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Well, first you have to adjust your worldview. According to biblical history, all people decended from Adam and Eve and therefore all people through those generations were introduced to the biblical God and his teachings. A lot of those generations turned from the truth and invented their own beliefs, but the God of the bible was still first.
What about the civilisation that existed before your bible was even thought of. These civilisations have the same stories as are found in the Christian bible.
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Then the flood of Noah came and wiped out everyone except Noah and his three sons and their wives. They began to repopulate the earth. Again, the first generations were taught of the God of the bible and His laws and teachings. But again, you had those that decided they would turn from the truth and start their own religions.
There was no flood. The survival of Egypt's "Old Kingdom", and the total lack of all the massive geological evidence that a recent worldwide inundation would inevitably leave behind (massive runoff channels, massive water erosion, total disruption of Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheet layers, and so forth).
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At the Tower of Babal, when the languages got scrambled because of man's disobedience, people then dispersed across the globe, grouped according to their language. These different people groups started their own religions and actually, a lot of them borrowed from the teachings they had learned of the God of the Bible. That's also why, for example, many cultures around the world have a 'flood story' very similar to the Noachian Flood. But Noah's was the true flood and their's was the variation of that.
There is no evidence of any pre-Babel "common language" in written records, no sign of any post-Babel "confusion of languages" towards the end of the second millennium BC (the time of Babel). Also, Sumerian legends that date to around 5000 BCE (long before your bible was written) have a flood myth. Christianity pinched the story from them.
The Sumerian myth of Ziusudra also builds a boat for his wife and some animals. It was the Sumerian god Enlil who initiated the Flood.
Well, since (IMO) Yahweh-based religions evolved from a common Canaanite pantheon, I suppose it's not much of a stretch to think that the Israeli-area religion adopted the story from its western neighbors in Sumer.
As for the original question, I don't know. But the lines probably aren't unique to Buddha, either - there have been many enlightened people over the years!
As for the original question, I don't know. But the lines probably aren't unique to Buddha, either - there have been many enlightened people over the years!
Oh! I agree entirely. That's the point I'm making.....the sayings of JC are not unique to JC, nor those of the buddha, unique to the buddha.
Wow, what about all the billions and billions of good souls who never heard of Jesus, past, present and future? Not my kind of god.
If you read Romans 1:19-20 you will see that God provided a way for everyone to know Him, no excuses for anyone.
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