Christianity A Copy of Egyptian Theology?

[Greatfull]

I just saw a program on a local tv channel that was saying that Christianity is a copy of what the Egyptians came up with first. The Biblical account of Jesus is copied from the Egyptian writings. The account of Noah is also a copy of Egyptian writings. The Biblical account of Moses is also a copy of Egyptian writings. Hope this is the right forum to get help with this. I don't believe that Christianity is a copy of Egyptian writings but they seem to make a compelling case that it is.

 

[MagnusEmboden]

The reference is probably to Osiris who is, I believe a god who died and came back to life. There are numerous such myths strewn about the ancient world.

I have never heard that Moses was a copy of an Egyptian original but the Bible does tell us that he was Egyptian at least by adoption...most ancient religions have a story of a great flood and a man who survived it, usually by way of divine intervention, the Greeks had the story of Deucalion, for example.

I like C. S. Lewis' take on all this, these stories did exist, it does no good to deny them but it is more fruitful to see them as pagan preparations for the truth as it eventually came to them in the Gospel of Jesus Christ than as prototypes for later Christian revision.

At the very least it's no less plausible.

I just saw a program on a local tv channel that was saying that Christianity is a copy of what the Egyptians came up with first. The Biblical account of Jesus is copied from the Egyptian writings. The account of Noah is also a copy of Egyptian writings. The Biblical account of Moses is also a copy of Egyptian writings. Hope this is the right forum to get help with this. I don't believe that Christianity is a copy of Egyptian writings but they seem to make a compelling case that it is.

 

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[_Zap_]

That sounds rather suspicious to me. If there were any real credibility to it, I'd imagine we'd see that story plastered all over the place. Unfortunately, without knowing more about the program you saw I can't really refute what they're saying (on account of me having no idea what to refute).

I'm no expert on ancient Egyptian theology, but what I know of it is very different from the core of Christianity.

 

[Ave Maria]

I recommend this link. I will find some more information as well soon.

http://www.catholic.com/library/is_catholicism_pagan.asp

 

[Ave Maria]

Also, read this:

http://www.bede.org.uk/frazer.htm

 

[timmeh]

Christianity borrows it's myths from numerous earlier religions and cobbled them together to form it's religion. Take any major bible story and you'll find it in an earlier religion, there is very little original material.

FreeThinkers.org sums it up well:

The Gospels are not history; they are religious propaganda, contradictory, exaggerated, and mythical. The earliest Christian writings, the letters of Paul, are silent about the man Jesus: Paul, who never met Jesus, fails to mention a single deed or saying of Jesus (except for the ritualistic Last Supper formula), and sometimes contradicts what Jesus supposedly said. To Paul, Jesus was a heavenly disembodied Christ figure, not a man of flesh and blood.

There is serious doubt that Jesus ever existed. It is impossible to prove he was a historical figure. It is much more plausible to consider the Jesus character to be the result of myth-making, a human process that is indeed historically documented.

 

[LamorakDesGalis]

I just saw a program on a local tv channel that was saying that Christianity is a copy of what the Egyptians came up with first. The Biblical account of Jesus is copied from the Egyptian writings. The account of Noah is also a copy of Egyptian writings. The Biblical account of Moses is also a copy of Egyptian writings. Hope this is the right forum to get help with this. I don't believe that Christianity is a copy of Egyptian writings but they seem to make a compelling case that it is.

Its all speculation based on very superficial observations, by people with an axe to grind. The vast majority of scholars don't take it seriously...


LDG

 

[timmeh]

the vast majority of christian scholars I'd assume. As all of the stories in the bible have been told before in other cultures it's more than highly likely that many of the accounts of Jesus are taken from previous mythology

 

[LamorakDesGalis]

the vast majority of christian scholars I'd assume. As all of the stories in the bible have been told before in other cultures it's more than highly likely that many of the accounts of Jesus are taken from previous mythology

Actually its not just Christian scholars but the vast majority of scholars period. Its 99%+ with only a single exception that I am aware of.

Here is what the Encyclopedia Britannica said:
"These independent accounts (non-Christian sources) prove that in ancient times even the opponents of Christianity never doubted the historicity of Jesus, which was disputed for the first time and on inadequate grounds by several authors at the end of the 18th, during the 19th, and at the beginning of the 20th centuries."

Robert Van Voorst said in his Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence that:
"The nonhistoricity thesis has always been controversial, and it has consistently failed to convince scholars of many disciplines and religious creeds. ... Biblical scholars and classical historians now regard it as effectively refuted."


LDG

 

[MrGoodbar]

As all of the stories in the bible have been told before in other cultures it's more than highly likely that many of the accounts of Jesus are taken from previous mythology

Ok, overreaching a bit. Many of the stories, especially in Genesis, have similarities with other stories from other cultures. The story of Jesus has elements in common with some mystery cults. To say "all" is intellectually dishonest.