2007-08-18 06:19:47 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, so should the New Testament.
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2007-08-18 06:29:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ah the old argument of is it literal or figurative? Is it God's Word, or Man's Word of God.
It can go around and around and everyone has a different view. There are indeed contradictions that are explained away which tends to leave outsiders to believe that a lot was left out, which many digs and scholars have found to indeed be true. One has to wonder why they were left out? Then again some find the answer to that obvious which as always, it's politics. Look at poor Thecla. Revered in her time for spreading the gospel and killed for spreading the word of of Good Ole Paul, yet her story was left out of the Bible. Why? Because it's hard to make more Christians if no one is having sex. It's also been shown though that her story was still used as an educational tool. So was the Bible held the same way originally?
I can go on and on, but so can the other camp. Boils down to perspective.
2007-08-18 14:36:26 · answer #2 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's worse than that.
From a scholarly point of view, it's a mishmash of *Canaanite* oral traditions and outright propaganda:
http://www.worldagesarchive.com/Reference_Links/False_Testament_(Harpers).htm
Now, as a Norse heathen, I don't think something being called "mythology" is a BAD thing, since I actually know what words mean, and I think that, their late monotheism notwithstanding, Judaism ended up in some very wise and beautiful places, despite what xianity has gone and done to their texts and traditions . . . but mythology it definitely is.
2007-08-18 13:49:04 · answer #3 · answered by Boar's Heart 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
More like history
But however many things in the old testament are stil used by christians, like the 10 commandments.
2007-08-18 13:23:30 · answer #4 · answered by larissa 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Shouldn't you be more properly called a person that can't live on the same earth with others that would like to believe in a higher power than ourselves?
2007-08-18 13:24:13 · answer #5 · answered by Genavieve T 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, because it is used by Christians too, and it is named old testament, why would you change the name, is it matter?
2007-08-18 13:25:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not when reading it from the Jewish perspective. The Christian version is indeed mythology.
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2007-08-18 13:36:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
YES! here's a couple of new books on the subject.
2007-08-18 13:26:23 · answer #8 · answered by robert2020 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How can you comment like that?
Have you red the OT from cover to cover? If not then you have to read it first then comment...
2007-08-18 13:31:55 · answer #9 · answered by Mikey 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, its the word of God preserved throughout the ages.
2007-08-18 13:24:50 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋