Sentences with phrase «other mythology»

It's just like every other mythology.

The bible is no more true than any other mythology.

You need to read some of the other mythology that's been out there over the eons.

We tend to have a basic knowledge of history and know that there is nothing magical or special about the supposed history of the Jews, gospels, letters, apocalyptic story (Revelations) and other materials that found their way into the Bible, in that they are largely indistinguishable from the other mythology and religious writings of the Greco - Roman Mediterranean.

Of course there isn't a shred of proof that the bible is any more true than any other mythology.

Yahweh, Allah, Shiva, Olorun... or perhaps another one of the thousands of gods mentioned in all the other mythologies?

If you are trying to say «in the beginning» means god created time than other mythologies that begin similarly must be given equal weight.

I don't expect you to believe me, but you may end up at this same conclusion if you do a little reading of other mythologies and compare them with Bible stories.

perhaps someday when christianity joins the ranks of the other mythologies, churches will become community meeting places where ideas and goodwill are exchanged without the hocus - pocus aspect of religion.

My journey went via evangelical Christianity, studying with Jehovah's Witnesses, study of other mythologies, studying some in the mystical traditions and studying and communing as best I could with nature.

I've seen this sort of thing before in other mythologies.

«I would be quite happy with the internationalization of the system to include other mythologies,» Lyra says.

How it works: While Greco - Roman names might have been the way of the past, expanding into other mythologies could be the way of the future.

Not exact matches

The added mythology that the elephants are seen as gods by the other animals adds gravitas to the scene.

In Greek mythology, Zeus, among other things, throws lighting bolts like javelins to strike people down.

Like other myths in Genesis the flood myth borrows from the Sumerians, but with the myth modified to make it consistent with Jewish mythology.

Some dude claiming to be the son of an unproven god, and others believing that and his resurrection, without any supporting evidence is mythology, if not mental illness.

Mirosal the problem here is that most atheists on this board are so ignorant of the usefulness of our mythology and others that they make Christianity look like the better of the two.

We don't need one religions mythology to have good will and generosity towards each other.

How ironic, you just listed several possible reasons why people confuse mythology with reality, in other words = christianity.

It doesn't take any «digging around in the bin», only a familiarity with history and mythologies other than the Jewish and Christian ones.

christians laugh at other religions / mythologies but actually believe their zombie lord came back to life after 3 days of rotting in a cave.

I guess I have never considered late Bronze Age regional Jewish mythology relevant to a country founded more than 1776 years later on the other side of the planet.

Christianity and Islam sprang from Judaism, all of which «borrowed» from other cults / religions / mythologies.

Your god is a compilation of many other gods and mythologies through ancient history.

Now if you will excuse me, I think I'll just forget about you and put you in the same place in history with Zeus, Mithra, Isis, and all the other «gods,» in the MYTHOLOGY DEPARTMENT.

valerie0423 Have you ever taken the time to read any of the mythologies or other sacred texts of rival religions to prove them false?

Does that include the mythologies of the Vikings, Indians, Native Americans, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and any other culture that florished before monotheism was thrust upon them at the point of a sword?

The language of mythology, or, as I myself prefer to say, metaphor, is the language which religion speaks; it can do no other, for religious faith is neither scientific formulae nor philosophical concepts, but a dramatic, poetic, symbolical way of speaking of the deepest realities and our apprehension of them.

WASP, all religions are based on ancient mythologies, but there really are Christians and other religions.

In addition, the remarkable similarities between Christianity and other Mystery Religions of the time suggest that Christanity was an evolutionary hybrid of Jewish Messianism with pagan Savior God mythology.

Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.

It was just to highlight how ridiculous your post was if some other object of mythology was used to replace the one you were using.

To the mind steeped in the mythology of secularism» and, while some still deny it, the antireligious bias of the major media has by now been documented beyond reasonable doubt» Baptists, Catholics, and others who are assertively Christian represent the religious oppression from which the enlightened are only tenuously liberated.

A better comparison for religion would be other ancient mythologies.

After all, the dominant religions in the United States keep their followers by encouraging them to remain ignorant of other religions out of fear they will find out that there's basically nothing new under the sun, and that the ideas of Christianity date all the way back to ancient Egyptian religion ant the mythology surrounding Horus and Set.

As professional biblical scholarship stands now, few would argue that the gospel accounts are 100 % accurate, and that nothing was borrowed from other faiths and mythologies.

Unlike other people who seem to know, and place there faith in whatever mythology they run with.

Go ahead, READ the bible and you'll see it is a violent, hateful, misogynistic abomination of cobbled bronze age mythology that the sky fairy followers quote mine to validate their hate and prejudice of others not in their tribe.

Regardless, it gives strength to those of religious ilk, and is simply something to displayed in a museum; much like we do with other artifacts of mythology.

One does not call poetry, or historical novels, or mythology erroneous, merely because they follow other norms of precision than scientific treatise.

Ignorance Overload... If his stated goal is pulling people from the «closet» of faith, that would be asking others to abandon a mythology which gives them comfort.

There is no reason to exclude modern religions from other teachings of mythology.

If this aspect differed in kind in the case of Jesus from every other member of the species man, then in the present state of our knowledge it would seem impossible rightly to describe Jesus as a man.17 It may be the case that most Christians (and most Christian theologians) in most centuries have accepted this claim: but most have not shared either our modern sensitivity to the difference between history and mythology or our concern for the principles of logic.

If one did, one would see how all religions and mythologies are created by men to both rule over and give existential security to other men.

Do you not have any other news stories with more substance than mythology?

In other words, the only proofs Origin can bring forth against the rationalistic criticism of Celsus is, that to deny Jesus would be equivalent to denying both the Pagan and Jewish mythologies.

Not that one needs to prove a negative, i.e. that which has no proof, but what you can prove is that Christians (as well as other religions) know deep down it's all mythology.

For these and other reasons a number of scholars have discerned links between the book of Esther and Babylonian mythology.

Thus he says: «For the purposes of his «demythologizing» program Bultmann defines mythology as «the use of imagery to express the other worldly in terms of this world and the divine in terms of human life, the other side in terms of this side.