American Jesus: The New Messiah #2

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[lonewolf23k]

Actually, the "Horus was a Pre-Jewish Christ" thing was debunked.

[alicemacher]

Yes, and it's not as if the earliest followers of Jesus (both during his lifetime and soon after his death) would've had to search very far outside their own Jewish milieu for motifs.

In 1 and 2 Kings, Elijah and Elisha used their God-granted power to heal the sick and raise the dead, as the Gospels claim Jesus did. Elisha also exercised the power to curse others, as Jesus was said to have cursed the fig tree. (In the early rabbinical literature of the third through sixth centuries, certain sages were also said to have healing, resurrecting, or cursing powers, and it's likely that similar legends, in oral form, would've been common in Jesus's day or earlier.)

In 2 Kings, Elijah ascended to heaven at the end of his career (though without dying first). So, according to ancient tradtion, did Enoch.

Daniel and 1 Enoch (both of which predate -- mostly, in the latter's case -- Jesus by at least a century and a half) relate visions of an enthroned heavenly figure, in human form, who serves as a sort of mediator between humankind and the invisible God.

So yeah... no need to posit far-fetched borrowings from Egyptian or (even less likely) Hindu mythology in the creation of the Christ narrative.

[matrix_dragon]

This comic feels like it needs [Citation Needed] at the bottom of every panel.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Or a disclaimer

"The religions of the world claim no affiliation with Mr. Millar in any way shape or form."