Is Mary really Isis under another name?

Question

According to a book i read it is so, any truth to it?

apparently Notre Dame de Paris was a large temple devoted to Isis worship before the spread of Christianity.

Answer 1

It is possible that Mary is Isis under another name, but which Mary, his mother or his follower (or lover?) Mary Madeline.
Many Pagan Goddesses where reinvented as Christian saints, such as the Irish saint Bridget who was originally a pagan goddess.
Many foreign religions need to be excepted by native inhabitants of a country to safely convert them to the new religion.
How this is achieved is to merge the old folk beliefs and tales with the new doctrine.
It happened in the early stages of Christianity in Europe and also in Tibet where Buddhism mixed with the native Bonn religion.
It helps the new religion get established via a familiarity with the converted population.

Answer 2

I saw on one of the Discovery Channels recently that the statue of Jesus as an infant on the lap of Mary, was based on a statue of Isis and Horus. Mary and Isis were different people though. This statue was seen in Rome. The Egyptians and Greeks had some influence on the Romans Beliefs.

Answer 3

Mary was a real person, and Jesus was a real person.

I believe the corrupt priests modified the scriptures to entice the pagans to accept Christianity; so they re-told the story of Mary and Jesus in the same vein as Isis and Horus, or Mithrais.

I do not recall the authors name; but look at the book "The Pagan Christ". He documents links with Horus, Dionysus, Mithrais, and Jesus.

Answer 4

The original Mary of Nazareth existed. However the Roman Christian world used her image to Christianize the Mother-goddesses (Diana of the Ephesians, Astare, Astarot, etc.) when Constantine decided to make Christianity the state religion. Rome has quite a history of doing this, they would "deify" their emperors for people to worship, and when they went into Britain they gave them the goddess "Roma" to worship. They often took local gods and demigods and dressed them up in Christian trappings to make the religion more user-friendly. St. Christopher for example was originally Charon the boatman on the Styx.
But Mary the mother of Jesus was a real person. Jesus is too.

Answer 5

The images of Mary and baby Jesus were taken from mythology. Once the Christians tried to take over the world they became offended by the ancient deities. Then changed them to become Mary and Jesus.

Take a Comparative Religions class at any college and you'll learn this. Just don't tell the Christians they pilfered other religions for their iconology. They get p!ssed.

Answer 6

The book you read is in error. Mary, the Mother of Jesus of Nazereth was a real person.

Catholics believe that Jesus is God, the Second of the Trinity. We believe that because of that Mary is the Mother of God, the SON. Not the Mother of God the Father. We believe that she is the Daughter of God the Father, Mother of God the Son and Spouse of God the Holy Spirit (The Holy Spirit 'descending on her').

It states in the Bible very clearly that "All generations will call me Blessed" and Catholics do, why don't Protestants? I don't know, they are the ones that claim they take the Bible literally, yet here they don't. An example of picking and chosing what they wish.

Answer 7

Mary, Joseph, and the Apostles are real people. They lived and died a long time ago but there is a lot of evidence of their actual existence.

Although I do not know about Notre Dame, many Christian Churches were built on top of pagan temples. This was out of convenience not pagan worship.

Some anti-Christians and anti-Catholics use coincidences to attack Christian beliefs like the Communion of Saints.

Catholics share the belief in the Communion of Saints with many other Christians, including the Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Episcopal, and Methodist Churches.

The Communion of Saints is the belief where all saints are intimately related in the Body of Christ, a family. When you die and go to heaven, you do not leave this family.

Everyone in heaven or on their way to heaven are saints, you, me, my deceased grandmother, Mary the mother of Jesus, and Mother Teresa.

As part of this family, you may ask your family and friends here on earth to pray for you. Or, you may also ask the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Andrew, or your deceased grandmother in heaven to pray for you.

Prayer to saints in heaven is simple communication, not worship.

With love in Christ.

Answer 8

Hmm. I doubt the credence of the Notre Dame story, but there have been many mother figures in many religions. It is to show the importance of the female in the family. Life-giving and sustaining.

Answer 9

Maryam (Mary) is a real human being, the Mom for Isa al Masih (Jesus Christ) where Isis is just a God/Goddess that being worshipped by Ancient Egyptian and it's a myth, not a human being.

Answer 10

Mary was a real, living person. Isis was not.