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If you have been diligent to read up and through this article then you should be impressed at the evidence presented.
Answer for yourself: Can such parallels be resigned to mere "coincidence"?
If you have ever spent much time in serious study of the New Testament then you have already seen how many of the events of the life of Jesus have been embellished by the early Gentile Church to "make Jesus greater" than those who came before him. And let me say that I believe he was greater than any. However, we need not make the "fish story" longer if you know what I mean for the truth is enough. The next example is really not of any major importance, but is included as it again is a parallel to the Sun-Myths and can be easily interpreted in such a manner.
In the same manner ends the tale of the long toil and sorrows of other Sun-gods. The last scene exhibits a manifest return to the spirit of the solar myth. He (the Sun personified) must not die the common death of all men, for no disease or corruption can touch the body of the brilliant Sun. After a long struggle against he dark clouds who are arrayed against him in an effort to prevent his light, he is finally overcome, and the Sun eventually dies beneath the horizon. Such are the stories of all the preceding Sun-gods who became men. With the setting of the Sun it was understood to "die" only to be "raised" again. Blacker and blacker grow the evening shades, and finally "there is darkness on the face of the earth," and the din of its thunder crashes through the air (Description of the death of Hercules, Tales of Ancient Greece, pp. 61-62).
It is the picture of a sunset in wild confusion, of a sunset more awful, yet not more sad, that which is seen in the last hours of many other Sun-gods. It is nothing more than a picture of the battle of the clouds over the dead or dying Sun, which is to be seen in the lengendary history of many Sun-gods. Just described is the "battle of the clouds over the dead or dying Sun..." (Cox, Aryan Mythology, vol. ii. p. 91).