Do you believe it happened?
2006-09-28 05:11:07 · 20 answers · asked by martin 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thats hard since there are so many. The part where all the zombies crawl out of their graves and start walking around is a fun one, and was the basis for many of today's Zombie movies.
I don't believe it for a second.
2006-09-28 05:15:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ancient civilizations attempting to explain natural phenomena as acts of God(s).
While I am deist, I believe in One God as a higher power, I believe that spiritually Jesus raised the bar for the way we should treat others, I see him a spiritual guide and not the deity as some that adhere to the triune God concept.
I am also pragmatic and a skeptic by nature. I recently read the "left behind" series to try and get a picture of the mentality of the rise of fundamentalism in this country.
People tend to have in their genetic psyche that those things they can't explain are "acts of God".. ie God was disgusted at Sodom and Gomorra for it's excessed so he launched a nuke at it. Lot's wife turning to a pillar of salt. attempting to explain away the grandious story of doom and gloom in the Old testament really opens a large can of wupass.
I've been a student of philosophy of religion for about 30 years. I've found personally the many of the dialogues in biblical transliteration have value, and many do not. As with most mosts the bible has it's flaws. And like any best seller people, love it, hate it or worship it.
it's important to understand the analogies in two views. One, in the time for which it was written, and two, how does it apply or can it even be applied today.
I find the aging (ie Methusalah 969 years) probably the most abstract, some items like 6 days is clearly something that shows the text was written prior to understanding concepts like Carbon 14 dating..
As far as the importance of the bible and it's impact on civilization, the impact is immense. It changed the world from a hunter/gather/farmer uncertain man, to one were purpose drives the world. Each person has a purpose, (as outlined in Ecclesiastes, 3:16. (To everything there is a purpose and a time.) Byrds Turn, Turn, Turn..
While people of varying degrees interpret the bible in their own fashion, the value of certains portions of the books, provide insight and growth for any that would read it with a mind that is open to their own spiritual existence.
2006-09-28 06:39:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sodom and Gomorrah. enable's take it order: a million. An all-seeing God needs to deliver angels to inspect the situation. 2. The angels come to the domicile of Lot. A mob seems. 3. demands that the angels be thrown out of Lot's domicile for rape/stoning/interrogation/despite. 4. Lot can provide his virginal daughters to the mob. Gee, be certain of the 300 and sixty 5 days cloth right here. 5. Lot out-argues a divine being, gets the okay to run away. 6. on an identical time as fleeing, Lot's spouse seems decrease back, is became to a pillar of salt. 7, as quickly as effectively interior the hills, daughters are worried that the pool of eligable bachelors in simple terms went up in smoke. come across plan. 8. Get dad under the impression of alcohol and seduce him! two times! 9. reliable factor they grabbed adequate wine (in heavy pottery jars) to get dad so blotto he did no longer comprehend what replace into occurring! 10. And what replace into God's punishment for this drunken incest? no longer something. in certainty, the youngsters of this union went very own to discovered great international locations! the story is quite a slam on the Moabite and Ammonite international locations, 2 tribes that have been consistently at conflict with Israel. that's propaganda, organic and easy. Calling those 2 international locations the top results of a drunken incestuous affair, linking their origins to a doomed city and the main suitable sin of inhospitality to a concentrated visitor, they have been casting their enemies as uncivilized and cursed.
2016-12-12 16:47:27 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the craziest story in the Bible starts on page one and continue until the start of the New Testament!!
2006-09-28 05:43:09 · answer #4 · answered by krys7777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The two craziest stories book-end each other. Genesis and Revelations.
How anyone can accept that the creation myth told in Genesis is absolute truth totally boggles my mind. And John's revelation? A fever dream, a fever dream, a fever dream. Plane and simple. We've all had them and they can be incredibly scary. In John's case, the pathology included visions of angels, plagues and god. I wonder what a psychiatrist would say if he was presented with someone like this?
2006-09-28 05:28:10 · answer #5 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think this 1 is so much crazy as it is interesting, but I like the story in Ecclesiastes (I think) where Solomon has become king and the 2 ladies were arguing over the child and he told 1 of them to cut the baby in half and share him so that way they both would still have "a child" or at least part of 1... of course, I believe it. some of it may be a little hard to swallow, but with God as the master interpreter, it clears EVERYTHING up...
2006-09-28 05:15:22 · answer #6 · answered by cangel980 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe all the bible. And He still parts the Red Sea.
2006-09-28 05:23:04 · answer #7 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know if I would call it crazy but certainly awesome....but I would say the whole book of exodus is pretty wild. Yes I believe it happened. They have found chariot wheels in the red sea from that time period which lend creedence to it.
2006-09-28 05:13:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story of Lot and his daughters after they left Sodom and Gomorah (disturbing to say the least). And yes, I believe all the Bible.
2006-09-28 05:14:24 · answer #9 · answered by jazzylipp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are so many. Noah and the flood is one. Some people actually believe that he had a pair of every animal on the ark?
2006-09-28 05:19:29 · answer #10 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋