[cuban leaf]

Nearly all the bible has been borrowed from previous cultures. That should be no surprise to anyone.

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Regarding the OT, I agree with you in a way. Nobody ever asks how God dealt with mankind before Moses. Mankind was here a long time before Exodus and so is God. I have little doubt the God of Moses is in bits and pieces of all those ancient religions, but just as the Christian story is a more complete picture of God and His relationship with man than the one presented in the OT, The OT, likewise, is a more complete picture of God and His relationship with man in the times before the OT.

So yes, it could be interpreted as “borrowed” from previous cultures, though that is not exactly how I would put it. And I believe in the age after the Church age, there just may be a yet more complete picture presented to those alive at the time of God and His relationship with man.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Jesus summed up the entire law with his statement :

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”

and “Love your neighbor as yourself”

It is so simple, and it is my belief that is exactly how simple being a follower of God was originally. That's why nothing else is mentioned, because there was nothing else to borrow or steal from other religions.

Our relationship with the one true God was simple, and remained so for 1000’s of years, until that simplicity was distorted and perverted by those who demanded something more complex.