"Writing science fiction for about a penny a word is no way to make a living, If you really want to make a million, the quickest way is to start your own religion." - L. Ron Hubbard

The book of Daniel was written in first-person. In it, Daniel claims to have been witness to the events he wrote about. It is now known and admitted by most christian scholars that the book of Daniel was written several centuries AFTER the events he pretended to witness.
Nearly all christian scholars (names upon request) hold that the OT was put together by priests whoin thier own interest completely altered old documents and filled in the narrative with fictitious details, about the year 500bc.
Nearly all christian scholars admit that a number of the Epistles of Paul were not written by him, though it WAS written in the first person.
Nearly all christian scholars admit that no single sayibg of Jesus in the Gospels can be proved to have existed in the first century.
Many of the Gospels are plainly copied, sometimes verbatim, from the Talmud.
ON HINDUISM
It may be said that the central belief of Christianity is that Jesus suffered, died, and rose from the dead on the third day. This, along with the idea that Jesus' birth was preceded by miraculous events, forms the basis for the claims of historicity by Christians. However, either the Christian religion is peppered with ideas that are the product of chance coincidental similarities with older religions, or these similarities are evidence that Christianity was in fact plagiarized from Eastern religions.For example, Krshna, an incarnation of the hindu deity Vishnu, who predates Christianity, also was killed to atone for the sins of mankind. Is this just a chance coincidence? Or, evidence that the Christians plagiarized the concept from more ancient religions? Jesus was a deity, the son of god fully human. Krshna was also the "full measure of the god-head" according to the Ramayana, which was written 300 years b.c. Is this just another coincidence, or was it stolen by the authors of Christianity? Krshna, according to the Bhagavad Gita, a more ancient book than the New Testament, was born miraculously by a virgin, his birth attended by shepherds and angels. Krshna survived an edict by the tyrant Cansa, who ordered all the first born children to be put to death. Krsna escaped from being slain by being smuggled across a river. Krshna's baptism, or ablution, in the river Ganges, corresponds to Jesus' baptism by John the Baptist. As a child, Krshna was known for miracles, and for having slain demons. Krshna had a favorite disciple, Arjoon. He was anointed with oil by women, and enabled his disciples to net large amounts of fish with little effort. Krshna was "transfigured" at a place called Madura. Interestingly, in the Gospel of the Infancy, a writing once regarded by the church as authentic, Jesus and his parents once lived in a place called Materea. Krshna spoke in parables when he taught. Krshna taught that you should love your neighbor, forgive your enemies, avoid unchaste thoughts, and condemn worldly wealth. Are these just chance coincidences?The very concept of the Holy Trinity is of Hindu origin. Any dictionary will verify that "Trimurti" is a term of Sanskrit origin, and refers to the "three bodies in one godhead" or the divine unity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva.

Similarities:Buddha and Jesus
But when they saw Him (Jesus) walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out." Mark 6.49

He (Buddha) walks upon the water without parting it, as if it were solid ground." Anguttara Nikaya 3.60

"Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them." John 20.26

He (Buddha) goes unhindered through a wall." Angutta Nikaya 3.60

"Then Jesus said unto them, Go your way, and tell John (the baptist) what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached." Luke 7.22
"As soon as the Bodhisattva (an enlightened being that compassionately refrains from Nirvana in order to save others, and is worshipped as a deity, i.e., Buddha)was born, the sick were cured, the hungry and thirsty were no longer oppressed by hunger and thirst. Those maddened by drink lost their obsession. The mad recovered their senses, the blind regained their sight, and the deaf once more could hear. The lame obtained perfect limbs, the poor gained riches, and prisoners were delivered of their own bonds." Lilitavistra Sutra 7

"And as ye would that men should do to you,do ye also to them likewise." Luke 6.31.
"Consider others as yourself." Dhammapada 10.1

MITHRAS
Mithras, an ancient persian deity, allegedly born on December 25th, was born of a rock and armed with a knife and torch at birth. He created all life by slaying a bull, whose blood gave life to all useful things. A hymn to Mithras begins, "Thou hast redeemed us by shedding the eternal blood." An Avestan Hymn to Mithras, translated by Ilya Gershevitch (1963). Could it be mathematically possible that this is just a chance coincidence with Christianity?

MISC
Along with Krshna, Mithra of Persia, Quexalcote of Mexico, Chris of Chaldea, Quirinus of Rome, Prometheus, Osiris of Egypt, Atys of Phrygia, all rose from the dead after three days. Coincidence? Or was Jesus was another fertility god, who rose from the dead in the springtime, to celebrate the rebirth of crops?
In the Anacalypsis is related the mythical story of wise men who came to the birth of Socrates, bearing gifts, including frankincense and myrrh. Is this where Matthew was inspired with the idea for frankincense and myrrh? (Mat 2.4).

Code of Hammurabi, paragraph 120:

"If a seignior deposited his grain in another seigniors house for storage, and a loss has then occurred at the granary, or the owner of the house opened the storage room and took the grain, or has denied completely the receipt of the grain which was stored in his house, the owner of the grain shall set forth the particulars in the presence of God and the owner of the house shall give to the owner of the grain double the amount which he took."

Compare to: Exodus 22:7-9:

"If a man delivers to his neighbor money or goods to keep, and it is stolen out of the mans house, then, if the thief is found, he shall pay double. If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God, to show whether or not he put his hand to his neighbors goods. For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for ass, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, this is it, the case of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay double to his neighbor."

AGE OF THE EARTH
Certain passages of the bible list the ancestors of Adam along with the age at which they gave birth to a descendant. For example,

And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat . . . Seth.(Gen. 5.3).

And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begat Enos; (Gen. 5.6)

And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan (Gen. 5.9)



And so forth. The ages progressively decrease; the priests who wrote those genealogies believed that, as the population of the world increased, so too did the commission of sin increase--and as sin became more numerous, the lifespan of the population grew smaller. Source: Bernard W. Anderson, The Old Testament, p. 61 (1965).

These "begats", fabricated by priests who believed that the average life span was proportional to the amount of sin in the world, were were written about 850 B.C. Obviously, these priests had no way of knowing who lived when for how long, since they were writing about events which supposedly happened thousands of years ago. See Bernhard Anderson, Understanding the Old Testament, p. 18-19 (1975).

Fundamentalist Christians, believing these ages to be accurate, can arrive at an age of the Earth. The process is simple. "A" begat "B", "B begat "C", and so forth. By adding these ages to the date of a known event--the reign of King David in 1350 B.C.--a date for the origin of the Earth can be reached. In the year 1650 A.D., Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, firmly stated that the Creation took place on the morning of October 23, 4004 B.C. At precisely nine O'clock in the morning.
If you can find an old copy of a bible, say 100 years old, those dates used to be written in the margins.
Some say, the "day" is allegorical. But Genesis doesn't say, "And it was the First Divine Day. . . ", or "it was as if it were a day . . ." If the bible is true, the Earth is only 6000 years old. Many christians believe this to be true.
The Christians use a method of calculating the age of the Earth which was perfectly appropriate for the Dark Ages. Since then, we've learned about things like Radioactivity.The U.S. Geological Survey at Lakewood, Colorado employs scientists to date rocks by direct measurement of radioactivity, with a mass spectrometer. The oldest known rocks have been dated at about 3.5 billion years. Meteors, and moonrocks, which share a common origin with the earth, have been dated at 4.5 billion years. Thus, the age of the Earth is 4.5 billion years, according to the geologists.

In a court of law, a charge of plagiarism may be supported by evidence of the general dishonesty of that person. And, no greater evidence could be produced than the testimony of church fathers themselves. By their own admissions, they show themselves to be destitute of honesty.
Lactantius, a Christian apologist of the 4th century, wrote: "Among those who seek power and gain from religion, there will never be wanting an inclination to forge and lie for it." Quoted by C. Middleton, Misc. Works of Conyers Middleton, D.D., vol. 3, p. 51 (1752)
Hermas, an early church father, wrote: "O Lord, I never spoke a true word in my life, I have always affirmed a lie as truth to all men, and no man contradicted me; instead, they all gave credit to my works." Visions of Hermas, vol. 2, c.3.
Gregory of Nazanzius, a 4th century church father and bishop of Caesarea, wrote to St. Jerome: "A little jargon is all that is necessary to impose on the people. The less they comprehend, the more they admire." Quoted by C. Volney, The Ruins, p. 177 (1872).
Angustine of Hippo, the greatest figure in Christian antiquity, wrote: "It is lawful, then, to him that discusses, disputes and preaches of things eternal, or to him that narrates of things temporal pertaining to religion or piety, to conceal at fitting times whatever seems fit to be concealed." Augustine, On Lying, c. 19
Eusebius, a 4th century Bishop and ecclesiastical historian, wrote that he unscrupulously suppressed all that would be a disgrace to early Christianity. Ecclesiastical History, vol. 8, c.21.
Edward Gibbon confirms this. He writes: "The gravest of all the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that would tend to the disgrace, of religion. Such an acknowledgement will naturally excite a suspicion that a writer who has so openly violated one of the fundamental laws of history has not paid a very strict observation of the other." E. Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, c. 16 (1883).
Paul of Tarsus admits of trickery (2 Cor. 12.16), imposture (1 Cor. 9.19-20), and deception. He wrote: "For if the truth of God hath more abounded by my lie unto his glory, why yet am I also adjudged a sinner?" Romans 3.7 (King James Version)

There are actually some 200 gospels, epistles and other books concerning the life of Jesus the Christ. Of these, only 27 are accepted by the church. The other 173 have been declared by the church itself to be "pious frauds." One Christian writer, professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham, dismisses these hundreds of forged writings with these words:
"(they are merely) another genre of literature, devised for reading by the faithful during their leisure time, and corresponding in some ways to the novels of a later era." J. G. Davies, The Early Christian Church, p. 83 (1965).
While these apocryphal writings have all the fictional qualities of a modern novel, they are certainly not another genre of literature. As a matter of fact, there is no way to distinguish them from the accepted Gospels. The apocryphal Book of James narrates the miraculous birth and infancy of the Virgin Mary. The apocryphal Gospel According To Thomas contains accounts of Jesus' life up till the age of twelve. These apocryphal writings fit alongside the accepted writings.
The origin of these fraudulent documents was none other than the church. Gibbon tells us: "Orthodox theologians were tempted, by the assurance of impunity, to compose fictions, which must be stigmatized with the epithets of fraud and forgery. They ascribed their own polemical works to the most venerable names of Christian antiquity." E. Gibbon, History of Christianity, p. 598 (1883)
These apocryphal (i.e., fraudulent) writings are almost exclusively written in the names of apostles or disciples of Jesus the Christ. The professor of Early Christian History at the Divinity School, University of Chicago, admits that:
" . . . they arose during the 2nd century, when popular piety seems to have been rather freely expressed." R. Grant, New Testament Apocrypha, in the article, "Biblical Literature," in Encyclopedia Brittanica, vol. 2, p. 973 (1977).
Some examples of these "pious frauds" are the Gospels written in Jesus Christ's own hand; the personal correspondence of Jesus Christ; letters written by the Virgin Mary; Pilates official report to the Emperor of the trial and crucifixion of Jesus; the offician documents of the Roman Senate about Jesus; official documents about church law written by the apostles; 50 other gospels, more epistles, acts of the apostles, and other writings. The writer of the Gospel of Luke tells us there were many other accounts of the life of Jesus circulating about when he wrote his. Luke 1.1.
How exactly did the church separate the documents which were supposedly divinely inspired, from the "pious frauds"? How did the church distinguish the Apocalypse of Peter from the Apocalypse of John? How were the Acts of John, of Paul, of Peter, of Phillip, of Thaddeus, of Thomas (all declared forgeries by the early church) distinguished from the Acts of the Apostles?
They took a vote! What was popular, became divinely inspired. What was unpopular, was admitted to be a forgery. These 173 writings show the early church was nothing more than a forgery mill. Many of these fraudulent documents can be found in Wilhelm Schneemelcher (ed.)., New Testament Apocrypha.
To top it off, a papal decree declaring about 50 works to be apocryphal is itself an admitted forgery. Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 1, p. 615.
There are parts of the canonical New Testament books which were never part of the oldest manuscripts. These parts are not found in the oldest papyrus codices, and were instead the insertions of later transcribers. Some of these inserted passages are: Mark 1.1 The words, "Son of God."; Mark 16:9-20, concerning the appearances of Christ after the resurrection; Luke 22:43, 44, about the bloody sweat of Jesus; John 7:53 to 8:11, about the woman taken in adultery. The Revelation of John was itself rejected by the early church as a forgery. See R. Grant, above.
The canonical gospels are further discredited by the historical evidence of alterations made at the order of Emperor Anastasius in 506 A.D., That evidence has been reported by Victor, of Tunis in Africa: "Messala V.C. Consule, Constantinopili, jubente Anastasio Imperatore, sancta evangelia, tanquam ab idiotis evangelistis composita, reprehenduntur et emendantur." Translation: "The Illustrious Messala, by the command of the Emperor Anastasius, the Holy Gospels, as having been written by idiot evangelists, are hereby censured and corrected." Quoted by Rev. R. Taylor, The Diegesis, p. 118 (1894).
Some of the passages in the New Testament seem to show that Jesus was never regarded as anything but a mythical person. In Luke 9.29, Jesus glows white while praying. In Luke 24.3, Jesus vanishes into thin air. In Mark 9.3, Jesus' clothes become "a dazzling white, with a whiteness no bleacher could equal." (New English Bible). Jesus is about as realistic as a laundry detergent commercial.
The famous church father Augustine never failed to subordinate reason to faith. He followed that maxim when he wrote: "I would never believe the Gospels to be true, unless the authority of the Catholic Church restrained me." Augustine, De Genesis..
There are still more forgeries. Of fifteen letters allededly written by Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch in 69 A.D., eight are generally rejected by Christian scholars as forgeries, having no authority at all. Giles, Christian and Hebrew Records, vol. 2, p. 99 (1877). See also Cyril R. Richardson, The Christianity of Ignatius of Antioch, preface (1967). Richardson only accepts seven as authentic.
Computer analysis of literary style shows that only the four larger of Paul had a common author. All the others are forgeries of unknown authorship. This study, called "statistical stylometry," involves computer analysis of how how many times a certain pronoun is used by a Greek author, the percentage of times it is used in the genitive form, and the number of words in sentences. For example, the occurrences of "de" (but) between the occurrences of "kai" (and) are compared as they appear in different Epistles. Results indicate that the chances of all fourteen Epistles being of a common authorship are highly unlikely, and are instead authored by different writers.
Statistical stylometry does show a common authorship for such Greek authors as Plato, Hippocrates, and a good selection of others.
This technique is considered reliable enough to be admissible in courts of law to prove the authenticity of such documents as confessions. A. Morton, Literary Detection: How to Prove the Authorship and Fraud in Literature and Documents (1979).