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Christians Must Heed
Jesus

Similarities between belief in the Trinity
and the character of Dionysus in Greek

mythology

Statements about Jesus (pbuh) by believers in the Trinity bear un-
canny similarities to the character of the pagan deity Dionysus in
Greek mythology (Bacchus in Latin), the worship of whom is estimat-

ed to have persisted until around the Fourth Century AD:
● Dionysus is a mortal god, the son of an immortal deity father
Zeus.
● Dionysus was born to a mortal mother by the name of Semele.
● He was killed by mortals.
● He was sent to the world as a savior.
● Dionysus was resurrected in physical form after his death.
● Although Dionysus was semi-divine, he lived among people
in human form and shared people’s weaknesses.
● Dionysus permitted himself to be caught and put to death as a
sacrifice of his own free will.
● Followers of Dionysus in ancient Greece ate meat and drank
wine in remembrance of and to give thanks to him. They regard-
ed this as eating the flesh and drinking the blood of Dionysus

and imagined that this drew them closer to him. This pagan ritu-
al, a precursor to the doctrine of transubstantiation, is applied to
Jesus (pbuh) in a most interesting way in The Gospel According
to St. John:
Jesus said to them, "Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the
Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats
my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them
up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real
drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me,
and I in them." (John 6: 53-56)

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