Extract from The Gods, All of them (Religion)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Monday, December 06, 2010, 12:30 (5099 days ago) @ David Turell

From Xeno->You won't find a single (practicing) Jew who will agree that the Messiah was prophecied at all in Genesis. In fact, according to modern scholarship, it has been discovered that Genesis, as we know it now, is the product of at least 4 source documents that were combined into the form we recognize today; you might argue with this, but I will give the last word about the Pentateuch to Jewish scholars any day of the week.->Christ was reinterpreted backwards to Genesis. If you don't believe me, pick up your Oxford NRSV 4th edition. Scholars do not agree with you here.-If you want to play the "Jews did it first so they must be right." card, I will have to play the "Jews did it at the very best third, and even then they were at least 500 years to late" card.-I suppose I would hate to break it to every single practicing Jew on the planet that the Vedas (1500 BCE)predate the Torah (950 BCE) by at least five centuries, and some scholars argue that it might be as much as nearly 4000-6000 years older. The Egyptians also had the same Triune mythology approximately 3000 BC. complete with snake wrapped staves and all that jazz. -
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>For example, in several Vedic hymns dedicated to river Sarasvati, she is described to be actually flowing and existent. But in reality river Sarasvati does not exist anymore, because, according to archaeological research, it dried up and disappeared in north Indian sands several thousand years ago, around 5000 BC (or earlier). ->In any case, Vedas (and the corresponding Hindu religion) must at least be as old as the last time river Sarasvati actually existed (flowed) in India because that is how it was described in the Vedas - alive and active. Therefore, considering the following hymns on river Sarasvati (which show it still very alive and active -- 5000 BC according to archaeological findings), Vedas and Hinduism may be assumed to exist at least since 5000 BC (7000 years ago). -
In which case, I could just as reasonably argue that the Allah, Binah, and Keter, are really just reinventions of Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu. Regardless of which came first or whose book is older or bigger or yada yada, they ALL contain valuable insights and information, and they ALL wrote their own more modern legends, myths, and 'Mysteries' into their religious texts. It is not limited to the Vedas, Upanishads, Torah, Koran, Bible, or Kabalah. These same stories and 'mysteries' can be found throughout the ancient world.