Reply #22: You know that the original Christ figure was Heracles?

[Cleita]

He fits all the criteria of a hero, especially, as the son of a God (Zeus), he was also a demi-god. He too was restored to life or resurrected and taken to the Elysian Fields after he died.

Although today we would have found Heracles morals questionable, in those days he was a superman. Many theologians believe that the Gospel writers and St. Paul, who were well acquainted with the Heracles legends, fashioned Jesus the Son of God after him.

It's no wonder that Christianity took hold in the gentile world because this was something that they were familiar with.

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