Hold up, where does the claim that Semele was even a virgin come from? I hadn’t thought to check earlier, but wiki (you used it, so I will) notes this claim is never made in the stories.
No, just pointing out the desperation of your verbal gymnastics, trying to show how there aren’t any parallel myths that could possibly precede the stories of Jesus. Justin Martyr was more honest about it than you.
See the section titled “Christianity and similar traditions”
[quote]forlife wrote:
No, just pointing out the desperation of your verbal gymnastics, trying to show how there aren’t any parallel myths that could possibly precede the stories of Jesus. Justin Martyr was more honest about it than you.[/quote]
Me? Playing verbal gymnastics here? The fellow who didn’t tried claiming Dionysos and Christ were both created, as demigods, in the womb of a woman?
Pffft. Verbal gymnastics?
Was Semele a virgin?
You’re the type who would compare two snowflakes and insist they couldn’t possibly be called by the same name since they are different in some detail, despite their overall similarity. Whatever, I have no interest in verbal games.
[quote]forlife wrote:
You’re the type who would compare two snowflakes and insist they couldn’t possibly be called by the same name since they are different in some detail, despite their overall similarity. Whatever, I have no interest in verbal games.[/quote]
It’s a straight up question. Was she a virgin?
And how was Adonis born of the virgin Myyrh whe she bumped uglies with her father the king? Incest…yeah, overall, way similar.
Where’s Dionysos’ crucifixion in all this, anyways?
Edit: As a quick note, Cybele is a goddess.
“Mithra was conceived when God himself, in the form of light, entered a virgin.”
Forlife has taken his leave, I think, so anyone able to provide this virgin’s name and source for this story (not someone else simply saying it exists, but the actual text)? I’ve seen one alternate being a virgin rock, the virgin dawn (yes, the time of day), and a virgin goddess Anahita (though there seems to be disagreement as to wheter she was actually Mithra’s mother, or a sibling.) This all depending on if we’re talking about Mitra, Mithra, or Mithras.
Verbal gymnastics is all they have. Facts are for chumps.
[quote]Makavali wrote:
Verbal gymnastics is all they have. Facts are for chumps.[/quote]
Now, now. Don’t be so hard on him.