why do many religions have similiar beliefs? armageddon, original sin, a perfect man, good deads?

Question

..i am a christian by the way but i have noticed this.

i wonder why though. ...did these religions inherit these things from each other or are these things burned into our heads? or is it something else? ...maybe the story of christ is burnt into our heads and people get their religious beliefs from that somehow only they use a different story.

tell me the answer!

Answer 1

One religion stemmed from the other, carrying the ideas over.

Answer 2

We always search for God and havea through all the ages for being created by Him His imprint is in our souls.Way back after Christ died and the apostles-his disciples having the Holy Spirit (God) give them the gift of tongues(when they spoke people of different nationalities understood them for how else could they spread God's word to all) after a period of ime there was a split between the Christians (can't remember the dogma ) for as all the differences in religion someone or a group began instead of following dogma-the word of God to think for themselves and decide their opinion is better so they break away and fom their own group with the new idea in their teachingsDon't forget its not just God who is and who sends His angels to help mankind but theres also the other one-the devil and his followers-the angels that joined with him. Lucifer did not wish to be God,He loved God and all was well until God created man and informed the angels they must help us, comfort us and so on. This is what Lucifer rebelled against , that he would never serve man for considerd man way beneath him. Why he takes such joy in influencing man away from the true word of God, to interpret, form own ideas and believe it to be the truth and the same joy is felt when he takes men from the true path towards a eternal home with God.of course it also men misleading themselves. You can read the bible and way back there only parchments, and if you bekieve you can put other interpretations of read just a part and get a different meaning for the whole needs to be known. That's about the best way that I know how to explain it-hope it helps in your understanding.

Answer 3

All the religions have similiar beliefs because they were invented by people.Do u know that The Korani was written by a caravan man,Moameth that he union all the religions and make a new religion,Islam.I believe in God but not exacly the way they want me to believe they only want more power and prfits nothing less!

Answer 4

if all the religions have similar beliefs, there sure is a lot of fighting over the similarities.

Answer 5

This is a rhetorical question? You know why; they are all basically the same " story ", over and over again.

Answer 6

Is the fact that we don't know nothing
nor any better
Jesus was the man of virtue and saved us from our own ignorance

Answer 7

bingo

Answer 8

Religious beliefs arose in several continents several centuries before the advent of chrsitianity and Islam . these two religons have the largest followers in th eworld today mainl because they wer spread by force with the help of the state .both the religons have heavily borrowed from the religons that wer in existence before them. so none of them are oiriginal.
truelu and honestly speaking the very origin of religon snd god is to e found in ignorance and folly. Man started to think of god as he could not understand how day and night occur ,why how rain occurs abd how and why hhurricane and cyclone occur, how thunder and lightning are caused . He has seen that the natural forces that are useful to him generally turn violent at times and cause sever destruction . He thought that some super humans who wer watching us from the heaven , the sky which is like a vault over our earth and are causing the desrtuction whenever they were displeased with us for some wrong other we humans did and so they started worshiping th enatural forces in order to appease them .since after some time the rains stop and floods recede and valcaones stop spewing fire nd smoke , they felt that the gods after they wer pleased by thier prayer responded favoualble and stopped teh calamities. so with th epassage of time , the thought that there wer gods in heaven got ingrained in the brains of the humans so as to become part of the humans character or the very structure of the human brain or the vey part of some genes. The chritians who made a religon after the name of Jesus christ have taken so many views and philosophies of the Egyptians, greeks etc to create their own religon with suitable modifications to show that their philosophy was original . The religon was propogated by force in th eneme of holy crushade with the help of the state power through war and thread of punishment contry to the very spirit of the teachings contained in teh Bible they themselves had made. Is lam which contins manyy of the basis principles of the bible was made byone person with suitble modifications based on the culture of the arabs .Thuis theworld's leading religions have heavily borrowed from those thoughts that wer in existence before them , though they differ from them in many ways out of necesity to be known as something new and and different .Islam was also spread by force in the name of Jihad by threat of death and penal tax . but in islam the violent nature is provided for in the Kuran itself as the command of the prophet to forcibly convert the non-muslims to islam or kill them if they do not acept islam. Thus both the religons wer thrust by force and inducements .
the philosophies which grew on the earthof ignorance continue to hold a foirm grip on the minds of the huamans so much tht they fail to understand the incongruity and iorrevelevance of th ephilosphies of the religons even today.
Just consider this situation. A christian considers that no one who doies not accept christ would go to heaven and will b econsigned to hell .So all those who do not beliegve in christ would go to hell. According to Islam , all those who do not accept allah would go to hell . thus all those who are not chritians would go to hell. thus both these people would be in ahell only and none of them would go to heaven .It is exactly the same thing that is happening in the world today. these religons are creating hell for humans in this world by their ignorance and folly and are destroying the peace of the world .
These people do not understnd that their vey birth is a reward they got for a great sin that they committed even before their birth. Every individual is started his life as a microscopic organism known as sperm and he competed with millions of his sibilings in a race to get into the egg of his mother in her womb . Thus when he won the race , millions of his sibilings died as they could not get inot an egg for themselves to develop inot a human being . so at the start itself a man was responsible for the death of millions of his sibilings. Evey Messaiah , every prophet and every rishi and every god man and every ordinary man and every creature also did the same thing and none is an exception.all of them had no name when they came in to this world and none of them will be able to take their name withthem ehile they go .they could not even remember their name while dying . for if they remembered anything their brain would not be dead and they would not be dead,all religons tell a lie that man dies . Really no man does . becasue no matter is eer destroyed . see any atom of any element of which the bodily tissue is made of , under theelectron microscope . Een the atom in the dead tissue of a dead body would be active as you would see the electrons in the atoms of the lement running with the same tremendous speed with which they were working in the tissue of a live man. evn fior would not reduce it to death /See the carbon atom from the ash of a ded body under the electron microscope . you would see the same electrons running in thecarbon aton as in a ny unburned and fresh carbon atom. Fir itself exist only becaus of the very same electrons .Becaus of it no matter ever dies and they ar only recycled and changed from one to another. it is only a recycling that is happening in this world . No religon wever knew these things as those who created the religons lived at a time wne scientific knowledge was as good as non existent .The religions which were meant to to do good for humanity has done only great damage by their violent nature of being intolernt to scrutiny and criticism. they ar destroying the goodness in humanity.Unfortuante .
gods .
with the annihilation of humanity there will be none to offer them any homage and prayer !

Answer 9

Well Judaism and her two daughters Christianity and Islam all share certain portions of faith.

In the study of comparative religion, an Abrahamic religion or Judeo-Abrahamic Faith is any religion deriving from a common ancient Semitic tradition and traced by their adherents to Abraham ("Father/Leader of many" Hebrew אַבְרָהָם ("Avraham") Arabic ابراهيم ("Ibrahim"), a patriarch whose life is narrated in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, and as a prophet in the Qur'an and also called a prophet in Genesis 20:7. This forms a large group of largely monotheistic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Mandaeism, and the Bahá'í Faith. Abrahamic religions account for more than half of the world's total religious adherents. Many adherents of these religions, however, will reject this grouping of their faiths on the grounds that they contain inherently and fundamentally incompatible ideas concerning Abraham and God.

According to the Jewish tradition, Abraham was the first post-flood person to reject idolatry through rational analysis (Shem and Eber carried on the Tradition from Noah), hence he symbolically appears as a fundamental figure for monotheistic religion. In that sense, Abrahamic religion could be simply called monotheistic religion, but not all monotheistic religions are Abrahamic. In Islam he is considered as the first monotheist in a world where monotheism was lost (Abraham being a prophet in a line of prophets starting with Adam) and is often referred to as Ibrahim al-Hanif or Abraham the Monotheist.

The term, desert monotheism, is sometimes used for a similar purpose of comparison in historical contexts, but not for modern faiths.

It should be noted however, that Amenhotep IV or Akhenaten, born in 1353 BCE, is the earliest verifiable historical advocate or prophet of monotheism, although many argue that his religion came from Judaism (early Judaism) and the religions may be one and the same. Today, around 3.7 billion people are followers of Abrahamic religions.



Judaism and Christianity are two closely related Abrahamic religions that are in some ways parallel to each other and in other ways fundamentally divergent in theology and practice. Whereas the article on the Judeo-Christian tradition emphasizes continuities and convergences between the two religions, this article emphasizes that Judaism and Christianity each have widely diverging views of their respective relationship to the other, and of elements they have in common, such as the Bible and God.
Christo-Islamic is a term of comparative religion to connect fundamental ideas in Christianity with similar ones in Islam. Islam, which also has commonalities with Judaism, accepts many peripheral aspects of Christianity as part of its faith - with some differences in interpretation.

The phrase "Judeo-Christian values" is commonly used in the West, and many Muslim scholars view this term as emblematic of Western cultures' disconnection with Islam even though Muslims refer to both Jews and Christians as fellow "People of the Book."

Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are often collectively referred to as the Abrahamic religions.

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Beliefs
Although Islam recognizes Jesus as a prophet, it breaks with the belief in Christ as the son of God. Muslims do not believe that Christ was the "begotten son of God" in literal terms, as if God were a male human, but rather that he was a prophet brother who brought to mankind a closer relationship with God and each other. In the "religion-literal" sense, Christians reject the Muslim religion's understanding of Christ as heretical. Archbishop Dmitri of the Orthodox Church in America has described Islam as the most prevalent form of Arianism (a fourth century heresy) still extant, observing its similarity to Arianism in that both assert Jesus's status as a creature made by God, rather than God Himself. Muslims, however, reject Arianism's view that Jesus was an angelic creature, instead seeing him as a holy man. They claim that the early Judeo-Christian sect of the Ebionites have had more beliefs in common with Islam than orthodox Christianity.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, the official doctrine document released by the Roman Catholic church, has this to say regarding Muslims:

"The Church's relationship with the Muslims: The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day." (CCC 841).

Islam and Christianity differ fundamentally in regard to the crucifixion. Christians believe that Jesus was condemned to death by the Sanhedrin and the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate, physically crucified, and resurrected. Muslims believe that Jesus was condemned to crucifixion (for reasons not clearly defined in the Qur'an), and then miraculously saved, "And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah's messenger - they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain.(Quran Chapter 4 Verse 157)" The belief, which some Muslims hold, that another man was crucified and made to look like Jesus, actually has its roots in Christian apocrypha, i.e. Two Books of Jeu; Apocalypse of Peter, The Second Treatise of the Great Seth; and the Acts of John (see 'The Cross & the Crescent' by Jerald F. Dirks for details). In the Qur'an Jesus is said to ascend into heaven. In Christianity, Jesus is present for approximately two months after his ressurrection and ascends to the heaven, and appears briefly two more times, once to Saul of Tarsus, known as Paul, and then again to Philip the apostle.

It is sometimes asked, "What do contemporary Christianity and Islam share with each other that they do not share with Judaism?" The first and most important answer is their shared certainty in the objective existence of heaven and hell in the afterlife.

Moreover, they both believe that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary, conceived by the Holy Spirit, but disagree on the nature of Jesus' paternity in relation to the conception.

Even some of the more gnostic aspects of Christianity, present in Gospel of John and The Apocalypse of John are also present in Islam, although what they mean are not always the same. Such as;

Jesus is the Word of God.
Second Coming
Antichrist
The Beast
In addition, while rejecting the notion that Islam was "influenced" by Christianity, or any other faith other than that of total submission to God, Muslims nevertheless cite the following important points of contact between the ministry of Jesus and the core teachings of the Qur'an and the Sunnah:

The duty to follow God's Will in all things, as cited in the Lord's Prayer.
The duty to remember that God is omniscient and all-powerful, even to the extent of requiring certainty on the part of the believer that God knows his or her thoughts and intentions. (See Luke 12:4-5, which is essentially a summary of the Islamic notion of taqwa, or fear of God.)
Jesus' emphasis on constant prayer.
Jesus' emphasis on charitable giving.
Jesus' emphasis on the importance of reaching out across religious and social divides to help one's fellow human beings, as in the Good Samaritan story.
Jesus' emphasis on hiding certain virtues (good works such as private prayer or charity), rather than claiming public attention for them or inflating one's ego over them.
The delusive nature of apparent physical wealth, and its inferiority as compared to spiritual wealth. (See Luke 6:24, which is a concise summary of a seemingly perpetual Qur'anic theme as seen in verses 3:14-15, for example.)