Prometheus and Christ?

    If you were like me you had assumed that the words in the poem below were written first by Isaac Waats. The Christian mind seems compelled to a decision. Different Christian minds will solve the problem in different ways. Perhaps you are 'hearing' this for the first time. If so, you have not attended a religion class in a secular college, where atheistic professors get a thrill from seeing young Christian students, who have been sheltered in their dogma, blown away by revelations such as these. In case you miss the significance of this poem, here it is: 700 years before Christ there is a Greek myth concerning a Titan named Prometheus who was crucified for man’s sins, atoning for them with his blood. Even more striking, is the reference to the hiding of the sun at his death. So, how did you respond? Were you tempted to say, ‘Oh that’s just stupid!’ and surf over to your favorite sports/news site? Or maybe you passed it off as just one fabrication among many feeble atheistic attempts to malign Christianity. Maybe you chalked it up to mere coincedence, noting how often fiction mirrors reality. In a moment we will weigh each option, but while we speak of coincedence, consider the following:

•  Prometheus was said to resurrect
  

•  Prometheus was referred to as the ‘logos’
  

These are details which appear in Christ’s story, but there are still other facts:

• Before Christ there are a number of myths that parallel the Christ story.
  

• Osiris (Egypt), Thammuz (Syria), Baldur (Iceland), Odin (Iceland ) Mithra (Persia), Romulus/Quirinus (Rome), Dionysus (Greece) are some of the more well known. No story has all of the following details in common, but each has at least a few.
  

•  Virgin birth, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and titles such as ‘Son of God, Bread of Life’, etc. are all things mentioned as parts of myths before Christ.
  

   I never think that ignorance is the best policy. I refuse to be intimidated. If I am afraid to check the facts, then I am admitting my lack of faith in God. Maybe after reading the poem you did some fact checking. You might have found that many such claims exist on atheist websites. You will note if you research this, that there are even bolder statements than I make. You will then easily find refutations of these websites. You will find that the majority of quotations come from copycats of two or three sites: the Zeitgeist movie (which also claims that 9/11 was a conspiracy), a dubious book by Kersey Graves called 16 crucified saviors, which an atheist sight infidels.org will not even endorse (but will publish). both of these apparently quote a common book by D.M. Murdock, a woman who goes by the pen-name Acharya S.
   Many Christians would be satisfied to stop here. having felt that they discredited the authors for blatantly false statements, they would feel free to discard every statement made. This option is not the course of a true scholar. Next up: Coincidence and reverse borrowing…