ABikerSailor
Diamond Member
I have chosen to end my belief that I am Christian. Good luck to Jesus Christ. Now the trouble I have comes from unseen spiritual/mind powers. I am under attack of some sort. This bothers me. I am also interested in Hinduism and like to joke around that dogs are Hindu. Cats are Moslem and horses are atheists
First off, let me state something really simple............you get farther along looking for similarities than you do looking for differences.
Now, Hinduism, Judaism and Zen (Tao and Buddhist belief), all have one really interesting thing in common........reincarnation.
Christianity has a very diluted form of it, it's called being born again.
Additionally, Christianity is a derivative of Judaism (remember......Yeshua was Jewish), and after Rome sacked Jerusalem the second time, they decided to also take their religion.
There was a problem though.......Rome was mostly a pagan nation and the locals wouldn't buy it. So, what they did was mix in pagan and Christian things (Easter with bunnies and crucifixes, as well as the sunrise service on the solstice), and then, after that, they edited it to look like the OT was pointing to the NT, and the NT was pointing to Revelation, which was all about Christ.
So, they edited the Bible, threw out the parts that didn't make sense, and kept the parts they liked.
In other words, today's Christians are only working from about a half a book.
Never mind the fact that some of the translations from Hebrew to English have missed things. The commandment isn't "thou shalt not kill", it's actually "thou shalt not MURDER", which is much different.
Then, there's also the first verse of Genesis "In the beginning". It's actually "in A beginning", because according to the Torah and the Tanach, there were 974 generations before us (meaning 974 different creations of everything).
I understand why you don't like Christianity and why you're interested in Buddhist, Taoist and Hindu beliefs.
By the way, if you have cable and get God's Learning Channel (theological channel), watch on Thursdays at 11:30 am, "Hidden in the Hebrew" with Uri Harel.
You may enjoy it.