Myth Dispeller
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...Encyclopedia of Religion? "The category of dying and rising gods, once a major topic of scholarly investigation, must now be understood to have been largely a misnomer based on imaginative reconstructions and exceedingly late or highly ambiguous texts....In most cases, the decipherment and interpretation of texts in the language native to the deity's cult has led to questions as to the applicability of the category. The majority of evidence for Near Eastern dying and rising deities occurs in Greek and Latin texts of late antiquity, usually post-Christian in date" (Cited in: http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/JesusEvidenceCrucifiedSaviors.htm#Gods).
If so, can you produce some actual reference to documents and dates? Encyclopedia of Religion conveniently does not cite its sources, and ancient Christian apologist Justin Martyr, in fact, acknowledges that the "dying and rising god" myths of ancient Greco-Roman society did, in fact, predate Christianity.
If so, can you produce some actual reference to documents and dates? Encyclopedia of Religion conveniently does not cite its sources, and ancient Christian apologist Justin Martyr, in fact, acknowledges that the "dying and rising god" myths of ancient Greco-Roman society did, in fact, predate Christianity.