Why do you think that the fact that similar stories are told in other civilizations..?

2013-07-08 9:03 pm
..about creation, Adam and Eve and the flood....disfavors the authenticity of these things when in fact it documents them?

If an occurrence happened to a group of people, and that group split, moved on made a new civilization, the stories from those early days would go with them. Names might change as well as other small details as the story is enhanced. but the stories are still there.

The fact that these stories are echoed in many early civilization....prove their authenticity...as they were carried forward into the the new civilizations that men made


So when we hear creation stories or flood stories repeated, we know these came from the source, as any other story that effected the root civilization, would be carried into the branches, this actually proves their truth and does not take away

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2013-07-08 9:20 pm
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Not all of the same stories are told throughout the world, and many similar stories are certainly not identical. However, many similar mythologies and pantheons have one thing in common: the veneration of nature and/or natural forces via personified deities or avatars.
2013-07-08 9:08 pm
First, "similar stories" *aren't* told in civilizations outside of the "fertile crescent" area.
The creation myths from areas other than that vary widely, and have no common themes or claims.

Floods are common on our planet, so it's not at all surprising that lots (certainly nowhere near all) of cultures have stories about floods.

"The fact that these stories are echoed in many early civilization....prove their authenticity."

No, it doesn't. First, as I pointed out, your claim is false to begin with. Second, a better explanation than "authentic" or "all from one source" is that humans on our planet have similar experiences, since they all live on the same planet.

"So when we hear creation stories or flood stories repeated, we know these came from the source..."

No, we don't. And when it comes to regional similarities, the "source" is most likely stories from a culture in that region -- for example, the Hebrews borrowing stories from the Assyrians and Babylonians.

Here's a list (admittedly incomplete) of creation myths from around the world. Go read them and see if your "similar" claim holds up. Guess what -- it doesn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_creation_myths
2013-07-08 9:20 pm
For the same reasons there are similar stories about Santa in many different cultures.
2013-07-08 9:11 pm
The problem with this argument is that the stories do not remain identical from one culture to another. Vast changes in the description of events, characters, and even the theological purpose can occur through the process of transmission. Both the biblical book of Genesis and the Epic of Gilgamesh contain a narrative of the Great Flood. And yet these two narratives greatly differ. Obviously they share a common ancestor in Mesopotamian oral tradition, but the process of the transmission has *not* maintained the integrity of the narrative in its original form.

Here are a few more examples: "Stories travel from place to place and the exchange of thought among different nations has since time immemorial been much more lively than was formerly assumed. We know that the Buddhist Jataka tales, which are childhood stories of the Buddha, traved from India to Greece where they reappeared as Æsop's fables, and so the story of the Bodhisattva who became Buddha was retold in Christian countries where Bodhisat was changed to Josaphat, under which name he was made a saint of the Catholic Church." (http://www.sacred-texts.com/journals/oc/pc-ilni.htm )

The rest of that article gives a fascinating account of an Indonesian legend about Jesus Christ and his disciples, which has clearly been greatly modified through the process of transmission from any original Christian tradition from which it may have sprung.
2013-07-08 9:11 pm
The stories are not similar enough to believe that they all came from the same source, except in the cases where it's known that cultures borrowed from each other. Widely separated cultures with no history of contact don't have similar stories.

When you can document that particular Bible stories first appeared when the Hebrews came into contact with a culture that told similar stories it's not rational to claim that the stories are the same because they're true.

Look past the surface. That's what historians have to do. You don't learn anything useful by looking only at the most obvious 1% of a question. Your questions indicate a tendency to stay on the superficial level, the one that doesn't require any thought.
2013-07-08 9:50 pm
If an occurrence happened to a group of people, and that group split, moved on made a new civilization, the stories from those early days would go with them. Names might change as well as other small details as the story is enhanced. but the stories are still there.

- Yes, the Sumerians wrote about them, the original Adam and Eve and the real flood and over the 200,000 years after Adam and Eve the civilizations developed around the world had the same stories. the bible simply plagiarized the original texts.

this actually proves their truth and does not take away

- But that some one gets the story wrong or makes up their own time frame like the bible did means they have a creation story and a flood story, but that does not mean they got the story right.
2013-07-08 9:34 pm
No they aren't. Except the civilization Hebrews plagiarized from in the first place (Babylonians).
2013-07-08 9:19 pm
Your "creation stories or flood stories" either do not exist or are so different that they are clearly unrelated in cultures outside the general area in which your religion developed, cupcake.

So your attempt to claim that similar stories in related cultures means the story is true is just a big fail.

"The fact that these stories are echoed in many early civilization....prove their authenticity...as they were carried forward into the the new civilizations that men made..."

You mean like stories of mermaids and vampires and pixies and fairies were? Because the same fallacious "reasoning" would apply to stories about those entities, too.
2013-07-08 9:10 pm
Because humans share similar brain structure and evolutionary past. The similar stories, building techniques, desires, emotions, and instincts, reveal that humans share a similar brain structure, not that the stories are true.
2013-07-08 9:53 pm
Repletion of The Holy Word of God, is done because of Jealousy and pride.

CB
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