M*W: To the early Christians, I feel sure that 'Jesus' was the 'son of God.' But, in reality, regardless of what the early Christians believed, Jesus was nothing more than a little sun god. The sun god was, in fact, called 'Ra.' This is evident in both Egyptian and Hindu. The early Christians, according to the translation of the Greek version, were confused about who are what God or Jesus was/is. God was 'Ra' or the 'Sun.' Jesus was nothing more than a believer of this doctrine. I believe MM holds the key to this enigma. MM was a 'tower' among women. Not so different as the pyramids of Egypt, Peru, Mexico and Central America. All the pyramids were built to reach the 'heavens' and to become 'closer to god.' Jesus was taught the ancient Egyptian lore. MM was his tower to god.
It's simple, really. Perhaps there was no 'true god' and perhaps, there was no 'true Jesus.' Maybe it's all allegorical, and Christians' believe in a fallacy. I'm not trying to deconvert them, the truth should be all that is required. The sun is the center of our universe. The sun is what created us all. I believe that was the message of Jesus. If it was NOT, then he never existed at all. The sun doesn't need a son, and Jesus didn't need the sun to be his father. But, that's what it is. The sun created us all. Why should we worship Jesus, when our creator was the 'sun?'
Alright, you want to press the issue, so let's press it. Let's hash this out.
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/khephir.htm
I would say that this Egyptian Sun God has more influence in the Christ story than either Amon-Ra, or Aten.
AMON m
Usage: Egyptian Mythology
Pronounced: AH-mun
Possibly means "the hidden one" in Egyptian. In Egyptian mythology he was originally a god of the wind and the air. Later, during the Middle Kingdom, his attributes were combined with those of the god Ra and he was worshipped as Amon-Ra.
RA m
Usage: Egyptian Mythology
Pronounced: RAH
Possibly means "sun" in Egyptian. Ra was the Egyptian god of the sun and the creator of the other gods. He was usually depicted as a man with the head of a falcon crowned with a solar disc.
Taken from:
http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/egy-myth.html
The similarities that the OT God have with these two gods are very striking, and definitely influential.
Now, I've already admitted, both in this post and in previous, that there is definitely egyptian influence in Biblical myths, stories, and even cosmologies. Therefore, I am not opposed to the consideration that you put forth that the Biblical God is derived very much from the Egyptian sun god, Ra.
I invite you to take a gander at this next link, I'm sure you'll find it very corroborative.
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/wheel.htm
Now, I'm sure you found that to be very supportive of your claims. However, let's now put your claims under scrutiny.... all of them.
Let us assume, for the moment, that you are correct about Moses. Let us assume that Moses as an Egyptian Pharoah who led a movement toward worship of Aten, Sun God and Disk. Let us assume that the Pentateuch was written by Moses (or even by his followers, and therefore attributed to him). Let us assume that Moses was basically the founder of a whole new religion that became known as Judaism.
Alright, the assumption is set up. Now let's examine your claims concerning Paul. You say that the present Christian churches are based upon Paulinism. You say that the present Christian churches are a movement away from Judaism, this being because Paul had a grudge, of sorts, against the Pharisees of the time, and hence, the Christian Churches aren't based upon Christ's teachings, upon a Messiah, and therefore not true fulfillment of Judaic scriptures and prophesies. Alright. You also say that Judaism is based in Sun-God worship. You just saw a sight the indicated very strongly trends of sun-god worship within the largest Christian religion in the world, Catholocism. Hence, if the Christian churches of the day are based upon the lies of Paul, and are a movement away from true judaism, which is based in sun-god worship, then the present day christian religions shouldn't have trends of sun-god worship in them. This is clearly not the case.
Let us now consider Judaic scriptures under the light of your assumption. The assumption says that Judaism is founded upon sun-god worship, founded by a sun-god worshipper. Ergo, the scriptures from which that religion should draw its teachings should be fully supportive of sun-god worship. However, this is not the case.
During the reign of Solomon, who defiled the temples:
2 Ki 23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
This was an act of cleansing of the Temple. These "gifts" to the sun were only one of numerous objects given to numerous other gods that were taken out of the temple due to their sacriligious natures as items of worship to false gods.
In the following verses, the word for "image" is translated from chamman (H2553. chamman, kham-mawn'; from H2535; a sun-pillar:--idol, image.) which referred to sun-pillars/idols.
Isa 17:8 And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
Isa 27:9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
2 Chr 34:4 And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
Likewise, another word, matstsebah, is used here:
Deu 16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image (matstsebah / sun pillar); which the LORD thy God hateth.
The next is self-explanatory:
Ezek 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
These are just a few examples in which it is clear that Jewish Scriptures opposed Sun-worship. If your theory is correct, and Moses initiated a religion that was based upon worship of Aten, Sun God and Disk, then the Jewish scriptures don't represent his vision. This represents another major problem for your argumentation.
The following link places Moses as a Pharaoh, but never a ruling Pharaoh.
http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/moses.htm
Note, the change by Akhenaten to monotheistic worship of Aten. From this it can be implied that Moses too believed in Aten, the Sun God.
So the difficulty here lies in the meaning of Aten. There were three different sun gods in Egyptian theism. Ra (or Amon-Ra), Khephir, and Aten. Ra was believed simply to be the Sun Disk, rather than the actual sun God (i.e., sun spirit). Khephir too was not actually the sun God (spirit), but rather a patron to the sun God. Aten, on the other hand, was both the Sun Disk (Ra) AND the Spirit of the Sun. Ra was said to be the supreme Egyptian God. However, If Aten was both Ra, and the actual Spirit of the Sun, then Aten would have been greater than Ra, and really, would have placed him as the supreme deity. Scholars have even gone so far as to give correspondence to Aten with Zeus, the supreme Greek God. Furthermore, in Hinduism, there is also a supreme God, as opposed to all the other gods (the difference is delineated by the case of the 'g', lower or upper). Furthermore, Hinduism would liken the 'gods' to Christian Angels, or Saints. Biblical Scholars, in examining the similarities, and the borrowing of Biblical symbolisms, etc.. from Egyptian mythology, would assert that Biblical Angels probably had correspondence to Egyptian Gods.
The key to all of this is that in every polytheistic religion (at least those of the ancient world, excluding the religions of native americans) there is a supreme deity, that is placed above the rest, and is the creator of the rest. This is also reflected in the teachings of Christianity. There is a supreme God, and lower angels, who were created by God. The DIFFERENCE then is how these supreme gods were depicted, or symbolized within the different cultures. In Egypt, the supreme deity, Aten, was depicted through the sun, which illuminates the world, and gives life to the world (which indicates that at the time Egypt wasn't as desertified as it is today, otherwise the supreme deity tha gives life would have been symbolized by water). In Greece, the supreme deity was symbolized through thunder and lighting, a "booming voice" and power.
Ergo, in teaching Aten, a Sun God, Moses wouldn't have been teaching that the Sun was God, but that there was symbolism in the Sun that was likened to God (likewise in other cultures depending on what was important in their eyes). The teachings against sun worship spoken in the Bible, or OT, would have been warnings against false gods, such as Ra, who did not represent the Supreme deity, but lower divine creatures (that is, creatures of free will and intellect). THIS is the teachings you will find in Judaism, which, as is well known, was initiated by Moses. THIS is the teachings you would find in Christianity. The symbols that were presented on that site, then, in reference to the Catholic Church as apostasizing wouldn't be accurate. This is because the sumbols used are exactly that, symbolic, and applied to the supreme being. Unlike the purveyors of such images of old, Catholics do not make use of them as objects of worship. It is simply the symbolism that is drawn upon.
*sigh* I think I'm finished this post.