QUOTE(AshKatNah @ Jul 16 2005, 03:37 AM)
I would like to pose a question to all believers, which I believe is pretty relevant.
Can you equal the greek mythology of Zeus and his sub-gods of Oympus with the globally accepted principles of Yahveh (the original Jewish God and the latter Christian)?
That said, who has the right to say that the greek mythology are "old stories" and Christianity isn't? Because, for the people of the ancient greek times, Zeus was very real, just like God is for the Christians today?
So, where goes the line between ancient mythology (seen today as legends only, therefore the word myth-) and a global religion like Islam or Christianity go? And who can tell the difference? IS there any difference?
Think about it.
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Time to explain it all again, I guess. Everyone please pay careful attention.
All Gods are one.
I. All religions, despite outward appearances, are monotheistic. When they say "gods" substitute "angels" and "demons" and you will figure it out. In all faiths, there is always a "God-God" somewhere behind the scenes, just not always obvious. A few examples should suffice:
a. Hindu: despite the trinity, the hindu Father, Son and Holy Ghost, which they call Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu, there is Brahman (breath), beyond all comprehension.
b. Norse: Odin/Wotan is also known as "Allfather".
c. Greek: Anyone remember Paul telling them that the "unknown God"is YHWH"?
d. Roman: "Jupiter" is an abbreviation of "Deus Pater", God the Father, also called "Jove" - classical Latin pronounced this "Yahweh" - get it? "EeOway"!
e. Sioux - beyond everything is Wakan Taka, that the white man mistranslates as the Great Spirit. I won't bore you with the real meaning.
f. Egytptians had the Sun, Amen. It was manditory to mention him at the end of a prayer, even to another God. Christians and Jews
STILL honor Him at the end of their prayers.
g. Mayan - beyond Itzamna is Hunab Ku, then Alom/Kaholom (sounds like elim and elohim?).
II. All religions, despite their outward appearance, are polytheistic.
a. Christian - Let's not even go there with the Trinity.
b. Catholic - I note them as separate because they adapted almost any pagan legend as a saint's tale, including Bridgit Demeter, and Gautauma Buddha. Buddhism did the same thing with Hindu stories, making them "Jataka" stories, about the previous incarnations of the Buddha. I would bet that the Jataka stories are objectively real as the saint's stories.
c. Judiasm - the "Shabbos Queen/Shekinah", not to mention angels and demons.
d. Islam - has the Djinn, and they have angels, demons, and those women-like
creatures that wait on men.remembering that in islam women lack souls.sorry, can't remember the name of these beings.
III. Either I. or II. or both are correct, depending on perspective. In answer to the original question, really, there is no difference betweeN, "old" and "new" religions. They are exactly the same; none is more advanced than the other.