A Easter challenge :pagan gods had no influence on Biblical Christianity.

My god is better than your god....

To get going I'll start with one that gets thrown around a lot. Krishna, the name means black in Sanskrit, no relation to the word Christ as many wrongly assume. He was the 8th child of Devaki (No virgin birth here)there is no mention in any of the Indian holy witings that say he was crucified as many assert, if you have a ref. from these soueces please give them. Link to Indian holy books [link to webonautics.com]

Easter Bunny, Eggs....The gospels may not be influenced, but the traditions most certianly have.

I like the idea of integrating festivals though, so I really have no problem with it.

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Fuck you!

Agreed there were a lot of pagan influences on the church in the 4th century and later.

If you consider the various organized religions to be representative of Christianity, (mainly roman catholicism), then it is impossible NOT to see the pagan influences.

But, BUT... IF you UNDERSTAND because you have a Relationship With God; then the point is moot.


Nobody who has surrendered their life Unto The Father needs organized religion. Jesus IS The Way Unto The Father. The Holy Spirit Gives HIS Witness unto those HE Abides Within.


If you have God, you don't need religion.
Those who don't understand, but don't Know HIM, aren't "lost or condemned", however they do not have Relationship, Guidance, Witness from and Of-HIM.

Do they?
Do you?


Man, acting in Self-will; even if motivated "for good" or for-God, remains alienated from HIM. Unless you Know HIM, you cannot Know HIS Will for you. "Good people", unless Guided by The Holy Spirit, are just out their winging it; not acting In HIS Accord.

What is anti-Christ?
Anything/anyone that purports to serve God, but rather is directed by Self-will. Anyone claiming to serve God, who doesn't Know HIM is a liar. There are many around.


If you've ever given your life, your will, your future to God; you KNOW, you remember. You Know if you were In HIS Presence. You can't fake it. Not to yourself; maybe to others, but not yourself.


How badly do you want to serve God?
Can you/have you made your surrender?


Those who have, KNOW HIM.
Those who KNOW HIM, need no man to teach them.
As Apostle John witnesses in 1st John 2:20-27 "because you have The Holy Spirit, you Know All Things and need no man to teach you."

Said so many other places in the Holy Scriptures, the same way. If God has Given you a new heart of Flesh, HE enables you to keep his statutes, walk In HIS Accord.... Ezekiel 36:26


Religion matters not.

Maranatha!!!
Christ Jesus IS Embarked back unto this world.
Sooner than you might believe.

Uh? Thanks for your input Lester but I'm sorry it does no pertain to the subject at all, Happy Easter anyway!

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Again another poster with nothing to add to the subject, where are all of the proponent of this subject?

Pagan origins of Easter:

Many, perhaps most, Pagan religions in the Mediterranean area had a major seasonal day of religious celebration at or following the Spring Equinox. Cybele, the Phrygian fertility goddess, had a fictional consort who was believed to have been born via a virgin birth. He was Attis, who was believed to have died and been resurrected each year during the period MAR-22 to MAR-25. "About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill ...Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection." 3

Wherever Christian worship of Jesus and Pagan worship of Attis were active in the same geographical area in ancient times, Christians "used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date; and pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the true prototype and which the imitation."

Many religious historians believe that the death and resurrection legends were first associated with Attis, many centuries before the birth of Jesus. They were simply grafted onto stories of Jesus' life in order to make Christian theology more acceptable to Pagans. Others suggest that many of the events in Jesus' life that were recorded in the gospels were lifted from the life of Krishna, the second person of the Hindu Trinity. Ancient Christians had an alternative explanation; they claimed that Satan had created counterfeit deities in advance of the coming of Christ in order to confuse humanity. 4 Modern-day Christians generally regard the Attis legend as being a Pagan myth of little value. They regard Jesus' death and resurrection account as being true, and unrelated to the earlier tradition.

Wiccans and other modern-day Neopagans continue to celebrate the Spring Equinox as one of their 8 yearly Sabbats (holy days of celebration). Near the Mediterranean, this is a time of sprouting of the summer's crop; farther north, it is the time for seeding. Their rituals at the Spring Equinox are related primarily to the fertility of the crops and to the balance of the day and night times. Where Wiccans can safely celebrate the Sabbat out of doors without threat of religious persecution, they often incorporate a bonfire into their rituals, jumping over the dying embers is believed to assure fertility of people and crops.

Excellent, Heidilore.

Gaze into her face, and listen. The Dark Madonna whispers to us from a realm beyond time.

The darker the soil, the more fertile it is. Out of the darkness of the earth, into which the seeds are planted, life springs up. We see it in this season, in this place. Green grass sprouts out of the darkness beneath the hills of gold. In the dark hollows of the redwood forest, lacy ferns explode into life. In the darkness of the womb, new life grows and then emerges.

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When I opened the 5th seal

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Short and sweet, the tell me who Amen RA was and why AMEN is still in use today? Wake up.

Heidi the first pagan god you mentioned was Attis, do you have any source doc. to prove your statements about him, of course not none exist! From an expert on the subject: In a study devoted entirely to the subject of "soteriology"(study of salvation ) in the Attis cult, Gasparro finds no " statements about the prospects open to the mystai of Cybele and Attis" and "little basis in the documents in our possession" for the idea of "a ritual containing a symbology of death and resurrection to a new life." Gasparro, Sfameni. Soteriology: Mystic Aspects in the Cult of Cybele and Attis. Brill, 1995.

Next you mentioned Krishna which I already covered but here it is again: Krishna, the name means black in Sanskrit, no relation to the word Christ as many wrongly assume. He was the 8th child of Devaki (No virgin birth here)there is no mention in any of the Indian holy witings that say he was crucified as many assert, if you have a ref. from these soueces please give them. Link to Indian holy books [link to webonautics.com]

Jeremiah 10:1-5 in the Bible says the following (NIV):

1 Hear what the LORD says to you, O house of Israel. 2 This is what the LORD says: "Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them. 3 For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel. 4 They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter. 5 Like a scarecrow in a melon patch, their idols cannot speak; they must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them; they can do no harm nor can they do any good." (NIV)


Jeremiah 10:2-4: "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." (KJV).




Pagans in the past did not cut down evergreen trees, bring them into their homes and decorate them. That would have been far too destructive of nature. But during the Roman celebration of the feast of Saturnalia, Pagans did decorate their houses with clippings of evergreen shrubs. They also decorated living trees with bits of metal and replicas of their God, Bacchus. Tertullian (circa 160 - 230),



Pagan traditions: Many Pagan cultures used to cut boughs of evergreen trees in December, move them into the home or temple, and decorate them. 7 Modern-day Pagans still do. This was to recognize the winter solstice -- the time of the year that had the shortest daylight hours, and longest night of the year. This occurs annually sometime between DEC-20 to 23. They noticed that the days were gradually getting shorter; many feared that the sun would eventually disappear forever, and everyone would freeze. But, even though deciduous trees, bushes, and crops died or hibernated for the winter, the evergreen trees remained green. They seemed to have magical powers that enabled them to withstand the rigors of winter. Not having evergreen trees, the ancient Egyptians considered the palm tree to symbolize resurrection. They decorated their homes with its branches during the winter solstice. 3
"The first decorating of an evergreen tree began with the heathen Greeks and their worship of their god Adonia, who allegedly was brought back to life by the serpent Aessulapius after having been slain." 5
The ancient Pagan Romans decorated their "trees with bits of metal and replicas of their god, Bacchus [a fertility god]. They also placed 12 candles on the tree in honor of their sun god" 2 Their mid-winter festival of Saturnalia started on DEC-17 and often lasted until a few days after the Solstice.
In Northern Europe, the ancient Germanic people tied fruit and attached candles to evergreen tree branches, in honor of their god Woden. Trees were viewed as symbolizing eternal life. This is the deity after which Wednesday was named. The trees joined holly, mistletoe, the wassail bowl and the Yule log as symbols of the season. All predated Christianity. 5

Your not serious are you, this is very weak and has no merit at all. And heres why the Hebrew "Amen" is never used as a salutation and means "let it be so" which means it is not "invoked" as a deity is. Beyond that, let's see an etymological connection based on the original languages, not on the correspondence of English characters.

It doesn't matter what you say. His god reigns supreme, regardless of common sense...

Nice debate, I asked for source documents and you cannot provide them, we can say whatever we want or read something and post it that has no backing ,how about some proof?

I am slayed by the thread, I always thought he was anti religion.

I smell intent.

A Christian, demanding proof? That's rich.

By the way Heidi I answered your post and I guess you can't refute the response so you attack me, nice!

I can provide you with many links, but you will regard them as superficial and inaccurate, so why should I? But for your edification...

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The Catholic Church burned most of the source documents. They needed to cover up what they had done.

I just did refute you...we both know it makes no sense to provide you with anything, you will refute anything I say. Most of this is common knowledge that ANY first year cultural anthropology student can share with you.

That is very true.

You're awesome Mathetes. Do you know if there's an entire page or something that debunks "The Naked Truth" (The Pagan Gods part)? I've tried disproving some on my own. But I have limited knowledge on most of the examples.

Because you cannot provide anything you say they were all destoryed? How convenient! On your links the 2nd provides no footnotes whatsoever and this is form your 1st link "The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted" So your link gives as proof someone from the 8th century, not much influence and of course he gives no source info.

How about the Christmas tree thingy..

Evergreens
Gold and Silver decor
Lights/Candles
Late Dec


For one of their gods.


Jerimiah in all versions clearly states Idol Worship. This was 'before' Christ was born into that current role. Around 160 AD I believe.