I learned that there are three religions that have holy books that are from God. So what about the rest?

Question

The three religions are mainly Islam, Judaism and Christianity.
So, where the teachings of other religions came from?

Thank you for your answer:
But the rest is through experience and revelation nothing like the "Words of God" like Islam, Judaism and Christian have. What we have in the three religions are the holy books claimed are the exact words of God. Where as other religions are based upon revelation from their experience.


revelation (sruti), hence from God (whatever that means!).
As for Buddhism, Taoism, it stems from experience of the founder of these tradition. And couldn't way say that revelation is experience as well. Things are a bit more complex that we'd originally thought, no...

Thank you for your answer:
But the rest is through experience and revelation nothing like the "Words of God" like Islam, Judaism and Christian have. What we have in the three religions are the holy books claimed are the exact words of God. Where as other religions are based upon revelation from their experience.

Answer 1

The rest are nothing less as fiction books for entertainment. However, those books are too boring to read because of all the stories are out of date. Veda for example, the story is to difficult to understand, all those characters are too difficult to remember and I don’t know what message the Veda try to convey.

Answer 2

That the holy books of Islam, Judaism and Christianity come from god is merely a claim, with no ability to be substantiated. Those that take these scriptures as the "word of god" do so based on the authority of those religions.

Too, other faiths have sacred texts said to come directly from god; such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints (the Mormons). One must recognize that this is a claim, with no proof, just as with the historical judeo-Christian-Islamic churches.

Wicca, today has sacred text, some of which is deemed inspired. We simply don't make the claim that these are the infallible word of God. There can be no proof of this, so it is unreasonable to make such a claim. Had the texts of the "big three" religions not been revealed until today, they certainly wouldn't be considered in the same regard. It is also true that these texts are only considered authoritative by those who subscribe to the particular religions. Christians don't accept the Koran, nor do Jews accept the New Testament.

To assert that anything comes directly from God is only valid in the context of a particular religion.

I could assume that the Charge of the Goddess is divinely inspired. Some Wiccans, in fact, may believe this whole-heartedly. The fervent belief of an individual, or a group for that matter, does not lend credence to any assertion that a book is divinely inspired any more than the belief that an atom is the smallest unit of matter, which was held by many scientists for quite some time, was able to hold up under scrutiny.

Please consider the fact that we have only human sources for anything. What comes in the sacred texts of Islam, Judaism and Christianity is merely an assertion that these words are divinely inspired; nothing more.

Answer 3

There is a original "sruti" that comes from the mouth of the Supreme Lord and that is the Vedic knowledge, that was learned by aural reception form time immemorial.
People were so intelligent and had such sharp memories that by once hearing from the lips of the spiritual master they would understand and there was no necessity of reading it, they would immediately grasp the whole purport. But five thousand years ago Vyäsadeva put the Vedas in writing for the people in this age, Kali-yuga. He knew that eventually the people would be short-lived, their memories would be very poor, and their intelligence would not be very sharp.
Other srutis, like the Bible and Koran, are giving to a different class of man according to time, place and circumstances, by different prophets. The Vedic srutis is like Webster's International big dictionary, and the bible and koran are like the small pocket dictionary.
The ripened fruit of Vedic knowledge is Srimad-Bhägavatam and is the supreme Vedic evidence.
dharmaà tu säkñäd bhagavat-praëétaà
na vai vidur åñayo näpi deväù
na siddha-mukhyä asurä manuñyäù
kuto nu vidyädhara-cäraëädayaù
TRANSLATION
Real religious principles are enacted by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although fully situated in the mode of goodness, even the great sages who occupy the topmost planets cannot ascertain the real religious principles.
(Srimad Bhagavatam 6.3.19)

Answer 4

Well, I guess that what you've heard comes from someone who belongs to one of these three religions!!! Hinduism also claims that their holy texts are coming from a revelation (sruti), hence from God (whatever that means!).
As for Buddhism, Taoism, it stems from experience of the founder of these tradition. And couldn't way say that revelation is experience as well. Things are a bit more complex that we'd originally thought, no...

Answer 5

The books merely record prior teachings, they are not the source of them, nor are they from any god - they were written by men obviously.

You also left out the Indian Vedas and the Egyptian pyramid texts, as well as hundreds of more modern religious texts for all known religions. These are also holy books.

Answer 6

The others came from their masters' own experiences, and were made by man. There was such a Holy Book named Zaboor, but it has long vanished.

Answer 7

they're older than these religions .. so we don't know them yet .. ( vanished .. there's someone called ( zaboor ) before these religions .. and by the way .. people have the fake version of the bibles old and new testament .. they are rewritten by people not by a prophet or god the original one was vanished too .. buried by time .. except Koran .. it's the words of god . the last religion

Answer 8

For indepth knowledge and information about Islam, please read authentic Islamic Books. Here is the best website for authentic Islamic Books:

http://www.dar-us-salam.com/?ref=3278ecfa

Answer 9

I have to admit the Rev.Soleil's comment made me laugh.
As a Christian I cannot condone it but ...

Answer 10

Actually, the teachings of ALL religions come from one place...

Out of the a** of the person who invented it.