Dying and rising god
208Cynic, Epic, Stoic, Skeptic
21 Oct 2024
32:58¶ 79
“They did not do it for us, and there’s no notion here of sin or guilt or substitutionary atonement. There’s just the will to…”
31:49¶ 77
“Then there were the mystery cults. These were revivals, renewals, and ramped up versions of the dying and rising god that goes back into…”
32:17¶ 78
“No, because insofar as we’re even sure that there is historical precedent and they weren’t made up after Christianity was on the scene –…”
83Baal and Astarte
13 Sep 2021
37:32¶ 129
“So yes, the pagan world did have its cycle of death and resurrection. To what degree the modern notion of the dying and rising…”
44:12¶ 153
“As opposed to the “out of time and space” resurrections of these mythical gods, Jesus came back to life in the real world, in…”
17Mythmaking
26 Apr 2020
30:10¶ 83
“Before we shift to recommendations, probably we should say a word about the dying God myth. James Frazer in the Victorian era went around…”
30:57¶ 84
“It is true that as far as we can see, there are some myths like that. It’s hardly surprising. We’re back to there are…”
31:30¶ 85
“How many times this actually happened is open to debate because sometimes it’s unclear whether some of these myths preceded Christianity or followed it.…”