the bible and astrology...?

Question

what is your reasoning for why so much of the details surrounding the birth of jesus correlate with astrological stories that predate the new testament by thousands of years?

for more on the bible and astrology watch this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRZmzf7WiNg

what pray tell was untrue about it? i'd say the claims made in that movie are more easily verified than any made in the bible regarding the life of jesus, wouldn't you?

i'm not asking you to compare one mythological god to another. i'm asking you to compare the story of jesus to the astrological stories that predate him.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Get the fact straight, Bible and astrology cannot meet even remotely.

The Hebrew prophets, however, did not reject astrology merely because of its manifest failure to predict the future accurately. The Law that God gave to Moses specifically warned the Israelites against looking for omens. “There should not be found in you . . . anyone who employs divination . . . or anyone who looks for omens,” the Law stated. “Everybody doing these things is something detestable to Jehovah.”—Deuteronomy 18:10, 12.

Although astrology is not mentioned by name in that scripture, the prohibition evidently included the practice. The Encyclopædia Britannica notes that astrology is a “type of divination that consists in forecasting earthly and human events by means of observing and interpreting the fixed stars, the Sun, the Moon, and the planets.” All forms of divination—whether based on the stars or other objects—violate God’s guidelines. Why? There is good reason.

Rather than attribute our successes or failures to the stars, the Bible clearly states that “whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap.” (Galatians 6:7) God holds each of us responsible for our actions, since we are free moral agents. (Deuteronomy 30:19, 20; Romans 14:12) True, we may suffer an accident or an illness because of events beyond our control. But such calamities, the Scriptures explain, are due to “time and unforeseen occurrence,” not our horoscope.—Ecclesiastes 9:11.

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Answer 3

I want a copy of that movie!!! My reasons for believing it is true? True that there are hundreds of correspondences between the story of Jesus and the earlier stories? Anthropology, archeology, etc. It's a fact that these things have much in common, probably because we do in fact inhabit the same world, with the same sky, and the same Zodiac through which the sun appears to move over the course of time.

That is, I would have a harder time explaining how they were NOT connected.

He's the one god
The sun god
A fun god
Ra Ra Ra!

Answer 4

This was part of a larger movie someone else posted. There are flaws in that movie, and I really wonder how much is true.

"Don't trouble yourself over this seemingly informative video that was only made to discredit God. It is riddled with errors. Most of it is made up information. Examples of error.
1) Jesus was not born on Dec. 25th which makes the statement about the 3 wisemen stars that align on Dec. 25th being the basis of the Nativity story false.
2) Horus, was not said to be the "sun" god of Egypt. He was said to be the god of the sky. Later he was said to encompass BOTH the sun AND moon as well.
3) Set was not the god of night. He was the god of upper Egypt.
4) The mother of Horus was never said to be a virgin and her name wasn't "Mary" it was Isis the mother goddess of Egypt.
5) They give Horus' birthdate as Dec. 25th but his birthdate was in fact never calculated.
This is just for starters. All this is just in watching the first 2 minutes of it. Look it up for yourself in Wikapedia." -Kayne

Note it compares the term God's sun to God's son when the Bible wasn't originally written in English. That is the dumbest video I've seen, and I fell for it the first time.
Also, look at my last source.
I haven't looked this up, but my friend told me that there was three gifts, and no specific number of wise men.

Answer 5

You will get blasted for this question by Christians who can't deal with the fact that there so many similiarties to the Bible's story of Jesus and the stories that pre-date Christianity. But there is no getting around it---there are just so many pre-Christian stories that are amazingly similiar to the Bible. The astrological aspect is just one more example of this.---Blessings.