The Hidden Story Of Jesus part 6/7

Bethlehem in modern day Palestain is the traditional setting for the nativity story. The one Christians celebrate at Christmas. Every year thousands of pilgrims come here to visit the church and to see the crypt where they believe the story began. For many of these people it is a profoundly moving moment to kneel and touch the place where Jesus is supposed to have been born 2000 yrs ago. But who is the real Jesus? What I have discovered on my journey is that there have been many savior gods in religions all over the world very similar to Jesus and many of them predating Christianity by thousands of years. And I have also learned how Christianity shares many of its core stories and ideas with the Roman mystery cult of Mithras, whose birthday is also the 25th of December, and the ancient Egyptian god Osiris who died and was resurected to save the world, and the 3000 yr old Hindu god, Krishna, whose birth story is so similar, and the Buddha whose teachings so closely mirror those of Jesus. And then I have discovered how two other religions, Islam and Judaism, who share their origins with Christianity have very different versions of Jesus' life story. The orthodox Jews who see him as an illegitimate child, a fraudulent magician and a dangerous heretic. And the Muslims for whom Jesus is not the son of god but a human prophet, who will return to Earth before judgement day to save the world.