Nah, kind of hard to considering that Prometheus was written long after Genesis and the book of Isaiah which referred to Lucifer
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TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 years agoShush… if theists could read they’d be upset!
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 years ago
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 years ago
When did the story of Prometheus came? I assumed the Greek myths either came before, or more or less at the same time as the Torah.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
All these ara adaptation from (in part even literal) from old Mesopotamian, Babylonic (Gilgamesh) and Egypth (Book of Death) Myth. The Bible (old Testament) isn’t an excepcion, the new testament are fractions of over 80 documents of which 4 were chosen at convenience, very shortened to conform to the dogma and which were published between the years 60 and the year 300 after Christ. None of these were written by the alleged authors, but by monks in those years. All the rest was either destroyed or archived as apocryphos. In other words, the Bible is no more truthful than a Harry Potter novel. Although some events in ancient myths are based on real events (eg the Great Flood), they were related by ignorant and superstitious people who sacrificed goats to have a better harvest, stories that were embellished for centuries, until the raft where a peasant saved his life. family, his chickens and goats, became an aircraft carrier with all the animals on earth.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 years ago
500-600BC.
Book of Isaiah: 740BC
Book of Genesis: 1400BC
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Interesting. But not to be facetious, if one reads carefully, literally and critically the story of garden of Eden, one could easily asks “Okay, what is actually bad with eating the apple of knowledge? Everyone wants knowledge, right?” I have thought about this when I was a child. But I brushed it off because the church teach that the moral of the story is to follow god etc, or you will be punished. I guess the point of that story worked on me as I let go of that nagging feeling the it doesn’t add up. Religion discourages one from thinking critically even at the face of irrational and illogical inconsistencies; resulting in adopting a double think.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I would care as much as a news story about a sack of rice being stolen in China.