Buddhism came from the Bible...it's a warped and poor imitation of Christianity
Quoting: jlee2027 Jesus was a Buddhist. Most of his teachings were taken from Eastern Religions.
Quoting: Harry Dresden False. The Eastern Religions came from the Old Testament.
Buddhism is a re-wording, refocusing of Hinduism, stripped of the religious components, in the same way that Christianity is the Israel religion reworded and refocused for "gentiles".
Hinduism comes from the Vedas, near what is now Pakistan, some 3000ish years ago, not the Torah, but it's conceivable that both of these came from some original source hundreds of thousands of years ago, then slowly mutated in the telling over the ages.
There used to be multiple gods in the middle-eastern religion, including a wife for God!
Regardless, it's only academic where these things came from, what is more important is how you make use of the spiritual path that speaks to your heart, and how much it helps you evolve as an individual. Focusing on things like "my religion is better than your religion!" only serves to cover your Heart with the Disease of the mind, the fruit of the tree of knowledge, that is to say, "over-thinking, over-analyzing".
