What had happen' was.....: Mithras

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Saturday, February 24, 2018

Cult of Mithras Explained

Monday, February 12, 2018

Sun God Mithra Worship ☼ December 25th - Mithraism - Osiris | Roman Chri...

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Horus Ruins Christmas - YouTube

Friday, March 18, 2011

Confident Christianity: A Question for Rob Bell: Whose God Rose from the Dead?

I've been hearing about Rob Bell for the past couple of weeks. I'm really think there is a problem with things he has been teaching. I'm grateful to see this article because it does a great job in summarizing the issues and falls in line with everything I've been hearing. I just don't understand how people like Rob Bell can still consider themselves Christians and still reject or change so much of what the Bible says. I first heard of him from James White when Dr. White refuted a video that referred to Mithras and his allegations that Christian ideas came from it and other religions.

Here is the video Dr. White Responded to.

Confident Christianity: A Question for Rob Bell: Whose God Rose from the Dead?

Dividing Lines regarding Rob Bell
Today on the DL: Presuppositionalism, Chorazin and Bethsaida, and Rob Bell (In That Order)
Richard Mouw, Rob Bell, Fuller Seminary, Mustafa Arja, and More on the DL

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Mithra? Attis? Really, Rob Bell?

James White has posted a video response to videos by Rob Bell. One of the things I appreciate about Dr. James White is always clear about what core message of Christianity - the Gospel - is and tries to not let his traditions and thoughts enter into the presentation of what the Bible says. This should be done when discussing anything dealing with such matters as history and the origins of Christianity. This video also gives Dr White's insights into how to answer the charges that Mithra and Attis were archetypal Christs even as he unpacks Rob Bell's explanations.

Mithra? Attis? Really, Rob Bell?

Sunday, February 14, 2010

YouTube - The Jesus Myth

Image via CrunchBase

Okay one more time: Nearly everything in the following video is a lie. Can't be substantiated and can be refuted literally in seconds. I was sent a link to it via Twitter by hudsonryan. And he sent it as if it contained faith-shattering information I have never before heard or considered. Awwww.....isn't he cute? Misguided and misinformed...but cute. Before I go forward here is the video:

There is nothing new here! It's been refuted and rebutted ad nausem before my great-grandparents were even born. The crux of the argument is that what the Christian Church teaches about Jesus so closely resembles prior myths of deities dying and rising from the dead that we must of, at best - been influenced by them; at worst - stolen from them. I've been researching this line of argument for the past half a year and I find that the points that are most often used to say that Jesus is just another myth are:

1. Born of a virgin
2. Crucified and Resurrected 3 days laters
3. Had 12 disciples.
4. Born December 25

The problem is that if you take any of the supposed other myths and try to line them up with what the Bible says about Jesus, you get no such match!!!!

Nada!!!!

You can find my research on several of the myths mentioned in this video under the label "Bible Defended" but I will take the rest of this article to link to specific posts on the characters that the video spent the most time time on. I also have to point out that no where in the Bible does it say Jesus was born December 25th, so that parallel shouldn't even be brought up but the ignorant keep using it. As for the others, I refuted them in the following posts:

Mithras and Horus
Dionysus
And others plus related apologetics

Much of the material mentioned in the article was the basis of the Zeitgeist movie. I posted in an earlier article along with a rebuttal from a real historian. You can read and watch the post at

Zeitgeist