Is the Bible Mythology
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"Their was a giant flood" For a start, there is not spelt 't-h-e-i-r', that is the wrong kind of there. But how does a flood make the Bible mythological? There are giant floods everyday, simply look at the link below to see that giant floods do not mean that there is something strange going on, it simply means that there has been a lot of rainfall. http://goodcomics.comicbookresources. A lot of rainfall does not mean that the Bible is a 100% lie. "Water turning into wine" It doesn't say in that story that Jesus actually turned the water to wine. I think in the Bible what they actually say to Jesus is: "You've saved the best 'til last!" Where does that even imply that water is turned into wine? Even if he had done, it wouldn't be that unusual: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VdxeNq-PCZA/ "A person walking on water" That has been done too without any mythological intervention. Just look at this video of a man walking on water. I don't know how he does it, but he isn't a myth. http://www.youtube.com/ Another example is when this person went over water: http://www.youtube.com/ "Magically healed" I wouldn't say 'magic', I would go with the Mind Over Matter theory. Google it, New Scientist did a very interesting edition of Mind Over Matter. A myth is a story concerning early history that explains a natural or social phenomenon. A mythology is a collection of those myths. Since the bible contains several stories consisting of how the world came to be, reasons why people consider things right and wrong, and similar situations, it is by definition a central text of the Christian mythology. There is no real debate possible here. This is simply a definition. The Bible isn't mythology because those events actually happened, the flood, Jesus turning water into wine, walking on water. Their is evidence that the flood did happen because there are marine fossils on the highest mountain peaks and still archaeologists are trying to find some in the mountain peaks. Eyewitnesses saw Jesus turning water into wine and saw Him walking on water. The Four Gospel authors saw them and the disciples but they wrote in a different writing styles and the writing styles proves that it was four different people who wrote it through God's inspiration and they were eyewitnesses. 2 Peter 1:16 says "We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. This verse above says that they didn't invent or make up the stories of Jesus but we they told you about the Jesus ( in the 4 Gospels) and they were eyewitnesses that saw what Jesus did on this earth. 1
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