How come some Christians will accuse catholics of Christianizing the goddess Isis into the virgin Mary?

Question

beacause of some similarities between each other, but ignore the vast similarities between Jesus himself and horus the son of isis? You can't have it booth ways if your going to claim that catholics christianized isis into mary why not say that catholics also christianized horus into Jesus?

Christy. I'm sorry to say but I can give you so much things in which catholic christians believed in pre-constantine and site my sources.

Answer 1

Her soul magnifies the Lord (Luke 1:46-55)! Think of what that means for just a moment.




Everything about Our Lady points straight back to the Father, Whose faithful daughter she is; to the Son, Whose mother she is; and to the Holy Ghost Who overshadowed her. There is no one in all of History whose relationship with God is as complex, fulfilled, and achingly beautiful as Mary's. She is not only the greatest of Saints, she is our Mother, as Jesus is our Brother and Savior. In honoring her, we honor Him -- and imitate Him, as we are admonished to both honor our parents and imitate Christ, Who loved His Mother.


Adam and Eve, immaculate from their first moments, prefigure Mary and Jesus, also without original sin from their conceptions -- the only four people immaculate from their first moments, creating a brillian poetic symmetry in Scripture. And as Eve through her disobedience, was the means through whom Adam brought sin into the world, Mary, the New Eve, through her obedience, was the means through whom salvation entered the world when she gave birth to her Son, the New Adam, our Savior.



Hail, Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the Fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.



It just strikes me as evil, this not uncommon attempt to diminish Mary's status and the unceasing accusations against Catholics of trying to raise her status to that of God's. There's something very sinister and ugly in it, and I find it offensive. We Catholics take great care in pointing out that "worship" in the sense of latria 3 is GOD'S alone -- even to the point of having separate terms for the honor and adoration due to God as opposed to the honor and veneration of the Saints -- including His greatest Saint, Mary. They are:


latria: the honor due to God alone
dulia: the honor due to human creatures worthy of respect
hyperdulia: the honor due to Mary as God's greatest creation and our Queen Mother



To love Mary takes nothing at all from Christ, but honors our Blessed Lord by Whose grace she is who she is: His greatest creation, the greatest of Saints, the Queen of Heaven, the Immaculate Conception, the spotless Virgin, the Ark of the Covenant, the New Eve, the mother of God, and the mother of Israel -- our mother who wants nothing more for us than to pray for us and show us her Son.

Answer 2

Hi,

This info is mainly for Christy. You might want to read Alex Jone's book "No Price Too High." He converted to Catholicism from Pentecostalism. He found out that whole Constantine business that he'd been fed as a baby Christian was a lie. As we Catholics have known all along...

Take a look at the writings of Justin the Martyr, 200 years before Constantine. They said mass very similarly to how Catholic mass is said today.

AND they believed way back then in transubstantiation.

This IS the body of Christ.

Also St. Polycarp, who learned from St. John. Same thing.

All Constantine did was make Christianity legal. That is all.

Answer 3

it is not different. It is not even an example due to the fact that Mary was/is/nevershallbe a Goddess. Catholics do not worship her. Why not check the official teaching of the catholic church on this subject? In other words, why remain in your ignorance when there is much evidence and documentation that your premise is false? What will you say when you face the son of the virgin mary? hmmmmmmmm?

Answer 4

Because of an ignorance of history, Egyptian religion, and the acceptance of anti-Catholic propaganda and conspiracy theories (usually the evil Constantine, as in the case of Christy's comment). The similarities aren't too deep between them any more than with Horus and Christ. It's cheap apologetics.

Answer 5

Catholics did in fact Christianize Isis to the Virgin Mary and Horus to Jesus during Constantine's reign while he was attempting to convert Pagans to Christianity by incorporating the Pagan religion into the Christian religion by using their gods and goddesses, holidays and festivals, rituals (the act of 'god eating' or communion for example), etc. The entire Christian religion is not unique but merely branches off of other already conceived ideas.

Answer 6

You got it, sister!!

Answer 7

If its christian,...long ago, it was pagan....