Christianity Judaism and Egyptian Mythology?

[Joeymmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm]

So I have been thinking about this for a while and really all I want is a few opinions on the matter, I'm not trying to persuade anyone and I'm not trying to bash anyone.

So the general concept is that Christianity derives from Judaism, most people would not disagree with this, it is, like Islam and a few other religions, an "Abrahamic Religion". So here's the thing... Moses wrote the first 3 books of the Bible which sort of makes him the father of Judaism, even though most would say that its Abraham (I think), but for the sake of argument go with it. So Moses is the father of Judaism, and Moses was a Jew who had been raised by the royal Egyptians and given a royal education and raised in the ways of an Egyptian... So wouldn't that create a profound impact on Judaism and then of course Christianity? Kind of like the parallels drawn between Christ and Shed (Horus).

Anyway, tell me what you think, I hope this isn't a common post lol... But its just a thought I've been throwing around and I thought I'd get some insight.

 

[JoelV]

Abraham is the father--that is, the common patriarchal ancestor--of all Jews, as well as others. Moses formally organized Judaism into an organized religion; while people before Moses worshiped God as individual Israelite families, now they worshiped God as an entire nation.

The problem is that while Moses was educated by the Egyptians, the teachings of Judaism are contrary to the teachings of the Egyptian religion. At the time the Egyptians had moved from polytheism to monotheism, but their singular god, Aten I think, was held to be embodied as the sun. The Jewish God, on the other hand, was omnipresent, not having any single object as His physical form. Likewise, Aten had to be feared to avoid his wrath, while God only wanted to be obeyed, and had the good of the nation of Israel in mind. The very natures of their respective gods were opposing each other.

 

[davidneff86]

actually Moses wrote the first FIVE books of the Bible.

Abraham founded Juadism and it was basically all Oral tradition. Then Moses decided to write it down. Obviously, stories get disorted.

 

[tylertxanreborn]

1. Moses himself was a mythical character derived from the sumerian king sargon myth.
2. There is no historical evidence whatsoever that the jews were ever in bondage in egypt.
3. The hebrews were in bondage in babylon--liikely that they wrote about being in bondage--but didn't want to use their captors name--so they used the other great empire of the era--egypt.
4. Most of the stories in the bible are either close or moderate plagarisms of babylonian and sumerian mythology.

 

[DanielJohn]

Well, the kind of parallels between Christ and Horus are pretty marginal. Just as one ones between Isis and Mary. Many of these happened during the Roman era, when Egyptian Christians just used old black madonnas to mean Mary now instead of Isis. What is significant though is that there was a Monotheistic movement in ancient Egypt. To me, it doesn't matter if Jews or Egyptians were the first to realize there was only one God. Whether Moses got the idea from Egypt, or from his ancestors. (Adam, Noah, etc) The realization itself, that God is One, is what is significant, because that idea is what propelled Christianity above all of the polytheistic religions of Europe, starting with Rome and Greece, the academic center of Europe. The same is true for Islam and the middle east and north africa.

edit: Superbad Tim. It's fine if Hindus did originate an idea of Monotheism before the ancient Egyptians. My understanding of the Hindu monotheism is not similar to the idea that conquered the world. The Hindu monotheistic principal is sort of a polytheistic-monotheism, where all gods are one God. Sort of like the UU today. The ancient Egytian monotheism was that there is one God and he's not oatmeal, all gods, but actually one. He is one, and distinct. Specific. Add to that, we know the direct effect Africa (Egypt) had on modern thought, we don't know that there is a direct effect from India to us today, pre the 1880s.