Lazarus story copied from Egyptians

Re: Whatever became of Lazarus?
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by DKit http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/forum/index.php?topic=8719.0;topicseen

http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/healings.html#lazarus

Here is a comparison of Jesus' resurrection of Lasarus and Horus' resurrection of Osiris. I think it's likely that the bible writers were influenced by stories already told in Egypt.

From the pyramid texts:
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Utterance 670
O Osiris the King, you have gone, but you will return; you have slept [but you will awake]; you have died but you will live
Utterance 670
Osiris speaks to Horus, for he has removed the evil [which was on the king] on his fourth day.
Utterance 670
they come to Osiris the King at the sound of the weeping of Isis, at the cry of Nephthys, at the wailing of these two spirits.
Utterance 665A
The tomb is opened for you, the doors of the tomb chamber are thrown open for you.
Utterance 412
O flesh of the king, do not decay, do not rot, do not smell unpleasant.



Utterance 620
I am Horus, O Osiris the King, I will not let you suffer. Go forth, wake up.
Utterance 703
O King, live, for you are not dead. Horus will come to you that he may cut your cords and throw off your bonds; Horus has removed your hindrance.


John 11:1-44
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1 Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha...
11 [Jesus] went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.”


17 On his arrival, Jesus found that Lazarus has already been in the tomb for four days.

33 When Jesus saw her [Mary] weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping he was deeply moved...


38 Jesus...came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance.
39 “Take away the stone,” he said. “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odour, for he has been there four days.”
40 Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
41 So they took away the stone...
43...Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”
44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
http://www.answers.com/topic/legend-of-osiris-and-isis
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For example, the original written spelling of Lazarus was given in Koine Greek as "Lazaros", which has been suggested as a corruption of "El-Azar-Os". This is a Hebrew theophoric prefix and a Graecising suffix, and as a whole is cognate with Osiris, who was originally called Azar. The name Osiris itself has a similar etymology - it is the Greek transcription of the original Demotic name Azar, with an additional Graecising suffix of is (i.e. Azar-is).