Posted by Bob 2 on August 28, 1998 at 01:51:49:
In Reply to: please posted by Helen on August 28, 1998 at 00:02:25:
: I would appreciate knowing a couple of his best evidences for the Bible being deceptive and/or mythology.
Perhaps you should say: I would like to hear a couple of his (Lloyd Graham’s) best examples of evidence that the Bible is Mythical or deceptive.
OK No. 1
The "tree of life" in the "Garden of Eden" is a copy. Many ancient races had a tree of life.
With the Greeks it was Gogard, with Landon the serpent.
With the Norse it was Yggdrasil, the ash, at the foot of which was Nidhogg, their serpent.
According to Hisiod, Zeus created three races of men, the last out of ash trees.
The Hindus pictured creation as a tree, Ashvatta, with it’s roots in the absolute and it’s branches (seven planes) hanging downward.
From the word Ashvatta we see where others got their ash tree, considered sacred.
Among the Tibetans, the "tree of life" was Zampun, and among the Persians, Homa.
The Druids honored the oak tree as a symbol of "the mundane tree of life"
Even the Chinese had their "tree of knowledge" , Sung-Ming-Shu.
No. 2
The river that "became into four heads" that "went out of Eden to water the garden" was a copy of other accounts.
In the Brahmanical account, four primeval rivers pour out from the golden Mount Meru (earth), the city of Brahma.
The Sineru of the Buddhists had it’s four sacred rivers which proceeded from Tawrutisa, the abode of Sikia, the god of life.
The Tien_Chan, or celestial mountains of the Chinese and Tartars, was watered by four perennial fountains of Ty-chin, or immortality.
Asgard, the Eden of the Scandinavians, was watered by four rivers of milk.
No. 3
The seven days of creation is not originally from the Hebrews.
Before this "Priestly" account (4th century) , Hesiod (8th century), said, "the 7th is the sacred day"
Plato one wrote thus: "The gods, pitying the laborious nature of men ordained for them as a rest from all their labors, the succession of religious festivals."
The first of these festivals was every 7th day, while the 7th day of every month was dedicated to Apollo, the sun, hence our Sunday.
Not even the word Sabbath comes from the Hebrews. It is derived from the Babylonian Sabbatu, day of rest, observed by them long before the Hebrews.
These aren’t even the best examples, they’re the only ones I had written down. There are thousands more examples. If you want to know the origin of the Christian tale, simply read the account of the Egyptian "Horus". It’s almost word for word. If you want the rest you’ll have to read it yourself.
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