THE PRE-ADAMIC MYTHS.

When we were young, our imaginations were given life, fed with imageries from cartoons and movies, our gentle minds accepted these exaggerated concepts. To us, they were not merely tools of entertainment but rather versions of what we could become. I can recall scores of injuries I have had just playing superman or the monkey king swinging from one tree branch to the other. As we grew, we came to discard these as “mere myths” and tools for entertainment. If a grown-up dresses up as superman claiming “He could utilize the power of the yellow sun,” you would conclude that he was mad. That is because the real world operates on truths and the violation of truth is a deviation from life. indeed, TRUTH is life. You cannot impose your set of imaginations and biases and expect the real world to correspond. Disbelieve in gravity and jump off a roof, gravity does not mind if you do not believe in its existence, you will fall. Such is the real world and the format of growth is consistent even in the Christian domains. We have watched as many myths and hypotheses metamorphize into hardcore doctrines and beliefs. And such believes have captured and captivated the minds of many believers.

When we are growing, we begin to shed off the myths that were fed to our innocent minds as kids. I remember growing up, I was told Michael Jackson brought dancing to the world, this remained true for me until I studied history and understood that dancing as an art has been with man from time immemorial. It took studies to realize this myth. In the realm of faith, it is dangerous to hang your faith on…