scriptures were directly created at the hands of a God. In saying this, the ultimate creator of God is man. If any of the religions that have been around for so long had actually experienced God, the experience would be diluted and distorted. I say that for two reasons, one is because humans easily misinterpret actions and who can expect to understand wholly a god-like creature so far beyond our knowledge, and secondly, even if a person could understand the complete significance of the event it would be highly unlikely their story would resemble anything even close to what had happened after being passed down orally and in writing for generations. Just think of most of the bible stories as a big whisper down the lane, with the end result sounding nothing like the beginning statement. Many stories of the Old Testament were around for thousands of years before being finally written down. Even after being written down, they were translated from Hebrew to Greek to Latin and then to English. It is only conceivable that after being passed through all those human hands, there would be some misinterpretation.This inheriting of ideas even affects religions outside of the religion from which the ideas originated. Judaism borrowed a lot of its lore from the polytheistic Babylonians and other Sumerians. Christianity and Islam sprouted from Judaism. Christianity also borrowed heavily from the pagan Greek and Roman theology, some say even more so than it borrowed from Judaism. Modern Jewish practice is being influenced by Christianity. The beliefs of an organized religion are constantly being changed by whomever and whatever surrounds the religion. When the Hebrews were captured in Babylon, the stories of the Babylonians influenced such stories as Noah’s Ark. Christmas is on December 25th because of how close it is to the winter solstice, a pagan holiday. Hinduism openly borrows from other religions, Gandhi, although he was prim...
