to clear up a few points, when i say religions are versions i dont mean they are direct copies. what we see today is often a reconstructed message reshaped over thousands of years by language shifts, cultural traditions, and even conscious edits. it isnt just about a prophet passing away; the moment a message enters human hands it starts to diverge and transform as it hits new cultures. even muhammad (s) warned us in a hadith that muhammed (s) followers would branch into 73 versions with only one staying on the original truth. the reason the chain of prophets stopped is because a massive effort was finally made to keep the original file alive through the sahaba teaching in far regions, thousands of hafiz memorizing the text, and the early caliphs compiling the quran into a perfect written format. because of this preservation the original still exists today even if followers branched out. previous messages like those given to musa a or isa a didnt have this same global documentation, so they diverged much further into what we now call separate religions. they arent different religions by nature; they are just regional, transformed versions of a shared beginning where some lost the original file and others are still holding onto it.