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In response to the Rumors of Christianity using the Myths of pagan gods for Jesus
Lets begin with Horus who is depicted as a falcon-headed man - each king was considered a manifestation of him, this does not sound similar to the Bible at all. Horus is the son of Isis and Osiris but in another tradition Hathor is regarded as his mother and sometimes as his wife. Horus was one god in the Egyptian pantheon of gods, the god of the Sky, god of War and god of Protection. Isis goddesses of Egypt was the divine queen and mother of the heavens, both sister and wife to Osiris and mother of Horus. This does not sound like what the Bible at all about Jesus. The Pharaoh was Horus in life that became the Pharaoh as Osiris in death, where he was united with the rest of the gods. This is what they mean by resurrection; not that he came back to life in the same body but lived on in another world. Most ancient religions had various types of reincarnation but not in any way similar to the Judaeo-Christian view of resurrection, where the person is brought back to life on earth in the same body that died. They have no resurrection but transmigration. There is no crucifixion either. Then you have the Sons of the god. Horus who assists the dead in their journey to the Underworld. Horus was worshiped in the form of a hawk, or falcon, a hawk headed man. Thoth was an ibis, Khnemu was a ram, and Hathor was a cow. The sun had various symbols--the obelisk, the sacred scarab beetle, the uraeus cobra, and the sun disk. Another myth says that the sun and the moon were the right (sun) and left (moon) eyes of the sky god and the sun is seen as more powerful. He was identified with the rising sun. Later, to be associated with the sun-god Ra. Atum was the god of the setting sun. Egypt had hundreds of gods of nature, he was but one god among the many. So there are no similarities in this. Some make the audacious claim Horus was born on December 25 just like Jesus…
from what we know of history it was in the months of Oct/Nov. One cannot
reinvent myths to defame Christ and think their animosity will not be noticed.
December 25 became the date in the third century A.D. It has nothing to do with
the Bible it was invented by man. We don’t know the date he was born. Furthermore, why would Israel that was enslaved to Egypt, those who hated
them and their God (whom was already known at that time to be different than the
Egyptians) borrow one of their gods and insert it into their Bible that was
written by Moses who actually forsook Egypt? To take the position that the Bible and its depiction of Jesus is just an amalgamation of pagan deities, myths in other cultures shows that one is not only ignorant but is close minded ignorant. |
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