Your Big Question

There are many left-field attempts to claim that Christianity isn’t the real truth. Some of these claim that behind the New Testament events were the patterns of Greek and Roman gods. Others points to similarities with Egyptian theology.

Let’s say at once that just about every mainstream historian and theologan shoots holes in this argument.

There are many claims that Christianity echoes older faith stories.That it is, in fact, based on myth. If you are interested you can read up on these claims. But let’s have a go at a simple answer.

1. No Roman or Greek myth spoke of the literal incarnation of a monotheistic God into human form, by way of a virgin birth, followed by his death and physical resurrection. The Greeks believed in reinacarnation into a different body. Christians beleive in something quite different. we believe that Christ was resurrected into the same body made immortal. The Greeks never believed in one God.
2. C.S. Lewis points out the incredible reality of The Bible. It doesn’t read like a myth and is populated with real people and real events.
3. The New Testament is packed with eyewittnesses to the events.