Mithraism and Christianity

Since, beginning Torah study and attending a Bnei Noach community I have noticed many faults with Christianity and it's teaching. I have taken slack from my family members questioning me about what all this Jewish stuff is about. One family member even asked me what happened to me and who stole my precious gift of Jesus from me.

It has been hard to explain to others and I posed challenging questions to them, but of course they will not examine the information as a judge would overseeing a case, but they took the prosecuting side like a lawyer in questioning me. They are not willing to listen to any facts since their minds are made up and they believe they are correct and I am wrong and now damned to hell with all the Jews who don't accept the Jewish messiah Jesus who came to them that they rejected.

After careful review of the facts and the Tanakh, I can see how the holy bible has been manipulated in some verses to support Jesus as a savior only in the event you remove the entire passage and only choose out one or two verses of the scripture to make it fit.

Another thing I have just heard about is Mithraism. I did some reading on it last night, there are those who say it's beginnings were long before Jesus and then I find some information from Christians claiming that Jesus came first and this religion was written by the devil to copy Christianity.
Amazing how there are always some sort of reason to dismiss any science or facts or information that would challenge Christianity as works of the devil and one must have faith to overcome such evil thoughts that would lead you astray.

One thing I found to be quite compelling are the similarities of Mithra and Jesus.

Mithra has the following in common with the Jesus character:

• Mithra was born on December 25th of the virgin Anahita.
• The babe was wrapped in swaddling clothes, placed in a manger and attended by shepherds.
• He was considered a great traveling teacher and master.
• He had 12 companions or "disciples."
• He performed miracles.
• As the "great bull of the Sun," Mithra sacrificed himself for world peace.
• He ascended to heaven.
• Mithra was viewed as the Good Shepherd, the "Way, the Truth and the Light," the Redeemer, the Savior, the Messiah.
• Mithra is omniscient, as he "hears all, sees all, knows all: none can deceive him."
• He was identified with both the Lion and the Lamb.
• His sacred day was Sunday, "the Lord's Day," hundreds of years before the appearance of Christ.
• His religion had a eucharist or "Lord's Supper."
• Mithra "sets his marks on the foreheads of his soldiers."
• Mithraism emphasized baptism
  (http://www.truthbeknown.com/mithra.htm)
  One thing I have discovered it the further I look into Judaism the more answers I find and the answers they give are correct and backed up by facts and science and historical documents and artifacts. It's pretty hard to dispute that.