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Jesus Vs Mithra

The document debunks common myths about similarities between Jesus and Mithra, the Roman mystery cult god. It finds no evidence that Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25th, was a travelling preacher or performed miracles. References show Mithra was depicted as being born from a rock or created as an adult, not from a virgin. There is also no evidence Mithra had 12 disciples, sacrificed himself for world peace, was buried and resurrected on Easter. The document concludes most of what is claimed about Mithraic beliefs is unsupported and likely adopted from Christianity, which predated the Mithraic cult.

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Jesus Vs Mithra

The document debunks common myths about similarities between Jesus and Mithra, the Roman mystery cult god. It finds no evidence that Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25th, was a travelling preacher or performed miracles. References show Mithra was depicted as being born from a rock or created as an adult, not from a virgin. There is also no evidence Mithra had 12 disciples, sacrificed himself for world peace, was buried and resurrected on Easter. The document concludes most of what is claimed about Mithraic beliefs is unsupported and likely adopted from Christianity, which predated the Mithraic cult.

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Jesus vs Mithra

Lies:
1. Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25th
2. He was a travelling preacher and performed miracles.
3. He had 12 disciples.
4. He sacrificed himself for world peace.
5. Was buried in a tomb and later resurrected on Easter Morning.
6. His followers were promised immortality.
7. He was called the good shepherd, the savior, the way, the truth and the light.
8. His holy day was Sunday and his followers and his followers partook in the Lord’s
supper every week.

Debunking
Intro:
Which Mithra? There are three different Mithra’s:
1. Roman mystery cult of Mithra.
2. Persian/Iranian Mithra.
3. Vedic Mithra.
None of these even match Christianity. What’s often used is the Roman mystery cult, that
didn’t leave any writing for us behind to know what they believed, so we have to have to
piece it together from 2nd hand sources and inscriptions.
1. Mithra wasn’t born from a virgin, neither in the Roman or Persian version.
Source:
The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology & Salvation in the Ancient World, page
36 + Commodiani Instrvctiones, Instructions 13, Mithra was born out of a rock.
Avesta: Khorda Avesta 6-7, Mithra was created, as an adult by Ahura Mazda.
Merkelbach’s Mithras, page 299, “In truth, the only evidence for it is the celebration of the
birthday of Invictus on that date in Calendar of Philocalus. Invictus is of course Sol Invictus,
Aurelian’s sun god. It does not follow that a different, earlier, and unofficial sun god, Sol
Invictus Mithras, was necessarily or even probably, born on that day too.”
2. No evidence for him being a travelling preacher and every deity claimed miracles.
3. No evidence for 12 disciples. In the Persian/Iranian version, he had 1 follower named
Varuna and in the Roman version, he had two followers named Cautes and
Cautopatres.
Source:
The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries page 16-17, The version that people use is a depiction
of “Mithra Slaying of the Bull”, being surrounded by 12 figures. These however, are actually
the signs of the Zodiac. This inscription also post-dates Christianity.
4. There is no evidence of Mithra’s sacrifice for world peace, the closest one can
propose is the slaying of the bull.
5. There is no evidence of Mithra dying, being buried in a tomb, or resurrected.
Source:
Santa Prisca Mithraeum, dated to after 200 AD, “And us, too, you saved by spilling the
eternal blood” is the closest one can get.
Mithras the Secret God, page 171-173 + Mithras-Orion, Greek Hero and Roman Army God,
page 45, This refers to the spilling of the bull’s blood.
6. It is likely that his followers were promised immortality….as was customary for
religions to do. No Mithraic writings were left to us, so we cant even confirm this.
Source:
Religion of the Mithras Cult, page 7,129, There might never have been any ritual specific to
the soul’s journey after dead.
7. No evidence for any of these titles ever to have been applied.
8. While it is true that Sunday was his holy day, that’s not significant as the first day of
the week was significant for a lot of cultures. It is more likely that what we know
about the Mithra cult, which post-dates Christianity, copied from Christianity.
Source:
The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries, Merkelbach’s Mithras vol. 41 No.3 pages 296-316,
The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire, Minding Time: Pagan and Christian
Notions of the Week in the fourth-Century Roman Empire page 185-212, most of our
knowledge of the Mithra cult comes from after Christianity .
Minding Time: Pagan and Christian Notions of the Week in the fourth-Century Roman
Empire, Mithra’s usage of Sunday post-dates the New Testament.

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