Most of us are taught that Greek mythology and gods like Zeus, Hades and Aphrodite are make-believe or fables in history. I don't know of many people today who believe and Mount Olympus or the god Zeus but I do know and run into people on a daily basis who believe in Jesus, God, Jehovah, Krishna and other gods who seem to be different than the older gods like Zeus. Somehow these gods are more realistic to modern-day believers.
As time seemed to pass, the god Zeus fell by the wayside and became part of history. The Jewish God Jehovah, Christian God Jesus and the Islamic God Allah have seemed to gain more power and a stronger following during modern times. How is it that some religious fables of the past have disappeared, while others are gaining more power.
Jesus said Matthew 7:8 "For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. This applies to modern day education also, seek the truth and you will find it, ask for the answers and soon you will receive them. This doesn't necessarily mean that you should only study the Hebrew Bible. Immerse yourself in religious text from other religions and soon you just might start to question your own.
Think about this for a moment, there are things in the Bible that can't be proven to be true or scientifically factual. As a matter of fact there are things in most religious text that this statement applies to. Biblical scholars have spent centuries trying to back up the information in the Bible, like those from other religions.
Often their conclusions lead these scholars to form their own interpretations of text that is easy to read and understand but they seem to change it to fit their needs. They seem to use other parts of the Bible to make some sense out of those that don't make any. Now here's the problem I have with modern-day religious beliefs, are they like Greek mythology or are they actually true.
Can statements be proven, like how the world was created, the great flood, the end of times, Jesus as the Messiah, Mohammed writing factual information on future events, or is this stuff going to be religious fables in the future like the old mythology. Only to be stories we will be telling our children and students in school to show them how ignorant people can really be in the future.
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