Some anti-Christian people claim that Christianity is an imitation and not the first original "religion". Can some Christians help refute this myth with historical facts? Where was Jesus when God spoke the world into existance in six days?
2006-12-03 11:45:55 · 32 answers · asked by Lovin' Mary's Lamb 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Most non-christians would acknowledge that Judaism was around long before Christianity if they respect history at all. Since Judaism promises a messiah, it only makes sense that if that messiah comes, it would be a continuation of "true Judaism" not a new religion so to speak. The problem is, Jews as a whole have rejected their messiah. They only regard the messianic prophecies that describe the messiah as a conquering warrior and king and overlook (literally) the ones that describe Him as a suffering servant. In fact, in orthodox jewish temples today, they skip reading Isaiah 53 because it uncannily sounds so much like Jesus indeed. So, God's true religion that started in Judaism has taken the form of Christianity named after Christ, the messiah that was prophecied and what today is called Judaism has become a false religion since they reject the only way to God, through Christ.
Of course, non-christians will reject all this as nonsense and say that Christianity started with Jesus' ministry, or even later by His 'overzealous' followers.
By the way, its called Christianity, not Jesusanity so people shouldn't make the argument it couldn't have been around before Jesus because Judaism has alway predicted a Christ (anointed one, messiah).
2006-12-03 12:01:05 · answer #1 · answered by Captain America 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Jesus was in heaven with god when the earth was spoke into existence. Now christianity and religion is nothing but belief in God. These are just some of the titles that are given to those that will believe in the lord thy God. The first religion was before the destruction of the first world and the new world still continues this day religion of believing in God. All christians do know that there was a religion before Jesus walked the earth and one can read about it in the Book of Gensis-Holy Bible.
2006-12-03 11:54:44 · answer #2 · answered by JoJoBa 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He wasn't in physical form on earth. He was Never called out to by the Jews. You won't even find the name Jesus in the Old Test. Nowhere is it written that Christianity was around before the 1st Century AD/CE (whichever you prefer). Jesus hadn't been born, certainly did not have followers, lived, died, etc... in the Old Test. Really all you have is vague references where, if the New Test had spoken about anyone else, you could make him fit into those verses.
To say that Christianity was the first "religion" really shows a stretch of the imagination.
2006-12-03 12:08:59 · answer #3 · answered by Kithy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
RHSAUNDER, PROBABLY YOU THINK THT UNIVERSE CAME INTO BEING BY CHANCE. BECAUSE U THINK THT 6 DAY CREATION IS A TALE.
LET ME TELL YA SOME THING
The Holy Qura'n says it
The Bible says it.
Only Darwin doesn't say it.
See u lost the elction by 2-1
Jesus was the one appointed by God and taught the Truth. The name Christianity comes a long after his death and i think the Bible don't even mentions the name Christianity.
Jesus came to liberate the oppressed and confirm the teachings of Moses and other former Prophets and to give a glad tiding of another Prophet "the last one to come." The one who will confirm his message. And by the way the teachings of Jesus (May God send peace and blessings on him) are being changed by the passage of time by the Kings and people in power.
God didn't create Jesus when He created the universe.
Peace be onto you All.
2006-12-03 12:04:07 · answer #4 · answered by Stand for Truth and Justice 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Regardless of whether or not you believe that Jesus is an eternal figure, the fact of the matter is that no one worshipped Jesus until around 30 AD. I fail to understand how Christianity was a religion before anyone practiced it.
2006-12-03 11:51:01 · answer #5 · answered by marbledog 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Uh. Because it's untrue?
1. Animism is probably the first religion. Pagan religions predate Christianity, or even Judaism, by a looong time. So does Hinduism. So does Buddhism.
2. Christianity didn't start out as a separate religon anyway. Jesus was a JEW. Or don't they teach you that fact in your church?
And what he taught didn't become a separate sect until after his death.
2006-12-03 11:49:58 · answer #6 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The word Christian means those who worship Christ. I can't believe that anyone ever worshipped anyone long before his existance.
Certainly Christianity was not the original religion. There were crude types of religion all the way back in the stone age. Thousands of years before the time of Christ.
2006-12-03 11:53:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well, it was called Judaism back then. You kinda have to have a "Christ" before you can have a religion following him. Thus, Christianity didn't begin until Jesus came along.
If you follow your own logic, Islam has been around just as long and is the same religion as Christianity.
2006-12-03 11:51:21 · answer #8 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
In a way it did exist, but noone knew of Jesus before he was born so they just worshiped God(which in essence was Jesus), but this was the Jewish religion. Christianity involves the new testament which was after Jesus' birth and his death. Christianity involves Jesus' cleansing of our sins and he couldnt do this until he died on the cross, so thus Christianity DID NOT exist before his "birth" or his "death" think about it.
2006-12-03 11:52:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
In fact, Christianity as a religion did not begin until after Christ died. Judaism and a number of eastern religions antedate it, some by millenia. The six-day creation tale is, of course, entirely bogus.
2006-12-03 11:50:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋