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Old 11-03-2004, 04:50 PM   #1
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Default Parallels between Christianity and Egyptology

Hello everyone I am very happy that I found this wonderful forum! This is my first post. I hope my topic fits in this forum section.

I am currently doing a research paper for my Religious Studies class and I was wondering if anyone can help me out a bit. I am very interested in finding more information reguarding parallels between Christianity and Egyptology. Does anyone here have any information about them? Such as Virgin Mary and Isis, Horus and Jesus, and Any journal articles and websites would be greatly appreciated.

Also I need help on the historical evidence or proof to my topic. When was Christianity start? When did the Egyptian religion start? I am not very sure what i am trying to look for to support my topic in historically.


Thank you very much for your help.
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Welcome to the boards!

Unfortunately (or maybe not) you have hit on a hot topic. There is a lot of misinformation out there, and it will take a lot to sort through it.

The Egyptian religion is ancient and clearly predates Christianity, which "started" sometime in the first or maybe the second century, depending on which authorities you read.

You can read these threads on this board, and google some key terms.

Similarities between Jesus and Pagan Gods

Tom Harpur - Christian Mythicist

The Pagan Christ---Turkel vs. Harpur
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here are some links, maybe not specifically egyptian but probably of some use

http://home.earthlink.net/~pgwhacker/ChristianOrigins/
http://pages.ca.inter.net/~oblio/home.htm
http://www.nobeliefs.com/exist.htm
http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/camel.html

and maybe
http://www.borndigital.com/tarsus.htm ?

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The scholarship that links Egypt and Christianity is not really very sound. Carrier has a good example here that covers a lot of the ground

http://www.infidels.org/library/mode...er/graves.html

and this covers Egypt specifically

http://www.geocities.com/intheword1/..._on_osiris.htm

Hope this helps.
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Thank you very much guys those information are going to be very helpful for my research project!!

Thanks again!!!
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Old 11-04-2004, 04:28 AM   #6
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You know, someone should come up with an FAQ, given how FA these questions are. Here's some more stuff that has bits of information for you:

Putting the mystery to rest

Ancient Mystery Cults

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We already know now that the original Hebrews were the slaves (actually known as Apiru) that served before, during and after the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Akhenaten instilled in them the first monotheistic religion, though his God was called Aten. The Apiru slaves that escaped and lived in squalid Palestine for many centuries afterward continued to worship Aten. Those of the Apiru (whom of course were originally of Arabic blood) that were brought to Babylon from Palestine by the Caucasian conqueror,Nebuchadnezzar, were confronted by a civilization that was in decline, in much the same way as America today is. That is, rampant race mixing was completely destroying what had been one of the greatest, most productive areas in history. Much the same had happened in Ancient Egypt and India. The Apiru were, by dint of being denied by the conquering Babylonians any fundamental right to decision making,found themselves mostly forced to co-mingle with the already master/slave co-mingled Babylonian bloodline. These same, now ethnically mixed people went back to Palestine (a land that in actuality was NEVER "THEIRS", Palestine is the home of the Palestinians;NOT the Apriu,whom they had invited to live there as their guests).
Many historians, including Spengler and Brown, have posited that the latter day conquering Persians let these folks leave Babylon because they had pretty much adopted Mazdaism (or at least the concept behing the established dogmas attached TO Mazda-ism) to their belief system. Upon their arrival at Palestine (compare the following to the Biblical Book of II Kings) they were confronted by the original Apiru, whom at the time referred to themselves as Samaritans. The Babylonian emigrants ( whom much later referring to themselves as "Jews") , out of indignant denial of their mixed race, warred against these original Apirus and (like most conquerors assimilated the Apiru's original, Aten religion with both the Mesopotamian Yahweh and Persian Zoroastrian dogma they had brought back with them from Babylon. What they discovered thenceforth was that Religion itself could unite even racially disparate peoples (including the originally Middle Eastern and proceeding,converted Southern Russian,Greek, and Roman Judaists, for instance). And, even MORE importantly, it seemed to be a tool that was effective toward inventing a the Jewish "race"s' history (see Nietzsche's "Anti-Christian",Spengler, Brown).
Jesus, if he indeed existed as an actual historical figure, was in many ways a reaction against the "false Jews" (see the book of Revelation).
mod note: this appears to be copied from this thread, which should be consulted for further developments
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