Atentie! "Conspiratia mitraista"
Scris: 12 Aug 2009, 11:42
Pe unul din forumurile anglofone pe care il consult des a fost plasat un subiect in care crestinii sunt acuzati ca, chipurile, ar fi imprumutat personajul lui Iisus din cultul lui Mitra, si (cu cata aroganta!) aduc o lista de "dovezi" in sprijinul lor (le plasez in engleza - sursa):
Doamne ajuta!
In sursa indicata gasiti un studiu pertinent si destul de savant cu refutarea punct cu punct a tuturor acestor pretinse "asemanari" (si deci "imprumuturi").1. Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25th in a cave, and his birth was attended by shepherds.
2. He was considered a great traveling teacher and master.
3. He had 12 companions or disciples.
4. Mithra's followers were promised immortality.
5. He performed miracles.
6. As the "great bull of the Sun," Mithra sacrificed himself for world peace.
7. He was buried in a tomb and after three days rose again.
8. His resurrection was celebrated every year.
9. He was called "the Good Shepherd" and identified with both the Lamb and the Lion.
10. He was considered the "Way, the Truth and the Light," and the "Logos," "Redeemer," "Savior" and "Messiah."
11. His sacred day was Sunday, the "Lord's Day," hundreds of years before the appearance of Christ.
12. Mithra had his principal festival of what was later to become Easter.
13. His religion had a eucharist or "Lord's Supper," at which Mithra said, "He who shall not eat of my body nor drink of my blood so that he may be one with me and I with him, shall not be saved."
14. "His annual sacrifice is the passover of the Magi, a symbolical atonement or pledge of moral and physical regeneration."
15. Shmuel Golding is quoted as saying that 1 Cor. 10:4 is "identical words to those found in the Mithraic scriptures, except that the name Mithra is used instead of Christ."
16. The Catholic Encyclopedia is quoted as saying that Mithraic services were conduced by "fathers" and that the "chief of the fathers, a sort of pope, who always lived at Rome, was called 'Pater Patratus.'"
Doamne ajuta!