How could the  Judeo/Christian religion have started and remained until this day without the reason being.....
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EXACTLY....Nothing has been around longer than Gods WORD.  Nothing is above CHARITY and God is that love though which we can share His kindness through His love and His Word.  No other religion  on this earth can make that claim, the WORD being Jesus.
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Interesting question. Since they were the ONLY two people in the world, where did everyone else come from?\nMythology is stupid isn't it? Now watch the christians make up stories and excuses for this lame book of bronze age jewish mythology...
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1.  Ancient people, having no technical knowledge of a thing, would revert to the simplest answer to expalin it.  They were also much more religous than today's society and more readily accepted religous explanations for "evil."\n2.  I don't think this needs an answer...except...do you believe what you see?\n3.  See #2.
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Not exactly a true statement; The Catholic church as it exists today has only existed since the eighth century or so.  It started to form with the emperor Constantine.  So therefore, we should probably all be Jews in your mind as they were here first.  The original Christians were Jews!  Read the Bible and find out.
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Haha. This is a question that seems to go on forever isn't it? Well...in Biblical terms, the chicken came first.
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Good questions! Here are my answers:\n\n1. God created... No. a 1,000 days  to man is LIKE  a day to Jah. Indifinite time is indicated, otherwise it is ridiculous\n\n2. It was the earth that stood still not the sun. The verse was written from the perspective of  the writer who was obviously here on earth.\n\n3. Yes in ancient Israel. No, to Christians. According to Col 2:14, and Romans 7:6 . Christians no longer under the letters of the law but spirit (intent) of the law.\n\n4.Cut your hands. No. obviously ridiculous. Restrain your self well is likely meaning\n\n5. Eat my body… No to cannibalism. It was meant to listen and live by his words. (John 6:68)\n\n6. 144 K. Yes, not ridiculous. They rule the earth subjects are humans on earth ( Rev 5:9, etc )\n\n7. New Jerusalem. No, symbolic of God’s kingdom. Ancient Davidic line of kingdoms had Jerusalem as their capital\n\n8. Beast w/ multiple head. Symbolic. Of human kingdoms according to Chap 17 & 18 of Revelations, also Daniel chap 8.
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No, because if you study the history of theology many religions existed before the Bible was written.
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It is generally believed by historians that the earliest religion(s) were animistic, which developed into increasingly complex polytheistic systems.  \n\nEven the Bible tends to support this idea --- Abraham was said to abandon his "idols" (e.g. polytheism) in order to establish worship of the One God.\n\nReligion probably originates in the attempt to understand and explain the inexplicable in the world.
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From the bottom:\n\nChristianity ISN'T the oldest religion. This is a FACT. For one thing, it's a splinter sect of Judaism, so that had to come first.\n\nWe never called a man 'God' - there was one we called 'Jesus', who may or may not have been the Son of God and possibly part of a Holy Trinity meaning he also was God...but we never actually CALLED him 'God'.\n\nI've only ever been to the USA for a week-long holiday, so I don't think I can accurately judge what can be accomplished there.
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okay...  i'm **NOT** a christian, but let's say they're right for the purpose of discussion...\n\nif god made the world in six days and rested on the seventh..  what's a "day" to one who's existed for all time?  his day could be a trillion years to us wee mortals.
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That's a pretty poor understanding of history.\n\nThe Jewish people are one of two Israel-ish people to emerge from the bronze age into Iron age Canaan. Current archaeology shows that the legendary kings, David and Solomon, were truly historical person who lived about three thousand years ago in the area. Some Bedouin-style tent sites show that the inhabitants of Judaea (at around this time) had stopped eating pork - the only bronze age people to do so. \n\nThe ancestors of the modern Jewish people were conquered by the Babylonians from 2700 to 2500 years ago - Israel first, then Judaea next. The Judaean fall - which is better attested to, appears to have been the less traumatic in fact, since the people survived the seventy year period of exile from their ancestral lands, and were restored to it in living memory of the elders.\n\nThe Jewish people would come to be occupied by the Romans 2,060 years ago, following a period of alliance between Rome and the Hasmoneans (the Maccabees.) Eventually, the Jews revolted, first 1,930 years ago, and then 1,870 years ago. The first revolt resulted in the destruction of Herod's temple. After the second revolution, the Romans razed Jerusalem and expelled the Jews from jerusalem.\n\nRome and its successors held Jerusalem for another 500 years, then were thrown out by Muslim conquerors. Conversion to Islam or Christianity played almost no role in the waning Jewish demographics of the land - Jews throughout history have been largely immune to forced conversion, as the Maccabean revolt and babylonian captivity showed. Constant war and persecution are what drove Jews from their own land.\n\nZionism is, like any other aboriginal land rights movement, the effort to restore land to its original and idigenous people. Despite the biblical motif, there is every reason to believe Jews are descended natively from people of Canaan, and are the only living people who can rightly claim to be ancestral to the land. It should be theirs, as the United Nations decreed it to be in 1948.\n\n"Palestine" is in fact Jordan. That is where self-identified Palestinians were meant to live in the 1948 agreements. As to what happens in the occupied lands of the 1967 war, that should be solved politically between all the stakeholders, and not resolved through strange claims about converting to Christianity or Islam.
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Nope, not possible.  It is simply a work of fiction, albeit a very interesting one.\n\nThe bible was created merely as a means to further control and establish fear in the people of its time.
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I believe that there's no such thing as Christianity, it's something invented by Paul and the Roman after, if Jesus know about this he would probably disagree, he was just a Jewish reformer..
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Could be, rabbit.  There have been so many ancient writtings kept from the spot light of Christianity, I guess anything is possible. \n\nEver see more people more confused about one book?\n\nHey, ask'em "if they believe the dead will rise up in the rapture or is there immediate life after death."  They'll pull their hair out trying to figure out what to think.  hehehehehehe!
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Just because Bible doesn't mention other humans prior to or alongside Adam and Eve does not mean other people didn't exist.\nIt makes sense for others to be there.  \nI know this opens a whole other can of worms but it is an interesting thought.
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No Jews can trace their lineage back that far, due to the destruction of Jerusalem around A.D. 70. If he claims to be descended from Ishmael or Esau, though, I suppose that may be possible. But I doubt it.
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For someone so obsessed about extremely Orthodox letter-of-the-law detail, you certainly didn't pay attention to where you posted this, did you?\n\nThis belongs in Religion/Spirituality, not Teaching/Education.\n\nAnd all of this nitpicking about exact time, etc. on a forum like this is important -- why?  If a new Sanhedrin is established at a renewed site-built Temple in Jerusalem, whether they go computerized or through ancient observation is their headache, not yours.\n\nWorry about your own deeds and influence on the world. Do good for your fellow human and for the community, and the existence of a physical Temple will be inconsequential.