im a christian!!?

Question

my doubt is we mention b.c and a.d so before birth of christ..who did christain's follow??and my hindu friends say that hinduism was the root religion and christain..and other religions branched from them is this true??plz clarify

Answer 1

Judaism, chjristianity claim world was created 6000 years before!

Hinduism roots back to 10.000 years. christians were highly influenced by Pagan religions as well as they picked up ideas from Budhists , an Indian philosophy , part of Hinduism.

I am surprised that so many christians are simply unaware of world history!!. Judaism is too young in comparison to Hinduism. Hindu philosophy was reaching its zenith when judas were a primitive tribe.

"The Gospels contain a number of almost literal repetitions of phrases, parables and scenes from the Buddhis­t canon, particularly from the Mahaparinirvana-Sutra: the master walking on water (and saying to the baffled disciples: “It’s me”), the simile of the blind leading the blind, the multiplication of the loaves of bread, the master asking and accepting water from a woman belonging to a despised community, the call not to pass judgment on others, the call to respond to hostility with love, and other overly well-known motifs. (Gruber & Kersten 1995, Derrett 2001) Both doctrinal elements and biographical anecdotes have been borrowed. The Buddha’s mother saw in a dream how a white elephant placed the promising boy in her womb while a heavenly being revealed the great news to the father, roughly like the annunciation to Mary and Joseph. The loose but devout woman Mary Magdalene is a neat copy of the Buddha-revering courtesan Amrapali. (Lindtner 2000) The iconography of Jesus resembles that of the expected future Buddha Maitreya, a name derived from maitri, “fellow-feeling, friendship”, close enough to the Christian notion of agape/charity. The Maitreya is depicted with lotus flowers in the places where Jesus has stigmata of the crucifixion.


This is becoming too much for coincidence, and the similarity is moreover strengthened by very specific details. Thus, Jesus relates how a widow offers two pennies from her humble possessions ..... Buddhist texts ...in several variants, among them that of a widow offering two pennies; a holy monk disregards the larger gift of a wealthy man and praises the widow’s piety.


Not to make all this too idyllic, we can point out a less fashionable item which Christianity may have borrowed from Buddhism: the depreciation of woman as focus of lust and continuator of life in this vale of tears. We do not mean the belief in the inequality of man and woman, which is near-universal, even in fertility-promoting religions like Judaism, Vedic Brahmanism or Confucianism. While these cultures celebrate intercourse with woman and the harvest of her womb as a grand sacrament of life, Christianity and Buddhism tend to condemn life as tainted by sin and suffering, hence procreation and sexuality as sources of misery, and woman as an inauspicious temptress. Celibacy as the Buddhist monks’ way of life was foreign to both Greeks and Jews but was adopted and held up as ideal by Saint Paul and the Christian monks. Buddhism and Christianity allow sex and procreation to the outer circle of half-hearted followers ("better to marry than to burn"), but prefer total asceticism for the inner circle of true seekers."

Its really a small world.

Answer 2

The most important thing in all of this is to know Christ and enjoy a relationship with Him spiritually.
Another way to putting it is like this.
We do not buy an expensive car only to look at it, or study how it is built, or whatever. The thrill comes when you actually drive the car. Being a Christian is similar. It is not about AD or BC. It is about establishing a personal relationship with God.

Answer 3

There were no Christians before the birth of Christ. Christians came from many backgrounds. The first Chrisitians, the Apostles were mostly Jew, as Jesus was. Jesus invites all. There is no correlation whatsover between Hinduism and Christianity. You become a Chrisitan when you become a follower of Jesus Christ.

Answer 4

Who did Christians follow before Christ? It depends on where your people come from. Some were Jewish converts, some were pagans of various sects like, for instance, Romans who believed in their gods, some were Buddhists and Hindus. It depends...

Answer 5

I would second apmresearch's answer... there were no christians before Christs resurrection......... also, Judaism is as old or older than Hinduism and Judaism wasn't influenced in any way by Hinduism.

Answer 6

Nope, christianity has plagiarized many religious beliefs from ancient greek mythology and pagan religion. Probably some from hinduism

Answer 7

Christ followed all the sinners. Before him all the people were sinners and didn't matter.the Jewish faith is the pre-courser to Christianity. as far as the oldest, there has been earth religion artifacts found as old as 5-million+ years.

Answer 8

Jesus didnt need the hindus to be God...he was here be4 they were all born...from the beginning of the world...see Rvelations 5 and Genesis 1

Answer 9

Do you go to church? Do they teach from the Bible? You should know the answer to that. The "first" man-Adam worshipped God. That is where religion started. Man perverted it as time went by. God was not hindu.

Answer 10

I would second the other answer, why aren't you in church and studying the Bible, you should know this. Even children are taught the book of Exodus. You need to study the Bible.