This next section of Armstrong's book, chapter 9 specifically, she talked about the partial split in Christianity. Some believed that Jesus was divine like God but wasn't really God because God had created him. While on the other hand the rest believed Jesus had to be truly God because only "one who created the world could save it." This is a very big question because in my understand of Christianity and Judaism this is where they also split I believe, Christians believing Jesus was the Savior and Jews still waiting for the Savoir to come. In going with the first belief she explains that this wasn't the only time God had revealed himself and that Jesus was another part in his ongoing revelation. I like how Armstrong related this to Jesus coming as a reminder of what was really important and that they let their temples and Torah and other worldy things, like geographical location, get in the way of what really mattered. This might be an idea to look back on today and see if all of the fighting over sacred land is really what should be the main focus today.
It is actually crazy to think that all of these religions started so similarly and despite this there has been so much conflict. Thinking about it, we all came from one common ancestor and just evolved beliefs over time. It is wild to see that diversity actually creates conflict.
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