Since they made up the stories about him by illegaly taking points the copyrighted works about Horus, Dionysus, and Mithras it helps people to criticize the trustworthiness of the bible. Why couldn't they have your used their own imaginations for making tales about Jesus?
If you do not know about the Horus, Dionysus and Mithras theory you can have it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_as_myth
2007-02-04 00:38:27 · 12 answers · asked by Born again atheist 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What about the epic of Gilgamesh-it was written before the bible and has a flood story and creation myth suspiciously like the ones in Genesis.
2007-02-04 00:42:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
They say there's nothing new under the sun. These stories you are looking at wondering why the originators of the bible plagerized them arent originals themselves. They in turn come from OLDER myths that go back thousands of years. Virtually every country in the world has a death and rebirth myth. The Egyptians are most famous for it with the myth of Isis and Osiris. The ancient Celts took a more cyclical approach and tell that the god's death and rebirth is a yearly thing tied to the sun. Many of the myths and stories we love most have been repeated throughout history are merely echos of older tales, and such it has been since the beginning of time.
2007-02-04 08:48:44 · answer #2 · answered by Goddess Nikki 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well let's start with the second paragraph:
These theories are usually, but not exclusively, associated with a skeptical position on the historicity of Jesus. No peer-reviewed literature has been published and the theories have not found widespread acceptance among Bible scholars and historians.
Now, there is NO birth certificate for or GRAVESTONE for William Shakespeare, hence there is a theory he didn't exist and his stuff was written by someone else under a pen name.
That doesn't stop Literature departments from Teaching Shakespeare as FACT!
2007-02-04 08:55:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Back then, people derived all their ideas and stories from what they knew in those days.All ancient religions have common themes and common stories with seemingly identical heroes.They only changed names, events, and deities to fit into their own version of what the authors wanted to convey to those they sought to gain believers in their story.But since all stories from the ancient world mirror each other we can only deduce that people back then must have been greatly affected by stories they were familiar with already.And so future authors used that to their advantage when creating new religions.
2007-02-04 08:44:56 · answer #4 · answered by Demopublican 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
certain stories were known to all people of the earth since they all desended from Noah. this also inlcuded the promise of a messiah...so you will see this reflected in the history and folklore of all people. however, the continuation of the saga is only found in the bible.
2007-02-04 08:47:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why go to the trouble of cooking up their own when they had so many great myths to chose from.
Love and blessings Don
2007-02-04 08:42:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because when you follow God, you have His protection. It is always better to follow God's plan because He knows what is the best according to His wishes for us without violating our free will.
2007-02-04 08:52:02 · answer #7 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They did not make up anything. God inspried them to write His Word to us.Praise the Lord!
2007-02-04 08:42:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
you poor decieved little man
2007-02-04 09:01:34 · answer #9 · answered by san_ann68 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because they were inspired by God to write exactly that which God wanted in His Bible,
2007-02-04 08:41:47 · answer #10 · answered by Chef Bob 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋