I had my reservations that all the religions seemed same to me as I paced through my life and read a few books on it - one should be named here "Evolution of God" by Robert Wright - when eventually I was led to a knowledge that perhaps all the religions sprang out from one single divine belief that was once monolith in the whole world but now appendages of it has grown out with branches that spread into subdivisions which we refer to as 'religions'. I won't call it a belief, but a path leading towards better understanding of my belief.
Islam gives out the belief of 'Prophets' who were sent down to guide humanity. Hinduism speaks of the same idea but through the means of 'Avatars'. Greek mythology has given the responsibility of guidance to 'Demigods'. Judaism and Christianity uses the concept of prophets as well. The matter which demands explanation here is that neither of these religions have gone out of the way and have introduced something that was never introduced in the world of religion and its spread of belief. All used the concept of 'messengers' with the same duties, yet the names change from demigods to avatars to prophets. The basic idea, the singular ideology remains the same throughout. The question is, which religion was the first one to introduce such general template for all other religions? In other words, which religion was the foundation from which such numerous branches sprung out?
I don't think it was Abrahamic Religion, since it doesn't date back far enough to explain Hinduism and mythology and many others. The religion I am writing about is the "Religion of God", a basic set of instructions that have been shadowed by its own successors. There isn't a valid proof of its existence, but logic says that all similarities in every religion must have taken roots from a common ground and that ground is forgotten now. But traces remain. They always do!
When Jews, Buddhists, Muslims or Christians pray to a God, they pray to the same divinity, yet with different names and different ways. Even mythology aging from prehistoric to Greek and Celtic and Roman have its foundations deeply rooted in that singular "Religion of God". I wrote an article on Deucalion and Noah. Both are the same personalities, but with different names, the former appearing in Roman mythology while the later appearing in Christianity and Islam. It's like Gandhi said:
The soul of religion is one, but it is encased in a multitude of formsEven Hinduism, which is a polytheistic religion, makes its followers believe in a supreme divinity Vishnu who is the God over the gods, whose avatars appeared on Earth. Even though it's a polytheistic religion, Hinduism does believe in a singular God as well. I don't judge here if they're right or wrong, but the point being, a singularity of God speaks for itself everywhere, even in Roman and Greek mythology where the Supreme God is Jupiter and Zeus respectively.
Islam gives out the belief of 'Prophets' who were sent down to guide humanity. Hinduism speaks of the same idea but through the means of 'Avatars'. Greek mythology has given the responsibility of guidance to 'Demigods'. Judaism and Christianity uses the concept of prophets as well. The matter which demands explanation here is that neither of these religions have gone out of the way and have introduced something that was never introduced in the world of religion and its spread of belief. All used the concept of 'messengers' with the same duties, yet the names change from demigods to avatars to prophets. The basic idea, the singular ideology remains the same throughout. The question is, which religion was the first one to introduce such general template for all other religions? In other words, which religion was the foundation from which such numerous branches sprung out?
I don't think it was Abrahamic Religion, since it doesn't date back far enough to explain Hinduism and mythology and many others. The religion I am writing about is the "Religion of God", a basic set of instructions that have been shadowed by its own successors. There isn't a valid proof of its existence, but logic says that all similarities in every religion must have taken roots from a common ground and that ground is forgotten now. But traces remain. They always do!
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