Jesus and Osiris, Are they same?

"How to Crush Atheism, Part Deux" is second in the series of books which deal with answering the arguments of the Atheists against Christianity.
This second part deals with one of the claims of the atheists that Jesus is a product of mixing Judaism with Greco-roman myths. I personally was searching for answers with regards to this claim and I have recorded my findings in this book. The first time I heard about it was when I was in University when one of my classmates told me that Easter is just a pagan festival and Jesus is the Egyptian God Isis. Does it not sound similair. Though I did not go back and disprove it because it did not make sense to me even then. But since I saw this argument being repeated by many, and since not many have answered that claim fully,I thought it would be good idea to help people see the truth and differentiate history from myth.
The first part of the book deals with comparing Jesus with many Greaco-Roman deities to show that Jesus is unlike any of these gods. This is deconstruction of the atheist claims which are based on ignorance and wrong reasoning.
The second part of the same book deals with constructing an argument for the reliability of the New testament documents which attest to the truth of the historicity of Jesus as opposed to the Greaco-Roman myths.
This book will help you to forever nail this issue for sure, whenever the atheist comes up with this argument.

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 Excerpt from the Book, How to Crush Atheism , Part Deux

 Jesus and Osiris

Let us now compare Jesus with Osiris, the Egyptian God to see if the claim that Christianity borrowed from Osiris mythology is true.
The Encyclopedia Britannica gives a good amount of information about Osiris. Osiris and his wife have a son Horus. Seth, the bad guy kills Osiris and tears up the corpse into 14 pieces. Issus and her sister, Nephthys, collect the torn pieces except the phallus and Osiris comes back to life in the underworld as the king. He does not come back to life in this world, but comes back to live in the underworld only. From there he reigns, controlling the earth, creating life and giving fertility to Egypt and even floods in the Nile. Horus, the son of Osiris, who now is reigning in his place on earth, takes revenge on Seth and kills him.
Osiris came to depict the God of fertility and flood, creation and destruction. The king who is about to die is considered Osiris and his son who will reign in his place became Horus. The dead king ruled from the underworld and the heir from the throne on earth. Thus Osiris was the embodiment of the dead king. Many rituals and ceremonies depicting fertility came to be associated with Osiris and he was worshipped as God of fertility and the embodiment of the dead king.
The Encyclopedia Britannica states clearly that the myth of Osiris did not reflect resurrection but rebirth and regeneration.
“This identification with Osiris, however, did not imply resurrection, for even Osiris did not rise from the dead. Instead, it signified the renewal of life both in the next world and through one’s descendants on Earth.”
Many skeptics claim that the resurrection idea was borrowed from the Osiris myth and other myths which we will subsequently examine. The life of Jesus unlike that of Osiris shows very clearly historical incidents. Miracles are also shown as historical incidents. The character of the resurrection is nothing compared to what the Osiris myth depicts. The historical evidence for Jesus is overwhelming. He prophesied his death and resurrection. Any rational human being comparing Jesus and Osiris will see that Jesus was a historical figure, who lived during the period of Tiberius Cesar in the roman province of Galilee and Judea. He did miracles and claimed to be the son of God. The religious establishment of the time, hands him over to the roman governor, Pilate. Pilate even though he does not see any reason for executing Jesus, executes him to prevent an uprising. Jesus comes back from the dead on the third day. He meets his disciples. Around 500 people witness him. He appears to them over 40 days. He shows them his crucifixion wounds convincing them that he has indeed risen from the dead. Then he leaves them is taken up in front of his disciples to heaven. The eyewitness give their life as they stand for this truth. Nobody will die for a known lie. If they were not eye witnesses they would not have consented to die for what they knew was not true. But since they were eyewitness, they died for what they knew for sure were facts. This lacks the myth forming elements present in the Osiris story.

Osiris is a representation of fertility and other natural phenomenon. But Jesus is a real historical figure, who through his sinless life, miracles, teachings, resurrection and his church has impacted the world and the course of it’s history in an unimaginable way. Just think how a carpenter teacher in an obscure roman province could change the world for better. He never wrote a book, never attended a large university and was not born in a family with much power or position. Yet he turned the world upside down through his teachings and divine power which he exerted in the world through the Holy Spirit.



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