he is actually correct, most of christianity is taken from the old egyption religions in an attempt to make their new religion, they succeeded mostly since few people could ever make out their falseness since not many actually look deep into these things
for example, things christianity has stolen from religions far older than itself, Buddha sat beneath the Bo tree for enlightenment, Christianity stole this tree and put it in the bible. the moses story was stolen from Sargon (both were born in secrecy, left in a reed basket to float down the river and adopted by royalty)
(1) False. Christianity comes from Jewish religion. Nothing to do with egypt's religion.
(2) The tree of Eden was in the Jewish scriptures long before Christianism.
(3) You are just talking about sensational pseudo-theories, which has not been proved at all. In fact, their only based are some resemblances. That's all. You see, some anti-catholic fundamentalist christian actually started this to bash the Catholic Church, in books such as the Babylon connection (whose author later recognized that he took only some assumptions but didn't have any real proof), later the anti-Christian took the same tactics to bash Christianity.
(4) Christianity is the most and better documented religion from the beginning up to date. With the exception of Fundamentalist christians, who think that Biblie fell from the sky, with an Index, chapters and that was written by God himself and think they should take it literally, Most of Christians: Catholics, Orthodox and Historical protestant groups know the documents starting from 1st century besides the Biblie itself, that enlighten about the way Bible should be interpreted, and the teachings first christians received orally from the apostles and his close disciples. We know Bible is God's revelation, and Inspired by the Holy Spirit, but written by men, according to the oral tradition they received from the apostles, and that certainly a book of collection of books is not sufficient for Christians, but they need the living testimony of the church founded by Christ, since Bible itself mentions it. Don't judge Christianity for the Fundamentalists.
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While I’m not an expert in the history of religion and what preceded what, but I do find it interesting that Judaism and Christianity use pagan symbols and ideology from older religions.
Just resemblances. Of course different cultures and religions around the globe can use similar symbols, ideas, values, but it doesn't mean necessarily that one comes from the other.
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The Islamic answer to this is so much better than the Christian one
All religions have been started to give glory to Allah, but only Muhammed (pbuh) is the true prophet who's word is akin to that of God.
That way, any similarities, due to the fact that all Abrahamic religions are just a mish mash of other preceding religons and regional superstisions, are proof positive of Allah.
Is that all you can say, bible-basher? Can't take the truth?
He is right, the Bible has stolen from Egyptian stories, Jewish stories, Buddhist stories, Norse stories etc., since it was written by a bunch of racist chauvenistic unimaginative morons. Do you like THE TRUTH?
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While that is true though I don’t hold it to be true just that I find it interesting in the similarities between older religions and newer ones. Even experts don’t know for sure either but I look at it this way, if the symbols and scriptures are coming from a divine source such as the Bible why they would have so many common or similar stories.
The History Channel did a decent show on this, called "Egypt: Land of the Gods", where they showed links of ancient Egyptian religion being the routes of more modern religions, ie Judaism, Christianity, Islam...
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