I have a question about Religion and religion believers. First of all, if Adam and Eve were suppose to be the first humans ever...how can you explain the ancient people like the Maya, Aztec, Ancient Greeks, and other Great and dominant civilizations of the past? Obviously these civilizations did not worship the god that is worshiped today.
So with that being said, if society today can dismiss the gods of the past great civilizations...like that of Ancient Greeks which society now calls their beliefs as MYTHology, and has been widely accepted to be myth and not real. What is it to say that hundreds or thousands of years from now when our great society comes to an end what is to stop the beings (human or not) from saying that the beliefs at the time were myth and widely accepted as not real.
I guess what i am getting at is, what makes todays religion any different form what the ancients believed to be the "truth"?
(don't mean to be offensive, just a thought i have had)
2007-05-04 05:27:34 · 9 answers · asked by tRuThBtOlD 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you would be willing to read the BIBLE, the story and origin of other societies is told. After the flood noe of Noah's sons stayed with the pagan worship that was rampant before the flood. from his descendants came the idea to build a tower that would prevent their demise if another flood came. well this proves their diloyalty to GOD because HE made a promise not to flood the earth again, and put a permanent sign in nature to prove it. but no they didn't accept this or trust HIM, so they started building the tower. GOD confused their language and they could not communicate to finish the tower and humankind split up.from this you have all the unique societies found on our planet.
2007-05-04 05:49:14 · answer #1 · answered by spotlite 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a good question.
You'll no doubt get the "Free Will" cop out excuse for an answer.
There's no difference. Anything more than a cursory glance at most of the Ancient Religions will show them to be much like modern ones. Basically because modern religion is built of the foundations of older religions (shock, horror, heresy).
Truth is universal. Truth is relative to the people and the time. The Old Gods were no less relevant in their time, it's just that every religion proclaims itself to be the One True religion.
That's the sad thing about religion. It's not the God who is cruel and jealous. It's the religion.
2007-05-04 05:38:28 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Answering your question or thought... In all of history and it's religions there has been no other man nor being that could perform the miracles that Jesus Christ of Nazareth did in fact do. Nor has there been no man nor being that could say when slapped, to turn the other cheek. Above all there has never been no man nor being that could heal the sick and make the blind to see, to turn the water into wine,raise the dead an so much more and be crucified for it and raise his own self from the dead. The reason of today's religion is to disprove those religions as wrong and as paegons. And above all to save our souls. The "ancients" are no different than the sinners that were at The Tower of Babel, look what happened to them.....same as the "ancients"...
2007-05-05 19:41:15 · answer #3 · answered by Steven 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no difference. For the Christians who say that the difference is that Jesus performed miracles and was resurrected, etc., how do we know this? Is it because the Bible tells me so? Haven’t other religions had supportive texts? Didn’t the Mayans and other ancient civilizations have their religious stories written on the walls of caves? I’m sure their stories told of miracles as well. How do we know which miracles really happened and which did not? The truth is that we do not know.
2007-05-04 05:47:33 · answer #4 · answered by Biggus Dickus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve were the first man and woman God created. It is written in Scripture there were Greeks and others who did not worship God, they worshiped the sun, the stars and other things, they called "gods", which is where mythology came about, the difference is, their gods didn't actually exist, and they worshiped created things, which is idolatry, rather than obeying God, and worshiping their own Creator.
2007-05-04 06:03:07 · answer #5 · answered by cas1025 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is, the nature of the material world that all things decay in time, and while God is infallible, the human beings who receive and transmit God's instructions are fallible. Consequently, the religious traditions God establishes become compromised and undermined by a worldly spirit, and so in time they disintegrate. When religion thus declines, and irreligion consequently rises, God descends to rectify the imbalance and restore the principles of righteousness.
2007-05-04 06:06:47 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because JEsus rose from the dead, and witnesses wrote about his life and his miracles and were killed for spreading the good news of Chirst.. NO other religous figure (mohammad, buddha, etc.) performed miralces, there were just wise (superstitious) men searching for truth and forming ethical life guidelines. JEsus Christ on the other hand, supported his claim of divinity with his miracles, especially, with his resurrection.
“There is between Christianity and whatever other religion the distance of infinity.” Napoleon BOnaparte
2007-05-04 05:33:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely nothing, in fact the process of change has already begun.
2007-05-04 05:32:49 · answer #8 · answered by MoPleasure4U 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the differences are marginal that's all i can say ...
2007-05-04 05:33:00 · answer #9 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋