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It's not that the historians are missing something, it's that they are historians, looking a Jesus from an historical angle, not from a position of religious faith.  Facts are not needed for faith, which comes from within.  There are understandably few facts about Jesus.  If he existed, it was as a poor Jewish carpenter, 2000 years ago, when only very important people were written about.  Jesus only became well known after his death, thanks to Paul, and then became famous centuries later, thanks to the Catholic Church.

There's no need to be threatened by stories that Jesus shares his powers with earlier mythical gods. That sort of melding of the real with the mythical happened a lot in those days.  Only people who are insecure in their faith are bothered by the similarities between Jesus and gods with similar back stories.[/quote]

I'm one of the Borg readers here, so I like to think I have an open mind about Jesus and his message. The problem with the supposed Horus/Mithras connection is that the back stories aren't similar at all. The idea that the virgin birth derived from a tale about an earlier god's golden penis, which his spouse/partner retreived from the dirt and used to impregnate herself, isn't threatening so much as laughable. I think that's why you see such unrestrained hilarity every year about this time, when Groundhog pops up to repeat the claim.[/quote]

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