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HI gsoboi
I made a similar post on the A&A board, and since then did look into the similarities as mentioned
No they are not all that similar. It is a stretch to suggest that Horus was born of a virgin, although he did perform miracles of healing the sick. Also, Jesus birthday was never specified as December 25 until after Rome adopted Christianity as the official state religion, before that time it was never mentioned. Or celebrated or observed.
Most of the more scholarly research I am finding does not accept that horus and Jesus were that similar. While Christianity did in fact borrow and absorb many elements of other religions, it did not blatantly plagaraize any single relgiion or so it would seem from what I can find so far.
Um yea... all the ancient Middle Eastern religions are related to each other. Go back far enough and they will all converge into whatever ancient proto-religion was being observed by the first civilization in the area at least 10,000 years ago.
There's nothing magical about that, it's just human psychology at work. It's also why there are 20,000 or so different versions of Christianity floating around today when only 1950 years ago there was only 1.
Yes it's repackagaed but not just Horus but a bunch of other earlier gods/religions as well. As Chango explained, all the Middle Eastern religions are related in some way. Christianity is just a re-distillation of all those that came before. Same with Bible/Old Testament being a distillation of earlier Sumerian/Mesopotamian, Ugaritic and other religions.
When The Lord God took the Israel nation out of Egypt , all the Moses law were given by God which rejected the Egyptian religion of death and the under world , and the new laws brought a new religion of life to the Israel people , ...Were the living God of Israel is a God of life , ...The God of Ancient Egypt was a god of death and the underworld .... where the leaders would build massive pyramid structures for their journey to the next world ,..... Jesus built no massive structures for the journey of eternal life with the true Living God Lord Jesus ...
This is nothing we haven't already discovered. To be fair to Christianity though, Jesus was born on Dec. 25 according to who exactly? I don't belive it's mentioned anywhere in Chirstian Dogma.
As for the other comparisons, yeah, pretty compelling stuff.
When The Lord God took the Israel nation out of Egypt , all the Moses law were given by God which rejected the Egyptian religion of death and the under world , and the new laws brought a new religion of life to the Israel people , ...Were the living God of Israel is a God of life , ...The God of Ancient Egypt was a god of death and the underworld .... where the leaders would build massive pyramid structures for their journey to the next world ,..... Jesus built no massive structures for the journey of eternal life with the true Living God Lord Jesus ...
There was no exodus from Egypt.
There was no "god" of Egypt. They had many gods, and Anubis was the god of the underworld. The only time Egypt had a single god was during the short-lived monotheistic cult of Aten (which was possibly an influence on the Israelites going monotheist).
BTW, Yahweh (Jesus' father and himself) was a god of war/death and storms.
To be fair to Christianity though, Jesus was born on Dec. 25 according to who exactly? I don't belive it's mentioned anywhere in Chirstian Dogma.
Given that the Romans required a census of the Jewish male population, and it happened to take place at what was then the beginning of the calendar year (to say nothing of the appearance of a comet that became known as the Star of Bethlehem), it's fairly certain that Jesus of Nazareth was born some time in early April.
Four or five hundred years after his death, when the Church tried everything it could think of, but was still unable to get people to stop celebrating Saturnalia--which, no coincidences around here, took place on December 25--there was [awed gasp!] a revelation: Jesus was actually born on that date!
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