The Sacrifical God man

        How did the Christian mythos arise? Where did it come from?

        The Christian myth is almost totally Pagan in origin. I 
used to
    think that anything outside the Judeo/Christian/Moslem Belief 
System or
    worldview was Pagan. Such is not the case.

        The two main features of the CBS are the Eucharist and 
Sacrifice of
    a God man. These two features were well known and well loved by 
Pagan
    mystery cults centuries before the Christian Cults intergrated 
them
    into the Gospels.

        The Eucharist goes way back into history and is based upon 
the
    ritual consumption of the God man. Osiris, Dionysus, Attis and 
many
    others were ritually consumed. The practice dates back to 
prehistory
    when a human sacrifice was identified with the God (perhaps a
    Vegetative God) and was sacrificed and eaten. Over the ages human
    sacrifice was found detestable. Animals were then substituted and
    sacrificed as the ritual identifier of the God which was then 
followed
    by grain offerings, breads shaped into the form of the God, 
sometimes
    in the shapes of natural items (sun, moon, etc.).

        The mythos of the Jewish Christ integrated this practice 
into it's
    mysteries. There is strong reason for this. For some 200 plus 
years
    before the time recorded for Jesus the Greeks and their mystery 
cults
    invaded and changed Israel for all time. A war was instituted to
    diminish or wipeout the Hellenizing influence. Part of the 
Hellenizing
    influence was an effort to update or change the Jewish religion 
to
    something more applicable to the times. After the Maccabbes War 
the
    Hellenizing cultist were driven underground; right to the heart 
of the
    Jewish mystical culture. Hence the Greek influence upon the 
myth of
    Jesus.

        The sacrifice of the God man (Jesus, Attis, Adonis, Osiris) 
was a
    well known and well loved feature also. In fact it was 
necessary to
    have a willing sacrifice before a Eucharist could be performed. 
When
    the sacrifice was not willing the legs and sometimes arms of the
    sacrifice were broken to make it look like the sacrifice was 
willing
    (not struggling against the sacrificers). Jesus was a willing
    sacrifice.

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1:128/23)

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