{"id":863,"date":"2024-05-16T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T20:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/youmightberight\/?p=863"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T20:36:40","slug":"creation-mythology-religion-and-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/youmightberight\/2024\/05\/creation-mythology-religion-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation: Mythology, Religion, and Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Creation myths can illustrate the intersection of mythology, religion, and science. Do we interpret ancient religious texts as history or mythology?<\/p>\n
If we examine ancient religions, we might say, \u201cAha, the myth of the creation\u2026 aha, the myth of the fall\u2026 aha, the myth of the flood\u2026 aha, the myth of the virgin birth\u2026 aha, the myth of the divine sonship\u2026 aha, the myth of the resurrection,\u201d etc. These are common myths in many ancient religions.<\/p>\n
These myths seem unique to the few ancient religions that survive, only because most ancient religions have not survived.<\/p>\n
In The Way<\/em>, I ask readers to imagine that Christianity was lost to the ages, like so many ancient religions. Imagine that archaeologists only recently discovered the Bible. Without 2,000 years of\u00a0 cultural conditioning, would we accept the Bible as history, or would we recognize the mythology that appeared in many other ancient religions?<\/p>\n
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