(July 21, 2012 at 11:02 am)dtango Wrote:(July 21, 2012 at 8:02 am)Rhythm Wrote: We're perfectly capable of telling remarkably similar stories without ever having interacted with each other.
Apart from stories about gods, what other similar story is there?
-The story about Giants, the progenitors of the gods!
Apart from this “2 in 1” story what other similar stories did humanity produce?
The story of the Flood. But that is a real story. No?
So, what are the other international made up stories that you know of?
The story of the exodus. Not made up by the people of the time but they believed everything that happened was God's work/fury. The ten plagues of Egypt for instance were caused by a massive volcanic eruption of the volcano on the island of Santorini, Greece. The ash blanked off the sun and showered the earth with the dust and then hail stones, rain. Frogs crawled everywhere because of the conditions. The people thought this was all due to God. Because of the curve of the earth, Santorini is not visible from Egypt, only the flames and clouds of ash would be seen.
The volcano caused a tsunami, thus it appeared God parted the sea for Moses when in fact the sea drew back as it does in a tsunami. It came back with a force and drowned the soldiers on their chariots. There's loads of stories in the bible that can now be explained by science
