Posted on 04/07/2014 1:36:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 04/07/2014 1:41:51 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Darren Aronofsky
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
“but no mention of the Jewish... Hmmm...”
Bluntly, Jews are taught not to correct heresy, in that doing so historically usually ended with us getting killed.
So, yes, don’t except public outcries from Jewish groups about what is done to our scriptures.
That would be nearly impossible as there was no means of mass communication or cultural exchange that would have introduced these stories at the time they were written. Not to mention, the oral tradition is far older.
I think you read his post backwards.
Well, that seals it for me. Not only is the movie “the least biblical film ever made”, Noah is portrayed as the world’s “first environmentalist.” Why was the manbearpig not cast in the leading role?
That is a shame - they could bring a better understanding of the scriptures for everyone.
Friends of mine walked out in 20 minutes after enduring the constant violence depicted.
God's directive, before and after is not presented. Nor the fact that it took 100 years for him to build it (instead of using fallen angels as in the movie).
The movie is disgusting.
This is a lie, the Biblical account is the oldest (even if Moses wasn’t the first to write it down).
http://creation.com/noahs-flood-and-the-gilgamesh-epic
“It makes more sense that Genesis was the original and the pagan myths arose as distortions of that original account. While Moses lived long after the event, he probably acted as the editor of far older sources.9 For example, Genesis 10:19 gives matter-of-fact directions, ‘as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim’. These were the cities of the plain God destroyed for their extreme wickedness 500 years before Moses. Yet Genesis gives directions at a time when they were well-known landmarks, not buried under the Dead Sea.
It is common to make legends out of historical events, but not history from legends. The liberals also commonly assert that monotheism is a late evolutionary religious development. The Bible teaches that mankind was originally monotheistic. Archaeological evidence suggests the same, indicating that only later did mankind degenerate into idolatrous pantheism.10
For instance, in Genesis, God’s judgment is just, he is patient with mankind for 120 years (Genesis 6:3), shows mercy to Noah, and is sovereign. Conversely, the gods in the Gilgamesh Epic are capricious and squabbling, cower at the Flood and are famished without humans to feed them sacrifices. That is, the human writers of the Gilgamesh Epic rewrote the true account, and made their gods in their own image.
The whole Gilgamesh-derivation theory is based on the discredited Documentary Hypothesis.9 This assumes that the Pentateuch was compiled by priests during the Babylonian Exile in the 6th century BC. But the internal evidence shows no sign of this, and every sign of being written for people who had just come out of Egypt. The Eurocentric inventors of the Documentary Hypothesis, such as Julius Wellhausen, thought that writing hadn’t been invented by Moses’ time. But many archaeological discoveries of ancient writing show that this is ludicrous.”
or both stories derive from the telling and retelling of an actual event that happened in the distant past that nearly all cultures the world over remember.
Exactly!
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html
“The stories below are flood stories from the world’s folklore. I have included stories here if (1) they are stories; (2) they are folklore, not historical accounts or fiction by a known author; and (3) they involve a flood. In most borderline cases, I included the story here anyway. For example, one story (Hopi) tells of a flood which was avoided and never occurred.
My method for collecting these stories is simply to collect every flood story I find. I have omitted a few extremely fragmentary accounts, such as sources that say “These people have a legend of a flood in which most people were killed” and little or nothing more. The stories are summarized both to save space and to avoid copyright infringements, but I have attempted to preserve all the motifs and all the names that were given in the cited account. However, where the story gives intricate account of events before and/or after the flood (such as in the Zhuang story of Bubo vs. the Thunder God), some of the details peripheral to the flood itself may have been summarized out of existence. In a few cases, two or more overlapping and non-contradictory fragments from the same culture were combined into one summary. Complete references are given at the end; consult them for more details.
Within each continent or region, stories are grouped by language family. See Language Grouping for Flood Stories for elaboration of the language groups which, as best I can determine, the stories belong to.”
(It looks like LOTS of cultures have residual memories of The Flood. Well over 100 people groups listed here. Some had better methods of writing them down and preserving them. )
Thanks, but my comment was actually more about how liberals (Time) take every chance possible to lump Christians and Muslims together…
Or:
Implication: The event really happened, as recorded by numerous people groups.
Manu, in the Hindu Vedas, is taught as the primordial Noah.
Personally, I believe all of the religions are talking about the same event, and probably the same people.
The Mayan civilization, on the other side of the planet, had a flood story as well.
From what I can tell, the most recent flood story is the story in Genesis. Perhaps it is correcting all of the others?
The other flood stories have squabbling gods and mankind is delivered by his own strength and cunning. In the Genesis story, mankind is delivered by God.
The ‘Miau Tso’/’Miao Zu’/ ‘Miao people’ of Southern China originally settled in Kiangsi province, from where they were later driven out by the Han Chinese. A certain Miao tribe claims in fact that they are not themselves of Chinese stock, but insist that they are descended from Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah, i.e. of Indo-European descent!
Like the Chinese, the Miao are yet another ancient nation that remembers some of their earliest patriarchs. Not just that, but they possess surprisingly accurate recollections of the Creation, the Flood, and even of the Tower of Babel and its confusion of languages! Many of the finer details of their accounts coincide almost identically with the Biblical record in Moses’ Book of Genesis.
They were found to already possess this knowledge in the form of ancient couplets, when they for the first time encountered Western missionaries. The oral traditions in which the descent of the Miao was preserved, owe their purity to the fact that they have been recited faithfully and in full at funerals, weddings, and other public occasions for thousands of years, since time immemorial. Thus they are able to reproduce the earliest names of their primogenitors.
Now here’s the corker! They coincide not only accurately with the Hebrew Bible, but also clear up mythical details of the earliest, mystifying Chinese mythology.
According to the Miao, we all descended from the First Man, whose Miao name translated in English means “dirt” or “Earth”, which is identical to the meaning of the name “Adam“, the first man in the Bible. One of Adam’s sons is called Seth, while dirt’s son was called Se-Teh! The grand- and great-grandchildren of Seth are called Methuselah, Lamech and Noah in Genesis. In Miao records they are named Lusu, Gehlo, Lama, and Nu Ah! Virtually identical names. And Nu-Ah was married to a lady called “Ga Bo Lu En”
In the Miao record, Nu Ah had also three sons, called Lo Han, Lo Shen, and Lo Ya Phu. Again virtually identical, with Lo meaning something like “Lao” in Chinese, meaning “old” or “venerable one”, like Lao Zi, for example, the famous father of Taoism.
Even the children and grandchildren of Noah’s three sons are amazingly similar. According to Genesis, Ham had Cush and Mizraim, Shem had Elam and Asshur, while Jafeth had Gomer! According to Miao record, Lo Han had Cusah and Mesay, Lo Shen had Elan and Ngasshur, whereas Lo Ya Phu had GoMen, from whom this particular Miao tribe claims to have descended.
The Miao have always had close contact with the Han Chinese, especially before they were driven out, and six of the Miao tribes actually mixed in with the Chinese. Some of these names like Nu-Ah and Lo Shen, are amazingly similar to two of the Three Sovereigns’ names, to wit: Nü-Wa and Shen Nong!
Now when we compare these two Chinese primogenitors’ names in the light of the far more accurate Miao record, plus the even more accurate Biblical record (because of the Hebrews’ rigorous copy rules), we come to amazing conclusions removing much of the fog around these personages Nü-Wa and Shen-Nong.
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