Does the Bible copy mythology and other religions?
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thenewkidd
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| Started: | 7/5/2014 | Category: | Religion | ||
| Updated: | 7 years ago | Status: | Post Voting Period | ||
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 Con  Pro Though I am a man of faith and believe in the bible, I believe I can find fault in many of your arguments and will challenge you thusly. |
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Con nadlor1 forfeited this round.
Pro The Bible was compiled in 367 AD. The bible as we know it today only has existed for about 1600 years or so. So for anything of other religious stories had to be copied from this book it would have had to be compiled after the fact. Which would mean if there are other religions with stories that existed before that time could be possible that the Bible "copied" from them. Let's start with Atenism was a religion with writings that have existed since about 14th century BC with some of the oldest religous texts found. Buddhism also has writings from the 6th and 4th centeries BC. And with Druidism having writings just before 200 to 50 BC. All way before the Bible was even thought to be compiled. As I'm sure not everything has to be "written" to create a story we have Greek and Roman Gods and their Mythos that far outdate the creativity of the bible, but the Greek Religion has been around since 1200BC so the story of Prometheus coming to earth to create human kind out of mud/clay outdates the story told of Adam and Eve in the bible some 1300 years later. As we say in Psalms 90:3.. Back to dust after we die which infers that were were made from dust as we cannot go back to (or revert) to something if we were not in that state before. When we die we go back to dust wich infers we were made from Dust. Interesting that the Greeks made us from the ground and the bible infers the same thing. and The bible wasn't plagiarized at all from Greek Mythos? http://www.biblica.com... http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... http://messagenetcommresearch.com... http://www.greekmythology.com... |
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Vote Placed by Sagey 7 years ago
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Vote Placed by lannan13 7 years ago
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Reasons for voting decision: Forfeiture.
Trojan Flood, Black Sea Flood, Nile Flood and of course the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Take your pick, but the Tigris/Euphrates (Epic of Gilgamesh) appears to be the most probable, since a tablet was found on the top of the highest building in Ur, stating that the world was covered in water.
Which actually meant that there was water as far as his/her eyes could see, likely only around 10 miles from the observer. so a 10 mile radius from Ur was covered by water.
The Bible writers had been told about the tablet and took this to mean the entire Earth was covered by water, thus the Genesis story.
Plus another.
He didn't say "monotheistic" he just say "religion"
Surely the argument only applies to Monotheist religions, though likely even Buddhism existed long before Abraham lived.
Should be interesting.
We shall see.
Tip : watch Zetigeist : The Movie. It's on Netflix. It's mainly crap, and turn it off before you get to the part about 9/11, which is interesting also, but also largely crap.
However, what the movie doesn't vastly conspiracize (which is not a word, but I think it SHOULD be a word), it brings up good points on. I certainly wouldn't use it as a source, but I would take some of the things it mentions and find actual sources on them. Very interesting documentary.