Ilus_Unistus
Registered Member
I wish to know how you as religious person or not, came to be this way.
What or who influenced you and why.
For me, I do not have any faith at all in God, the Bible or anything to do with religion. How I make this conclusion for my self is several reason.
First, I live in Estonia, the worlds number 1 country to not believe in religion with I think only 12-18% of any Estonians having any kind of faith in religion and this goes back to the times when Christianity began.
Second, some years ago I study Greek Mythology in school, that being known I have read the Bible. Once I saw how similar the Bible is to Greek Mythology, and knowing Greek Mythology out dates any known type of religious Bible it was easy for me to see the Bible is nothing more than these same Greek Myths were relived through the Bible, only some names and places changed.
Just a few examples,
1) Noah's Ark, this is almost the exact story of the Myth of the Great flood of Babylon in Greek Mythology.
2) God, this sounds very similar to Zeus, god of the sky.
3) Devil, also described in Mythology as Hades.
4) Hell, sounds much like purgatory controlled by Hades and where all humans go after death to be judged and either rewarded by passing on to Zeus' domain or punished by remaining to serve Hades in purgatory.
I can go on and on about the similarities, but I think maybe you see my point by now.
Third reason, Science. To explain this I will give you what science tells me that the Bible says must not be true.
1) From what I know of the Bible and what creationist tell is, Man just out of thin air appeared one day, like poof, magic. This to me does not seem possible at all. Life is evolution, just as we evolve today we did as well trillions of years ago from bacteria to where we are now.
2) The Bible implies the Universe is a mere 6000 years old, yet, science shows repeatedly in many species of life this can not be. The dinosaurs alone is proof of this living Millions of years ago, not thousands.
3) The stars, if the farthest star to Earth is about 10 Billion light years away, then how can we possibly today see that very light from this star when it would take 10 Billion years for the light to travel here for us to see? Again proof to me the the Bibles approx 6000 year since the creation of the Universe is false.
My view of the Bible. It is a collection of stories based on Mythology written by 100's of authors as meanings to life before the technology and understanding of the world, the Universe and even man kind we know today.
I think the Bible does offer something more though. I think it can teach about morals and can show a path to living an clean honest life. But to take anything it says as literal... well read above.
What or who influenced you and why.
For me, I do not have any faith at all in God, the Bible or anything to do with religion. How I make this conclusion for my self is several reason.
First, I live in Estonia, the worlds number 1 country to not believe in religion with I think only 12-18% of any Estonians having any kind of faith in religion and this goes back to the times when Christianity began.
Second, some years ago I study Greek Mythology in school, that being known I have read the Bible. Once I saw how similar the Bible is to Greek Mythology, and knowing Greek Mythology out dates any known type of religious Bible it was easy for me to see the Bible is nothing more than these same Greek Myths were relived through the Bible, only some names and places changed.
Just a few examples,
1) Noah's Ark, this is almost the exact story of the Myth of the Great flood of Babylon in Greek Mythology.
2) God, this sounds very similar to Zeus, god of the sky.
3) Devil, also described in Mythology as Hades.
4) Hell, sounds much like purgatory controlled by Hades and where all humans go after death to be judged and either rewarded by passing on to Zeus' domain or punished by remaining to serve Hades in purgatory.
I can go on and on about the similarities, but I think maybe you see my point by now.
Third reason, Science. To explain this I will give you what science tells me that the Bible says must not be true.
1) From what I know of the Bible and what creationist tell is, Man just out of thin air appeared one day, like poof, magic. This to me does not seem possible at all. Life is evolution, just as we evolve today we did as well trillions of years ago from bacteria to where we are now.
2) The Bible implies the Universe is a mere 6000 years old, yet, science shows repeatedly in many species of life this can not be. The dinosaurs alone is proof of this living Millions of years ago, not thousands.
3) The stars, if the farthest star to Earth is about 10 Billion light years away, then how can we possibly today see that very light from this star when it would take 10 Billion years for the light to travel here for us to see? Again proof to me the the Bibles approx 6000 year since the creation of the Universe is false.
My view of the Bible. It is a collection of stories based on Mythology written by 100's of authors as meanings to life before the technology and understanding of the world, the Universe and even man kind we know today.
I think the Bible does offer something more though. I think it can teach about morals and can show a path to living an clean honest life. But to take anything it says as literal... well read above.
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