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  2. Christian mythology - Wikipedia

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    [129] [130] According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6:1–4 "is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology", and the "sons of God" mentioned in that passage are "celestial beings of ...

  3. Historicity of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Public acceptance of this scientific revolution was, at the time, uneven, but has since grown significantly. The mainstream scholarly community soon arrived at a consensus, which holds today, that Genesis 1–11 is a highly schematic literary work representing theology/symbolic mythology rather than actual history or science. [34] [page needed]

  4. Christ myth theory - Wikipedia

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    [25] [26] According to Ehrman, Jesus was a first-century Judean Jew, who was not like the Jesus preached and proclaimed today, [q 12] and that the most widely held view by critical scholars is that Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet [27] who was subsequently deified. [28]

  5. Religion and mythology - Wikipedia

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    A given mythology is almost always associated with a certain religion such as Greek mythology with Ancient Greek religion. Disconnected from its religious system, a myth may lose its immediate relevance to the community and evolve—away from sacred importance—into a legend or folktale .

  6. Comparative mythology - Wikipedia

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    Examples include Lamia of Greek mythology, a woman who became a child-eating monster after her children were destroyed by Hera, upon learning of her husband Zeus' trysts. In Zuni mythology and religion, Átahsaia is a giant cannibalistic demon, feeding on fellow demons and humans alike. He is depicted as having unblinking bulging eyes, long ...

  7. The Power of Myth - Wikipedia

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    A mythology is inevitably bound to the society and time in which it occurs and cannot be divorced from this culture and environment. This is true even though Western society previously learnt from, and was informed by, the mythology of other cultures by including the study of Greek and Roman writings as part of its heritage.

  8. Biblical cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Two different models of the process of creation existed in ancient Israel. [15] In the "logos" (speech) model, God speaks and shapes unresisting dormant matter into effective existence and order (Psalm 33: "By the word of YHWH the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their hosts; he gathers up the waters like a mound, stores the Deep in vaults"); in the second, or "agon ...

  9. Christianity and Ancient Greek philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Commentary from Sir William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870, p. 620). [2] One, or unity, is the essence of number, or absolute number. As absolute number it is the origin of all numbers, and so of all things. (According to another passage of Aristotle, Met. xii. 6. p. 1080, b. 7.

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