Not on Exam:
Last sentence on 4th paragraph on study guide. Last two sentences on last paragraph.

First Ancient Fertility Religion
-worship vegetative cycle of death and rebirth; winter-spring-winter-spring.
-Earth Mother(Isis) and male companion(consort).
-Osiris killed and buried in Nile. Iris finds his body and brings it back to Egypt. Brother -in-law dismembers his body into 14 pieces. Isis finds his pieces, than the story varies.

Mystery Religion Assets
1.Fertility Aspect
2.Secret Rites and Ceremonies
3.Ceremonial meals, and ritual washings.(Communion and Baptism for Christianity)
4.Dying and resurrecting gods.

New Testament-completed 100 A.D.(Paul 50 A.D.)
Mystery Religions-100 A.D. plus

Tauobolium Ritual- being bathed in bulls blood.
-most Christian rituals and beliefs tracebul to Judaism.

Hellistic Jews-Jews who are culturally Greek.

Docetism
-Jesus's humanity is an illusion
-no human nature, No Body

Monophysitism
-Jesus with a body but no human nature
-has no human soul
-God in a body

Nestorianism
-Jesus has human nature, but separate from divine nature. Two separate natures.
(How can God suffer, die, pray, etc?)

Sabellianism
-The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are modes or manifestations of God.
(view of United Pentecostal Church today,"Oneness Theology")

Arianism
-say that Jesus had full human nature, but is not fully divine.
(created by God, is not God himself)
(Jehovah Witness View today)

Apostle's Creed-2nd Century
Nicene Creed- 4th Century

*Worshiping of Mary came about after the time of the New Testament, through influence of pagan religions.