Looking for a real responce, Christianity BC?

Question

Im quite confused, and would like clarification. Im not trying to be offensive, but this doesnt make sense to me. If christianity is the true religion, and god created all things, what did people do before Jesus came? Why are there thousands of years of no christianity. The bible says god created adam and eve, the creation of life, but there is no mention of christianity for thousands of years, and then all of a sudden there is, and its the true religion? Can someone explain this time gap for me between the birth of man, and the birth of christianity, and did all those people who lived in the time before christ go to hell? How can christianity be the true religion, when it didnt exist for thousands of years when people already did? I would like a serious response please.

they were jews? Judaism didnt exist for quite some time either. No monotheistic religion came for quite some time. All primitive religions were polytheistic.

OK, quit saying Judaism. Do any of you have any idea when Judaism came into being? LONG after man. Judaism is not a primitive religion. Christianity succeded Judaism as you say, you are correct in that, but Judaism is not OLD enough to go back to the beginning of man. Many Many MANY relgions existed before Judaism ever came into being. And yes, the same is said about Islam.

You people have yet to answer my question with any reality to history.

Abraham lived aprox 1500-1000 BCE, Moses, 2000-1500 BCE. Hinduism started aprox 1500 BCE based on a religion dating back 6000-3000 BCE, Judaism 1400 BCE, Christianity 33 CE, Islam 300 CE. Of the 4 major religions, Hinduism is the oldest, with the oldest roots. It predates the birth of Moses and Abraham by thousands of years. There are plenty of other religions, such as one that worshiped a python in Batswana dating back 70,000 years ago, that predate Hinduism, but none are considered Major religions. Hinduism is polytheistic.

Answer 1

dude...i feel so sorry for that you have to read these answers....your question makes such a great point, yet no one can explain it. if christianity is so laid out according to the bible, then why are you receving so many different answers? OK, say the earth is 6000 y/o (which it is not), what about the Egyptians building pyramids 2500 years ago? where is that in the bible? they SUPPOSEDLY walk through Egypt, yet no one thought to write about what they saw there???

good question,,

Answer 2

. Do any of you have any idea when Judaism came into being? LONG after man.

So you want the answer to be about Christianity BEFORE man?

Christianity, derived from Judaism to become the dominant religion of western Europe, has underpinned much of Britain's cultural heritage for fourteen centuries. Urban Christianity was sufficiently vibrant to send three bishops (London, York, Colchester) to the Council of Arles (314). Paganism, despite a brief revival 360-80, was in decline as the century ended, when historical figures such as Ninian and Patrick began to emerge. On the arrival of Anglo-Saxon invaders with their gods Woden and Thor, British Christianity was virtually extinguished except for the western Celtic fringes. Monasticism had reached the Celts at a formative stage in their Christianity, and monks rather than bishops led the church. Patrick (c.390-461) evangelized Ireland, Ninian (c.360-c.432) the Picts of Galloway, and Kentigern (d. 612) Strathclyde; Illtud (d. c.540) and David (c.530-c.589) worked in Wales, Columba settled in Iona (c.563), whence Aidan brought Christianity to Lindisfarne (635). When Roman missionaries under Augustine arrived in Kent (597), divergences between the two strands arising from differences in organization and disagreement about the date of Easter led to clashes unresolved until the Synod of Whitby (664), when Roman customs prevailed. Conversion had sometimes been slow, though helped when a ruler embraced the new faith (Æthelbert of Kent, Edwin of Northumbria), but a brief golden age followed statesman-archbishop Theodore's reorganization of dioceses, which produced scholars such as Bede, and missionaries like Boniface of Crediton. Attacks from Viking raiders during the 9th cent. destroyed religious houses but did not totally destroy the church.

Answer 3

Actually, Judaism is one of the oldest religions. The Old Testament starts with Adam and Eve, the first people, talking to the God of the Jews. These people are serious. I can't make you believe it though.

Why do you think monotheistic religions came later? Polytheism came later.

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Moses was the person to write it down. Before it was written down, however, religion was passed on orally. So just because a religion pre-dates Moses, does not mean it is an older religion.

To answer your main question though, you are correct. There is a huge time gap between Christianity and when people first inhabited the earth. Christianity did come from Judaism though. The old testament prophesied that Christ would come.

Judaism's sacrifices are a "copy" of the sacrifice of Christ. Now we have the real sacrifice so we don't need to symbolize it:

Hebrews 9:22-24 According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. (23) It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. (24) For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

Answer 4

Sure. Man makes it up as he goes along. This is in all sincerity, man really has made up their gods and changed things about them as time went on. History doesn't start with Adam and Eve anywhere in the world except for in the Judaism based religions. So take solace knowing that the reason it doesn't make sense is because other people are playing with other people's religious ideas and trying to make them make more sense for themselves. It will never be standard or uniform. And it will never make sense. Some of the rules might, but the theology never will.

Answer 5

You couldn't have Christianity without Christ.. Since he didn't come to earth in the beginning then you didn't have him. The closest pre Christian religion to Christianity was Judaism. Christ to us Christians is the Messiah that was spoken about in the Old Testament...he had to die and come back to fulfill the prophesies (which he did)...He was actually sent to earth to save the Jewish people..but many other people from all walks of life converted after hearing about Christ.

I believe there is a different judging system for those who lived B.C. I think that God will definitely view their lives a little bit differently and judge accordingly. He doesn't want to send people to hell just for the sake of sending them to hell.

A great book that you may enjoy is The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel...it is chock full of facts and such, and it will be able to answer most questions that you may have..it was written by a former atheist.

Answer 6

Serious response:
From Adam to Abraham, God had no 'organized' religion on earth, representing Him.
He had His spokesmen and many tried to follow God's ways but nothing organized showed up till the nation of Israel.
They were God's 'chosen' people.
If you wanted to serve the true God, you had to convert to Judaism.
Generally speaking, the Jews did not appreciate their privilege and went rebelling against God.
Eventually, He decided to forget about them.
He put an end to the arrangement.
Romans 10:4
Jesus started Christianity so that anyone, from anywhere, could be a fully approved worshipper of God.
It makes it easier to understand Acts 15:14.

Answer 7

The best response I know is based on the first few chapters of Romans. It basically says God will judge people on what they did know and how they responded to that, or they will be judged by the law they knew. Someone living in a jungle may have never heard of the Christian God, but he should have an awareness of something greater than himself, so what did he do about it. This would also apply to people after Christ who simply didn't know or hear about him. How long did it take Christian missionaries to get to China or Japan? Quite a while.
There is a verse, forgive me I don't recall the reference, that says the word (ie Jesus) was preached to the dead.

Answer 8

I think the problem is how you define "true religion"...

I wouldn't call Christianity the "true religion". A Christian is a follower of Christ. It would be hard to "follow" Christ before He was here. However, Christ has been around since the very beginning - before the beginning of the world - as He is part of God. So while we may not have known the human Christ prior to His birth, we knew God who is one with Christ. So all who followed God were also following Christ!

Now that we have Christ, God has established His Kingdom through His son and we now have the understanding of the "Holy One" that has been known for years.

This is a complicated issue. The only thing that really matters is that we now DO HAVE CHRIST and are blessed for it!

Praise God. Be blessed!

Answer 9

Well, it's not the true religion. See - there was history before the Christian church. There was Judaism, Kemiticism, the Caananites, early Animism (to name a few). There were Animist and Pagan religions for thousands and thousands of years before anyone ever came up with Christianity. So you're on the right track -- it's true that Christianity is NOT The True Religion (TM). (There's no such thing.)

Answer 10

all primitive religions were polytheistic? Really?

Adam and Eve believed in the ONE TRUE GOD.

Noah believed in ONE TRUE GOD.

Abraham is considered to be the father of the Jews - who were God's chosen children throughout the old testament.

The Jews denied Christ while He was on Earth and screamed "Crucify Him!"

The Disciples that followed Jesus were first called Christians after Jesus rose to Heaven, they were called Christians because they followed Christ.

The people that lived prior to Christ's coming believed in the promise of a Savior, first mentioned in Genesis 3:15.