Zone1 Another question to ponder

[Woodznutz]

Yeah, they added a few details after ripping the story off from Mesopotamia

So, all the flood stories around the world are/were rip-off's of the Epic of Gilgamesh? How did they all happen to hear that story?

 

[Woodznutz]

He sends His only son to earth to be brutally tortured and executed as payback for all the sinners while the sinners all get off scot free.

Seems a bit odd.

Not quite that simple. "Narrow is the way and strait is the gate that leads to eternal life."

 

[Mr Natural]

Not quite that simple.

He could have just snapped His fingers and killed off all the sinners.

 

[Woodznutz]

He could have just snapped His fingers and killed off all the sinners.

Maybe that's what he did, after some thoughtful consideration of course.

 

[norwegen]

Its an allegory it never really happened

Allegory for what?

 

[norwegen]

No, they just copied other religions, and tried to re-brand it as monotheism.

As monotheism?

How about as starting over? Flood stories could give ancient peoples a sense of cleansing. Their gods wipe out all the evildoers, and they get a do-over.

New creation was a recurring concept among the Israelites.

 

[Woodznutz]

As monotheism?

How about as starting over? Flood stories could give ancient peoples a sense of cleansing. Their gods wipe out all the evildoers, and they get a do-over.

New creation was a recurring concept among the Israelites.

The entire geologic record suggests recurring periods of "do-overs".

 

[Meriweather]

That our creator created us, and he doesnt mind killing all of us, even though he knew how we would act when he created us?

No

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

I believe that.
Its just another story the abrahamic religions stole from older religions.
Those desert savages werent very creative, huh?

Assume Sumeria

Allah was borrowed from the Indo-European helios, meaning "sun," obviously the first primitive god.

 

[BothWings]

Well, I guess I'm not a good Christian then because after being baptized and raised a christian, there were too many questions the Bible nor orthodoxy answered to my satisfaction that I eventually looked elsewhere for better answers.

For instance, the whole thing with 6 days and resting on the 7th. A week is a time duration based on the Julian Calendar created for Earth, so why would the creation of the whole universe at the beginning of time be based on one much less have days and nights?

Days and nights are again a function of the spin of the Earth. There was no Earth at the creation of the universe unless one accepts the Earth as the universe, a flat plate sitting on the backs of elephants with crystal spheres overhead moving the sun, moon, planets and stars.

It doesn't wash.

It's all bs with some fundamental truths mixed into a whole lot of mythology mostly for the purpose of controlling the lower classes who couldnt read or write.... And depended on the upper classes to do so for them. As if the upper classes wouldn't capitalize on it. Ancient Egypt work the same way just with different mythology, stories gods, goddesses
, etc. Not one bit different.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The flood was the setting. What was the theme/lesson of the account?

OBEY OR CEASE TO BE

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

No. The story is about people. What lesson is being conveyed to us regarding our own behavior?

Domination Through Damnation

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

It's all bs with some fundamental truths mixed into a whole lot of mythology mostly for the purpose of controlling the lower classes who couldnt read or write.... And depended on the upper classes to do so for them. As if the upper classes wouldn't capitalize on it. Ancient Egypt work the same way just with different mythology, stories gods, goddesses
, etc. Not one bit different.

Reincarnated RichKid Reich

Especially with the cancer of hereditary power, wealth, property, position, and influence. The unspoken theology is that souls were judged in a pre-life. Those who were holiest got to be born rich.