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Originally posted by phyzix525
...so my vote would be for Adam. If it wasn't for him we would all live in paradise, right?
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Actually it would still just be Adam and Eve (if the story is true). They were immortal and (essentially) told not to have sex. When they did they were cast out...
I would have to say that Confucious or Aristotile are way up on the list...
I agree that while Jesus is an important figure, his cult would have died a slow death if not for Paul.
As for Abraham, Adam, etc. these are just characters in etiologies... there is no reason to suppose they were real people. So why attribute them this sort of significance? It might be better to say the person or persons that created these stories and characters is quite influential... or the person or persons upon which the myth of Abraham was created... but to say there was actually an Abraham seems a bit of a stretch (well for me anyway).