Also why is Jesus so similar to the other 15 suffering saviors of mythology?
if i answer will you hear it? Nonetheless:
satan is a Master Deceiver, he is very efficient at what he does. He causes confusion and doubt. If there is a TRUTH about the virgin Mary, what would be satans best tactic to try to disprove such a thing? i will tell you one, and that is to cause myths all over the world in all kinds of different religions to teach of their own suffering Saviors. Heck the Muslims have Mohammed. The Hindus have many Saviors.
Why don't Christians believe any of the other virgin births and savior stories recorded in ancient literature?
Who has told you that they don't? There is nothing in Scriptures that teach Mary was the ONLY person to have a virgin birth. Scriptures ONLY teaches that Jesus would be born to a virgin. So you do error in thinking that All Christians believe that there was ONLY ONE virgin birth.
How is it that the ritual of Christian communion existed in the prior pagan ceremonies of eating the body and drinking the blood of their gods?
i will answer this question if you answer my question: How did Jesus walk with sandals on his feet, when the pagans have been walking with sandals also? Also How did Jesus eat with plates when the pagans eat with plates too? Was Jesus evil because He sat around a fire, because the pagans did the same thing?
How is it that the Christian ritual of baptism also existed in the prior pagan cults?
For the same reason the ritual of animal sacrifices existed since Adam and Eve.
Weren't the very defining doctrines of Christianity actually assimilated from the endemic pagan cults?
NO, here is why. Did you know that pyramid type buildings existed all of the world, without any of those other tribes visiting them. The same type of pyramid structure popped up all over the world, without them even communicating with each other, or having the ability to travel around the world, yet all have the same type of pyramid structures. Now you are saying that because other pagan cults had certain rituals like the Christians do, that YOU THINK the Christians copied them, right? Could not the Christians have come up with their own rituals through the man called Jesus Christ? Just as those pyramids popped up all over the world, without anyone copying them. To say that answer is NO, is just, well, wrong.
Likewise, why are Easter, Christmas, the Lenten season, rogation days, and others, derived from pagan holidays. Didn't Christianity have any legitimate calendar of commemorations of its own?
Let me see if i understand your logic here. If the pagans did something, it is evil and wicked if Christians do that too? Did the pagans eat with utensils. Therefore according to this logic, if a Christian eats food with utensils like the pagans do, they commit sin, right? Pagans danced. Well according to your logic, if a Christian dances, because the pagans danced too. They commit sin. You do error in this logic.
IF the pagan gave gifts to their own pagan friends.
And Christians think that is a very good thing for us to do, and then Christian start giving gifts to people in the name of Jesus Christ, how are they evil and wrong to do so, just because the pagans did it before.
Pagans wear clothes, should we stop doing what they do and all of shed our clothes? God forbid.
Pagans sing, should we stop singing because that is something the pagans do?
Are you not seeing how illogical your reasoning is?
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