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HORUS: Did the Jesus story come from Egypt?

I've read various accounts but would like additional clarification> Is the Jesus story really the story of Horus (from Egypt)?? Thanks

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Horus predates Jesus by about 3,000 years. Jesus was a historical person (not just Biblical) and therefore, it is not "just a story."

  • 1 decade ago

    The immaculate conception (in the sense of fertilisation without sexual contact) motif is there, if you accept Osiris is physically dead after his corporeal reunification by Isis, although there are numerous additional elements that differ between myths. I would say that it is more of an indirectly shared motif than a direct absorption of the Horus myth.

    There is a far better comparison to be made between the Mesopotamian myth of Utnapishtim and the Biblical flood myth, where the latter basically used the former wholesale.

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    1 decade ago

    No. Jesus was a Jew. Below is a rebuttal of false claims generally made by Horus advocates.

  • 1 decade ago

    Jesus was and is a real dude. Although there are similarities. With the Horus thing.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Horus was not born of a virgin mother, it was miraculous since he was either conceived from a stone phallus or a dead man (depends on the story you read). Furthermore, there is no recorded date for Horus (at least not that I can find and I been studying the ancients for 24 years), so its hard to say that he was born at Dec 25th or even at same time of Jesus, whenever that is. Their were groups that honored Horus much like Jesus, its been speculated that that occured after Jesus which would suggest Christian influence.

  • 1 decade ago

    Horus was not born of a virgin, he was born of Isis and Osiris. Isis was never a virgin. Horus set about avenging his fathers death at the hand of Seth, his uncle. The Egyptians didn't worship the solstice, but the inundation of the Nile. There isn't a lot of similarity unless you believe Zeitgeist and conspiracy flicks.

  • It's more like an amalgam of Horus, Mithras and a few others.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    no not at all. horus' blood did not cover the earth and redeem the souls of men. people seem to overlook that, the greatest discounting to God's own Son, how deplorable. the blood payment is ancient and unique to the people of God. there is no pagan or even mythological account where God says by man blood is shed and by the blood of man it shall be repented. that was said to noah, long before the house of jacob entered egypt.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, the jesus story was just adapted from prior mythologies.

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