About Christian Myths and Urban Legends..?

Question

What is the silliest christian myth you know?


(I'm doing research so max points to the winner)

Answer 1

We have all read in newspapers stories about people who were pronounced dead by attending physicians but later were found to be alive when movement was noticed as the bodies were lying in the morgue. If such as this can happen in modern times after competent physicians have declared people dead, how can Perman or anyone argue that it is possible for physicians today to know definitively that a man who was crucified almost 2,000 years ago was dead when he was taken down from the cross? Of all the arguments for the resurrection that I have heard, this one ranks high on my list of the silliest.

Answer 2

The same things that motivate any kinds of urban legends. Play the telephone game with a bunch of 6 year olds and they can explain it to you. Holy not everything is meant to be a direct conspiracy to twist the truth someone has a theory or a thought and tells someone or writes it in an article or online in a blog another person reads it and takes it as more factual than it might be they pass it to their friends who misquote it or think its from a history channel program or something etc etc It is the same principles as the telephone game

Answer 3

Wow, there are so many and I am a Christian. I believe the pre-tribulation rapture that depends on scriptures being taken out of context is the largest urban legend in Christianity. It inspires irrational focus on possible candidates, conspiracies and happenings when the scriptures say no one will know the date or the time of the Second Comming. This idea was never taught before the 1830s. While everyone is focused on the future, the very basics of Christ's message of love your neighbor as yourself is lost.

As for the flood, the story of the great flood has been discovered in many different cultures.

Answer 4

Here is a good one:(though technically an O.T. myth.. Isaiah 40:21-22 and Job 26:10 both alluding to the idea that the earth is round....round indeed...we all know better than that.. both Columbus and modern day astronomers were and are wrong too. Sure many prophecies have come to pass as well,but you and I know that they were just lucky guesses.

Answer 5

if one rejects any of the "myth's" of the bible they are also rejecting all of the contents of the bible (be it known that i am not a bible thumper, I'm just stating fact). you cannot pick and choose
what parts you believe in, you either have to believe it all or not at all. it is interesting that some will celebrate Christmas and Easter
but don't believe what is written in the Bible, sounds like having you're cake and eating it to. i know this didn't answer you're question, but it was posted to give you something to think about.
good luck on the research.

Answer 6

Raising Lazarus from dead

the story is based on (at the time) Egyptian mythology

most Jesus or christian stories were contrived to compete for followers of pagan religions and were semi-successful

but really, if Lazarus from dead, why not more? was it only because it was personal (meaning selfishly motivated) or was the guy actually dead at all or were characters even real or just symbolic

maybe the silliest is the whole rapture crap

Answer 7

Creation Myth

Answer 8

I can cite two from recent news.

First - the moron who wanted Al Gore's movie banned from his child's school because global warming offended his religious senses.

Second - the group of morons who think the National Park Service should not say that the Grand Canyon was formed over millions of years because that would contradidict with the Bible's age of the earth of 18,000 years.

Makes me shudder that in this day and age there are people out there THAT blind!

Answer 9

I knew a Jewish family who were the first Jews to move into a solidly Irish Catholic neighborhood (mid 20th-century). When they became friendly with some neighbors those neighbors told them that they were surprised by their appearance because they had been told by their priest that Jews have horns. He had shown them a picture of Michelangelo's statue of Moses in which Moses had horns on his head.

Answer 10

Heaven & hell The silliest myth ever created