Questions for Christians?

Question

If Moses, Jesus, and other bible characters existed, why couldn't characters from greek and nordic mythology exist. How can people believe in mythology? Bible is clearly a mythology, if Moses existed, characters from the greek mythology existed too.

Answer 1

Then riddle me this: What is history? If someone dropped an ancient book into your lap and asked you whether or not the stories in the book actually happened or not, how would you answer them? What evidence would you consider? For example, say the book talked about Caesar’s conquest of Gaul. History? Why not mythology? You never saw Caesar yourself. You probably never saw the Roman artifacts demonstrating his existence. Perhaps you saw a coin with his face on it, or a picture of a statue made in his honor. How do you know the whole thing wasn't made up, statues and all, with no person behind it? I'll tell you why you think that's history, not mythology. You believe historians. That’s good, because historians can generally tell when someone is writing a story as history and when they are writing a story as myth. In history, things are too tightly connected with other known, believed events and places. Did you know that Luke, who wrote the third Gospel and the book of Acts, is regarded by historians as one of the best historians of his period? Everything he wrote is so tightly connected to the vast, complex network of real places, events, and people of the ancient world, that Luke is considered a superior recorder of these events, many of which involved him as an eye witness. Furthermore, he was a doctor, skilled in the disciplined thinking of the science of his day, and not given to mythological fancies like some of his less well-educated countrymen. No, there is ample, credible evidence that the Bible was written as true history, and not as a fairy tale for telling 'round the campfire.

As for the characters of Greek mythology, it is a possibility that many of them are derivations of real persons, whose stories began as history, but lost contact with the moorings of reality over time. Part of the problem there is the gap in time between the real events and the recording of those events, and most mythologies do not have a tightly guarded textual history, but were perpetuated by word of mouth, 'round the campfire, for millennia before anyone thought to make a book out of it. The stories pertaining to Jesus, however, were written down, as history, during the lifetimes of those who were eyewitnesses to the events of His life. Furthermore, secular (non-Biblical) historians such as Josephus also recorded persons and events exactly matching the historical details of the writings about Jesus. There is no corresponding "reality test" for mythology, and none is needed, because that's not mythology's purpose. But the Bible was written to record, among other things, the words and deeds of the historical Jesus, who came from a far place to live among us and show us that we really have a very bright future indeed, if we turn from our sins and place our trust in Him. He is the real thing.

Answer 2

The question shouldn't be whether these people existed. They did. Moses is actually the author of the Torah (the first 5 books of the Old Testament). There was actually a man named Jesus, who was born to an unwed mother named Mary (the immaculate conception is a leap of faith. There are debates as to whether it was Joseph's or perhaps Mary was raped by a Roman soldier. These are academic debates that Universities spend a lot of time researching) The question you should ask is if they really performed the acts described in the Bible. If you can't buy into it, then that's it.

However, even if you don't believe in the accounts of the Bible, much like Greek and Nordic Mythology, you should take from it a lesson. That is what is important.

Answer 3

I actually believe that SOME of the characters from mythology did exist, but not in the form they're spoken of in mythology. I think they were just people, most likely Pharaohs or some other important person that was deified later.

Hence why there are no mythological stories dating back to less than a hundred years after the events supposedly occurred.

Answer 4

You argument is not logical.

That is like saying, If Greek gods existed, then Humpty Dumpty existed too.

If Moses existed, then the
Greek gods existed.

There is no difference in these arguments.

There is proof of the Bible with out the Bible.

Time is our proof that Jesus existed.

BC and AD

What proof do you have in mythology?

Answer 5

science has triend to prove the bible wrong and failed proving it right. So that therefore proves that the people in the bible existed and jesus to still exist as part of the trinity. they even found what they think is part of the ark. Science does not try to disprove mythology as the greeks admit that is what it is. although i think that some of their mythical people possibly did exist but were powerful people and not gods.

Answer 6

It's pretty much understood that the Greeks mythology came from the Titans or the giants born of Angels and human women.
Yes they existed too.
What does that have to do with where you spend eternity. Call it a myth if you please but study up so you will know a little about which you speak.

Answer 7

Congratulations.

You just figured out why the Bible makes sense: most of those people didn't exist. Noah didn't build an ark as big as the state of Rhode Island. Can't believe 40 days and 40 nights? Easy! It is because it is a story.

I will say this until I am blue in the face: the Bible isn't to be taken literally. It is figurative. They are all allegories in which we should live by.

Answer 8

Because the Bible is history. I mean literal, found scriptures in different places that people wrote what they saw and experienced. Everything Greek, Nordic, or Roman that is history also no doubt existed.

Answer 9

george washington existed, but it is doubtful that he could not lie or that he threw a silver dollar across the delaware. real people are given myth-like attributes all the time. ther is no question that the same is true for biblical characters. jesus was real. he never walked on water, raised the dead or ascended to heaven, but he did exist.

so, yes. it is possible that there was a historical hercules who's fame snowballed into the legend of a half-god superman. i mean, in that regard the story almost parrellels the story of jesus.

Answer 10

Well greek gods were created by human being just like any other gods... The new testament was written between 70 years and 200 years after jesus death by guy who never met him and since our planet had lots more troubles than good things happening because of that. Same with any religion, so looking back maybe the greek were a lot better because closer to real life. god has always been the easiest answer to the wrong questions...