Why is the jesus myth a 'photocopy' of ancient Egyptian mythology and the Horus story?
Surely who ever it was that wrote the bible... could have come up with a more original story than the Egyptian story from 3500BC...
Surely the authors of the bible would have known that their plagiarism would eventually get spotted damaging the credability of their self procalimed holy book?
Thanks for any enlightening answers :-)
2007-09-20 20:12:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes i have researched this extensively, including visits to Egypt... For background on this please watch "ZEITGEIST The Movie" found on http://video.google.com/
2007-09-20 20:22:22 · update #1
"Do you actualy believe that or are you just trying to start an argument." - Jenx
No i am not bothered with arguing with christians (its a waste of breath), i want to get to the real truth about the myth of jesus (fraud of the age) and why it continues to this day :-)
2007-09-20 20:34:15 · update #2
Most people don't actually do the research behind these stories, the Trinity for example was stolen from the Celtics or the Hindus depending on how you look at it.....I'm not even gonna start on the long list of pagan rip offs....
2007-09-20 20:18:32 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. Facepalm 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I don't think plagiarism existed as a concept back in those days (especially with regard to religion), so calling the Bible a rip off would be anachronistic. Even then, I'm not sure it's possible to "rip off" a religion. What would the Egyptians be able to accuse the Christians of doing, except passing on ideas that the Egyptians believed to be true?
2014-11-15 05:06:18 · answer #2 · answered by Zos 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well considering the story you just told isn't how the horus story goes how can we believe what you say now. Horus was made when Isis reconstructed the body of osiris and made a gold penis because it was eaten by catfish. (hmm don't remember that one in the bible) Or the horus myth about how isis was nocked up by magic fire. (still not like the bible accounts of jesus there either ) I guess she did flee to northern egypt from some of other part of egypt from set and then had horus but that's not really like anything in the bible either so wrong there as well. So which horus myth was it out of those 3 that i know of that are like the biblical account of Jesus. Maybe you should do research on horus from a site that's not christian bashing with some kind of scholarly info it might make you appear less the troll you are.
2016-05-19 23:07:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Messiah as a concept is an archetype. There have been many examples of the messianic archetype in history, literature, drama, and art. In modern times, Superman and Mr. Spock were symbols of the messiah archetype. It is a concept created into the human psyche so strongly it defies repression. The ancient Egyptians had it imbedded in their human psyche in exactly same way people did 2000 years ago, and do today. There are many, many differences between the Horus story and the Jesus story. It is not the same story. It is 2 very different stories about 2 different sons of God who were murdered and resurrected.
2007-09-20 20:22:27 · answer #4 · answered by javadic 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Why are the rulers of the darkness of this world so engaged in this world's religions?
Why does spiritual wickedness in high places translate into mystery religion?
Why is the influence of principalities, and powers, over mankind always taught by religious myth?
Why is there found, in the realm of the fallen angels, such an obsession with the story of the birth, life, death, and resurrection of the savior of man, Jesus Christ, the son of the one true and living God?
2007-09-20 20:34:53 · answer #5 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Lol, either you need to reread the story of Horus, the story of Jesus, or the definition of photocopy. Besides the fact that Horus was a god in his story, and Jesus Is God, there is barely any resemblance between the two.
2007-09-20 20:30:21 · answer #6 · answered by Christian #3412 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Horus
Greek version of Egyptian Heru
One of the most important deities of Egypt. As the Child, Horus is the son of Osiris and Isis, who, upon reaching adulthood, avenges his father's death, by defeating and castrating his evil uncle Set. He then became the divine prototype of the Pharaoh.
I don't see the correlation myself? Maybe they ripped off the story from Abraham?
Unless your suggesting that Jesus will castrate Satan?
2007-09-20 20:59:40 · answer #7 · answered by Diver Down 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Jesus is actually a blend of many deities or demi gods of mythology. Every one of his miracles haave been "done" before. Other than some of his teachings isn't a single original idea to do with the jesus myth.
2007-09-20 20:24:24 · answer #8 · answered by Gawdless Heathen 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
What about the "Jesus myth" do you find to be a problem? What information do you have? You should post that info here for us all to examine instead of taking your word for it. I am genuinely interested to know.
2007-09-20 20:41:26 · answer #9 · answered by RedKnight 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Wow. Video.google says so. Yup. that settles it.
Please. Why would God want to "rip-off" anything from Egypt? You know- the nation whose butt He stomped some 3500 years earlier?
Get some original material, champ. these "claims" have been eviscerated in here many times over. Try something else.
2007-09-20 21:12:32 · answer #10 · answered by RIFF 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋