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respond only if you believe the authors of the Scriptures believed their own writings were given to them by God.
much clearer, thanks Mr Ex.
I think many of the original authors would have thought they were divinely inspired. However, I can't help but notice the lack of originality in the OT myths and also in the Pauline mythification of Jesus. I'm not too familiar with Jewish / middle eastern history and mythology but I am familiar with GrecoRoman one. First thing I thought when I first read Genesis was that all the Greek myths were right there : Deucalion and Pyrrha , Pandora's box, Hephaestus, Titans, the lot.
IMHO, there are two possibilities here:
either, the Greeks were as divinely inspired as the Hebrews so thet they both described the same divinely-imparted facts from different points of view, OR they were both influenced by preceding civilizations and similar cultural and environmental stimuli to develop resembling mythologies.
that's my two cents anyway.
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