How do you explain religion's, that pre-date Christianity, that all have a Christ like figure?

Meaning:


Many figures were born from a virgin, was crucified, and then resurrected.





It's the same story told under a different name.


This is documented history...


Is your religion just a re-telling of an ancient story?


How do you explain religion's, that pre-date Christianity, that all have a Christ like figure?
I'd suggest ';copy-cats';, but I'd also say that it shows so many people for so long so strongly desired a savior to come and rescue them from the events of their time.





We have to remember that Moses predicted Christ's first coming way back when, what, 4000-5000 years ago? Then we have Jesus being mentioned in the Psalms, which are thought to have been written about 3000 years ago, Jesus' virgin birth mentioned about 2500 years ago, the prediction of the coming of the Holy Spirit about 2800 years ago...I mean, everything was promised through the prophets of old.





So you figure, the Israelites mingled with other nations, and no doubt shared their prophesies, which gives reason to believe that others may've taken such stories as their own.





But either way, Jesus Christ is the only one to have fulfilled every prophesy about Him, and the only one whom was risen from death 3 days later. The Jews admit He lived, died on the cross, and that the tomb was empty 3 days later; the Muslims even acknowledge that Jesus raised up into Heaven, and the Christians (as well as 500 + other people who saw Jesus alive 3 days after they saw Him die on the cross at the hands of the Romans) all spread the news.





Also, not many have heard of these other stories you talk of (you don't even have examples or details...sounds more like word of mouth). Yet practically everybody knows of Jesus Christ.How do you explain religion's, that pre-date Christianity, that all have a Christ like figure?
The similarities aren't as straightforward as you list, but many ancient religions have a Christ figure or a god who is resurrected, sometimes with a female or mother figure involved. Some examples might be Osiris and Isis, or the death and rebirth of the horned man from Celtic mythology.





I see these as evidence that parts of God's truth make it into all human beliefs. God is outside of time. Bits of the truth have been floating around in the human psyche since the beginning. Some religions get more or less of it right. But only Christianity has the full truth that God has revealed to us.
Such as whom? I can only think of one who MAY have been born of a virgin, and that's Attis. But the myth doesn't specifically state that Nana (his mother) was a virgin.





There is not one other figure in any other religion that was crucified and resurrected. It is NOT documented history.
It started with Osiris in Egypt and then spread into other countries


Osiris became Dionysus in Greece.


Mithra in Persia


Tammuz in Babylon





(Ezekiel 8:14 says that some Jews were worshipping Tammuz hundreds of years before Christ and Jeremiah 10:3,4 makes a clear reference to the Winter Solstice celebration where trees are taken inside the house and decorated with silver and gold.)





Then about 2000 years ago, a group of Jews decided that their messiah was also a dying and resurrecting god/man. they named him Joshua the messiah which translates into Greek as Jesus the Christ.





And about 1900 years ago the Christians (as they were now known) decided that Jesus wasn't a mythical character, but had actually lived on earth just a few decades earlier. They were wrong, but that's the story they told - and people still believe it today.
Nothing predates Christianity, because the God of the Bible purposed before the creation of the World that He would send His Son to die for the sins of men.


That is why Jesus is called in Scripture ';the Lamb who was slain from the foundations of the world.';.


You see, your world view is pagan, so your interpretation of Christianity is pagan also.


But if the Bible is the Word of God, as I believe it is, the God who formed Adam promised to send a Savior since the time Adam and Eve were first driven out of the Garden of Eden.


He (the Promised One) is called there the ';Seed of the Woman';.
Oh, you mean like Horus, Mithra and the many others?





Yeah, when I was a Christian, I just pretended they didn't exist and now, whether they did or not doesn't matter...they can go in my book of IDGaS :-D
There were many like Moses, Abraham they were all prophets, they all performed miracles..
Lol - Socrates and Hercules were both born to virgins.
Can you be more specific and provide references?