Balder Known as Balder the Good, a Healer and Savior of Men His mother is human His father Odin, is

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Balder- Known as Balder the Good, a Healer and
Savior of Men- His mother is human- His father
Odin, is the greatest of the gods
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Look Familiar?
Dionysus preceded Jesus by Centuries
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So what makes this different?
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The need for apologetics
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The difference
 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree
that a census should be taken of the entire Roman
world. (This was the first census that took place
while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And
everyone went to his own town to register. Luke 2
During Jehoiakim's reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon invaded the land, and Jehoiakim became
his vassal for three years. But then he changed
his mind and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
-2nd Kings 24
The bible is full of facts which can be verified
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We pass from a Balder or an Osiris dying nobody
knows where to a historical person crucified (it
is all in order) under Pontius Pilate C.S. Lewis
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But why the similarities?And what does mean to
us here?
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• We must not be nervous about parallels and
  Pagan Christs They ought to be there it
  would be a stumbling block if they werent. We
  must not, in false spirituality, withold our
  imaginative welcome. If God chooses to be
  mythopoeic - and is not the sky itself a myth
  shall we refuse to be mythopathic? For this is
  the marriage of heaven and earth Perfect Myth
  and Perfect fact claiming not only our love and
  our obedience, but also our wonder an delight,
  addressed to the savage, the child, the poet in
  each one of us no less than the moralist, the
  scholar and the philosopher -C.S. Lewis

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Why it matters
- Because Christianity is the greatest myth ever
- Because Christianity is the myth that really
happened
- Because Myths are at the heart of man, a
glimpse into the spiritual world
- Because through this myth, lives can be changed