Egyptian god Horus, born of a virgin, had 12 disciples, walked on water. Where are people getting this info?

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I keep watching these "movies", reading blogs, about Horus, Dionysus, and other ancient gods. All claiming how similar they were to Jesus. Saying they were born around December 21, had twelve disciples, born a virgin birth, were killed, and resurrected. I have tried researching a whole lot. Only to find that I can't even begin to see how this information isn't an outright lie. I am not trying to disprove the information, or be negative to the source. It's just that it is very interesting information, and only disappointing to find that it seems to be completely made up. It bothers me, because I keep seeing it all over the internet. Did someone just lie, and everyone copycat, or is there some source that I am not finding?

Answer 1

Here. Have fun:
http://www.medmalexperts.com/POCM/index.html
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/nizrael/jesusrefutation.html
http://www.rationalresponders.com/a_silence_that_screams_no_contemporary_historical_accounts_for_jesus
http://www.truthbeknown.com/origins.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/pcc/pcc09.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa3.htm
http://www.harrington-sites.com/motif.htm
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/resurrection/lecture.html
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/virgin.html

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Egyptian god Horus, born of a virgin, had 12 disciples, walked on water. Where are people getting this info?
I keep watching these "movies", reading blogs, about Horus, Dionysus, and other ancient gods. All claiming how similar they were to Jesus. Saying they were born around December 21, had twelve disciples, born a virgin birth, were killed, and resurrected. I have tried researching a whole...

Answer 3

Egyptian Gods Wiki

Answer 4

Most of the links you'll find here, will lead you to links, that lead you to links, that lead you right back to here.

Most of the information you're looking for was burnt at Ephesus, Alexandria, Jerusalem, etc. But, then again, so were most of Plato's original writings burnt with them.

Much of what you want, is held in England, under lock and key. The Greeks want it back, but that ain't happen en. All of the pictures, of all of the statues from all of the buildings of ancient Greece, are from replicas of the statues, and other items looted. The Vatican has a lot of stuff too, and you won't get a peek at that either. You can go from link to link to link if you want.

Several years ago, someone hacked Israels database for the dead sea scrolls, and they ain't happy about that either. Oh yeah, Syria wants those manuscripts back too...

Have you heard the latest about the Pharaoh Queen of Egypt? There checking now, to see if she was a hermaphroditic ...

Answer 5

http://stupidevilbastard.com/2005/01/ending_the_myth_of_horus/. The speculation that Jesus is a cheap almagam of ancient myths comes from Gerald Massey, an English Poet born in 1828. He was a "self-educated" Egyptologist. So it's no surprise you find his ideas all over the internet that is rife with self-proclaimed (and self-deceived) "experts." Clearly, the modern iterations of Massey's unsubstantiated ideas scorn Occam's Razor to grasp at straws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Massey

Answer 6

The information is written all over the walls ,carved in stone over 3000 years before the common era. yet the similarities are to striking . and that's just a small part of the duplication , the ten commandments were stolen .as well. See the 42 commands of Ma`at. you cannot find the burial sight of a single biblical character , but the walls of the tombs in Egypt tell no lies.

Answer 7

Jesus was a fictional character developed to represent Christianity. His back story was stolen from the God Horus.

Answer 8

They probably heard of the prophecies in the Hebrew Testaments. These prophecies were around thousands of years before Christ was born. Where, by whom, at what time period, etc. Also 12 was unanimously agreed upon to be a 'holy' number. So, someone must have read these books and just made up their own story, much like Da Vinci Code.

Answer 9

The stories of Egyptian and other gods have been around for centuries, long before the stories of the Biblical God and Jesus were written.

See here for an unbiased report of parallels between the two gods: http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm

Answer 10

This is true, though he wasn't born of a virgin, he was born of Uzoris before his death and resurrection.