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Originally Posted by lsbets
According to Barbara G. Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets:
“Of all savior-gods worshipped at the beginning of the Christian era, Osiris may have contributed more details to the evolving Christ figure than any other. Already very old in Egypt, Osiris was identified with nearly every other Egyptian god and was on the way to absorbing them all. He had well over 200 divine names. He was called Lord of lords, King of kings, God of gods. He was the Resurrection and the Life, the Good Shepherd, the God who made men and women to be born again. From First to Last, Osiris was to the Egyptians “the god-man” who suffered, and died, and rose again, and reigned eternally in heaven. They believed that they would inherit eternal life, just as he had done.”
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It's much more than this. Divinity/kingship had rules. Miraculous birth, miraculous acts in life. Miraculous events around the death. Of course there are similarities as they all had to follow the rules, from Ba'al to Zeus to Jesus. It's not that people fabricated things in the sense we would think of it today. To them at the time, if they accept that Jesus was divine, then these sorts of things must have happened. Modern man would require this to work in reverse, but that's not how these people thought about such things back then. All the back story is fluff required by the rules. Where the really interesting part is is with what was said. There were some really radical and different ideas there.
