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Simon T
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Simon T asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 1 decade ago

How is the bible different from mythology?

The bible does have some passages that have been verified by other historical records and by archeology.

However, the same can be said for the stories of the Greek gods and the Norse gods. These are generally recognised as being mythology.

For the parts of the bible that have supernatural events what do we have to say that this is not mythology but the supernatural events in the Greek and Norse texts are mythology.

Hindus and Muslims - please feel free to answer this question for your own holy texts.

Bonus Question:

There are many parts in the Bible (and other holy texts for you non-Christians) that have actually been disproved by independent records and archeology. How do you account for these if it is not mythology?

Update:

Bruce - you are kidding me.

You are saying that Judea never existed? That the Romans never occupied Jerusalem? That King David, Herod The Great and Pontius Pilate are all made up?

Come on. It makes you look stupid to dismiss the entire book.

Zeus and Poseidon may not be real, but the descriptions in the Iliad still lead to the discovery of Troy. Mythology is based on fact, it is just that the stories expand until they achieve supernatural aspects.

Update 2:

JD420 Yes - odd isn't it.

They jumped all over a question earlier that said the entire bible was just stories. That is easy to dismiss.

But when they have to answer a more thought out question that they can not just hand wave away (well, they can - but they look stupid doing it) all of a sudden they are conspicuously absent.

Update 3:

Jeancommunicates:

The flood never happened. All the evidence says this if you look at it honestly.

Exodus never happened. There never was a huge number of Hebrew slaves. The major Egyptian work force for their big projects were Egyptians working while the Nile was flooding with the motivation being a better place in the afterlife.

There is zero record of three hours of darkness in the 1st century. An eclipse only causes darkness for a few minutes. To seriously claim that no one but the bible authors considered a three hour period of darkness worth recording is asinine.

Same for the dead walking.

This is just a short list. There are plenty of other things that are definately disproved.

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  • b3hotty07
    1 decade ago
    Favourite answer

    The bible is not different from mythology.

  • Jeancommunicates
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Show me where the Bible has been disproved by archeology. Archeology is not as smart as the One who wrote the Bible.

    A lot of mythology is truth. The Greek and Norse stories of gods could have been the fallen angels and their offspring in this world. David fought a giant called Goliath and God gave him the victory over the giant. Giant bones are found throughout theworld.

    The first world was destroyed because of the so-called mythology that has been written. The fallen angels produced a race of very strong and wicked people. The fallen angels knew of the mixing of DNA (genes) to get a half man, half animal creature called Satyrs and Chimeras. The fallen angels polluted the blood line of both man and animals before the Flood of Noah. Your mythology occurred before the Flood of Noah and even some afterwards. The Bible clearly explains this in Genesis 6:4 KJV "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."

    Also Jude 1:6 KJV "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day."

    Verse 7 "Even as Sodom and Gomorha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire."

    Read the Book of Jude in the New Testament. It is right before Revelation which is the last book in the Bible. Read the King James Version which is the most accurate version.

    If you want to know about the first world before the Flood of Noah, read the Book of Enoch online. Jude talks of Enoch in verse 14 "And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, theLord cometh with ten thousands of his saints."

  • Got Proof?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The bible is a book of ancient mythology. Period.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's just really boring mythology. Greek is way better Norwegian isn't too bad either but the whole monotheistic mythology....BORING!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    There is nothing in the Bible that has been verified by archaeology or historical records.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It isn't. The bible IS mythology.

  • ?
    1 decade ago

    You will have to do a very careful study of the bible for yourself. Yahoo Answers is not the place to pick up bible knowledge. Its mostly populated by atheists.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    All religions are mythology

  • Boz
    1 decade ago

    You are circling around like an eagle without stating one fact.

    Archeology is constantly reaffirming the bible.

    It is no less of a myth than you are a myth.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    It's not. It is a book of mythology.

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