Why are Buddha, Krishna, Allah, Vishnu, etc, never mentioned in the bible? And don't say because they're not real, the bible does clearly mention Baal and various other false gods.
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the same reason the competition is never mentioned by name in advertising.
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Allah isn't mentioned as a false god because Allah is another name for the God of the Bible. Buddha isn't a god. He was an exceptional person and teacher. But at no time and in no way did he claim to be a god. Krishna and Vishnu were omitted because of geographic considerations. Baal and the others mentioned were false gods of the region.
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Wouldn't that be like advertising for the 'competition?! ;-)
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Because those who wrote the Bible didn't believe or know about them.
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Allah is the Arabic word for God. The Old Testament is written in Hebrew, not Arabic, hence no reference to Allah. The Arabic language did not begin to spread in the Middle East until the second century CE. Further, Islam post-dates Christianity by several hundred years so the term Allah would not have been in use when the books of the Bible, as they are currently compiled, were written. Buddha is not a deity. But the biblical writers would have had no knowledge of him anyway. The biblical writers would have had no knowledge of Krishna and Vishnu. That's like asking why the Vedas or the Bhagavad Gita don't mention El or Yahweh. Or why the sacred traditions of the Yoruba don't mention the names of the Hopi kachinas. One can hardly mention that which one doesn't know. Baal and Astarte, on the other hand, *are* mentioned because they are native to the region in which the biblical writers lived. I do find it odd that there is no mention of Egyptian deities considering that the Israelites allegedly lived there for a time.
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Allah is Arabic for God. Arabic spreaking Christians call God Allah, so he is in there. Buddha, Krishna, and Vishnu were not known to the ancient Jews. Since they never encountered them, they never mentioned them.
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The bible represented a relatively a small area of people.Also to mention other religions and their gods would have been in competition to it's own religion.
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