Myths about Christianity?

Question

Here are a couple of myths I've heard from atheists:

1) The concept of Satan differs drastically from Judiasm and it evolved over time.

The concept of Satan did not evolve over time. Just because Jews do not believe in the same version of Satan does NOT mean that it evolved over time. There is plenty of evidence to actually support the exact opposite. Jews once believed in the same idea of Satan that we do but they fell away.

2) The epic of Gilgamesh records a story about a man being saved in a big flood and just because this supposedly predates Judiasm, this automatically means the story in the Bible borrowed form Sumerian legends.

This is not true. It was actually the other way around. If anything, it actually supports the truth of the Bible because if a world wide flood did happen, you would expect to finds legends ALL over the world and that is EXACTLY what you find.

What do you think?

Answer 1

If the flood happened the way the Bible SAID it did, then there would have been no records of it because EVERYBODY on the planet except Noah's family DIED. Who was it then that would have wrote these supposed records. This seriously has to be the worst argument I've seen from you.

Liesel.

Answer 2

Some other beliefs common to cultures around the world is the idea of a messiah or golden child who would come; one with a miraculous birth and a tragic death who would save mankind. The zodiac is also a commonly shared belief in different forms.

I believe that this all proves that the human race started out as one culture and spread out from there. This is how Gods plan for the Messiah could be recorded in the Mazzaroth, and then polluted a little by ever culture of the world just enough to make it unrecognizable. This is how you get Virgins thrown in a volcano as a sacrifice to God. It’s just a misunderstanding of the Virgin born Messiah, sent to die and return the Lion of the tribe of Judah.

I believe that the Milky Way was originally known as “the Way” and somebody inserted the word Milky to confuse us.

I’m with you, there is plenty of evidence of common decent among cultures and languages.

Answer 3

1. Please back up your claim with actual evidence from an Cultural Anthropologist.

2. Wrong, Cultural migration is why the Flood story is found all over the world. As different groups of people migrated the took 1 centralized flood story and spread it through word of mouth legends. When you can prove that the Judaic culture was around pre dating the sumerians then we will talk. Just because 1 culture has a flood story in one part of the world and another in a different part of the world does not prove a world wide flood. If it flooded in a city in china today and then it also flooded in Denver does that prove a world wide flood? It must based on your assumptions.

Answer 4

Apparently you think that by arm-waving you can prove your arguement. In 1 "there is plenty of evidence....", if so, give us some.

In 2, even if there was a super-flood and everyone had a legend, this does not preclude the Jews adopting the Sumerian legend. Just because they "adopted" it doesn't mean they used it as it was. The relation of Noah to God and Gilgamesh to the Babylonian Gods is much different.

In short, you have been weighed in my balance and found wanting. BTW-I'm Jewish.

Answer 5

Agreed. And about the flood- Atheists will say that such a thing is a fable, impossible, didn't happen. Yet they evidently believe in the story that you point out. If the story of the flood, Noah's ark, etc. is a fable, what did such a story profit anyone? Were the people back then going to make a movie out of it?

Answer 6

Not true.
The concept of Satan does differ from that of Christianity
It has been positively proven that the epic of Gilgamesh predates the story of the flood.

Answer 7

1) You're wrong. The concept of Satan most certainly evolved over time from Enki.

2) Obviously, all of Judaism was influenced by Sumarian religious ideas, including the flood idea (in addition to Satan, who derived from the Sumarian Enki)

Simply stating your opinion is not the same as an actual argument.

Answer 8

how about this...we see in Genesis 6 God talk about how angels took for brides any of the beautiful women on the earth they wanted. and their offspring were giants who were known as "the heroes of old and men of renown". now look at old greek mythology with the gods and how they would seduce women and have children with them who were also the heroes of old and men of renown...like hercules, perseus, achilles, and so on and so forth. so these things were passed down through the generations after the flood and in time became myth. but it is based on the pre-flood world that was destroyed.

Answer 9

Christianity is no myth. God does not judge us by our religion. We all go to the other side. Only dark entities have the choice to choose the left door or stay in darkness for eternity. There's no Hell or burning fire. Everyone has the splendor of going to the white light if they refuse then they walk unknown on earth. (Ghosts). There's no such thing as an atheists. They claim to be atheists on earth but when they die they get the realization of what GOD is all about. And they go home (the other side). Because it is just to beautiful to pass up. I had a friend that was a die hard atheists but he contracted HIV he of all people wanted all his friends to pray for him because he was afraid of dying. So atheists are just wanting to get attention, deep in their hearts they know that their maker is their taker. It all comes out within them when they are on their death bed.

Answer 10

My favorite myths about Christianity and Christians that I hear from the evangelical atheist's on here are that Christians believe the world is only 6,000 years old and flat, that we apparently are afraid of science, don't believe in dinosaurs or evolution and (my personal favorite) that we all want a theocracy.