Jesus is a refactored Horus Myth

Various forms of this have been refuted several times in the last hundred or so years since it was first introduced by Bruno Bauer in the 1800s. Bauer promoted the idea that Christianity was synergistic and mythical in its beginnings. These views were effectively refuted in the minds of most, by academics and church scholars (Von Voorst 2000, pg 9). Specific to the Horus myth, upon scrutiny, almost all of the alleged parallels turn out to be false.  For example, according to the Jesus is Horus theory, both Jesus and Horus are born of a virgin named Mary (or meri). Infact, Horus' mother is Isis -the beloved (where the Egyptian word "meri" is means "the beloved." Also, according to Egyption mythology, Isis conceives Horus after an incestuous incounter with her brother Osiris's reassembled corpse.

For a more examples refuting the individual parallels  see: Jesus vs Horus

After exhaustively researching the "mystery religions," there is no known case of a mythical Deity in the mystery religions where we have both clear and early evidence that a resurrection into the physical world was taught prior to the late second century (Habermas, 1996, pg 34). And finally, there is very little influence from the mystery religions in first Century Palestine (Habermas, 1996, pg 34).

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