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Before God talked to Abraham, I could see that Hinduism was made. (Buddhism wasn't made until after Judaism; yet, Buddhism was created in China, away from Judaism. I'm guessing Buddhism is a "branch off" from Hinduism.) Hinduism could have been made because, as I said earlier, there was a time after humans sinned and before God talked to Abraham. I could understand people who migrated to the Indian region may have forgot the story past down about Adam and Eve sinning against God, or they could have purposely rebelled against God just so they could make their own religion. I'm not the best to answer this either, seeing that I haven't studied about World Religions.

Also, I said earlier that people who lived between the time when Adam and Eve rebelled against God and the time when God talked to Abraham went to **** when they died, but I really think I'm wrong. I just remembered other Christians telling me that if they don't know God's law when they break it, then they're not rebelling against God and, therefore, go to heaven when they die. The fact is I don't know, and I highly recommend you asking someone else or reading the Bible. Of course, I recommend anyone to read the Bible to find answers to anything. (History proves the Bible is a very good source. I've heard that treasures have been found because of the Bible.)

By the way, here's a link that helps me understand more about world religions if you're interested. -> http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html

Actually Buddhism isn't a branch of hinduism and wasn't come up with in China. Completely different religions, with a gap of about 2000 years and was started in India or Nepal really. And that was just one example, people have been worshiping the earth/god's for about 30,000 years...long before Abraham was ever here.

My point is, it all goes with the time. There's been religions before and after Christianity, which is a branch of Judaism, and Islam is a branch of them both. It's no coincidence that the two most popular religions in the world, are two of the newest.

Jesus is liked by almost everybody, but his story had been around for awhile. I'll name 3 long before him, with the same back ground....





Mithra of Persia - was worshiped around 1500 BC.

--Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25 in a cave, and his birth was attended by shepherds bearing gifts.
--He was considered a great traveling teacher and master.
--He had 12 companions or disciples.
--Mithra’s followers were promised immortality.
--He performed miracles.
--As the “great bull of the Sun,” Mithra sacrificed himself for world peace.
--He was buried in atomb and after three days rose again.
--His resurrection was celebrated every year.
--He was called “the Good Shepherd” and identified with both the Lamb and the Lion.
--He was considered the “Way, the Truth and the Light,” and the “Logos,” [Word] “Redeemer,” “Savior” and “Messiah.”
--His sacred day was Sunday, the “Lord’s Day,” hundreds of years before the appearance of Christ.
--Mithra had his principal festival on what was later to become Easter.
--His religion had a eucharist or “Lord’s Supper,” at which Mithra said, “He who shall nto eat of my body nor drink of my blood so that he may be one with me and I with him, shall not be saved.”
--“His annual sacrifice is the Passover of the Magi, a symbolical atonement of pledge of moral and physical regeneration.”



Krishna of India - Was worshiped around 3228 BC.


--Krishna was born of the Virgin Devaki (“Divine One”) on December 25.
--His earthly father was a carpenter, who was off in the city paying tax while Krishna was born.
--His birth was signaled by a star in the east and attended by angels and shepherds, at which time he was presented with spices.
--The heavenly hosts danced and sang at his birth.
--He was persecuted by a tyrant who ordered the slaughter of thousands of infants.
--Krishna was anointed on the head with oil by a woman whom he healed.
--He is depicted as having his foot on the head of a serpent.
--He worked miracles and wonders, raising the dead and healing lepers, the deaf and the blind.
--Krishna used parables to teach the people about charity and love, and he “lived poor and he loved the poor.”
--He castigated the clergy, charging them with “ambition and hypocrisy . . . Tradition says he fell victim to their vengeance.”
--Krishna’s “beloved disciple” was Arjuina or Ar-jouan (Jouhn).
--He was transfigured in front of his disciples.
--He gave his disciples the ability to work miracles.
--His path was “strewn with branches.”
--In some traditions he died on a tree or was crucified between two thieves.
--Krishna was killed around the age of 30, and the sun darkened at his death.
--He rose from the dead and ascended to heaven “in the sight of all men.”
--He was depicted on a cross with nail-holes in his feet, as well as having a heart emblem on his clothing.
--Krishna is the “lion of the tribe of Saki.”
--He was called the “Shepherd of God” and considered the “Redeemer,” “Firstborn,” “Sin-Bearer,” “Liberator,” “Universal Word.”
--He was deemed the “Son of God” and “our Lord and Savior,” who came to earth to die for man’s salvation.
--He was the second person of the Trinity.





Horus of Egypt - one of the oldest and most significant of the deities in the Ancient Egyptian religion around 3000 BC.

-Horus was born of the virgin Isis-Merion December 25 in a cave/manger with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men.
--His earthly father was named “Seb” (“Joseph”).
--He was of royal descent.
--At at 12, he was a child teacher in the Temple, and at 30, he was baptized having disappeared for 18 years.
--Horus was baptized in the river Eridanus or Iarutana (Jordan) by “Anup the Baptizer” (“John the Baptist”), who was decapitated.
--He had 12 desciples, two of who were his “witnesses” and were named “Anup” and “Aan” (the two “Johns”).
--He performed miracles, exorcised demons and raised El-Azarus (“El-Osiris”), from the dead.
--Horus walked on water.
--His personal epithet was “Iusa,” the “ever-becoming son” of “Ptah,” the “Father.” He was thus called “Holy Child.”
--He delivered a “Sermon on the Mount” and his followers recounted the “Sayings of Iusa.”
--Horus was transfigured on the Mount.
--He was crucified between two thieves, buried for three days in a tomb, and resurrected.
--He was also the “Way, the Truth, the Light,” “Messiah,” “God’s Anointed Son,” “the “Son of Man,” the “Good Shepherd,” the “Lamb of God,” the “Word made flesh,” the “Word of Truth,” etc.
--He was “the Fisher” and was associated with the Fish (“Ichthys”), Lamb and Lion.
--He came to fulfill the Law.
--Horus was called “the KRST,” or “Anointed One.”




The Bible has been decent as far as history goes, because it goes back 2,000 years, but as for any of the stories as fact? None that I know of. If the world ends, I'll believe it, but I don't think there's a chance that, that "prophecy" will ever come true.



I've studied religion the past two years, studying it in college right now, most have the same basic principle - just differ with area and the age of it. They have come and gone like bad hair-cuts.