Christmas Forum: The Christmas Story and the Roman God Mithras

Posted by: Kathleen Shipley (kshipley@ThisIsToPreventSpam-566-RemoveThis.citcom.net) on 10 Aug 2002 at 8:51:14 PM

There seems to be a lot of correlation between the story of the birth and life of the Roman god Mithras and that of Christ. I have read that Mithras was born of a virgin, in a cave, and that shepherds came to worship him; that the cross is the symbol of Mithras; that the Vatican was built on the site of a temple to Mithras; that Mithras was crucified, and was resurrected; that he had twelve disciples; that he gave them bread and wine the night before he died.

I would like to know which parts of the two myths are the same, and if the Christians did indeed weave Mithras's stories into their own stories of Christ.
Thanks.