Shouldn't They Considered Be Myths Too?

Why are the Ancient Greek and Egyptian considered myths while the Bible and things like that are considered by people to be fact?

 

Because the majority believes in it. No one really believes in Zeus or Ra anymore, so they're considered myths.

 

The Bible and other religious literature are only partial fact. I see your point though.

They can if they want to.

 

...Buddah, Shiva, Ra, Zues, Christ, Joesph Smith, Jedi (yes jedi. it's a belief, google it.).

All of these are figures of important religious affiliation to different religions or beliefs, some may be real, some may be myth, but that still doesn't mean that they do not exist in the minds of those who fall under each.

 

A cult is a group of people that believe in something that is unorthodox to the way others feel and so seen as something very negative. It rises though if successful and the movement is strong enough to become a religion. That religion then gets disproved or another religion comes and takes its place or it is absorbed...thus becoming a myth as it is no longer needed. It becomes a fantastic story. Of course, there are still people that believe in 'mythologies' that are around but because they are now in the minority, it's back to almost 'cult' status.

In the end, I would call them all 'religions' because I know that people do follow some religions that predate Christianity, but also for the stories etc themselves, I would call them mythos. I also call the Bible tales mythos too. But the above statement pretty much to me sums up the evolution of religions well enough.

 

Who is Joseph Smith?

Leave it to Repliku to explain everything in one post.XD

 

I guess there are more of a majority of people believing the bible, than people believing the Ancient Greek Mythology. So, I guess that could be a possibility.

 

Ah, I see. I know nothing about Mormons.:sweatdrop:

 

A myth is a story which is not based on any sort of fact. A legend is a story which was originally based on fact but has been distorted by time.

In my mind, all religions are myths. Mostly anyway. The only thing making the stories of Christianity not a myth is the large number of people who believe it all to be complete and utter fact, no matter how much the evidence contradicts.

 

Any relegion which is popular will not die out as quick. Norse, Egyptian and Greek Mythology died out from a lack of belief, and became nothing more than folklore for local towns and villages. Christians the result of a man names Jesus (yes a man, not a god-like being) he preached his philosophy of peace to the people, he was put to death for his belief, that Jesus exised, whatever you wish to name him, but that man lived.
People were so moved by his message of peace in a difficult time that many began to symbolise him as a god, the Bible is either a deception for encouraging people to Christianity, or a legend created in his memory. Jesus did not create any type of Christian beliefs, but he inspired them, the Bible was made by men for men.

 

I agree with PaW. People still believe in the Bible so it shouldn't really be considered a myth. Most people don't believe in myths and thats what makes them myths.

I think.

 

Most of those mythologies didn't just 'die out' but lessened dramatically by the infiltration of Christianity. There is enough proof even in the Bible to suggest some legends from Mesopotamia and Egyptian culture ended up in the Bible, just with slight name change alterations. Christianity and Islam grew in an area that was all along holding changing beliefs and with the fact the Roman Empire was Christianized and then the religion spread on through that to other cultures, things continued to change. The message of saying that worshipping any other deities was a sin and punishable by death was certainly often enough of a way to get people to change beliefs during times of occupation. Enough examples were made of people who disbelieved. The religions didn't just all die out willingly. They were pushed out as cultures were changed, people were forced under occupation, and others of the beliefs settled in. Sometimes they were peaceful changes and other times they definitely were not. Christian holidays are mostly pagan holidays ironically due to people not being willing to give up their holidays and festivals in the northern areas because truly, it kept their spirits up in dark months. Christianity adopted much of the Roman Empire ideal but whereas Romans tended to not push their gods on people and were rather open about whether they believed or not in anything, the Christian merging was different.

Really, Christianity and Islam have both absorbed things and changed to fit times and I do now actually occasionally see 'myths' with Christian legends stuck in there too or Muslim stories as well. Times are changing and any religion after a time is questioned. There just is a difference between a leap of faith and inquiry into the belief. Someday it too may be a thing considered as myth by the majority of people. Of course, then we may have another religion that is dominant in its place or none. That will be an interesting day to see.

 

It's popular, you can't kill popularity, it just goes away, it won't be in the next few decades, i'd guess, maybe a few centuries, but it will die out like any other relgion before has. Though considering how much hope people have in relgion, chances of any conclusion on when it dies out will not be accurate.

 

I suppose it's because the cultures in Egypt and Greece that believed those things are now dead and no one (at least not a noticeable amount of people) believes those tales anymore. It wouldn't be surprising to me if when our cultures today die and a social revolution occurs that Christianity, Judaism, Islam and the other major religions are referred to as mythology.

 

Really, I think it depends on what ever the majority is, and since nothing has been proving, anything could be true.