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Old 10-21-2006, 01:38 PM   #1
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Default PSYCHOLOGY OF PROPHETISM -Has anyone reviewed this in the forum?

PSYCHOLOGY OF PROPHETISM
A Secular Look at the Bible

KOENRAAD ELST

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Interesting compendium of information.
From this page, entitled " Salvation: Hindu influence on Christianity":

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Christianity is not as original as it flatters itself to be. Just as it is now widely accepted that the Old Testament has profusely borrowed from older Mesopotamian and Egyptian sources, the New Testament has likewise borrowed some of its core imagery and defining beliefs from the ambient Hellenistic-cosmopolitan culture and from the Indic teachings which had gained a certain popularity in the Eastern Mediterranean region. This implies that rather than being a direct gift from God, Christianity is simply a human construct, just as it already believes all other religions to be. Those who are inspired by Jesus’ example and teachings might do well to study their Saviour’s own sources of inspiration.
And although very few people in this forum would
have any interest in the issue, the same author has
clearly presented much research of the "Aryan Invasion
Theory" of the history of India, or rather, the myth thereof.


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