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Originally posted by IROC
The book, "A History of God" by Karen Armstrong does a good job of covering how many of our current religions borrowed from the more ancient ones. Nothing new in Christianity...move along..nothing to see here...
Mike
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There is a lot of truth to this. The history of religions, from cave men to modern men, is a fascinating subject. It’s quite interesting to see religions have changed over time. This is not only interesting to scholars of history, but it should also be interesting to modern day Christians. I would think they would want to know more of their history.
Here is a good start:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/rel_theory1.htm
In particular, this quote is found here:
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Most religions teach that they were directly revealed by their deity/deities to humanity, and are unrelated to other world religions. However there is considerable historical evidence from ancient times that religions in the area from India to the Middle East shared many religious beliefs. One example of this are:
The many passages in the Hebrew Scriptures which contain concepts or passages taken from Egyptian, Babylonian and other nearby Pagan religions.
Many of the events in the life of Jesus as recorded in the Christian Scriptures (New Testament) appear to have been derived from earlier Hinduism and other Pagan religious sources.
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