Question by pillabrut: Why is it that ancient mythology is considered mythology but everything written in the bible is considered…?
real?
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Answer by rand a
cause the winners write the history books
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Question by pillabrut: Why is it that ancient mythology is considered mythology but everything written in the bible is considered…?
real?
Best answer:
Answer by rand a
cause the winners write the history books
Add your own answer in the comments!
because it is the truth
Cultural conditioning.
ancient mythology had too many god and few written rules. People just “sacrificed” to them and hoped that it pleased them. The bible provides plenty of rules and only one god to worry about. Its the perfect control device. There is now specific rewards and punishments for well-defined societal actions. A ruler (political or religious) can use these things much more effectively to manipulate their subordinates. It sets the pyramid of power to the highest man, who is then only accountable to a magical mystery god.
“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”
– Thomas Jefferson
It should be curious to believers how the religion of one’s parents is a remarkably good predictor of one’s own religion, almost as if God had no influence at all and it was purely a socio-cultural phenomenon. Along the same lines, it should also be curious how a religion disappears when its culture dies out. What ever became of Zeus, Ra and Thor? These were Gods, after all, worshipped earnestly by countless millions and yet now they are thought of as no more than myths. If you pick up a book on these old Gods, it will actually say they are myths right there in print. Why is that? What is so different between those Gods and our God?
because its real try reading a bible in the book of. Read the book of revalations and ephisians.
you will never hear me call ancient religions mythology, and i believe in the bible. i call them “ancient greek religion” or “ancient roman religion.” i’m not going to disrespect the beliefs of millions of people long ago, and even some people today…
by ancient mythology you mean like the greeks and romans? Their myths are only a few hundred years older than the christian myths.
It’s probably due to the fact that 33% of the world are Christians. When that many believe a myth it becomes the truth for them via unconscious assimilation.
I do consider the Bible mythology.