Experts on Greek and Roman mythology confirm that virgin conception is nothing new; pagans believed in it long before Christianity: a goddess virginly conceived her son, a god. Virgin conception originates from Greek or Roman mythology.
Believers in the early church, as they still had a lot of pagan awareness, thought with the following pagan logic: If the god Jesus has a Father, then he must also have a Mother goddess. Undoubtedly, Mary was worshipped in early Christianity as a full-fledged goddess, because pagan tradition remained among Christians for a very long time. And although the current Catholic and Orthodox churches do not directly admit that Mary is a goddess, in reality they treat her as a goddess: she is the most revered of all saints and the most prayed to, they pray the rosary to her, there are many hymns to her, and some believers like Anton Seleck\u00fd still consider her literally a goddess to this day.<\/p>
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https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virgin_birth_of_Jesus<\/a><\/strong><\/p> As part of the conflicts between Christians and other groups during the 1st and 2nd centuries, statements were made by both Jews and pagans<\/a> criticizing the Christian virgin birth narratives. [81]<\/a><\/sup> Early Christian<\/a> , Justin Martyr<\/a> , countered these arguments in The First Apology of Justin<\/a> , and in Dialog with Trypho<\/a> . [82]<\/a><\/sup> Perhaps intending to make Jesus' virgin birth more palatable to non-Christians, Justin argued that "the extraordinary birth of Jesus is something that He has in common with Perseus<\/a> ". However, Justin also says that such pagan stories were given them by Satan, and the stories were not really virgin births. [83]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p> In the 2nd century, Celsus<\/a> , a pagan anti-Christian Greek philosopher, wrote that Jesus's father was a Roman soldier named Pantera<\/a> . The views of Celsus drew responses from Origen<\/a> , who considered it a fabricated story. [62]<\/a><\/sup> [63]<\/a><\/sup> Raymond E. Brown<\/a> states that the story of Pantera is a fanciful explanation of the birth of Jesus which includes very little historical evidence. [64]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Experts on Greek and Roman mythology confirm that virgin conception is nothing new; pagans believed in it long before Christianity: a goddess virginly conceived her son, a god. Virgin conception originates from Greek or Roman mythology.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filozofia.nett.to\/krestanstvo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}