Jesus Christ is hardly flavour of the month.
The Pussycat Dolls are flavour of the month.
Messiahs and 3-day resurrections are very much Christian ideas. These ideas form the keystone of the Christian faith itself. Pre-Christian examples of resurrection and messianic figures are irrevelant to Christianity, aren't they?
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Messiahs and 3-day resurrections are very much Christian ideas
Yeah they are... But only if you ignore the dozens of other 3-day resurrections that came in the precedeing 4000 years.
Pre-Christian examples of resurrection and messianic figures are irrevelant to Christianity, aren't they?
No, not when you can trace christian dogma from those examples
"Messiahs and 3-day resurrections are very much Christian ideas."
Two sentences later.
"Pre-Christian examples of resurrection and messianic figures are irrevelant to Christianity, aren't they?"
That takes some kind of retardation, right there.
"These are Christian ideas! The fact that they show up in earlier religions doesn't matter at all!"
Christianity: claiming creative rights to other people's ideas since its conception.
"Messiahs and 3-day resurrections are very much Christian ideas."
Which you stole from about a half dozen different Mystery Religions of the time. Yeah, real original.
"These ideas form the keystone of the Christian faith itself."
That might mean something if those ideas were actually unique and revolutionary in some way. As it stands they're not so they don't mean a damned thing.
"Pre-Christian examples of resurrection and messianic figures are irrevelant to Christianity, aren't they?"
Uh, no.
They are irrelevant only if Christians do not respect the original copyright.
Which means that Christians are nothing but pirates.
Which means the Pastafarians are right.
Which means the FSM is the one true deity.
"The Pussycat Dolls are flavour of the month."
Who?
"Messiahs and 3-day resurrections"
Are very much ideas that were cool for people hanging out in Jesus' time, so you borrowed it. Lots of other deities did it.
Pre-Christian examples of resurrection and messianic figures are irrevelant to Christianity, aren't they?
Of course they are, sweetie.
Just tell yourself to forget all about Apollonius, Mithra and all the other pre-christian figures who were born of a virgin, performed multiple miracles including raising the dead, then died and were resurrected after three days.
It's all just a crazy coincidence. Don't worry your dull little head over it.
What 3-day resurrection? Not in the bible; Friday afternoon to Sunday morning does not add up to 3 days. Fundies fail at math as well as biology, history, English, common sense, etc.
"Pre-Christian examples of resurrection and messianic figures are irrevelant to Christianity"
"aren't they?"
You're missing the point.
If there are examples of religious myths that contain similarities to Christianities myths about Jesus from before the time the NT was written, then that would indicate that the mythology in the NT is borrowed.
Look up Osiris and Dionysus.
"Pre-Christian examples of resurrection and messianic figures are irrevelant to Christianity, aren't they?"
No
It's not that your Christ story is similar to early ones, it's that it's nearly the SAME story.
"Pre-Christian examples of resurrection and messianic figures are irrevelant to Christianity, aren't they?"
And so, neither is your 'Messiah', nor the 'resurrection' of such. You said it, I didn't.
"Mmm, Pussy..cat Dolls!"
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...I'll get my coat.
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Even the Spice Girls - who went their separare career ways several years ago - exist .
Messiahs and 3-day resurrections are very much pre -Christian ideas. These ideas form the keyastone of the cultural theft that is Christianity itself. Post Christian examples of resurrection and messianic figures are irrelevant to fans of pop stars, as they consider Christianity a non-sequitur to what interwsts them now .
Here-today, gone-tomorrow pap music (as opposed to the likes of The Beatles, Elvis, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton et al, whose music will last forever) may be shallow and superficial - but at least it exists . As in NOW .
Wrong! They are quite relevant! Think about it! Oh yeah, I forgot...Fundies aren't too keen on the whole "thinking" thing. That said, all those other pre-Christian sources are suing for copyright! As a Christian, I do acknowledge my religion's connection with others.
"Messiahs and 3-day resurrections are very much Christian ideas. These ideas form the keystone of the Christian faith itself."
Didn't study religions that came before Christianity, did you?
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