The God Who Wasn't There? What!!!

I was just clicking on random links, "surfing the web," when I came across the homepage for a movie entitled, "The God Who Wasn't There." I read the little paragraph that told a little about the movie. There whole argument was based on the belief that pagan religions before the birth of Christ, had their own messiahs, and that early Christians stole the idea from them. They also present the claim that Jesus may have never existed.

First off, I'll start with the previous sentence. Jesus never existed? What are you smoking? We base our years from His approximate birth. We have extra-Biblical references to Jesus Christ that were written during and shortly after His life on Earth. These were pagans writing about a Jew that was crucified on a Roman cross. Uhhh... duh. That has to be one of the most idiotic claims to say that Jesus Christ never existed.

Next, I will discuss the claim that Jesus was based on earlier pagan messiahs. If you look for them, you will find them. They are found all over the place, not bound by culture, religion, or continent. If you look at the general plot of a god coming to earth to be a sacrifice to save humanity, and then to be raised from the dead, you will find many that fit that description. The reason for all these saviors is the innate knowledge in humans that we are sinful and require a sacrifice to atone for our sins. The more perfect a sacrifice, the more that its blood covers. So they came up with gods that heroically came to Earth to be their sacrifice. However, on closer inspection, they have many differences from what the Bible tells us about Christ.

Jesus, is the only documented Savior. Out of the hundreds of pagan "saviors," there is not evidence for a single one of them to have walked the Earth. Out of all the "saviors," there is not prophecies foretelling their coming. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, fulfilled 60 major prophecies, and 270 minor prophecies, all from the Old Testament of the Bible, which was completed hundreds of years before Christ was born. How many of the pagan "saviors" did that? None.

So in conclusion, I have demonstrated that Jesus Christ was not a "copy cat" of previous pagan "saviors," but the unique and only savior of all of humanity, if we would repent of our sins and place our trust in Him alone. There is so much more information on both the pagan "saviors" and Jesus Christ that I did not include in this post. For further information on this topic (and when I say further, I mean that there is pages of information.), visit http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/156 and all your answers on why Jesus Christ is different than these false saviors will be answered.