02-08-2010, 01:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-08-2010, 01:30 PM by Peregrinus.)
All religions had their beginnings in the LOO. The Bible and the Koran actually are very similar, except the Koran has many books in it that were left out in the Bible version ("The Apocalypse", "The Gospel of Philip", "The Gospel of Mary" (Magdalene, who incidentally, was a disciple, not a prostitute), "The Infancy of Christ", among others). The eastern religions kept all the old teachings, whereas in the western religions it was deemed to be too complicated for the general man to understand, and was thought that allowing these teachings to continue would give too much power to the man. Within 400 years of Christ's death, when Emperor Constantine assembled the lands cardinals to compile a standard Bible, many books were deemed to be unworthy and left out.