The Tower of Babel

self | 04/21/02 | self

[malakhi]

or that people still buy the idea that an omnipotent, omniscient God would get angry over the consumption of pork, how He is worshipped, hairstyles, sexual immorality and the like

Eat all the bacon you want, OPH. In the meantime, I will refrain from criticizing the particular religious beliefs of Orthodox Christians.

[Elsie]

Had the expressions, law and ritual expressed in the OT been so great, it would have been unnecessary to send Christ.

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You've got this EXACTLY right!

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NIV Hebrews 7:18-20
 18.  The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless
 19.  (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.

 

 

NIV Hebrews 8:6-13
 6.  But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises.
 7.  For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.
 8.  But God found fault with the people and said : "The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
 9.  It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them,  declares the Lord.
 10.  This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
 11.  No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, `Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
 12.  For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."
 13.  By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

 

[Elsie]

I try to exercise my common sense.

God the omniscient and omnipotent wouldn't care about what the Israelites ate.

He wouldn't punish innocents with the guilty.

He wouldn't get "angry" over the means cosen to worship Him.

He wouldn't kill Egyptian infants for the sins of Egyptian adults.

He wouldn't get mad because people were building a tower and all speaking the same language,

nor would he get mad about issues of sexual expression.

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Well, you invented a GOD of YOUR liking here, but it is NOT the revealed G-D of Israel, just as you state.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Greek was written left to right, right to left, and boustrophedon. None of these seemed to cause consant reversal.

[Elsie]

You can't just type in the address...... www.somewhere.com

You must add the Hyper Text Markup Language code to it to make it work as an ACTIVE link.

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< a href="http://www.somewhere.com"> CLICKME</a>
 ^ no space before the 'A'

[RightWhale]

boustrophedon

That's about the second time I have seen that word. The other was in reference to the numbering of sections within a township.

[Elsie]

I did NOT check to see what you typed in, but I DID track down how to use the sup & sub commands for you.

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< s u b >

The _subscript tag is used to set text lower than the rest. I'm sure I don't need to get too into explaining it since you should be able to see it right now, on the words _subscript.
This tag is simple to remember. Look:
<sub>Subscript Text</sub>
That creates this:_subscript
Groovy, eh? Sure it is.

< s u p e r s c r i p t >

The ^super tag does the opposite of the subscript tag. Simple enough. The HTML for superscript is:
<sup>This is superscript</sup>
And that does this:^{This is superscript!}

[Elsie]

I'm sorry -

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You seem to have the facts pretty well laid out, but have you yet gotten to WHY they occurred?

[tictoc]

Thank you for your reply.

You can't just type in the address...... www.somewhere.com

You must add the Hyper Text Markup Language code to it to make it work as an ACTIVE link.

Well, if you "View Source" of this page and scroll to my first attempt, you will see that I did just that. What I typed showed up as a hyperlink but the link did not work as I intended.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

You're teasing us...

[Elsie]

HMMmmm

I looked at #22 and you had this --->

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/670242/www.crank.net.html

for the address...........

[tictoc]

You are right, that is what shows when you mouse over the link in my post #22.

However, what I actually typed was this:

Time for the mandatory < font size="+2" >< font color="RED" >< a href="http:www.crank.net.html" > Crank Dot Net< /a >< /font >< /font > link.

(Omit spaces after "<" and before ">".

[DouglasKC]

An interesting post. But if I read it correctly, then why wouldn't we have the same spiritual phenomena happening today? After all the world is criss-crossed by electo-magnetic waves from the billions of devices we have plugged in. Wouldn't this seem like it would produce similar results? Is that the orgin of why people wear tin foil hats? (seriously).

[medved]

See my post #19 on this thread. The communication system in question turned out to be one of those things which, if not working flawlessly, was dangerous. Man's attempt to go on using his mind that way after it was no longer reliable turned the world into a looney bin for the thousand year period between the flood and the Jewish prophets, until the capability itself was ground out of the race by attrition.

[gore3000]

Does the change from a pictorial to a phonetic system of writing have anything to do with this?

[ladyinred]

Ping.

[medved]

Yes. There'd be absolutely no basis for a phoenetic system of writing for people who communicated telepathically. I assume Egyptian heiroglyphics and Chinese writing are leftovers from antediluvian times.

[Elsie]

"The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the dower of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."

--Albert Einstein