if the bible is the word of God, for us now....why is it full of myths from other earlier cultures? wouldnt God have origional stuff? heck, even noah came from the mesopotamians......and dont just say its true, because thesre are the religions that the bible railed against......thanks!
2007-03-29 09:02:28 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
they did not find the ark...they found pieces of wood that might have possibly been on a boat
2007-03-29 09:06:48 · update #1
shoulda said sumerians....sorry...thousands of years before the bible...and there was flooding in the valley, duh
2007-03-29 09:18:04 · update #2
also...it floods everywhere and it would make sense to save a male and female of everything
2007-03-29 09:18:50 · update #3
ooookayyyyy...the flood was just an example, marys conception is stolen from egypt as is caan ands able....so yeah
2007-03-29 10:03:06 · update #4
OK I know this will piss people off, but even the theme of Jesus being the son of God (an immortal) and Mary (a mortal) is not a new theme in mythology. The Egyptians believed every single Pharaoh was half-divine, a son of Ra the sun God who sneaked into the queen's bedroom and impregnated her. So if you wanted you could even say Christianity is a borrowed myth from an earlier culture. Or...you could say Satan is messing with our heads again. Food for thought.
2007-03-29 09:19:51 · answer #1 · answered by serqet 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In studying the Genesis Flood legend, we can observed first of all that it was not simply the story of one local tradition.
Every continent on the planet told the same amazing story of an ancient flood similar to that of Noah's!
Even the evolutionary scientists were puzzled by this consistency in the retelling of the flood story.
How could such far away countries as Australia and in South America, many thousands of miles from the Middle East and the ancient Hebrews, have the same legend as Mesopotamia?
In the Asian country of India, for instance, their flood legend said a fish told a man to build himself a boat, and when the flood receded, the man found himself on top of a mountain!
The African legend told of a rainmaker causing a great flood to destroy the wicked people.
Some Native American tribes have an origin myth about a great snow that melted and caused a great flood to cover all the trees and Rocky Mountains; the animals were all saved because a man put them in his canoe.
No, far the contrary of what you've stated in your question, the ancient Hebrews had their own flood legend, and the Mesopotamians had theirs, and each didn't get their flood story from the other!
You can't get much more original then that, and for the matter, what about the 'original' account of creation in Genesis? No other ancient peoples,i.e. the Sumerian, Babylonians have a creation story whereby ONE God created the Universe and earth! They are all polytheistic(many gods involved) accounts of creation!!
2007-03-29 16:38:55 · answer #2 · answered by Old Truth Traveler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are about 300 cultures that claim that their start came from 8 people surniving a world wide flood. The Ark has been seen. It is split in half, but they can be seen from time to time. Google Noah's Ark and check out some of the information that comes up!! There is to much evidence to discount as a myth.
2007-03-29 16:12:27 · answer #3 · answered by michael m 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Did you know that the Bible says that Satan wants to be like the Most High? I'm sure lotsa stuff in other cultures are similar. He can come as an angel of light.
Can you disprove the flood? I guess we can pull scientists for and against.
Got another example?
Giants isn't a myth. It's a tall race of people.
Dragons could be any number of species now extinct. It's also symbolic.
Unicorns were probably an elk like animal. Not with magical powers.
2007-03-29 16:08:02 · answer #4 · answered by Jasmine 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
there are many different things that have showed that things might have happened differently that as explained in the bible... but never proven as much... and never will be... part of believing in God and what the bible says if having faith... if you are studying the bible you sholdnt do it without first having faith that what it says is true... having a relationship with God is much like that of having a relationship with any other person that you love... you dont have any way of proving that they are always going to love you and be truthful with you and never let you down... but you go into the relationship with a certain degree of faith that they wont... the difference is that unlike God, people dont put these promises in writing... where as He did... there were never any myths...and just for the record the bible never railed another religion... there were people who had a part in the bible who may have said some negative things about other religions, but negativity never came out of the mouth of Jesus... and Jesus is the one whos words came from God. Good luck in your studies... I hope you are as truely as blessed as i have been.
2007-03-29 16:17:17 · answer #5 · answered by Crystal 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The flood was an event that effected the entire globe. The fact that other cultures have the story passed down hardly disproves it. While some similar stories exist in other literature, the Bible did not just take these stories as its own.
2007-03-29 16:06:41 · answer #6 · answered by Andrew G 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Why do we continually get asked the same questions over and over and over....It is not full of myths. It is Original. You don't believe because you are deceived. You are proving the Word of God. Everyone who comes to this site and attacks Christians and our beliefs, God and the Bible....are fulfilling scripture.
The Bible existed loooooong before any other culture...they are the 'thieves'....
2007-03-29 16:09:18 · answer #7 · answered by Hot Momma 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's a selection of tales and legends inspired by the stories that bronze age middle eastern goat herders were telling each other at night, around the camp fire, playing to scare each other.
Wat is truly amazing is that some people suffering from delusional mental disorder think that they are true stories...
2007-03-29 16:27:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the other way around. The Mesopotamians have a account about him. So do the Chinese, and many other cultures.
Many cultures have the Bible accounts as a root of their stories.
2007-03-29 16:15:34 · answer #9 · answered by rangedog 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God.
The word existed before time began and it is not a question of tracking cultures; unless you want to look into the religions produced by Cane and his children.
2007-03-29 16:18:04 · answer #10 · answered by Tommy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋