Horus and Jesus

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I’ve been invovled in a debate on the existance of God between some friends (a rather one sided one… four of them, myself the only person defending God) and one of them keeps telling me how similar the Egyption god Horus was to Jesus… in his own words:

Written in 1280BC, the Egyptian Book of the Dead describes a God, Horus. According to this book, Horus is the son of the God Osiris who was born to a virgin mother. Horus was baptized in a river by Anup the Baptizer who was later beheaded. Horus was tempted while alone in the desert. He healed the sick, the blind, cast out demons and walked on water. He raised Asar from the dead. “Asar” translates to “Lazarus.” He also had twelve disciples.
Horus was crucified and after three days, two women announced Horus, the saviour of humanity, had been resurrected.

Now, I looked up Horus in the good old encyclopedia and I couldn’t find any of this, so go figure. Can anyone help me refute it?
 
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I’ve been invovled in a debate on the existance of God between some friends (a rather one sided one… four of them, myself the only person defending God) and one of them keeps telling me how similar the Egyption god Horus was to Jesus… in his own words:

Written in 1280BC, the Egyptian Book of the Dead describes a God, Horus. According to this book, Horus is the son of the God Osiris who was born to a virgin mother. Horus was baptized in a river by Anup the Baptizer who was later beheaded. Horus was tempted while alone in the desert. He healed the sick, the blind, cast out demons and walked on water. He raised Asar from the dead. “Asar” translates to “Lazarus.” He also had twelve disciples.
Horus was crucified and after three days, two women announced Horus, the saviour of humanity, had been resurrected.

Now, I looked up Horus in the good old encyclopedia and I couldn’t find any of this, so go figure. Can anyone help me refute it?
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Sure, just ask for a source. When he gives you a thick book, peel off the sticker that says “Book of the Dead” to reveal “Holy Bible”.

Ok, that last sentence was a little sarcastic, but seriously now, your friend needs to back up his 17-point story with something pretty substantial.
 
Some of this came from the book : The Pagan Christ; Recovering the Lost Light by Tom Harpor These ideas are also on religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5b.htm which may be the source they were using. The ones tolerence doubted they highlighted, like the 12 apostlees. Also you may have to accept some of it may be true, but it does not mean Christ is not who you believe him to be. God does reveal truths to all peoples and Horus’s similarities maybe away that God planted the seeds for the Egyptans eventual conversion, a prefiguration, if you would, of Christ for the egyptians.
 
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