Yup.
When the pyramids were excavated, did anyone find one grain of grain? (See my tag line of 15 years.)
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Posted on 11/06/2015 6:30:51 PM PST by sparklite2
"If you go to St Mark's cathedral in Venice, there's a medieval depiction showing people using the three great pyramids of Giza as granaries in Joseph's story," says John Darnell, a professor of Egyptology at Yale University.
The belief was also popularised by Saint Gregory of Tours, a sixth century Frankish bishop, who wrote: "They are wide at the base and narrow at the top in order that the wheat might be cast into them through a tiny opening, and these granaries are to be seen to the present day."
The Book of John Mandeville, a popular 14th Century travel memoir, also referred to "Joseph's Granaries, which he had made to store the wheat for hard times".
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Who knows - he might even believe that TPP is good for America...
And only a moron would look at my house and think it was designed to prep me for a couple of years of self sufficiency. The idea is patently absurd and yet I think it is true. Maybe the Pharoahs were thinking the same thing.
Guess you’ve never seen the inside of the Great Pyramid: it’s several million tons of various types of rock with a couple of very slender passageways and three small rooms.
Too much labor and material and expense for too little volume -
Wouldn’t hold any significant quantity of grain
Almost all of those questions have actual real answers. And not just speculation, but historical records of when the pyramids were built, for what purpose, what the limestone surfacing looked like, the golden top stones, etc.
The Bible clearly states that Joseph stored the harvest from the seven abundant years in storehouses in the cities near the fields they were grown.
There has been a tradition that he built giant storehouses, and some through history have believed that the pyramids were what he built, but that isn’t biblical, it isn’t supported by historical writings, and it isn’t supported by archeology.
never mind
Yup.
When the pyramids were excavated, did anyone find one grain of grain? (See my tag line of 15 years.)
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Joseph lived around 2000 years ago, the Great Pyramid was built 4500 years ago. Long before Joseph stored grain.
Exactly, this isn't some dispute on an issue of faith, he just went full retard.
My theory.
The Great Pyramid was built to hide Obama’s BC.
I saw Danny Glover get buried in a grain silo in this movie so you may be onto something.
I didn't say that I believed the pyramids were built for grain storage. I have read extensively about the subject. I'm saying someone who hasn't could believe it without being a wacko.
I didn't say that I believed the pyramids were built for grain storage. I have read extensively about the subject. I'm saying someone who hasn't could believe it without being a wacko.
Pyramid as grain silo and pyramid as landing pad for gay Martians are equally as nutty.
And how were they going to get the damn wheat out?
Christ lived about 2000 years ago. However, the Joseph of the great famine was one of the 12 tribal patriarchs and lived about 4500 years ago. Joseph and the famine brought the children of Israel (Jacob, whom God renamed Israel, and his other 11 sons and their families) into Egypt, and eventually into slavery. I have heard, several times from religious and non-religious sources, that the Jews of the Exodus account are believed to be the slaves who built the pyramids.
Ok. Thanks. I just learned something.
Bring in black slaves from the Sub-Sahara. What could go wrong?
Easy mistake to make, given the fact that Joseph was also the name of Jesus’ earthly father.
Ben Carson is a nut if he believes the pyramids were storing grain.
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