Lets pretend Christianity doesnt exist:what religion would u be

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I wouldn’t be here to contemplate the question - for God in Trinity created us.

EDIT: I see the good poster above me made the same point!
 
Jewish or Muslim because they believe in the true God of Abraham.
 
meltzerboy said:
Always a Jew, of course. But which stream?
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It’s hard to imagine because history would have been so different - I said ‘Jew’ because we’ve all managed to carry on as small minorities in Christian or Muslim world so we’d have likely managed it in ‘alternative religious background world’ as well.
 
Probably nothing floating though life like a leaf in a river without a direction, or maybe Baha’i
 
Well, I can trace my ancestors to Basque country in Spain so, I might be a pagan and worshiping the sun. Actually, I don’t know if they actually worshiped the sun or not, but I know they had a “Sun god” as a main deity.

However, that was way back in the day. Sometime in the 1500 I believe that my ancestors made it down to Mexico where they mixed with The Yaqui Indians in Mexico. I don’t know the names of their chief gods, or even if they had any but I would probably, most likely be following the Yaqui religion. In actuality, something like 90% of all Yaquis were converted to Christianity by The Jesuits.

One of those would probably be my religion by default. Not that I like anything about them or even know much about them. If Christianity was proven wrong tomorrow, I would probably be agnostic. There has to be some greater force out there. I know it is our God, since Christianity does exist 👍
 
oldcatholicguy said:
So Islam is a divinely inspired and guided faith?
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That is a question to Muslims. I have never been a Muslim 🙂

in the Quran, the position of Ismael and Isaac had changed. It is told that Ismael is the chosen one whom God told Abraham to sacrifice 😦
 
Vanez said:
That is a question to Muslims. I have never been a Muslim 🙂

in the Quran, the position of Ismael and Isaac had changed. It is told that Ismael is the chosen one whom God told Abraham to sacrifice 😦
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Actually it’s a question to you because your previous statement- “You’re correct about Islam. If Abraham never had Hagai, there wouldn!t be Ismael, thus no Islam.” requires an assumption that Islam is divinely inspired and protected since the claim concerning Ismael and the linkage to Muhammad comes from Islam. In order for Islam to exist because of Ismael one must first hold Islam’s teachings about Ismael and Muhammad’s linkage to him to be true.
 
Rev48 said:
Christianity did not exist for thousands of years, during that time you were either born as a Jew or pagan… however you look at it, there was no salvation or redemption. IMO
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According to Judaism, all are either Jew or Gentile but they are not all Jew or pagan.
 
Vanez said:
I too would be a Jew.

Fyi if Christianity didn’t exist i would still think that Islam would exist but without the story of e.g. yahya (John the baptist) and the rest (like e.g. Without St. Anna, Zachariah, St. Mary, Isa Almasih (Jesus)). This because Islam is from Abraham.
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Islam is NOT from Abraham, it is from Mohammed.

Islam did not come into existence until 600 and something AD.
 
Cider said:
I agree with you, only a small minority of people are and were born Jews and the Jews haven’t sought converts in 2000 years. So we’d practice whatever our ancestral religion was unless we traveled and purposely sought out something else.
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I don’t believe that Judaism has ever sought converts but I do believe that Judaism has always allowed converts.
 
Giggly_Giraffe said:
Islam are decedents from Abraham (Ishmile). Christians are decedents of Abraham (Isaac). Jewish (Abrahams lineage) and include Islam because of Ishmile. They would exist in different form, but would still exist.

I wonder if the Jewish people would still be crying for the messiah & such if the Christ did not come. It’s my understanding, the conversion of the Jews at that time did infact have a positive outcome on the Jewish, economically.
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The Jewish lineage was spoken of as being thru Isaac and were spoken of as being Jewish since Isaac’s time whereas islam’s lineage was spoken of as being thru Ismael but were not spoken of as being islamic until Mohammed’s time in the 600’s AD.
 
Giggly_Giraffe said:
Christianity is valid through lineage … That’s why the gosspel starts with that long, long, long, lineage. Agreed, Christianity is the fulfillment of Gods covenants to the Jewish people.

Agreed, Islam indeed would be vastly different … But it would still be a religion.

One common thread I see in ALL religions is the unity of family. All religions base existNce on this. It confuses me when people want to separate religion from everything; does that show how the same people are for destroying family?

Who’s your family? I’m glad Christianity exists, and we have God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit as the lead of our family.

Hmmm … Would Mormans be a religion without Christianity?
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Since the absolute main point of Christianity is that God became One of us and did what He did in the Incarnation than how could islam exist if its main point is pointing out that Jesus is merely human and not God-Incarnate?
 
Vanez said:
That is a question to Muslims. I have never been a Muslim 🙂

in the Quran, the position of Ismael and Isaac had changed. It is told that Ismael is the chosen one whom God told Abraham to sacrifice 😦
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It is not the only thing, shall we say, that is different in the Quran.
 
Tom_Baum said:
Since the absolute main point of Christianity is that God became One of us and did what He did in the Incarnation than how could islam exist if its main point is pointing out that Jesus is merely human and not God-Incarnate?
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Is that really the main point of Islam? Or do you mean what you said in a different way?
 
To me Christianity or the teachings of Jesus are a necessary and essential stage in our spiritual development…It would be like saying…Let’s pretend you didn’t have the ninth grade…so all your experiences and learnings from that stage are forgotten…
 
Utter Nihilism. In such a world, there is no God worth believing in.
 
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