Christianity copied from other religions?

voicingmaster · Post by **voicingmaster** » Sat May 14, 2005 5:35 pm

Just so you know where I'm coming from, I am a Christian, for those that don't already know. I recently saw this argument against Christianity and don't know what to make of it.

Christianity and Hinduism are almost parallel. Well, to be more accurate, Jesus and the Hindu god, Krishna seem parallel. They both had virgin birth, sinless life, crucifixion, descent into Hell, resurrection, ascension to heaven, criteria for salvation, and were part of some sort of Trinity. Obviously the argument states that the Apostles copied from Hinduism to make a religion.

Can someone please give me an explanation as to why and how these two belief system are so close together or a counter to the argument? And if you really don't know which "story" came first, Krishna did his thing 14 centuries before Jesus did (according to the Hindu belief of Krishna).

jerickson314 · Post by **jerickson314** » Sat May 14, 2005 5:46 pm

http://tektonics.org/copycat/krishna01.html

Mastermind · Post by **Mastermind** » Sat May 14, 2005 8:13 pm

Whatever you read is definitely a load of crap. Krishna died of a stray arrow from a hunter from what I remember. I don't even think they had crucifixion back then...

voicingmaster · Post by **voicingmaster** » Sat May 14, 2005 8:55 pm

It was on religioustolerance.com

Kurieuo · Post by **Kurieuo** » Sat May 14, 2005 9:02 pm

The only position that site advocates is religious pluralism. As far as they go, if one doesn't accept their pluralist position by considering all religions on par, no religion being more truer than the other, then I guess that would make us intolerant since we don't bow to the truth claims of their own position?

Kurieuo.

voicingmaster · Post by **voicingmaster** » Sat May 14, 2005 11:33 pm

Oh, I didn't know that it was pluralistic, I thought it was just a site that provides biasless information on the religions. (then again, I haven't explored the site that thoroughly to know that). And heh, yeah I guess that makes us intolerant by not accpeting them.

And IMO, pluralism is a joke.

Kurieuo · Post by **Kurieuo** » Sun May 15, 2005 12:03 am

Whether they do or don't come out and say so directly, if you read enough it should become clear that their writings are clearly saturated with a relative philosophy. At least I picked it up evidentally enough.

Kurieuo.

AttentionKMartShoppers · Mon May 16, 2005 3:37 pm

Christianity and Hinduism are almost parallel. Well, to be more accurate, Jesus and the Hindu god, Krishna seem parallel

Hinduism has no basis of right and wrong. There is no moral difference between cruelty and non-cruelty (as Francis Schaeffer puts it). There is such a thing in Christianity.