Long time lurker but I couldn’t let this stupidity go unanswered.
“I have never researched the Jesus Horus connection but it seems plauseable.”
Only to the uninformed who do very little research for themselves and rely on unsourced websites for information.
“http://paganizingfaithofyeshua.netfirms.com/comparsison_horus_jesus_chart.htm";
Easily refuted here :
http://www.tektonics.org/copycat/osy.html
With references. Imagine that.
Sure, if you look at the fine detail, every story can be refuted. But it is the general theme and ideas that are the same or similar. Obviously, the mythological ideas were being passed on from culture to culture, and this is where we see thing in common with all of them.
Christians see references to "Jesus" all over the OT, but the Jews don't. The NT could have been written with the express intention to show these OT "prophesies" (after the fact) as announcing Christ. But even here, again, we see that one can "refute" them by sticking to the details (i.e. virgin, versus young woman; Emanuel vs Yeshua; the suffering servant being Israel vs man; the messiah riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, a self fulfilling "prophesy," etc.). The meaning of the words such as "son of God," or "the anointed one," Satan, the "world to come," or the "Kingdom of God," etc. all have different meanings in Judaism as opposed to Christianity.
But nonetheless, just as there is a common thread in the mythical stories, there is a common (borrowed) thread in the details. of course, each mythical religion claims to be the true one and all others are naturally "false."