most of the bible is basicaly rewritten stories stolen from pagan stories of the time and most of what the bible says is lies due to the fact that pagans where very good in imagenating things that never happened.
2006-12-14 04:22:51 · 23 answers · asked by Guardian Knight777 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
to the person who says pagans didnt exist at the time of the bible writing you need to seriously study world history since the first worship of the world was Venus the goddess and that was pagan at the time
2006-12-14 04:31:16 · update #1
oh and another thing the bible wasnt written until about 3000 years ago and then the religion didnt start until 1700 years ago and there where religions that date back as far as 25,000 years ago
2006-12-14 04:32:20 · update #2
Absolutely the Bible has elements from pagan sources.
It is not true, as commonly believed by Christians, that Christianity is 100% the truth and everything outside of it is 100% falsehood.
The reality is, if we can look at Christianity as pure white, everything else that exists outside of it are various shades of gray.
Different philosophical systems and religions have various proportions of truth mixed with error.
So the person of God, wishing to grow in wisdom and knowledge, will not reject sources outside of Christianity since they contain nuggets of the truth in the ore or their claims.
For even in ancient paganism, some element of God's light has filtered down to them.
So it is no surprise that the Biblical writers would take the grains of truth found in pagan sources, purify them, and then incorporate them into Scripture.
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2006-12-14 04:32:18 · answer #1 · answered by Catholic Philosopher 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
The Bible does not have pagan roots. But obviously it has Hebrew and Jewish roots. The OT was written in Hebrew, most of the OT is about the Jews, Jesus' ministry was directed toward the Jews, and Jesus was a Jew. (You should have been in my class "Biblical Origins".)
What is written in the Bible has not been stolen or plagerised from other religions. The Bible is God breathed, 100% truth.
2 Tim 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed...
1 Peter 1:25 The word of the Lord stands forever
2006-12-14 12:30:05 · answer #2 · answered by cnm 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
In a sense, yes. Abraham was a pagan, but Christians want him to be Christian and Jews want him to be Jewish.
I am surprised to hear the bible is "basically rewritten stories stolen from pagan stories of the time."
However, you realize Christians are WELL aware that Christ was a Jew and Christianity came from Judaism, don't you?
I hope you don't think you need to educate us on this point...
2006-12-14 12:37:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It isn't really relevant where the stories come from. Even if they were all made up that doesn't change their message. Jesus himself was known to tell stories and parables all of the time. Does that mean that there couldn't possibly be a similar story out there, or that his message does not hold as much value if there was? NO, I really don't think it matters. And Jesus was Jewish, so duh, the Bible has Jewish and Hebrew roots.
Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet was a well known Italian folk tail, with different names of course, but that doesn't make his play any less brilliant, does it?
2006-12-14 12:34:21 · answer #4 · answered by Ferosia 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm sorry, but I think you might be wrong on this one. The bible was written by 40 different people, but each was inspired by God. The stories in these books really did happen, as they can be confirmed by outside sources (Pliny the younger, Tacitus, Josephus, the Talmud). Jesus told many parable that were about everyday life, so maybe this is what is confusing you about their origin.
I know what you are thinking of...
The appocrypha are the books added by the Catholic church way later on in history. All protestant churches reject these books, as they may be true, but we don't believe they were divinely inspired.
If you have anything to say, just put a detail on your question. I hope you find this answer reasonably objective and useful.
2006-12-14 12:28:38 · answer #5 · answered by Steve 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Maybe the stories in both religions actually happened and each religion just presented them in their own way. Ex. the flood story. Noah could have passed Utnapishtim on the waves.
2006-12-14 12:26:02 · answer #6 · answered by Draco Paladin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some do. There are zealots who have totally warped the meaning of the scriptures in every major religion, just look at 9-11, its not at all indicative of Islam and its teachings.
2006-12-14 12:27:33 · answer #7 · answered by sweet_trillian 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
As soon as they realize that nowhere in the Bible does it say to cut down a pine tree and drag it into your house.
2006-12-14 12:25:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Both the creation myth and flood story in the bible are similar to the ones in the epic of Gilgamesh so it's more likely the Isrealites plagiarized them from other cultures than that they are from God.
2006-12-14 12:25:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
How do you know that the Hebrews & Christians didn't have their stories stolen and preverted by the pagans ?
2006-12-14 12:29:28 · answer #10 · answered by G3 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋