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You can best assure they are all nothing but stories. |
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Well, no one is suggesting that Horus or Osiris really existed, they're myths, but their stories
date back long, long before anyone had the idea of Jesus. The same can be said of other figures,
both real and imaginary, to which the Jesus story bears a remarkable resemblance. The ideas in the
Jesus myth are not original, they were cobbled together specifically to make their "messiah" look
like other well-known "messiahs", thereby giving instant credibility. |
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There are some overlaps of the Christ story with Horus, but they are minimal. Different peoples at
the time often shared stories from their religions that they liked, particularly when the practices
bordered with each other. Overlaps of Christian stories with other religions aren’t uncommon,
particularly Ahura Mazda and Mithra or Mithras, which was popular in Rome at the same time as early
Christianity, especially among the soldiers. Roman law allowed total religious freedom, excepting
Christianity which was thought to be subversive because it prohibited all gods but one and
wouldn’t allow the emperors to be considered divine.
Mithraism has many mother-holding-baby images, his birthday was the 25th December, Sundays were
sacred, he sacrificed himself for mankind’s redemption, he had names like ‘the truth’ and
‘the light’ and was often identified with shepherds, he had 12 followers, his birth was
virginal, he ascended to heaven after death, there was a ‘last supper’, and a purifying
‘baptismal’ rite. The religion emphasized both charity and aescetic self-denial. There was also
a flood myth which drowned mankind. There was present-giving on his birthday and trees with candles
and nativity scenes featuring shepherds led by a guiding light. The similarities were NOT as exact
as this list makes it look.
The ‘historical Jesus’ and Christian theology are usually kept separate. These overlaps
shouldn't really be a cause for concern among people of faith, except maybe a few literalists. |
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Saying “exactly the same” is going too far. Even if the stories were almost exactly the same,
that would only make them less unique. It doesn’t have anything to do with believability. |
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Lol...I would rather the author or those on the other side give the "almost exact same stories"
evidence. I hope it's better than Achyra.
Horus was in the view of most historians a compilation of many deities. That fact, combined with the
fact that I have similarities to Cephus and K9 make the suggestion of this debate laughable.
There is nothing remarkable about the resemblence. There is little resemblence. |
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A lot of the similarities are fabricated or exaggerated, as you can read here. We should be skeptical of the Gospels, but we should also be skeptical of these
counterclaims. |
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13 Apr 2009 14:44
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