In the book, Genesis As Myth, by Edmund Leach. He
stated that everybody had different views on myth's in Genesis.
For example German theologian who defined myth as the
"expression of unobservable realities in terms of observable
phenomena." This German theologian, who is relating this to
the devout Christian, which indicates that all sanctimonious
Christians believe that the bible is strictly a myth. I in the
other hand disagree to that argument because, the Christians
believed that the bible was not a myth, and the events that
happened in the bible are true. My reasoning for that remark
is, that most Christians were raised to believe that the bible
was true and we weren't able to argue with it's readings. We
feel that the importance of the myth is more likely to be less
probable. This German theologian believed that communica¬
tion has an important role in myth's throughout the bible. I
believe that all mythological systems that recur in stories, oc¬
cur in many different versions. He stated that "man is created
in Genesis, and then he created all over again. And, as if two
first men were not enough, we also have Noah in chapter
eight." A quote from the bible that states "I am the Alpha and
the Omega, the beginning and the end, saith the Lord." The
German Theologian says that "God against the world and the
world itself for ever dividing into opposites on either side: male
and female, living and dead, good and evil, first and last."
In a different example Edmund Leach stated that
"Solomon the wise, the great king, the builder of the temple,
nevertheless is a sinner in that he loved many strange woman,
together with the daughter of Pharaoh, woman of the moabites,
Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians and hittites." Taken as its
face value, the text of the old testament represents the re
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