Droll:

Let us just take a moment to probably reach out and read other accounts of mythologies concerning the anthropomorphism of how God, in his divine presence, came down as humans and had to be sacrificed and resurrected.

- Horus, the Egyptian Sun god was crucified and resurrected after 3 days (from Egyptian Book of the dead)

- Krishna, the Hindu god was crucified on a tree and was resurrected (from Hindu Bagavad-gita)

- Thammuz of Syria who was sacrificed to atone for sins and was resurrected (from the poem Persika)

- Prometheus, the Greek Titan was crucified and have up the ghost (from the poem Theogony)

there's actually a list of deities being crucified to atone for some sins others did. There appears to be one in probably every culture and mythology about tat.

Cantstandzya:

C.S. Lewis was at a time a devout atheist and as he attended Oxford University he met up with J.R. Tolkien who was a devout Christian and they had many talks on this matter and matters such as these and had become very good friends. According to C.S. Lewis, Tolkien explained it as such: Perhaps those stories are God speaking to man through poets and perhaps the actual crucifiction of Christ is God speaking to man through love.

Don't know if this helps you any but it seemed to be something that began a help in C.S. Lewis and as he described that at the age of 30 he became the most reluctant Chrisitan in all of England and later became one of the most vocal supporters in defending the faith.

Droll:

i mean, tat has to take tremendous faith to believe in, no offense.

Cantstandzya:

Telling a christian that it requires faith is sorta like telling a carpenter he needs a hammer.

Peace to you