This definition of myth is from dictionary.com:
1. a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, esp. one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
2. stories or matter of this kind: realm of myth.
3. any invented story, idea, or concept: His account of the event is pure myth.
4. an imaginary or fictitious thing or person.
5. an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution.
Sounds like it describes the bible stories to me. So what separates myth from something a religion is based on? Where is the line?
2007-10-29 11:44:00 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The bible IS myth. Believers just don't like to use that word b/c it detracts from their holier than though attitude.
P.S. I love how people use bible versus to prove the validity of the bible. lol
2007-10-29 12:06:28 · answer #1 · answered by Tamsin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You see a painting and you know it has a painter; you see a building and you know it has a builder; you see creation and you know it has a creator.
The prophets of the bible were known proof positive as prophets because everything the prophets said came to pass regardless of any and all efforts to prevent it. King Ahab was killed exactly as the prophet said. The fire came down just as Elijah said. The plagues came just as Moses said they would. And Jesus came just as John the Baptist said He would.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life."
It's interesting; you read your history books in school and you believe everything happened just as it says; but you doubt the history happened that the bible says happened. It all still happened regardless of the fact that we have technology today that they did not have back then. The bible says that in the last days there would be an increase of knowledge; which is how we ended up with our appliances and technology, by an increase of knowledge.
The bible is fact, not fiction.
Read the book of Proverbs in the bible and then just watch life. It's all true. The faces and places and times are different, but it's all still true.
2007-10-29 11:56:54 · answer #2 · answered by goldyyloxx 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God exists and could be a race of selfish extraterrestrials out there in the universe
2007-10-29 11:54:39 · answer #3 · answered by pinkNzebra 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Allegories!
2007-10-29 11:47:42 · answer #4 · answered by Future 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The factors that separate the bible from myth are listed below:-
yep... that's about it
2007-10-29 11:51:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
God's attributes. Power, justice, love and wisdom.
2007-10-29 11:50:43 · answer #6 · answered by Just So 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just belief.
2007-10-29 11:53:04 · answer #7 · answered by Chris 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Revelation of God comes to those who love and seek his truth.
2007-10-29 11:51:12 · answer #8 · answered by djmantx 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What separates it? Millions of people screaming at the top of their lungs that it's all true.
2007-10-29 11:48:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Have you read the bible?
2007-10-29 12:03:10 · answer #10 · answered by rockstar112341234 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋