"R. Pierce Butler" <spamsucks@google.com> wrote in message
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I was reading a few things about the similarities between Jesus, Horus,
Buddahm, Krishna and others.

One example is at
http://www.sanfords.net/Pagan_Humor_and_Thoughts/origins_of_christianity
.htm

Is this an accurate summary and if so how do the Xtians reconcile this?

They reconcile it by saying that Horus etc. merely copied Jesus, which
is silly because most of those godmen came before Jesus, but when you
point this out they just construct some other excuse.

It is obvious that Jesus, like Horus, is a myth or if he was real all
of the
actions common to both Horus and him are false.

Christians have a different method of observing the obvious.
They just look it up in their bibles or read about what some Christian
archaeologist dug up.

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 05:55:28 GMT, "R. Pierce Butler"
<spamsucks@google.com> wrote:

I was reading a few things about the similarities between Jesus, Horus,
Buddahm, Krishna and others.

One example is at

http://www.sanfords.net/Pagan_Humor_and_Thoughts/origins_of_christianity.ht

Is this an accurate summary and if so how do the Xtians reconcile this?

Furious handwaving. Keep in mind fear, not evidence, is the driver.

R. Pierce Butler wrote:

I was reading a few things about the similarities between Jesus, Horus,
Buddahm, Krishna and others.

One example is at
http://www.sanfords.net/Pagan_Humor_and_Thoughts/origins_of_christianity
.htm

Is this an accurate summary and if so how do the Xtians reconcile this?

It is obvious that Jesus, like Horus, is a myth or if he was real all
of the actions common to both Horus and him are false.

rj

Dear Butler,

As far as I know, there are quite a few ways that Christian scholars
attempt to reconcile this. They attempt to show that Jesus is not a
copycat saviour deity and not a myth like the others. The attempt to
do this by:

1. By emphasising the differences and trying to argue that there is
historical evidence that Jesus was a real person and that the events
described in the canonical Gospels are authentic accounts of his birth,
life, miracles, crucifixion and resurrection. All the other saviour
deities were myths or, in the case they were real, had mythical
elements added to their life. Of course, according to Christians,
nothing mythical was added to the life of Jesus. This approach is the
way nearly all modern Christian scholars take since historical research
over the past 200 years has shown how many elements in Christianity
are similar to Greco-Roman and other polytheistic saviour-deity
religions.

2. Satan had attempted to pre-empt Christianity by planting religions
with counterfeit saviour deities ahead of time in order to test and
corrupt the faith of Christians after the real saviour deity (Jesus)
had come. This was the approach taken by the EARLY Christian thinkers
in order to counter pagan accusations that the Christians had copied
doctrines and rituals, such as baptism and the Eucharist, from other
religions.

The testimony of Early Christian thinkers that other religions also had
saviour deities and similar rites contradicts the opinion of modern
Christian scholars who have chosen tactic #1. This is why, in
response, you find these modern Christian scholars attempting to argue
that most likely the pagans had actually copied ideas from
Christianity. While though pagan religions and deities did precede
Christianity, when Christianity came along, they started to borrow from
the Christians. However, this is all dubious, as history contradicts
this by showing that Christian doctrines existed in pagan religions
hundreds of years well before Christianity arrived on the scene, and
Christianity was never so influential until the mid-3rd century to
inspire pagans to copy from it.

3. Some Christian scholars, such as C.S. Lewis, and if I recall
correctly, St. Augustine and Origen, actually took a positive view of
the fact that some predating pagan religions were similar to
Christianity. These scholars believed that the Christian deity has
planted the ideas of dying and resurrected deities in order to prepare
them and make them receptive to the coming of Jesus, who would be the
real thing in the flesh; just as the prophecies of the Messiah were to
prepare the Jews for Jesus.

I hope this has helped to answer your question.

Yours,
Kert Una

I was reading a few things about the similarities between
Jesus, Horus, Buddahm, Krishna and others.

One example is at

Is this an accurate summary and if so how do the Xtians
reconcile this? It is obvious that Jesus, like Horus, is
a myth or if he was real all of the actions common to
both Horus and him are false.

Prove that things written about Horus,Buddha, Krishna
and others are historical evidences.

R. Pierce Butler wrote:

I was reading a few things about the similarities between Jesus, Horus,
Buddahm, Krishna and others.

Prove that things written about Horus,Buddha, Krishna and others
are historical evidences.