I have briefly read of Mythras, Horace, and Dionysus. I once briefly skimmed over this. There were similarities, but even their claims was not as solid as Jesus in the Bible. Are people talking about Mythras and Horace much today? You're the only one who presented these pagan stories or wherever these stories or testimonies derived. .
The issues of Jesus Christ is true today as it was back then. A crowd of people shouted crucify Him. Pilate asked why? What has this man done to you? I don't find any wrong in him. The crowd chanted crucify Him. He is blasphemous. He claims to be the Son of God. So according to Roman Law Jesus was sentenced to death.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+15:13-15&version=NKJV
What was Jesus reaction? Was Jesus saying, Hey all of you I am Innocent. Please let me go. I want to live. Why didn't Jesus fight for His life? Why did He tell His disciples that He would be handed over.? Jesus told them this even before He was arrested and even before He was betrayed by Judas.
How could Jesus already know of his own Death? Jesus sat down with his Disciples to have bread. Each of them had bread. Jesus said that is my body. Then Jesus said have a sip of wine. They all had a sip. Jesus said that is my blood poured out for you.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+22:18-20&version=NKJV
I mean Jesus was certain He would be crucified.
However there was no way to arrest Jesus when Jesus told them of this. Jesus did not steal. He did not kill anyone. He did not make threats. So how can Jesus make a claim being handed over put to death when that legally He had not committed a crime?
Well a number of Jews tried to turn Jesus in to their own authorities they would not take him. So they had to go to the Roman officials instead. In those days the Roman empire governed much of the land that Jesus occupied. Had the Romans not been in place, it would have been next to impossible to have Jesus put to death for a crime He did not commit.
Yet Jesus told them this must happen. Well the Disciples did not understand. According to scripture He was supposed to set up a kingdom. But what they did not realize this prophecy happens when the Messiah returns a second time. Jesus on His first appearance was not planning to set up His kingdom.
After Jesus was crucified there was a quake and the curtains ripped in half. .Jesus said I will raise the temple in 3 days fearing that someone would steal his body. They hired a guard and placed a giant stone on the tomb. Okay Jesus let's see what you can do now.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+27&version=NKJV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 28&version=NKJV
You were beaten black and blue, whipped, kicked, punched, thorns in your head and nails marks in your hands and feet. You're dead Jesus, you won't live anymore. And to make sure no one will make false claims let this guard watch. Yet Jesus got out anyway. How was this possible? That is physically impossible to raise a man 3 days dead. Who raised Jesus? God the Father. The Lord sent an Angel to roll the stone away from the door of the tomb. The guard was frightened of what he saw.
Why didn't the guard tell the authority Jesus was gone? Had he done so this guard would have been in great trouble. So better he make himself unknown. Jesus body was not found. Look in the tomb. Nothing is found. .
Jesus said I give you the sign of Jonah. Jonah was in the great fish for 3 days. So even also the Son of Man be in the belly of the Earth for 3 Days. Yet Jesus claimed His temple would be raided on the 3rd day. The disciples thought Jesus was dead. It was impossible for Jesus to come back. But said For unto man all things are not possible. But unto God all things are possible.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+19:25-27&version=NKJV
Mary Magdalene was the first one to see Jesus after she went to his tomb and did not see him there. Then Jesus met with 2 disciples on the road. They did not know him at first. As they were eating Jesus began to tell them how the Son of Man had to be handed over. Immediately their eyes were opened. They recognized Jesus.
Jesus was seen by at least 500 witnesses. He was raised in his body that he had when living on Earth. Had Jesus left and not to be witnessed then there would be no proof of Jesus claims that he was raised from the dead.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the testimonies including Apostle Paul who was blinded by God on His way to Damascus and Peter and James. As Captain everyone one of them agree and believed who Jesus is and all the things Jesus said and what He done.
Did Mythras, Horace walk on water? Did they stop a storm in a matter of seconds? Did they feed five thousand people with a couple loaves of bread and a couple fish? Did they raise anyone like Lazarus from the dead after being in the tomb for 4 days?
I am sure they did not do all these things..Not Buddha and Mohammed have such claims.
But what does it take us to believe this? It is called Faith. There are those who believe and those who don't believe.
I conclude this with John 3:16-17
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.