The Bible. Myth or Reality?

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The Bible. Myth or Reality?

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The Bible. Myth or Reality?



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.

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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.





Do you think the Bible to be a book of myths or a book trying to show reality and history?

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DL
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A bit of both. Originally made up of how people of the day tried to explain the things they observed around them. Not understanding any of this they simply attributed it to some unseen supreme being. The legends grew over time, like Chinese Whispers through interpretation & translation over thousands of years. Events that were not understood back then are common knowledge to infants these days. Even now the things that we don't understand outweigh those things we do understand by far. One thing that most of us understand, though, is that just because we don't understand it now doesn't mean we won't understand it in the future and that just because we don't understand it doesn't make it the work of some God figure created by the primitives who chronicled their ignorance in the Bible.
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FourPart;1479403 wrote: A bit of both. Originally made up of how people of the day tried to explain the things they observed around them. Not understanding any of this they simply attributed it to some unseen supreme being. The legends grew over time, like Chinese Whispers through interpretation & translation over thousands of years. Events that were not understood back then are common knowledge to infants these days. Even now the things that we don't understand outweigh those things we do understand by far. One thing that most of us understand, though, is that just because we don't understand it now doesn't mean we won't understand it in the future and that just because we don't understand it doesn't make it the work of some God figure created by the primitives who chronicled their ignorance in the Bible.


Understood and I agree.

You are kind. I think they invented Gods for the money they would bring in.



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DL
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