Question for Christians: Saint Justin Martyr admits Jesus story wasn original, can you?
Nope. “For if you had understood what has been written by the prophets, you would not have denied that He was God, Son of the only, unbegotten, unutterable God.” Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, 121 (A.D. 155). Our teacher of these things is Jesus Christ, who also was born for this purpose, and was crucified under Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea, in the times of Tiberius Caesar; and that we reasonably worship Him, having learned that He is the Son of the true God Himself, and holding Him in the second place, and the prophetic Spirit in the third, we will prove.” Justin Martyr, First Apology, 13 (A.D. 155). “All those Catholic expounders of the divine Scriptures, both Old and New, whom I have been able to read, who have written before me concerning the Trinity, Who is God, have purposed to teach, according to the Scriptures, this doctrine, that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit intimate a divine unity of one and the same substance in an indivisible equality; and there
The prophet Isaiah prophesied about the virgin birth, the crucifixion, the resurrection, and the ascension in Isaiah 53. This was centuries before Christ’s birth and Pagan god’s such as Jupiter. Also the idea of a resurrection coming before the end of the world and only one individual being raised was a foreign concept to Jews during that time as we see in Jesus’ talk with Martha* before raising Lazarus. Therefore even if others in the ancient world had considered ideas such as resurrection from the dead, it was certainly a new idea for Jesus’ disciples. And did you look up his martyrdom? “The role of St. Justin may be summed up in one word: it is that of a witness. We behold in him one of the highest and purest pagan souls of his time in contact with Christianity, compelled to accept its irrefragable truth, its pure moral teaching, and to admire its superhuman constancy. He is also a witness of the second-century Church which he describes for us in its faith, its life, its worship, at
