When will people realize that the bible is just mythology?

Answer 1

Some never will..

Addition: Nor will they ever learn that their threat "You will find out after you die." is both comical and completely misguided... LOL

Answer 2

"Just" mythology? Why do you denigrate mythology? A society's myths comprise its people's best attempts to explain the world and their place in it. Mythology is central to understanding any society...including our own.

Consider the Great American Myth: a person who works hard and works smart - no matter his or her disadvantages when life begins - can achieve success in the United States. This myth is perpetuated by countless anecdotes of men and women who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and established wealth and fame. Is this myth true - does this really happen to those who try? As is the case with all myths, it doesn't matter - what is most important is how this myth informs our understanding of the people who made it a part of their collective memory as a people.

So it is with the Bible. If you want to treat it as mythology, fine - but not "just" mythology. The stories of the Bible are critical to our understanding of an ancient people who have, perhaps more than any other group of ancients, been a huge influence on modern Western society.

Answer 3

If the bible is mythology then the fact that they have found chariot wheels made of gold dating to the time when pharoahs chariots and soldiers were destroyed in the parting of the red sea - are not real.....??????????

Answer 4

When will people realize that the bible is just mythology?

As soon as you prove it.

Answer 5

Mythology?hahaha
wow...what did the bible do to you?
Somethings in the bible have been proved true.

Answer 6

I've seen this sort of foolishness pop up a thousand times before, and I've always regarded them as pointless, poorly thought-out questions put forth by cynical, self-glorifying idiots who want to sound smart.

My question to you is, when will YOU realize that you're simply believing the opposite of what others do? There's nothing original in that. Whatever side you're on in this argument, all you have to fight with is faith. In your case, a twisted kind of faith, cloaked in rags of faulty reasoning.

Answer 7

Dude, some people need religion to have purpose. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with going to church, and living the word, and raising your children in this manner. There is nothing wrong with having faith without proof of god's existence. Most people I meet believe in god. It's their right to stand on the mountain top and proclaim their love of god. What they often lose sight of in their romance with the imaginary is the intolerance that develops in them for anything around them that may not fold neatly into their moist towelette package of religion. In closing, they will never realize it, because they have faith. Not dissimilar for you or I, they have faith, that god exists, while we have faith he doesn't. The amazing thing to them should be, how is it that the devil doesn't make me murder, rape, and kill, everything and everyone, since I don't have god in my heart. How is it, that without the faith they believe steers them to righteousness, you and I can manage to do the same without it?

Answer 8

Why I Believe the Bible
A Nuclear Scientist Tells His Story

AS TOLD BY ALTON WILLIAMS

IN 1978 two significant events took place in my life. In September I received my degree as a nuclear physicist, and in December, I was ordained as a minister of Jehovah's Witnesses.

When people learn that I am a scientist as well as a Witness, they often wonder how I reconcile my scientific knowledge with my belief in the Bible. Granted, for years I too wondered whether scientific knowledge and belief in the Bible could go together. Eventually, though, I became fully convinced that the Bible is in harmony with scientific fact. How did I reach that conclusion? Please allow me first to relate how I became a scientist.

http://www.watchtower.org/e/20040122a/article_01.htm

A PHYSICIAN TELLS
HIS STORY


I WAS in the hospital auditorium, summarizing the results of an autopsy to a group of doctors. The patient who died had a malignant tumor, and I said, "We can conclude that the immediate cause of death in this patient was hemolysis [the destruction of red blood cells] and acute renal [kidney] failure caused by a massive blood transfusion."

One professor stood up and angrily shouted, "Are you saying we transfused the wrong type of blood?" I answered, "That is not what I meant." Showing some slides of tiny sections of the patient's kidney, I added, "We can see lysis [disintegration] of multiple red blood cells in the kidney and can thus conclude that this caused acute kidney failure."* The atmosphere grew tense, and my mouth went dry. Although I was a young doctor and he was a professor, I felt that I could not back down.

When this incident took place, I was not one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I was born in 1943 in Sendai, a city in the northern part of Japan. As my father had been a pathologist and a psychiatrist, I decided to study medicine. In my second year of medical school, in 1970, I married a young woman named Masuko.

Answer 9

You just don't understand. I believe in the Bible. I believe that Jesus is My Lord and Savior. I wish You Believed. There is nothing better in the world than knowing that, No matter what, I am loved by the one true God.

Answer 10

I think everyone's realized it in some way, but people still cling to the old beliefs out of fear.