Q&A: Before Christianity, did the world believe in the revelation at Mount Sinai?
Before Christianity, did the world believe in the revelation at Mount Sinai?
Question
In the book Hamatzui Harishon, p. 495: “The tradition of the revelation at Sinai was accepted by billions of people (including Christianity and Islam) throughout the world over many hundreds of generations (almost four thousand years).”
Indeed? Is there evidence that even before Christianity the whole world believed in the revelation at Mount Sinai?
Answer
Christianity came from us. Islam arose in a somewhat different way, but it too is based on the Sinai tradition. I am not familiar with the reality that preceded the appearance of those two religions, but what is clear is that both of them were accepted very widely when they appeared.
Discussion on Answer
There is definitely reason to think that many were aware of and accepted the revelation at Mount Sinai even earlier.
Do you mean that the fact that masses of non-Jews accepted Christianity makes it plausible to say that even before that they were aware of the revelation at Mount Sinai?