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Damoclese
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Date Posted: 10/26/04 6:40pm
In reply to:
Biff
's message, "Incomparable" on 10/19/04 10:39am
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>That there are some similarities between Christianity
>and some ancient pagan religions is not surprising,
>perhaps even inevitable. It's perfectly reasonable to
>assume that other cultures had an awareness of God
>before Abraham, even if they did not have a complete
>understanding.
Or maybe they had the complete understanding (being that they were there) and what you believe now is incorrect, and Gilgamesh is right.
Considering that, the similarities
>actually serve to support the factual claims of
>Christianity, rather than discredit them.
Hmm. Alright, I guess by that criteria every movie that follows a boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back formula supports the validity of ONE TRUE BE ALL END ALL movie among that genre.
The reality is, someone came up with that formula, and a bunch of movies have been based on it since. Gilgamesh is closer to the progenitor of who made the formula for the Bible type stories, and I don't know why the Bible should hold true as the definitive original source of such a formula. I can, however, see where it ripped the formula off and did it's own thing with it, just like in Hollywood today.
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>There is however, no comparison between the Christian
>God and pagan gods. Pagan gods were, invariably to my
>knowledge, connected with some aspect of nature (e.g.
>Thor, the Norse god of thunder; Ra, the Egyptian sun
>god). They were a part of and subject to the laws of
>nature.
The Christian God is intimately linked with a flood, and some people believe he is bound to what is logically possible. (i.e. bound by nature)
However, the generally accepted
>tenets of the faith have remained the same since the
>original traditions began.
If by that you mean people worship God and Jesus, then I suppose you are right. Of course, the guts have been replaced several times over, and that's what I'm talking about as speaking in generalities in this particular instance would lead us to conclude things like Islam somehow being a stronger religion because it's basically the same since it began.
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