why has hindus & buddhist stolen many concept from christianity,they are many similarities?

Answer 1

They didn't.

Christianity has "stolen" from other religions and religious beliefs:

Christianity borrowed its central myths and ceremonies from other ancient religions. The ancient world was rife with tales of virgin births, miracle-working saviors, tripartite gods, gods taking human form, gods arising from the dead, heavens and hells, and days of judgment. In addition to the myths, many of the ceremonies of ancient religions also match those of that syncretic latecomer, Christianity. To cite but one example (there are many others), consider Mithraism, a Persian religion predating Christianity by centuries. Mithra, the savior of the Mithraic religion and a god who took human form, was born of a virgin; he belonged to the holy trinity and was a link between heaven and Earth; and he ascended into heaven after his death. His followers believed in heaven and hell, looked forward to a day of judgment, and referred to Mithra as "the Light of the World." They also practiced baptism (for purification purposes) and ritual cannibalism—the eating of bread and the drinking of wine to symbolize the eating and drinking of the god’s body and blood. Given all this, Mithra’s birthday should come as no surprise: December 25th; this event was, of course, celebrated by Mithra’s followers at midnight.

Mithraism is but the most striking example of the appearance of these myths and ceremonies prior to the advent of Christianity. They appear—in more scattered form—in many other pre-Christian religions.

Answer 2

not really. Real buddist don't even believe in a God. these eastern religions also deny the reality of this world, they call it Miya (ilusion) or something like that. They want to escape rebirth or reicarnation (cyclic regeneration?) and this evil physical world, etc. They belive in karma or dharma (duty, fate, cause & effect, etc,)not in a saviour. The saved belive in a God that took a body just like us (incarnation) and died for us and rose again for us and is coming back for us. So from hinduism came buddisim and both were started before christianity in history evern though Christ was the lamb slain from before the creation of the world.

We Christians have Christ in us, we have been born again but we also belive God made this creation good in the begining. Because of Satan and sin it is messed up. We believe our bodies will be resurrected, some to heaven and other not. So this body will be saved also at the rapture.

Another thing about hinuism is a word i can't spell called syncranism where the hindus tend to incorportae just about anything in their religion, thus they have many gods (small g to me) and buddist none. Buddism was also made as a short cut to nirbana (nothingness- their idea of salvation i think, ie no rebirth) Hindus have to go through many birth they think until they get their Karma right, and be born a high caste brahman usually.

it is a shame that so many are lost in such false religions, even though all religions have some sort of truth, morality, etc. in them.

Answer 3

You have the dates wrong: Hindus & buddhist are the OLDER religion. Christ was born after these religions were hundreds, if not thousands, of years old. Check the spice road, age.
Check the areas where these three religions are.

The similarities are due to the fact that a good logical idea, of the type Jesus explained, of compassion and caring, can come from us humans - it just is rarely followed by action, and is soon forgotten.
Christ had to literially come and explain everything to us like the children we are, and for all that only 12 understood. Can you imagine! 12! Luckily, GOD poured his Spirit upon them and that power flowed over the populations, or we'd still be lost today.

Answer 4

There is an ancient book called the Bagavad Gita (sp) written in India long before the onset of Christianity. Socrates and Aristotle (Ancient Greek philosophers whose work was deeply studied by the early Christians, including Augustine) weren't even born when the Gita was written. This book is the basis of the Hindu religion.

Answer 5

Contrary to alot of repondents the "age" of a religion is disputable at best. With Christianity, die hard Christians trace their religion back to Abraham and would argue that Christianity is nothing other than the continuation of his faith. Jews and Muslims would disagree.

Any similiary between religions is not from the "stealing" of ideas or ideologies, but points to agreed upon values and beliefs of humans in general. Humans tend to agree that murder is bad and stealing is wrong. Although the exact definitions of these words vary from culture to culture the concept is the same.

Answer 6

Hindu and Buddhism are older beliefs than Christianity. The concept of Good isn't a new subject.

Answer 7

This is meant to be read incredibly sarcastically:

Yeah, because you know hinduism and buddhism are new age fads that developed in the past few decades.

Seriously now:

The reaso nreligions have similarities (ALL RELIGIONS) is because they all steal from each other. Christianity is rife with old pagan symbolism. The romans basically stole the Greek gods word for word, but just changed the name.

Answer 8

A lot of religions have similarities, it doesn't mean they stole any thing. But, Hindu and Buddha was around long before Christianity. See God himself separated man across the face of the earth and changed the languages, that's why there are so many different dialects, and religions.

Answer 9

Though Hinduism and Buddhism are older it must be remembered, there is no theft. These faiths contain many similar ideas; the destination to what could be called “salvation” may be different but the paths are remarkably similar. Compassion, love, virtue, mercy, peace and forgiveness, are central themes. What is good is an almost universal truth. No one faith is necessarily good or bad. What is important is faith it’s self.

Answer 10

OMG, for your information, the Catholic Church got

#1. Nun's dressed in black (black meaning Mystery) from the Buddhist
#2. The Rosary is FROM the Buddhist

these are just 2 things, there are many, many others that the early Catholic Church "borrowed" from the Buddhist beliefs.