2006-07-21 11:19:34 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Reply to Atheist Candy:
Yes I am getting to feel that way but I also feel I have a strange calling to be here(LOL)
2006-07-21 11:25:25 · update #1
The difference is documentation. You have contemperaneous writings regarding Ceasar, documents written by and about him, treaties that appear with other countries, memoirs of his contemporary peers and scholars. Regarding Jesus, there are no contemporary writings. None. He is mentioned in a few places outside the gospel in hearsay ways. You can prove this way that Caesar existed, but you cannot prove Jesus didn't exist. You can only say the evidence is not there. This might be how some people become myths. And then their accomplishments grow.
It is assumed that Heracles and Perseus are real greek heros. remember they are the sons of God, too. It is believed that they helped fight the highway bandits making trade into Athens impossible. They would be, then, in large measure responsible for the flowering of human potential. They didn't, however, fight supernatural type monsters. They fought the kind we humans always have to fight.
I believe Jesus existed. I believe he tried very hard to reach all of us with his message, just as many of us try to reach each other with our insights. I believe Jesus understood so much more than most of us - he said so according to the gospel of Judas. He said his disciples were pedophiles and murderers who would leave everyone astray. But nothing about Jesus was written down until a long time after his death. Much about Jesus matches the texts and oral traditions of other people's saviors - like Constantine's own Mithra. This gives up the myth of Jesus. There is a historical Jesus, I think, and people are working hard to find him.
His historical existance does not prove that he had supernatural qualities.
2006-07-21 11:20:05 · answer #1 · answered by cassandra 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't think of human beings fairly are keen to make the attempt with it. maximum of them only do not favor to understand and finally end up equating the Bible with Greek mythology etc. i changed into compelled to study Greek mythology in college, no determination it changed into what the instructor chosen for us to do. I study the Bible by myself, and there is not any evaluation. The Bible has heritage, archeological findings to decrease back it up. there is documentation about Jesus being in the international outdoors of the Bible, to my count number i comprehend of 25, specially first or 2d century historians, which include some that weren't even Christian. The literature sort is a useless supply-away. magnificent element!
2016-11-25 00:48:15 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
History is an accounting of things known to be fact. Myths are those things for which there is no accounting.
2006-07-21 11:27:27 · answer #3 · answered by Carlos C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
History is final, its been proved to have happened. Myth is just a speculation, nobody is sure what really happened.
2006-07-21 11:23:35 · answer #4 · answered by frdtrkgrl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
history is what happened for real, it really existed sometime in the past.
myth is more like the popular belief.....it's supposed to be true, but in most (repeat MOST, NOT ALL) cases, it isn't. it isn't something that definitely and surely happened in the past.
2006-07-21 11:26:19 · answer #5 · answered by heavendropout 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
History is real. Myth is religon.
2006-07-21 11:22:34 · answer #6 · answered by chris42050 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arent you bored of this site? I am dead bored!
Lol@strange calling. hehe enjoy Lol
2006-07-21 11:23:27 · answer #7 · answered by Atheist Eye Candy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good part of the time...Not much...
2006-07-21 15:44:42 · answer #8 · answered by ymmxkr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
myth is fake...history is real. nuff said.
2006-07-21 11:22:05 · answer #9 · answered by amdirien 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋