2006-07-07 00:32:41 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Okay.... there must be other questions that I have missed. Faith is just that... believing in something without having absolute proof. But it certainly isn't something that Christians have cornered the market on. I see it on here from most of the faiths.
But if the book you speak of is the Bible... I had never looked at it as a book of mythology. Thanks for the brain food. I do believe in God, by the way.... lol. But I worship Him in my own way that doesn't seem to fit in well with most churches.
2006-07-07 00:40:06 · answer #1 · answered by tcatmech2 4 · 8⤊ 5⤋
Are you calling the holy bible, a book of mythology? Are you refering to some other book?
First of all, I would like to say if your saying the bible is mythology than you do not know what mythology is. Christians believe that the bible is fact and everything prophesied in it will come to past. The entire christian faith has not been deceived or tricked into believing this. Many prophecies have been already come to past, when they were prophesied over a thousand years ago. Jesus's birth, death and resurrection was prophesied over a thousand years before he was born and he full filled all the prophecies.
Christians can and do answer questions without quoting the bible.
2006-07-07 00:46:36 · answer #2 · answered by Hammy 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe because the bible has a lot of good information in it. Even if parts are only parables (myths).
And as for going toe-to-toe with an atheist armed with logic. Logic vs. Faith. You can toss as much logic as you want to somebody with faith and they're not going to waiver. That's what Faith is. Logic is known to have it's 'false positives'. Things that should follow the rules of logic that just aren't true.
If God is Love.
Love is Blind.
And Stevie Wonder is Blind.
Then - Little Stevie Wonder must be God ?!?!
That's what logic gets you. Faith is a thing that you hold even in the face of logic. I have Faith that there is a supreme creator over this universe. Call this creator whatever you will - God, Allah, Yahweh, Big Bang Theory, 'The Force', ... But somewhere in this world does exist a power greater than anything I could ever imagine.
2006-07-07 00:51:59 · answer #3 · answered by mcdane01 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because most of the questions asked deal with the nature of people's faith. How can you explain the why of something without quoting the source? If you ask a question of why do Christians...? You are likely to get an explanation that quotes the bible as a source. If you asked Jews a similar question you would get something from the Torah. Muslims, the Koran, Hindus....uhm I cannot think of the name of their religious texts off the top of my head but you get the point.
2006-07-07 00:41:53 · answer #4 · answered by scrapiron.geo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Belief is due to lack of experience about it. When there is an experience, the person will say "I know it to be true, I have seen and experienced it". Where as when he has no way to experience something, he is choiceless and driven by fear and need for sense of security, he has to quote something widely believed. And the older the belief the better, since there will be less scope for disproving it, for want of all facts/evidences.
This is not about christians alone, people from most religions find it easier to quote, instead of taking the trouble of exploring it, experiencing it, and then talking about it.
2006-07-07 00:41:37 · answer #5 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you answered a question about the starts you might quote an astronomer.
If you answered a question about an illness you might quote a doctor.
If you are asking a question about a Christians faith, you should expect that he will quote from the bible.
2006-07-07 00:38:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the Gingerbread Man:
For me it is because the knowledge of God comes only from the Bible and not from creeds or other sources or from my own easily misguided personal opinion. If a statement is not backed up from the bible then I cannot take it as proof as being true.
What is myth to you is certainty and actual to me and reading the scriptures and taken in its teachings are a protection from such unknowledgeable accusations hurled against the Bible by people like you.
I look forward to those 10 points LOL
2006-07-08 01:50:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First...it is disrespectful to call it mythology. Secondly, you are in the religion and spirituality section so of course Christians will use the basis of their religion and spirituality to answer questions.
Thirdly, I would think that answer obvious so I think maybe you just want to rattle some cages here. Shame on you.
2006-07-07 00:39:41 · answer #8 · answered by ~Donna~ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do you have to pick a certain religion and persecute it if we were living in medieval times you would be holding the witch trials ,get off your soap box and let live. Their choice of religion is none of your concern, deal with your own religious beliefs before you condemn others, Why are you so mean i know because you have no connection to the divine and are just a sulky child ,if i don't believe it no one should ?
2006-07-07 00:39:57 · answer #9 · answered by Treat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Bible (which I am assuming is the what you think is a book of mythology) is the defining document of Christian belief. It would be like trying to explain America's laws without quoting the Constitution. Or giving Beatle lyrics without quoting Lennon or McCarthy. (Duh!!)
2006-07-07 00:38:05 · answer #10 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not that we can't. We could, but since Christianity is based on that book it makes sense to quote it!
2006-07-07 02:14:06 · answer #11 · answered by tabs 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋