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So none of the earth's organised religions/beliefs originated here on earth?

Good question, thanks for pitching me a softball! The vast majority of the earth's organised belief structures are anticipations, echoes, reflections, distortions, and/or perversions of Biblical Christianity. For example, the Hindus came up with little blue sterile Krishna soon after the Christian gospel began making progress in India!

The covenant-making, self-revealing Creator of the universe is delighted in by His elect. The reprobate, however, have full-time jobs deliberately suppressing the obvious. As Christian apologist Francis Shaefer said, "If there was one button that you could push to shut out the knowledge of God, that is the button that fallen man would press continuously."

Or, as an even more influential writer, C S Lewis, put it in his children's novel The Magician's Nephew, "The problem with trying very hard to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you all too often succeed."

I was reading Hermann the Cheruskers Dogmatic Creed, which I believe was written by men. I then asked if all faiths are defined/interpreted by men, which I think you would have to agree, since we are all men, and that is all that there is on earth. He responded by saying that the Catholic faith existed prior to the bible, and is based on the teachings of the Apostles, which I believe were also men, and it has been handed down unchanged since then. I asked if that could be validated, or if it was a faith-based belief. You then responded to my #98 by saying no, I'm not the center of the universe....I then asked where did these beliefs originate, if not on earth, by men. You then answered that most of the religions are based on Biblical Christianity. This brings me back to the question of the Dogmatic Creed and it being written by men, handed down by men, and believed in by men, as is the bible. It certainly seems to be man interpreting the word of God and writing it down. How does this differ from what I said about faiths being defined by man. Man is all we have here on earth, man wrote the doctrines and the religious tomes.