Since it's stated NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE, who ever told you the bible was the words of a deity and not mythology

Question

Where did that rumor start, anyway? Don'tchya think that, just maybe, before you start acting like Israelite mythology is any different than Greek or Egyptian mythology, you might want to investigate that?

Answer 1

it is mythology but since some actual events are thrown in to it they think its not mythology

Answer 2

There is a huge difference. Huge.

Let's start with the Covenant of Abraham. Basically what this amounted to was God informing Abraham that if he will care for a specific patch of the earth, it will sustain him. By keeping his part of the promise, Abraham became a farmer rather than a hunter/gatherer, and the first necessary step of Civilization was taken.

Later "rules" seen in the Bible all have a common thread of improving relationships in society. This is why it is written in the Talmud "Do not to your neighbor what is hateful to yourself. That is the whole of the Torah. The rest is commentary." Starting with encouraging us to have a stewardlike relationship with the land, what the Bible gives us is a blueprint for a society sustainable through millenia, even in the absence of God, and even with the addition of unimaginable technology.

Now, what does that have in common with human sacrifices to appease the gods that make the crops grow, or with gods from whom the holy ruler is allegedly descended and therefore allowed to be a despot if he wants to, or with gods that are more like cats or trees than like Man? How is a plan for harmonious human relationships like the greco-roman gods that all quarrel and scheme, which indicates that there's no rational hope to ever avoid chaos?

You fell into the trap of wanting to dismiss all religion as a means to avoid the responsibility of understanding them and evaluating them.

Answer 3

The English word 'Bible' is derived from the Greek word that means 'roll' or 'book,' actually a roll of papyrus (Luke 4:17; Dan. 9:2).
The term 'Scripture' is used in the New Testament of the sacred books of the Old Testament, which were regarded as inspired (2 Tim. 3:16; and Rom. 3:2), et. al (2 Peter 3:16). Our Lord delimited the extent of the canonical books of the Old Testament (Hebrew) when He accussed the scribes of being guilty of slaying all the prophets God had sent Israel, from Abel to Zechariah (Luke 11:51).
The phrase, "Word of God," is used in the New Testament referring to both the Old and New Testament works (Matt. 15:6, John 10:35, Heb. 4:12).
In all these cases, the terms refers to Book par excellence, the unique and recognized record of God's revelation to man.
In 2 Tim. 3:16, a more accurate interpretation of the Greek word, often translated as 'inspiration', is actually 'spiration.' Greek is a very exact language, unlike English. 'Spiration' literally means 'God-breathed.' The verse, therefore, means that Scripture is God-produced, and it does not actually indicate any of the means that God may have used in producing it.

Answer 4

I'm guessing you've never actually READ the Bible. There are literally hundreds of places where God states the Bible is His Word. Some of the books even begin with statements such as this one, from Zechariah 1:

1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, 2 “The LORD has been very angry with your fathers. 3 Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Return to Me,” says the LORD of hosts, “and I will return to you,” says the LORD of hosts.

Here's a list of places in the Bible you need to take a look at:

http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=word%20of%20the%20Lord&version1=50&searchtype=phrase

Answer 5

Maybe you should have done a little reasearch before saying the Bible never claims to be from God.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness
2 Timothy 3:16
These words are trustworthy and true...and if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life
Revelation 22
also the phrase "God said" or some variation of it appears over 900 times in the Bible

Answer 6

Unfortunately, men like Paul, Augustine and Aquinas got ahold of the myth and legitimized it until by Dante's time it was less myth and more a priori cosmological, ethical and metaphysical truth. The weak souls of latter-day peasant Greeks and Romans were siezed with rapture at the prospect of eternal life and equality, at a merit separate from everything physical. Much of this is the fault of the Platonists and Aristotelians, who, in translating Greek into Latin, Hebrew and Arabic, made the meaning of Plato's and Aristotle's work less esoteric and heroic and more vulgar and democratic. Only through the resulting deficit of spiritual fortitude was the West able to sacrifice Homer as the greatest poet and replace him with Dante.

Seriously, Pastor Art, you're not going to claim that Dante is in ANY way superior to Homer, are you? I mean as far as poetical skill, not dogma, is concerned.

Answer 7

Jesus Answered them and said, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods unto whom the Word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemes because I said, I am the Son of God.
John 10:34, 35, 36


I have investigated it and there is a lot more to Greek and Egyptian mythology than you think. Nimrod, Semiramis and Tammuz were the founders of mythology because Nimrod being Noah's grandson knew the stories of the pre flood world. The fallen angels were among men in those days and they were called men of renown and giants. Semiramis gave everything a god, i.e. fertility, grain, water, fire, sun, moon, air, etc. Nimrod built Babel and rebelled against God. God came down and destroyed the Tower of Babel and confounded the language so the people would scatter as God wanted them to do.

God is still in control. Just the moment that man thinks they are smarter than God, God will change things.

God said in the latter days that "knowledge will increase." And knowledge has greatly increased because less than 100 years ago our only means of transportation for thousands of years was the horse and boat. Now we have the car, airplane, train and space shuttle. And we are definitely running "to and fro" as the Bible said we would.

God said He'd bring His people back to their land. After over 2000 years God brought the Jews back to Israel. They became a nation in "one day," as the Bible stated and speaking their original "language," which is Hebrew.

Daniel 10:21
But I will show thee that which is noted in the Scripture of truth: and there is none that holds with me in these things, but Michael your prince. (Gabriel God's archangel told this to Daniel)

2 Timothy 3:16
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

To answer your question "Who ever told you the Bible was the words of a deity and not mythology?" God told me and God's Word is truth.

Not a rumor, but a fact of history and recorded for 2000 years and longer in the Bible. Moses got the laws of Scripture from God Himself. There are many verses of Scripture that refer to the Word of God in the Bible. Even to the point of "write it in a book."

No rumor - truth, truth and truth.

Answer 8

True, the bible in fact was written by man, from man, to man. Man wrote "it came from a god", but what proof is there besides the words of the man as author. What man can be trusted? Not only that, but how many translations has there been, not to mention the original translation from Aramaic to Latin which occurred on a age where superstition and power favored those who translated it.

Answer 9

lars.....If a person understood and knew personally whom the Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit is, they would have no reason to doubt when claims are made within the Bible that all scripture was written with the Holy Spirits guidance.... and, do not make the false assumption that Believers do not "test" the Bible out for authenticity at any time within their lives. :)

***Shell, God speaks through MANY people.... you just need to open your ears, eyes and heart to know that. :)

Answer 10

Another question where the object of the question is false.

Its no rumor my friend.

The Bible says 815 times, "saith the Lord".

So yes its in the Bible over 815 times.

Not counting all the other ways its stated. That one exact phrase occurs 815 times in the KJV.

Questions like this one really make you look silly.

Pastor Art

Answer 11

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