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Are the Bible accounts of Jesus plagiarizing the story of Horus, Krishna, Mithras, Dionysis and other heathen Gods? – A Critical Examination

"Was Jesus a Copy of Horus, Mithras, Krishna, Dionysis and Other Pagan Gods?"

This question is ofttimes asked specially in light of the viral motion picture 'Zeitgeist' a mega-popular documentary virtually the New Globe Order and Illuminati. The movie spent over 30 minutes attacking the Bible and the Christian faith and specifically the thought that the story of Jesus Christ in the Gospels is nothing more than a copy of the story of the Egyptian God Horus, Mithras and other heathen gods. Additionally Dan Brown author of the DaVinci Code, ane of the almost blasphemous, Anti-Christian books ever written, stated "null in Christianity is original" equally he promotes the thought these mythological figures served as the ground for the Gospel accounts of Jesus Christ (Chocolate-brown's latest volume, 'The Lost Symbol', takes this idea to the extreme – an article on this book and the upcoming picture volition be posted shortly). This article will bear witness that not merely are these claims incorrect and lack any substantive evidence, simply that they are role of a greater spiritual agenda that Dan Chocolate-brown, the Zeitgeist film and others accept in common.

Was Jesus a Copy of Horus?

The Egyptian God Horus.

The Zeitgeist film makes a number of wild statements about Horus to try to testify that Jesus is a copy. But permit's await at the claims against actual Egyptian mythology:

"Horus was born on December 25th" — According to Egyptian mythological history, Horus'south birthday is historic in the season of Khoiak, which runs in the months of October and Nov, not December 25th. Furthermore, the engagement of December 25th is never mentioned in the Bible equally the date of Jesus' birth and thus has no relevance to the account of Jesus' life. So right away, the claims of "plagiarism" look completely baseless.

"Horus was born of a virgin" — There are two accounts of Horus' birth. The most famous by far, was that Horus was born from his mother Isis, who was not a virgin, just rather a widow of the slain Osiris. Through sorcery, Isis, assembled the torso of Osiris and was impregnated with his phallus. Clearly this was a sexual union and not a virgin birth. The "Hymn to Osiris" which records this account states: "[Isis] made to ascent up the helpless members [phallus] of him whose heart was at rest, she drew from him his essence [Dna textile], and she made therefrom an heir [Horus]." (Source and Source).

"Three Wise Men Came to Adore the New Born Savior"– No source is provided by the documentary for this claim. Additionally, the Bible does not say "3 wise men" came to see Jesus. Information technology never tells us the number of wise men. And they did not come at Jesus' birth in a manger. They came to his family home when he was a toddler.

"Horus was a child prodigy teacher at 12" — The movie offers no pre-New Attestation sources that land this.

"Horus had 12 Disciples" — Historian Glen Miller writes: "But again, my research in the academic literature does not surface this fact. I can find references to Four "disciples"–variously called the semi-divine HERU-SHEMSU ("Followers of Horus") [GOE:1.491]. I can discover references to Sixteen human being followers. And I tin can detect reference to an UNNUMBERED group of followers called mesniu/mesnitu ("blacksmiths") who accompanied Horus in some of his battles [although these might be identified with the HERU-SHEMSU in GOE:1.84]. But I cannot observe TWELVE anywhere…]"

Additionally, some of have said the 12 signs of the zodiac are the "disciples" of Horus. Even if this were the case, they are just stars and not actual people who followed Horus, preached about him or recorded his life. This is another empty and false claim.

"Horus was crucified. Dead for three days. And Resurrected" — At that place is no historical record in any apparent Egyptian mythology of Horus being crucified. Additionally, crucifixion was a method of execution invented by the Roman Empire thousands of years after the time of the Horus myth. Whereas the accounts of Jesus' crucifixion exist in thousands of manuscripts from the century afterwards his death. Additionally, as we detailed in our article "Did Jesus Really Exist? Proving Jesus without The Bible" at that place are many secular historical sources that record His crucifixion as described in the Bible.

If y'all are wondering how Zeitgeist could make such wild claims, that accept no real historical evidence, they benefit from the Skeptic'south Fallacy: in short, when it comes to attacking the credibility of the Bible information technology is assumed that the skeptic is completely credible. So the Zeitgeist creators know almost people will not research their attacks and but take it as factual (just as Dan Brown did with the numerous inaccuracies of the DaVinci Lawmaking). If one takes the time, they will too notice that Zeitgeist gets almost all of its information from 1 source, a volume called "The Christ Conspiracy" by a woman named Acharya S. (we will address her later).

Was Jesus a Copy of Mithras?

Ancient art depicting Mithras being born out of a rock.

Zeitgeist continues equally practise the skeptics with the thought that Christianity itself is a copy of the cult of Mithras, which was popularized in Rome in the 1st to 4th Century AD (note that information technology sprung up in Rome after the death of Christ and centuries subsequently the Quondam Testament prophecies of the Coming Messiah). The movie states:

"Mithras was born of a virgin" — There are well-nigh no early on writings most the cult of Mithras and most of what is known is based on artwork (as opposed to Jesus Christ, of whom thousands of ancient manuscripts exist that describe His life, decease and resurrection in detail). But according to historians, Mithras was built-in from a rock, not from a virgin or from a person at all.

"Mithras was built-in on Dec 25." — One time again, the date of December 25th is not mentioned in the Bible and thus holds no significance to the story of Jesus Christ. Additionally, in Mithraism there is no date of Mithras' nativity.

Mithras with "shepherds."

"Mithras was attended to past Shepherds" — This merits is based on the relief higher up. The earliest existing account of Mithras' birth is plant in a relief depicting him emerging from a rock with the assistance of men who certainly announced to be shepherds (which is interesting considering his birth was supposed to have preceded the creation of humans!). Such a breathy inconsistency should testify a serious flaw in Mithraism inquiry, simply the Zeitgeist team again overlooks this. Furthermore, this relief dates to 4th century A.D., well after the Gospels had been written and distributed over well-nigh of the known world.

Mithras and his "12 disciples."

"Mithra had 12 disciples." — This is based on the carving higher up which shows Mithras surrounded by 12 signs of the Zodiac. There is no reason to conclude that signs of the Zodiac are "disciples." Remember, there is no written record of Mithra's existence from the 1st to quaternary centuries when the cult thrived. The earliest writings are from outsiders recording their observations. So nigh of the wild assertions of Zeitgeist are but beingness based on this piece of art. Franz Cumont, considered the first peachy researcher of Mithras claimed that the disciples in the relief were actually people dressed up equally Zodiac signs, showing how ludicrous the effort to link Mithras to Jesus can get.

"Mithras was crucified. Expressionless for three days. And so resurrected." — This accuse in particular reveals the insincerity of the claims of plagiarism against Christianity. In Mithraism, Mithras never dies. He completed his earthly mission and returned to the skies in a chariot (ironically similar to the story of the Prophet Elijah in the Bible's Book of ane Kings, written 800 years earlier). In Mithraism there is no historical mention of crucifixion, burying or resurrection in any artwork or text. In a critique of this theory, researcher Ronald Nash writes:

"Allegations of an early Christian dependence on Mithraism have been rejected on many grounds. Mithraism had no concept of the death and resurrection of its god and no identify for any concept of rebirth—at least during its early stages." In his volume Image and Value in the Greco-Roman World, Richard Gordon writes that there is "no death of Mithras," and thus at that place is no resurrection of Mithras.

• Dr. Edwin Yamauchi states: "We don't know anything about the death of Mithras…We have a lot of monuments, simply we have almost no textual evidence, because this was a surreptitious religion. Simply I know of no references to a supposed decease and resurrection."

It is besides important to annotation that for all of the research Franz Cumont did on Mithras, his overriding conclusion was that dissimilar Jesus Christ, who was a real person, Mithras did not exist. Thus a basic test of the factual testify shows that the Bible did non plagiarize from the story of Mithras.

Was Jesus Christ an Imitation of Dionysis?

Dionysus the Greco Roman god of wine.

Dionysus (as well known as Bacchus) was a Greek and Roman god of wine. One of the boldest claims of Jesus being a copy of Dionsyus was a volume called 'The Jesus Mysteries' which featured the amulet pictured below. on its cover. The authors claimed that the amulet was a depiction of the god Dionysus on a cross, and thus, they concluded, Christianity must accept copied the crucifixion account from the Greek god. However, upon basic scrutiny, the claim falls apart.

Dionysus pictured on a cross.

The authors of "The Jesus Mysteries" Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy had their sources for their data critiqued:

When dealing with ancient sources they are fifty-fifty more breathy. On the basis of some third century pictures of crucifixions, the authors merits Bacchuus [Dionysus] was crucified and Christians copied the idea. This is their piece de resistance and they fifty-fifty put one of the pictures on the comprehend of their book. But suppose there existed an earlier source who stated categorically that no pagan godman was crucified. That would destroy their case and reading the Jesus Mysteries you would assume that neither Freke or Gandy knew of such a source even if it existed. You lot would exist wrong.They quote from Justin Martyr many times about his concerns that pagans and Christians had some similar rituals (they did and modern scholarship is totally unsurprised by this). He is a second century writer who therefore predates all the pictures of pagan godmen existence crucified and he writes:

"But in no instance, non fifty-fifty in any of those called sons of Jupiter, did they imitate the being crucified; for it was not understood by them, all the things said of it having been put symbolically." Justin Martyr 's First Apology LV.

No honest scholar would simply fail to quote this vitally of import contradiction to their thesis. Gandy did effort to explicate abroad this passage when it was presented to him just failed utterly and certainly could non say why he ever felt he could but miss it out of his book. (source)

Even if the amulet was real, it'south dated to over 300 years later on the crucifixion of Christ. By the 4th century tens of thousands of New Testament manuscripts were in circulation all over the world and the Roman Empire made Christianity its official faith. And then the story of Christ's crucifixion was very well-known. Thus the idea that a fourth century amulet was the inspiration for the Crucifixion in the Gospel's makes no sense. Nosotros cited the Roman historian Tacitus who in 115 Ad wrote:

"Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero attached the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, chosen Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the proper name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of 1 of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the kickoff source of the evil, only even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world detect their middle and go popular. (source)

So again, the account of Jesus' crucifixion at the orders of Pontius Pilate, just equally the Bible details, was well-known even in non-Christian circles.

"Dionysus was born of a virgin" — Again, this blatantly flies in the face up of mythology surrounding this pagan god. The two most common stories of Dionysus' birth involve the god Zeus, his male parent, either impregnating the mortal adult female Semele, or impregnating Persephone (the Greek Queen of the underworld). In either instance, it is not a virgin birth (and it also gives allusion to the Bible'south description of fallen angels impregnating man women, something written in the book of Genesis ii,000 years before the myth of Dionysus).

"Dionsysus was born on Dec 25th" — In one case again, in that location is no pre-Christian manuscript or bear witness of this. And of course the date of Dec 25th is non significant since it's not in the Bible. Some bespeak to Dionysus' ability to create wine every bit a sign that Jesus was a copy (since Jesus turned water to wine at a wedding) simply Dionysus was the god of vino. Jesus was the Son of God and humanity'south Savior. And while there is non-Christian evidence and proof that Jesus existed, there is none to back up that Dionysus was a existent person who really existed. And Jesus Christ was clearly not a copy of Dionysus.

Was Jesus Christ a Copy of Krishna?

The Hindu God Krishna.

Equally the Devine Evidence blog states:

In Hinduism, Krishna is believed to be the eighth avatar of Vishnu, the 2d aspect of the Hindu trinity. Almost every correlation between Krishna and Jesus can exist traced to Kersey Graves, a 19th century author who believed Christianity was created from heathen myths. Though his works have been proven by scholars to exist simulated and poorly researched (Source), many all the same ignorantly refer to his arguments non knowing they are easily disproved by only comparing the Bible to the Hindu texts.

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"Krishna was born of a virgin named Devaki" — The bones story of Krishna's origin makes this claim laughable: In mythology researcher Joseph Campbell's book, Occidental Mythology, he writes of Krishna's origin:

"In Bharat a similar tale is told of the love savior Krishna, whose terrible uncle, Kansa, was, in that case, the tyrant-rex. The savior'south mother, Devaki, was of royal lineage, the tyrant's niece, and at the time when she was married the wicked monarch heard a voice, mysteriously, which let him know that her eighth child would be his slayer. He therefore bars both her and her married man, the saintly nobleman Vasudeva, in a closely guarded prison house, where he murdered their first six infants as they came."

So from the basic origin story of Krishna, his mother had seven children before he was born, and then she was clearly not a virgin. Additionally, the book of Isaiah, which prophesied that a virgin would requite birth to the Messiah of the Bible, was written 700 years earlier Christ and at least 100 years before Krishna.

"There was Infant massacre in all the country at the time of Krishna's birth" – In the Gospel accounts, King Herod, upon hearing the Jewish Messiah has been born, orders all Jewish male person infants to be killed. Skeptics claim a similar occurrence happened with Krishna but as the business relationship above shows, only his six brothers were killed.

"Krishna was crucified. Died for 3 days. And was resurrected." – This again is just a blatant mistruth in the confront of Hindu mythology. The caption of Krishna's death is stated conspicuously: "

"A fierce hunter of the name of Jara and so came there, desirous of deer. The hunter, mistaking [Krishna], who was stretched on the world in high Yoga, for a deer, pierced him at the heel with a shaft and quickly came to that spot for capturing his prey." Mahabharata, Book sixteen, 4

Not only was Krishna not crucified, his story sounds much more familiar to the account of the decease of Achilles in Greek mythology than the business relationship of Jesus' crucifixion.

There are afterwards Hindu texts that exercise draw more close parallels between Jesus Christ and Krishna. Simply these texts were written centuries after the New Testament. In fact, the Bahagavad Gita, one of the primary Holy Books of Hinduism, is at present thought by Hindu scholars to take been drastically changed in 800 Advertising. The present solar day Bahagavad Gita has 700 verses. The original, called Gita had 84 (imagine the documentaries and books that would be made if it were discovered that the Bible went through such a drastic re-write!). In the volume, The Gita Equally It Was: Rediscovering the Original Bhagavadgita, the author, Dr. Phulgenda Sinha, writes:

Effectually 800 A.D. , the original Gita was interpolated and ended up having 700 verses. The name was inverse from Gita to Bhagavad Gita. The concept of one single Almighty God, or Supreme, Bhagavan, was introduced to Indian gild.

Till and so, earlier 800 A.D., Indians believed in God. Only they believed in polytheism. They were too nature worshippers. They worshipped earth, stone, trees, rain, wind, fire, sunday, moon etc.

Jesus is clearly not an fake of Krishna and the Bible did not plagiarize pagan gods. Dissimilar the New Testament, which has been verified past manuscript evidence to be the most reliable and substantiated document in antiquity, the holy book of Hinduism went through drastic changes centuries after it was written. Merely of course, the Zeitgesit producers, Acharya South. and Dan Brown ignore all of this just to try to assault the credibility of the Bible. Why? Because they detest the Bible and want to push a Satanic agenda.

Who Is Acharya S?

D.M. Moore, aka Acharya South.

As nosotros mentioned above, near all of the sources cited by Zietgiest go back to Achraya S., writer of "The Christ Conspiracy." Just who is she? Showtime off, her name is Dorothy Murdoch. And in her ain writings she cites "D.1000. Murdoch" as a source, which is citing herself. This should be a huge reddish flag to her credibility. She has been debunked and criticized past many serious historical scholars. But more importantly, where did xcasinobonuses Acharya Due south. get the information for her Christ Conspiracy book in the showtime place? It came from Gerald Massey and Madame H.P. Blavatsky.

Blavatsky, the founder of the Theosophical Society, is i of the main inspirations for the mod New Age Movement. She was also an ardent Luciferian. Blavatsky wrote her books via automatic writing" in which a spirit possessed her and used her body to write her books on mysticism and Luciferian New Age beliefs. Blavatsky believed that through esoteric, occult magical practices, mankind could ascend and evolve to god-like status. All with aid from "the bureaucracy" — angelic beings who could guide those with proper knowledge. This of course is the first prevarication of Satan in the Garden of Eden, who lured Even into sinning with the hope that "ye shall be as gods.." The idea of achieving godhood and "ascent" is at the heart of the New Age movement today. Those special, enlightened ones could and then course a super race that would dominion over humanity.
She was a friend of Satanist Aleister Crolwey and her writings inspired Adolf Hitler. Blavatsky makes no secret of her allegiance:

"I of the most hidden secrets involves the so-called autumn of Angels. Satan and his rebellious host will thus prove to take get the straight Saviours and Creators of divine human being. Thus Satan, one time he ceases to be viewed in the superstitious spirit of the church building, grows into the grandiose image. Information technology is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God. Satan (or Lucifer) represents the Centrifugal Free energy of the Universe, this ever-living symbol of self-sacrifice for the intellectual independence of humanity. "(The Secret Doctrine, Volume 2, Pages 215, 216, 220, 245, 255, 533).

She was as well the publisher of Lucifer Magazine. Massey was a author for Lucifer magazine. Her closest student, Alice Bailey, took over the reigns of the Theosophical Society too as started the publishing company called Match Trust (it is at present known every bit Lucis Trust). Her stated goal was the grooming of the minds of society to receive "the Christ", who is not Jesus but a smashing ascend wise master who volition unite all the religions of the world, teaching the enlightened followers to godhood, led past the true god, who Bailey openly identifies as Satan. And this is the basis for the information that went into making Zeitgeist. As shown in the video below on the Zeitgeist film, it is pushing the exact same idea.

In The Lost Symbol, Dan Dark-brown likewise takes the plunge as he proclaims that Christianity is just a spin off of ancient mystery religions. Do not be deceived. For those who are in the "truth motility" or "Anti-New World Order", these ideas intend to assert that Christianity is just another grade of control and was manufactured to manipulate people. Only as shown, the charges are ludicrous with the slightest inspection. And at the end of the day, the same people who are putting out the idea of Jesus being a re-create of pagan gods all become linked dorsum to the same false god: Satan. This clever deception is helping to usher in the "New Order" that will be led by the Antichrist. Jesus warned of i of the cardinal signs of the end times approaching:

"the disciples came unto him privately, maxim, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no homo deceive you. For many shall come in my name, maxim, I am Christ; and shall deceive many." (Matthew 24:iii-v).

Unprecedented deception would exist a major sign and Zeitgeist, The Lost Symbol and books like the Christ Conspiracy are just a few of the examples. Jesus Christ did be. Jesus Christ was born of a virgin. Jesus Christ had 12 disciples. Jesus Christ was crucified. Simply most importantly, Jesus Christ died for yous. He chose to die to offer Himself as a cede to pay the debt for the sins of humanity. And He is the just proper noun which can be called on for salvation. It just takes conventionalities in what He did to receive eternal life. Jesus said: "And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I volition raise him upwardly at the last twenty-four hours. " No ane else died on a cross for the sins of humanity. Jesus did. And it just takes belief in Him to receive eternal life and be freed from the penalisation of hell. Which is why Satan has to piece of work and so hard to confuses the public and distort the message of the Bible. No other religious figure receives close to the scrutiny that Jesus does. And yet the Bible nonetheless stands as true. So if yous now believe that Jesus was not just a re-create of a heathen god, maybe it is time to starting time believing that He is indeed the Son of God who wants to spend eternity with you.

For a full presentation that debunks all of the claims of the Zeitgeist film meet below:

And for those who believe that tin can prove the claims of Zeitgeist at that place is a adventure to win money at the website "Zeitgeist Challenge" (no ane has won yet).

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