![]() ![]() During that time, the world was robbed of all fertility, reproduction and growth.Įvery spring, the stern goddess of the underworld, Allatu, would allow the imprisoned couple to be sprinkled with the Water of Life and return to the world of the living, bringing life and green vegetation back to the earth. ![]() For six months of the year, Ishtar traveled to the realm of the dead to rescue her lover. Her lover was Tammuz, a handsome young god who died each winter and passed away to the shadowy underworld. Ishtar was the great mother goddess of Mesopotamia and the source of nature’s fertility and abundance. In ancient Mesopotamia, one of the first agrarian civilizations, the people turned to divine explanations for these annual cycles of feast and famine. In ancient agrarian societies, the last days of winter marked the end of months of meager subsistence and the long-awaited bounty of the spring and summer. Here are six examples of resurrection stories from ancient cultures around the world, including India, China, Mesoamerica and Norse mythology. “Taken altogether, the coincidences of the Christian with the heathen festivals are too close and too numerous to be accidental,” concluded Frazer. In the ancient Near East, where the Bible was written, stories of divine death and resurrection were closely tied with the agricultural cycle, and Frazer believed that early Christians likely chose a spring date for Easter to coincide with existing pagan festivals for their resurrected gods. Jesus’ resurrection and triumph over death is what Christians celebrate every Easter.īut Christianity isn’t the only ancient faith to worship a deity who dies and then rises again, as the Scottish anthropologist James Frazer explained in The Golden Bough, his landmark 1922 study of world religion and mythology. But after three days in the tomb, it says, Jesus miraculously rose again, appeared to his disciples and ascended to heaven. Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.According to the New Testament, Jesus Christ was cruelly martyred by the Romans around 33 A.D. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. " Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. " And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." ( Daniel 12:2) You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead." ( Isaiah 26:19) "Your dead shall live their bodies shall rise. Below are the Bible verses and Scriptures that both prophesize the resurrection of Jesus and testify of the reality of the resurrected body of Christ. The Old and the New Testaments speak of the truth of Jesus being raised from death - Jesus testified of his resurrection before He died on the cross and his disciples witnessed his body after the resurrection. ![]() As the women left to tell the disciples, Jesus Christ met them and showed them his nail-pierced hands. Sitting on the rolled-away stone was an angel of the Lord who told them not to be afraid because Jesus had risen. On the third day, an early Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene and another Mary came to the tomb and found it empty. After his death, Jesus’ body was wrapped in linen cloth and placed in a tomb with a large stone rolled across the opening. His body was hung on a cross between two thieves. Jesus was arrested, tried, and found guilty of claiming to be a king. ![]()
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