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Termyn8or -> RE: Bible...as written by Ray Bradbury (8/18/2010 12:16:52 AM)
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"(ie noahs ark)"
Embellished though, it could be true at the root. If indeed the Earth's crust does rotate every so many millenia, it would be possible that there was a great flood.
Noah could have been a very early astronomist, and between what he saw in the sky he decided to save his people from the flood. Obviously he couldn't save them all, but his insight drove him to build the arc, gather up pairs of humans and other animals and ride the storm out so to speak. This happens very gradually folks and is almost undiscernable from normal fluctuations in climate. However with lodestone Noah may have found a way to detect it and acted accordingly seeing true north deviating from magnetic north faster and faster. There were lodestones in the ground as well as stars in the sky, and that is all one would need really to detect that a major shift was about to occur. I will not assert the human mind was not as developed then, in fact I assert the opposite because they had almost no technology whatsoever yet survived.
And add in the fact that Noah have been very devoted to his faith like my ex-boss who attributes his success in business to God. Add it up.
The way I see it, there is no way the flood, even under these circumstances would encompass the entire globe. There were still mountains and other places of high elevation that remained stable enough during this event. Noah may have just seen it coming because he didn't have a TV to drain his brain, he had time to think about what he was looking at.
It is possible. But with the embellishment over the millenia it has become an anectdotal myth, then what is the truth, nobody was there. Some may want to disect the timeline of the Bible but that holds no water. (no pun this time)
On to Moses. The parting of the sea. Maybe he knew just where to be and they had to tread a bit of water, but being smart he knew when the tide was going to rise is just the right point in time for that to happen. Perhaps he saw an alignment of the visible planets coming around and banked on it and won. When it ebbed the unusually low tide revealed and undersea hill they could travel upon. Knowing that the planets were moving he got to just the right time and drown the soldiers coming to get the Jews. These people were not stupid, remember they survived under some circumstances that woud kill most of us today.
I am not saying these events happened every day obviously. But certain people were smart enough to use their limited information, compared to what we have today, and actually do something. That was quite noteworthy, and therefore became a story to be told. And told and told and told and told. This results in these incredible claims now, and I assert that they may be factual in origin. I don't believe, but I will not assert that they are completely untrue. Just that they have been embellished so much as to become unbelievable.
Let's do Jesus. Fed the masses with one cracker and a glass of wine. Well, in my younger days I could work a five day week and not eat and be just fine. With His persuasive powers he might have not passed that cracker around, just took one bite. Who knows what His exact words were ?
Being that persuasive He might have just made them not hungry, maybe they all ate the day before and it didn't hurt them to skip a meal. Tell me it can't be so.
I found very few other things in the Bible so incredulous, most of it is anecdotal about sacrifices, people's lives and children, and all kinds of things. Stories that do contain wisdom. But that does not make me believe.
The olman read the Bible cover to cover and had something to say about those people living to be 300 years old and all that. He believed that the environment was so much better then that it was not all that uncommon. As I have asserted, they say they have increased the human lifespan but I doubt it. If the figures were unmixed, it may be found that except in times of war peole did live alot longer. He also asserted than when Cain slew Abel it was alot of work because people would heal very quickly back then. Killing was real work he said.
I can't write all this off as nonsense because I simply wasn't there.
T
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