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\u201cNothing in Christianity is original. The pre-Christian God Mithras \u2014 called the Son of God and the Light of the World \u2014 was born on December 25, died, was buried in a rock tomb, and then resurrected in three days. By the way, December 25 is also the birthday of Osiris, Adonis and Dionysus. The newborn Krishna was presented with gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Even Christianity\u2019s weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans\u201d (p.232).<\/p>\n
First of all, are you ready for this? Please, if you have any interest at all in Brown\u2019s Mithras claim, make time and go H E R E<\/a>. This is an excellent explanation of the Mithratic cult. Makes perfect sense to me. A most worthy READ<\/a> \u2014 \u201cThe Cosmic Mysteries of Mithras\u201d, by David Ulansey, which came to me via Huw Raphael<\/a>.<\/p>\n Secondly, any Catholic school girl knows that December 25th is not commemorated as Jesus\u2019s \u201cBirthday\u201d. Here Brown sounds like a back-woods anti-Catholic hick. For a very interesting & different history of the Feast of the Nativity, go HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n As to the Mithraism & Krishna references, Brown seems to have gotten his \u201cinfo\u201d from a notorious 19th century source, The World\u2019s Sixteen Crucified Saviors or Christianity Before Christ<\/a>. This book, by Kersey Graves, is \u201ca work of pseudo-scholarship and anti-Christian polemics that is so shoddy that even atheists and agnostics disavow it\u201d (Envoy<\/a>).<\/p>\n Graves conveniently provides no sources or citations, which is one of many reasons his book has been long discredited by scholars working in the field of comparative religion. But that doesn\u2019t keep this popular idea from appearing on numerous websites\u2013none providing sources or citations (and rarely mentioning Graves\u2019 book). There\u2019s good reason for this absence of evidence. The Bhagavad-Gita (first century A.D.) doesn\u2019t mention Krishna\u2019s childhood, and the stories of Krishna\u2019s childhood recorded in the Harivamsa Purana (c. 300 A.D.) and the Bhagavata Purana (c. 800-900 A.D.) don\u2019t mention the gifts at all. Even if they did, those works were written well after the birth of Christ, making such a claim absurd\u201d (Envoy<\/a>).<\/p>\n \u201cOriginally \u2026 Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagan\u2019s veneration day of the sun.\u201d He paused, grinning. \u201cTo this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god\u2019s weekly tribute \u2014 Sun<\/strong><\/em>day\u201d (p.233).<\/p>\n Ever since the day of the Lord\u2019s Resurrection, those who believed Him to be the Messiah, the Christ, have kept the day of His rising \u2014 Sunday \u2014 as holy.<\/p>\n \u201cBrown apparently thinks that since the observance of Sunday as a day of rest wasn\u2019t sanctioned by civil authorities until the fourth century than it must not been observed prior to that time. But over one hundred years earlier, around 200, Tertullian writes about Sunday as a day of rest: \u201cWe, however (just as tradition has taught us), on the day of the Lord\u2019s Resurrection ought to guard not only against kneeling, but every posture and office of solicitude, deferring even our businesses lest we give any place to the devil\u201d (De orat., xxiii; cf. Ad nation., I, xiii; Apolog., xvi). The Council of Elvira, a local Spanish council that convened around 303, decreed that Sunday was to be a special day of worship and rest, stating, \u201cIf anyone in the city neglects to come to church for three Sundays, let him be excommunicated for a short time so that he may be corrected\u201d (Canon xxi). Two decades later, in 321., Constantine officially declared Sunday a day of rest in the Roman Empire, \u201ccommanding abstention from work, including legal business, for townspeople, though permitting farm labour\u201d (Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 1558). Since Christians considered Jesus to be the \u201cSun of Righteousness\u201d (Mal 4:2) spoken of in the Old Testament and \u201cthe light of the world\u201d (Jn 812; 9:5) in the New Testament, they thought it fitting that the true God would supercede the old Roman Sun-god. St Jerome (c. 345-420) wrote, \u201cThe Lord\u2019s day, the day of Resurrection, the day of Christians, is our day. It is called the Lord\u2019s day because on it the Lord rose victorious to the Father. If pagans call it the \u2018day of the sun,\u2019 we willingly agree, for today the light of the world is raised, today is revealed the sun of justice with healing in his rays\u201d [St. Jerome, Pasch.: CCL 78, 550. Quoted in Catechism of the Catholic Church, par. 1166]\u201d (Envoy<\/a>)<\/p>\n Next time, we head back to the Council of Nicea \u2014 where, according to Dan Brown, Jesus was VOTED IN<\/strong> as Son of God \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5 \u201cNothing in Christianity is original. The pre-Christian God Mithras \u2014 called the Son of God and the Light of the World \u2014 was born on December 25, died, was buried in a rock tomb, and then resurrected in three days. By the way, December 25 is also the birthday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n