Friday, May 21, 2010
Creation Myths
The creation myths that I watched came from the Maoris in New Zealand, the Chinese, and also the Yoruba in Africa. This was something new to me. Each of these myths were different in their own ways, and each of them had their own twist to how the world came to be and where people came from. In spite of this though, I saw that all of these myths had a common thread to them. I found it interesting that none of these myths took on an evolutionary theme. Instead all of these stories had some sort of creator or creators in all of them. None of these myths had a theme that all of what we see came about all on its own. Maybe they saw themselves and other living things as too complex to have come about all on its own. Another thing that I noticed was that there wasn’t only a view on how people came to be, but also a view on how the sun, moon, mountains etc. came about. It really makes me curious to want to know how exactly these stories came about, it is rather interesting that although these stories come from such diverse regions, they all have the same type of central theme to them. I also wonder if these stories were actually believed, or if it was just taken to be some sort of fairy tale. One thing that these myths showed me about people, is that they all had questions that wanted to be answered. The biggest question of all probably is how we all got here. We as human beings like to have a sense of belonging and also a sense of purpose. I think that people feel they can have more of a sense of purpose if they have an idea as to where they came from. This can especially be said about myself. I am a Christian, and also a firm believer in the Bible, so naturally I am a creationist. I also don’t believe that this world and all of the wonderful things that are contain therein came about by chance. Instead I believe that God, created everything by simply speaking them into existence, but He took special time out to form man out of the dust of the ground. I know that it takes a great deal of faith to believe this way, because we are not able to see and actually touch God at this point in time. Yet I feel that there is much evidence all over the world that can point to this as not a myth, but instead fact. To me, believing this gives me the greatest sense of purpose. Knowing this really helps me to know who I am, what I’m doing here, and where I am going. I know that many see what I believe in as just another creation myth, but I am so happy to know that there is a God above, who loves and cares for me.
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I to am a Christian, so therefor I too believe in creationism. This might be why I love to learn about this subject so much. It is very interesting in the fact that the same thing I believe in, which is the bible which teaches of God creating everything, is basically told in these stories, just in a different way. I think that if you look at all these stories with a logical mind set, then you don't lose a sense of there being a God, but rather see that there is a God through the similarities in the stories. I think that you could look at the stories, and see that this general idea didn't just magically enter the minds of the authors to these stories. They had to have been planted into these peoples minds. Isn't that cool to look at? Regardless of if they are true or not, you can see that there is a greater being, or thing out there planting this idea into people's brains. I mean, I don't want to jump to conclusions and say its a fact that it was someone putting this idea into these peoples brains, but it is a very good hypothesis. Just think about it. They are all VERY much alike, and they are separated all throughout the world-on EVERY continent. Now, if you think some more, then you will see that a general 'thing' has created everything. It is up to you to believe this and follow what it teaches. Wow, I cannot believe that I just now thought of this, but this also means that all those who believe in any of those stories is giving themselves a shot at a gospel. So, if you think of revelations, which talks of the judgment, then you could know that more people have a chance of being saved. I think this is so because I doubt that God is going to care if other people hear it in different tongue's and symbols, they still hear a the story. If they are not given a chance to hear the christian story, I do believe that this will do because it follows a lot of the basics of the bible, and in my belief, God allowed these people to hear these stories, and to spread them. So, in a sense, it was another form of the gospel. I'm not going to say that this is completely true because I have not done a lot of studying on it, praying on it, or anything for that matter, they are just thoughts. Think about it though Hall, it's pretty cool. Great blog.
ReplyDeleteYayyyyyyy! I really liked your blog this week and I’m glad that someone took a stand for creationism. I was raised in a Christian home so I, too, believe that God created everything and that we didn’t just crawl out from the sea and evolve into monkeys and so on and so forth. I mean, if that happened, why aren’t monkeys evolving anymore? Hmm. Lol. Anyway, I’m gonna get off my soapbox now. I also thought it was interesting that all of the myths we studied seemed to revolve around one creator or two creators. It sort of makes me laugh because people always say that other cultures don’t believe in God, but they all believe in a higher power and not evolution. Also, I’m glad you can stick to your faith. A lot of people can’t follow God because they can’t see Him and I think that’s absolutely ridiculous. They believe in other things that aren’t visible so why not God? I don’t think it takes a lot of anything to believe in God at all, it just takes faith and if that doesn’t come naturally then don’t force it.
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