| Aren’t there some striking parallels between the Jesus and Fohi stories? |
| More commonly known as "Fu Xi", Fohi (as the critics tend to call him)
was a mythological emperor who ruled somewhere between 2900 and 2700 B.C.
He supposedly taught mankind the use of fishing nets, the breeding
of silk worms, and the taming of wild animals. He also supposedly invented
the Chinese family names and first forbid marriages within families (though
he himself married his sister, Niu-Kua). He was sometimes depicted
as being half-serpent, or as having four faces so that he could look in every
direction. Some unbiased sources claim that he had no father, but only
a mother. This would likely mean a virgin birth (assuming his mother
hadn't been with anyone prior to Fohi's miraculous conception), though I
cannot find an unbiased source specifically claiming that she was a virgin.
Of course, this doesn't exactly compare to the Jesus story, since Jesus
DID have a father, which was God. I'll leave it up to you to decide
how close this is. But it is rather unlikely that the Israelites had
heard of Fohi, and since the differences between Fohi and Jesus far outweight
this one similarity, it's really not possible that the Jesus story was based
on the Fohi story.
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