Gerald Massy (1828 – 1907), an English poet and writer on
Spiritualism and Ancient Egypt) has found 137 parallels between Jesus and
Egyptian god, Horus which he details in His book, ‘The Natural Genesis.’ Both
Horus and Jesus were born of virgins on 25th December and they died by
crucifixion and resurrected three days later. He also finds a parallel between
Biblical Lazarus raised by Jesus and El-Asar-Us a title of Osiris. 
“The Jesus Mysteries:
Was the Original Jesus a Pagan God?” is a 1999 book by British authors Timothy
Freke and Peter Gandy. It is an
investigation of early Christianity prior to the 4th century CE, when
direct political intervention by the Roman Emperor Constantine forced various
competing Christian sects to unify under ‘the Nicene Creed.’
The authors systematically examine evidence from ancient
Mediterranean and Near Eastern civilizations for similarities of important
elements of Jesus' divinity with a number of mystery religions like those of
the ancient gods Osiris-Dionysus, Attis and Mithras. There persisted manifestations of a cult of a dying and rising ‘god man myth,’ known as Osiris-Dionysus. The
authors maintain that Jesus was not a historical figure, but a
re-interpretation by Gnostics of the fundamental pagan god-man. Gnostics were
the original sect of Christianity. The Christianity of today was not the
predecessor to Gnosticism, but a later outgrowth according to them. They describe
their theory as the "Jesus Mysteries thesis."
Freke and Gandy base their thesis partly on a series of
parallels between their suggested biography of Osiris-Dionysus compiled from
the myths of ancient dying and resurrecting god- men, and the biography of Jesus
as in the four canonical gospels. The authors give a short list of parallels:
Osiris-Dionysus is God made flesh, the savior and "Son
of God."
His father is God and his mother is a mortal virgin, He is
born in a cave or humble cowshed on 25 December before three shepherds.
He offers his followers the chance to be born again through
baptism.
He miraculously turns water into wine at a marriage
ceremony.
He rides triumphantly into town on a donkey while people
wave palm leaves to honor him.
He dies at Easter time as a sacrifice for the sins of the
world.
After his death he descends to hell, and then on the third
day he rises from the dead and ascends to heaven in glory.
His followers await his return as the judge during the Last
Days.
His death and resurrection are celebrated by a ritual meal
of bread and wine, which symbolize his body and blood like the Christina
Eucharistic ritual.
The story of Jesus is pretty close to that of
Osiris-Dionysus.
Kersey Graves (1813-1883), compared Yeshua's (Jesus’s) and
Krishna's life. He found out what he believed were 346 elements in common
within the Christian and the Hindu writings. This appears to be overwhelming
evidence that some incidents in Jesus' life were copied from Krishna's. Some of
his parallels are fallacious but others are not. Both were sent from heaven as
a God and both were divine and human. A local dictator tried to eliminate them
as children and their parents fled from the dictator. Mary and Joseph stayed in
Muturea; Krishna's parents stayed in Mathura. Both Yeshua and Krishna withdrew to the
wilderness as adults, and fasted for some days. Both claimed they had existed
before their birth on earth and were without sin. Both cast out indwelling
demons, and raised the dead. Both celebrated a last supper and forgave their
enemies. They were both considered omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent.
There is a striking parallel between the
story of Jesus and one of the Greek Gods, Apollonius of Tyana, a contemporary
of Jesus of Nazarene. Apollonius also healed the sick and the crippled,
restored sight to the blind, casted out demons and so on. His birth was of a
virgin, foretold by an angel. He knew scripture really well as a child. But at the
end of his life he roused opposition, and his enemies delivered him over to the
Roman authorities for judgment. He was crucified, rose from the dead and
appeared to his disciples to prove his power before going to heaven to sit at
the right hand of the father. He was known as, “The Son of God”. Later some of
his followers wrote books about him.
Mithras had 12 disciples, and when he was done on earth he
had a final meal before going up to heaven. On the final day he will return to
pass judgment on the living and the dead. The good will go to heaven, and the
evil will die in a giant fire. His followers called themselves “brothers”, and
their leaders “fathers”. They had baptism and a meal ritual where symbolic
flesh and blood were eaten. Heaven was in the sky, and hell was below with
demons and sinners. This is what St. Paul taught the early Christians.
The writers of gospels, for obvious reasons, introduced a
number of miracles into the life of Christ; as many of the young gods of the
cults walked over water, cured the crippled, gave sight to the blind, made
water into wine in a marriage party and rose up the dead. All the gods of the
mystery cults resurrected and the founder of the new religion, Jesus Christ,
could not be an exception. The evangelists introduced the story of the empty
tomb, disappearance of his body from his grave and his apparition to some women
and disciples. Jesus had been made to resurrect on the third day.
Against the Greco-Roman background, a new religion had to
have a god as its founder and not a poor man, the Nazarene; hence the
evangelists elevate him to godhood. This god, like all the gods of the mystery
cults, had to be born of a virgin mother. Thus the writer-preachers adopt the
story of Immaculate Conception with god’s angel appearing to Mary and so on.
Even Buddha‘s mother was told by an angel that she would
give birth to a holy child destined to be a savior. As a child Buddha teaches
the priests in his temple about religion while his parents look for him. He
starts his religious career at roughly 30 years of age and is said to have
spoken to 12 disciples on his deathbed. One of the disciples was a traitor and
another favorite. He and his disciples abstain from wealth and travel around
speaking in parables and metaphors. He called himself “the son of man” and was
referred to as, “prophet”, “master”, and “Lord”. He healed the sick, cured the
blind and the deaf, and he walked on water.
This is what we see in the four
gospels too.
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