Diogenes wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 3:05 am With all these creation and flood myths we are expected by the Christian faction to accept absolutely only one of them, the account in Genesis. It seems the height of ethnocentric arrogance to pronounce ONE scripture out of thousands of similar traditions that represents the ‘one true …
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But, there is another class of explanations which include the concept of syncretism: Syncretism is the merging or assimilation of several mythologies or religions, a process well known by anthropologists. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Native … cal-change Syncretism is definitely prevalent in world religions. As a matter of fact, practically all existing world religions either mention or have a …
I don’t believe it can be contested that Jesus Christ is the most influential person in all of human history. As Christians, what we believe is Jesus Christ is our Lord and we should follow his teachings and example. And it is through the Bible that we primarily get our knowledge of his life and …
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To recap the arguments presented so far… I first addressed some misconceptions of the Bible: The Bible does not need to be “perfect”. Just like witnesses in a case are not all thrown out because they have conflicting details, we should likewise view the authors of the Bible as a set of witnesses in a …
I came across an interesting video by Tim Mackie about the origin and authority of the Bible. As co-founder of The Bible Project, he has demonstrated more than a little knowledge of the Bible. For Christians, the authority of the Bible is centered on Jesus. “when we say the Bible is authoritative what we mean …
One advantage of having the Bible as a written document is the promotion of literacy. And it has been an instrumental factor in promoting literacy across many cultures. The rise of literacy of the English language can be largely attributed to the Bible. Just 70 years before William Shakespeare put pen to paper, there was …
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 12:22 pm Your St. Nick example is excellent. King Arthur is another and Troy a third. These are reliably based on true persons, but there are huge mythical elements that bury the original real historical thing. Jesus is a fourth example. I’ll go further and say the entire Bible …
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:37 am is this God’s Book or just another tome of fairy -tales? This is a false dichotomy of either the Bible must be 100% factually correct or either just a tome of fairy tales. And this mentality of only having two possible extreme positions is not just limited …
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The Bible is a complex book that cannot be simply viewed from a single perspective and then entirely judged by that perspective. It is a book utilizing many literary devices, several of which don’t even exist today. Just because one views it from one perspective and doesn’t understand it doesn’t mean the Bible itself is …
Professor Ken Schenek gives some good insight into the minds of the Biblical authors in this video and how our modern mind skews our understanding of the Bible. Though this video is more specific to the gospels, the principles he mentions applies on how they thought back then compared to how we think now. https://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1053605#p1053605