Statues of Mary and baby Jesus are so similar to another mother/son statue that archaeologists are often left in confusion in attempting to distinguish the one from the other. Who is the other mother/son?
Statues of Mary and baby Jesus are so similar to another mother/son statue that archaeologists are often left in confusion in attempting to distinguish the one from the other. Who is the other mother/son?
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Isis & Horus
Cybele & Attis
Mysia & Tithys
Tammuz & Adonis
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Paul led the church in Antioch. It was in this city that there was celebrated each year the death and resurrection of what god?
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Attis
Cybele
Adonis
Osiris
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Whose cult does this describe? “Initiates were baptized with blood, whereby their sins were washed away and they were said to be ‘born again.'”
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Attis
Cybele
Adonis
Osiris
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Whose festival does this describe? An effigy of the god was fastened to the trunk of a pine tree, thus being “slain and hanged on a tree.” This effigy was later buried in a tomb. That night, the priests went back to the tomb and found it empty, the god having risen on the third day from the dead.
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Attis
Jesus
Adonis
Osiris
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When was the festival celebrating the resurrection of Osiris?
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March 13
December 13
November 13
June 13
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The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was originally a shrine to __________.
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Attis
Jesus
Adonis
Osiris
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In Paul’s hometown of Tarsus was a major center of worship for ______________.
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Attis
Mithra
Adonis
Osiris
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The Cult of Mithra and Christianity both share many of the same beliefs and practices. Choose multiple answers. Which of the following are shared by both Christianity and the cult of Mithra?
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Both regard Sunday as a holy day.
December 25 came to be considered as the anniversary of the birth of Mithra and Christ.
Baptism and a communion meal were important parts of the ritual of both groups.
The rebirth of converts was a fundamental idea in the two cults.
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In 1 Corinthians 10:3-4, Paul says, “All ate the same spiritual bread 4 and drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the spiritual rock that went with them; and that rock was Christ himself.” These words are borrowed from the scriptures of whose cult?
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Attis
Mithra
Adonis
Osiris
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The mystery religions possessed many fundamental likenesses. Choose multiple answers. Which ones are the likenesses mentioned in the paper on The Influence of the Mystery Religions on Christianity?
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All held that the initiate shared in symbolic (sacramental) fashion the experiences of the god.
All had secret rites for the initiated.
All offered mystical cleansing from sin.