To me, it is.
2006-07-14 08:14:54 · 32 answers · asked by el diablo sexy : ] 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If it is a fairy tail, the writer sucks because it's quite boring.
2006-07-14 08:18:16 · update #1
i can write a fairy tale that predicts the future if ya want.
2006-07-14 08:40:08 · update #2
No, Goldilocks is well written and isn't full of contradictions
2006-07-14 08:17:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, for the most part, the Bible is not just a fairy tale. It's a kind of compendium of ancient writings. It speaks about the historical events and of the things people saw, but didn't know how to explain. So they tried to explain those things the only way they knew how. To us, it sure sound like a fairy tale. But think harder.Try not to read it from the viewpoint of "there is God - there isn't God". It's much better that way, for the first reading anyway.
2006-07-14 08:23:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Tanakh, as a historical document, generally reflects what archaeologists have learned from other sources. [The big exception to this is the Bondage, and subsequent Exodus from Egypt. There has been one proposal made to dating Egyptian Dynasties, that does match the dating of the Tanakh. That these dates match up, was pure coincidence. The government of Saudi Arabia historically, has not usually permitted archaeological digs at probable sites of the Exodus.]
Fairly tales do not ---- as a general rule --- correlate with historical events.
You'll have to decide for yourself, whether or not theology of the Tanakh is wrong, or right.
The New Testament, as a historical document, doesn't have quite the same degree of historical accuracy, that the Tanakh has, from an archaeological point of view.
* The two most significant dating problems being the birth of Jesus, and the conversion of Paul, to Christianity.
* The most significant geographical issue is where the Island of Patmos was situated.
* The most problematic individual in the New Testament is Paul, the Apostle. Specifically, "Was Paul a Gnostic whose writings were adapted by Christianity?" Two schools of Gnosticism traced their heritage bck to him, and his writings. Marcion included the Pauline Epistles, and the Gospel of Luke, in his New Testament Canon. [Marcion's was the first definition of the Christian Canon.]
Fundamental Christianity asserts that the entire New Testament Canon was written prior to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, in 70 CE.
Conservative scholars tend to put the completion of the writings of the New Testament to 100 - 110 CE.
Liberal scholars have pushed the date for the completion of the writings to 250-300 CE.
Each of those groups more or less requires the date they propose to be accurate, for the rest of their theory about when, and how the New Testament was written, to be valid.
If the New Testament was written as fiction, they came up with a good story. If it was written as fact, you'll have to decide whether or not to accept the theology.
2006-07-14 12:07:22 · answer #3 · answered by jblake80856 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an elaborate fairy tale. It has many contradictions and inconsistencies, the main characters change all the time, there is a plethora of death and sex, and it can cure insomnia. In short the worst fairy tale ever written.
2006-07-14 08:27:33 · answer #4 · answered by tisbedashit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's just a fairy tale then all of it's information, presented as historical fact, must be false. If all of it's information is false, then so are all extrabiblical data that agree with biblical data.
Why not just pinpoint something you don't believe and ask about it rather than writing off all of the hundreds of thousands of its verses?
2006-07-14 08:21:05 · answer #5 · answered by chdoctor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The Bible is Basic Instuctions Before Leaving Earth.
2006-07-14 08:18:29 · answer #6 · answered by sheeny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psalms 22:15-18
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
David the King wrote this 900 years before Christ. This is by no means proof but is strong evidence that the Bible is valid.. Faith has a huge place and always will.
2006-07-14 08:28:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not so much a fairy tale as it is the inane ramblings of insane people.
2006-07-14 08:23:47 · answer #8 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Worse. Goldilocks is about a single case of breaking-and-entering. The bible is about mass murder, infanticide, fraud and all manner of perversions. Definitely not for children.
2006-07-15 05:40:24 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe, I'd say it has more spiritual and social significance than Goldilocks, but anything's possible. It's actually quite interesting... if you understand it that is. Maybe you should stick to comic books and romance novels.
2006-07-14 08:23:51 · answer #10 · answered by sierramac11 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have any of your fairytale books ever predicted the past and the future in any way such as the Bible??
Stop smoking the crazy stuff my friend....
2006-07-14 08:29:37 · answer #11 · answered by Commander 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋