Sentences with phrase «ancient myth mean»

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While we have tried to show in this way that their classification as myth does not deprive them of meaning, we would only be deluding ourselves if we concluded that the ancient Jew and Christian also classed them as myth.

As a result of this, some have taken this to mean that the accounts in the Gospels of John the Baptist were fabricated, or «borrowed» from the ancient Sumerian myths.

The Bible is a book which includes * some * history of primitive Hebrew culture, and * some * good, practical, advice for beneficial human behavior (advice which can be gleaned in other places and by other means, btw); but mostly it is a compilation of ancient Middle Eastern historical fiction, myth, legend, superst.ition and fantasy.

If the ancient world are not filled with such myths than does that mean the the Greek, Babylonian and Egyptian gods were as real as God?

Enns clarifies the fact that myth is an ancient, pre-modern, pre-scientific way of addressing questions of ultimate origins and meaning in the form of stories.

Parallel stories in ancient myths do not mean that the Gospel accounts of Jesus are false.

We reject the sun - myth theory that Samson (Hebrew shemshon meaning «little sun») represents the survival of an ancient sun - worshiping cult.

This eye - popping, myth - busting, film decodes the ancient writings, unlocks the hidden meanings inside the symbols and legends, and uncovers the most famous and most mysterious Beasts of the Bible.