm enough to sleep in
a stable.

EVEN you would understand that if the christ died on a cross - that DATE
would be on a different DAY each year following through history - and
not on a Sunday every year.

As far as the bible - a bible is a compiled reference book - and its
authenticity is dependent not on the book itself - but on the source
material it "REFERS" to. By the time it was written - there was NO
documentation for the Old Testament. One does have to question including
the Old Testament - now claimed to be archaic by many religious
organization - but since it was included 300 years after the death of
christ - there is no basis for that.

With the exception of a few supposedly authentic Apostolic letters -
there is no original documentation for the bible. Those letter can be
dated - but cannot be authenticated as to author. In fact - it is this
problem with the bible that causes the most problems - authorship is
absent in most cases. Even in cases where people's names are used - they
are normally written in third person - so a statement by the christ -
for instance - was not transcribed by the christ. We can assume that the
stories were embellished - or highly edited - to make their religions
points - but we have no basis for believing we have any actual words of
the christ in the bible.

Bible scholars even question some of the texts supposedly written by
JOHN as unlikely to be written by him. The story of the stoning of the
prostitue (He who has not sinned cast the first stone) was not in early
versions of the bible at all - and is one of the passages considered
most likely to have been manufactured. There is no evidence that the
bible waited to be constructed for proof of its passages. The bible was
constructed at the order of the Roman Emperor Constantine the first - to
come up with a uniform doctrine of the religion - at the council of
nicea in 325 AD. Before that - there was no recognized uniform doctrine
- and bibles were custom made and varied widely.

First - one should not believe that all those who do not believe in the
christ or bible are atheists. The great majority of the people of the
world do not believe in the bible or the christ = and believe in other
religious deities - of which there are thousands- none of which are
proven wrong in the bible.

However -it would seem that you would be able to use "google" to find
out this information for yourself and therefore not make a fool of
yourself making up stories that are not factually accurate.