In the end, it's faith...
Plus the documentation doesn't have all the records, you be interested in the investigations I found lol
I can imagine! I doubt we'll ever know the real truth.
In the end, it's faith...
Plus the documentation doesn't have all the records, you be interested in the investigations I found lol
I can imagine! I doubt we'll ever know the real truth.
Oh right, so everything MUST have a creator.... Except god.
Sorry no, that won't cut it. Thats the special pleading fallacy.
Do you take it by faith, that it really happened?
Why is it offensive to mention the holocaust, but not the Christian martyrdom? Or about the thousands of natives killed for property?
Plus Mr. Bean is funny lol
And thank you for your easy going nature and your kind words.
I tell you, my skin has toughened quite a lot since I started visiting forums, and if you look back over all my posts -- too much of a chore for sure -- you will find a few places where I got a little short. I always regret these lapses, but I suppose we all have them from time to time.
The sad thing, it occurs to me, is that if I am right I will never know it, and you will never know you were wrong.![]()
William Dever believes there is good reason to think Asherah was once worshiped as Yahweh's consort. See his book, Did God Have a Wife?
Lol I feel exactly the same about you lot! I love the battle too. And yeah, I do say some things I shouldn't myself. But I think your all great.
That's the niceties over!!!
But surely the very notion of a man 600 years old is lunacy in itself. If he were not to age, People of that time would have worshipped him as a God or a Demon. If he aged as a natural human. His body would have been too decrepit to life a hammer let alone build an ark. It's a lovely story but there are too many logistical impossibilities for it to be an accurate account of history.
Understanding Genetics
Ah cool. So it is indeed possible that the stories of gilgamesh, recorded around 2150BC, which account a warning from the gods, a great flood, an ark of exact dimensions, a gathering on animals, a sending out of birds and a sacrifice could all indeed be the origin stories of Noah which came to be changed up until biblical time as people re-told the story an made it there own?
the book you quote was, by it's own account, written around 515BC. Long after the story of gilgamesh.
For much of the 20th century most scholars agreed that the five books of the Pentateuch—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy—came from four sources, the Yahwist, the Elohist, the Deuteronomist and the Priestly source, each telling the same basic story, and joined together by various editors.
These source texts are believed to have been written around 5th - 6th Century BC. That is still 400 to 500 years after the writings of the above story. So which whisper would you more likly to believe, the first, or the last?
I should add there is thought one of the books could have originated in the court of soloman, though evidence is sketchy. That would still put it between 970 and 930BC. Still a later whisper![]()
But why is it a stretch? These are biblical scholars, christians who have dedicated their accademic lives to discovering the origins of the texts, the leading authority on the literal history of the bible. Men of clergy, cloth and faith. Why should there discoveries and analysis hold less merit than a preacher who merely reads the words?
Oh right, so everything MUST have a creator.... Except god.
Sorry no, that won't cut it. Thats the special pleading fallacy.
For the sake of argument... Why can't we say the universe has always been there?
I'm not making a statement here btw lol. Just throwing it out there.
Of course it is. Believing in god is an easy answer. Can't explain something? God did it.
Something conflicts with your internal belief? Oh, god must have made it that way.
I'm sorry, but your now useless to the advancement of our species. You don't need to investigate anything, you don't need to discover anything you don't need to question anything and you don't need to learn anything. You don't need to, cos you believe you have all the answers already.
You right, I don't know the answer. I don't know why we are here and I don't know why things are the way they are.
You know why I don't know? Because I haven't been given any proof or evidence.
So please tell me, what special information have you been given that has not been given to me?
However if your going to tell me that you've bought a pet fire breathing dragon then I'm going to need proof of that before I believe you because it's an unbelievable claim..