hahaha, I knew this claim was fishy.
I stumbled on to this in Raymond E. Brown this morning,
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The attempts to see the evangelists' portrayals of Jesus as influenced by the Pagan "divine" (theios aner) ideology are highly controverted. The contention that early Christian christology (hailing Jesus as "Lord" and "Son of God") stemmed from Hellenizing the memory of Jesus under the influence of Pagan polytheism was once popular but is now a minority view. John's picture of a world divided into the children of light and the children of darkness, once thought to be phrased in a language derived from the non-Jewish religious sources, is now attested in the DSS. In short, scholars have not demonstrated that in a dominant way Pagan religion shaped the theology or christology of the NT.
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SeattleUte tried to paint a minority view as basic knowledge. Once again, he's full of it (not that we didn't know that already).