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Originally Posted by TheHeroOfTime  First off I'd like to say I'm new here (Hello to everyone!), but extremely interested in the things I recently read.
I searched the forums to see if I could find anything regarding Christianity being a mythology. I found a few posts, but nothing to which I would like to debate.
I'm here to ask everyone what they think of this idea. Personally I believe that all religions are based on some sort of mythology. I recently struck a debate with a decently devout Christian. This person wholly believes that Christianity is not a mythology. I argue however, that all stories in the old testament (Noah's Ark, Sodom and Gamorrah, Jesus turning water into wine, curing the blind, etc...) are all mythology (you cannot prove them true, hence myth). What do you think?
My second question is, this Christian believes that what Jesus did throughout his life (turning bread into more bread, curing the blind, etc) was not magic, but rather miracles. I however see no difference between Jesus' "miracles" and someone who claims to practice sorcery (a magus, if you believe these sort of people exist). What do you think?
Thanks for any replies and I realize that these are extremely open ended questions; so nothing is out of the question when debating! |
In my opinion:
Yes I believe christianity is based on mythology. "Original Sin" and Christs mission of sacrificing himself for our original sin is definitely mythology based on deception.
As far as your second question, who cares what word label you put on it, "miracles", "magick" or "quantum mechanics", it all results in the same thing. I do believe he did what he did and his purpose was to convince us that we could do the same. As far as how he did it, IMO, I think it is one of the theories of quantum mechanics that says your thoughts are energy that effect whatever it is you observe. Jesus had this talent and so does the human race but we dont know how to harness or use it yet.