What was going on in that god-forsaken (no pun intended) little part of the world, the Middle East, that caused three major religions to take root in a period of, what, fifteen hundred years? With people living all over the world by that time why there? Christians and Jews can thank the Roman Empire and its influence throughout the dark ages and then the subsequent Age of Discovery for their survival and spread. Islam can thank the fact that it's believers have remained in an uncivilized time warp for its survival. But why did they all start in that sliver of earth?
2007-05-07 07:12:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It has to do with a man called Abraham.
He once lived in Ur of Chaldea, but God asked him to move to "that sliver."
From Abraham's son Ishmael came Arabs and Islam.
From Abraham's son Isaac came Jews.
Would you believe it, Jesus was sent to the Jewish nation and ended up starting Christianity.
Not bad for a country 200 miles by 60.
2007-05-07 07:20:34 · answer #1 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All religions started in that part of the Middle East. Garden of Eden was in that part. After the flood Noah landed in that area and dispursed out. The religion of the Jews is the oldest and without their recordings of Moses and the Prophets we would not have the old or new Testaments.
They all started in that sliver of the earth because "salvation is of the Jews." Jesus Christ said this in John 4:22. Our Savior is a Jew. God gave the Jewish people as an example to the Gentiles for what to do and not to do. The Jewish people are our example. When they forgot God great judgment fell upon them.
Satan is behind the religon of Islam who kept them in an uncivilized time warp the 6th & 7th centuries. God told Abraham and Hagar that he would make Ishmael a great nation, but that Ishmael would be a wild *** of a man with his hand against his brother's hand. This is proven by Shiites and Sunnis always fighting which is brother against brother.
Also Jews and Muslims always fighting which is brother against brother or Ishmael against Isaac.
John 4:44
"For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honor in his own country."
I guess the Islamic Muslims never heard of this verse of the Bible, because they honor Muhammad and he was nothing but a prophet. Jesus Christ was God Himself and in the flesh the Son of God which is a great deal more than just a prophet.
2007-05-07 07:43:19 · answer #2 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God told Abraham He was giving him a land that would be for his decendents for all time. That was to be for The Nation of Israel(the Jews). But the Jews did not do as God instructed them and they lost the Land. The arabs took over and moohamy came along and started a new cult so that he could control the people. the cult that moohamy started has absolutly nothing to do with The God of Abraham.
because The Nation of Israel did not accept God as they should have He commissioned The Church. The Church is composed of those of The True Christian Faith and Jesus The Christ is The Head of it. But The Church is not the new Israel.
The Land that God gave to The Nation of Israel still belongs to them... and when they finaly regain ALL of the land God gave them that will signal the begining of the end.
2007-05-07 07:27:47 · answer #3 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When's the last time you saw a parent give birth to a child thousands of miles away? Christianity and Islam are both Judaisms children, and since Judaism was born and lived in the middle east, her children were born there too.
2007-05-07 07:21:57 · answer #4 · answered by Judy L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 3000 years, actually. 4000, if you count from the time of Abraham.
It's not such a big coincidence. Jews consider Israel holy. Christianity and Islam both came from Judaism, and borrowed some Jewish beliefs along the way. One of these beliefs was that Israel was the Holy Land. Q.E.D.
2007-05-07 12:55:13 · answer #5 · answered by Melanie Mue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One religion springs up, and then another one like it comes up too. That's why Hinduism is from India and Judaism is from Israel. If Hinduism came from Jordan, it wouldn't be the Hinduism we know. And Judaism came along like 3000 BC, a long time before Islam.
2007-05-07 07:31:16 · answer #6 · answered by YouCannotKnowUnlessUAsk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The big three are sometimes called "Abrahamic" faiths, because they physically can be traced to the life of this man.
Abram made the choice to wrestle (within himself) with the "angel of God" until somthing fundamentally changed within him. The inner change was reflected by the change in his name to Abraham. That intensely personal act has created waves that still wash over the world.
How might the world be changed by the decisions we make in relation to the divine person-ality?
2007-05-07 07:26:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1500 years? Judaism is much more ancient than 1500 years. Islam is about 1400 years old and Christianity around 1900 years old.
2007-05-07 07:18:55 · answer #8 · answered by Truth7 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uncivilized time warp? hah. yeah whatever
2007-05-07 07:18:33 · answer #9 · answered by Satellite Eyes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they started in Guam, you'd ask Why Guam. If they started in Australia, you'd ask Why Australia. Why were you born in the country you were?
Sometimes, things just ARE.
2007-05-07 07:16:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋