JCC If there is a God, then why is there evil and suffering?

that man was a genus.

 

Truly

 

Not to mention Kemetism. Or Sumer for that matter.

 

it is said Hinduism predates recorded history.

 

Let us have correction or elaboration on this. Hinduism as I understand is dated to 1500 BC. The pantheon of ancient Egypt predates this by 2500 years and Babylon and Sumer are even sooner. Hinduism is perhaps the oldest religion still practiced today.

 

The Lord works in mysterious ways. That's what I told my wife when she got breast cancer. Then she punched me.

 

I was told by actual practitioners no one knows when the religion started because it predates indian writing, ie prehistory. As for thoes others, does anyone still practice them?

 

My meaning for the coment that prompted this was that all religions are influenced by those that preceded them. Sumer, to Babylon, to Ancient Egypt, to Hinduism, to Mithraism, to Christianity etc etc.

 

That's not logically true. The Aztec religion was not influenced by Christianity just because one "predated" the other. Religions, like all other cultural produce, are influenced only by the specific ideas and circumstances that actually influence them.

 

Who/what are you plain facing? Such a cryptic post.

 

I just watched a show called 'Disappeared,' and the episode I caught involved a girl who disappeared, got into prostitution, and in the course of the investigation, a dozen prostitutes' bodies were discovered. And then the parents of that girl said "Thank God our daughter wasn't among them." Yes, God is so merciful for allowing a dozen other girls to be killed, but not our daughter!

 

If there is a God, then why is there evil and suffering?


Because God gave us the right to own guns!!!

 

Captain Obvious And His Cultural Produce.

 

Ok, this topic has always interested me. Hinduism does not exist in unbroken continuity since it's inception. It exists in many forms today. India is home to 4 of the world's 7 major religions, which originated there. On examination, ostensibly, religion develops as a system of coping mechanisms which address the unique challenges of terrain and climate. Many religions do in fact share common principals, but it should be pointed out that a series of trade routes stretched from ancient Mesopotamia into India and Tibet, called the Silk Road. It was by these trade routes that Buddhism, Zen and Taoism found their across Asia beginning in China. Christianity is based on Judaism and Greek Neoplatonic ideas. Judaism, actually gets most of it's core concepts and even names and structures from the Egyptians, who themselves borrowed from their neighbors, including the Sumerians. If one traced the evolution of Western religious doctrine, it began in Sumeria, probably in Ur, where 2 different migrations of peoples seemd to originate also. Some of those went north into territory that is Turkey, India, Pakistan, etc. some of those went West into Egypt. Even the bible records Abraham and his sons traveling West probably in exile, probably for some political crime. Catholicism leans heavily on Judaism, but the early church founders took great pains to seperate themselves from other Jews, so many of the traditional Jewish rituals and holidays were simply substituted for Christian ones. this trend would continue for several centuries while Christians worked to make themselves distinct, because originally there was nothing remarkable about the sect and even Jesus was 1 holy man among many who were doing the same thing and preaching the same doctrine. Even Jewish and Roman recors indicated that there were about 200 Jesuses running around doing the same thing. This later became known as the Seperation of the Ways. hinduism enjoyed next to no influence from Christianity, probably until India became a British Colony. I have pre-WWII books filled with editorials on Hindu attitudes towards English speaking Chritians and their Chivalry. It gave me the impression these were commenting on current affairs of their time and they were pretty unflattering. At the least, Western ideas were not widely accepted and definitely not appreciated. A curiosity in all fo this is that Krishna means "Christ" and this predates the Judeo-Christian mythology. To be frank, most of the stories we are used to from the bible actually come from other cultures who were never credited . The truth is that other religions influenced the formation of Christian doctrine, not the other way around. Perhaps this was the original function of Catholicism, whose root is actually latin for "universal".

 

I've got one word for you... paragraph.

 

Can I add two more?
Possessive. Pronoun.

 

What if Christ didn't die for our sins...but because the author thought that made a more compelling ending to the story?

 

If God created Adam from dust, why did he need Mary to give birth to Jesus?

If we are all God's children, what makes Jesus so special?

If God sacrificed his son so that all of mankind will be saved, but then Jesus came back to life, that doesn't seem like much of a sacrifice.

 

Yep. Good things happen to good people. Bad things happen to good people. Good things happen to bad people. Bad things happen to bad people.

It's all random, folks. Now be nice to others, hope for the best, and sign up for organ donation.

 

Oh, I forgot about this thread.

But a reminder, this isn't the Christianity thread, we already have that one too.

 

Not touching that thing.