Some consider
God as a myth, a figment of one's imagination, outside of reality.
The whole notion of sin is myth for man as such, not only for modern man, for he regards the whole idea of
God as myth and the whole idea of God incarnate in Christ as myth.
Not exact matches
«That was an insane number driven by crazy credit and should be viewed the same
as gods of ancient Greece and other fables or
myths.»
I am sure he believed in them
as much
as you believe in your
god myth.
It is the divinity of jesus and all the supernatural mumbo jumbo that goes into the stories, that have never been replicated, that make his
myth as believable
as Dionysus or any other man inspired
god.
Lastly, the authors of the greek
myths and the accounts of seeing craetures we know don't exist were
as real to them
as god is to you and to everyone else who read the stories.
Two thousand years later, the vast majority of the world's population has disregarded the belief that dragons roam the sea, Zeus, Poseidon, and most other ancient
gods (
as these people thousands of years ago believed), yet the world inexplicably still clings to the thousands - year - old
myths of
God and Jesus.
Tryggve N. D. Mettinger in The Riddle of the Resurrection: «Dying and Rising
Gods» in the Ancient Near East wrote: «There is, as far as I am aware, no prima facie evidence that the death and resurrection of Jesus is a mythological construct, drawing on the myths and rites of the dying and rising gods of the surrounding world.&ra
Gods» in the Ancient Near East wrote: «There is,
as far
as I am aware, no prima facie evidence that the death and resurrection of Jesus is a mythological construct, drawing on the
myths and rites of the dying and rising
gods of the surrounding world.&ra
gods of the surrounding world.»
When Muslims become 80 % of the population, try and push creationism and other
myths into our science classes, force their
god on our currency, take over our government
as you Christians do then they'll be in the bulls eye.
@chuckles «Lastly, the authors of the greek
myths and the accounts of seeing craetures we know don't exist were
as real to them
as god is to you and to everyone else who read the stories.
but it is exasperating to be told by the religious that atheists are perhaps lesser beings
as god only favours those who reject what nature tells us is the truth, I find the
god myths boring and in no way inspiring.
This is not a
myth or glorified story
as the effect and affect of
God can be seen
as it always was.
Immortals such
as your
God or any of the other
gods are
myths.
No but they do disprove the creation
myth used
as the credentials for
gods — without those credentials what other evidence do you have?
Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that
God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such
as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take
as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.
Almost all the stories surrounding Jesus (if he did exist, some scholars say their is no proof of a historical Jesus) were borrowed from earlier
myths and used word for word...
as well
as the rampant literary corruption and forgeries of Biblical Texts... It is also impossible for
God to exist in the Christian version or form they created.
@AtheistSteve «IImmortals such
as your
God or any of the other
gods are
myths.
I know the Jesus of the Bible exists in
myth and legend, but
as for a man -
god who died and rose from the dead - seriously?
We understand the book is a cobbling together of
myths, folklore, local legend and possibly some decent home cleaning tips, fraudulently claimed
as the word of your
god.
If you dismiss any of the others
as myth without any «proof» that they never existed then you have no reason to treat
God any differently.
The BIBLE proves just
as much
as the greek
god myths, the koran, or the Egyptian book of the dead.
If the Bible is a
myth then while a man named Jesus might have lived, he probably certainly was not
God, and while he might have died
as a criminal on the cross, he most likely did not rise from the dead.
This community continues to grow, stand with each other, and yet allows deep conversations: Jesus
as a historical person, a
myth, a evolved
myth, a vehicle, a part of the
god head.....
The eschatological vision, which expected
God to bring in that radically other and better world, has been reduced to
myth; utopian thinking, which expected the new age
as the outcome of human effort, has come to be regarded
as illusion.
A
myth, claiming to be the word of
god, that right after he creates the universe, refers to the moon
as a «light source».
If
God is based on the same stuff
as Jupiter, Horus and Baal, than he's still a
myth no matter how much later believers needs and «understanding» develop him, right?
I am also unsure — if we are able to give it the proposed reinterpretation — whether it would qualify
as myth, for the atonement in the sense of reconciling us to
God is certainly true.
On this second view, insofar
as persons have apprehended
God through the medium of Christian
myths, symbols, and rites, their subjectivity will be shaped by a distinctive dynamic and structure which then dictates the proper movement and structure of theological study.
Modern persons will never find rest for their restless hearts without Christ, for modern culture is nothing but the wasteland from which the
gods have departed, and so this restlessness has become its own deity; and, deprived of the shelter of the sacred and the consoling
myths of sacrifice, the modern person must wander or drift, vainly attempting one or another accommodation with death, never escaping anxiety or ennui, and driven
as a result to a ceaseless labor of distraction, or acquisition, or willful idiocy.
The
myth that gay and lesbian people are child molesters often goes unchallenged when spread from the pulpit, and in the 80s and 90s, many Christians refused to support efforts to curb the HIV / AIDS crisis
as they believed it to be a «curse from
God» that gay people deserved.
But if we use the Trinity
as myth to point to this unknowability of
God, we must make clear that we are not claiming that
God is in fact tripartite.
Ogden also states that Christian faith could be explicated
as a doctrine of
God just
as well
as it could
as a certain possibility of self - understanding, ibid., 170; Christ Without
Myth, 148
i said christianity was a
myth, just
as at one time zues and the other olympian
gods were a religion but are now labeled a
myth.
In the Babylonian creation
myth, for example, man was created
as a kind of after - thought in order to perform the menial tasks, which otherwise would have been part of the responsibilities laid
as a judgment on the defeated rebel
gods.
everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception
as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet,
myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or
god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.
People who state that
God and Jesus are a
myth are clueless because they never accepted him
as there savior.
They blame the people who use
God as a crutch: people who refuse to learn and understand the world (because the
God myth is an easier route), and people who have an agenda («I understand
God and he happens to support my political and social biases.»)
There is no evidence outside of religious texts and our modern knowledge shows that the creation
myths of all religions are not correct, so
as their foundational texts are incorrect, religions offer nothing to support the idea of a
god.
As with any
myth, new revelations are moulded into the archaic system, in this case the Bible /
God the Creator.
The
myths of Genesis tell us,
as no objective history of public events could, what the community of Israel essentially believed about
God's relationship to the world and to man; and the legends of the Fathers record Israel's understanding of herself, her own relationship to
God and the world, her own sense of sin and inadequacy in tension with her conviction of special divine Election, her fears on the one hand and her highest hopes on the other.
If heroes and
gods of
myth as well
as comic book characters have powers similar to those of Jesus, where does the rational person draw the line?
Theo
God is seen in the things that are made, but of course you will have to state your case that Vishnu, Pan Gu or any of the other creation
myths does not have
as much validity
as you
myth.
I wonder if we will ever get to the point
as a nation where the vast majority of us DO NOT believe in Iron Age
myths from the Middle East about sky -
gods and evil ground spirits.
The doctrine of forgiveness, the doctrine of the Cross
as a symbol of redemption, the
myths and the mysteries surrounding the human body and human sexuality, the identification of sin and temptation with femaleness, the Image of
God, the mind / body dualism that devalues female life, the depreciation of creation... these are some of the problems Christianity poses, giving subtle sanction to the violence women experience.
But when he speaks of the will of
God, the chosen people, and the Kingdom of
God as «
myths,» he tends to remove from history that concreteness which is of its very essence.
In the pluralist dialogue where
myths are critiqued, love will emerge
as that absolute, and I will find «that I can not love [my neighbor]
as myself unless I take my place on the one bit of higher ground that will hold us both — unless I love
God.
Myth is not a human narrative of a one - sided divine manifestation,
as Buber once thought, but a «mythization» of the memory of the meeting between
God and man.
But Jesus really lived in time and space and was significant enough that all these
myths were absorbed into his significance,
as the one and only dying and rising
God.
Bultmann himself is alive to this consequence, for he says at one point: «Anyone who asserts that to speak of an act of
God at all is to use mythological language is bound to regard the idea of an act of
God in Christ
as a
myth.
It would be more in accord with the spirit of
myth to regard man
as just one element in an infinite universe — even the New Testament does so in clear and classical language; it says, not «
God so loved mankind», but «
God so loved the world».