Why Christianity is NOT the Correct Religion

[publicduende]

Just the usual party line then. You haven't actually read any of the proceedings of the Council on Nicea or anything about the Apostolic Fathers of course.

Have you? I can't go down in a diatribe, sorry, I am just reporting what I know because I read it. I don't even remember where, it was 10-20 years ago. It was a reputable book, though, not some conspiracy nutter blog. Some of it is also my personal belief: I don't believe any "sacred text" from Christianity because the entire religion was, like most, assembled semi-arbitrarily to win and subjugate the masses.

[Cornfed]

Just the usual party line then. You haven't actually read any of the proceedings of the Council on Nicea or anything about the Apostolic Fathers of course.

Have you? I can't go down in a diatribe, sorry, I am just reporting what I know because I read it. I don't even remember where, it was 10-20 years ago.

Just as I thought. I must be psychic.

[publicduende]

Just as I thought. I must be psychic.

Cornfed is always right and everybody else is an idiot, how could I have forgotten?

[publicduende]

@publicduende I agree with what you said. I think there is a good chance humanity has been visited by extraterrestrials in the distant past who gave us a quantum leap in our evolution and taught us secrets about the nature of reality and civilisation etc. I wrote about this more in depth in a thread I wrote about the Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis. You can give it a read if you want here: viewtopic.php?style=11&f=14&t=46405

Every mythology since the Sumerians recounts the story of their gods descending from the heavens in celestial chariots, flying boats or even flying cities. In ancient Chinese mythology their gods descended in the belly of a fire breathing dragon. The dragon would land and roll out its tongue and their gods would walk down the tongue.

I'd say this is more credible than the story of the bible. Simply because a lot of these mythologies are proven to be much older than any known Christian mythology, yet they all have similar motifs. Here are just a few examples to demonstrate that point.

Flood Myth - Every mythology has a flood myth. From the Epic of Gilgamesh (a much older version of the story of Noah) the Epic of Gilgamesh is a story from a civilisation known as "the cradle of civilisation" predating the Biblical narrative by a millenia. then there's also a much older Hindu mythology telling the story of Manu who saves the world from a deluge by building an Ark and Hinduism is also a religion much older than Christianity. There are also flood myths in Greek mythology, Norse mythology, Incan mythology and Aztec mythology...

Forbidden Knowledge - There's also a motif of forbidden knowledge being shared. Similar to the story in Genesis where the Serpent tricks Adam and Eve into eating from the Tree of Knowledge. In the Myth of Adapa, Enki bestows upon Adapa the secrets of the heaven and earth, only for Adapa to be confronted by Anu/Yahweh as being unworthy of such knowledge as a human. In the Greek Myth you have Prometheus handing humanity the fire of the gods against the will of the gods of Olympus and in the ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns, the Rigveda, speaks of a hero Mātariśvan who recovered fire which had been hidden from humanity.

War of Gods - There's also a motif of war amongst different factions of gods. In Biblical mythology you have Yahweh and his angels fighting Satan and his army of demons. Yahweh imprisoned some of the demons in The Abyss, similar to Greek mythology with the gods of Olympus vs the Titans and the Titans being imprisoned by Zeus. In Hinduism this is a repeated motif with the younger Devas fighting the older Asuras.

There are other motifs repeated across all these mythologies as well. Most of them much older than Christianity. This is something supported by carbon dating the relevant materials. So in this regard we have no reason to accept the word of the Bible over any other religion. @Cornfed simply asserts Christianity is the correct faith because he wants it to be true. Other than that there is no reason or substantial evidence to back the religion up.

@Pixel--Dude

I see you read your alt-archeology books, there, mate! My Dad was an avid sci-fi reader and had an amazing collection. Not everything was fiction, though, so I didn't have to dig too deep to find books by Peter Kolosimo (an Italian journalist and a founder of this research genre, you might know him), then Zecharia Sitchin and David Hatcher Childress, all translated into Italian.

I was a young teenager back then and those stories were more interesting than fictions. Only later in life I got to think that much of what they wrote about was far from fictional. Even if 30% of what they say is true, there is enough material to rewrite human history and perhaps even draw some interesting lines as to where our future lies.