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Yes, here is a link to a site that has reports on this sort of stuff. Rather than copy and past or frankly waste my time with someone who will likely argue about it anyway, you can read the reports and decide for yourself.Do you have some examples ?
Oh, is that all?
Sure, an old evolved earth has billions of fossils laid down over hundreds of millions of years.
Global flood legends as well as many other myths are indeed common among cultures. But according to Genesis everyone except an ancestor of the Jews were drown, so only descendants of Noah would recall the flood. Australian aborigines aren't Jews paloma22, they've been there for 70,000 years. In fact NO other culture on earth seems to remember being related to Noah!
Nice little primer for those interested.
http://njbiblescience.org/presentations/Noahs Ark - A Feasibility Study.pdf
There have many generations since Noah, its no surprise that he would not be remember by all by name. The reason we have so many amazing legends of the flood in incredible detail, is because it actually happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth
After Noah, as time went on, the peoples spread out across the earth. Some believed and remembered, some did not. (just as today) Some stories grew wild and colorful but retained the core essence of the story. God preserved the True account with the Noah, Abraham Moses etc... and finally in the Bible. We don't subscribe to your assumptions of long ages, so the aborigines are ultimately descendants from Noah, as you and I are. The story has survived, because it was real, traumatic and world changing. Its pretty clear for any who have eyes to see. ;-)
God IS the Word, the Living Word, so the argument that God couldn't preserve "his word" is a false dichotomy. The authors of Genesis and the other books of the Bible made no claim to be writing by inspiration, church authority made that claim to maintain control.
Closed minded religious people are incapable of learning more, it gives them a sense of control. Jesus was killed by closed minded religious people.
If you really think there is no more truth to learn about God then there is nothing anyone can do.
Because I'm not gullible, and I don't believe the ridiculous, self important exaggerations written by the people who killed Jesus.God can and did preserve His Word, the Bible, which teaches a Global flood. Why do you not believe the Living Word?
Jesus thought Genesis trust worthy, why not you?
I know there is much truth to learn about God, lots of it is in the Bible. The Spirit leads and teaches us all.
"For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. 47"But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?" John 5:47
The Scribes and High Priests Pharisee caused that Jesus was put to death they were not Jews but of the Synagogue of Satan, fulfilling the first prophecy written in the Bible in Genesis 3:15 ... Jesus' heels were bruised on the cross.... written by the people who killed Jesus.
Paloma22, Divinely inspired as the Bible may be, it is still the product of a prescientific culture. I do not think God intended it to be an accurate geophysical witness. The issue here really isn't abut accepting or rejecting the Bible. The issue here is who's interpretation, underline interpretation, is right. The Bible is subject to many interpretations in the Christian tradition. You may think yours is the only one or of necessity the right one, but there are others as well. You are viewing Scripture within a fundamentalist framework, F8ine, nothing wrong with that. It is just that fundamentalism is not the only Christian approach to the Bible.
Prehistoric China
Wiki
Year Date Event
780000 BC Peking Man died in modern Zhoukoudian.
125000-80000 BC H. sapiens appears in modern Dao County, Hunan.[1]
20000 BC Pottery was used in Xianren Cave.[2]
7600 BC The Zhenpiyan culture appeared.
Pigs were first domesticated in China.[3]
7500 BC The Pengtoushan culture appeared.
Rice was first domesticated in China.
7000 BC The Peiligang culture appeared.
6600 BC The Jiahu symbols were first used at Jiahu.
6500 BC The Cishan culture appeared.
6000 BC Dogs were first domesticated in China.[3]
Cows were first domesticated in China.[3]
5000 BC The Baijia culture appeared.
Oxen were first domesticated in China.[3]
Sheep were first domesticated in China.[3]
4500 BC The Hemudu culture died out.
4000 BC Symbols were carved into pottery at Banpo.
3630 BC Silk was invented by the Yangshao culture.
There are no Chinese Jews related to Noah!!!!!
Hi Hoghead,
The Bible makes no real "scientific" claims per say (whatever that means), it makes truth claims, yes, (i.e that a global flood happened and killed off all of sinful man kind and many of the creatures) In so far as a "geophysical witness" is concerned, scriptures claim is backed up by real science today and what we see in the field. The issue is exactly accepting or rejecting the Bible and what it says. Either a flood happened or it did not. Jesus understood that it happened, and that the "writings of Moses" were accurate, so, you are not really having a problem with my interpretation but Jesus's. (Considering science backs up Jesus, I don't see the problem.) My money is going to be on Jesus and the Bible and not man's interpretation. There is only one truth with regards to this issue. Either it happened or it did not. What exactly is the fundamentalism approach? Taking scripture at face value, taking into account all literary devices, is really the only valid position. Jesus seemed to think so.
Blessings
P
46"For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. 47"But if you do not believe his writings,[Genesis] how will you believe My words?" John 5:46
For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. 2 Peter 3:6
If scripture is to be believed, (which to be a Christian means we believe it) we are ALL related to Noah. The Chinese are related to Noah as are the blacks and whites. https://answersingenesis.org/tower-of-babel/how-many-races-did-god-create/
Acts 17:26 reads, “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.”
LIE !Prehistoric China
Wiki
Year Date Event
780000 BC Peking Man died in modern Zhoukoudian.
125000-80000 BC H. sapiens appears in modern Dao County, Hunan.[1]
20000 BC Pottery was used in Xianren Cave.[2]
7600 BC The Zhenpiyan culture appeared.
Pigs were first domesticated in China.[3]
7500 BC The Pengtoushan culture appeared.
Rice was first domesticated in China.
7000 BC The Peiligang culture appeared.
6600 BC The Jiahu symbols were first used at Jiahu.
6500 BC The Cishan culture appeared.
6000 BC Dogs were first domesticated in China.[3]
Cows were first domesticated in China.[3]
5000 BC The Baijia culture appeared.
Oxen were first domesticated in China.[3]
Sheep were first domesticated in China.[3]
4500 BC The Hemudu culture died out.
4000 BC Symbols were carved into pottery at Banpo.
3630 BC Silk was invented by the Yangshao culture.
There are no Chinese Jews related to Noah!!!!!
We're talking about HUGE floods, like the Biblical flood.Duh! Of course cultures have flood stories, floods happen all the time. None of those cultures are Jewish people!
The table of nations, mr Brain, is post-flood, post-Babel.If it was the Biblical flood those cultures would be dead
Genetics and historic records prove otherwise.There are cultures around the world that are much older than the Biblical claim (by Jews) that everyone on earth is related to them.
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