Could the Holy Spirit use the myths and legends in the Scripture?

[Athanasiy]

Do the Biblical accounts always must be accepted historically ?
Could the Holy Spirit use the myths and legends
in the Scripture ?

I think if we would accept it , it could fortify but not to challenge the orthodoxy.

For example , it could withstand against the Assyriology and Egyptology archeological discoveries which blame the Jews and Christians in plagiarism.
It could also prove that God could create through evolution.

What if the Holy Spirit indeed used the myths and legends in the Scripture ?
Can we suppose that ?
I do not mean the Liberal Theology theories , just because our faith , even including the incarnation depends on many literal events of the Old Testament.

Let us notice that :
The Old Testament ages were the ages of hatred , malice , fetishism , sanctioned slavery , tyranny and bloodshed.
It were the ages of solemnly constituted imposture , pomp , subtlety , and cruelties.
But today we live in the different world and time , and we speak with a different language.
Today we live in the different age.
That is the reason , why I would advise to read Cathechism together with the Bible.
And Cathechism in my opinion is no less important than the Bible.
The ancient language , intentions of the authors , perception , way of thinking , were totally different .

What if the some of the events in the Jewish Sacred Literature indeed were the myths and legends ?
We can suppose that Jesus and Apostles did not speak criticism to the Jews , but they spoke according to the common opinion.

We know that what was thought in germinal form in apostolic era was just a seed , and Catholicism has transformed that seed to the tree.
The language of Cathechism is always changing for the better.
It is changing because of the necessity of dynamism. Right ?

Why not modernize the Catholic thinking in our interprertaions of the Biblical language and not avoid the possibility that story of creation , of paradise and the fall of tower of Babel , not necessarily literal ?
The same with supposing that God could talk to Abraham not necessarily in human language… ?

 

[tabcom]

IMHO, the powers-that-be within the inner circles of the Roman Empire amalgamated the mythologies by assigning December 25th as the birth date because the very nature of the Christ birth was inseparables from all the other pagan deities.

 

[tabcom]

Why not modernize the Catholic thinking in our interprertaions of the Biblical language and not avoid the possibility that story of creation , of paradise and the fall of tower of Babel , not necessarily literal ?

Because to do so would undermined the authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

 

[thistle]

Because to do so would undermined the authority of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church is the true Church and the only one given authority by Christ himself. Any non-catholic “churches” like the predestination Church and other churches and sects are only deluding thenselves if they think otherwise.

 

[tabcom]

Could the Holy Spirit use the myths and legends in the Scripture ?

December 25th birthday’s of antiquity that had virgin births\star in the east\3 kings motifs:

Horus 3000 BC – Egypt
Attus 1200 BC – Greece
Mithra 1200 BC – Persia
Krishna 900 BC – India
Dionysus 500 BC – Greece
Jesus 1 AD – Nazareth

 

[TheOneTrueFred]

December 25th birthday’s of antiquity that had virgin births\star in the east\3 kings motifs:

Horus 3000 BC – Egypt
Attus 1200 BC – Greece
Mithra 1200 BC – Persia
Krishna 900 BC – India
Dionysus 500 BC – Greece
Jesus 1 AD – Nazareth

There are some problems with your list.

You list 4 figures there who’s alleged date of birth pre-dates the existence of the roman calendar (according to legend, started by Romulus), and therefore there was no December 25th for them to be born on.

Krishna’s birthday is usually dated to the summertime. He was also the eighth son of his mother, so not a virgin birth.

Dionysus was not an example of virgin birth, Zeus actually impregnated his mother through a sexual relationship. Horus was conceived through a form of prosthetic necrophilia.

 

[Verbum]

Hi Athanasiy,

Middle Eastern tradition is used in Genesis as the framework for God’s action at the beginning of humanity. For example, the “seven days” creation.

But we must approach these questions with a lot prudence. The Pontifical Biblical Commission once said something to the effect that the fact that Genesis does not contain history in the modern sense does not mean that it does not contain history in any sense.

Verbum

 

[Gamera]

December 25th birthday’s of antiquity that had virgin births\star in the east\3 kings motifs:

Horus 3000 BC – Egypt
Attus 1200 BC – Greece
Mithra 1200 BC – Persia
Krishna 900 BC – India
Dionysus 500 BC – Greece
Jesus 1 AD – Nazareth

None of these societies even had a “December.” They all used different calendars than ours, with months starting and stopping at different times than our months. That includes the Jewish calendar. “December” hadn’t been invented yet when Jesus was born, so how could “December 25th” have been the birthday of pre-Christian deities? The claim is absurd.

 

[Athanasiy]

I would not be bothered with the discoveries which seems disprove the historisism of the Biblical events I mean the age of the life on the earth … also the ideas which come from Chaldean or Persian sources which are similar with the Biblical ideas.

It could be even possible that those ideas could be vivified and transformed by the inspired genius of Hebrew historians , and adapted to become the vehicle of profound religious truth.

Also , unforunately the archeology some times is a subject of speculation and commercial sensationalism.
Actually not archeology but the media , especially in the last few years.

But the matter is that the book of Genesis is the historical book.
And must be accepted historically.
If the Moses spoke properly and plainly then he could not speak allegorically and figuratively.
And we can not also take away the reality of original sin , if we would take it away the promise of Christ could become void , and the vital force of Christian message would be abolished.
Therefore there is no other way of understanding the Biblical realities without historical aprouch

 

[Chancellor]

The Roman Catholic Church has wisely chosen to seek out the truth contained in scripture rather than focus on Biblical literalism like the fundamentalist protestants. In this way we can simultaneously relish the great discoveries of science as insights into God’s creation while searching scripture for spiritual and theological truth. No Catholic does God a service by insisting on absolute historical accuracy for Old Testament writings. Catholics understand that most of the Old Testament was not intended as history as we today understand it, but as a revelation of the majesty of God. Jesus blatantly told us that holy teaching comes to us in the form of stories and parables. The real question is whether we understand what God is trying to tell us.

The Chancellor