Horus was given the title KRST which means “anointed one” <> Jesus was given the
title Christ [Christos] meaning “anointed one”
One finds even the celebration of Christmas is borrowed from when the ancient
Egyptians used to celebrate the alignment of particular celestial bodies.
The Biblical evidence against the trinity is compelling. And yet the majority of
professing Christians are Trinitarian; and moreover, they stigmatize non-
Trinitarians as non-Christian, many claiming that non-Trinitarians are automatically
a ‘sect’. Clearly enough, neither the word ‘trinity’ nor the wording of the Trinitarian
formula were known to New Testament Christianity. In a sense, Jesus ‘became’ God
to many Christians all because a group of bishops decided it was so. But why did this
happen? And why was there so much angst to label those who didn’t accept the
trinity as heretics? Having read around the history of the early centuries of
Christianity, the following are some suggested reasons.
From earliest times, paganism featured many gods often subsumed beneath or
within one apparently greater god. Each tribe or territory had their own god, but as
they were subsumed within other tribes by conquest or some other form of
domination, their god became subsumed beneath the god of the dominant tribe or
nation. Thus there developed pantheons of gods, and yet within the pantheons there
was often a hierarchy, and a desire to insist on one hand that the god of the subdued
people still existed, and yet on the other hand, an insistence that the god of the
dominant group was supreme. It was generally accepted that there was a
"communion of blood and soil" between a nation and their god, in that their god was
connected to the land or territory upon which that god's people lived (1). Hence
Naaman wanted to take some soil from Israel back to Syria to symbolize how the
God of Israel was his God (2 Kings 5:17). When tribes were taken into captivity, or
conquerors came and lived in their land, the gods had to somehow be
accommodated within a religious system. And so began the idea of 'godheads'. The
mysterious, ill defined relationships between the members of the supposed 'Trinity'
are very similar to those assumed within the godheads of paganism. Apologists for
the Trinity are all divided about the nature of the relationships between Father, Son
and Holy Spirit; this is a weak point in the whole idea. And the very same difficulty is
encountered by any who would wish to explain or defend the gods within the pagan
godheads. Further, it becomes apparent from the literature and sculptured art of
early paganism that gods, animals and humans all tend to get mixed up; half-human
and half-god. Again, we can see how this came to be reflected in Trinitarian views of
Jesus.
It was a mixture of paganism and Christianity which made the changeover from
paganism to nominal Christianity less controversial and more painless. I’ve given
some specific examples of this in a European context below. Many scholars have
pointed out that the idea of a Divine figure coming to earth to redeem the faithful
was a very common pagan myth in the Middle East of the >irst century (2). It's easy
to see how early Christians would've been tempted to claim that Christ was some
form of pre-existent God in order to make their beliefs accommodate the