I have read Buddhism which is 500 years older that Jesus and alot of what Jesus taught is the same in Buddhism such as love your enemies, love your neighbor as yourself. The funny thing is, was that Buddha was just an ordinary man and said the same things 500 years before the so called son of God arrived.
2006-11-20 19:53:12 · 36 answers · asked by Ramond 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes, pretty much.... and the jesus and tree of life must have been plagiarized from greek and scandinavian mythology respectively.
2006-11-20 20:04:23 · answer #1 · answered by lnfrared Loaf 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am sure the 10 commandments exists in all good religions in one form or the other.If Jesus "ripped off"any religion at all it would have been the Jewish religion,since He was a Jew.Judaism is older than Buddhism by a mile ,does it mean that Buddhism plagiarised Judaism? I don't think so,unless the Buddha travelled on a jet.You raise a weak argument ,even if you are right I see nothing wrong in taking good things and making them better or putting them to use.
2006-11-20 20:20:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree 100 percent that Budda was a ordinary man. He never did anything worth even remembering. Jesus on the other hand was not a ordinary man. The teaching that budda taught came from other religions of the time frame mainly the writings of the prophets of the jewish people. Jesus on the other hand is the fullment of the prodictions of the prophets. Christ Jesus coming was fortold by prophets for some 3500 years before he came. He diminstrated power over the natural elements over the supernatural power of the earth and healed more then all of the know prophets and raised many from the dead. No indeed he is not a normal ordinary man like budda. Budda quoted Leviticus " love they neighbor as yourself". So that would make him a thief for copyright reasons. The life death burial and resurection of Jesus are all recorded. His resurrection was seen and witnesses by 500 people they inturn signed sworn statements about seeing him after the resurrection and then each of them stood by the statement even as they were burned alive, beheaded and mutilated because they would not retract the statements. So was Jesus a ordinary man? Jesus met ever prodiction of 3500 years of prophets. Some 62 scriptures. All came to pass when Jesus showed up. So what prophsey did Budda complete, NOT ONE.
2006-11-20 22:17:55 · answer #3 · answered by adsdetailing 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe because of the close proximity,alot of the Christian teachings are almost identical to that of ancient Egypt. Akenaten was the first to introduce monotheism and some of his poems were copied almost word for word into the scriptures.The Pharaohs claimed to be conceived in an identical way to the virgin birth. It goes on and on. So much so that it cannot be coincidence.As you are aware the Egyptians were about 1500 to 1800 before the Jesus or Joshua was born. Many other early civilisations had the same beliefs long before Christianity and this is beyond dispute
2006-11-20 20:13:06 · answer #4 · answered by sistablu...Maat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rip off- not exactly or consciously but it most definitely adapted and adopted from existing religions at the time of it's birth. Christianity is born in the Middle East and then spread to the West. It is the offspring of a small minority religious group in the Middle East and carries most of its roots from Judaism. But as it spread to the west through Greece It adapted to include ideas that were not contradictory to its precepts. such as Mathraism, the cult of Isis and others. Christianity did not only borrow ideas but also festivities such as Xmas and new year, Easter (passover), the worship of Idols etc. But this behavior is true of all religions as they evolve.
2006-11-20 20:09:14 · answer #5 · answered by The Stainless Steel Rat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well certainly there wasn't any contact between Israel and China--but then Guatma Buddha was from India so maybe...
Still there are a lot of things that feel plagarized in Christianity. The idea of Satan is often considered to have been lifted from the Persians. The flood and Garden of Eden are both very similar to Mesopotamian beliefs. There is also an ancient god of storms that is often thought to be the model for YWH. A lot of Isaiah prophecies of Christ that he or his disciples quoted as he fulfilled them could easily be attributed to his familiarity with scripture himself. Religion oftentimes is a piecemeal affair, created from the syncretism of ideas from all sorts of places, teachers, philosophers, and yes other religions.
2006-11-20 20:09:26 · answer #6 · answered by Grimcleaver 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was quoting from another source when he said "love your neighbor as yourself". He was quoting from Leviticus 19:18 in the Old Testament which was written 1500 years before Christ or a thousand years before Buddha. Leviticus 19:18 says"You shall not take revenge or bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord". When He said " love your enemies" He was probably paraphrasing Proverbs 25:21 which was also written 500 years before Buddha.
2006-11-20 20:16:09 · answer #7 · answered by upsman 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course Christianity "borrowed" from other faiths. It had to, in order to be successful. The early Christians were good at adapting Christianity to fit in with the local beliefs of the people they were trying to convert. That's why Christmas is when it is: It's adapted from the Roman Harvest festival, which took place late in the last month of the Julian calendar, where people were "purified" by being washed in lamb's blood and to remain sober was considered an affront to the gods. The Ten Commandments, BTW, were lifted right from the Code of Hammurabi, which predates the Ten by about 300 years.
2006-11-20 20:03:51 · answer #8 · answered by weary0918 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, they only ripped off the holidays. As for Buddhism, remember the whole world of Rome did not yet include that region of the planet where it was taught. Contact with Buddhists people didn't happen for another 70 years.
2006-11-20 20:38:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all religions teach people to do the GOOD and deemed CORRECT by society things.
no religion that i know of would tell people to hate everyone, including their enemies and neighbours.
it just depends on how the religion puts the message across to the believers by the means of God(s), and different approaches lah basically.
so you cant blame Christianity for ripping teachings off from other religion teachings.
and besides, the bible mostly concentrated on the middle eastern areas of the world, where buddhism wasnt influential there.
2006-11-20 20:10:25 · answer #10 · answered by pbtham 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus followed the Old Testament to.
The reason Non- Jews know about God is
because God let His Son Emanuel ( God With Us ) Jesus
be born into the world.
Jews had nothing to do with Non- Jews, there was a reason. So we didn't know about God. Jesus changed
that. Amen.
2006-11-20 20:18:11 · answer #11 · answered by elliebear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋