Parallels Between Osiris and Jesus

[Confused Ape]

Why? The legitimacy of the parallels are not dependent on the beliefs of the author.

Did you read his Note about translations?

We are looking at how people expressed their religious beliefs. The Egyptians were just as sincere in regard to their religious history, even if pagan, as the later Hebrews and Christians were with theirs. The difference was an inheritance from a distant past that became corrupt and embellished over time, compared to a fresh contact with the heavenly realms recorded by Hebrews and Christians. The Egyptian record is from debased human memory; the Judeo-Christian record is from living experience.

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Modern scholarship refuses to accept that God and the gods are real; they believe that such beliefs had strictly evolutionary origins, and were generated from the psychological impulses of men. I do not address that crowd.

At the end of the section titled The Human Birth Of Osiris.

This all can be understood if the ancient Egyptians did not accept that a god from the celestial realms, who lived on earth as a man, could, or would, be born of human parents. They then transferred all those earthly connections to the heavenly gods. More likely they invented Nut and Geb to complete their structure of the cosmos, and in order to satisfy their mythological needs.

But the Hebrew people were not thus confused. That this God will be born as a human being is stated in a very famous passage, although it has not yet reached fulfillment:

Isa 9:6 -- For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

At the end of the section titled Osiris As God -

Unfortunately, the ancient Egyptians fell into the same trap as Christians. They believed he will arise in earthly flesh. See the famous passage where Jesus invites Thomas to touch him , John 20:27. However, we know the passage is not accurate, and is an interpolation by a later scribe. Just a few sentences earlier in John 20:17 we are told that Mary Magdalene attempted to grab hold of him in her adoration but the risen personality told her not to touch him. This probably meant that he was in a different energy state, and her material touch would have harmed her.

Yes, there are definitely parallels between Osiris and Jesus if you believe that Osiris and Jesus are beings from the celestial realms who incarnated as humans and had human parents. This is why I get the impression that he was cherry picking texts to fit his own beliefs.

If you really want to find parallels you could start here - The Osiris Myth - this wikipedia article goes through how the myth developed over time and includes the version written by Plutarch.

Osiris was killed and then resurrected but that's about it. Jesus wasn't cut into pieces which his wife then gathered together so she could impregnate herself and bear a son to avenge her husband's death.