In this blogpost I’ll be referring to the fourth god that the writers of the New Testament are supposed to have copied in order to sell Jesus to the gentile world. One has to wonder how many similarities can be found by modern scholars (so-called) who seek to sell this sort of trash to the unsuspecting world, especially those of us in America. Perhaps the answer is according to how many gods were worshiped at the time of the New Testament’s writing.
Horus was an Egyptian god and was the god of light. He was usually represented by a falcon-headed man, and the sun and moon were thought to be his all seeing eyes. Depending upon the age in Egypt’s history, Horus was either the son of Ra and Isis or later the son of Osiris and Isis. Osiris was killed and dismembered by his brother Set (or Seth), and his body parts were sent all over the world. Isis searched and found all the pieces except for the penis, but she magically forms one in order to have the dead Osiris impregnate her, so she could raise up a son to avenge his father’s death. The birth of Horus is then a miracle birth, and afterward he avenged the death of Osiris and became ruler of Egypt.
If anyone is waiting for some similarity to Jesus, one would have to read the fabricated interpretation of this myth coupled with the use of Christian sounding phrases used by today’s modern “scholarship.” Anyway some of the supposed similarities to Jesus are:
- Both were conceived of a virgin.
- Both were the “only begotten son” (of God)
- Horus’s mother was Meri, Jesus’s mother was Mary.
- Both have 12 disciples.
- Both were crucified.
- Both had their resurrection announced by women.
Horus’ mother, Isis, was not a virgin. She was also a goddess, not a human being, as was the case of the historical Mary. A title not the name of Isis was meri, coming from the Egyptian root for beloved. The only similarity it has to the name, Mary, are the English letters, ‘m’ and ‘r’! Mary or more properly Merriam is a Hebrew name meaning bitterness or sorrow. An alternate meaning is rebellion or wished for (a child). One might say these so-called scholars wished for a similarity between Isis and Mary, but there is none.
What about the phrase “only begotten son”? Once more, there is absolutely no similarity here between Horus and Jesus. This is a blatant case, where the scholars (so-called) use a Christian phrase to mean what they want the phrase to mean, in order to produce a supposed similarity. In the myth, Horus was never called the “only begotten son”, but he was supposed to have been “begotten” by the dead Osiris, who miraculously impregnated Isis. Is this how the phrase is used in Christianity? By no means! The phrase “only begotten son” has to do with what occurred in eternity, before any creative act of God was completed. It has absolutely nothing to do with Mary. The New Covenant text shows that, the one who became, Jesus acted upon himself by leaving his divine form (body—for lack of a better word) and took upon himself the form or body of a man. The Father had absolutely nothing to do with the human birth of Jesus. The one who became Jesus acted upon himself. “Only begotten Son” describes the relationship of the Father and the Son, before anything was created. It is used as a non-sexual phrase in that relationship. If you wish to speak of the phrase, Firstborn of God, according to the Christian scriptures, it has to do with what God did at the Resurrection of Jesus—again a non-sexual term. Jesus became the Firstborn from the dead and the Firstborn of many brethren. The Christian terminology refers to Jesus’ and our resurrection. It is a pictorial word representing our new life. It is not at all sexual in its Christian use—and neither is “only begotten Son.” The Father is simply not the parent of Jesus’ humanity. How the so-called scholars use Christian terminology, to describe what they read in the myths, cannot be the responsibility of Christianity or the writers of the Christian text. We have no power over how they use Christian terms, but there is absolutely no similarity here with Horus.
The only similarity between Jesus and Horus having 12 disciples is the number “12.” My automobile has four wheels, and so does my garden cart, but how are they similar except for the number “4”? Horus was the sky god; he traveled the heavens—the “12” signs of the Zodiac—but these 12 don’t preach about him. Jesus’ 12 disciples were men, who wrote the New Covenant text and preached about their crucified and resurrected Savior – my Savior and your Savior. Where is the similarity?
The crucifixion is also fabricated. Horus never died—he is the sky God and the sun and moon are his eyes. There is no account of his death in the Horus myth. And, if there is no account of his death, how could he have risen from the dead? These are fabrications inserted to show similarity between Horus and Jesus. Why would they do this? You tell me!
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