Why Acceptance of the Genesis Account is Extremely Important For Christians

[Radrook]

Rejection of the Genesis account as mere myth strikes at the very heart of Christianity for the following reasons.

1. Jesus himself is described as lending it historical credence
2. Peter. Paul, Jude, Luke, Mathew, John, specifically lend it historical credence
3. It removes the basis for the theme of paradise lost to paradise regained.
4. It removes the need for redemption and a redeemer-the fall of man from original perfection.
5. It strikes at Jesus' authenticity as the Son of God by describing him as gullible and a propagator of mere myth.


These five things alone are extremely serious reasons why Christians are opposed to accepting the anti biblical demonically inspired, propaganda which has become popular during these last days.

 

[JackRT]

These five things alone are extremely serious reasons why Christians are opposed to accepting the anti biblical demonically inspired, propaganda which has become popular during these last days.

This is a point of view held by a minority of Christians.

 

[Radrook]

This is a point of view held by a minority of Christians.

Appeal to Bandwagon is a fallacy.

Bandwaggon:

Etymology:

The name "bandwagon fallacy" comes from the phrase "jump on the bandwagon" or "climb on the bandwagon", a bandwagon being a wagon big enough to hold a band of musicians. In past political campaigns, candidates would ride a bandwagon through town, and people would show support for the candidate by climbing aboard the wagon. The phrase has come to refer to joining a cause because of its popularity. Taxonomy of the Bandwagon Fallacy

Alias:
•Appeal to Popularity
•Argument by Consensus
•Argumentum ad Populum
•Authority of the Many

Form:

Idea I is popular.
Therefore, I is correct.

Example:

Everyone is selfish; everyone is doing what he believes will make himself happier. The recognition of that can take most of the sting out of accusations that you're being "selfish." Why should you feel guilty for seeking your own happiness when that's what everyone else is doing, too
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/bandwagn.html

 

[JackRT]

Appeal to Bandwagon is a fallacy.

I quite agree. However, a fact is still a fact.

 

[AnticipateHisComing]

This is a point of view held by a minority of Christians.

Do you have a survey that supports your statement that a majority of Christians believe the Genesis stories are myths?

 

[Jipsah]

Do you have a survey that supports your statement that a majority of Christians believe the Genesis stories are myths?

Can the truth be established by the results of a popular vote?

 

[Jipsah]

Rejection of the Genesis account as mere myth strikes at the very heart of Christianity

Baloney. I don't think that it makes any real difference whether a Christian has read Genesis at all or not. We're saved by Christ, not by having the "correct" opinion of Genesis.

 

[Radrook]

Baloney. I don't think that it makes any real difference whether a Christian has read Genesis at all or not. We're saved by Christ, not by having the "correct" opinion of Genesis.

That's one hell of a mindless response! LOL!

In any case-God Bless!

 

[Radrook]

Do you have a survey that supports your statement that a majority of Christians believe the Genesis stories are myths?

Many folks on this forum seem to think that making a strongly-worded statement without any logical nor documentary support whatsoever is enough. I think that unfamiliarity with the principles of basic argumentation is the cause.

 

[Radrook]

I quite agree. However, a fact is still a fact.

If indeed it is a fact-which you as yet have failed to prove-then as was pointed out, it is a totally irrelevant one because it is fallacious reasoning and your premise is seriously flawed. You are familiar with a premise-correct?

 

[Radrook]

Can the truth be established by the results of a popular vote?

Why do you consider popularity a disqualifying factor?

 

[Jipsah]

That's one hell of a mindless response! LOL!

It was all a few really stupid assertions deserved.

 

[Jipsah]

Many folks on this forum seem to think that making a strongly-worded statement without any logical nor documentary support whatsoever is enough.

Kinda like the OP, huh?

 

[Jipsah]

Why do you consider popularity a disqualifying factor?

I consider it meaningless.

 

[Radrook]

I consider it meaningless.

Popularity has a basis.

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Rejection of the Genesis account as mere myth strikes at the very heart of Christianity for the following reasons.

1. Jesus himself is described as lending it historical credence
2. Peter. Paul, Jude, Luke, Mathew, John, specifically lend it historical credence
3. It removes the basis for the theme of paradise lost to paradise regained.
4. It removes the need for redemption and a redeemer-the fall of man from original perfection.
5. It strikes at Jesus' authenticity as the Son of God by describing him as gullible and a propagator of mere myth.


These five things alone are extremely serious reasons why Christians are opposed to accepting the anti biblical demonically inspired, propaganda which has become popular during these last days.

I vehemently reject this. Mostly because of the statement of 'mere myth'.

Myth is not some children story or fantasy. It is an important vehicle to deliver truths, which is why very intelligent and educated grown men have spent centuries investigating them.

God himself used myth. What is Jesus other than the old dying and reborn god archetype brought into glorious historical Reality. Myths and stories brought the truth of God home to men, in a way that a purely matter of fact accounts fail to do. It is not that it isn't true, but its viscerally true, a way for men to experience the divine.

To quote CS Lewis:


"Now as myth transcends thought, Incarnation transcends myth. The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens--at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle." - from Myth became Fact in God in the Dock.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

@Radrook - it's not about intellectual assents.

 

[AnticipateHisComing]

This is a point of view held by a minority of Christians.

Do you have a survey that supports your statement that a majority of Christians believe the Genesis stories are myths?

Can the truth be established by the results of a popular vote?

So I can just claim a majority of Christians think Anglicans are heretics and you can't question it?

Understand that factual things like a majority hold a certain position can be established as true and defended with evidence, like a survey. Understand that it is a completely different question to say that what the majority hold is true. My doubt is that the very first statement is true, that a majority of Christians believe the Genesis stories are myths.

Get the difference?

If you were going to jump on anyone for using a voting to determine truth, you should have jumped on post 2 where Jack dismissed the OP as a minority view.

 

[Dkh587]

I love Genesis & I believe it is literal and historically accurate, and that it contains the true creation story of earth & humans

 

[JackRT]

It is only in the USA where a large segment of Christians interpret Genesis literally. In a recent poll the figure was 42% IIRC. In other nations that figure is much smaller. Several popes have indicated that a literal understanding of Genesis is not necessary and that Christianity is compatible with the theory of evolution. BTW, Catholics make up about half of Christianity worldwide.