Refuted: Jesus copied Zalmoxis

[Rationaltheology]

Christ myth theorists argue that Zalmoxis was a god in the form of a man who died and resurrected like Jesus. In reality Zalmoxis is not born of a virgin, he was not crucified and he fakes his death so never actually resurrected.

According to the Greek historian and writer Herodotus, "Zalmoxis (Saitnoxis) was the Supreme God of the Getae" who "was a man who was once a slave in Samos, his master being Pythagoras, son of Mnesarchus"  He had made for himself an  "underground chamber. When this was finished, he vanished from the sight of the Thracians, and descended into the underground chamber, where he lived for three years, the Thracians wishing him back and mourning him for dead; then in the fourth year he appeared to the Thracians." So they believed as such that he resurrected and was a god.

So Zalmoxis was not born of a virgin, was not crucified and did not resurrect. So in no way possible does he share any similarities with Jesus. He had faked his death and disappeared which is why he became known as the "vanishing god."

The eternal life of "Zalmoxis" is also different from the eternal life promised in Christianity.

Herodotus writes of this: "Once in every five years they choose by lot one of their people and send him as a messenger to Salmoxis, charged to tell of their needs; and this is their manner of sending: Three lances are held by men thereto appointed; others seize the messenger to Salmoxis by his hands and feet, and swing and hurl him aloft on to the spear-point. If he be killed by the cast, they believe that the gods regard them with favour; but if he be not killed, they blame the messenger himself, deeming him a bad man, and send another messenger in place of him whom they blame. It is while the man yet lives that they charge him with the message."

This information comes from Herodotus, 'History.' IV, 93-6) 

Edited July 31, 2016 by Rationaltheology