Honestly, some of the most bizarre things are in the new testament and yet many claim that everything happened just as the bible said. Yet, I've never heard any other religion claim that their stories/myths are absolutely true. I'm interested in knowing why this is the case...Any ideas?
2007-03-25 08:56:25 · 26 answers · asked by Silverwing6700 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To a christian that it correct, to a non-christian (majority of the world), it is the opposite of what they believe.
Most religious stories are metaphors, and should be realised and examined to a deeper level. Those who take teachings to be word for word perfectly accurate are usually known as extremists, and they're opinions are unquestionable to them.
It's easier to believe in something you're told to be true than something you realise to be true.
A buddhist monk once famously said "If when travelling, one should encounter the Buddha, one should kill the Buddha." Literally this is abserd, a monk whose main precept is not to harm another living being, let alone the enlightened one would not tell you to do this without having a deeper reason/meaning!
The idea of 'killing' is to perminantly remove preconceptions of separate existance from ones own mind, to not be a perciever of things but to awaken.
The point is that you should examine all that which you are told and taught- if you don't examine things and follow them blindly you can make huge mistakes (Using my example: Murdering an enlightened person).
2007-03-25 09:01:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just a matter of blind faith and fundamentalism. If you had lived in ancient Greece, you would have been told that all the fables of their religion were true as well.
I cannot agree with you about other religions acting differently. I am an American living in a Muslim country, and can tell you first hand that the people here will argue that the Quran is 325% true till they breathe their last breath. I know some Hindu's who act the same. And when I visit Laos, the Buddhist monks there will show you a 6 foot long indentation in a boulder and swear up and down that it is the footprint of Buddha.
When they are telling you about God's holy zombies rising from the dead, or a carpenter feeding 10,000 people with 2 Mountain Dews and a Twinkie-- just get a glazed look in your eyes, nod your head vigorously, and say "Praise Jesus" and you should be okay.
2007-03-25 09:09:46 · answer #2 · answered by jeff7272 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, how do you use social control? The church works with the Government to control people. Did you hear the taped conversation between Billy Graham and Richard Nixon in the White House? They were not talking about the teaching of Jesus, equality of opportunity or even a chicken in every pot. They were in agreement on the need to control people and make people do what they wanted them to do.
This is called social control! And one way to control people is by taking over the peoples Religious organizations so that the message coming from the Church is in harmony with the message being played over the loud speakers of Authority. "Do what you are told, don't question authority and above all, "Don't think for yourself!" This is the basic teaches of Religion in many parts of the world today.
2007-03-25 09:16:42 · answer #3 · answered by zclifton2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
to elaborate some on "The Answer's" answer, you are indeed taking for granted that some or all the narratives in the New Testament (probably you mean the miracles) are just fables, or myths. How did you make that leap of logic? As CS Lewis noted, all Christ's miracles are instantaneous tiny scale models of what God does (or will do) every day on a grand scale. For example, when Jesus turned water into wine at the wedding reception in Cana, he was only imitating his Father: God turns water into wine every day, but uses the media of grape vines and fermentation over time. Same deal when he multiplied 5 loaves and 2 fish to feed over 5,000-- every day God uses 2 fish to make many more fish, and a small amount of grain to make lots of grain-- he uses biological reproduction. Likewise with all the healing miracles-- all doctors do these days is to remove hindrances to the body's natural healing processes. No doctor can heal a cut on a corpse. Every day people gradually recover from illnesses by their God-given immune system-- Jesus just used less time. All the miracles of Jesus pointed to Who was really behind the processes he was imitating.
2007-03-25 09:20:29 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. Joe 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Have you heard of the Torah, the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Prophet Mohammed? How about a guy named Osama?
Every religion has its myths and the followers believe every word as if they were gospel. If you haven't heard stories of other religions it could only be because you haven't been listening.
2007-03-25 11:47:22 · answer #5 · answered by Lady E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same reason that every other religion's are "true" and all the other religions' myths are "false." OK, not all of them, but Christianity and Islam both do. Judaism, I'm not positive. Hinduism and Buddhism I think not.
2007-03-25 09:08:15 · answer #6 · answered by Jacques 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get ready for the boom of honesty.
(MOST) christians are ignorant. they follow the bible and nothing less.
MOST think that anyone of other religions are satanic and they are not to be talked to.
i have been shunned by my "friends" because i am wiccan. so do not say that i am lieing.
i never do say that all religions are false. because a religion is a belief. to believe is an option.
i never say that all the stories of the gods and goddesses are true. because they have been passed down for so long. its like the game telephone. you almost never come up with the same thing.
hope this helped.
& Blessed Be
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2007-03-25 09:05:39 · answer #7 · answered by sr438 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The bible is true, those things happened and archeological and scientific evidence supports it. However for a religion such as Mormonism, there isn't a shred of evidence. Being "bizarre" does not negate reality, but only the man made idea of what is "normal". Please be reasonable. A paradox is not a contradiction.
2007-03-25 09:08:35 · answer #8 · answered by wassupmang 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Everyone is taught to believe the myths of his or her chosen religion, whether it's Christianity, Hindu, Moslem, Wiccan or atheist. They all have their myths, and in order to be in the religion, you have to accept the myths as reality. Which are myth and which are reality, that depends on your belief. All religions teach that their views, teachings and "myths" are true and everyone else's is false. That's what religion does.
2007-03-25 09:05:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because even many non Christians admit that real evidence supports that Jesus existed and wasn't some made up figure like Hercules or Osiris.
2007-03-25 09:04:36 · answer #10 · answered by Joe S 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋