Bwana

I have been looking for something that was not taken from other religions, but that was all I came up with for an origional concept. So you dont have to work too hard, here is a link.... http://www.currentera.com/
found some interesting discussions on their board too. http://currentera.com/phpBB2/
So, any thoughts?

KenLynch

Not that original. Zoroastrianism has a hell which punishes people according to their evil deeds until the day of judgement, after which they will be purified. All Christianity has done is move hell to after the judgment and make it forever.

Bwana

Your absolutly right. I did intend to specify an eternal hell. My bad.....

edain55337

hmmm... I was going to say monotheism, but you would have to accept the argument that Christianity is really just another form of Judiasm.....

How about the "3 who are one"? I was raised a Roman Catholic and still can't get my mind around that one. Who would want to worship a God with Multiple Personality Disorder?

I always did like Purgatory and paying off your sins, but that practice really isn't followed today (though it did make a dollar or two back in the middle ages...)

Bwana

Well, the trinity was never mentioned in the bible. It seems to be the product of centuries of dogma and the competition Christianity had with Paganism during the dark ages. I think the first mention of the trinity was Constantine in of Nicea 325 C.E. It never made much since to me either.
I never much liked the idea of ever paying for anything, much less my sins. How much is infidelity worth on the open market these days?

KenLynch

While the trinity isn't explicitly mentioned, there are passages which point to Jesus and the Holy Spirit being one and equal with God, these form the basis for trinitarian belief. Although these were not enough for one copyist who added to 1 John

1 John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

This verse generally isn't well accepted, but it did make it into the King James.

Anyway, even the trinity isn't original. Hinduism has the tri-murti of Brahma, Vishnu and Siva and many other ancient polytheistic religions have this kind of three-fold grouping of their deities.

Sheshbazzar

Not the least of these being the religion of ancient Egypt, with its triology of Isis-Horus-Seb, or IHS

Shven

Not true.

They also coined the concept of original sin.

and they were the first religion to allow slaves to be followers. whether this is a good or a bad thing I dont know.

Bwana

I think they call that verse the Johannine Comma (1 John 5:7). It showed up some say as late at 1500 C.E.

Bwana

I thought the original story of the Garden of Eden and the Adam and Eve thing was from Mesopotamia. (Whenever I am not sure about where something comes from, I blame the Babylonians).