God does not in any way resemble the gods of mythology. Clearly, they are patterned after humankind, with human failings (envy, spite, etc.) God is whatever First Cause there may be; only He reveals Himself, first by creation, and second by special revelation.
I don't worry too much about convincing people there is a God. Belief in God, even the God of the Bible, is no indication of salvation. Doesn't James tell us (Protestants and Catholics alike) that even the devil believes?
The unsaved are not seeking God, and are quite incapable of seeking Him, as Romans clearly teaches. God reveals Himself to those which are "elect unto salvation." And He reveals Himself today primarily through the preaching of the Word.Are claims about God indistinguishable from claims about Thor, Zeus, fairies, and Superman?
Well I think the main issue is people are confusing God with these mythical gods, they're confusing God with gods. First of all God is Yahweh, he is what he is, he is not thor or zeus or horus, he is not any of that, we didn't create him like people created zeus. He created us.
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Are claims about God indistinguishable from claims about Thor, Zeus, fairies, and Superman?People when they think of God they get confused with thinking about gods because it's the same word but two different things. Gods are man made, Yahweh/Jehovah/Jah/Love who we call God is not man made, we feel him even for those who don't believe.Report Abuse
When you think of God don't think of a giant man sitting on a cloud, that's zeus you're thinking of, when you're thinking of love, happiness, friendship, kindness, you are thinking of God. God is not in the same category as thor, God is love, not a man made painting or statue.
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Are claims about God indistinguishable from claims about Thor, Zeus, fairies, and Superman?By the way what is up with born again pagan atheist? How can a pagan be an atheist or an atheist a pagan? Pagan is someone who believes in many gods while an atheist believes in none. I guess people are just so opposed to the thought of Christianity so much they'd rather be pagan or atheist.Report Abuse
Are claims about God indistinguishable from claims about Thor, Zeus, fairies, and Superman?Shows how corrupt this world is becoming, people are willing to be anything as long as it's opposed to the Lord, That's exactly satan's plan to destroy people.
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Claims about god are harder to disprove, since god (if he exists) is metaphysical.
Thor, fairies, Superman, etc... whatever claims you make about them, are more easily testable.
But they are of the same class of claims, yes.Are claims about God indistinguishable from claims about Thor, Zeus, fairies, and Superman?
My line of attack is the definition.
The bible is full of failure in Genesis, and that is the foundation of Christian beliefs.. The defined God of Christianity is false.
The Bible is the evidence..
Seek and you shall find. The truth is in the bible but you need to look with the aid of the concordance to get to the truth, the rest is listed under mythology.
As adolescents are inclined to say when told something obvious: "duh"! It's not like in the fourth century someone proved that the classical Greek gods where mythical and the abrahamic god of the Jews/Christians was real.
The only real difference is popularity. Somehow if enough people believe something crazy that makes it normal.
No evidence exists for any of the above mentioned outside of the works written about them.
None.
The evidence that the current incarnation of "God" is fiction is readily available if one studies the mythologies predating Judaism in which the idea of a singular, personal god is first explored.
They're all figments of human imagination. I just think its interesting that Superman is more righteous and merciful than the God in the bible. He actually lives among us and decidates his life to helping humans. He seems more God-like than God himself
The running literay themes represented in mythology portray the yearning of the soul to be united with God. The soul is also capable of discerning the reality of God from mythological examples.
The fact there are similartites between archetypes found in mythology and scripture is indicative of this yearning. It's like finding or learning something by trial and error.
There are differences between the mythogolgy and the truth. The gods or characters in mythology never lived, for example. Another is that all the contrived god's of mythology were limited in some way. eg posiden to the sea, even zeus himslef could be emotionally persudaed and manipulated and even lashed out in anger. although there are similarites to this type of god found in the old testament description of God, they represent misunderstanding and in fact the missunderstandings themselves are wiped away by God's great love for his creatures found in the reality of Jesus Christ and His church, which has outlasted the myths and will continue to do so.
So, the similaities represnt the deep yearning of the human soul, it is a logical falacy to assume that the existence of archetypes disproves the existence of God, therefore those who would do so are done in by their own god; the god of reason.
They are only indistinguishable in the minds of our atheist and neo pagan adversaries. Pax Christi
For me I look at Creation! God bless:)))
As far as I know, Thor, Zeus, nor Superman ever wrote a divine book.
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