Did Paul fuse Christianity with any Mithra stuff?
Oh yea, big time. Paul and Mithraism “St. Paul is attributed with the writing of 13 books in the Bible, 7 by himself and 6 by others in his name. He was born in Tarsus as “Saul” and adopted the Christian name of Paul after converting to what is now “Christianity”. He was an early leader of the growing Christian churches around the Roman Empire, and the writings of St. Paul are the earliest existing Christian writings known to historians.” “Paul of Tarsus” by Vexen Crabtree (1999) He mixed the Hellenic Christ theme with the Messiah theme of Judaism, and the result was the theology around the sacrificial nature that the Christ of Christianity has. “Paul mistook the Jewish “Messiah” to mean the Hellenistic “Christ”. This happened before anything was written down; it happened during Paul’s conversations with people as he was working through what had happened. A messiah is a person who is a great leader who leads your people to freedom. The title was taken by Jews from Persian culture. A ch
Mithra precedes the Christ myth by at least 600 years. Mithra is found in the Indian Vedic religion as “Mitra” which is 3,500 years old. Much to the chagrin of Christians, there is much evidence that shows that Mithra was around before Christianity. For example: According to Plutarch, a Greek biographer and Neo-Platonist philosopher, the worship of Mithra was first absorbed by the Romans around 70 B.C.E during Pompey’s campaign against Cicilian pirates. Mithra can be found to have been worshiped throughout Europe being that there are monuments to Mithra found everywhere from Scotland to India. There were so many similarities between Christianity and Mithraism that early Church Fathers such as Tertullian and Justin Martyr claimed that Satan had, in anticipation of the coming of Jesus Christ, created a false religion that shared many of the same rituals, traditions and beliefs in Christianity, concerning not only practices in worship but identical traditions usually accredited to Jesus C
