The Lost City of Atlantis Fact or Fiction

There have been many stories over the years that have captured the imaginations of men but none so much as the Plato’s story about the Lost City if Atlantis. So is this story fact or fiction? Well nobody really knows, but there have been a lot of guesses and theories over the years, some with evidence and some without.
It was Plato who first gave us the story about the city of Atlantis around 355 B.C.

In Plato’s books he uses a type of writing where he used conversations between different people to express his ideas. In the story of Atlantis there is a man named Kritias telling the story of Atlantis that has apparently been in his family for several generations. It was Poseidon that established the city of Atlantis; the city was a wonder to all who had the good luck to see it. The city had walls and canals, hot water fountains and cold water fountains, irrigation systems for the farms that were outside the city, it was a marvel that was before its time!

Probably the most wonderful object in the entire city was the temple that was on a hill in the very center of the city, in this building you could find a huge statue of Poseidon riding in a chariot being carried along by winged horses….the whole city revolved around worshiping Poseidon, the god of the sea.

The first person to believe that the city of Atlantis was more then just a myth was a man who lived during the 1800’s named Ignatius Donnelly. He believed that the city really did exist but it was destroyed by a natural disaster. In 1882, Donnelly published a book named Atlantis, the Antediluvian World; in this book Donnelly states that the city of Atlantis was somewhere on the middle of the Atlantic ocean and that the Atlantian civilization was the place where that civilization started and through colonizing places like Egypt, civilization spread in the rest of the world.

The only problem with all of this is the fact that it has been proved scientifically impossible for the lost city of Altanis to have been located in the middle of the Atlantic ocean because there is to much sediment covering everything down there and not enough time since the fall of Atlantis to fully cover it all up. Since that book came out, there have been many theories as to where the city was located, some have said Switzerland, others Borneo, Bolivia and even New Zealand.

There was one man who had a very convincing and logical argument as to the location of the city of Atlantis; his name was K. T. Frost, a history professor; he said that the city of Atlantis was not so far away from Plato as so many people had thought, Frost stated that the city of Atlantis was none other then the Minoan civilization located on the island of Crete.

The island of Crete was the center of the Minoan Empire, with a huge navy and one of the most sophisticated civilizations of the time; the Minoan Empire had it made…until they just disappeared. A massive volcano, just ten miles off the island of Crete, exploded and what was then known as the greatest empire of the world, fell into ruins and disappeared.

There are people who believe that the Minoan empire was the lost city of Atlantis and then there are always the people who don’t believe it for a second. Maybe it was, maybe it really existed, maybe it didn’t…maybe in the future, science will be able to tell us for sure.

This was a culture that placed Poseidon in the center of everything, everything revolved around him. Every time that you place a false god in the position that God himself should occupy, then it should be expected that nothing nice is going to come about. God wants us for Himself…not something that is false, you might think that this is bad or not fair but just remember, He is the One Who created us after all, so why should we not worship only Him. God, the Creator of the Universe deserves our worship. Poseidon is a nice myth …