Examination No. 1 Question #9

Arguing along the lines of Thomas Cooper in his Bridge of History, how would you defend orthodox Christianity against the following assertion:

“Jesus, a literary and astrological hybrid, is most explicitly a plagiarization of the Egyptian Sun-god Horus. For example, inscribed about 3,500 years ago on the walls of the Temple of Luxor in Egypt are images of the enunciation [sic.], the immaculate conception, the birth, and the adoration of Horus. This is exactly the story of Jesus' miraculous conception. In fact, the literary similarities between the Egyptian religion and the Christian religion are staggering. The Bible is nothing more than an astro-theological literary hybrid, just like nearly all religious myths before it.”