Excavating The Empty Tomb (beyond a reasonable doubt) Part 9a

Did Mark copy Greek mythology in order to write his gospel? The next 2 vids (9a and 9b) wrap up the section on Mark copying from Homer.

Incidentally, all of the music in this series was composed and performed by me. :)

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• tomb
• jesus
• resurrection
• christianity
• atheism
• god
• homer
• mark
• odyssey
• odysseus
• dioscuri
• dioskouroi

[DarkEmergence]

You made me excited to read the Bible again, or at least the Gospels. I grew up in the church and loved Greek mythology, but I never made these connections. I'll have to close read other books and see what I can find.

[TruthSurge]

@DarkEmergence Thank ya!  Exploring is fun. I love the idea of exploring things, places. You always hope to find something new or at least unseen for long periods of time. I prob would have loved to have been an archeologist digging in the dirt and finding stuff.

[COEXISTential]

I'd never encountered the Polydeuces name, I'd always known it as Pollux. Interesting.

[TruthSurge]

@COEXISTential yeah, seems the Romans cloned the greek gods and gave them their own forms of names. pollux is just the roman incarnation of polydeuces. thank ye

[TheRealTruthSurge]

@drumrnva :)

[drumrnva]

...maybe it was just one guy, and his name sounded like Jamesandjohn? :)

[shrikechan]

Astarte, I'm working on a painting right now and she's in it, along with some other gods.

[shrikechan]

mind blown :D

[perichoresis7]

@TruthSurge hahah Yes. I've been studying Hebrews and how it was written as an outline for a sermon to head off Christians from defecting because of heavy persecution. Maybe "defecting" was just a word in my head at the time. hahah

[TruthSurge]

@perichoresis7 So, it had nothing to do with Jews defecting, IMO, but GENTILES being allowed to partake in the new revelation that the Jewish god had a son and this son could grant one access into heaven.

Jews did not buy this son idea. A god that can die? two gods? No more animal sacrifice? The perfect law of god nullified? get outta here!