Similarities in texts of different religions mean that stories about god A have been adapted to fit god B. This means that, at least, a part of the god B story is made up by humans.
Biblical viewpoint, romans?.. I'm talking well before the romans were around. People already believed other deities before yahweh was ...... ad@pted.
Anyway, you then say that god gave the truth to Israel... isn't it much simpler, given all the similarities, to see this truth as arising from the "older traditions"?
You want to have your god present itself to human kind somewhere in the far past; humans then build a number of pantheons of gods and he eventually comes back to lay the truth on people again.... and few years later drops his son around the same geographical position, just to make a point.
I see naturalistic patterns. You see supernatural ones. I find my patterns more probable than yours.
Biblical viewpoint, romans?.. I'm talking well before the romans were around. People already believed other deities before yahweh was ...... ad@pted.
Anyway, you then say that god gave the truth to Israel... isn't it much simpler, given all the similarities, to see this truth as arising from the "older traditions"?
You want to have your god present itself to human kind somewhere in the far past; humans then build a number of pantheons of gods and he eventually comes back to lay the truth on people again.... and few years later drops his son around the same geographical position, just to make a point.
I see naturalistic patterns. You see supernatural ones. I find my patterns more probable than yours.
