Super-Continent Pangaea

[joshua 1 9]

I'm asking you to acknowledge my evidence

Evidence for what? Subjective or objective evidence?

 

[Jimmy D]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Remember how this thread started.....

The story of Noah in the Bible is a shadow and a type of what took place in Pangaea. Some people call this an allegory. There are different words we can use. In fact there is fairly universal acceptance that the story of Noah is some sort of an allegory because the story is so universal and timeless in nature. What people questioned is the literal truth of the story.

This is the story. God got mad at Satan and threw Satan down to the earth. Satan got mad at God and decided that he would cause God's creation to destroy itself. That was when the dinosaurs began to develop teeth and they began to devour each other. That was when God destroyed the dinosaurs and the earth with water. He then froze the water and the earth went into an ice age. All of this is based on free will or freedom of choice. God gives us freedom to love Him but we can also choose NOT to love God. Those who choose not to walk in love and tolerance will destroy themselves.

 

[Armoured]

That was when God destroyed the dinosaurs and the earth with water. He then froze the water and the earth went into an ice age.

 

[joshua 1 9]

Merely conflating one thing with another (the rise of neolithic culture with Genesis 2 for example) does not 'prove' the bible true. At best such a comparison could offer us an insight into the origins of the myths therein.

There are no "myths" in the Bible. Perhaps what you mean is allegory. The point is that the Bible is accurate from a scientific and historic perspective. To the best of our knowledge and the best of our current understanding we are able to verify this.

 

[AV1611VET]

Some Christians believe that the story of Noah is a shadow and a type of the break up of Pangaea.

Noah is a type of tribulation saint, just as Enoch is a type of pre-Rapture saint.

 

[Colter]

With Jesus we were to become open minded like unspoiled children, leave the old ideas of error prone Judaism behind and start anew. The OT books were heavily redacted and exaggerated leavening people with a distorted view of Israelite history.

 

[AV1611VET]

With Jesus we were to become open minded like unspoiled children, leave the old ideas of error prone Judaism behind and start anew. The OT books were heavily redacted and exaggerated leavening people with a distorted view of Israelite history.

Urantia is anti-Semitic.

 

[Speedwell]

There are no "myths" in the Bible. Perhaps what you mean is allegory. The point is that the Bible is accurate from a scientific and historic perspective. To the best of our knowledge and the best of our current understanding we are able to verify this.

Myth is a category of literature, a traditional story of events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon. It may or may not have a determinable basis in fact. What makes a story a myth is how it is used, not whether it is factually true or not. Consequently, the Garden story (for example) is a myth even if it is also 100% accurate factual history. The notion that a myth is nothing but a made-up story is a canard perpetrated by creationists.

 

[Colter]

Urantia is anti-Semitic.

Urantia is pro truth, if you had ever read it it you would know what it says.

The authors of the OT were a religious political faction whose nationalist ego was bruised by the Babylonian captivity. The reinvention of their history, leading to the erroneous expectations of a Jewish Massiah, lead them to becoming false prophets. Jesus finally left their house desolate.

The Hebrew priest were the creators of the creation story and the absurd genealogical flood device.

Faith in the wildly exaggerated writings of the same ilk that killed Jesus, continues to mislead the sincere Jew and contaminate the Christian religion. This is why we have the anti-scientist such as yourself.

 

[AV1611VET]

The authors of the OT were a religious political faction whose nationalist ego was bruised by the Babylonian captivity.

The Babylonians decided to capture the Jews did they? instead of exterminate them, like they did everyone else?

Why was that?

And why did the Babylonians decide to let them go? did they like being written about in a bad light?

And if "Urantia" means what the Chicagoans said it means, aren't the Jews Urantians too?

 

[Colter]

The Babylonians decided to capture the Jews did they? instead of exterminate them, like they did everyone else?

Why was that?

And why did the Babylonians decide to let them go? did they like being written about in a bad light?

And if "Urantia" means what the Chicagoans said it means, aren't the Jews Urantians too?

Yes, of-coarse, the Jews are Gods children like everyone else in the world. No better, no worse. It was you who made the preposterous claim that the UB is anti- Semitic.

 

[AV1611VET]

It was you who made the preposterous claim that the UB is anti- Semitic.

Perhaps you should check your documentation again, eh?

 

[Colter]

Perhaps you should check your documentation again, eh?

Ok, show me.

 

[joshua 1 9]

The Babylonians decided to capture the Jews did they? instead of exterminate them, like they did everyone else?

The question is why would God use a people more Evil than Israel to punish them for their sin and transgression?

 

[AV1611VET]

The question is why would God use a people more Evil than Israel to punish them for their sin and transgression?

Because the oracles of God were given to them first.

And with greater responsibility comes greater judgement.

 

[joshua 1 9]

Because the oracles of God were given to them first.

And with greater responsibility comes greater judgement.

Yes that appears to be the correct answer. As children of God we are corrected and disciplined based on what is in our best interest.

Luke 12:48 But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

 

[joshua 1 9]

the Jews are Gods children like everyone else in the world.

We have a better covenant based on better promises. (Heb 8:6)

 

[Colter]

The question is why would God use a people more Evil than Israel to punish them for their sin and transgression?

Being predicted to inhabit the land of the Cannanites went to the heads of the descendants of Abraham. When reality failed to live up to their own "chosen people" expectations, they were inclined to blame God for battles won or lost. And the Israelites intermarried with the Cannanites, but later the priestly faction who rewrote the OT books claimed that they destroyed them all. Today the Jews ARE the ansestors of that very same amalgamation. Palestinians have Jewish blood, they are all related.

 

[Colter]

When they edited the OT stories to suit themselves, they failed to eliminate the rather mater of fact statements such as Cain's fear of people in the world away from his parents.

To have killed the Cannanites would have ment killing themselves:

But they settled among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 6The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.

 

[AV1611VET]

To have killed the Cannanites would have ment killing themselves:

The Canaanites were their cousins, since the Canaanites came from Ham and the Jews from Shem.

Your "we have met the enemy and they are us" Chicagoan philosophy does not apply.