http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa5.htm
http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa2.htm
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/jesus.html
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/
2007-09-14 05:24:59 · 16 answers · asked by Dreamstuff Entity 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no1home2day - many people believed they met those other gods, too. Certainly millions feel they have felt Allah - does that mean he's real, too? How about other gods?
2007-09-14 05:33:17 · update #1
Quite some time ago, my friend. Almost every established religion in history is a rehash/rewrite of religions that came before it. Or completely made up (Scientology).
Almost every story in the bible can be traced to other mythologies and tribal legend. The flood, the trinity, the plagues, etc.
A lot of the mythos were taken almost verbatim from the Babylonians, if I recall correctly.
2007-09-14 05:32:09 · answer #1 · answered by most important person you know 3 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Accepted? LOL.
I've always known there had to be rational explanations for the Jesus story if there was any truth at all - the stories of magic (aka 'miracles') couldn't really exist in anything else but fiction.
Over two decades ago I was reading stuff which pointed to the re-cycled Jesus.
Today, with Google, there should be no excuses for ignorance.
I was seven when I first heard of the 'god' concept - I was amazed that adults would believe in invisible beings in the sky like Santa.
During the intervening 54 years my amazement has increased as my knowledge has increased.
I find it amazing that in the 21st century gullible people still believe in imaginary sky beings.
All I can say is that the priests do an excellent sell job and that threat of hell in a supposed after-life still works like magic.
Any torturer knows that if you threaten someone’s loved ones with enough pain and misery for long enough they'll do anything you ask - even believe in invisible sky chappies AND pay for the privilege.
2007-09-14 19:48:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there is only ONE god and religions just worship that same God different ways. This ways of looking at God, these visions of Deity, we call religions. But if you use your God given Mind and you think this through, it becomes obvious that some are seeing God as made in the image of man, that is a god with man like failings and defects. For example, and this is not to diss on any one, but just to give an example: When god is seen as ordering genocide, infanticide, the stoning of adulterers, etc; what these persons are 'seeing' is not god, but a man made image, an image of defective man .
God, in order to be god, HAS TO BE greater than mankind and, especially so, ethically. Thus in truth, God cannot order genocide, nor infanticide, nor
condemn His/Her beloved 'children' to an eternal fiery torment in a 'hell'
2007-09-14 13:12:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
After reading Joseph Campbell, and especially after reading the Bhagavad Gita and other Hindu texts (you forgot Krishna, by the way.)
2007-09-14 12:35:04 · answer #4 · answered by Cathy 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's all in the name of religion...
Go beyond religion. Do this:
Create Your Relationship with Our Creator
and have UnConditional Love and Peace in Your Life.
2007-09-14 15:02:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
neither he, nor christianity is a "clone" of older religions.
in order for it to be a clone, it would need to be a replica.
jesus is not, neither is christianity (although you could find similar preachers at the time that jesus could be a replica or similar enough to).
rather aspects of jesus and christianity were "borrowed" from other religions.
2007-09-14 12:37:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, but those others have elements of the Gospel from Christ who was there from the beginning. I suggest the Book of the Rolls (Kitab al Magall).
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/aa/aa2.htm
The links you provide, particularly horus/christ parallels are unsubstantiated. Try reading the Book of the Dead sometime for the real story on Horus.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/index.htm
2007-09-14 12:46:50 · answer #7 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
You must first realize that this world is full of deception from the "god of this world". So you must learn not from what other people have told you(forget everything youve been told), you must search within from personal experience. See for yourself what happens if you truly follow the word.
2007-09-14 12:43:15 · answer #8 · answered by pljohnson2 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I accept the notion of God as the true unifier of all things corporeal and spiritual? Does this count?
2007-09-14 12:28:47 · answer #9 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They won't even bother to read your helpful links.
Their understanding is that of a 3 year old child.
It is sad really.
Oh, you might want to add this link too
http://home.earthlink.net/~pgwhacker/ChristianOrigins/
2007-09-14 12:34:05 · answer #10 · answered by . 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋