Is
Mountain Dew different from Coke? Sure. Coke is dark; Dew is light.
Coke's can is red; Dew's is green. Coke tastes like ... Coke. Dew tastes
like Dew. But Dew and Coke are both sodas.
Our idea "soda" describes only some
features of a drink—fizzy sugar water in a can. Other
features are not part of the "soda" concept—flavor,
color, can color, price, etc. This means that every soda is different
from every other soda. Coke is different from Pepsi, is different from
Fanta, is different from Dew.
Jesus' apologists like to argue that Jesus is not a Pagan God because
Jesus is different is some detail or other from other Pagan Gods. Jesus
is different from Attis, and Mithras, and Osiris because every ancient
God is different, in many ways, from every other ancient God. Like sodas,
they all share God features. Like sodas, they differ in the way those
details are applied. |