you still don't get it. And never will.
My contention is that the Roman governors created the bible as you know it from ancient myths.
See it as you will. This is definitely not where I read a scripture and made it my faith. It was a spitual experience.
Here is a list of other saviors found in history.
More than twenty claims of beings invested with Divine honor
(DEIFIED) have come forward and presented themselves at the bar
of the world with their credentials, to contest the verdict of
Christendom, in having proclaimed Jesus Christ, "The Only Son
and sent of God:" twenty Messiahs, Saviors, and Sons of God,
according to history or tradition, have, in past times, descended
from Heaven, and taken upon themselves in the form of men, clothing
themselves with human flesh, and furnishing incontestable evidence
of a divine origin, by various miracles, marvelous works, and
superlative virtues; and finally these twenty Jesus Christs (accepting
their character for the name) laid the foundation for the salvation of
the world, then ascended back to heaven.
Chrishna of Hindustan. - Budha Sakia of India. - Salivahana of Bermuda.
Zulis or Zhule, also Osiris and Orus of Egypt. - Odin of the
Scandinavians. - Crite of Chaldea. - Zoroaster and Mithra of Persia.
Baal and Taut, "the only begotten of God," of Phoenicia.
Indra of Tibet. - Bali of Afghanistan. - Jao of Nepal.
Wittoba of the Bilingonese. - Thammuz of Syria. - Atys of Phrgia.
Xaniolxis of Thrace. - Zoar of Bonzes. - Adad of Assyria. - Deva Tai
and Sammonocadam of Siam. - Alcides of Thebes. - Mikado of the Sintoos.
Beddru of Japan. - Hesus or Eros of the Druids. - Thor of the Gauls.
Cadmus ofGreece. - Hil and Feta of Mandaites. - Gentaut and Quexelcote
of Mexico. - Ischy of Formosa. - Holy one of Zaca. - Fohi and Tien of
China. - Adonis of Greece. - Ixion and Quirinus of Rome. - Prometheus of
Caucasus. - Mohamud of Arabia.
These have all received divine honors, have nearly all been worshipped
as sons of God; were mostly incarnated as Christs, Saviors, Messiahs,
or Mediators; not a few of them were reputedly born of virgins; some
of them filling a character almost identical to that ascribed by the
Christian's bible to Jesus crucified; and all of them, taken together,
furnish a prototype and parallel for nearly every important incident
and wonder-inciting miracle, doctrine and precept recorded in the the
New Testament, of the Christians' Savior. Surely, with so many Saviors
the world cannot, or should not, be lost.
It is argued that the story of Jesus is of a more recent date. This
tends to indicate Jesus was foreshadowed as being an outgrowth from,
if not a plagiarism upon the latter - a borrowed story which the pagans furnish the original.
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