It is interesting that the best example you could find of parallel in previous literature was from the Old Testament. But your complaint is that I have asked for too much – evidence too specific.
Fair enough. Let me ask the question a different way.
It is my opinion that Mithra (as one example) and Jesus are similar only in the broadest terms. However, if Jesus is the result of conflation of pre-existing religious stories, please produce any of those sources, without regard to genre or date – with the minor qualification that the sources predate the authorship of Mark as you have agreed to it in 70 AD. I’d be willing to give you a blank check in word count to cut-and-paste those stories here in translation, side-by-side with the passages of the NT you think use them for source material.
This is centuri0n, aka Frank Turk, who has been an internet apologist for about 10 years and has never really gained anything for himself through it but a handful of friends and a lot of ill-will. Most people, honestly, do not like to argue with him because he doesn't know how to let it go. He's a blogger of some minor note, and he's a "calvinist".
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