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So I googled "which pagan gods offered salvation through belief in him -christianity -jesus" eliminating christianity and jesus and still I got references to Paul and Lutheran Baptist Church and other sundry Christianized references. I'm looking for a website that shows gods outside Christianity that Christ may have modeled on. I know Krishna said that salvation came only through belief in him:
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Krishna in the The Bhagavad Gita:
“Keep me in your mind and devotion, sacrifice to me, bow to me, discipline
yourself toward me and you will reach me
But that's as far as I can get. I know there were other pagan gods that offered salvation through them alone but I cannot find a list. Can anyone help?
So I googled "which pagan gods offered salvation through belief in him -christianity -jesus" eliminating christianity and jesus and still I got references to Paul and Lutheran Baptist Church and other sundry Christianized references. I'm looking for a website that shows gods outside Christianity that Christ may have modeled on. I know Krishna said that salvation came only through belief in him:
But that's as far as I can get. I know there were other pagan gods that offered salvation through them alone but I cannot find a list. Can anyone help?
There is no other false god that became man and died on a cross to satisfy the wrath of God. Only Christianity involves a God that redeems humans, versus humans having to work their way to HIM.
Many religions do not have a concept of "salvation". Animists for example believe generically that spirits inhabit various objects and each can offer assistance with certain things if you approach it in the right way with requests, but these are practical things relating to survival and everyday living -- there is no eternal punishment you're being threatened with and from which you must be saved by propitiation of some kind. Inherently to have that you almost need a monotheistic belief-system with a supreme deity.
Quite often animism is associated with ancestor worship and regards the worlds of the living and the dead as interacting organically with each other. There is no concept that the dead are in torment or unquiet, but simply graduated to a higher plane. The rituals of such religion aren't directed at constraining the behavior of their adherents or securing their "salvation", but simply with keeping the wheels of the machinery of the universe moving properly, so to speak.
A Hindu once told me that each Hindu household chooses (or follows by ancestral tradition) a particular "household god" or subset of gods from the substantial Hindu pantheon. and that it isn't a question of any one of them being the "right" one and there is no competitiveness between households with different gods. This business of rightness (and alleged but often not very evident reward for it) and wrongness (and overdetermined punishment for it) is just absent from most religions. Religions that are NOT obsessed with "being right" tend to focus more on "doing right" or "doing well" or "doing better". Which I personally believe to be the better focus anyway. The ones who are preoccupied with avoiding incorrectness often end up behaving badly in the service of ideology. At the very least they promulgate guilt and shame in the service of controlling people.
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