A Comparison of Christian and Pagan Deities

Deities be a perpetual presence in human life. They have been since the clack of mankind. Humans have sullen to higher powers with their problems for thousands of years, and there depend to be as galore(postnominal) deitys and goddesses scattered throughout report as there be stars in the sky. deliverer rescuer is one of the most historied and most recent of these figures, a locomote in the last 2000 years. In this essay, I have compared the life of Jesus according to the evangels with the lives of opposite sons of matinee idol. I have think on two early(a) characters: the god of wine Bacchus and the romish mystery god Mithras. In this examination of the two foretell characters, I have, needless to say, excluded umpteen details from their lives that have no correspondence in the Gospel stories. Obviously, each son of deity needed his own erratic expression to suit the postulate of the different peoples.\nThere are several(prenominal) themes repeated in stories of religious figures throughout history. For instance, double-dyed(a) put ups. In most of the pre-Christian religions, there are stories told of a god impregnating a mortal woman, often a virgin, who then bears him a son. According to the Gospels, Mary was politic a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus. She conceived Jesus through the put to death of the Holy Spirit, who according to the Christian doctrine is part of the deity. thereby Jesus came to be seen as a Son of God. The noteworthy times of several religious figures births and deaths are some other similarity seen throughout the ages. It was a widely spread construct that the gods were born at the wintertime solstice (at Christmas) and died in spring in connection with the vernal equinoctial point (Easter). The people experienced a short period of grief, whereupon, on the third sidereal day or after three days, they rejoiced and celebrated the resurrected god.\nWhich brings us to another plebeian theme resurrection stories. The model for a deity dying and rising on the third day existed as early as in the Egyptian furor ...