Tell me about my theory...?

Question

The indians made up folk stories about why things happened. as did the spaniards. things such as "why does the toad have spots?" were made into fictional stories that seem very out of the ordinary, with miracles happening left and right. I get into a lot of fights with believers in god, so tell me plase: is the bible not the same as these folk stories? is the idea of gods not just an attempt to explain how things got here? what better origin of life than a greater diety, who will one day come to save us all. Apart from that, God is taking his sweet time getting down here. If you look at the world we have now, many of you will notice that he is way overdue for a visit. How, again, do you explain that many cultures have different gods? and if god is so damn peaceful, why are so many holy wars carried out in his name? thank you in advance for the answers, i look forward to being proved wrong.

Answer 1

I doubt you can be proved wrong. You've hit the nail on the head.

If you look at the earliest books, you clearly see folk tales. Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 present slightly different creation stories with the idea of molding man from clay and making woman from a part of man having mythic meanings.

Another verification is that the bible only speaks of what the people writing it know. The creation states that there is a single expanse of dry land surrounded by water. This was a logical assumption at the time but it ignores the continents not connected to Eurasia or Africa. None of the lights that god creates are labeled a planet and, indeed, the word doesn't occur in the bible. At the time, all the lights (other than the sun and the moon) were thought to be the same. The only distinction that the planets held was that expert astrologers found that they wandered in their orbits around the Earth (planet means wanderer). The biblical writers had not yet noticed this so they didn't make even that distinction.

One can go on. From the fact that the bible labels a bat as a kind of bird (Linnaeus being many centuries in the future) to the fact that the bible not only says the sun and moon will stop in their orbits around the Earth but even specifies a valley where the moon will remain until it resumes it's orbit, the bible is filled with myth and misunderstanding.

Answer 2

If you're looking forward to being proved wrong, then sorry to disappoint you, but I think you're on the right track.
People invented gods because they didn't know any better. (And I don't mean that in an insulting way.) See it from an ancient man's point of view, and imagine that you know NOTHING of science or nature. Now you see this incredible bright light in the sky. It lights the Earth. It MOVES across the sky. It gives warmth. It burns the skin. It blinds you if you stare at it. Flowers and leaves actually TURN TOWARDS it, and follow it, and then the flowers close up when it's gone for the night. How powerful this thing must be if it can command the very plants and FLOWERS to move! . If you had NO concept of science, your first instinct would be to think that the sun is a living thing that has power over all. Once the notion is planted in your head, and you talk about it with your family and neighbors, and they wonder the same things, too, you come to a consensus that it is a "god".
That, and a myriad of other things in nature that couldn't be explained, are how the idea of "gods" came to be.

Answer 3

u r mixing two things over here
the folk tales made up by indians or spaniards were to teach children moral values
while bible is much more like we could say that it tells u about this complex system of origin of life , the reasons behind ur birth etc. For ur kind of information earth is divided into 4 groups in hindu mythalogy -Satyayug, duaparyug,tretayug &kalyug
right now kalyug is going on
its been said that god comes in these groups
& he is yet to come in at the end of the kalyug
god did come down on earth many times in many forms like
Gautam Buddah,Ram,Krishn,Jesus Christ,Prophet mohammad etc
all gods are same but have different name as per given by different society

if i carry a war in ur name that doesn't mean u r not peaceful
people misuse gods name for their own greeds,wrong interpretation and many r ignorant of real truth

Answer 4

The only reason that not everything that's true to one person will always be true to 100% of everyone is because everyone has (had) different theories and explanations for these kinds of things back before the germ was discovered; more often than not, it was all the doing of god.

Now there's science here to explain everything, so the people who think science is 100% wrong are all still living in the 1000's. Or the 900's.

So I agree.

Answer 5

You need to change that word from "theory" to "hypothesis".

Or is this "Theory of Folk Tales" on the same footing as the "Theory of Evolution"? A conclusion based on little or no evidence. Well, yes, that cannot be a theory but a hypothesis.

Answer 6

Whoa! Cultural memes!

But, yeah. It's not a bad theory.

Answer 7

In a lot of ways I think we are less interested in how we gothere and more interested in how we can acheive ETERNITY.

Answer 8

Yeah- it's pretty obvious.
or, at least obvious to those of us who don't have our heads up our arses.

Answer 9

I agree with your theory.