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Originally posted by fabbriche
Christianity, just like other religions that predated it, were all revelations. Christianity acknowledges that all religions have common source and have pieces of truth to them hence it has parallelism with other religions. Religions share similarities because they are progression from the ones that came before them. God has given a glimpse to peoples in various cultures before Christ of the certain realities of truth that would one day become, the Bible. Paganism is the first step or the slice of a reality that awaits to be discovered. And monotheism is man's realization of that reality. Where earlier religions erred to varying extents in their interpretation of God's revelation, Judaism received a truer understanding, and Christianity even moreso.
Those are just mere translations. The Bible cannot possibly be altered not with textual criticism around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textual...#Old_Testament |
Just because Christianity was influenced by older religions or spiritual systems doesn't actually mean it acknowledges them and is trying to promote parallelism. It just means it took aspects of them, which is natural when previous ideas exist. You're adding your interpretation to that fact by saying it's progressive because it builds on older beliefs. Muslims could use the same argument about Islam.
That's just the Old Testament, which many Christians don't even follow. The New Testament has definitely changed over the years.
P.S. I love the way you argue this. I love reading your posts.
