To Christians: if you read in a Hindu holy text about a talking snake, you wouldn't believe it, right?

Question

Yet you'll believe the same story if it happens to be found in YOUR holy scriptures! Where's the difference? To me, a bogus story is a bogus story, no matter where it happens to be written down... Don't you realise that if you had chanced to be born into a Hindu family, you would now believe THEIR holy texts rather than your own? You just happened to be born into a "Christian" nation, so you were brought up believing the same stuff as your parents, who by chance happened to be Christians... You could easily have been born somewhere else in the world and grown up believing in Hinduism, Buddism, etc. and never known you were believing the 'wrong' things! So what makes you think you're so special that you just happened to be born into the 'right' faith in order to be 'saved'...???

Answer 1

Answer 2

There's something interesting that many people don;t notice. Many acient religions and mythologies have a story about a snake, a snake god, or consider the snake a sacred creature. There's also a lot of different flood legends from all around the world. Now u might argue that the bible writers were just copying off everybody else. I have no way to disprove that, but the stories in the bible show cause and effect and there's even been archealogical evidence such as the Nabonidus chronicle that back up biblical events such as the fall of babylon to the medes and persians. There's an interesting book called The 2 Babylons which shows how many ancient religions descended from the original babel when man got confused by different languages. This event is explained in the bible in Genesis.

Answer 3

I dont believe the same stuff as my parents, my mom is a lapsed Catholic and my dad is Agnostic.... religion wasnt anything we talked much about in my home. I always felt spiritual even as a little kid, when i got older, I practiced wicca, and buddhism, and then was pretty much agnostic until I was 27 when I became a Christian. Just like many Atheists were brought up in religious homes, many of us Christians were brought up in non religious homes so its really sad to make such assumptions.

Answer 4

If you look at the original Hebrew word in Genesis 3 you will find that the word translated in English as "serpent" was the Hebrew word "nachash" it stems from the root that means "shining whisperer," "shining enchanter. It is more likely that it wasn't a snake but was Satan talking with Eve. The shining enchanter deceived her into listening to him instead of believing God.

Answer 5

I was raised by my mom, who is far from a Christian and in fact is into Buddhism, and I was lead to Christianity by my own sense of logic and reason, and it took me until my teenage years to even start looking at Christianity. No other god has ever been revealed to my spirit, so I have absolutely no incentive to believe in the acts of gods that I do not believe in.

Answer 6

I have no personal reason to believe in the Hindu religion so I don't believe in their holy texts. I have had personal experience of the Christian God so I do believe in the Bible.

Answer 7

okay


what are you? hindu??


well if you are...just reverse it


why dont you belive the Bible?

God talked through a burning BUSH to talk to Moses.


and in the bible..
snakes did talk too


adam and eve.
the snake that tempted them.







and...i dont think im special
cause everyone is..

but



not all christians are BORN into the right faith buddy.
i wasnt

i became a christian so much later in my life

and i am so glad i did.


i wasnt BORN into it.

i chose it




christianity is not a religion
its a relationship

Answer 8

Props to Fish. I laughed so hard I nearly dropped my Sprite.

Answer 9

I only believe reticulated pythons are intelligent enough to speak.

Answer 10

Because we also believe in a talking donkey.

Answer 11

Well, Americans have a talking monkey as their leader, so...