IS IT BECAUSE The Old Testament came from stories handed down by word of mouth over thousands of years in the Middle East?? OR
THAT WAS A WAY TO MISLEAD PEOPLE AND MAKE THEM THINK THAT JESUS IS A MYTH, SO THIS TAKE THEM AWAY FROM WORSHIPING THE GOD?
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Well there was this great marriage between the Christians and the Romans and they cooked up this story at the Council of Nicaea in the year 325.
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BLASPHEMY ... against Horus!!!!
No ancient worshiper of Horus would let you get away with such talk, you vile blasphemer of Horus!!
Seriously, this claim about the story of Jesus being like the story of Horus in ancient Egypt is often spouted, but any student of ancient mythology can tell you that it is complete crap.
The first thing such skeptics claim is that Horus was "born of a virgin".
Worshipers of Horus' mamma, Isis, would have you in chains for such blasphemy against her, but only if the worshipers of Horus' daddy, Osiris, didn't get to you first. Horus was the son of Isis and Osiris, and they made their baby Horus the was any human couple would.
Horus did not have 12 followers in the ancient myths. Nor was he crucified. Nor did he do any rising from the dead. OSIRIS was cut up in pieces and tossed in the Nile. But when you're a god, that's not enough to kill you. Isis reassembled him, but that didn't happen to Horus.
Later, as Christianity gained dominance in The Roman world, the stories of many pagan gods were changed to incorporate elements of Christianity. Remember, pagan religions seldom have "cannon" the way Judeo-Christian religions do. So their myths are free to change over time.
So, there are occasions when pagan religions borrow from Christianity, but not the other way round.
The_Cricket: Thinking Pink!
It's not "typically the same".
-Horus wasn't born of a virgin.
-There were no wise men at his birth or after.
-No shepherds either.
-And no star.
-He was born in a swamp.
-He wasn't a child teacher.
-Didn't perform miracles (other than fooling his uncle into thinking that he had ejaculated into Horus, when actually he ejaculated into Horus' hand, and creating a boat made of wood and making it appear to be created out of stone).
-He wasn't baptized.
-He didn't have 12 disciples or 70. He went into battle with four, known as the Heru-Shemsu, and countless soldiers and blacksmiths, against his uncle, Set.
-He didn't have a "ministry".
-He wasn't betrayed by a friend, and handed over to the authorities.
-He wasn't crucified.
In all honesty, the only four things that Horus has in common with Jesus is royal descent (but really, lots of people are of royal descent, including me), a miraculous birth (though not the same kind), death (though Horus' death was for a completely different reason, and the cause of death was different), and a resurrection (though Horus was not raised through his own power, but through the power of Anubis and Isis.
I really wish people would actually study this stuff before bringing it up here.
Sources below.
Anonymous
It's a common claim that the story of Jesus has nothing new in it, but that in other religions similar events were said to have occurred. For example, the Greek hero Heracles (whom we know as Hercules) was said to be the product of the intercourse of the Greek God Zeus and a human princess, Alcmene. To the sceptics, it would seem that Christianity borrowed a well-known religious phenomenon to account for the remarkable life and death of Jesus Christ.
However, a little bit of checking shows it's not the same basic story at all. In order to produce Heracles, Zeus had to have sexual intercourse with a woman. The same is true for all the accounts of gods having intercourse with human virgins. Yet at no stage in the biblical account of the conception of Jesus is the Holy Spirit, or God the Father, ever spoken of as taking human form and fraternizing with Mary sexually. Alas, the Mormons seem to indicate that, and so bring the Christian faith into disrepute. Mormons actually believe a lot of stuff that has more in common with myths than with the Bible, and for that reason, they are pseudo-Christian.
Early Christians were not syncretists - building together a makeshift religion from bits of other religions, and held together by the name of Jesus. Rather, they were soberly recounting the facts that they had learned first-hand. Luke's gospel account was likely taken from Mary herself, who lived on after Jesus' death and resurrection, being taken into the apostle John's home. And you fail to take into account that the truth of God is known to God's arch-enemy, Satan, who specializes in distorting that truth. Is God triune in His Being? Then Satan brings triads of gods into his pantheon of deities. But no triad is the same as the unique trinity that is God! There are subtle but important differences. Major on what you take to be similarities, if you like. Just bear in mind that you have swallowed Satan's bait and he's reeling you in, hook, line and sinker.
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No. It's the other way around. Fallen Angels were created 15 billion years ago, hence thy posses far more knowledge of all things perteining Man and - like their own leader's ambition (as told in Ezekiel prophecy - "want to be like the Most High". In fact, they copy Him. THAT is the main reason almost all religious beliefs appear similar in all cases. Hindus have a "trinity" as well, which is also false, and so forth...