If Christianity and Judaism is true, why is Hinduism the first religion? And if Christianity is true, why do some say the Egyptian civilization called Kemet started the monotheistic worldview and others adopted it?

Question:

If Christianity and Judaism is true, why is Hinduism the first religion? And if Christianity is true, why do some say the Egyptian civilization called Kemet started the monotheistic worldview and others adopted it?

Answer:

The answers to your questions lies in addressing your presumptions within those questions. You are presuming that Hinduism and Kemet existed before Judaism and Christianity; and from a purely and only humanistic point of view, there is some level of historical truth to this. Formal Judaism and formal Christianity did form some time after other pagan religions. However, Judaism and, later, Christianity, according to the Bible (God’s point of view) were simply formally organized approaches to God as designed/commanded by Him Himself; thus, they could be traced back to Genesis, which was much earlier than any other religion.

Formal religions (as man has designed the various kinds) are nothing to God. He says that “true religion” is this: “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world” (James 1:27). “To visit orphans and widows in their trouble” is to provide practical help to those who are helpless – that is an outward or public evidence of practicing “true religion.” Most of the world’s formal religions have some sort of activity with that focus – which is commendable. However, “to keep oneself unspotted from the world” is an entirely different matter; for it is an unseen aspect of “true religion.” Every world religion has a series of rules and regulations that make an attempt at this holiness, but every one of them fail – including formal Judaism and what is now recognized in most places as formalized “Christianity” (which is, for the most part, a terrible deviation from what Jesus Christ Himself taught). Why? “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). If you read the first three chapters of the Bible’s book of Romans, you find quickly that no matter what man tries, he fails to impress God with the second portion of that definition of “true religion” (see especially Romans 3:9-20 for God’s summary of all of man’s efforts).

That is why Jesus Christ came – not to start a formalized religion, but to make men holy before God (Hebrews 12:14-15; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 3:21-26). This holy righteousness is found only through personal (not formalized religious) faith in the Person and atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ (John 1:1-14; 3:16-36; 1 John 4:7-10; Romans 9:10-13; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Ephesians 2:8-9). Religion may impress men, but not God. What God is looking for is faith in His Son (1 John 5:12-13).

This is what the Bible (God’s inspired Word – 2 Timothy 3:16-17) states. A person may choose to disbelieve the Bible, because it is not as “old” as some world religions or religious texts. But never forget that upon that choice hangs one’s eternal destiny. The Bible has never been proven wrong; all other religious texts have been proven to be errant and inconsistent, over and over again. Think about it!

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