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The various world religions obviously have similar ideas. Some religions even incorporate entire texts of another religion into their own. Christianity accepts the Jewish Bible (more or less), although with a different interpretation. Mormonism accepts the KJV Bible while adding its own Book of Mormon.
However, there seems to be a common occurance where one religion's scripture will borrow heavily from another religion's scripture. In some cases this seems to be a "hi-jacking" of the original scripture for a religion's own purposes. Other times perhaps a somewhat "accidental" occurance.
This occurance bothers me for the following reasons:
1) Sometimes there seems to be a diliberate attempt to hide this "plagerism"
2) Many scriptures (and their associated religions) claim infallibility (of their scripture)
3) Many scriptures diliberately exclude other religions
Does this bother anyone else?
Here are some examples:
Example 1:
As quoted by Leo Tolstoy in "A Letter to a Hindu":
(Does anyone know from where Tolstoy is quoting?)
For I have placed thee in broad,
smooth paths, which are strewn with flowers. I have put a light
before thee, which thou canst follow and thus run without
stumbling. KRISHNA.
Similar to Hebrews 12:12-13
Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. "Make level
paths for your feet," so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather
healed.
Which also (in part) quotes Proverbs 4:25-27
Also similar is Isaiah 40:30-31
Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
... they will run and not grow weary,
Another example
Ps 104 and Egyptian literature
(see http://www.seanet.com/~realistic/psalm104.html)
More Egyptian Bible Similarities
(http://www.egypt-tehuti.org/articles/egypt-bible-similarities.html)
What other examples do people know of?
Are these commonly sourced texts? One texted sourced from another?
Evidence of common truth found within different cultures?
However, there seems to be a common occurance where one religion's scripture will borrow heavily from another religion's scripture. In some cases this seems to be a "hi-jacking" of the original scripture for a religion's own purposes. Other times perhaps a somewhat "accidental" occurance.
This occurance bothers me for the following reasons:
1) Sometimes there seems to be a diliberate attempt to hide this "plagerism"
2) Many scriptures (and their associated religions) claim infallibility (of their scripture)
3) Many scriptures diliberately exclude other religions
Does this bother anyone else?
Here are some examples:
Example 1:
As quoted by Leo Tolstoy in "A Letter to a Hindu":
(Does anyone know from where Tolstoy is quoting?)
For I have placed thee in broad,
smooth paths, which are strewn with flowers. I have put a light
before thee, which thou canst follow and thus run without
stumbling. KRISHNA.
Similar to Hebrews 12:12-13
Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees. "Make level
paths for your feet," so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather
healed.
Which also (in part) quotes Proverbs 4:25-27
Also similar is Isaiah 40:30-31
Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
... they will run and not grow weary,
Another example
Ps 104 and Egyptian literature
(see http://www.seanet.com/~realistic/psalm104.html)
More Egyptian Bible Similarities
(http://www.egypt-tehuti.org/articles/egypt-bible-similarities.html)
What other examples do people know of?
Are these commonly sourced texts? One texted sourced from another?
Evidence of common truth found within different cultures?
