Why no one revived the relegion that existed before chritianity? The Egyptian gods, Roman gods,...?
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hinduism ,busdhism, have survived christianity and islam. there are many other faiths are also surviving . reviving the older faiths is not possible in christian and islamic countries . in islam if somebody converts the punishment is death. so forget of revival in those countries. christians declare them followers of satan and percecute them . no one revived the relegion that existed before chritianity because who did were burnt on stake as satan's disciples.
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People created god out of a need to answer unanswerable questions. We used to have dozens of gods (Rome and Greece, etc.) but simplified it down to one to help with all the memorization.
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There were many religions before Christianity. Judaism is one, just the Old Testament. Other religions have multiple Gods and Goddesses. Some have none. Christianity is not the only and not the first and maybe not even the right religion.
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Uh, no. \n\nThe concept of a trinity is nothing new. While the word itself isn't in the Bible, the concept was around for a long time before; that's why and how the apostles understood it even without it being specifically named. But it doesn't work at all the same as any mythology.\n\nThere's a blog on my 360 that explains it in detail, but there's too much to include here and still hope to be literate. Anyway, the idea has nothing to do with Adam, Abraham, or Moses. The message of Jesus is hardly to worship 3 gods, nor is it to worship the trinity. He did say to worship the God who sent him, but made very clear comments about his own deity.
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Christian god needs repairing and reshaping. I will be happy to repair her but I am busy with repairing the Jewish and muslim gods for the time being. After I repair the christian one, your problems will be solved ... believe me...
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I am not a great believer in the God theory, so I'm not surprised that he/she hasn't been back since the old biblical days.\nIf there is a God, perhaps he doesn't like what he sees, and has washed his hands of the whole mess.
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Trust me on this one. There were 13 Roman gods. The thirteenth was known for his tricks and bad deeds. That is why 13 is beleaved to bad luck.\n\nP.S.\nGiggly Giraffe is correct if you count Jesus, but that has nothing to do with 13 being unlucky.
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I wish I knew where they were buried as well.  Also, the original bible, I would love to know where it is...I hope someone gives you a good answer for this question.
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As far as I know they only had myths that were first passed on as oral traditions and then later written down. Specific temples might have had writings pertaining to the god who the temple belonged to but I can't see too much of that surviving to present day.
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Greek Reconstructionism\nhttp://www.hellenion.org/\nhttp://www.sponde.com/\nhttp://www.elaion.org/\n\nThey attempt to honor Greek Gods in a way that reflects the ancient Greek cultures as accurately as possible in our modern world.  Like any other Pagan Reconstructionist, they are an excellent source for accurate information concerning the culture of the peoples who once worshiped their deities.
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The Bible in it's present form didn't exist until hundreds of years after Christ's crucifixion. Until that time Christians had the same scriptures that the Jewish nation had. But they didn't practise Judaism, they practised Christianity.\n\nSo, if it was just the Bible... then Christians would have practised Judaism.\n\nThe New Testament wasn't the foundation of Christianity. Christ was.
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It's not a weird notion.  There is no evidence of a lot of things that transpired during the times of Christ.   Sure the Bible talks about it and is the ONLY accepted history of that time.   I'm inclined to think that the apostles did run with their interpretation of Christ's teachings.   I'm not so sure it was to create an alternate Jewish religion, but an alternate politically correct on of the time.   Jesus didn't come to Earth to have people worship him as God.  That was furthest from his teachings.  His teachings were to show people the way to the Father through his teachings.  Even the perverstion of "The only way to heaven is through Christ."   It simply means that to get to heaven is to be like Christ and follow his teachings.   It does not mean to worship him as God.   Never has, never did, never will.
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I believe the very first record of monotheism occurred in ancient Egypt under the Pharaoh Akhnaten in Amarna.  He declared that all must worship only the Aten - the solar disk - and he ordered all other deities destroyed and no one was allowed to worship any but Aten.  This was a short-lived movement, ending with Akhnaten's death.\n\nZoroastrianism is usually considered a dualism, but in some ways it resembles monotheism, and it is quite old.  It was the Persian religion at least by the time of the Persian empire, but its roots go back much further to the Prophet Zoroaster, or Zarathustra.  He taught that there is one Great God, the Wise Lord, called Ahura Mazda.  But there is also a Satan-like figure, Ahriman who is evil and is in battle with Ahura Mazda, but in the end, it is good that will win out.\n\nOf course, Judaism is well known as an early Monotheistic religion.  But originally, Judaism is better described as "henotheistic" which means that while the Israelites themselves only worshiped one God, they believed in the existence of other gods, that would be worshiped by other nations.  The real advent of true Monotheism did not begin in Israel until probably the time of the Prophets, starting from around 700 and really taking form by 500 BCE.
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It's all a load of nonsense. The whole 666 thing came from the Bible, which was put together by a bunch of Romans who wanted to control people. Why is it people still believe in the Bible despite the fact it is just a selective history? They take it as gospel, at face value. There were hundreds of books but only a few were chosen to go in the Bible, the ones that reflected the view of the Romans and gave across the views that they wanted to give across. Know a story when you read one!
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That’s just what the original christians (the gnostics) believed (and still do). To them it was Jesus’ life and teaching which “saves”, not his suffering and death. All this god-men and miracles and eveyone’s-a-sinner and virgin births and crucified saviours of the world business was added by the Romans. Do some research, it’s all there.
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In most religions that predate Christianity have a god or idol that died and rose from the grave.
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""Question for those who say `Jesus never existed', or `he is a myth'...? Where did the 100's of Christians in Rome come from (around 64 AD) that were tortured and killed by Nero?""\n\nFirst, plenty of people died for their faith, even if you think their faith was nonsense. Sincerity and willingness to die for what one believes in, does not mean that what one believes in is True.\n\nSecond, there are plenty of people who lived over the last 3,000+ years who definitely existed, but whose faith centered around myth, unless, of course, you think that Zeus and Jupiter, Hercules and Dionysus, among many other mythological gods, and those who followed them, were all real???