Christianity: The Best of Both Worlds?
Christianity, however, presented a combination of the two. It solved the dissatisfactions in each by inventing the
Father and
Son as facets of the same jewel. There was the same
omnipotent and
omniscient God running things as in
Judaism, only
He was much more approachable by virtue of the
Son –
Jesus. As
Dionysus,
Jesus lived,
died,
bled, and
arose. As
Dionysus,
Jesus offered a gateway between
life and
death. As
Dionysus,
Jesus was extremely
human. And yet unlike
Dionysus,
Jesus was a facet of a much greater whole. Through this ingenious twist,
Christianity was able to offer a profoundly humanized
God who was also
almighty. Judging from their roots in
Judaism and how utterly mired in
Hellenism the founders of
Christianity were, it seems like an obvious conclusion that this concept of the
Trinity was in some large part the product of
Greek Religion and
Judaism in the melting pot that was the
Middle East. Nonetheless, there are serious questions about this conclusion which will be later addressed.
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