PAUL TARSUS -MITHRA
In the name of Allah most gracious most merciful
Greetings Kai
Unfortunately I am not a full time missionary like you .
I have a job to do.
It seems like you have not answered any questions yet , but you want answers .
Ok .
If you read the my posts about mithraism you get the answer .
I always wondered how a religion of God brought by a prophet like Jesus (pbuh) was mixed such satanic doctrines .
But after seeing the links Mithraism-Tarsus-Saul- False apostle Paul we can understand that clearly . Real teaching is mixed with an ancient pagan religion called mithraism. One of the centers of mithraism was Tarsus.
Do you remember who was from Tarsus : Saul , which became Paul and corrupted a religion .
Take a look at this
http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/paul.html
3. Mithraism
"Spirit of Spirit, if it be your will, give me over to immortal birth so that I may be born again - and the sacred spirit may breathe in me."
Prayer to Mithras
"Mithraism and Judaism merged and became Christianity. Jesus, son of the Hebrew sky God, and Mithras, son of Ormuzd are both the same myth. The rituals of Christianity coincide with the earlier rituals of Mithraism, including the Eucharist and the Communion in great detail. The language used by Mithraism was the language used by Christians. St Paul as the first "Christian" bears much of the responsibility for merging the two in his preaching and teaching, and also comes from Tarsus, a major Mithraist center.
The idea of a sacrificed saviour is Mithraist, so is the symbolism of bulls, rams, sheep, the blood of a transformed saviour washing away sins and granting eternal life, the 7 sacraments, the banishing of an evil host from heaven, apocalyptic end of time when God/Ormuzd sends the wicked to hell and establishes peace. Roman Emperors, Mithraist then Christian, mixed the rituals and laws of both religions into one. Emperor Constantine established 25th of Dec, the birthdate of Mithras, to be the birthdate of Jesus too. The principal day of worship of the Jews, The Sabbath, was replaced by the Mithraistic Sun Day as the Christian holy day. The Catholic Church, based in Rome and founded on top of the most venerated Mithraist temple, wiped out all competing son-of-god religions within the Roman Empire, giving us modern literalist Christianity."
"Mithraism" by Vexen, 2002
"It was in Tarsus that the Mysteries of Mithras had originated, so it would have been unthinkable that Paul would have been unaware of the remarkable similarities we have already explored between Christian doctrines and the teachings of Mithraism. [Footnote:] Tarsus was the capital of Cilicia, where, according to Plutarch [46-125CE], the Mithraic Mysteries were being practiced as early as 67BCE"
"Jesus Mysteries" by Freke & Gandy [more info], p199
Paul conversion an interpretation of Yeshua's death, his old Mithraistic beliefs and the Messiah/christ confusion combined to forge a new religion distinctly separate from all the various sects of Judaism. The fact that Judas was not killed, but Yeshua (the real king, in the eyes of Paul) led Paul to believe he had been the sacrificed christ sent from Mithra/God.
About trinity read :
http://www.abcog.org/trinity.htm
Is Jesus God? Is the Holy Spirit a person? Is God triune? ...
Is the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity obsolete?
Mithras, the unconquerable sun, and his two torch-bearers, Cautes, sunrise, and Cautopates, sunset, in a 3-branch pine tree form a Mithraic "Trinity". Mithraism thrived in Cappadocia (Turkey) until 300 A.D., then around 350 A.D. the Cappadocian monks defined the "Christian" Trinity.
"Triplicity is a symbol of godhead, and it means that god is the origin of all life." says the ancient Greek author, Plutarch, speaking of the pagan god, Osiris.