So atheists the Catholic Church has been around for over 2000 years?

Question

If the stories about Jesus were just made up how do you explain that?

Siddharta Gautama lived after Christ not before but who gonna question Richard Gere and Dalai ******* Lama

Answer 1

Stories of Shiva and Vishnu are even older. As a Christian, how do you explain that?

Answer 2

Although Christianity has been around for two thousand years, there are many other religions that are much older. It is usual, however, that except in religions where there are a number of Gods and Goddesses (and even in some of those), the main theme of these theologies is a Supreme Being (God, Buddha, Yahweh and others, even Allah), usually with prophets. Or in the cases of theologies with multiple deities, lesser Gods and Goddesses.

I truly believe that Jesus was a real person - there are too many coinciding stories to believe otherwise. Other beliefs I personally have about Jesus are personal and not up for discussion.

However, I feel I must interject here. The Bible was written by MEN. Even though they were inspired by God, the Bible was written by men. And has been re-written thousands of times. I personally consider the Bible to be like a game of "whisper." Whisper is where a group of people tell a whispered story to the person next to them, and so on until it reaches the last person. In some cases the story that comes out at the end is very garbled.

Here is where faith comes in: people of Christian religions believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Messiah. That is the faith. In the Catholic religion, Mary is "Beatified" (I think that's right) not a saint but glorified as Christ's mother. In many (but not all) Christian religions, the trilogy: the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are considered to be one entity.

In some Christian religions it is believed that during Holy Communion, the bread and wine actually become the flesh and blood of Christ.

The many different branches of the Christian faith, such as: Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Church of God, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian (to name just a few) all have different things they believe in, but still consider themselves to be Christian.

In the Jewish religion, they do not believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, thus, not the Messiah. They are still awaiting the Messiah.

Now I'm not exactly sure of this but I think that Islam goes like this that Allah is the Supreme Being and Mohammed is his foremost prophet, with other minor prophets.The Koran (Q'ran) is roughly equivalent to the Christian Bible.

There are a number (too numerous to mention them all) of religions that have multiple deities. Some are Buddhism, Hinduism, Paganism, Druidism, Native American faiths, and Wiccan (witchcraft, not to be confused with Satanism).
Even in these faithes, there is a stong belief in treating a person as you want to be treated. In many of these faiths, they have a sense of deification of the planet Earth. Ancient Greeks and Romans had specific Goddesses that represented Mother Earth.

Satan is also worshiped by some, but it is NOT the same as Wiccan. I know little about the Wiccan faith and even less about Satanism.

The main theme of almost all religions is to worship your God, love your neighbor and treat others as you would wish be treated. Some religions have numerous other commandments or rules.

Faith is what YOU personally believe in.

You do not have to go to church to be a religious person of ANY faith!!

I hope this helps you.

Answer 3

The Hindu religion has been around way longer than that. It predates all the Abrahamic myths.

By your argument that makes their holy books more reliable than yours.

So, when are you going to convert?


For most of that time the Catholic Church also claimed that the Earth was the center of the Universe and the sun, planets and stars all circled around it. Is that story true?

Allegedly Jesus performed major miracles in front of thousands of people. Why is there no contemporary documentation of this? Even the earliest gospel was written a generation after his death.

Answer 4

I'm not sure that I can speak for everyone but....
I think most people are relatively accepting of the fact that the stories of jesus were not made up - embelished perhaps, but not entirely fictional.
Personally I believe he must have been an amazing man and made quite the impression on literary types of his time. I wouldn't go so far as to say he was the son of god.
Besides that, as many people have already said, pagan religions, buddhism among others have been around for a whole lot longer than catholicism.

Answer 5

What more can I say....just 'cause something is old doesn't make it true, the Iliad was written down LONG before Christ or Judaism was even THOUGHT UP OF so does that mean it's true? The Aeneid was first thought up before Jesus was born, was THAT real then? (Actually...Aeneas WAS credited for founding Rome...) What about Beowulf, that was first orated a while before Christianity even CAME to the shores of Britain...so does that make that true? Highly unlikely for all the above cases...so what makes YOUR little story true, and if you say antiquity then you must be a Druid who believes in all of the above...

Answer 6

Because Catholicism is based off of pagan mythos and was later converted to Christianity much like when the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn accepted the Liber Legis. It existed long before Thelema but has now become a thelemic bastion.

Answer 7

Um, dude, the Catholic Church has only been around since 300 or 400 C.E. (or A.D., whichever you prefer).
Even if you insist that the Catholich Church is the same that Jesus established, that happened in 33 CE, which means that it's been around for something like 1974 years.

Answer 8

Where did you get your information? A cereal box?
What became the catholic church was invented around the 3d century by Emperor Constantine.
That's when the story of jesus christ was invented too.
You see for at least 300 years, the christian cult had no deity. It tried to make one up twice before the council of Nicea in 325 "ad". Constantine put an end to that. Taking the story of two jewish brothers and merging them into one fictional character that he called "jesus christ". Then the priests and acolytes were charged with writing a mythology about him. That's why it's been revised time and time again since that date.
Funny how history smacks myth upside the head huh?

Oh and the quote by Epicurus as posted by Tardis Girl pre-dates christianity too.
The idea of gods has been around since Neanderthal man looked out of his cave and wondered what everythign meant. The notion of god has no more validity now than it did then...

Answer 9

uh - carl, if the catholic church has been around for over 2000 years, then the stories about Jesus WERE made up, because Jesus lived only 2,000 years ago (approximately).

If you want to sound credible, you need to present factual information.

I just hope that after all the skeptics get through with you, you'll be OK. It's not my intention to tear into you, just to correct you.

Answer 10

The Dead sea is now rapidly "vanish"-ing. Selah.
The RCC is having troubled water finding priests,
and another law is making priests feel "wretched";
for their Holy see is as the Blind leading the blind.
Although RCC's still make up mainstream america,
this stream is drying up, due to awareness prevails.
http://www.godshew.org/AnotherLaw.htm

Add latin to the masses, to clear up the confusion?
It's intellectual suicide to return to the middle ages!

Add law worketh wrath to grace is sufficient?
Do sow and kiss yer dividead @ss bye bye!

It's been AD--->only goes fwd for over 2000 yrs.
Beyond 2000 is now the third day is the last day.
http://www.godshew.org/ThirdDay.htm

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus-->Christ with you-->all. Amen.

Answer 11

There are stories that are 5,000 year old stories of a snake biting God and God dying until got medicine.

Stories more than 2,000 years old that the whole world is on a turtles back and that eventually the turtle will go under water and we will all die.

I would say "Good story"