Originally posted by Alliance
Ok. I think many great people express similar ideas, but I don't necessariyl believe it to be a causal relationship.I also don't trust the Bible to be historically accurate. The historical record surrounding Muhammad, Siddartha, and others makes them more realistic beings.
There were rumors that in his personal journeys through the desert, Jesus Christ actually learned a whole LOT from the far East...
Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Because similarities are just too great to be coincidental, in what they bought thought.Just a personal belief.
I think that intrinsic truths exist in behavioral propriety. Given this, the similarities may be due to basic truths of proper behavior, not necessarily to knowledge of other teachings.
Originally posted by Alliance
Ok. I think many great people express similar ideas, but I don't necessariyl believe it to be a causal relationship.I also don't trust the Bible to be historically accurate. The historical record surrounding Muhammad, Siddartha, and others makes them more realistic beings.
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Study the stories surrounding these individuals, many events are similar in level of improbability.
Originally posted by Regret
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😆 😆Study the stories surrounding these individuals, many events are similar in level of improbability.
You cannot ignore the fact however that Jesus went on a personal journey, and that he had contact with people from the far East...
The people in the Far East who had influence from Buddhism possessed the "love thy neighbor" philosophy way before Jesus preached it...
I am by no means discreditting Jesus, only trying to remind you that he is a HUMAN BEING and is subject to being influenced as well....
Originally posted by Lord Urizen
You cannot ignore the fact however that Jesus went on a personal journey, and that he had contact with people from the far East...The people in the Far East who had influence from Buddhism possessed the "love thy neighbor" philosophy way before Jesus preached it...
I am by no means discreditting Jesus, only trying to remind you that he is a HUMAN BEING and is subject to being influenced as well....
All religious figures could have been influenced by other people's teachings. My comment is to the idea that the "historical record surrounding Muhammad, Siddhârtha Gautama, and others makes them more realistic beings." This is an error. These individuals are just as incredible and difficult to view as "realistic beings" as Jesus is.
Originally posted by AllianceHistorically existing figures yes, but as to them being "more realistic beings" than Jesus, this is not true. They are all just as realistic as the next.
But there is more concrete evidence of their actual existance. They were histoorical figures, whether you buy into their divine nature or not.
Originally posted by AllianceI doubt that in less than a century people would have forgotten a figure as monumental as Jesus as described in the New Testament. Given this, early Jewish converts to Christianity that lived in the area that Jesus taught would be evidence of his existence, unless you are claiming that there were no Christians until at the earliest somewhere close to one hundred years later. It would be illogical to believe that those in the area would be Christian if some person named Jesus did not exist, regardless of the accuracy of Biblical claims.
No I disagree. At least we can tell that Siddarth and Muhammad were based on one historical figure.
Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Because similarities are just too great to be coincidental, in what they bought thought.Just a personal belief.
Apparently the Bible predicts Mohammed......the last time I read about it seemed convincing but I have learnt alot since then. Besides there so much other stuff about Islam that even if the Bible did predict Mohammed it would not matter.
Originally posted by Council#13
Are you sure? 😖hifty: Islam is about peace. Unless we're talking about the wrong Muhammed here! 😱
According to the Islamic scholar Alliance it does.
Originally posted by Council#13
Are you sure? 😖hifty: Islam is about peace. Unless we're talking about the wrong Muhammed here! 😱
Oh, let me guess.
You have never read the Qur'an, but you ''hear about it'', you don't know what a ''Hadith'' and ''Sunnah'' are, you don't know basic pre-islamic history of Arabia, which brought about Muhammad, you don't know any of the history involving Muhammad nor what he did, nor what he preached.
I bet you don't know amongst killing between 600 to 900 Jews personaly, he married a 9 year old girl when he was 54.
But the TV told you Islam is a religion of peace, so it must be true.