Creation Myths

[psychoslice]

If those same stories were written today they would be based on what we know today, of course back then they were ignorant of what we know today, but like all myths there is always a message within the story, it depends on the level of consciousness you are to what the stories point to.

 

[allfoak]

If those same stories were written today they would be based on what we know today, of course back then they were ignorant of what we know today, but like all myths there is always a message within the story, it depends on the level of consciousness you are to what the stories point to.

There are 3 basic levels.
body, mind and spirit.

 

[psychoslice]

There are 3 basic levels.
body, mind and spirit.

Yes and I think there needs to be a balance between the three, but always remembering we are truly Spirit.

 

[omega2xx]

Why do so many cultures past and present around the world have a creation myth?
These myths were how people understood the world they lived in.
Were they just primitive story tellers or do these myths still hold significance for us today?

Where is your evidence that are myths?

 

[Shad]

Why do so many cultures past and present around the world have a creation myth?
These myths were how people understood the world they lived in.
Were they just primitive story tellers or do these myths still hold significance for us today?

These contain cultural value to many be it as a believer, anthropology, etc. Even a single story hold different genres and value between believers themselves, and non-believers. Metaphorical, allegory, literal, etc. Value assessment of different views vary along with it's importance to human history and modern times. As our knowledge develops some values have less or more of an impact in different ways.

 

[pearl]

I have read many documents by and for missionaries that lay out how the myths of other cultures are wrong, how they have been distorted from the true original myth...you know, the one found in Genesis...

I don't know where you get these 'documents' from but it would be illogical to insist the Gen myth was earlier. There is too much similarity between the earlier Babylonian creation myth and the Gen creation myth compiled during the Babylonian Exile.

 

[allfoak]

Where is your evidence that are myths?

My ability to reason tells me that they are myth.
A myth is not a fairy tale.
These writings are neither fairy tales nor are they history.
They are not written by historians and are full of historical errors.
To some they may seem like nothing but fairy tales, but if one has the ears to hear and the eyes to see, the words come to life and with their proper use, one is able to find wisdom, happiness and much more.

“Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life,” explains scholar Joseph Campbell near the beginning of the celebrated PBS series Joseph Campbell on The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers .Oct 28, 2010.

His definition of myth, rather than being that myths are examples of the search for life’s meaning, is that myths are the ongoing search for “the experience of life”.
According to Campbell, what myths—all myths—tell us is that the meaning of life is the experience of life: “Eternity isn’t some later time, eternity isn’t a long time.
Eternity has nothing to do with time!
It is that dimension of here and now which thinking and time cuts out ... This is it.
If you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere.
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life.”

The Meaning of Life: 'Joseph Campbell on The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers'

 

[omega2xx]

My ability to reason tells me that they are myth.
A myth is not a fairy tale.

What qualifies you to determine that your belief that your ability to reason accurately is valid?

These writings are neither fairy tales nor are they history.

My superior ability to reason says your reasoning is in error.

They are not written by historians and are full of historical errors.
To some they may seem like nothing but fairy tales, but if one has the ears to hear and the eyes to see, the words come to life and with their proper use, one is able to find wisdom, happiness and much more.

Then post some errors in the Bible. Maybe your preconceived reasoning my comes from a lack of understanding.

 

[allfoak]

What qualifies you to determine that your belief that your ability to reason accurately is valid?




My superior ability to reason says your reasoning is in error.




Then post some errors in the Bible. Maybe your preconceived reasoning my comes from a lack of understanding.

Reasoning has rules silly.
You can't just make stuff up and call it reason.

 

[omega2xx]

Reasoning has rules silly.
You can't just make stuff up and call it reason.

You also can't say your reasoning is the only accurate one. It is obvious that my reasoning is much better.

 

[allfoak]

You also can say your reasoning is the only accurate one. It is obvious that my reasoning is much better.

It is obvious that your reading and reasoning skills suck!

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

I don't know where you get these 'documents' from but it would be illogical to insist the Gen myth was earlier. There is too much similarity between the earlier Babylonian creation myth and the Gen creation myth compiled during the Babylonian Exile.

well, sure, I'm exaggerating...it isn't ALL of the missionary guides that I read that say that Genesis was first...just most of them...but as I recall, they were uniform in holding that all other myths are WRONG and are to be disputed and dismissed, so that we can convert these nonbelievers to believing in the Bible...