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Quote by: Anmon  You originally said 'many other gods have similar story's, now its just Horus, and Joseph, a direct ancestor of Jesus, not a God himself.
Thats a big jump away from many Gods in your last post.
You say Jesus had nothing special, but over one billion people believe in his teachings, and many more pay him resepct.
So he must have had something right? |
Egyptian mysticism was a massive influence on early Christianity; probably the way of thinking which allowed Christians to extract themselves from Judaism. Platonism and Aristotelianism were also strong influences (Aristotelianism influenced early Islamic theology as well), but they came later.
A person who has not studied ancient Mediterranean cultures will not appreciate this, but probably the most spirit-minded peoples out of antiquity were the Egyptians and the Christians, and they were very spiritual in much the same ways.
-- The noble God who is slain returns to life to set things right, then goes back to the afterlife to oversee the metaphysical order of the universe, especially to the spiritual well-being of mortals on earth and to their care in the afterlife.
-- Huge obsession with the afterlife.
-- Extreme emphasis on reward and punishment.
-- Extreme emphasis on the holiness of water and baptism.