(April 30, 2015 at 1:33 pm)Salacious B. Crumb Wrote:(April 30, 2015 at 1:05 pm)Lek Wrote: First of all, the creation accounts were likely myths, speaking the truth that there is one God who created everything.
How do you distinguish what is a myth? The creation story is a myth, but the jesus walking on water story isn't? How about Jonah, Samson, the talking burning bush, moses parting the Red Sea, etc.?
I just read the bible to get the message that it is transmitting to me. Numerous witness of Jesus' life have attested to the factual and historical basis of the new testament gospels. I have not read of the same attestation to the old testament events. To be honest, I don't know which of the old testament events are fact or myth. They could all be fact or not, but the important thing is that they lead me to Jesus, the messiah, as written in numerous old testament prophesies and foreshadowed in old testament events. I really don't think that the bible's writers meant to relay a scientific fact that the sun revolves around the earth. I could read a scientific textbook concerning evolution and come to believe in evolution, but that doesn't mean that every word in that book is true.
