Did You Know That Christianity is the World's Oldest Religion in That it is an Unbroken Continuation of What Was Planned Since Earliest Times?

[Phanta]

Yes

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I don't care; it's still a bunch of hogwash to me

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[CountessSarah]

That's word salad.
"... Unbroken Continuation of What Was Planned Since Earliest Times?"
What does that mean? It sounds like you're saying, that Christianity is the oldest religion, according to Christianity. - Other religions existed before Christianity, but they don't count because they are either broken continuations, or don't fit 'what was planned since earliest times.'

[Grobmate]

That and... pretty sure Eve was with Adam because she was there when she ate the forbiddenfruit. Mary immaculately conceived and somehow John the Baptist was Jesus' cousin.

Doesn't sound well planned

[Phanta]

It's a nice Greek salad. Eat up. You have a point in that it is basically Christianity saying that it's the oldest religion in circular fashion. **However**: Christian scripture is comprised of a constant referencing back to the Mosaical (or Jewish) age and the Patriarchal age. Some also see an age before that in Scripture too. And a lot of pre-Christian symbolism is unclear without the light of Christian revelation. If you can give me a concrete example of another religion that closely ties in to a previous form like Christianity does, and also makes it older than Christianity, then I plan on deleting this question. But if you will not or cannot, my claim stands.

[CountessSarah]

Your claim stands, it's just meaningless.

[Agape93]

Hinduism is the oldest religion in continuous practice

[ladsin]

I guess C? Although more specifically on this question it’s just not apparently true even if we were to allow that Christianity’s history should be extended with Judaism’s history. Judaism is dated to 9th centuries BC. This makes them pretty old, but certainly not the oldest in common practice. Hindu vedas go back to the 15th century BC, and Zoroastrianism to 10th century.

[strateguy632]

Even the website ranking jew second wrote judaism started in 2000 b. c. shich shockingly is BEFORE 1500 b. c.
Now why would someone who knows numbers rank that 2?
travel.earth/oldest-religions-in-the-world/amp/

[slatyb]

Not even true. Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism are all older than Christianity, although one could argue that Buddhism is not a religion.

[Phanta]

Did you even bother to look at my chart, let alone think about it?

[slatyb]

Adam and Moses are mythological characters, not real people. Christianity started sometime in the first century CE. The religions I mentioned are all hundreds of years older.

I forgot to mention Zoroastrianism, which is about 2000 years older than Christianity.

[strateguy632]

That is silly, you think adam and eve celebrated Easter or Christmas? Or "submitted " by fasting ramadan?

The contents of the religion are not old , neither lessons by jesus nor lessons later by muhamed, nor the "trimurti" of modern hindu , invented 300 or more years after jesus to mimic trinity and tempt Christians to join.

[Soteris]

That would be complete bullshit and a pretty flimsy attempt to hijack part of the Jewish heritage to try support Christianity. Besides not only does it fall flat on its face religiously but it has no basis in reality either.

As far as we can decern Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world with roots as far back as 4000 years ago.

[strateguy632]

Nope even those ranking hindu "longest lasting" say 1500 b. c. 500 hundred years after the year they themselves wrote for jew.

[GuidoThePizzaMaker]

Atheist propaganda was so powerful, these questions always show how anti-religion and in particular anti-Christianity people are, because of the non-stop propaganda machine.

[Deathraider]

2 thing:
1. If anything, that title belongs to Hinduism.
2. I mean there was the Great Schism, which split the Catholic Church from the Eastern Orthodox. Then there was also the Reformation, which broke the Catholic Church into many other Christian Faith, although you could commit a not a true Scotsman fallacy by saying that those aren’t true Christian religions.

[DamnSam]

Just to notice you, jesus itself startet christian religion, right...
But jesus was a jew, so basically Jewish religion needs to be older... and I know Hinduism is the oldest religion but its a long way from Hinduism to Jewish, probably many dead religions in that time between... your info is just crap

[Cammy137]

It isn't the oldest religion. Hinduism is. Even before that, the clay tablets of Ancient Sumer refer to creation stories and flood myths and other aspects of a belief system.

[strateguy632]

And... sumer religion died... not lasting living, same as vedas are not obeyed anymore.

[call_me_scar]

1 Google search shows that your wrong also your religion is hardly unbroken after all just ask what parts of your book are real and what parts are metaphorical and you can watch your people argue with each other

[Phanta]

Just because something appears on a Google search doesn't mean it's correct.

[call_me_scar]

So in other words you have no evidence for your claim aside from a website or to owned by a Christian fundamentalist with a complete bias

[Hurdleez-Swampede]

Christianity may be deemed a religion but it is more of a relationship.

In other religions, they don't have someone who partakes into your life in spirit form nor died for our sins.

[Phanta]

Scripture clarifies that it is a religion. "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."----------James 1:27 KJV

[ladsin]

There are and were a lot of gods who died for humanity in various religions both in antiquity and today. Actually, of the mystery religions Christianity was one of the last to arise. Dionysus, Zalmoxis, Osiris, Inanna, and Adonis at least we’re all dying and rising savior gods that pre-existed Christianity.

[Hurdleez-Swampede]

@ladsin
But does any of them have a comforter like the Holy Ghost?

[ladsin]

No religion is exactly the same either today or in antiquity. But the claim that no god died and rose again to secure eternal life for their adherents is false.

[meetdarpan]

It's not the oldest religion. Hinduism is the oldest religion.

[Caunsos]

What your source on this? Also if your source is the bible or has the bible as its source, you lose your argument.

[Deep_Mind]

That’s demonstrably false. The oldest religion in continuous practice is Hinduism.

[Passinggas]

And now we are in the end of times.

[esotericstory]

No its not, its a very recent religion.

[incelsr]

holy heck your dates are way off lol

[ROCKS128]

Nope.
It isn't tbh.

[name_is_eric]

It's not.