Appeal to authority fallacy.
As if scholars and theologians can't read history.
Again, they can, except they DON'T. They read apologetics revision of history, not real historians. Even worse, in the case you are talking about, he posted ALL INCORRECT HISTORY. So you are so wrong here it's pitiful.
In fact, let's look at his "historical " statements
1)Borg - "
The pagan worldview despised the concept of resurrection"
Well, scholar Mary Boyce PhD demonstrated that the culture who occupied he Hebrew nation for the longest before Christianity, the Persians, did have a resurrection myth:
Revelations
but Zoroaster taught that the blessed must wait for this culmination till Frashegird and the 'future body' (Pahlavi 'tan i pasen'), when the earth will give up the bones of the dead (Y 30.7). This general resurrection will be followed by the Last Judgment, which will divide all the righteous from the wicked, both those who have lived until that time and those who have been judged already. Then Airyaman, Yazata of friendship and healing, together with Atar, Fire, will melt all the metal in the mountains, and this will flow in a glowing river over the earth. All mankind must pass through this river, and, as it is said in a Pahlavi text, 'for him who is righteous it will seem like warm milk, and for him who is wicked, it will seem as if he is walking in the • flesh through molten metal' (GBd XXXIV. r 8-r 9). In this great apocalyptic vision Zoroaster perhaps fused, unconsciously, tales of volcanic eruptions and streams of burning lava with his own experience of Iranian ordeals by molten metal; and according to his stern original teaching, strict justice will prevail then, as at each individual j udgment on earth by a fiery ordeal. So at this last ordeal of all the wicked will suffer a second death, and will perish off the face of the earth. The Daevas and legions of darkness will already have been annihilated in a last great battle with the Yazatas; and the river of metal will flow down into hell, slaying Angra Mainyu and burning up the last vestige of wickedness in the universe.
Ahura Mazda and the six Amesha Spentas will then solemnize a lt, spiritual yasna, offering up the last sacrifice (after which death wW be no more), and making a preparation of the mystical 'white haoma', which will confer immortality on the resurrected bodies of all the blessed, who will partake of it. Thereafter men will beome like the Immortals themselves, of one thought, word and deed, unaging, free from sickness, without corruption, forever joyful in the kingdom of God upon earth. For it is in this familiar and beloved world, restored to its original perfection, that, according to Zoroaster, eternity will be passed in bliss, and not in a remote insubstantial Paradise. So the time of Separation is a renewal of the time of Creation, except that no return is prophesied to the original uniqueness of living things. Mountain and valley will give place once more to level plain; but whereas in the beginning there was one plant, one animal, one man, the rich variety and number that have since issued from these will remain forever. Similarly the many divinities who were brought into being by Ahura Mazda will continue to have their separate existences. There is no prophecy of their re-absorption into the Godhead. As a Pahlavi text puts it, after Frashegird 'Ohrmaid and the Amahraspands and all Yazads and men will be together. .. ; every place will resemble a garden in spring, in which
there are all kinds of trees and flowers ... and it will be entirely the creation of Ohrrnazd' (Pahl.Riv.Dd. XLVIII, 99, lOO, l07).
Mary Boyce,
Zoroastrians-Their-Religious-Beliefs-and-Practice
Wow that sounds familiar? It's also the first known use of -
Apocalypticism is the
religious belief that the
end of the world is imminent, even within one's own lifetime.
Arising initially in Persian
Zoroastrianism, apocalypticism was developed more fully in
Judaic,
Christian, and
Islamic eschatological speculation.
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Apocalypticism - Wikipedia
yes exactly, it was borrowed by Christians and put in the NT. The Church would definitely call the Zoroastrians "pagan". So, Revelation is 100% pagan and your apologist is 100% WRONG. See how apologetics just lies like crazy? "
The pagan worldview despised the concept of resurrection"
Uh, no sorry the Christians learned it from them.
Appeal to authority fallacy.
As if scholars and theologians can't read history.
Then Borg's "history" asks - Where did this “copycat” interpretation originate?"
Uh, well how about 2nd century apologists who ADMITTED IT?????
Saint Justin Martyr (110-165)
Dialogue with Trypho daialogue 69
"“Be well assured, then, Trypho,” I continued, “that I am established in the knowledge of and faith in the Scriptures by those counterfeits which he who is called the devil is said to have performed among the Greeks; just as some were wrought by the Magi in Egypt, and others by the false prophets in Elijah’s days. For when they tell that Bacchus, son of Jupiter, was begotten by [Jupiter’s] intercourse with Semele, and that he was the discoverer of the vine; and when they relate, that being torn in pieces, and having died, he rose again, and ascended to heaven; and when they introduce wine into his mysteries, do I not perceive that [the devil] has imitated the prophecy announced by the patriarch Jacob, and recorded by Moses? And when they tell that Hercules was strong, and travelled over all the world, and was begotten by Jove of Alcmene, and ascended to heaven when he died, do I not perceive that the Scripture which speaks of Christ, ‘strong as a giant to run his race,’ has been in like manner imitated? And when he [the devil] brings forward Æsculapius as the raiser of the dead and healer of all diseases, may I not say that in this matter likewise he has imitated the prophecies about Christ? "
yes, Jesus was clearly like all the other Greek demigods. Because Satan went back to the future and fooled everyone. Whatever.
