What!

That's easy. Because they're all a bunch of bullshit stolen from other religions.

Religion always a touchy subject, it's a shame that someone downrated you though. A lot of of the stories contained in the bible can be dated to a time pre-christ. There's a really good book by Tom Harpur called Pagan Christ which argues that a lot of the stories behind christianity and judaism are actually based on egyptian religion. Perhaps Jesus's followers were perhaps trying to put a bit of "wow" into the whole thing by having his story follow earlier scriptures. Or who knows maybe it's just a coincidence ;-)

i welcome the similarities, but I have never heard of these...but in Ancient Religions, they always been here!...God took Abraham out of the land of his father(pagan idol worshipper) ..ancient religion is all through the Word...the land(UR) was full of religions worshipping idols...thats why God chose a chosen (Israelites) to keep HIS people APART from the heathen,ancient religions!! (by the way, HE had a rough going too, they would do it every time HE turned HIS back,spiritual adultery)... ancient religions, as the claim of many to be like HIM was foretold and has been,have always "claimed" and "handed down" the tales of Miracles and Supremecy of their god's..but the CATCH...how many had thousands ,upon thousands, WITNESS, God's POWER and JESUS(which is God) by the way....How do u explain that? there are many claims of all religions Godly and UNGodly ,not just of Christians? what are these Characters, u speak of , BACK UPS? :)justme

The explanation is that your assertions are false, made up by cranks and passed on by the gullible, but totally unaccepted in academic circles. For one, Jesus wasn't even born on December 25th. And FYI, the feast of the nativity in the Orthodox world is celebrated in mid January, and both the December and January dates are 2nd century traditions, based on a Jewish belief that holy men died on the same day of the year as either his birth or his conception: as the date of the Crucifixion was thought to have been March 25, that became the Feast of the Annunciation (Christ's conception), and in the West they derived the date of Christmas by adding 9 months to it. Not that it matters though, as NO mythic hero or god was said to have been born on that day either. The closest we get is Sol Invictus (oddly, never listed among the supposed precursors of "the Christ Myth"), whose advent was celebrated on December 22-23: the Winter Solstice. When Sol Invictus became the official supreme god of the empire in 270 AD, Mythreans in the Roman Army began syncretizing his worship with the worship of Mithras, and ascribed a similar date to Mithras' advent - but neither were ever "born" at least of a woman: Mithras just came into being when the sun struck the earth and made a spark: Mithras. Also, none of these mythic figures were "dead for 3 days" or resurrected at all: not Horus, not Dionysus, not Mithras, nor Adonis, Hercules, Orpheus, Krishna, Osiris, Gilgamesh, or any other mythic solar hero or dying god of vegetation. The fact is, none of these characters were ever said to have been crucified - most never even died at all, and none underwent a bodily resurrection. In point of fact, the Christian claims of the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection were absolute scandals to the ancient mind - utterly repugnant and blasphemous to Greeks and Romans alike (and to their gods), and their criticisms of Christianity bear this out. In point of fact, these doctrines were why they persecuted the Christians for almost three centuries: they believed the worship of a crucified miscreant as God, the claim that God had become a man, and that he had been resurrected, were so detestable and blasphemous that it outraged their gods, resulting in famines, plagues, earthquakes, conflagrations, floods, military defeats and economic depressions.