Mithra
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By around 1500 BCE, Mithra worship had made it to the Near East...............
Mithras and Christ were described as 'the Way,' 'the Truth,' 'the Light,' 'the Life,' 'the Word,' 'the Son of God,' 'the Good Shepherd.'
Mithras is often represented as carrying a lamb on his shoulders, just as Jesus is and midnight services were found in both religions.
Mithra's virgin mother...was like the virgin mother Mary while Petra, the sacred rock of Mithraism, became Peter, the foundation of the Christian Church
Mithra took birth on December 25th and was born of [a] Virgin. He travelled far and wide and has twelve disciples....His symbol is the Lamb...
Mithra is depicted as a sun disc in a chariot drawn by white horses, another solar motif that made it into the Jesus myth, in which Christ is to return on a white horse. (Rev 6:2; 19:11)
Mithra has the following in common with the Jesus character:
Mithra was born on December 25th of virgin birth.
The babe was placed in a manger and attended by shepherds.
He was a great traveling teacher and master.
He had 12 companions or "disciples."
He performed miracles.
Mithra sacrificed himself for world peace.
He ascended to heaven.
Mithra was viewed as the Good Shepherd, the "Way, the Truth and the Light," the Redeemer, the Savior, the Messiah.
Mithra is omniscient, as he "hears all, sees all, knows all: none can deceive him."
He was identified with both the Lion and the Lamb.
His sacred day was Sunday, "the Lord's Day," hundreds of years before the appearance of Christ.
His religion had a eucharist or "Lord's Supper."
Mithra "sets his marks on the foreheads of his soldiers."
Mithraism emphasized baptism.
Sir Arthur Weigall says:
December 25th was really the date, not of the birth of Jesus, but of the sun-god Mithra. Horus, son of Isis, however, was in very early times identified with Ra, the Egyptian sun-god, and hence with Mithra...
"The 25 December was observed as his birthday, the natalis invicti, the rebirth of the winter-sun, unconquered by the rigours of the season."
Ancient Egyptian God..........Horus
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Born on December 25th
Prior to its celebration as the birthday of Jesus Christ, the 25th of December/winter solstice was the birthday for a number of other gods including Adonis, Mithra and the Dionysus. So too, this annual celebration in Egypt concerning the sun god, which represents the "birth" of the "new sun" after the "old sun" "dies" around December 21st (in the northern hemisphere), lying in his "tomb" or "cave" for three days and on December 25th being "born again."...
Horus and the Virgin Isis-Mery
The assertion that Horus's mother was a virgin can also be found in the Book of the Dead, in which the deceased identifies himself as Horus and says: "I know that I have been conceived by Sechit and that I am born of Neith."...
...in this ancient text we possess an identification of the mother of Horus as the goddess Neith, who is by all accounts a virgin mother from thousands of years prior to the Christian era. In fact, some scholarship provides for estimates of the pre-historic Neith's worship dating back some 7,000 years.
The list of pre-Christian gods, heroes, kings and queens who were said to have been "born of a virgin" or miraculously born includes the following:
Krishna
Egyptian gods Ra and Apis
Egyptian queen Hetshepsut
Pharoah Amenophis III
Persian "prophet" Zoroaster
Melchizedek, biblical High Priest and King of Salem
Persian king Cyrus
Apollonius of Tyana, Greek sage
Taliesin, Merlin and Llew Llaw of the British Isles
Horus of Egypt
The Egyptian sun god Horus, who predated the Christ character by thousands of years, shares the following in common with Jesus:
Horus was born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25th in a manger with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by wise men.
At age 12, he was a child teacher in the Temple, and at 30, he was baptized, having disappeared for 18 years.
Horus was baptized in the river Eridanus or Iarutana (Jordan) by "Anup the Baptizer" ("John the Baptist"), who was decapitated.
He had 12 disciples, two of whom were his "witnesses" and were named "Anup" and "Aan" (the two "Johns").
He performed miracles like WALKING ON WATER, exorcised demons.
He was CRUCIFIED, buried for three days in a tomb, and resurrected.
He was also the "Way, the Truth, the Light," "Messiah," "God's Anointed Son," the "Son of Man," the "Good Shepherd,"the "Lamb of God," the "Word of Truth," etc.
He was "the Fisher" and was associated with the Fish ("Ichthys"), Lamb and Lion.
He came to fulfill the Law.
Horus was called "the KRST," or "Anointed One."
Like Jesus, "Horus was supposed to reign one thousand years."
In addition, in the catacombs at Rome and elsewhere are images of the baby Horus being held by the virgin mother Isis--the original "Madonna and Child." Furthermore, inscribed about 3,500 years ago on the walls of the Temple at Luxor were images of a sort of "Annunciation," "Miraculous Conception," Birth and Adoration of the pharaoh Amenhotep III (Horus), with Thoth announcing to the queen that she will conceive; with the god Amun impregnating the queen; and with the infant being attended by three "kings" bearing gifts.
12 disciples = 12 months of the year
Son of God = SUN of God
the 3 Kings = 3 stars in alignment pointing to Sirius (star of Bethlehem)
Virgin Mary = the constellation Virgo
many other examples................
How Christmas came about
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For nearly 1,700 years, Christians has celebrated Dec 25th as the birth of Jesus Christ.
Dec 25th as Christ's birthday makes its way into a "calendar" or chronology created in 354 AD/CE called the Calendar of Filocalus or Philocalian Calendar.............listing it as the Natalis Invicti, which means "Birth of the Unconquered (Sun)..............JUST LIKE....... MITHRA !!!
#### What is seldom known is prior to that time, Christ's birth was placed on a variety of days..............Jan 5th, Jan 6th, Mar 25th, Mar 28th, Apr 19th, Apr 20th, May 20th, Aug 21st, Nov 17th and Nov 19th.
#### Many have come to understand that "Dec 25th" represents not the birthday of a "historical" savior named Jesus Christ but the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, when the sun is said to be "born again," "renewed" or "resurrected."
#### Many earlier Gods also had their birthdays at or around Dec 25...............the birthday of the Greek god Dionysus was placed on December 25th,
#### In the sacred site at Newgrange - Ireland............. a 5,000-year-old "cross of light" representing the resurrection to life or rebirth on "Dec 25th" was found.
There are many other sites aligned to the winter solstice, such as at Goseck, Germany, which may be 7,000 years old.
The winter solstice was an important factor in human culture at least 12,000 years ago.
"'Christmas' is thus an extremely ancient celebration, predating the Christian era by many millennia."
The winter solstice celebration that developed throughout much of the inhabited world has been handed down as "Christmas," i.e., Dec 25th, the birthday of the "sun of God." "Christmas" is thus an extremely ancient celebration, predating the Christian era by many millennia.
what some famous people think of Jesus
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" Christ and his 12 apostles...is a parody of the sun and the 12 Zodiac signs, copied from ancient religions of the Eastern world.... Everything told of Christ has reference to the sun. His resurrection is at sunrise on the day dedicated to the sun called Sunday..."
- Thomas Paine
"...the day will come when the birth of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
- Thomas Jefferson
'' There's no proof of the existence of Jesus Christ other than a passage by Josephus which is unanimously acknowledged to be a forgery ..... the existence of Jesus is no better proved than of Osiris and Hercules...''
- Count Volney (tutor to Napoleon Bonaparte)
..............other like-minded people included Voltaire and George Washington.
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By around 1500 BCE, Mithra worship had made it to the Near East...............
Mithras and Christ were described as 'the Way,' 'the Truth,' 'the Light,' 'the Life,' 'the Word,' 'the Son of God,' 'the Good Shepherd.'
Mithras is often represented as carrying a lamb on his shoulders, just as Jesus is and midnight services were found in both religions.
Mithra's virgin mother...was like the virgin mother Mary while Petra, the sacred rock of Mithraism, became Peter, the foundation of the Christian Church
Mithra took birth on December 25th and was born of [a] Virgin. He travelled far and wide and has twelve disciples....His symbol is the Lamb...
Mithra is depicted as a sun disc in a chariot drawn by white horses, another solar motif that made it into the Jesus myth, in which Christ is to return on a white horse. (Rev 6:2; 19:11)
Mithra has the following in common with the Jesus character:
Mithra was born on December 25th of virgin birth.
The babe was placed in a manger and attended by shepherds.
He was a great traveling teacher and master.
He had 12 companions or "disciples."
He performed miracles.
Mithra sacrificed himself for world peace.
He ascended to heaven.
Mithra was viewed as the Good Shepherd, the "Way, the Truth and the Light," the Redeemer, the Savior, the Messiah.
Mithra is omniscient, as he "hears all, sees all, knows all: none can deceive him."
He was identified with both the Lion and the Lamb.
His sacred day was Sunday, "the Lord's Day," hundreds of years before the appearance of Christ.
His religion had a eucharist or "Lord's Supper."
Mithra "sets his marks on the foreheads of his soldiers."
Mithraism emphasized baptism.
Sir Arthur Weigall says:
December 25th was really the date, not of the birth of Jesus, but of the sun-god Mithra. Horus, son of Isis, however, was in very early times identified with Ra, the Egyptian sun-god, and hence with Mithra...
"The 25 December was observed as his birthday, the natalis invicti, the rebirth of the winter-sun, unconquered by the rigours of the season."
Ancient Egyptian God..........Horus
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Born on December 25th
Prior to its celebration as the birthday of Jesus Christ, the 25th of December/winter solstice was the birthday for a number of other gods including Adonis, Mithra and the Dionysus. So too, this annual celebration in Egypt concerning the sun god, which represents the "birth" of the "new sun" after the "old sun" "dies" around December 21st (in the northern hemisphere), lying in his "tomb" or "cave" for three days and on December 25th being "born again."...
Horus and the Virgin Isis-Mery
The assertion that Horus's mother was a virgin can also be found in the Book of the Dead, in which the deceased identifies himself as Horus and says: "I know that I have been conceived by Sechit and that I am born of Neith."...
...in this ancient text we possess an identification of the mother of Horus as the goddess Neith, who is by all accounts a virgin mother from thousands of years prior to the Christian era. In fact, some scholarship provides for estimates of the pre-historic Neith's worship dating back some 7,000 years.
The list of pre-Christian gods, heroes, kings and queens who were said to have been "born of a virgin" or miraculously born includes the following:
Krishna
Egyptian gods Ra and Apis
Egyptian queen Hetshepsut
Pharoah Amenophis III
Persian "prophet" Zoroaster
Melchizedek, biblical High Priest and King of Salem
Persian king Cyrus
Apollonius of Tyana, Greek sage
Taliesin, Merlin and Llew Llaw of the British Isles
Horus of Egypt
The Egyptian sun god Horus, who predated the Christ character by thousands of years, shares the following in common with Jesus:
Horus was born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25th in a manger with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by wise men.
At age 12, he was a child teacher in the Temple, and at 30, he was baptized, having disappeared for 18 years.
Horus was baptized in the river Eridanus or Iarutana (Jordan) by "Anup the Baptizer" ("John the Baptist"), who was decapitated.
He had 12 disciples, two of whom were his "witnesses" and were named "Anup" and "Aan" (the two "Johns").
He performed miracles like WALKING ON WATER, exorcised demons.
He was CRUCIFIED, buried for three days in a tomb, and resurrected.
He was also the "Way, the Truth, the Light," "Messiah," "God's Anointed Son," the "Son of Man," the "Good Shepherd,"the "Lamb of God," the "Word of Truth," etc.
He was "the Fisher" and was associated with the Fish ("Ichthys"), Lamb and Lion.
He came to fulfill the Law.
Horus was called "the KRST," or "Anointed One."
Like Jesus, "Horus was supposed to reign one thousand years."
In addition, in the catacombs at Rome and elsewhere are images of the baby Horus being held by the virgin mother Isis--the original "Madonna and Child." Furthermore, inscribed about 3,500 years ago on the walls of the Temple at Luxor were images of a sort of "Annunciation," "Miraculous Conception," Birth and Adoration of the pharaoh Amenhotep III (Horus), with Thoth announcing to the queen that she will conceive; with the god Amun impregnating the queen; and with the infant being attended by three "kings" bearing gifts.
12 disciples = 12 months of the year
Son of God = SUN of God
the 3 Kings = 3 stars in alignment pointing to Sirius (star of Bethlehem)
Virgin Mary = the constellation Virgo
many other examples................
How Christmas came about
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For nearly 1,700 years, Christians has celebrated Dec 25th as the birth of Jesus Christ.
Dec 25th as Christ's birthday makes its way into a "calendar" or chronology created in 354 AD/CE called the Calendar of Filocalus or Philocalian Calendar.............listing it as the Natalis Invicti, which means "Birth of the Unconquered (Sun)..............JUST LIKE....... MITHRA !!!
#### What is seldom known is prior to that time, Christ's birth was placed on a variety of days..............Jan 5th, Jan 6th, Mar 25th, Mar 28th, Apr 19th, Apr 20th, May 20th, Aug 21st, Nov 17th and Nov 19th.
#### Many have come to understand that "Dec 25th" represents not the birthday of a "historical" savior named Jesus Christ but the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, when the sun is said to be "born again," "renewed" or "resurrected."
#### Many earlier Gods also had their birthdays at or around Dec 25...............the birthday of the Greek god Dionysus was placed on December 25th,
#### In the sacred site at Newgrange - Ireland............. a 5,000-year-old "cross of light" representing the resurrection to life or rebirth on "Dec 25th" was found.
There are many other sites aligned to the winter solstice, such as at Goseck, Germany, which may be 7,000 years old.
The winter solstice was an important factor in human culture at least 12,000 years ago.
"'Christmas' is thus an extremely ancient celebration, predating the Christian era by many millennia."
The winter solstice celebration that developed throughout much of the inhabited world has been handed down as "Christmas," i.e., Dec 25th, the birthday of the "sun of God." "Christmas" is thus an extremely ancient celebration, predating the Christian era by many millennia.
what some famous people think of Jesus
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" Christ and his 12 apostles...is a parody of the sun and the 12 Zodiac signs, copied from ancient religions of the Eastern world.... Everything told of Christ has reference to the sun. His resurrection is at sunrise on the day dedicated to the sun called Sunday..."
- Thomas Paine
"...the day will come when the birth of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
- Thomas Jefferson
'' There's no proof of the existence of Jesus Christ other than a passage by Josephus which is unanimously acknowledged to be a forgery ..... the existence of Jesus is no better proved than of Osiris and Hercules...''
- Count Volney (tutor to Napoleon Bonaparte)
..............other like-minded people included Voltaire and George Washington.
