What are these other religions?

Question

I keep hearing over and over that ALL of Christianity and the bible is taken from other religions.
What religions are these?
What proof is there?

And why is their "version" of things true..when apparently Christianity and the bible is made up?

As Cumont and later scholars[3] have noted, there are almost no texts for Roman Mithras: Celsus and Porphyry offered highly Platonized accounts that are poor evidence for authentic Mithraic cult and doctrine.[4]. Epigraphy offers few details; instead, the mystery cult of Mithras left hundreds of reliefs and friezes which display their own mythologies surrounding Mithras. Given the lack of textual evidence, these reliefs, which often tell contradictory stories, must be interpreted literally although they may represent abstract ideas.

Answer 1

I believe what they are saying is many of the Christian churches are a break off of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church was "deemed" as the church of God by the Emperor Constantine. As the way of Kings losing their stronghold on the citizens of their nations free thought was able to ensue. People started getting educated on how to read and they started to read the bible. Many of them found differences in the Bible than what they were being taught... so you have a group that starts their own church... perhaps based off a principle they believe should be in their religion. And this goes on and on and on...

People with little or no Faith don't believe in the Bible because there are things in the Bible that require Faith. However, the Bible is also a history book and there are many documents around the world that validate its content.

Don't pay any attention to those that try and tear down your Faith... they are the ones that have no answers.

Answer 2

First of all, there is no more truth in their beliefs than in the beliefs of Christians, and no more falsehood either. Judaism bears many scars from the civilizations that once held the Jews as slaves, most of the stories appear in some form or other somewhere else. These civilizations would include, the Sumerians, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, and the Romans. There is also some influence from the Classical Greeks. The Christian spin on religion has stories from a lot of the pagan religions that were in and around Rome at the time of its inception. What proof is there that two stories are the same and that the newer was probably taken from or influenced by the older? Well, read them both of course! A quick read of the legends of Horus and Mithras will be eerily reminiscent of the story of Jesus, though these stories are hundreds and thousands of years older than Christ. One has only to look at the worship of Mary and the Saints in Medieval Europe to see where the old gods and goddesses ended up. There are more books in the world than any one man can read but it is a wise man indeed who tries valiantly to read them all.

Answer 3

many of the stories in the bible are found in other older civilizations.

Mithra - Jesus

Noah - Gilgamesh

Ten Commandments - Egyptian Book of the Dead

Cheribum have been found in ancient babylon predating the jewish accounts

There are more but that should get ya started.

Answer 4

Christianity found its birth in Judaism
Everyone and their donkey knows that
The idea of One God came from the Egyptians.
Not too many people know that.

Answer 5

the good and not modyfied version of chrisianity is the religion of islam try to read the holly quran and u will find out its logical and not playble by the human hands

Answer 6

What's the origin of the Jesus stories?
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen048.html
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/jesus.html

You can tell these are the originals, because they're EARLIER.

They're not true either, of course.

Answer 7

take a drink!

all of the factors involving the christ-myth come from the earlier cult mythology of Mithras, that predated xianity by 900 years. virgin birth, torture/murder, resurrection, all that nonsense.

Answer 8

Here are a few links to get you started.

http://home.earthlink.net/~pgwhacker/ChristianOrigins/
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
http://www.jesuspuzzle.com/

And nobody has said their versions of mythology are any more true.

Answer 9

Christianity is just rehashed paganism.

Here's a good link for starters.

Answer 10

look it up


there were other religions with the same stuff as you have now, only these other religions are now considered evil because Christianity is the "one true truth"

phtt, i spit on ur God's sandal