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If we claim that the Judeo-Christianity as being true, how do we explain religions that predate it? Also we know that there are south American tribes, and even Indians in the Americas that were just as old if not older..I guess my main point is if our faith is true then why was it not made universal in the beginning for all to have? It seems that people of other areas had their own gods as they seen as the real god(s) Greeks, etc; thanks!
The question is which is the true religion, not which is the oldest one. True, there are older religions than Christianity, but in some ways these were early attempts to prepare mankind, particularly through the Jewish Old Covenant, for the true religion, the New Covenant.
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