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Paganism to Christianity
Humankind need to believe or define a root or origin from the beginning of time.The
term religion is the product of human brain which is shaped by history,allusions,governors
and philosphers.The last version being followed by people is Christianity.It is very important
to explore the source of belief systems to understand divine texts and its meaning or virtues.
People first accepted sun as a divine object to worship.Because it rises every morning
brings vision,saves man from cold.Without The Sun the life of the planet wouldn’t
survive.This specialities makes it most adored objects among divine terms.So human kind
watches the sky in a more interested way and hey create zodiac.They anthropomorphised
the figures of zodiac as divine images. (“Zeitgeist”).So fist religious movement known in
history began.
The best known belief and literal system Greek &Egyptian Mythology nestles other
similar anthropomorphised figures like zodiac.Furthermore these mythological figures has a
lot of resemblings with the stories and figures in old and new testaments.
First figure is Horus-The Egyptian Solar Messiah- from approximitely 3000 B.C. “He
is known to be born on December 25th, of a Virgin Isis mary, His birth was accompanied by a
star in the east which in turn three kings followed to locate and adorn a newborn saviour.
At the age of 12 he was a prodigal child teacher. At the age of 30 he was baptized by a figure
known as Anap and thus began his ministry. Horus had 12 disciples he travelled about with,
performing miracles such as healing the sick and walking on water. Horus was known by
many gestural names such as "The Truth", "The Light" "God's Anointed Son", "The Good
Shepherd","The Lamb of God" and many others. After being betrayed by Typhon, Horus was
crucified,buried for three...