What is unique about the Judeo-Christian God?

[EricFilmer]

Horus actually sounds a lot like Jesus

Born on December 25th
Born of a virgin
Birth was accompanied by a star in the east
After his birth was adored by three kings
Teacher at 12
Baptized/Ministry at 30
Had 12 disciples he traveled about with
Performing miracles: 8a. healing the sick, 8b. walking on water
Known by many names: “Lamb of God”, “The Truth”, “God’s begotten(?) Son”, “The Light”, “The good Shepard”
After being betrayed:
was crucified
Dead-for 3 days
Resurrected
skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1678/claimed-similarities-between-jesus-christ-and-horus-and-other-gods

No, the actual Horus of mythology (which is not what you listed) is not like Jesus. What we need here is a dose of the Straight Dope:
The Straight Dope: Was Jesus Copied from the Egyptian God Horus?.

 

[Celticnovice]

Found the Bishop Sheen references in an old file. If you can get ahold of his Philosophy of Religion, you’ll find his treatment on Transcendence of Christianity on page 240ff. The context starts on 207.

thank you MarcoPolo for this and I can’t wait to read it

 

[Celticnovice]

A couple things:

1.) The Judeo-Christian God created something from nothing as opposed to other near eastern cultures which had God(s) creating order out of chaos

2.) God creates through words,which imply an interlocutor

3.) God looks have a relationship/dialogue with the created

 

[fred_conty]

The unique thing about Jesus was … he brought HIMSELF back to life.
As St. Paul says, if this weren’t true, our faith is nothing but a pile of straw(in so many words).

And Horus is a joke.

 

[snarflemike]

No, the actual Horus of mythology (which is not what you listed) is not like Jesus. What we need here is a dose of the Straight Dope:
The Straight Dope: Was Jesus Copied from the Egyptian God Horus?.

And more here
conspiracies.skepticproject.com/articles/zeitgeist/part-one/#jesus_and_connection_to_other_gods

 

[Cybophonia]

And did any of the ‘other gods’ actually die, not in some kind of ‘fertility growth’ cycle, but die to save all humanity? I don’t think so! I think Jesus is unique in that.

Not quite sure but Heracles (Hercules) did went in Hades to get people out of there. I’ve seen Hindu (Brahman) quotes about divinity being Existence, Self-Existence and a great number of epitetes I personally have not seen on the Christian God. The question is when did the hindu deities started to be referred as that. As we know mythologies tend to borrow things from each other. We in Christianity say we “Baptised” heathen elements.

 

[drfye]

I’d add a few other unique qualities:

Most religions consist of human attempts to reach God. In Judaism and Christianity, God reaches to us.

Other religions have, at best, myths that may not fit history, and are not well situated in history. Judaism and Christianity are interwoven into actual history, to the point that we can see errors in attempts to date them, such as the fact that Jesus must have been born before the death of King Herod the Great, by 4 B.C., not in the year 1 (B.C. or A.D.) Similarly, we know that Jesus died when Herod Antipas was tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, and Pilate the governor of Judea, even if not the exact year.

Our God acts always and only from love for us and for creation; other Gods have other motivations. Many have a “portfolio” such as war, or fertility, or storms.

and all the eye witnesses who believed so strongly in what they saw that they went to their deaths in some of the most horrible ways possible, from being crucified themselves, to having the skin ripped from their bodies, to being torn apart by lions etc.