Christianity - borrowed ideas?

Question

Christianity is nothing but borrowed ideas from Judaism. The read what they call the Old testament and yet whenever some error or inconsistency is pointed therein, they say, "We now have a new covenant".
What do they have to show for it? A book which contains fables by men who wrote them a long time after the guy whom they were about passed away.
There are a LOT of similarities between Judaism and Islam; Christianity's book however sort of stands out as a clear form of "writing for inconvenience" after borrowing from the Jewish scriptures.
In certain cases, what the Jewish book prohibited, they decided to allow and ended up, in the process, attaching divinity to a guy who never claimed it.
Sad!

Answer 1

You are forgetting the numerous borrowed concepts from Pagan religions. The "born from a virgin", "father is a god, mother a mortal", "died and then rose from the dead" concepts are all stories from pagan religions that existed before Christianity.

Answer 2

Never claimed it? You obviously have never read the new testament. Jesus was the son of God and the only hope of salvation. The reliability and number of early texts that are available clearly show that this is what he intended. The book of Acts alone has many references to the divinity and the salvation provided by Jesus and records how salvation is through Jesus not what we eat. The holy spirit was seen very early to be accessible to those that followed the Judaic laws and the Gentiles that believed in God and followed Jesus!

It was actually Islam that borrowed from Christianity and Judaism. Their prophet made several references to both Jesus, Christianity and Judaism in the texts. He does however in Sura 5 specifically tell the followers not to even have them as friends unless they follow him. Kind of reminds me of the Mormon prophet.

Here is some material you can start to learn with after reading the 4 Gospels and the book of Acts.

Jesus Among other Gods - Ravi Zacharias
http://shop3.gospelcom.net/epages/rzim.storefront/465a3e410085843f271e45579e7b064a/Product/View/SBK9
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/Let_My_People_Think/archives.asp?bcd=4/8/2007
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/Let_My_People_Think/archives.asp?bcd=4/15/2007

Answer 3

Im sure most religeons cn be traced to another before, and to another out of mind's reckoning. What is interesting is the amount of similarity of most religeons to one another-they generally promote the same basic high standards, emulate the same kinds of people--Jesus, Mohamed, Buddah.

What is truly sad is how the original intent of the religeon breaks down and is left quivering, almost, in the eyes of altruism. When the Master passes, the original intent is lost most always.
I also believe that "smiting" is the work of Man--it comes down to things added by the untrained initiate. Why would an enlightened man want to smite anyone except out of self defense? It is a huge hint at borrowed ideas indeed........

Answer 4

My, how the devil has deceived maximum of! The comprehend God is reality. The Bible is the only prophetic e book with a one hundred% music checklist. (which may be appropriate). authentic, organic technological know-how validates The Bible at each bump into, that's of no marvel, as a results of fact it develop into written there in the previous guy had a clue. the place do you think of all and sundry of those suggestions got here from to puzzle out?? God created all, which comprise the Greeks, so God did no longer borrow something from anybody, this is all Him to start with!!

Answer 5

Most religions borrow from other religions.
The ten commandments are shortened version of the 42 Confession and Denials
Gilgamesh climbed the mountain and spoke to a god and came down with tablets of rules and morals.
Zeus got sick of the humans lies and deceits, talked a guy into building an ark and flooded that whole world.
The Babylonian gods created man from dirt to serve them...okay any of this sound oddly familiar?

Answer 6

The deuterocanonicals teach Catholic doctrine, and for this reason they were taken out of the Old Testament by Martin Luther and placed in an appendix without page numbers. Luther also took out four New Testament books -- Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation -- and put them in an appendix without page numbers as well. These were later put back into the New Testament by other Protestants, but the seven books of the Old Testament were left out. Following Luther they had been left in an appendix to the Old Testament, and eventually the appendix itself was dropped (in 1827 by the British and Foreign Bible Society), which is why these books are not found at all in most contemporary Protestant Bibles, though they were appendicized in classic Protestant translations such as the King James Version.

The reason they were dropped is that they teach Catholic doctrines that the Protestant Reformers chose to reject. Earlier we cited an example where the book of Hebrews holds up to us an Old Testament example from 2 Maccabees 7, an incident not to be found anywhere in the Protestant Bible, but easily discoverable in the Catholic Bible. Why would Martin Luther cut out this book when it is so clearly held up as an example to us by the New Testament? Simple: A few chapters later it endorses the practice of praying for the dead so that they may be freed from the consequences of their sins (2 Macc. 12:41-45); in other words, the Catholic doctrine of purgatory. Since Luther chose to reject the historic Christian teaching of purgatory (which dates from before the time of Christ, as 2 Maccabees shows), he had to remove that book from the Bible and appendicize it. (Notice that he also removed Hebrews, the book which cites 2 Maccabees, to an appendix as well.)

To justify this rejection of books that had been in the Bible since before the days of the apostles (for the Septuagint was written before the apostles), the early Protestants cited as their chief reason the fact that the Jews of their day did not honor these books, going back to the council of Javneh in A.D. 90. But the Reformers were aware of only European Jews; they were unaware of African Jews, such as the Ethiopian Jews who accept the deuterocanonicals as part of their Bible. They glossed over the references to the deuterocanonicals in the New Testament, as well as its use of the Septuagint. They ignored the fact that there were multiple canons of the Jewish Scriptures circulating in first century, appealing to a post-Christian Jewish council which has no authority over Christians as evidence that "The Jews don't except these books." In short, they went to enormous lengths to rationalize their rejection of these books of the Bible.



It is ironic that Protestants reject the inclusion of the deuterocanonicals at councils such as Hippo (393) and Carthage (397), because these are the very same early Church councils that Protestants appeal to for the canon of the New Testament. Prior to the councils of the late 300s, there was a wide range of disagreement over exactly what books belonged in the New Testament. Certain books, such as the gospels, acts, and most of the epistles of Paul had long been agreed upon. However a number of the books of the New Testament, most notably Hebrews, James, 2 Peter, 2 & 3 John, and Revelation remained hotly disputed until the canon was settled. They are, in effect, "New Testament deuterocanonicals."

While Protestants are willing to accept the testimony of Hippo and Carthage (the councils they most commonly cite) for the canonicity of the New Testament deuterocanonicals, they are unwilling to accept the testimony of Hippo and Carthage for the canonicity of the Old Testament deuterocanonicals.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

No.

The ideas belong to God, not Judaism.

Since the ideas belong to God and Christians worship God Christians are using that which belongs to their leader.

Judaism rejected the Mosiach and for that reason Israel was destroyed for almost 2000 years.

PS: Basic logic tells us that if God exists and God is omnipotent then the Word has to have existed from the very beginning and has undoubtedly been communicated to people and borrowed from by different groups worshiping different gods as well as having been translated and recorded and copied many different times over the years.

Claiming that Christianity or Judaism borrowed these ideas from other religions is a rejection of the one True and Living God.

Answer 9

Well since Jesus was God's son and always existed and was in communication with Israel and had spoken to the first man and woman. I would say that those religions borrowed from God what was always Christianity as explained by God to the first men and women.

Answer 10

You are only partially correct. Christianity also "borrowed" from other religions as well. It was their way of converting more followers by saying "our religion has that too", in the very early days of Christianity.