Pre-Christianity

I once discoursed with a Datu (the head of an indigenous tribe) somewhere in the ranges of Mt. Kitanglad (Mindanao island's highest peak next to Davao's Mt. Apo) who revealed to me that the reason it made them easier to convert to Christianity was due to its similarity with the ancient religion that their ancestors had once practiced centuries ago.

He narrated that like Christianity, their olden religion also believed in Trinity of the Godhead. Amazingly, they also believed of their God-Son who, like the Christian's Jesus, also performed miracles, suffered and died, and ultimately resurrected.

The remarkable parallelism was confirmed when I did my personal research years later on the creation of the Christian doctrine by the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD during the reign of Rome's Constantine the Great. For the Council, the Roman emperor ordered the best and brightest intellectuals from around the known world to draft the Christian doctrine that became the creed of mainstream Christian Church even up to the present. It revealed that the life of the historical Jesus was a fusion of other major religious figures, which incorporated with it the virgin birth, slaughter of innocents, miracles, suffering and death, resurrection from the narratives of the Egyptian deity Mithra and the Hindu god Krishna who lived thousands of years before the first Christian churches were built. This actually shattered conventional paradigms especially of fanatical Christian fundamentalism.



It may instead be possible that more ancient narratives had been preserved by Mindanao's indigenous tribes that dated back with the olden religious figures, and tracing its links, possibly originated with the deity Krishna of ancient India who reincarnated as a human and once lived around 3228 BC as narrated by the Hindu Epic, the Mahabharata.