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How the ark changed shape
Catholic Herald ^
| February 13, 2014
| Will Gore
Posted on 02/13/2014 9:34:14 AM PST by NYer
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02/13/2014 9:34:14 AM PST
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NYer
To: Tax-chick; GregB; Berlin_Freeper; SumProVita; narses; bboop; SevenofNine; Ronaldus Magnus; tiki; ...
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posted on
02/13/2014 9:34:50 AM PST
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NYer
("The wise man is the one who can save his soul. - St. Nimatullah Al-Hardini)
To: NYer
but it was up to me consider how this story that is definitely older than the Bible managed to end up in the Bible, he says.
How about, BECAUSE IT HAPPENED?!
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posted on
02/13/2014 9:36:28 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
("We are not sluts."--Sandra Fluke)
To: NYer
Or Moses who was literate having grown up as a prince of Egypt, could have written the first 5 books like the scripture claims for itself, with Joshua adding the details of Moses death.
There is no reason to give Babylonian stories equal footing with scripture and to imagine a different narative of how scripture came to be other than the one recorded in scripture.
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02/13/2014 9:39:14 AM PST
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DannyTN
To: NYer
Or Moses who was literate having grown up as a prince of Egypt, could have written the first 5 books like the scripture claims for itself, with Joshua adding the details of Moses death.
There is no reason to give Babylonian stories equal footing with scripture and to imagine a different narative of how scripture came to be other than the one recorded in scripture.
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02/13/2014 9:39:14 AM PST
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DannyTN
To: Dr. Sivana
The “story” of the creation...is clearly older than the bible.. having utterly no impact on its veracity.
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posted on
02/13/2014 9:43:25 AM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
To: DannyTN
yup, bible over one babylonian tablet, any day. the ark main measurements and features are clear, and its dimensions are ideal for a stable, self-righting, ocean-going ship. so much so modern ships use the same or near-same ratios of height, width and length.
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posted on
02/13/2014 9:47:58 AM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: NYer
1750 BC, some 1,500 years before the Bible was written....and that is when I stopped reading.
That would put the writing of the Jewish Biblical texts concurrent with the Septuagint. Absolutely absurd.
Even his "...700 BC, close to the time that the Bible was written..." puts it firmly in the BS "Post Babylonian Exile" territory.
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posted on
02/13/2014 9:49:27 AM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
To: Zionist Conspirator
Ancient tablets featuring the Babylonian flood myth have been found before, mostly famously in 1872 by another British Museum Assyriologist, George Smith. The fact that the Smith tablet, which featured the story in full, originated in around 700 BC, close to the time that the Bible was written, gave those who stood steadfastly by the primacy of the Holy Book a reason to suggest one could have influenced the other. Finkel contends that the Simmonds tablet breaks through this argument as it dates back to 1750 BC, some 1,500 years before the Bible was written. You might want to get in on this.
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02/13/2014 9:50:09 AM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: Secret Agent Man
Yes, easy to test - put the Babylonian design through the same tests and see how it fairs against the YHWH model.
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02/13/2014 9:51:15 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: NYer
Epic of Gilgamesh. Some sort of flood happened. Could have been an ice dammed laurentide lake in North America that blew, filling the Atlantic then the Mediterranean then blowing into the Black Sea and down into Mesopotamia.
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02/13/2014 9:51:36 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: SunkenCiv
To: NYer
Essentially, this article takes as a given that the Bible is fiction, to suggest that it’s not even an original fiction. I’m not sure why they would bother.
To: NYer
So, 300 cubits by 50 cubits equals a round ark?I prefer to believe the Bible version.
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02/13/2014 10:04:41 AM PST
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: NYer
Furthermore, the tablet, which is currently on display in the British Museum, also says that the animals came on to the boat two by two. As Finkel puts it, this was an electrifying discovery.Genesis 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
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02/13/2014 10:19:21 AM PST
by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(People should not be afraid of the government. Government should be afraid of the people)
To: rightwingcrazy
Essentially, this article takes as a given that the Bible is fiction, to suggest that its not even an original fiction.Not surprising considering Finkel is an atheist.
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posted on
02/13/2014 10:21:24 AM PST
by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(People should not be afraid of the government. Government should be afraid of the people)
To: Ol' Dan Tucker
“Not surprising considering Finkel is an atheist. “
which makes his interest in the Bible rather interesting, but this unstated dogma makes his “revelation” hardly revelatory.
To: NYer
Uh, Doc, a lot of the stuff in the Bible happened well before it was written. Or do you think there was a guy with a clay tablet and stylus on the scene for everything back to the creation and fall?
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posted on
02/13/2014 10:45:52 AM PST
by
RichInOC
(2013-14 Tiber Swim Team)
To: NYer
Funny how we are talking about the ark where, the word ark as used in Genesis and Exodus(for Moses salvation) is a loan word from Egyptian. But these people are sure Pentateuch was never written until after the Babylonian exile.
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02/13/2014 11:10:53 AM PST
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the_daug
To: the_daug
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02/13/2014 12:57:39 PM PST
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publius911
( At least Nixon had the good g race to resign!)
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