RE: Why Yahweh? (Or Allah, or Zeus, etc.)
October 26, 2012 at 10:12 am
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2012 at 10:26 am by FallentoReason.)
(October 26, 2012 at 8:34 am)John V Wrote: Next in the title is Zeus.
To my knowledge, the earliest written records of substance re: Zeus were done by Homer and Hesiod. No miracles are attributed to these two. They're generally regarded as poets, not prophets. Hesiod was a writer in general, and also wrote on other topics - don't know about Homer.
Due to the time spans and other factors they obviously weren't writing as witnesses. They could have been as fiction or speculation. They could have been writing it as direct revelation from the gods. We don't really know their intent.
Even if intended as revelation, we have the same problem as Muhammed - no miracles even claimed as support.
So, evidence for the Greek gods is weaker than for Christianity.
Homer possibly never existed. His writing style suspiciously has the same style as how a bard would say it i.e. it's written in a way that makes it easy to be remembered orally. So what's found in the epics most likely came from a bunch of bards and were later penned and not the other way around.
Either way, I see what you're saying. What about something closer to home, like Mithras who I mentioned before, who had a last supper, whose followers had a Holy Communion, who were annointed with oil on their foreheads? Justin Martyr I tell you... I swear he was a closet Mithraist!
(October 26, 2012 at 10:04 am)John V Wrote: Pssst...FTR...I heard the moon landing was FAKED!
What were the people worshipping when Moses brought down the tablets? A bull, because back then it was the age of Taurus. The whole Jesus hype came about from the new age, Pisces, and now that age will end in 2160 A.D. making it the age of Aquarius, hence the "water bearer" in Luke. Crystal clear and legitimate until you prove otherwise.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle