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The Bible. Myth or Reality?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAEpc1zhcuo
As a Gnostic Christian I see literal reading of the Bible as a gross distortion of what the Bible was written to do. That being to inspire people to seek God and his best laws and rules. Literal readers just become idol worshipers and do not seek God the way Jesus instructed.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03132009/watch.html
Literal reading has created and idol worshiping closed minded people who have settled for an immoral God whom we name as a demiurge as his morals, if literally true, are more satanic than God like.
Literal reading has also created a climate where scholars and experts, historians and archeologist, and all the academically well accepted information they uncover, --- is being ignored or called lies by those who are not academics of the various disciplines.
What is the point of producing good academics if literalists are going to ignore facts because of blind faith?
Remember please that if not a book of myths, then real talking serpents are somehow supposed to still exist and believers have to believe in a lot of supernatural phenomenon without any evidence whatsoever. Literalist Christians, it seems to me, have suspended rational judgement that has created in Christians a new Dark Age of thought and an Inquisitional attitude towards all other thinking. They no longer seek God and are true idol worshipers instead of the God seekers that Jesus wanted to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvBxFXQy7-M
Do you think the Bible to be a book of myths or a book trying to show reality and history?
Regards
DL
both
the same way oral stories get handed down and stories in the form of parables as Jesus taught. Stories tell of a history of a people and how they came to find god. It reflex a reality of how people are not necessary and exact mirror image.
Most myths have a basis in reality.
True. And the reality of the bible myths is that they were plagiarized by Christianity from other traditions and myths.
They just did not do a good job of it.
Regards
DL
and Islam plagiarized the bible.
and nations plagiarize our laws from the religious text back to the time of Hammurabi and Gilgamesh
we have our good vs evil, right from wrong.
be it nature or our thoughts/ideas we keep evolving, building on the past.