Posted on 11/04/2015 8:42:52 PM PST by entropy12
The retired neurosurgeon seeking his party's nomination for the White House made these remarks in a 1998 address at Andrews University, a school associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to which he belongs, in a video posted Wednesday on Buzzfeed. The church is a conservative evangelical Christian one.
"My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," Carson said.
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'Forget it, he's rolling.'
The son of Jacob in Genesis, not Mary's husband in the New Testament.
Considering the small amount of storage space inside, those must have been granaries built under government contract. < /s>
Joseph stored the grain locally, in the cities near where it was grown:
During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully. Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it. Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.
There is a tradition that Joseph built places to store the grain, but the biblical narrative merely says he stored it in “each city”.
Ra help us if our government ever designs our granaries!
“No it won’t; they don’t believe that the pyramids were built to store grain in”
You cannot be more of an Evangelical than I am and I’ve NEVER heard or read anyone say this before.
This is right up there with the guy who thinks Moses and Abraham went hunting for dinosaurs that used to be on late night TV. Trust me most evangelicals would laugh at this.
Thanks for that info, but this thread has a different source link, so may be it is OK to post it.
Since the Pyramids were built long before Joseph was in Egypt, let alone born.....Ben is completely off the charts insane on this one. As a matter of fact, it makes him look dumber than wee barry.
All I said was “related”....
Relax.
Sigh... 7th Day Adventists... a cult basically started by a woman false-prophet... and this is part of their idiotic teaching (which completely ignores archeological evidence). Then again, no small portion of their official teaching is contrary to facts and the Bible...
Doesn’t matter; the man is a blithering idiot and doesn’t knows factual Egyptian history!
Your choice of “blithering idiot” to describe him is not that intelligent a choice.
Brain surgeons are not blithering idiots.
I am not sweating like Rubio, so must be pretty relaxed lol.
I’ve been on top of the great pyramid and I say no way. Sorry, Doc. Wrong.
Does anyone know what that sentence means?
I keep going back to the theory promulgated by archaeologists and anthropologists that humans originated in the Olduvai Gorge in Africa. That explains why human DNA is so close for all people and one can accept blood from any race. Even the Chimpanzee and Human DNA are very close.
Most certainly brilliant in brain surgery. But he's no rocket scientist when it comes to archaeology.
Reading that sentence is making my head spin.
Most certainly brilliant in brain surgery. But he’s no rocket scientist when it comes to archaeology.
Rocket scientists aren’t good at archaeology, either. LOL
I understand what you’re saying.
Not me, but it’s late and I’m old.
I think what he's saying is, Any structure that large to store that much grain would have survived the ages, like the pyramids.
No one who can do a job in his chosen profession is an idiot. I know a lot more about designing and manufacturing heavy machinery subject to impact loads, than Ben Carson. That does not make me smarter than him. He knows brain surgery million times better than me.
But a president’s job is lot more than special skills in one field.
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